High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #188 | The Herald of Hadar (Part 1)

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

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Pickaxe. The stress of this kind of scenario is a bit too much. Please do look after yourselves first. The VOD's going to be around for when you feel up for watching it. If you feel anxious, upset, or angry, please do yourself the kindness of stepping back, taking a minute. None of us want any of you to be upset or angry about the game, so please do what's best. Alongside that, I want to say as well, mistakes are going to happen. Rules-wise, RP-wise, lore-wise, tactics-wise, and that's okay. Mistakes are okay okay even if that means

stressful consequences it's very much one thing to sit at home and watch us play uh to be here in person like and make these quick snap decisions right you have the wonderful comfort of it not being your characters and being able to kind of see everything in the big picture we don't always get that when emotions are running high here so please be patient be kind and ultimately let the dice and the player's choices shape the story and where it's going i also want to say i'm going to be playing a pretty nasty villain tonight and if i do horrible things to the player characters which is probably going to happen um it is not me as mark doing that to my friends that is me just trying to play this villain as she deserves to be played i like it daddy yep i know you do.

I know some of you do. But this is, we're all friends here, right? We consented to this. Yeah, I am not trying to ruin the game. I'm not trying to win. I'm not trying to be a tyrant DM. I'm just trying to play this villain. A good story.

Yeah. Exactly. We're all friends here. Yeah, and yeah, exactly. He's flipping us off. And with that note. You're and then the very last thing is just like this is also going to have a lot of homebrew mechanics there's probably going to be a lot of non-raw rules decisions being made um will it be perfectly balanced most certainly not

i've done my best but i'm not perfect uh will it be fair we're going to work our best as a group me and my friends to make sure that any decisions we make are as fair as possible and if these guys don't like it or if they think it's unfair they're gonna call me out on it because you guys know that like you are empowered to do that and to speak to me if we need to whether that's on stream or off stream but somebody will so we'll talk about it um i want i just want to put all that serious i want to put that out there because i do think that these next four episodes in particular are going to be pretty intense. And I know that a lot of people really love this game and these stories.

And it gets in you. Five years. There's a lot of pressure. There's a lot of pressure. There's a lot of emotion. There's a lot of love for these characters and these NPCs. So I do appreciate out there that emotions might run high. And we want you to look after yourselves as well.

Don't stress yourself out. It's a silly bunch of mates playing D& um i've got the tissues on standby he's got the tissues on standby tissues on standby perfect um that's it things go very well right yeah yeah uh a little serious psa from old uh daddy humes here just to kind of send that message out no worries my boy My boy. My son. My little son. Yeah, now I know how weird it feels. My baby. My baby boy.

My baby boy. I'm not going to carry on, don't worry. And with that, we're going to play the Dun Duns and get into the recap and kick off today's episode of High Rollers. Woo! Hello and welcome to Hyrule as a Roess. The Storm Chasers journey is coming to an end. Welcome to Hyrule as Erois. The Stormchaser's journey is coming to an end. They've travelled across the stars with fleets of Magitek ships and unexpected allies to the last frontier.

A plain that sits on the edge of the astral void. The place where an old god was imprisoned long ago. Entropis. An ancient world that is now nothing but grey stone, crumbling ruins and endless dust. Here, the champions of Erois marched on, moving through Entropis in split teams, with their allies and friends alongside them, rescuing their forces, destroying enemy weapons and

stopping a powerful ritual. Eventually, they arrived at the crashed Tassadar, the vanguard of the Valkyrian astral fleet, where Kallus Valkyrian himself was establishing a forward post ready to launch their final assault against Hadar. Thanks to the champion's efforts, their allies and friends survived the battle, and whilst there were losses to their military forces, they seized victory and stormed an ancient temple. It is here that the demigoddess Vala, one of the oldest friends and a member of this strange family, was set to find the space between the plains and open the way into the Far Realm, into Hadar's prison. But before she could do so, treachery struck.

Vala was caught in a magical prison and one of of Calus's bodyguards plunged a strange red and black knife into the goddess Siaska, before revealing themselves to be Zarkira, a powerful mage and former foe of our champions. Now my friends, if you will allow me, I know I've done a lot of talking To do a bit of cut-seening I do like cut-scenes So if we imagine in a kind of movie setup We see this knife With this strange

Very clearly magical poison Plunged into Siaska Things begin to kind of slow down And we see Siaska clutching aside, falling back. The guard reveals themselves to be Zarkira, long dark hair, golden crown, bladed wings dressed in red as she almost pulls herself flying through the air backwards towards the top of the temple where poor Valar has been caught in a kind of geometric prison of red and purple magic. Whilst this is all happening, we see Calus Valkyrian watching his beloved Siaska

clutching her side, stumbling to the ground, powerless. And in that moment, we flash back, perhaps thousands of years, to an old ruin similar to this ancient temple we find ourselves in now. And a woman that looks like Zakhira, the same dark hair, the same intelligent calculating eyes, but she's dressed more plainly, like a travelling mage may have been, satchels stuffed full of crystal tablets and papers. She cowers as she is being surrounded by a legion of red-robed Hadar cultists. She's desperately fending them off with her magic but is being overwhelmed. We see a knight in black and steel bursting in from above,

a warrior with long black hair and slightly glowing purple eyes, as Kallus, Knight of Gideon, comes to her rescue. We catch a montage, flashes of friendship. Across eons, we see Kallus and Zarkira, as you know her, fighting against a king empowered by the corrupting energy of Hadar. We see them establishing the Valkyrian Empire. We see them battling forces, forging alliances, sharing laughs, drifting apart. Zarkira becomes more focused on power

and they separate and suddenly reality slaps back and you all as the champions of Rois watch as Akira just gleefully turns to you all we're all gathered I see as she arrives next to Valor Kallus just screams We're all gathered, I see. As she arrives next to Vala, Kallus just screams,

Kira, what have you done? As he rushes to Siaska's side. What in this moment are you guys not necessarily doing? It can be doing, but don't think of this as an action or like, you know, this is kind of like what would be, like, are you running somewhere somewhere are you preparing to fight what are each of you kind of doing in this split moment lucius is stunned okay just just taken back like just completely in shock i think it's too much to process i i think um quill would be obviously Valar in this orb, but with Siaska going down, almost trying to identify what this blade has done to her, if she's curable, healable, anything. Let me check in with everyone else, but let's have you make a...

This would be an arcana check. Okay. But make it with advantage, because this has a connection to divinity and divine beings, which being a cleric and being trained in the ways of divine magic, I think you would have a bonus too. But keep the score in your head. Let's go around. Ayla, what would Ayla be?

What's just her initial response? Is this weapon out, charging? She'll probably go into a rage just at the sight of Zarkira, because she won't charge at her, but she will be glaring dead at her. The lightning kind of crackles up. She'll just be studying Zarkira for any move that she's going to make. Okay. All right. What about Nova and Sentry?

I think Sentry would sort of place herself between Quill, Siasco, and Zarkira. Sort of with her shield raised, Starbreaker ready to take action. We do have map, we're not gonna show it just yet, Sam, don't worry about that, but yeah, sounds good. So you just kind of protective stance, like trying to get between them. Okay, makes sense, it's very sentry.

What about Nova? I think Nova would, I kind of want to say run over to Siaska, but also like panic summon Tiangong. Like just like it's almost just like an instinct of like the pure panic of what she's just seen. And that's the defensive reaction. Have you do that as you're running towards Siaska? What'd you get on that? I kind of check, Will. What did you get on that Arcana check, Quill? Well, I think being split between seeing Zarkira, the person that imprisoned Quill,

and ripped the eye out of his head, and seeing Siasco going down, I only got a 14 with Arcana. So there's a lot going down, and I don't think I'm going to fully identify what's happening here. Quick out-of-character check as well. Did you already use your Portents? Oh, that is a good question. I'm sure you've got those loaded, ready to go. It's been a long time since the last long rest.

Well, let's roll two new ones, ready for the start of this as well. Just to also clarify, we kind of mentioned a couple of things. Nova has taken, technically, I've given everyone a short rest. So they have healed up, thanks to some magic and the healers that they had on by,

but I've also allowed a short rest to allow certain abilities to recharge and stuff like that. Did we take some damage at the beginning of this from Zahkira's attack? 25 in the final assault. Oh yes, you would have taken some in the final assault. 25 damage, yeah. That's why I'm missing some. Yeah, same.

Yeah, I got 25 off. That's fine, you probably, yeah. Don't forget you're a patient. So 14 total. 14 total, yeah. You... It's not a great roll, yeah. Don't be it. You're a patient. So 14 total. 14 total, yeah. You... It's not a great roll,

but there's some things you would just know. I think being Quill and who you are and the connection you have to Siaska. Siaska is not dying. Okay.

You know that. She is a divine being. There is very... It would be a... It would be a poison of incredible power that would be able to kill her. That you do not believe is its purpose.

Right. She is alive, but you can see she's using most of her divine power to basically purge and burn off this poison. Almost maybe more like a virus. And she is having to, and you can see she's sweating. Her eyes have dimmed in color. The divine glow of a divine being is diminished.

And she is basically using what power she has to fend this poison off of her system. Maybe it could kill her. If she wasn't fighting this thing back, maybe it would take her. But she is able to kind of keep it at bay and keep herself from succumbing to it um not quite paralyzed but severely weakened um i think yeah if if it's nova and century they're like right next to me i'll kind of look

up to them and say that she's okay we just might need to get her out of here now uh you see callous kind of overhears that and sort of nods in your direction, Quill. Like, seems grateful that you're with Siaska. And he takes a step up towards Zarkira. And he'll say to her, like, Kira, what is this madness? Even you would not go this far.

And as he takes that step towards her, Zarkira takes a step back and just points a kind of long claw, like she has these long golden nails, almost like jewelry. And she points one at the sphere surrounding Valor. And you see the sphere shrinks ever so slightly. And Valor's like kind of panicked.

And she's, ah, ah, ah, not so fast, daddy. And she kind of smiles in Calus's direction. You wouldn't want anything to happen to dear little daughter, would you? And you can see Calus is on the cusp of just losing it. He is enraged, but also terrified. You can see that he is just in agony at seeing this and being caught in this position.

And you can begin to see within the prism, like Valor is looking around, you can see she's trying to use her magic to like teleport out. She's like banging on it and doing everything she can think of. magic to like teleport out. She's like banging on it and doing everything she can think of. You can see like bits of light coming off of her going up into the prison. Oh, okay. Is she inaudible in this sphere as well? Is it like completely blocking?

Yeah. Okay. And you know that you have telepathic communication with Valor, but nothing. She's not hearing anything. So, we find ourselves in this position. It's been some time. She looks, well, not for all of you. She looks at Gwil when she says that.

So? She's got us. I mean, again, trying to identify what this sphere is, I guess. Feel free, anybody at this point, you're welcome to make any kind of checks you would like to make, any ability checks, any... I'm just going to say stuff. Yeah, feel free. But I'm going to wait for what other people are doing. Sure, sure, sure. I think Nova would try and, you know, scientifically, you know, like, yeah.

Knowledge of magic and magic tech. Arcana. Yep, arcana, yep. If you're analysing the sphere, the prison that Valor is in, that would be an arcana check. Sure. 18. 18. Sure. 18. 18.

17. 17. The two of you would know that it is, you've seen similar spells before, things like Walls of Force, Force Cage. This is some sort of magical prison. The fact that it is, I mean, Vala has, she is a demigoddess of time and space, and she is not able to get out of it.

Like, she's unable to teleport, so it's obviously blocking teleportation. And if it's blocking telepathy, it is, it's pretty potent. Like, this is powerful. And it doesn't look like Zarkira is necessarily concentrating on this spell. This is not a typical spell of that fashion. Yeah. So Lucius, you wanna say something? You've made your point clear.

Have I? What's your goal, what's your purpose, what do you want? Now that is a very good question. Lucius, isn't it? I want what I've always wanted. Power and time. And thanks to this little one, when she looks into the prison, I'm going to get both.

She just sort of smiles. You won't get that opportunity. Won't I? She's like looking and you see that as you're kind of like, she looks at you and then even without like pointing at it, without anything, the sphere shrinks and it shrinks considerably more than it did before. And Valor is almost like not squeezed up against it,

but like, this thing is closing in on her, and it's like, Zahkira can control the size of this thing at will. I wouldn't do anything rash. You need her. I need her power. It doesn't have to be a lie. I look worriedly at everyone else. I mean, yeah, I don't know what to say. Calus will look up.

Kira, you and I have been, we were friends once. Whatever madness that thing has offered you, you know that it cannot be trusted. You know what it wants in the end. It will destroy everything, including you. Do not do this. Please. Oh, Calus. Look how weak it's made you. I used to think that you were one of the bravest and most strongest beings in the known universe. I was willing to go along to pity you in your quest for saving your beloved goddess. Now you have her back, you have this daughter and you're not even half the man that you used to be. It's made you weak. Pathetic.

And she just sort of lets that word linger in the air for a moment and you can see Calus just like doesn't, is so afraid of hurting Valor that he's not willing to say anything. Quill. Yeah? Burgeoning perception. Yeah? At this point, with Calus speaking, Zarkira's like been looking more at him and you guys than at Valar and Siaska.

And you see Siaska's grinning. Okay. Yes? Can I do a little check to see if I can perceive Zarkira? Is she the real Zarkira? That's a great question. Perception check if you're looking for any fake Zarkiras. Well that's a 9, with my burgeoning perception. Oh, plus seven. Wow. Sixteen. Sixteen. As far as you can tell, that's the real Zarkira. Okay. You don't see simulacrums. You don't think it's an illusion.

Okay. If you'd like to, are you checking to see if that's illusory? No, because I know a simulacrum is completely tangible. Is an actual person. Yeah, okay. Because that would be a slightly different check if you were looking for signs of an illusion. It would be a slightly different check if you were looking for signs of an illusion. It would be a slightly different check.

It would be intelligence investigation. I guess it's more of a, yeah. Sure. Based on us fighting other sim-elecrums. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. Anything else? Anybody want to say anything? Ask anything?

Do anything? I think Kayla's too scared. She's going to make it worse if she says anything because she's not gonna say anything nice i mean i wouldn't worry about that i think zarkira knows that you guys aren't gonna be nice um i mean so this is like the cusp of the the final assault right so if i this is so imagine right by the way imagine this like you guys are here with callus siaska and vala and now zarkira around you you are at the pinnacle of this temple like you guys are here with Kallus, Siaska, and Valor, and now Zarkira. Around you, you are at the pinnacle of this temple, like the heart of what would have been an immense temple once before.

And you can see that beyond where Valor is, there is nothing. It's just plain gray, dusty plains. And just that red star hanging in the sky, casting that ominous red light down. Around you, the battle of the final assault is still going on because there are hadar spawn and cultists coming in trying to almost like get to you and force you back out again and your allies your military forces are holding that line like a perimeter they are basically not letting any of these minions get to you and stopping what valor and you guys needed to do okay yeah because i was gonna say like if i was to look around and see some witnessing this thing and thinking to advance forward almost to

tell them not to get any closer than this no their orders were to hold the line and not let anything come close because as far as you and Calus and everybody knew, you didn't think that there would be a threat here. You didn't see or detect any threats at this point. Yeah, just ensuring that the outside of the battle stays the outside of the battle map. Yeah, but I mean, like, Siaska, I've got no idea what she's got planned or what she's...

I mean, do you want to make, like, an insight check? I guess, like, I mean... Sure. Yeah, sure. Is it plus 12? I see her entire soul. 32 with that 20. That 20.

I think that it's not just a case of reading Siaska. There is a moment where that divine connection you had with Hesper comes from Siaska. And you hear Siaska in your mind. Don't worry. She just, this faint whispering. And this isn't telepathy.

This is like your souls are speaking to one another. And you hear Quill. Quill. Do you think my daughter, your friend, is so foolish? Do you not think she has already figured this out? And when you look, Quill, past Siaska and look up to Vala, who when you last saw her, she looked scared, like her magic wasn't working, this thing was shrinking in around her.

You look again, and she's concentrating. And you can see a flickering image of an almost identical prison inside the one that Zarkira has made. And you realize that she is crafting that herself, almost to prevent it shrinking any further. Okay, I mean... I think I would...

move forward, not beyond sentry, because I'm not insane. Do you really think, Zahkira, Hadar is the strongest force you can really ally yourself with? You've seen us. We've landed on Entropis. We've fought and survived and killed. We are winning.

She actually wipes a small tear. Quillik Adkalar. He's like... I don't know if she cares. Ah, I must admit, when I saw into your mind, I did not expect, I did not take you to be the comedian. Yes, you have won a small, meaningless battle here, yes. Do you think you can stand against time?

Do you think you can stand against time? Does the rock on the beach hope to stand against the eternal tide that grinds it to nothing? Yes, you may win here. Do you really think that you're going to travel into a realm of madness to slay a god that has consumed god after god after god. I nearly killed you. What hope do you have against him? And then you just hear a very weak voice. Kira, Siaska speaks.

Are you not dead yet, Siaska dear? Siaska smiles. Little Kira. Are you not dead yet, Siaskadir? Siaskadir smiled. Little Kira. You always were so afraid of dying, weren't you? You never said it. You'd never speak of it. When Kalos met you, that terrified you, didn't it? You see, Z Kira gets angry.

Shut up. It's all right. I understand that I can't fear death in the way that you and others can. Maybe that's why you never talked to me when I tried. Let me ask you this, Kira, Zar, Holloway. Do you really think that you're smarter than my daughter? So Kira like raises an eyebrow and then looks in the prison. You see Valor kind of like calmly

just smiles back. And so Kira flicks. You see the prison attempts to restrict, but it's now being held back by something. Not able to escape, not able to get past this magic, but able to within it create her own barricade. But you see that that strength that Valor has is being siphoned away still. And it may not last long. Clever girl. Perhaps intelligence skips a generation in the family. You don't think this was my only trick, do you? Very well. She just gestures and a creature teleports in.

Okay. It is enormous. It is a giant in. Okay. It is enormous. It is a giant in stature. It is huge in size. It would have once been a very noble, regal-looking man, but their muscles have been warped

and mutated by the power of Hadar. It brims with red magic, its muscles rippling, cords taut and tight, its flesh stretched as if it's been grown immensely by this unfathomable power. It almost looks undead, but there is an intelligence in its eyes, long grey hair, and a crown that's been broken apart by its head expanding, but now the crown almost floats around the crown, the forehead. Two extra arms made of red and black lava that have coalesced together,

stretch out from above its shoulders, each gripping weapons of different kinds, a giant mace, a giant axe, in one hand a giant sword, and in the other what looks to be almost like a rod or a wand or a scepter. There's a vague tattered of royal clothing and jewellery around it. Callus? It can't be. You wouldn't. I thought it only fitting, Emperor, that if this is to be your final stop,

one last reunion with your king. And you hear Calus kind of talking to the five of you. Our Atreides, the king of Gideon. I killed him long ago. At this point, Kallus, Zarkira almost is watching you carefully, is almost content to let this moment sink in, let you talk amongst yourselves.

She does not seem to be in any sort of rush or hurry, happily just letting this power absorb away from Valor, knowing Siaska cannot aid, and that now Kallus is facing this terror from his past. The giant king, this Aratrades, looks immensely powerful. It's just brimming with red Hadar energy, entropic magic, and looks phenomenally strong. Probably stronger than Kallus himself, like physically. Kallus will turn to the five of you.

Champions, Aratrades was powerful, even many years ago when I first faced them. With this much Hadar power, they are easily an even match for Zahkira's own might. We cannot fight them both together. I can fight Aratrades. I know how he fights, I know its powers, its strengths. This will leave you to face her. You've defeated him before, so...

If you need my aid, call to me and I will come to give you whatever I can. I will keep this thing away from you. We cannot let Zarkira and Aratrates fight together. She will complement its brute strength too well. I will lead it away and fight it, but if you need me, call me. Before he goes, can I cast Protection from evil and good on Calus? Calus would probably see you about to do it and say, Sentry, I appreciate the gesture.

You will need it to face her. I will be all right. Trust me, I did not earn my name for nothing. And you see him just summoning this giant Magitek greatsword in his hand and then the other he seems to summon like a rifle like a magitek rifle and he just kind of holds them both together champions i entrust you with that most precious to me i know you won't let me do it fight well and he will leap into the fray, and this Aratrades, this mad, Hadar-corrupted king, just bellows, Calus!

You will not kill me again, little killer! And then he sort of just dives in after Calus, and Calus just, this way, my old master! And the two of them begin pulling away, leaving all of you with Zarkira. Fuck! Oh, God! Okay!

Awesome! All right! I didn't expect a hench Hadar king to come out of nowhere. Yeah! Aratrades. Cool. So, friends. There is no...

This is the point now. That I ask for that magic word that signals everything. How do you want to kill it? Roll initiative. Yeah. Alright. So Siasco is still down the ground. I'm gonna inform you on a bunch of that stuff immediately.

So, first things first. Oh, Barry. Good roll. Oh, God. My best roll will be my initiative. It begins. It begins now. So just to make this easier for myself, because I've got a bunch of stuff I need to record in here,

I'm going to ask, initiative-wise, who got a nice high initiative? Not bad. Yeah. I got a 20. Will, 20. Lucius, what did you get? 15. Lucius, 15. 17.

17 for Ayla, that's fine. 13. Nova on 13. I'm just going Aayla, that's fine. 13. Nova on 13. So I'm just going to put you guys in order and check my proper initiative. 13 as well. Oh, cute! Nova's dex is probably higher than mine. I'm going to drop you down to 12, effectively, essentially, just because for me it's a bit

easier to do it that way. Okay. Quill, I'm going to put you first, actually. I'm going to put you at 21. Oh! 21? That is not tied with Zarkira, by the way. No.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I think she's been more ready for this than we were. Yes. That is correct. She's been doing her homework. What a nerd.

Loser. It does feel like I do homework. Let's not fight her. Let's just insult her. Math battle. She's going to come join the callous fight over here. Lucius, I'm gonna bump you up to a 16. Sick.

What is that? You'll find out. We'll find out why it's really bad in a minute. Just gonna squeeze in a monstrosity in between. Oh man, that's rad. Oh, that's rad. Oh, that's rad. That's so rad.

Oh no. I know we were meant to be in part of that, maybe do some RP and stuff, but I was just sat there being like, oh, damn. Oh, damn. Oh, damn. Oh, damn. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, damn.

Oh, yeah. Okay, this is dual wielding. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Gun and a sword. Gun and sword. Gun and sword. I want to know why you got that name. It's almost like a gun.

Magitek, you know. Why was he called Caster? I don't think we're going to find out. Starbender. Why was he called Kala? Starkiller. Oh, Starbane. Not Starkiller, Starwolf. Astyar Lifton? What was Zahkira's name? Kira Zah Holloway. Oh, cool.

So if I went for that route, I'd be Adkilek. From now on. Ad Kilek from now on. Ad Kilek. Quill away. Quill away. Bear with me, guys. There's a lot of stuff going on in this fight, and I just want to make sure I'm all good to go. No worry, we can fill Dead Air. I know you can.

Tom can fill it all on his own. Go! Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeioiooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Tell me something. And there might be things as the fight goes on, you might get more things. At the start of any of your turns, you can ask Calus. You can just call out Calus, and he will come and aid you. What that aid looks like, you're not going to know until he arrives.

How many times you can use it, don't know. Right. Any mechanic, including that one, Calus coming to aid you anything like that any information you want you can make on your turn as a bonus action okay

for action economy purposes I am going to add a cost to trying to figure stuff out sure right but it's going to be not as high DC so it's going to be a lot easier

to get information but you do have to spend a bonus action to do it that is all the information I'm going to give you now. Any mechanics that come up, I'm not going to explain them until you learn what they do, or until you make a check to figure stuff out. Sure. Oh, God.

Is that an action or a bonus action, or just a bonus action? It's going to be a bonus action. Okay, fine. Bonus action to try and do a quick, like, I'm going to figure out this thing that's going on. Yeah, yeah, okay. Anything else else as always this is whilst is a comment counter and i have combo chemikites you are free to do whatever you like all right you know if you've got a crazy wacky idea you want to do something that's not

expected go nuts but uh just bear with me there's a lot of things going on sure um just uh just so i remember what uh in your spell storing ring, Lucius, what would you have? Masqueal Wounds. Masqueal Wounds, level five, right? I gave that to you last time, yeah. Cool. That's good to know.

Okay. What were they, mine? Are we good to go? Yes. Yes. I think so. I mean, we could just put it off, right? We could fill more time. Okay. In that case, at the just put it off, right? We could fill more time.

In that case, at the top of the initiative, as she not only rolled very well, she has a very high initiative bonus, is Zarkir. Ah, I mean, yeah. She is going to just sort of, not melodramatic, but she watches Calus go as this fight happens and then she turns her attention back to you ah this seems familiar and she raises and she has this long kind of spear-like stuff kind of almost a dark reflection of the spirit of oracles that quill carries kind

of magic staff mixed in with spear tip kind of thing. Flattery, you know. Imitation. Imitation, highest form of flattery. Wanted my eye, got my staff. She is going to sweep it through the air and four blasts of magic are just going to fly out. And she's going to go nice and easy.

She's going to go Quill, Sentry, Nova, Aayla to begin with. Okay. We are nicely clumped. This is a spell attack, so I think technically I will allow you to have resistance. Damage from spells? Yeah, I'd say so. Okay. And the attack against Quill is a 20.

30 feet. Should be everybody. Should be everyone for now. 20 will hit, regardless of shield. 20 will hit. I'm just going to do, are you going to shield? No, it would still hit with a shield. I'm going to do attacks first and then I'll do damage.

So Quill, this is against Sentry. That is a 28 to hit Sentry. This is against Nova. That is a 26 to hit Nova. Possibly, yes. And then Ayla, this is a 27. Like she's pinpoint accurate. Pinpoint accurate.

The fire damage against Quilly Billy. Fire? Okay. She's going to change each time. 19 points of fire damage to Quill. As this streak of fire is halved, yes, so that would go down to 9. Okay. As you see Sentry's matrix is almost helping to disperse the magical energy as it comes within her. And you can see Zarkiria doesn't seem surprised by this. Against Sentry, this will probably be

cold. 19 points of cold damage. Again, half down to nine. Nova, let's go with Ac acid. That's going to be 16, so 8 points of acid damage to you. And then to Ayla, that is going to be 16 points of... What are you not... Force damage to Ayla. 16. 16, so half den to 8. So, force damage. And she just kind of sweeps these blasts like... Almost like starting appearing above her and then channeling down

as these kind of bolts of magical energy strike. She is then going to wave her other hand as the staff kind of moves and you watch as three mirror image-like shapes appear around her. They almost kind of pull out from her, like almost opposite as if she was stood next to a mirror

and then the mirror reflection came out of her. And they kind of move and they stay close around her. They don't move too far away from her and they seem to mimic all of her gestures. Very similar to the mirror image spell. And then she's going to fly up in the air. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Okey-dokey. How high up is she? She is going to fly 40 feet up in the air. Oh, that's nice. Okay. Okay. Are the mirror images still... They fly alongside her.

They fly alongside her. Mm-hmm. Yep. And with that, that is going to be the end of Zarkira's first turn. Mm. Mm. And we go to solid.

Killa, cat, cat. That's a good turn. Mm-hmm. Well done, Zarkira. Now, frustratingly, we've had this argument before of magic missile versus mirror image, but they did nothing wrong. This is indeed mirror image.

I would tell you if it was the spell. She did not appear to cast a spell. She did not gesture. They just sort of came out of her. Okay. Just a legendary cool thing. Anything that you guys have experienced before in your long adventures, I will basically just say it's that thing.

This does not... It is mirror image-like, but it is not the mirror image spell. Okay. Well, I'm going to open up with some classic bacon. So, just testing the waters. Is she gonna try and counter spell me? She's not, great. So everyone's got bacon. And I suppose that is an action. What level are you casting bacon at?

That is third level. Third level. Okay. Well, okay. And I will bonus action, bring out Old Elderquill. Okay. From the Spear of Oracles. Okay.

And I am going to stay close to Sentry and next to Siaska. No movement? I probably should. She likes splash damage spells she threw a meteor at us before but i'm gonna stay where i am okay and that's me at the end of your turn quill sakiara is going to use one of her legendary actions and she is going to cast a spell and it's a spell you know so i'm going to tell you what it is if you don't if this spell hasn't been used before you will need to make a check to figure out what it could be uh this's a spell you know, so I'm going to tell you what it is. If you don't, if this spell hasn't been used before,

you will need to make a check to figure out what it could be. This is a spell you are very familiar with because you've seen Nova use it many times. As Sentry, Nova, Nova's Echo, and Quill, you feel the ground underneath you suddenly shift as you are reverse gravity. She's oscillating us? A bit oscillating. How dare you?

Oh, how is it? Turn tables. The great oscillator. I missed that time. Do you guys remember how fun that was? That was a good time. I also remember that time when you- I'm gonna make it slightly smaller.

Reverse gravity has a ridiculous radius. I'm gonna make this a basic, like a 10 foot column. But whilst you are in it, there is nothing to grab onto. Can I fly upside down? You can fly upside down, yes. So for you, this is less of a problem. I don't think you have a hover speed, though, do you? I'm going to say no.

So you do get thrown up 100 feet up into the air, and you are there, but you will be able to move on your turn. Nova and Sentry, you're oscillating. It's not so fun when it's done yourself. Actually, no, I did it to myself. So Akira just does like this gesture and then just seems to throw you up.

He does it with just the middle finger, though. Yeah, absolutely. And that was at the end of Quill's turn. Ayla. finger. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And that is, that is the end, that was at the end of Quill's turn. Ayla. Okay. Hello.

One legendary action. Um, can I, so, run up and use one of the charges on my hammer to fly up to her? Yeah, I mean, then you can just move diagonally. Yep. I will use one of the charges on my hammer to fly up to her.

Yeah, I mean, then you can just move diagonally. Yep, I will use one of the things, the that. That, please. Okay, make your attack. Or maybe her. Maybe the echoes, or mirrors. Excuse me, don't use the term echoes. No, echoes.

23 to hit? Do you know what, 23 won't hit. Wow. Excuse me? She, the armored bladed wings almost seem to fold around and are protecting her, and she's an expert combatant and is using her staff to protect herself as well. And there is definitely an element of like magical armor involved here as well, like there is like barriers

and wards and things like that protecting her oh man both under 10 i'm assuming yeah yeah so you kind of swing these two strikes but uh just with the spear just parry parry the wings knock the blow away can she make a deck save though uh she absolutely can make a deck save uh whoops. That is going to be, doesn't help when I'm rolling pretty hot as well, 30. Oh my god. Half damage. Still damage. You are specifically targeting the real Zarkir.

The reflections, by the way, are very obvious. They are mirror-like. They almost have like a mirrory sheen to them. Yeah, that's not for deception. 23 lightning damage. 23 points of lightning, but halved, yes? So that is going to be 11. What a shitty turn. Unfortunately, the dice did not like that one.

The dice did not like me today. 11 points of damage. So you watch as she is kind of blasted by the lightning, but for the sake of this doesn't actually hit Zarkar, it's kind of like weakening her wards and things like that. She's just with a spear, slinging it to the sides, parrying your blows, all that kind of stuff as the lightning is buffeting her.

Okay. All right. At the end of Aayla, your turn. She's going to use a legendary action. She is. And she is going to look down at little Lucius all on his own, far away from Sentry's magic aura. Oh, yeah.

I mean, 100 feet away from it. And she is going to, as she's defending off Aayla, point a finger as a green ray. No! Green ray. What's the roll in question? What's the sitch? Let me just check.

Actually, my poor hands. I believe I have to make an attack, so. No, the creature target but spell must make a dexterity saving throw. Shit. Five. Oh, total? Total. Does that beat it?

I think you just beat it, dude. Nailed it. These are healed dice that he's rolling. Healing dice! Oh, he just rolled it twice. Wow. You're good. That's a lot of healing.

Yeah. So much healing coming your way. A Disintegrate spell. Fatal DD. 60 points of force damage. Oh my god. Fatal DD. That was your response to a Disintegrate. You know, clothing, parts of maybe the gauntlet, it's broken away as you are struck by necrotic force.

Can I just do some quick thinking? Yes, you can. of maybe the gauntlet, it's broken away as you are struck by necrotic force. Can I just do some quick thinking? Yes, you can. As if Lucius is doing the quick thinking, I'm doing a slow think. Yes, at the same time, what I need you to do as well, Chris Trott, is note down somewhere that as this spell strikes you

and deals damage, you gain a doom token. Oh! As you feel the disintegrate spell, it has like a greenish ray, but there is crackling red energy that accompanies it. And normally disintegrate does force damage, this did necrotic damage. Oh shit. Okay.

Okay, when a magical effect that deals all of them, necrotic included, is used within 60 feet of me, I would like to spend three sorcery points to convert that to acid and take half damage. Okay. Ooh! Oh, there's a big boy here. All right.

Oh, look at him. Is that from Chromatic Control? Chromatic Control. All right. Wow. Absolutely. Nice. That goes from 60 to 30.

That's a reaction. You will still gain the doom token. Yeah, I got the doom token on there. That is when she does a thing that deals a certain type of damage, basically. So it doesn't trigger on you. When you convert it, the Hadar magic still hits you. It's just now acid instead of necrotic. So it does kind of melt things away and it burns away similar stuff

you're left with these blistering wounds, but you feel this heavy presence around you. Pretty good. Here you go. Here's a doom coin. Doom, doom, doom. I'm going to become a doom slayer. Doom slayer. Doom.

Yeah, I'm going to use these coins for something. Then we go Lucius. It is then your turn. Lucius is going to, hindsightedly, which is a word, cast mirror image. That's what he was hoping to do

before he got blasted so he does that just to set himself up three luciuses in a very similar kind of way to zarkira's own reflections but you can clearly see lucius cast the spell and lucius's ones look almost identical he's shifting between them so i'm curious they're just moving with her and just have this glossy mirror like sheen and then i'm going to crab walk behind this... Statue. Statue. Okay, yeah, this broken, crumbling statue in the dust.

All right. That doesn't happen. Can I have a quick look at free action Zarkira? Bonus action. Not Zarkira, Siaska. It's bonus action. Yeah, I didn't use it, so...

Yeah, if you didn't use it, what would you like to do? How's she doing? Okay, yeah, she'll make a medicine check, I guess. Nope. All right. Yeah, it's hard to get a read on her like um she's she's alive uh you can tell that much you don't need to check to turn in that and she's just holding aside and she's like looking up and she's like looking around all of you but like you can tell that like it's taking all of her strength to just hold off this this poison this virus, as she's doing that. Yeah. All right. Okay.

Sweet. After Lucius, we go to Nova. Hello. So this whole mirror image sitch with, or not mirror image, but whatever, if I was to do, like, a Hexblade curse... It would affect our character. It will affect our character.

Yeah, it's not like mirror image where they're, like... It's distracting. Yeah, I mean, they're there and they're copying her, but there's very obviously which one is the real her and like doesn't seem to be I will very obviously hexblade cursor. Okay. Yep. You can do that even whilst being oscillated Then I'm gonna cast fly on myself. I will do it and There's nothing really offensive I can do in this but I'll just some flat myself Somewhere safe. So that speed of 60 isn't it

like to go yes so 60 um I guess somewhere probably get diagonally down to her right yeah probably diagonally down to her so if I'm 100 feet up and I can fly 60 and she's 40 up in the air do you want to be basically next to Ayla? Yes. Am I within five foot of her? Yeah. Sweet. Easy. 60 feet, I'd say you can, 60 feet, you would fly down 60 feet. She was 40 feet up.

So yeah, you can literally get right next to her. There's a little bit of trigonometry in there, but I can't be fucked. Yeah, fuck that. Yep, so you can get right next to her. That's about all I can do, really. Oh, the Ganassi. Oh, here we go. I heard your city

was destroyed. It still stands. Yours doesn't. No. Long ago it was destroyed. Banter ends. Fun banter.

Six seconds of banter. Banter is over. Banter is done. Banter is over. Resume to the killing. Yeah. So yeah, go for it. Are we getting attacks? Oh, no, actually it's a cast flight.

Sorry, I forget that you get to cast flight. In that case... I'm just flapping around. We go from Nova to Sentry. Um... Can I... Can I Misty Step out of this thingamajiggy?

Um... You can Misty Step out of this thingamajiggy? You can Misty Step 30 feet and then you would fall 70 feet. If I go 30 feet diagonally down towards Zarkira. You would get 30 feet closer to Zarkira. Do you want a missile striker? Yes! She's learning from the best! Yes!

I'm so proud of you. I mean you would fall. Got the green bullet and now we got the blue bullet. Just about, yeah. I'd say that you can't land on Zarkira. You can make an attack as you fly past. One attack, though. Okay.

You'd be falling like 100 feet? 70 feet. 70 feet. 70 feet. 76 bludgeoning damage. Okay. But yes, you can absolutely do that. I will allow you to make an attack on the way down. Hell yeah. You know what? No, make two attacks. Go for that. I will allow you to make an attack on the way down. Hell yeah.

You know what, no, make two attacks, go for it. Oh! Why not? I don't know. One's going down and one is going past her. No, it's not, I want you guys to do cool stuff. Like, I think that Sentry making two strikes as she comes down is cool.

Uh, 13. I mean, I won't do anything. 22 total? Yeah. Shit. Try again. Uh, 13. I mean, I won't do anything, but... It wouldn't matter. 22 total? Yeah. Can't hit. Shit. Try again.

Man, you guys are not rolling super good. No, I'm rolling trash tonight. I think this one's better. Uh, 18 plus 13, 25? No, 31. 31. Yeah. Maybe ask Tru- just to help you on the maths,

because I know Baby might be influencing these rolls. Isn't that 20? It's not that 20. That would hit. Yes, yes, yes. However, it's a reaction. Zarkira causes one of these mirrory reflections to intercept the attack. It destroys it instantly.

When it destroys it, I need Nova and Aayla as it shatters glass. In fact, it's not even a saving throw. You take this damage automatically when it is destroyed. Does it hit sentry as well? It would hit sentry on the way down, actually, as well. It's not a saving throw. You will get resistance. Don't worry. I'll tell you in a minute. Danger sense?

No, it's not a saving throw. It's 16 slashing damage, so half for you, because it is normal slashing damage. So eight to Aayla, 16 slashing damage to Nova and Sentry as this reflection shatters and just casts this cloud of glass all around it. And then you plummet and land. Oh.

Worth it. I mean, yeah, maybe. I'd like to think the sound of you potentially just going, 21 more points of bludgeoning damage as you hit the ground, Sentry. It is like a, you're probably superhero landing on your way down. I mean, there's like a shockwave. There's a crater. There's definitely a crater down there for sure. And you do see kind of like Zarkira almost kind of react and she had to throw this reflection to take the attack. But yeah, it does cause it to break apart, unfortunately.

We're going crazy over here. Century, anything else on your turn? Just opening up with a bullet. At the end of the combat round, Zarkira will call out. You see her eyes flicker red. Here they come. Ancient magics, come to me now.

Call upon spells of a forgotten age. And then she raises her hand, and she is going to conjure one of her raid actions. Raid? Shadow Legends. Not sponsored. And she is going to conjure. She calls out, Blades of Misery!

Oh! Oh! I love those. Oh! That's a lot of swords on one mini. Swords. Yeah. One, two, three, four, five, no. That's a lot of swords on one mini. Swords, yeah. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

There's like 12 swords on that mini. Eight, nine, ten, eleven. As you watch, as she calls out, these spectral blades crackling in red magic form up just behind Lucius, pointing in a line that extends from Lucius and is heading diagonally across. It does look like it will fall under Aayla and Nova,

but whether this thing can strike you up in the air, you don't know, but it is in a line facing that direction. So at least Lucius and Sentry. Is this technically a spell that she's cast? This is not a spell as you know it. Okay. Ancient magics from a bygone age.

This is effectively 10th level magic, which is beyond the scope of- Oh, cool. This is her special raid power. She's gonna be using these ancient spells. Damn, that's cool. You can take out flies, but... What's the way to go with all that?

So, that is... Yeah, that was good. That is the very end. I actually forgot about the legendary actions, but hey, she's maybe being a bit arrogant and she forgot to use all of her capabilities last time. Stupid. So, on Valkyra's turn, with two enemies facing her,

she's gonna focus on Nova Vija initially, and she's gonna make an attack. She's gonna attack you with her blade staff. Nova Vija, that's a natural 20. Really? You cannot crit me. You can't crit me. I can't crit you, but I can hit you.

You can't hit me. But I can't crit you. So the armor, the adamantine armor, saves you, very Frodo, and being pierced by the cave troll. But it doesn't quite pierce through into your heart. But you do feel it's a bitter sting. And that is going to be,

I'm just going to use the average damage on this to save myself some time. It's going to be 24 piercing damage and 21 necrotic damage. And you gain a doom token. Here, take a doom coin. Get doomed. It was blocked by that notebook you picked up

at the start of the movie. Beautiful. You know when the bullet is blocked by the notebook? And then I would need you, Nova Vija, to make a concentration check for a total of... The DC would be 45, so half of that is 22. And is it, I add my constitution,

and I get advantage because I'm Warcast then. 19 and an 18, 19 plus constitution. Saving throw. Saving throw is three, 20, 21, 22. Woo! Oh my god. So the strike hits, and perhaps if it hadn't hit that adamantine armor, this would have not only

been more deadly, but likely broken your concentration, but you just managed to hold onto the energies of the spell, keeping the formulas in your mind, as she thrusts this spear, trying to bring you down. Sick. Is Ayla proud? She's so proud! Very good.

Look at you up in someone's face! Look at you up in someone's face. That's gonna be Zuccura. I'm loving this! Okay. Quill. Quill is 100 feet in the air. Oh yeah, you're oscillating.

Yeah, well I can fly, so I guess I can- You can just like, literally beat your wings, push yourself out of where the reverse gravity is and then you can fly. Can I, I can... You can just literally beat your wings, push yourself out of where the reverse gravity is, and then you can fly. Can I... I'll just fall 50 feet and then flap. Yeah. Start gliding like a badass. Yeah.

So if I was to, say, flamestrike her and the area that she is in, would it hit her and the mirror? Or is the mirror too far away? The mirror's all around her, yeah. I would say that spells like that probably won't hit the mirrors. It looks like she can sort of like control them and

pull them into herself. Things like area of effects aren't going to damage the mirrors, but they would just damage her normally. Okay, but she also like chose to use the mirror instead of taking the mirror. She seems to have some control, able to like absorb them back into herself, yes. It literally seems to be able to use it to block directed attacks. Okay.

And also a flamestrike would absolutely hit Sentry and probably Aayla and Nova as well. Yeah, it was just if I angled it. If you angled it at the back, maybe. But don't forget, Valor is there, and you don't know if this prison is going to protect her from spell energy. It probably would. Only one way to find out.

I killed Valerie. Oopsie. Just as a reminder, we have after Quill, providing no legendary actions, it's Ayla, then Lucius. I will just Sacred Flame. It's a dex save from that. Dex save. Okay. And...

Ooh, maybe not. Ooh. Ooh. That is going to be a 19. Oh! I've got a 22 to beat that one. So in that case she takes, or potentially takes... As a dex save throw she will take this. The reflections are not able to protect her from... They've seen 21 damage.

21 points of damage. The kind of flames scorch past, and she has to use some of her barrier energy to kind of deflect it, whittling away at her reserves of energy and stamina, things like that. And I suppose I would, bonus action, I want to see what the... Forget a million different abilities.

I need to remember she has advantage on saving throws against spells. That would have been a 26, but it's fine. We've done the damage. It's my fault for game. Sure. It was 25-ish if you wanted to... Okay, I'll bonus action. I want to take a look at these sows and see what it seems like. They're going to shoot forward, but is there anything special here?

The higher you get, the more information you get. What would I... Is this... This would be arcana. This is magic. Arky. 16. 16. Yeah, I will tell you maybe not all, but most of the information about this mechanic.

So Quill would know these are the Zarkira, and this isn't like Zarkira's chant, like concentrating in the traditional sense. She has like imbued herself with this powerful ancient knowledge and is conjuring these almost living spells um this one blades of misery you will need to check for each different spell if she uses different ones uh you do know that she will probably have different ones that she can use uh this one in particular uh will basically attack in a line um and it will uh it basically yeah it

will be a dexterity saving throw. Anybody in the line, and if it hits you, take damage and maybe other effects as well. I'm not going to reveal those. But you also know that these things act on specific initiatives. Like multiple times per round? I will say with what you get, 16? Yes.

It has three initiative slots. I will tell you that. It doesn't mean it acts three times. Yeah. Okay. Okay, cool. So just deck save to... Hinaline.

Okay. I don't see the range of that at all. It's just... I'll tell you, it's probably going to be about a 90-foot line. Okie doke. So about the entire width of this map. 90-foot straight. Yeah.

Yeah. But it can obviously angle diagonally and stuff like of this map. 90 foot straight. Yeah. Yep. But it can obviously angle diagonally and stuff like that as well. Don't worry about him. Don't worry about him. Alright. I won't worry about him. I am sword. Okay.

I'll... I won't even communicate that with anyone. Stand in the line. I will. Just keep sounding this. Alright. End of turn, yes. Okay.

It's time for a legendary action. Here we go. Hey, what up? Who we got? Who we got? Who we got? Who we got around? Did you fly?

Sorry, Coyle, where did you move to as well? Because you said you flew out. Oh, sorry, I'm like five feet out of the oscillation and then 50 feet from the ground, I suppose. Look at all these flying friends Do we need more flying things when we all fly? No, please don't fly any more people Hey, cast fly

So, Zalkira's going to lose a legendary action and she is going to You're concentrating on Beacon of Hope at the moment, aren't you? No I think you are I don't think I am I think you are I don't think you need to think again Are you concentrating on Beacon of Hope at the moment, aren't you? No. I think you are. I don't think I am.

I think you are. I don't think you need to think again. Are you concentrating on Beacon of Hope? I'm concentrating on Beacon of Hope. Zarkira is going to use Consume the Magic. Ew. She will point in the direction of Quill. Give me your power.

And just clench her fist. I need you to make a Constitution saving throw. What's the save on that? High. Yeah? Yeah. Is the save on that? High. Yeah? Is it more than 22? Yes. Yeah?

Yeah. Well, seven. I've got a plus two, so. Your concentration is broken, and you see that Zarkira seems to gain strength. She's getting temporary hit points from absorbing the spell. You just healed Zarkira. You didn't heal her on purpose.

It's like temp healing, shield healing. Was that specific to that spell or is it just, that's what that effect does? Because that could have been hell. Telling you? But that is two of her legendary actions. Okay. To consume magic. We then go to, after Quill,

it is the raid actions turn. You should have been worried. You should have been worried. Yeah, yeah, no, I shouldn't. So Lucius and Sentry are here. It is going to go diagonally, and it is going to strike. In fact, no, you know what? No, I didn't specify it's going to go along the ground.

I'm going to hit Sentry and Lucius. Sentry, your aura will still affect this. It is technically a spell of magical nature, but it's just not a spell that things can be, like, countered and stuff like that. But I will say your damage reduction and saving throw stuff will apply to this. So I need Sentry and Lucius to make dexterity saving throws.

What sort of damage? I think if you're in range of my aura. Seven. Slashing damage. Oh bugger. Nine. Fifteen. Thirteen. Fortunately you both fail. You are in my range.

You're going to take, it would normally be twenty-eight slashing damage, half to fourteen thanks to Sentry's aura, because I think Lucius is in range, right? Yeah, 30 feet. Yeah, 30 feet. But you both gain a bleed token. Oh.

Yeah, take a bleed coin. Are they the same as the doom coins? They're slightly different. They're different. Coin of doom. Doom and bleed. All right. Doom.

And then the thing shoots across the battlefield and stays there. I'm just gonna leave it in its. So it's still. It is still there. It kind of shoots across like these blades go and streak across the ground, carving into Sentry, carving into Lucius

as they strike past like, and you are left with these bloody, like gaping wounds. But then it seems to remain there. A bloody gaping wound. After the raid action, it is Ayla, then Lucius. Whoa. I will try and hit again, I guess. And your fly ends at the end of your turn.

So you get these two whacks in before you have to do anything else. Basically, yes. 27. 27, all right, she's down to two of her reflection, so I have to roll now to see if she can use it. That is, she's not able to use it, this is going to go straight through to Zahkira. Terrible. Woohoo! Okay.

17 from the hammer to lightning. Okay. For the first one. So 19 total. The lightning is resisted, actually, so that'd be 18. Bitch. Bitch. Bitch. Oh, but the temporary hit points do absorb some of that.

Thanks, Quill. That's all right. Hey, let me know when you want another one. 24 to hit. 24 will not hit. Once again, these bladed wings kind of striking in. Dex save? Dex saving three, yes, absolutely.

Natural 20, that's going to be easy. Two so far, two so far. Fuck. So right, every one I roll, you guys are going to get back. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. My next one is you guys are going to get back. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. My next one is going to be fate. 18 lightning damage.

18 points of lightning damage, great. And I will scoot round the back and land down on the ground. Whereabouts? Like over this side? Over here? Down the steps in front of that statue. Not that one, that one, yeah. So basically behind Zarkiratika.

Behind Zarkiratika, yeah. On the ground next to a big statue of a grim-looking figure. Rhymes of Zipfly slapping. How many charges do you have on the hammer? I only have two now. Oh, okay. No, still. Two more times. Well, technically four rounds. All right, Ayla, anything have on the hammer? I only have two now. Oh, okay. No, still, yeah. Two more times. Well, technically four rounds.

All right, Ayla, anything else on your turn? No. Spread out. Don't like that. Ooh, sorry. It's like we've learned. Ew. Gross. Took us five years. Yeah, didn't expect us to be smart, did you?

Heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh. No, we're wickerish. We're smart. Yeah, didn't expect us to be smart, did you? No, we're wicked smart. Oh, Lucius, you said you... Lucius is within 30 feet, isn't he? Yeah. Because you said he was. How about Quill? I'm like 50 feet up.

Are you? Yeah, he's still flying. But what about Tenova? Tenova is 40 feet. 40 feet off the ground. So I'm like 10 feet up, vertically away from Tenova. Oh, that's fine.

So you're within 30 feet of Tenova. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Tenova is 10 feet up vertically away from Puzzle Monster. Oh, that's fine. So you're within 30 feet of Nova. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nova is 40 feet up. I also... Well, actually, that's for me to know. That's for me to know for you to find out. I guess in that case it would be... Oh, you've all spread out annoyingly well.

Yeah, pretty good. Took us five years to get to this point. I can only hit two of you with this. That's fine. Boo hoo. I'll hit Nova and Quill. Is this a spell? It is. Okay. Would you like to use your Mage Slayer?

Yeah. Okay. So you see, I don't believe this is a spell you guys have seen before. Maybe not. So yours is a reaction to her casting a spell, so your reaction goes off. So I can do two things. I can melee attack her,

and I can also have advantage on saving throws against whatever she's casting. Sure. Hell yeah. Sure. It's fine. Do you want me to do the melee attack? Yes, please. Absolutely. It's fine. Do you want me to do the melee attack? Yes, please. Yeah, absolutely.

You never know. 11 plus 13. 20, 24. No. It's close. The same with the Aayla hit. It's close to hitting. It's nearly there.

I think it's the total five. Seeing as you have hit the 24, I will say her AC is 25. So again, it kind of just manages to deflect with these bladed wings, and then from her open hand, Emperor Palpatine, Chained Lightning. Oh!

Oh, is that why she didn't target on me? And why she waited until you were far enough away so your aura didn't give them resistance. Damn it! Also, Sentry's aura cannot give them resistance. No, yeah, just that way. So this is going to be Dexterity saving throws from you both, please. Oh, you've forgotten about my cool feature.

Take it like a champ. Dexterity save. Crispy fried chicken. Yeah. Actually. Smell good. 15. Probably not enough.

15 is not enough. How's a 9, though? How's a 9? Not enough. Oh. Take it like a champ thing. Luckily I rolled very bad on the damage there. Hey.

It hit me. And then it does hit me. Start crying. I wish I'd written more. 43 points of lightning. Excuse me, I thought you just said... I then rolled quite well on subsequent rolls. Yeah, cute.

But yeah, 43 lightning damage. Oh, sorry, buds. What's that half? That's a lot of damage. Concentration check. Oh, yes, 43 would be 21. 21, yeah. It's doable.

19, 20, 22, 20, 19, 20, 21, 22. Oh, damn. DC was 21, 43, 3.5. PG. What's happening? So you intend to fly as Akira, seeing the two of you kind of within proximity, she blasts Nova and then from Nova,

the lightning jumps over to Quill, and then dissipates. No other targets in the area to strike at. Yeah, I don't think we have seen that one before. Yeah. We've seen lightning blast, whatever it's called. That then goes to... That was at the end of Ayla's turn.

Then it is Lucius. She is now out of legendary actions. Sick. At the start of your turn, Lucius, I believe you out of legendary actions. Sick. At the start of your turn, Lucius, I believe you have a bleed token, do you not, sir? I'm bleeding. You're a bleedy boy. I don't know what this doom is doing either. Take one point of necrotic damage. Sorry, just one point of damage, that's not typed.

That's just one point of damage. 58. Does the bleed disappear? I'll know that. Okay. Can I do a little check to see how the bleed... Oh, you absolutely can. Would you like it on the bleed token or the doom token? Doesn't matter. I rolled a three.

Well, I mean, it depends. What's the check? Five. Five? I will tell you that yeah, basically... I'm bleeding. It will cause damage at the start of your turn. You do feel yourself... Your kind of, like, mind is on fire. You feel sluggish.

Your body's kind of like... Like, you have this bleeding wound. There's, like, a little bit of fear creeping up in your chest. And it's not stopping. The bleeding won't stop. Without any sort of... Without any medical attention or magical healing, it does not look like it's going to stop.

Okay. That is what you learn. Sick. Well, as a bonus action... That was a bonus action. Huh? That was a bonus action. Did you check that out?

Yeah. He said that at the very start of combat. Yeah. Action, please. Or move it. I'm going to cast a very simple firebolt towards the illusion of Zarkira. Well.

What illusion? One of the ones that... The mirrors. They cannot be attacked directly. I'll attack her then. Actually, no, you can attack them. Yeah, you can attack them. 27.

27? Yeah. You want to go for one of the reflections? I just want to take them out Yeah, you can attack them. 27. 27? No. Yeah, hits. You want to go for one of the reflections specifically. I just want to take them out because they're annoying me. It destroys Nova. It destroys Nova? No.

You mean she takes damage because it's going to explode into glass? It destroys, comma, Nova. Okay. Yeah, so Nova's going to take damage. No, that's good. It's not very good. That was a bad shot. As the reflection explodes into

shards of glass as the firebolt smashes it to pieces and over you're suddenly covered in all this glass and it cuts and, you know, scrapes at you. But the reflection is destroyed. She has one reflection left. Do I do a concentration check? You would need to, yeah. DC 5. 10. Minimum 10.

I rolled two 3s. Plus 3s is 6. Fucking hell. The DC is actually 10. Sorry, I got it. Plus 3 is a 6. Fucking hell. The DC is actually 10, sorry I got it wrong. It's 10 on half the damage. So I plummet. 40 feet up, right? Oh my god! 46. 4d6.

Should have listened better. 8 points of damage. Technically you and Cintra are prone as well. You did fall out of the sky. That's really good HP there, Nova. Just noted that. Oh my god, are you really low already? I would have been alright. Are we talking about nice HP? Is she on 69? No. I would have been alright. Any movement from Lucius? Lucius is quite happy behind the statue. Okay.

I shout out, me bleed, bleed no go. After your turn, Lucius, the raid action is going to teleport. Well, it kind of moves over. It faces now almost the opposite direction, facing towards Nova, Sentry, and Lucius. Lucius, you will have cover from this attack as it is going down towards you. Sweet.

Yeah, you're directly behind it, so you can benefit from cover. It will be half cover, so you'll have a bonus to your save. That is the raid action soon. Nova, Vigia, followed by Sentry. I would like to... Dammit, she's all the way up there!

Yes, she is capable of flight. I will bonus action activate my sword. Heaven's word! So now the sword is glittery. Yes. And I'm going gonna Eldritch Blaster from prone on the ground I might stand up a little bit okay do you wanna move yeah I'll move away from the thing that is like just staring at me I guess towards Quill but not like in a line with him. So maybe like, yeah, that's it. So yeah.

You get 15 feet, because you're prone, half movement. So you stand up, you scurry away, scrambling away as the sword begins to glow. Scurry? Like a little, like a little It's dignified. It's dignifying. It's a dignified scramble.

Tuck and roll, and very badassly kind of move to the side. 19 to hit. 19 will not hit. That's why I got four balls. Needs to be a 25. No. Yeah, just no. Second attack, no, third.

Why? 20 to hit. No. Oh, 25. There needs to be 25. Ooh. That's a... 17 plus 11 is a 28.

28 hits. Let's see if it hits her reflection. It does not. Sorry, it does. It does hit the reflection. So it will do... It destroys the reflection automatically, and there are no creatures around for the glass to affect. So all of the reflections are destroyed. And that was on the fourth one.

It's not to fly away. So you kind of turn around, these blasts, Zokira nipping, dodging, weaving to the side, and then the last one just smashes the glass. You notice that when the glass breaks, none of it touches Zokira. It just falls and almost explodes outwards away from her. And yeah, she kind of like... We're rigged.

Yeah. All right, Nova, anything else on your turn? I think that's pretty much the full turn, right? Bonus move, action. I will look pleadingly at Quill. Help! Okay, what? Sentry.

I'm bleeding real bad. Oh, I'll get up. He's bleeding real bad. I do. I mean, Lucius did say, me bleed no go. It'm bleeding real bad. I'll get up. He's bleeding real bad. I mean, Lucius did say, me bleed no go. It's points of damage. It's bleeding. Cool, cool, cool. We all bleed real bad.

I'll get up and move next to Nova. We've got 15 feet of movement. Where do you want to go? Five, ten, fifteen. Five, ten, fifteen will be there. Then you're in the sword. I'm in the sword zone. In the sword regardless.

I'm going to go that way. Unless... I just want to get close to Nova. Yeah, you can do that. 5, 10, 15. Like that? 5, 10, 15. Like that? Yeah. You can technically go like 5, 10, 15 like that.

I guess I'll Misty Step next to her. Okay, that's it. Yeah. Bonus action, Misty Step. And then Leon hands Nova for 20 points. 20 points. Nova, do you have any Doom or Bleed tokens? One Doom.

You have one Doom. You say 20 points for healing? Oh, no. Reduce that by three. 17 healing. That's really fast. I see. I see, I see.

Century, full turn. Thank you, Century. All right. I'm guessing bacon doesn't help. Oh, no, it's bacon. Bacon's gone. Bacon's gone. She ate my bacon. At the end of the combat round. I'm guessing bacon doesn't help. Oh, no, it's bacon. Bacon's gone. Bacon's gone.

She ate my bacon. At the end of the combat round, a couple of things. Here we go. The sword vanishes. Bye. Oh, sorry, the sword actually would have acted. I forget that it actually acts at the end. Oh.

Oh, no. Lucius, I need a dexterity saving throw from you. This is going to be with plus one. I was going to say with plus five, thanks to the cover. But with a net one, it's not going to help you. Six and your dex. Please use a different one. But this is a fox and knife one.

I know, but I think you sometimes need to... Okay, eat it. He's eating it. He's going to poop it out in about 12 hours? It's going to come out as a 20 then. That would be 33 points of slashing damage. And another bleed token. Hang on, let me check. Yep.

You're up. I'm healthy. And another bleed token. And as it fades, as it flies past, it vanishes, Lucius. I'm going to put this over here. That ancient spell is now done. Ooh. Done, but still in a hard turn.

Can't wait to see this now. I know the next one. And it turns. Icyera summons an ult. Yeah. Where have people gone? Ooh. Ooh.

She's going to look around, looking, analyzing the battlefield. Ooh. She's gonna look around, looking, analyzing the battlefield, and she is going to, yes. Eyes of Adar, gaze upon this realm. What is that? Ew! Is that an eyeball? What is? They're not eyeballs, they are glowing spheres of crackling red energy.

Looks like a testicle. I mean, okay, sure. Balls of Hadar. They are the balls of Hadar. I didn't call them that very specifically. That happens at the end of a combat round. We jump to the start of a combat round we jump to the start of a combat round all of you hear a weak voice from siasca the magic of hadar your bleeding wounds i can help you with them i can call upon aid i do not have all my power but i can try and restore you when you need

it but i do not know how long it will be until i can do so again whenever you need me call upon my aid you can now or ask at the begin at any point any of your turns you can ask siaska to provide you with healing starlight this will provide you healing but it will also cleanse some tokens from you but it has a random chance to recharge oh right at the start of every turn so it may not be every time it's not very right yeah yes combat round okay and that's a bonus action as well it's a it's a free it's a freebie don't have to do anything anybody Anybody can call upon it. Sorry, start the combat round. Yeah, it recharges it, but on any of your turns,

you can call for her aid. So think of it as like a free action on your turn. You can basically say, like, hey, Sayaka, help, we need you, and then she will provide you with healing starlight. But it is a random chance for it to recharge at the start of a new round. All right.

At the top of the round, it's like, here I've been. Yes? Hello? Chris drop. I had mirror image, but I don't think the line thing would affect it. It's dexterity saving throw, so it doesn't affect it. It's direct attacks.

In fact, actually, before we go to the next round, I just realized, it's break time. Oh. We are gonna take our break here. Thank you very much. We'll be back with this combat shortly. Part two. Part two. Bye-bye.

See you in a bit. Bye. Bye.