High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #189 | Hope Won't Fall (Part 2)

Episode Date: June 22, 2023

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Welcome Welcome back to part two. Our heroes have been battling Zarkira, the former mage of the Valkyrian Empire, now corrupted and controlled, serving Hadar. What seemed to be a turning point in the battle, forcing Zarkira into her second form, striking heavy blows, defying her powerful magic, took a sudden and abrupt dark turn as Zarkira, with her spear, struck Quill dead. struck Quill dead. There's no way to save him.

The storm chasers pressed on, fueled by rage, by fear, by grief. Calling in Calus Valkyrium, Nova dispatched him to aid Sentry and Aayla in using the magical lance Starbreaker to destroy the prison holding Valor. The three of them together, it was done. And as Valor was freed in a surge of her divine power,

she not only restored energy to the champions of Varos, but turned back time on life itself to restore Quill to life. One HP. One HP. I thought you were going to do that. Oh, I'm back, bitch. I live, bitch.

That one. Sorry. I forgot in the moment. One HP. I forgot in the moment. One HP. And restoring ten, like, resources to everyone as well. What HP were you on before you were down?

You were nine. Nine, yeah. Put yourself on nine. Oh, that's so generous. That's where it would have been. It would have reset Quilter just before he was struck. Okay. Enjoy those free eight hit points.

Hell yeah. Tom, you are welcome. That's going to go a long way. You're so welcome. You're so welcome. There is, that was Sentry's action, by the way, and an immediate action with Val's turn. Technically, Sentry, you do have a move and a bonus action.

Bonus action, cry. What can you do with a bonus action? Calus is here to help out as well. Yes, Calus will remain until the start of Nova's next turn. Remember, Calus grants you advantage on attack rolls and saving throws. Sick. Many other things may happen as well. I will say Valor is not... She is unconscious as if she has been...

Like, she's exhausted, I say has been, like she's exhausted. Yeah. She is, I'm not a pro. Hopefully she can get us in that demiplane afterwards. I would hope so. Hope so. Okay. Have you got a kill Zarkira spell?

I wish. That'd be real handy, right? Level 20 paladin ability. It's a giant mongoose. I'm just trying to see what bonus action I can do. It doesn't work for most people playing paladin, unless they're literally after Zarkira. I think you've restored some channeled wine.

No. I've got something in mind for next turn. I think I'll move down to stay close to the quill. Okay, so you turn. I love this idea of sentry turns and then down the steps of this ancient temple. Just a slow, badass walk and just put yourself between Zarkira and Quill.

I do love that as a visual image and just shield Lance in position, ready. Can I say to her, can I say, you are pure evil, but that evil will be what destroys you. Just look at her. I think that she kind of, you can see, I'm trying to think.

Zahkira, almost as if just kind of taking everything in like she's been stunned she was stunned by what has just happened witnessing true time witnessing this divine power of time and space

and she's stunned and then you speaking to her kind of snaps her out of it and she realises that Val is free. Whatever she was doing to take that power is now gone. No, no, it was mine! It was mine! No!

It's Akira's turn. Start of a brand new combat round. Yep. Oh, Siaska. Who wants to roll for Siaska? Tron, uh, d6. Four, five, six. In fact, you've reminded me of something as well.

Five. It's back. That's perfect because you see that with everything that's happened, I've been describing that it feels like Siasi has been trying to regain some of her strength, still weakened. For the first time, she's able to fully stay. You see her body begins to kind of glow

with a small amount of starlight. Her hair kind of begins to lift as if it was floating in space as it once was. She still clutches the side and you can see where it has torn her dress and like the knife was stuck into her flesh. There is this horrid red and black runic sigil that's trying, like it's trying to spread through her body

and then her body will pulse light and almost push it out. And every time she does, a drop of this liquid is pushed out of the wound and down to the ground. But it's like taking time. It's like a heartbeat. Like every drop at a time, she's purging this poison from her body. And when she stands, she's shaky. But she stands.

This power was never meant for people like you, Kira. That is what you will never understand. You can't be a god. That's not your point. That's not your purpose. You could have been more, and you've thrown it away. And I won't let you hurt my children anymore.

And she launches a blast of radiant energy at her. Oh shit. Plus 18 to you. Oh! Natural 20. Are you kidding? Oh! Oh my god!

Look at his face I was just like yeah they know oh my god you just stunned of course I'm stunned what's the damage roll for this guy

well I you know she is still very weakened she is a goddess but she's very very weakened I'm gonna a goddess, but she's very, very weakened. I'm going to say, I'm going to put it like, you know, she's kind of equivalent to power to like Zarkira's kind of like attack. So I'm going to do it as similar to her spear strike without the necrotic. So it's going to be 4d12. So that'll be 12, 24, 48 plus what I roll now.

57. 63 points of extra damage. Pretty nice. Nice. Yeah, yeah, I like that. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, that's really good. The Blast strikes Akira. Why are you not dead yet?

And she just kind of looks down. All of you, you should have died thrice over. How, how have you not fallen to yet? Why are you not afraid? Now Zarkir is gonna take that. But Zarkir, sorry, Siaska's healing power is now back. But Zarkir... Sorry, Siaska's healing power is now back as well. Sick. Yes, yes.

I think seeing this, she's got a load of you around her. Against Lucius, Nova, Sentry and technically the Echo, she's going to use her Monstrous Wing attack to make an attack against all of you. So against Lucius, that is a 24. Against Nova, that is a 30. Against Aayla, natural one. No, I'm not there. Oh, sorry, Sentry then. It would have been Sentry.

Natural one. And against the Echo, that will be a 27. Yeah, that'll hit. I'm going to take the average damage on this. 18 points of bludgeoning damage. None for Sentry. Everybody but Sentry is also pushed back. 20 feet, oh my god.

Into Calus's arms. In fact, technically I would say that the force of wind might, because you're conscious though, but with Sentry in the way, like Quill... Or is he up in the air? No, he's prone still. Oh, right. It returned him down and then kind of gently... I was up before I was hit.

He's still prone. Panicked, fell, hit the ground. I'm unconscious again. But I like the idea that because you're in front of Quill Sentry and you didn't get hit, like you kind of rebuffed this wing attack, like you have like prevented the monstrous kind of force of these wings of blowing Quill back as well.

Passing either side of us. Tiangong is destroyed, so I'm going to use Reclaim Potential. Reclaim Potential, absolutely. That is one of her actions. Sentry, you know what? You standing in a way like this, she's going to take two attacks against you. There is a blind rage here.

Like, if you feel like Zarkiro probably would have just attacked Quill again, but Siaska, everything that's happened, you defiantly standing in front of her just turns that attention fully on Sentry. And she's going to make two of her like just turns that attention fully on sentry and she's gonna make two of her spirits exit it's gonna be a 31 yep on the first one I want both second one will be a 26 yep so it's both gonna hit I'm just gonna do the average damage that'll be 34 piercing and 21 necrotic that is a total

of 55 each it is that a spell she just did? Nope, this is attack with her spear end bringer. So that'll be 110 points. Oh, end bringer. Mm. It hits. Are you still up? Still up.

Love it. So you watch as these spears, maybe it like breaks through a part of the shield of solvent. Maybe it like re, like kind of tears parts of your armor, but you still stand and she's just like die Fall why won't you fall? Hope doesn't fall. Oh And with that line key like had Kalon

Yeah Hmm I fell a little bit. Fucking bit. Yeah... Um... Hmm... I want to stand up. Front prone. That's a given. The squire stands behind the knight. Um... And I want to say... to Zaki, right?

We stand before you now because we know who you are without this power. Soon, Hadar will fall. And you'll be left the person you were before you. Absorbed whatever it is he gave you. I want you to have a taste of that now. And I want to use Divine Intervention with the intention of Mama Siaska right behind me to evict Hadar's power out of her.

Oh my god. I don't know how the fuck that might work. Oh, interesting. I know. But I mean... You gotta roll for it, though. You gotta roll it, kiddo. Hey, Siaska, I'm praying to you right now.

You can hear me, right? Sorry, Glenn. Just pass her a note. Now, you did give up the chance to be a level 20 cleric, so you could have portent. That's, yes. So, a level 20 cleric, their divine intervention works automatically and it has a long cooldown.

But not me. Normal divine intervention, I believe, is you have to roll under your level on a D100. Yes. Yes. Yes. Where is it? But you are quite right.

Siaska, this normally divine intervention is a prayer to the gods themselves in their celestial realms or wherever they may be. It is likely that these prayers go unheard or the divine power cannot manifest in that present moment. But right now, the being, the Hesper, your god, who is a part of Siaska, is right there. She is weakened. Siaska, weakened as she is, moves beside you. She reaches out a hand to take yours. Mm-hmm.

I do not know if I have the strength for this. This is a noble endeavor. He would be proud of you. This is going to be a roll, because she's weakened. I am going to say... This is going to be... So a d100. But boost your level...

by 50. 50? If you roll below a 67. 68. 68 or below. This will work. 69. 69 or above is a failure. 68.

Oh, for fuck's sake. Oh. I'm not so worried about it. We can't let him ever be a DM. Well, I'm not gonna touch the dice. He gets too much joy. Yeah, I love this shit. No, we're not worried about you fudging it. It's just frustrating because we can't see it. It's a wobbly tray. Yeah, it's also a wobbly tray. Fine.

I almost want to see how I think like rolling it in front of her. Okay, 68 or lower. Oh, you fucking bitch. 75. It's not even a nice number. 75. 75. Good luck, bud.

If Siaska was not weakened by the poison, I was going to allow this to work automatically. But with her weakened, hey, it's also, I know I'm asking a lot here. I mean, you died, come on, give her a break. What I will say, how about this? Because I don't want this to just be a complete you do nothing.

Roll 4d12 for me. 4d12? Well, have this do radiant damage. So you watch as Quill and Siaska, their hands join. Light radiates out from them and surges like a wave over you, Sentry, and you feel this calm, like water washing over you, but it's warm and enveloping and cleaning, cleansing. And you feel that all the fear in your heart is almost dispelled

and shaken away, leaving hope and the idea of a bright future. As it hits Zarkira, it is like it is acid and it burns her. No, no! And she's like holding it back and you see magic begin to project as she tries to block it with her hands. This barrier of force as she tries to hold back this light. 31 damage. 31 points of radiant damage. Not bad. Not bad at all. So you want, and she's like no! No I won't

go back to that way! I won't go back to that coward. And she's just holding it back and unfortunately is able to prevent the light from dispelling Hadar's power from her. So Asuka kind of drops to one knee, because she's a lot taller than you as well, Quill. She's probably like, you know, nine feet tall versus your little baby boy.

So she drops to a knee. I'm sorry, Kidak, I'm sorry. I don't have the strength in me. Not yet. That's cool. That's fine. Hey, I still love you. And I love you. Is that the end of your turn, Phil?

Can I use Siaska's healing? Is that the start of my turn? I'm going to say, with that in mind, no Siaska healing this turn. Yeah, we spent her. I think she's pretty worn out. All right. B-b-b-b-b-bonus action. Yeah. Hell yeah, baby.

B-b-b-b-b-bonus. So after this, by the way, we have Ayla then Lucius. Uh... Bonus! Uh... So after this, by the way, we have Aela then Lucius. Although I might do... I'm actually going to do a Legendary Action right after this. I'll just Shield of Faith myself. No, I won't. I'll bring out Elder Quill again, because I restored it. No, no, no. It's gone for 24 hours. Even though I restored the charge?

Yeah, no, you can have a point back, but that is not a normal charge. That is a 24 hours like it is gone. Fine. Sorry. There is going to be some exceptions to some of these paths. In that case, Shield of Faith. I could do a small heal, but it would be a tiny, tiny heal. I don't know how much damage it does.

Shield of Faith on yourself? Yes. All right, plus 2 AC. At the end of your turn, Zarkira is going to take a legendary action. And she is going to cast a spell. What spell would she cast? A good spell. Yeah?

She is known to do that. Story time with Mark. Mark's in her monologue. A good one. Sakura casts a spell. I think with where everyone is located, she can hit all of you with a circle of death. What does that do again?

Necrotic damage. I believe it is a saving throw. Yeah. It is a constitution saving throw from everyone, please. Oh, is that a concept? You have advantage as Calasthar, Tyrion, is present. Oh good, because I got a one. Good thing you... Oh, I'm gonna get a plus three.

Aura from Sentry. Oh, I might. 26. 26 is a success. How's a 23? That's a fail. Ooh, that's a 24. 21.

22. Unfortunately, only Ayla is gonna succeed. Only I have a plus 3, I'm sorry. 34 necrotic, halved to Ayla, to 17. 34 necrotic. Hey, yeah, so hey. He's out. I'm down again.

But this time you are not on automatic death saving throws. That's true. And your friends can get you up. That's true. That is at the end of Kul's turn. That is going to be one of our legendary actions. We then go to Ayla as there is no raid action. I run up to her and i hit her please yeah here we go with an advantage from the century yes advantage from callus yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes um strike down 29 to hit 29

hits and also just keep in mind so technically i have callus stood there he is is like jumping in and attacking with Aayla, and that's giving the advantage. Like he's distracting Zarkira by making attacks at her, and that's what's giving you the advantage. No, you're back to back. Okay, yeah, sure. Or you can do the whole back to back thing. 21 on the hammer for lightning. 21 plus four, so 21 plus two, so 23. Second attack is 19 plus 15. So 21 plus two, so 23.

Second attack is 19 plus 15. Not quite a crit. Not quite a hit, but a hit. Strong hit. Strong hit. 20 on the hammer, three lightning. And then a dex save. And then a dex save. And then a dex saving throw. She's not, she, that's a natural one,

and she does not seem as dexterous in this larger form. It's a failure, but it is resistant. She is resistant. 16 lightning. 16, so eight lightning. Yes. You see, as Aylala rains these hammer blows down, Calus jumping in, striking, distracting her,

and then Aayla swinging up, catching Zarkira off guard. Between all the radiant energy from Siaska, and then Quill's attempt to purge the Hadar power, these strikes, Nova's strikes previously, striking through the pain, Lucius's spells, centuries like injuries at the very beginning when she first transformed she looks injured there are deep wounds and you can see those reptilian eyes flicking between all of you and she just is like no no no no just begins screaming the word over and over again and you see the air crackle above. I forgot to minus a D6 from my attacks for being befuddled,

but even then it would still hit. It would still hit, yeah. Just for note keeping. That's fine, don't worry about it. I'm not worried about it. I think at this point, it's cool. Zarkira, when she reaches a certain threshold, you watch as the air crackles

and those ancient spells that she had summoned. You begin to see some of them flicker back. Zarkir does not seem to be fully in control of this spell. Oh, no. Uh-oh. Oh, that's scarier. Yeah, that is scarier, actually. The scythe is back.

I can't remember what was the range on that scythe. It's pretty big. It's like 20 feet. It's front and back, isn't it? Yeah. Like a pendulum. That one goes 90 feet. The swords, yeah.

I remember. The pendulum. I think we're all going for Siaska. Basically. Yeah. They're all aimed at her, yeah. So you watch as these crimson, the crimson cracker of lightning up ahead. You almost begin to see maybe the clouds, that red light and the lightning is almost taking a humanoid

form. Not quite. Oh, fuck. I'm not ready for that yet. Bro, give us a long rest. Hey, does that cloud look like a person to you? Lucius. Looks like a bunny to me. Big mouth. It goes down. Yeah, he is. Oh rest. Hey, does that clive look like a person to you? Lucius. Looks like a bunny to me. Big mouth. Quill's down.

Yeah, he is. Oh, I am, yeah. Zaki's looking sarky. Still looks tough, but ends it. I can't, unless I just do a medicine check on my turn, I can't really do much for Quill. I can. Because I've used my potion.

Yeah, I don't have any. And I don't have the healing in my ring anymore. Kiss of life? Yeah. Madison check. How do you do it to a bird's beak? You really have to wrap

the mouth around. Vacuum seal. Yeah. I love it when the banter is just a desperate attempt to buy time Oh yeah Just thinking what's most beneficial

I guess pulls a risk while he's down So I'm going to do a medicine check That's my action So you have to move next to him, you have to touch him Ugh Cooties I'm riddled Yeah, I'll do that

You name it. Can I kind of... I got it. Push his body out of the line of fire. You only have like five feet more of movement. You could drag it five feet behind you, but that would still be maybe in the path of these blades. Just for the record, by the way,

I've sort of angled this. I think this will still fit in this. This pendulum is swinging left to right and will currently... It is a large blade. It will strike Quill, Siaska, Sentry, Aayla, and possibly Zarkira if it affects them. It didn't previously, but like I said,

this does not look like she's fully in control of it anymore. The spectral blades are facing towards Kallus, Nova, and would also catch Quill, Sentry, Aayla, and Zarkira. So everyone. Fuck. Pretty everyone. Fuck. Pretty much. Yeah, it's the two have basically made like a cross pattern that is covering all of you.

Except for only Nova and Kalos are being hit by the spectral blades. Yeah. You have advantage from Kalos. Yeah, it's just more the fact that I'm literally putting myself... I mean, you don't have to do medicine if you want to change it. I can heal and do stuff as well. I don't know when these things are going to come. From what we learnt the last time, it was around...

It happens three times. It's different now though, isn't it? Lucius is not going to risk Quill, so... Going to gain advantage, right? No... Saving frozen attack right? Uh, no. I'm saving throws and attack rolls, this is a little bit later. Plus my medicine, which is plus one, 10.

10 is actually the DC, 10 is the base DC to stabilize, yeah? It's the base DC to stabilize. Stop going down, Zoe. I don't say, because I'm on zero HP. Unfortunately, Quill is still unconscious, but he is stabilized. Right. Oh, yeah.

So. Anything else, Lucius? No. That is your move and action. Yeah. Got any sorcery points left? No. Have you pulled...

Do they have the movement to, like, five foot to pull out of the way? I think I'd say he could maybe pull... Like, if they come towards me diagonally. Diagonally, I would say that would pull them out of the pendulum, but the spectral blades would still attack. It's something, baby. Both of them are going to hit me,

so both of them are currently going to hit you. I just push Quill out. That'd give him more. Because he's baby bird bones. Yeah, throw him. I use my elven biceps. Throw me like a paper owl. Do you want to do that?

Because Sentry can probably heal him. But she needs to touch him to heal him. But then Sentry would also go out of range to, of this attack, right? Yeah, but Zahkira will also get an attack on you. Opportunity of attack, yeah. Mm. Just reminding you of everything that's going on.

Yeah, Zahkira's reach is 20 feet. Mm-hmm. Oh. I mean, you can definitely move him, but like, yeah. All right, I'm staying where I am. Okay, it's up to you. I'm not trying to say that that's a good or bad idea. I just want you to be aware of.

If anything, Sentry's probably better at protecting Okay. Quill than me moving him five feet. Yeah, probably. Done? Yeah. Zahkira's gonna take that. And she is going to... than me moving him five feet. Yeah, probably. Done? Yeah. So I carry some technology. And she is going to... Ayla's just here already, aren't she?

She knows Ayla's really tough. She is going to... It's tough. She's going to use her Entropic Stare on Aayla. Aww, damn it. Her eyes glow red. The serpents become like red and black worms. She looks down, and I need you to make a constitution saving throw, Aelon. You do have advantage. Does this count?

Natural 20. It is, natural 20. Plus 13 plus three. Okay, even on a success, you do still take 27 psychic damage. That's okay. But you watch as she stares, and you just feel this presence in your mind trying to compel you to die and you say no.

Just fold up the middle finger. Yeah, absolutely. As you feel this presence, she's just looking. She knocked me under 300, bitch. Made you bleed your own blood. You made me bleed my own blood. That is the end of Lucius's turn. It would be a raid action.

We did not distribute our doom removals from Siaska, did we? Oh, it's three each, so yeah. Yeah, it was three. Three each. Three each. From Valor, that was. None.

Yeah, the spectral blade and the pendulums would normally go, but they don't go. Oh, they're being unpredictable. Hey. Chaos now, the full Hadar. Nova. Calus would probably disappear. Yeah, well, Calus is like...

Back to it. He will look over. It will not take me long to finish our treaties now. Hold together. Stand firm. Oh. Oh, he knocks me over. Are you here?

It was one. Yeah, that one there, yeah. I know because I've been staring at it because I'm measuring space. So yeah, Calus is going to leap off to try and finish off this undead king that is this enemy, this ancient foe of his. And yeah, I say that if he can,

once he is finished, he will come back and permanently join this fight. I would like to move two over. Yep, so that's out of range of... I'd say if you go one more, you'll definitely, just because it's a little bit, because it hits on five feet around it as well, but I'd say if you move here,

definitely out of range of the Spectral Blades. And I'm still within Century's Aura, right? Yeah. I'm going to summonry's aura, right? Yeah. I'm going to summon Tiangong next to Zarkira. 5, 10, 15, right? And then move up. And then move up, okay. And then make attacks through Tiangong, right?

So yeah, it is just Tiangong. Yep. And I'm going to attack through Tiangong, you are correct. But I still have disadvantage. Echo Knight doing Echo Knight things. Yeah, but I still have disadvantage. Yeah, but Echo Knight things. Yeah, but I still have disadvantage. Yeah, but hey, you hit last time. Yeah, multiple times.

20 to hit. 20 does not hit. Just barely misses. Just barely misses. Close. Close. 23. 23 hits.

Her AC's 21. Her AC's lower in this form. It's 21. I thought it was 24. That's her spell save. That's her spell save. 25 points of damage. Nice. That's a big hit. Yeah, I rolled high. No, no, that's not a roll.

That's not a roll! Okay, Rhi. Yeah, I'm just thinking. You're just thinking. I'm just like, calculating. I'm like that lady doing maths in her head. Yeah, no, it's fine. I just want to make sure. 17, it'm just thinking. Just like calculating. I'm not like that lady doing maths in her head. Yeah, no, it's fine. I just want to make sure. 17, it's a miss.

But I have Action Surge back. Oh! Do you want to save that and see if somebody can recover? That is a strong one to recover. Yeah, I think I'll wait for that one. But I also have Unleash Incarnate back, Incarnation back. So, uh, let's go with that. Okay.

Nope. Oof, yeah. I rolled an 18 and a 2. Oh, and a 2. That's unfortunate. This powered is just like... Yeah. You're still managing to land hits though, which is good.

And it's why it's a team game, right? Like, you know, you're suffering, you need somebody to help you out of it. It's, uh, sucks. Even Kalos couldn't help me. Anyway know, you're suffering. You need somebody to help you out of it. It sucks. Even Calus couldn't help me. Anyway, I'm going to make a constitution roll to see if I can save. Yeah, please do. You have plus three from Century.

Oh! No, 23. I rolled a 17. Plus three, plus three. One off. Oh, fuck. Unless anybody has anything they can do. I am so sick of this game.

I'm unconscioned. Okay. All right. In that case, we go down to sentry. Can I activate my Elder Champion form? Oh shit. That's a pretty big pog. So just remind us what that does. So at the start of your turns you regain 10 HP,

you cast paladin spells and and a casting of an action as a bonus action. An enemy creature within 10 feet of disadvantage and saving throws against your Paladin Spells and channel divinity options. Nice. Great. Have we seen this form before?

I briefly hinted at it when I did my oath. Do you want to describe it? So Sentry's armor basically changes color. It goes from the gray silver to like a white um and then her vines change color they go from green to like a gold splendid golden vine hair and that energy just radiates out yeah nice love it um white ranger can she pick up quill yeah i mean it's not hard for Sentry to pick him up. And can I move behind this statue if I have the movement? I think I'm still in Zarkira's range if I'm there.

So, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, like over here? Yeah, so just like behind the cover for Quill. Within twenty of her? Yeah, Sentry is, and I'm going to say that because she's for Quill. Within 20 of her? Yeah, Sentry is, I'm gonna say that because she's carrying Quill, Zarkira can't get an opportunity strike on Quill because it's force movement basically.

Yeah. And then can I bonus action cure wounds? Yeah, with your Elder Form on, yeah, absolutely you can. What level are you casting now? Yeah. I got full source of points and sort of. Are you just doing it first level? Yeah, just first level.

Okay. It's a five. It's a five HP, but it brings you up. Yeah, it brings you back up. Nice. And it's my turn. I'm not unconscious anymore. Okay.

Stay up. Don't make me die. End of turn. It's a good thing you moved. Oh my god. On the very end of the round, these two unstable ancient spells are gonna go off. So, for this, let me get my notes.

My laptop, wake up. So, we'll do the Pendulum, the Scythe of Impending Doom. Makes an attack against everybody in its pendulum swing. That is gonna be, I'm not gonna roll for Siaska. Siaska is gonna take the hit and take damage, but I'm just not gonna roll. It's just gonna happen. Lucius, Ayla, Tiangong, Ekko, and Zarkira.

So we'll do it down the list. Lucius is gonna be a 24. Yeah. Against Ayla, that is gonna be a 21. No, 22, baby! Damn. Tiangong, natural one. The Echo Liz.

And Zarkira. Zarkira. Please, be a natural. That is a 23, which is a... Ooh! Hell yeah. I'm gonna do one damage roll for everybody. Except Lucius.

In fact, I'm just gonna do the average. Lucius, how are you? Zarkira played herself. Lucius, Siaska, and Zarkira all take 31 points of slashing damage. Zarkira is resistant to this. Oh, so healing, I feel better. And you see Ziasca kind of just cut on the shoulder and it's made me focus on everything else at the moment.

I'm going to just say the hit. It swings back the other way, doesn't strike anybody, and then the Spectral Blade. Fuck. Yeah. I'm gonna lie. Striking through, basically hitting all the same people again. This time it's a dexterity saving throw

from everybody, please. Very well. Do I get advantage from danger sense? You do, yeah, that's how you get advantage from danger sense on this. I roll for Zaki. Fail. Fail. For Echo, for Tiang you get advanced from Danger Sense on this. I roll for Zaki. Fail. Fail.

For Tiangong. For Tiangong, okay. 22. 22 is not enough, one phrase. And again, I'm going to take the average on this. This is 28 slashing damage, so 14 for Ayla. So 28 slashing damage, yes. Although Lucius, you would have taken a doom token

and a bleed token from both of those attacks. Ayla, you failed this one, didn't you? You saw I take a bleed. A bleed, yes. Tiangong is destroyed, but I'm going to reclaim potential. Nice, nice, nice. Last one. You can see Zahira's almost just like,

no! And just trying to get control of these spells as they strike into her, like cutting her as well. What are you doing? Like almost speaking to somebody as if they are controlling them. And they strike against her and then cut her into wounds, and she's looking beaten up like she is rough.

But that was at the end of the round. It is Brand turn. Are we rolling for Siaska? She's already recharged. Nobody's used it yet. Oh yeah. So... I think she's going to

unleash a barrage of attacks against Ayla and then use her legendary actions to do some other stuff. So Ayla, this is gonna be three attacks against you, with Endbringer, her spear. Oh, 32. Yep. I'm just gonna roll and see if all these hit.

32 again, I roll the same thing. Then a 21, which I believe misses. So two hits. I'm gonna take the average on these. That is 34, so for you it would be 34 halved 15 17 and then 21 necrotic so that would be 38 twice so 74 okay 76 thanks Tom 76 points now it's just these flurry of strikes just impact into you. Still 200, though.

Yeah. She is then going to use her bonus action. Oh, I haven't seen to see if Meteor strikes her. It doesn't. But she is going to use Encroaching Doom. All creatures present in the battlefield take 1d6 necrotic damage per doom token they have. I don't have any doom. I don't have any.

Just one for Trot. Five points of necrotic to Lucius, they have. I don't have any doom. I don't have any. Just one for Trot. Five points of necrotic to Lucius, and then everybody gains a doom. Doom! Okey-doke. And then we go to Quill. Oh wait, would you have got some from being hit by the spear? I got blood.

Oh yes, sorry, each hit of the spear is one, so you would have gained two. Oh. Now I'm three. Eight points of necrotic. Oh fuck, I've got three now. three. Eight points of necrotic. Oh fuck, I've got three now, Jesus Christ. Every time the spear hits, it applies doom.

How's everyone's health looking, just out of interest? It's down close. Yeah. Not good for Lucius. Not good? Not good for Lucius. Two, two, two, like 22?

Like one and one is two. Oh my god. Two. I'm on five. Sick, bro. Yeah, cool. Together we're seven. That's good. Together you're a 10.

Nice. Yay. Nice. Nice. Okay, I'd like to stand up again. There he is. In sentry's arms. Little wobbly boy.

Hey, back again. Wow, I almost died for the first time in this fight. I guess I didn't know about the time rewind. I regained a 9th level spell slot. Nice. I'm going to use Mass Heal. Would that spell break? It would spell break.

Because it's 9th level. Would that spell break? It would spell break. Because it's 9th level. How would it change it? Remember, Zakira has reactions. And I've been saving a particular one. Yeah. She's been saving to counter spell this. Can I counter spell this? You can try to.

If you're smart enough to use it. Because I don't like the way that counter spell works, Zarkira's counter spell is going to work a little bit differently. Quill and Zarkira are going to roll opposing spellcasting tests. If Zarkira wins, the spell is countered. If Quill wins, the spell goes up. I'll just start writing power up again. It is lesser in this form.

That's plus eight. Okay, I'm going to turn that into an eight. Oh! She rolls a 16. You now have to roll higher than that. I have 14 spell attack. No, no, no, it's not spell attack. It's the same thing we have with Trots.

This is your wisdom, so it's d20 plus wisdom. So you need to roll an 11 or higher to beat her, if you use your portals. Come on, baby. So 50-50. Oh, so if I match her, she counters? I'd say on a match as well, it would go in your favor. I'd say draw a favor as a player.

Hey, another time to roll a 50-50. Well, technically, it's slightly better than a 50-50. No. Hey. Do I need to start writing Power Word Paintout? Yeah you do Yeah I do Yeah yeah

Unrip that page Do you have anything to Reroll or Anybody got a Thing that they can do? Counterspell But mine's at third level I'd say you could try

Counterspell Mine's at third level Yeah so what you would need to do then Is you would need to Counterspell the counterspell Yeah Roll a d20, add your charisma modifier,

and if you get a 19 or higher, you will counterspell her counterspell. Also, because I'm casting a spell and I'm under power ward pain. You've got to make a constitution saving throw first. No, it's not going to work. Wait, was mine a save? No, it's not.

You've got a plus three from sentry as well. You get a plus three from sentry. My roll natural 20. So I need to roll. Dice, no stories. I need to roll to cast the spell in the first place, and then I need to roll to make the spell work. Hang on, the DC might be different.

Power of Pain is not a spell I've used once before. Was mine a saving, sorry? No, it was an ability check. So it wasn't sentry one. That would have passed. It would one. That would have passed. It would have. That would have done it. So, it's supposed to be in a constitution saving the world

with casting 1,000 spells away, so no, it is against the DC. So yes, you would need to beat the normal DC of 24. But who knows? Might roll a natural 20. He dies? Wake up. That's the...

He dies, wake up. Wake up. Thing is, I have to roll two. I know. It's a 3B, right? The next one would be you would need to roll, because you're plus five. Charisma, yeah. So you'd need to roll a 14 or higher on the second one. Unless you're going to use your reaction for something else.

That's probably true. Yeah, it's just my last spell slot. Oh, it's the spell slot. I mean, it's a mass heal. Let's go, it's for my l spell slot. Oh, it's a spell slot. I mean, it's a mass heal. Let's go, it's for my lads. It's for my sweet boys. My rotten soldiers. I'm getting people to waste, like, so many, not waste,

but like, use so many abilities on me. So I got to roll a natural 20 to just make the spell go. What's your normal modifier? Plus three. So with centuries plus three, it's plus six. You need an 18 or higher. Six. You desperately try as you see Zarkira sensing Quill's magic.

And this is similar to the reflect magic and the consume magic she's used before. C's like, no, no, no. I'm not having you start all of this again and tries to swipe through the air breaking the spell Quill you try and use your magic trying to fight back against Arcea's own uh and then yeah the uh Nova you desperately try and break Arcea's own spell but that pain is just too much and it overwhelms you and the mass heal is counter-spell yeah i mean that's the time to use it yep that's why she knew she's been saving that and i had every attempt to keep it going so I will Harness Divine Power to restore a level 3.

Okay. And I am out of range, actually. I think you can also see, by the way, how hurt she is. If you guys mass healed then, this fight would be over for her. She would have no way of winning. Yeah. I am going to stay next to Sentry rather than retreat. Nice.

Yeah, that's my turn. Done? Done. On the raid action turn. Oh, the pendulum turns. You see the pendulum just rotates to face the other way, and then the spirit blades teleport and move over to the side. Ayla.

Is it my go or something? It is. Oh, God. I hit her. I hit her, please. Well, I hopefully hit, that's a natural 20. Oh, yeah. Let's go, let's go, let's a natural 20. Oh, yeah?

Let's go, let's go, let's go! This is big. Brutical, critical. Brutical, critical. 40 plus... Just check that HP real quick. I'm keeping a very close eye on it, don't you worry about that. 18. So 40, 58.

Plus 6. Well hang on, lightning damage is halved, because of resistance. Okay, so do you want me to do lightning separately? Yes. So plus 13 is for the bonus. So let's do, so 53 at the moment. Plus, oh sorry. Plus 13.

Plus another 13, so 66. Plus 6. Three for lightning and then another d6. Plus 4. Half to two. 71. Just 71. I think more than Siaska.

The first blow. Like, seeing as she counterspells and you know the might that Quill was summoning to try and restore all of these wounds you seize that moment ayla and as she counter spells distracted temporarily you reach up and you can see that as all of these strikes have been working away this serpentine body that wraps around her as her injuries strike you can begin to see these like lines of black and red energy coursing through her. And you find one of them and slam the hammer in

and there is just this scream of pain as the blow strikes true. She is still standing. How did she look? Bad. I'm going to wreck this thing. Oh! Of course.

Oh no. It'll still hit, it's not a crit. It's a 25. 25 will hit. 18 on the hammer, plus two lightning, plus a dex save. Plus a dex save. That's still very high. That's going to be 29, so half, and then half again. 19. So halved to 8, and then halved again for resistance. 4. So the lightning having very little effect with that hammer blow, putting Zarkira desperately on the back foot. End of turn, Ayla.

If I back up a little bit, I'm still within her. I just want to get out of the range of the blade in case that goes. Yeah, you could go 5, 10, 15, 20. You can get all the way back here. Yeah, I'm still within her range. She's still within her, I just wanna get out of the range of the blade in case that goes. Yeah, you could go five, 10, 15, 20. You can get all the way back here. Yeah, I'm still within her range. Do you wanna be next and over or like a little bit ahead, like up here? There's fine, yeah.

Yep, there. At the end of your turn, she's gonna use a legendary action to strike you. She's gonna use her Slytherin Strike. So she's actually gonna reposition herself, chasing after you. Oh. Oh, behind you. Yeah, she herself, chasing after you. Oh. Oh, behind you.

Yeah. She's almost chasing after Aayla as you try to backpedal and give yourself a move away from this spectral blades. And also Zarkira almost seeming to sense that these blades may hurt her as well. She slithers around the battlefield and peers over you and is going to try and attack you once more. It's gonna be a 32. So I'm gonna use the average damage. So 34 half would be 17 piercing damage.

But the necrotic is gonna be a bit higher because you have three doom tokens, yes? Yeah. 17. Just don't do this. Plus another. 28 necrotic. She and then stabs you. Where do you think you're going? You can't just move and hide after hurting. Shut up! That's a Lucius callback. Lucius.

When does bleed take effect? At the start of your turn. Oh, I didn't take that either. Oh, okay. I have one. One. You take another five damage, Ayla. What kind of damage is that?

It goes through any resistance. It's just five. One for Lucius. Four. Down. Please, man. Please, out. That is at the start of your turn,

so there's no death saving throws or anything. You just, that's the turn, unfortunately. Zarkir is going to use her next legendary action. She's seeing the battle tide kind of failing on your end, but also sensing how injured she is. She knows that Ayla provides resistance to this, but she can strike. Yeah, she can strike three of you

because I believe Sentry is in 30 feet. Ayla, Nova, Sentry, Chain Lightning. No, but you get resistance. Cool. Is she within five feet of me? Uh, no, she's not. You're just out of range. I believe this is Dexterity Saving Throws from Century, Nova, Aayla.

The three big ladies. Nope. All right, you've taken some damage. Resistance, though. 20. 20 does not succeed. Nope. Right, you're taking some damage. Resistance though. 20. 20 does not succeed. Not enough.

But I will resist. Mine's a fail. What'd you get? You know, thought I'd mix it up a bit. Yeah? Try something new. Yeah. 47 lightning. Try something new. Yeah.

47 lightning, so those with resistance would be 23. 47 to sentry. I don't like that face. Sentry's not good. I mean, you can't end like this. You can't end like this, you can't end like this. And it,ters to herself. End it, end it, end it, end it. Was at the end of Lucius's turn,

on the raid action. Swing, swing. Does that hit Zarkir, that swing? Had like a five foot. It does hit Zarkir. Yeah. Oh, I misplayed that, didn't I? Yeah.

It's okay, wild magic. Hits her as well. Yeah? Yeah. It's okay. Wild magic. It hits her as well. Yeah? Shit. Strikes her in the back. Her folly, like, so desperate to chase after Aayla and strike her down, not quite realizing how close to this unstable spell

that she thought she was in control of. It just strikes her along the back and the shoulders. Now you begin to see that red energy, that red power is almost flowing out for like blood. And as it does, it seems to look weaker and weaker as it goes. Please no, don't take this from me. Don't take this. I can finish this. Spectral bladesades, though. Oh, that's going to... I can jump up on Quill and try to protect him from that.

What kind of... Is it a save or is it an attack? It is a saving throw. Dexterity saving throw. Uh, okay. I will say this, Sentry. You could do that. And what I would do is I would say you have disadvantage on your saving throw, and I'd give Quill full cover, which is plus five to his saving throw. Do I take damage on a fail anyway? Maybe.

Maybe. But that's what Sentry's doing. That's what Sentry does. She's a hero. Does that hit Lucius? Does that hit Lucius? No, the way it was angled, I think you're just out of reach. Shit. Does that hit Lucius? Shit. Does that hit Lucius? No, the way it was angled, I think you're just out of reach. Just Quill's Sentry and Echo. They're gone.

Yeah, because it's half damage. No, they went the last turn. Oh, sorry. Plus five, plus three, another plus three. Pretty good, that's 11. Oh, for god's sake. It's like all of the dice rolls have come back to haunt you, Tom. Is sentry, what are you on Rhiannon?

13. You're on 13! Oh, the three of you are going. I'm on five. And I can't. So, I'm assuming you failed on the same throw, sentry. Unfortunately as these blades, I got 16 with a plus 11. Both of you are struck down as these blades. Oh my god, Sentry. Tell you who counted. Fortunately, as these blades I got 16. Scree fast. There's a plus 11.

Both of you are struck down as these blades. Oh my god. Sentry and Quill both go down. Fuck me. Oh, that's three of us. Okay, Papa Blessed. That was, we now go to Nova's turn. See, Asuka's recharged, isn't she?

Yes, she has. She has. She has. I wanna ask her. Would you like to use it? I'd like her to do a little heal, please. Help! Oh, I mean, check her other abilities first.

Oh, okay. Okay, yeah, yeah. What else can she do? She looks at you, Nova. You look to her. You don't even need to speak. She knows. Do you want to speak?

And you just hear, as her power is returned, she's like, you're not done yet, champions of Erois. You are nearly there. Finish this. With a plus 10, 30 hit points. Oh, nice. Everyone gets 30 hit points, and you may remove... Oh, only two tokens, however. Oh, that's all right.

That's all right. Get rid of that bleed. I'm going to... It is your turn, Nova Vija. I'm gonna resummon Tiangong next to the snake bitch. Fuck yeah, get it, get it! It comes back as Shansara. So you see the kind of shadowy, echoey form of Shansara

in appearance, at least. I will step two. shadowy, echoey form of Shansara, in appearance, at least. I will step two. Next, side by side, Aayla, Nova, Tien, Gung, Aanchua, what's Shansara at this point? I'm watching the whole bunch of disadvantage. Natural one. First attack. Pain, overcoming you.

Oh, hit. 23. Yes. Yes. Six, hit. 23. Yes. Yes. Six, seven. Oh. Yeah. Eight, nine, 10 plus 13 is 23. That's not bad.

You made a frowny face. That's not bad. It was quite low on the strike. But it's still good. Cut through the tail. Striking another one of these points where this power seems to be seeping from. I'm gonna unleash Incarnation on that one.

So Tiangong, Shansara will go. They're all the same. Oh, roll over, you little bitch. 17 to hit. This time, yeah, and you can see that this is, this is not the skillful parry that she's been doing. This is not the confident. This is a blind panic. Kind of just using the staff to keep you at bay,

like just panically trying to keep you away from her at this point. I'm going to third attack. 14 plus 13. Mm-hmm. Hits. Mm-hmm. Eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 33. 33?

Mm-hmm. Oh my god. Was that your last attack? No. Keep that last attack ready, because as you strike, working your way past the defenses, that pain is there. But you let go of it. Shansara fighting alongside you.

You hear a voice, a very faint, like a whisper, like a... Not a memory, but almost like you're hearing the echo, imagining what they might say. I never liked her anyway. And the manifestation strikes. It strikes into this point that you and Ayla, and many of you have been opening up this wound, this crackling energy wound in her side, and the echo strikes in.

this crackling energy wound in her side, and the echo strikes in, and you watch as that red mist that initially appeared when she became this form begins to emerge, but now from her body out. You watch as the serpentine form withers, breaks away. Oh, she's back! And on her knees, on the ground, injured, looking haggard, you see the human form of Zarkira.

Looks up at you, Nova, and Aayla. This echo. Her eyes wide with terror. Pull the police down, kill please. Don't kill me. Do not kill me. I know secrets about Terminus Keep. I can help you reach Hadar. I don't want to die.

Would you have afforded us the same mercy? No. Because I was... Because I wanted power because I thought I was better than you, but I don't want to die. Please, I will imprison me, punish me, do whatever. I just don't want to die. Please. I'll tell you everything I know.

Are we kind of like at a pause? No. No. This is Nova's turn. I'm poker facing. Nova's looking around at everyone. Everyone who's fallen in that one hit. This is dribbling and lifelessness.

No, they got healed. You all got healed, but Nova saw that three of her friends fall in one hit. You saw her kill Quill. And I saw her kill Quill. But let's say she did what? She killed you right dead. You see the monstrous form now gone. Even the bladed wings and things like that, it's all broken.

She's just there in a simple red robe, the crown gone, the spear shattered, just looking at you with terror, just abject fear. Action surge. The power of pain is gone. I rolled a 20. What? And a four. Yes.

Power of pain is gone. I'll take a 20. What? And a four. Yes. Power replay's gone. I'll take the 20. The intent was that you strike it down and there's no defense here. You didn't even need to roll. But with a 20, I mean, I know what I would imagine that to be, but Nova, it's your roll.

You tell us, what does Nova do? I think both of us, myself, maybe the form shifts from Shansara to Tiangong and both of us pull back and plunge our swords in together. She sees the blades coming, tears roll down her cheeks. I don't want to die. Blood pours out. Just the lifeless body falls. She chokes a few times.

Crying. And dies. Fuck. Oh my god. I would have done the same thing yeah I couldn't let her live no no judgement here

it was the I mean when you were looking at me I literally like yeah I think Nova would whisper afterwards

people like you have no idea what you make heroes want to do. We are out of this. It is not a moment of rest. Before looking around out into the outskirts, you see that the gathered Valkyrian fleets

are still hard battling holding this place. It ebbs and flows there are moments where those troops get respite but it's not long before they are called to another front where another attack is coming. Hadar does not want you to be here. The battle above in the Astral Sea rages on. You see lights like fireflies as ships are destroyed, ships fire weapons like stars, winking in and out. But there is at least a moment of calm. Valor is still unconscious, alive. Siaska is still purging the last of this poison out of her body, but nearly finished.

You see a very wounded, exhausted Kallus, not flying, not teleporting, just slowly, one broken arm, one sword dragging behind him in the dust, slowly walking, but almost limping back towards you. Eritreides is dead.

Decapitated, in fact. Nice. And Camus returns. Siaska, knowing that all of you have been saved by her healing will limp down next to Valor. Ignores.

No, no, Siaska wouldn't ignore. She casts a pitying look at Zarkira. Doesn't say anything to you. Just closes her eyes and then moves to Valor, kneels down beside her and like a mother, scoops her up and just holds her close. What are you gonna say? I guess slowly gather, like limping, bleeding.

Yeah, Lucius will get up dusty from Entropis. And Sentry will pull Quill up when she gets up. Oh! Yeah, and then you guys, if you gather up, you see the same scene. You see Zarkira dead. You see Zyaska holding Vala, maybe making light, like, sort of just,

probably actually, you know what, maybe softly singing a lullaby to Vala. I think just looking at Zarkira's body, like, pitiful now. Oh yeah, yeah. Like you see how she wasn't strong, she was thin. She was pretty but you can see a lot of it's makeup. She's hidden her features underneath this harsh makeup. You can see that the robes, the claws in her hair, all of it is done very intentionally.

But when it's, when now you see just this very frightened, weak looking woman. She begged for mercy in the end, but I found I had none to give her. She wasn't gonna give any to us. Or even the universe. You definitely did the right thing. Hadar didn't make her manipulative, cunning, evil.

Well, she made her worse. She would have gone back that way eventually. Too big a threat. That's what we're dealing with now, is the biggest threat. To everyone. You did it for Arois. You did it for the universe. I did it for you all. I would have done the same thing then.

If you didn't do it, I would have hit her. Well yeah, me too. You know. I think by this point Calus has probably reached sort of the foot of the steps. She was not always that way. She was clever. Not brave, but... cunning. She did many great things. We were friends. For a long time.

I saved her life from Hadar cultists when I was but a knight. We journeyed together, learned of the multiverse, learned of Hadar. We journeyed together, learned of the multiverse, learned of Hadar. And then, as we grew the empire, something changed. The power that she wielded, the knowledge that she had gained, it called to her. You hear Siasco speak up. gains it's called to her. He hears the asker speak up.

He never understood her, Calus. All that she did, she adored you because she saw you as her protector. She was afraid of death more than anyone. She came close to an endless, ceaseless void in that cave when you saved her.

And ever since, it was a fear of death that drove her. She could not bear the thought of being nothing. I feel that when she learned of your future through Quill's power, it broke her. Suddenly, she knew that there was no escape from that fate. So she bargained for what little time she could. She is a tragedy. No matter what we had done, no matter what she had done,

I fear that this is where her path would have led her, regardless. When she knew that your plan would fail, there was no choice left but to embrace Hadar and what he offers. A cruel woman she became. I do not believe I am capable of judging mercy or justice. It has never been part of my order, part of my divine essence. I simply feel sorry for her. To live in such fear of something which she could never escape.

Calus will move over to the body. Will not allow Hadar to use this form. She was my friend once. I've seen what Hadar, and he looks over at Aratrades, can do to even those who have been defeated. And he raises up his broken arm, which still has like this magitek cannon in it. And he just begins incinerating it.

Yeah. Makes sense. Goodbye. He just says, goodbye, Kira. So. I mean, that's that phase done. That's that step, if we look up. Red star, casting a dull crimson light across everything.

I mean, we can't face him now. What do we do? I'm spent, completely, almost. There's no time. Well, Siasco will look at you, Lucius. We are very blessed, she strokes Valater, to have time on our side. When she recovers,

Valor will be able to restore you to full strength. Oh my god. I suspect she will be able to heal Calus, but she will not be able to assist me and that poison has... I don't think I will ever fully recover from it but I am stronger Valor and I will still be able to complete what we need to but it will be as always

it has always been as mortals, the five of you and Calus you are the only ones who can fight him if I interfere if I deliver a killing blow, I fear that his essence will overtake mine, and I will simply become as what he is, what it is.

And Valor, I fear that the demigoddess in her, perhaps now, after seeing that display of her power, perhaps she is not even a demigoddess anymore. Perhaps she is a fledgling god now. True. A true divine. She will suffer the same fate. We can protect you from the Far Realm. Protect you from the worst of Hadar's influence.

You will need to protect us in turn. Hadar will wish to consume both of us. But you have moments. Valor needs to rest. Not long, but I will give her as much rest as we can. I know that they are fighting out there. There are many who are dying out there. Make that... I do not sugarcoat this. But they are dying to give billions of lives a chance. And that chance is you. Take a moment, breathe, gather yourselves. This will be our last fight, one way or another.

One way or another. Okay. Wait, when did Valor get out of the sphere? As Kul says, Kalos, Siaska and Valor. Well, Kalos and Siaska will take Valor just off to the side and they sit together with Valar between them. Maybe speaking quietly, not enough for you to hear. Leaving you, the five of you together. Do you have no memory of what happened just now?

Oh, the fight, yes. Well, I mean, I saw her turn into the giant snake-winged thing. I used the, oh, I took away her magic for a bit and then Sentry dragged me away. She killed you. Wait, what? I thought you just fell over.

I mean, I was hit a lot. I don't think I died. She stabbed you with the spear and felled you out of the sky. But then, but then, was that when she healed me? That was after. Huh.

Valor. Stop dying! I didn't know like this. I didn't know I died. I died again? Well, apparently, I don't know, a freaking meteor hit me in the face. Ow, by the way. I'm sorry. You should be. I'm sorry. I don't know what to say. I don't know what happened.

Well, you're back now. It doesn't matter. Luckily, we had Vala on our side and we were able to rescue her. There was a lot of falling over. Hey, I thought I was just... Yeah, no, no, no, no. A lot of falling over from a lot of people. Can we just communicate, you know? If you get hit real bad, you know, tell the group, Cher. Oh, yeah, Yeah, I mean... Hey, I didn't even know that I died.

Whilst, obviously, Nova, Aayla, and Quill are all chatting, and Sentry are jumping in, but Lucius, what's Lucius up to? What's going on with Lucius? I'd say Lucius is... Hmm. He's still got the Moonstar mask on. And he's just not showing anything. Stood silent.

Yeah, I think he's just watching the incinerating corpse of Zahkira. I mean, by the time Calus is finished, there's just nothing. He's looking at the nothing that's there. Yeah, there's probably an outline, basically, quite dark, but an outline of where her body was, because Calus burnt every molecule. he was not willing to let anything remain I think Nova like knowing Lucius before like trying to support him before when he was at his lowest seeing these two squabbling will just turn and go to

Lucius and just I know just even like gently just put her hand Lucius and just, I don't know, just even like gently just put her hand in his and just squeeze it. I think that is a very lovely mental image to bring this episode to an end on. As yeah, this fight is over. But one more awaits you in the Far Realm. When we next play, Valor will restore you so you can all basically take a long rest.

Oh boy. What's that, we level up to level 21? How would that work? There are things called epic boons. I have considered allowing some. I am going to give you all, based on this fight, the difficulties that you have encountered. I'm going to give all of you

25 hit points to your maximums. I'm going to give all of you... 25 hit points to your maximums. Oh! Oh! As an epic boon. Oh! Because this fight has pushed you, many of you, to your limits. Physically. Yeah.

Even if it was unknown at the time. You should, if not, I at the time. You should, if not, I will be able to fix it, but I will do a new one. Yeah. Oh, man. I hit 200.

Oh, my God. 363. Oh, my God. That's Ava's, not mine. 363. Wait, no. Oh, shit.

I've just broken it. So, yes. You can all take a long rest, add your 25 extra maximum hit points. Nice! 21, maybe, kind of. When we, net six down, sit down at this table to play, it will be with Valor waking up, having restored you. We're gonna just jump ahead a few moments with Valor waking up, having restored you. We're going to just jump ahead a few moments

with Valor opening the breach point into Terminus Keep, to the Far Realm, to face Adar. Yeah. No biggie. Sweet. That's it. Thank you all very much for watching. We will see you in the next High Rollers.

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