High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #190 | The Terror in Terminus Keep (Part 2)

Episode Date: June 29, 2023

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Pickaxe. Welcome back to part two of Erois. Our champions have entered Terminus Keep. They've been refreshed by valour, restored to their full strength. On entering this far realm prison, they quickly learned that it was not just somewhere they could traverse through normal means. Confused, distracted, tempted, taunted by Hadar. They however found a way through. Lucius, taking a moment as Hadar spoke to him to grasp this connection between them, using his prismatic mastery, followed a trail leading through walls through strange gates and bizarre obstacles they have found their way to Hadar's realm. On arrival they find an empty black void with floating chunks of rock and stone and a large central platform and a red tiny pinprick of light in the sky above them swirling with red and grey

mist that light descended falling like a graceful drop of blood to become hadar a humanoid form stood before them now my friends is where we jump back into part two. Here we go. And he's big, right? He's a big boy. He's a boy. Quite large. Toothy.

Big boy. You see him as a large humanoid, very, very tall, probably near 20 feet, maybe more. Long arms ending in claws. The face, no eyes, kind of the semblance of a nose and cheeks, but mainly just this huge mouth with a black void, and then revealing inside his chest a second toothy maw with a black void behind it.

Where his eyes would be, mouth. Where his nose is, it's mouth. Where's his mouth? It's a mouth. It's two mouths. Look at that guy's nips. Mouths. They're mouths.

Nice. Ah. That's not mean, is it? No, it's not. It's just Tom being weird. It's Tom when he's hot. Listen, this is Tom's coping mechanism, okay? Let's let him have it.

It's mouth. It's all mouth. Ranad Let's let him have it. It's mouth. It's all mouth. Ranun's going. This is it. Yep, there we go. It's descended. Listen, enjoy it while you can. Yeah.

I have moved you all on our wonderful map. As you stand on this bridge, the passageway behind you quickly vanishing, leaving you in this expansive chamber. Hadar at the far end of it, kind of looking towards you. Last thing he said, Thank you for bringing me this succulent meal. Go on, get it out. No!

It's not a Chinese meal! That's it. I said the word and then remembered. Yeah. Just half Chinese. Adar knows his judo well. Unhand me. Hand your hand off my mouth. My mouth.

That's so mean. If we keep laughing, it won't stop. It's fine, it will. I'll just start rolling dice. Sorry. High rollers. We're here. I thought I would have to deal with Calus's tiresome armies. Consume more worlds

before I finally got to savor that taste once more. Here you are, brought before me, the last diviners of this universe. You see Siaska and Valor this place. Terminus Keep, they've been concentrating,

keeping this shield that's been protecting you. But in this place, you can see the strain almost trebles on them. Sweat pouring down Valor's brow. Even Siaska's muscles tense. As you can see, they are focusing so hard on keeping you protected in this space. Are you still using Truesight?

I still have it, yeah. Yeah. I would ask you if you can see anything new, different to what we can see. What's the range, is it? What's the range on your true sight? I don't have the spell as is. No.

Oh, 120 feet. 120 feet. I think that you're just about in range of that. It is hard because Hadar, it glows so brightly with red, crimson energy. It's hard to even make out the features that are there to lucius's eyes it is like having this red sun sort of just you know meters away from you it's blindingly bright you can make out the other shapes of the land you can make out your friends but you're not blinded

by the conditioning as the condition is but it is hard to tell any kind of discernible features about her dog i'm going to say this ends as well okay uh soon after this seeing that yeah because it's a minute so that whole traversal's okay yeah we'll say yeah basically a minute would have probably been the whole traversing through so the last thing you see, Lucius, through this glowing bright figure, there's a moment. In fact, I'm gonna have you roll. I would like a perception check to see if you can pick up on these details,

because he's so bright with this red magic. I probably have advantage, right? Nope. Nine. All right. Number two. You have to shield your eyes, unable to discern anything,

and then the true sight fades. And your vision is gone. It was just so bright. There's nothing I can see. Okay, well what's the plan? Where are we going? Do not hesitate. Do not fear.

You can come closer if you wish. I have all the time I need. Come. Do you not wish to speak with me after all of this? Are there not words that you wish to say? I am willing to hear them. We have nothing to say to you. That is not true. You have all dealt with the consequences of this conflict. Do you

not believe that there are not some bitter words, hatred, that you wish to express. Please, please do so. I just want to know why. When does this end? Why? When will you be satiated? Why?

Oh, Sentinel Prime. And he gestures. I'm not going to be able to reach. Can somebody, Trot, can you pull this section over here? And Tom, can you nudge that bridge forward for me? No. Pulling us all the way. All the way.

Uh-oh. I wish to make sure that you can hear me why I am not doing this to satiate myself Sentinel Prime despite what Calus and Siaska may have told you I'm doing this to save our universe. You mortal.

I watched you for so long. Left unchecked. Your hunger for power. To test boundaries. Oh, it would break this world, would break this reality. You accelerate past your limit. And whilst I bring a graceful, peaceful end to this. You would make it violent. You would shatter the laws of what keep it bound together. It would be horrific. I can't allow that to happen.

I must keep you in check. And the time has come, as it always does, for entropy, for the end. I know your lives have been short. This universe has existed for too long. It is time for it to go. I can't have you breaking things. He's got a point.

Yeah, you know what? Should we just go home? Yeah, yeah. Sit and wait you out. I'm not wrong. I mean, if there is hesitation, like, I know you guys are joking. In character, is there any kind of sense of hesitation?

Lucius would, under his breath, say, don't give him any anger, negativity. He will feed off it. Use it. Leverage it. Try not to give him an inch or a millimeter, depending on your measurement of choice. I can hear you. You can try and resist, but I don't need to feed off of you, Lucius, or Sentry, or Nova, Keeling, Aayla, or even you, my old friend, Kal. You're nothing.

You live and die in the wink of an eye. You mortal. Your threat is... greater than you are as you are. If you can hear everything, then listen well because I only have two words for you. And I point with my sword. Aayla, smash.

Okay. Well, is that the point where you wish to leap into action? Does Aayla smash? Probably rage. Okay. Yeah! In that case, you will just see, well, no change of expression, but just, Very well. I will bring you to your inevitable end regardless. You just see him sort of stand there, almost waiting.

Before you guys act, just to set things up, Siaska and Valar will whisper under their breath, we need to get more central, this is straining us, and they're going to basically push through. Where are they trying to get to? If I can have Siaska and Valar pass them to me, they're going to basically just go down here. They're going to be very centralised. I can't see Valka and Valor, if you just pass them to me, they're going to basically just go down here. They're going to be like very centralized.

I can't see Valor. There she is. There she is. And then if you want to kind of nudge Calus and them up as well. Yeah. In fact, no, actually, I'll wait here. We'll basically have that as Aayla is raging, as you are speaking, like Valor and Siaska move forward. And Calus kind of moves with them,

leaving you guys on this bridge. But, my friends, I believe that is where we roll initiative. For what might be the last time. The last initiative roll. For our characters. Good luck, guys. So. Make a count. I have to arrange the initiative for some things.

I just rolled a natural 20. Yes, nice. Good omen. Okay. All right, so it's the new meal. It was the rousing battle cry. Total. Oh, ooh.

25. 25 for Ayla total. Quill. Yes. Five. Are you going last this sometime? Oh, 25. 25 for Ayla total. Quill. Yes! Five. Are you going last this sometime? I am happy to go last as Quill. I have 15.

I've been going top of the board a lot recently. Century. 12. Give me a second here, guys. I have to do some arranging. Okay. Okay. How hard can it be? There's all of us and there's Hadar.

Stop saying words from your mouth. He isn't saying anything. Don't bait him. It's a mouth. It's a mouth. It's all mouth. It's mouth, it's mouth. It's mouth.

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And the Utes. Ute tubes. The Utes have been spreading that news as well. Start spreading the news. Stop talking. Stop talking, what? You, I just feel like you're saying stuff that's gonna. What's he gonna do, awaken an elder god?

What's he gonna do, eat me? He's the god of mouths, so there is a high chance. All I could think of when he was like, oh, thank you for bringing me this meal, I was like, we've just basically delivered ourselves straight to his door. Oh, you delivered Jester and Valorant to him? Yeah.

DoorDash! Someone did say, get your mouth off my mouth. Get your mouth off my mouth. Up, mouth me. I see you know your mouth well. I know your mouth off my mouth! Un-mouse me. I see you know your mouth well. I know your mouth well. At what point does it just become... Mouth, mouth, mouth.

Mouth, mouth, mouth, mouth, mouth. Mouth, mouth, mouth. Mouth, mouth, mouth. This is mouth, manny, mouth. Mouth, mouth, mouth. This is the fucking second to last goddamn mouth, mouth. This is the fucking second to last goddamn episode, guys. You want to kiss him?

Yeah. That's the episode title. We were talking earlier, we're kind of disassociating from that fact a little bit. I think you are disassociating pretty much. It's only five years. But if you kissed him though, head or torso? Mouth. So.

Which mouth? If you're done. If you are done, I'd kiss his butthole. Hela, you will be up first. Oh, okay, shit. Which is very thematic. God, didn't think I would be. You've got a natural 20, my guy. Yeah, and you can see Hadar is just waking open arms. He doesn't care, though, and that worries me.

So switch to my other tab. He's pure arrogance. He already thinks he's won this. I will... So I can't get quite to him, so I'm going to go about 10 feet in front of Vala and Siaska to sort of...

I want to kind of be protective of them. Yeah. And I will throw the hammer at him from there. Absolutely. I will say, Aelius, you're the first one to move. As you hop down off the bridge, you definitely get the sense that the gravity is a bit lighter here. It doesn't affect your movement speed,

but things like jumping are easier. So it's basically just, it takes 20 feet of your movement to jump basically even a high, like a wide gap. You can pretty much just do it with movement. You don't need to make checks or worry about your strength score or anything like that. So you can jump on these little islands? Yes, yeah. Quite easily. Yeah, you can hop between island to island, and you can go from the central platform up to a nearby island.

But you can't, for example, jump from one side to the other side, for example. But it's easy to jump up onto the islands or the island. Onto the next. Yes. Nice. And then, Tears of the Kingdom. Okay, so... So you throw the hammer.

29 to hit. 29 will hit. Okay, so... So you throw the hammer. 29 to hit. 29 will hit. Just a little bit. It can bleed. And you know what that means. Well, I didn't say you bled you. It can get hit. And you know what that means. 21 hammer for life.

And you know what that means. Oh wait, no! His whole aesthetic is blood though, so at what point is it his blood and which is just blood? That one, don't know. 15. Because when he's been going around, Luci's been going around, That's only on crit you get the extra.

No, 22 lightning because I threw it. Oh, you threw the hammer, yeah. I didn't. So another 22 lightning. 22 lightning. Good start. Where am I? You watch as the hammer

smacks against the chest, indents, almost comes to a dead stop against the chest, and then flies back to your hand. And you almost watch as he almost just brushes it away as it flies back, like. He is a god. Yeah. End of turn? For Ayla. his back like... Oh... He is a god. End of turn? For Aayla?

Yeah. For now. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna start this off. Here we go. On Hadar's turn, he's gonna use one of his two attacks to do Tendrils of Doom.

I need all of you to make a Charisma or is going to use one of his two attacks to do Tendrils of Doom. I need all of you to make a Charisma or Constitution saving throw. Your choice. Charisma for me. You can choose. Plus 11 for me. Oh, actually, you don't want to make Charisma. You can get plus 3 for me as well.

Everyone but Aayla. Oh, actually, yeah, it's 30 feet now. I keep forgetting it's still 10 feet. 18. Oh, sick. Hang on, I'm going to it's 30 feet now. Yeah, yeah, I keep forgetting it's still 10 feet. 18. Oh, sick. Hang on, I'm going to go round in a minute. 28.

28, success. 28. Success. 18. Fail. 24. 24 is a success. 17.

17. Everybody, even those who succeeded, gains one doom token. Doom! Keep it there. Doom! Doom! Doom. And there is three, if you can pass this down. A doom?

Your doom, sir. Those of you who failed, which I believe is Nova and Sentry. Yeah. Nova, you failed by 18, yes? I got 18. You got an 18. So you, there is no additional effect. Sentry, you failed, you got 17, right?

You gain an additional doom token. Every five points you fail the saving throw by, you gain an additional effect. Senshu, you got a 17, right? You gain an additional doom token. Every five points you fail the saving throw by, you gain one additional doom token. Ah, degrees of failure. Then, love it. Wonderful line. Nice line there. Yeah.

Yeah. He's going to begin by using his recharge ability, Gaze of Ending. Oh. A 90-foot long, 5-foot wide line. That's really long. Which basically, if you put it in... It's going to hit everyone except Calus, right?

Yep. Yep, and Siaska technically only hits Valorant. I need all of you to make saving throws. The saving throw you make is going to be determined by you rolling a d3 for me. So each of you rolls a d3. That's a d6, isn't it? D6, and then basically

one and two is one, three and four is two, five and six is three. How are saving throws affected by these dooms? Huh? Saving throws affected by doomies. No, doom does,

it's literally a d6 minus healing and a d6 of extra psychical or necrotic damage, if you take it. So let's go around. So a one, a one, a three, a one, and a three. So two threes and two ones.

Well the ones, everyone who got a one is an intelligence saving throw. The worst fucking one! Who got the three? Charisma saving throws. Hey! Is that too bad? Wish I had.

There's no way that. Wish I had a three. We don't know what three is. Please stop rolling like trash. There's no way I can pass it. Now's the time. You don't know? No, I can't. You got a plus three from sent time. You don't know? No, I can't.

You got a plus three from sentry. You don't know. I've not said you don't know what the DC is yet. Well, 14 is not. That's pretty low. Five of mine is not. Yeah, but if you roll high, you might still succeed. 22.

22 is a success. How's a 12 looking? Fail. 32. 32 is success. 20 is a failure, unfortunately. Those of you who made an intelligence saving throw and failed, you are going to take 18 points of psychic damage, and if you have any doom tokens, that's an extra d6.

Yeah, I mean, I think we all have that. So another one. Okay. So 19. Yes. You also have another effect which I will tell you momentarily, those of you who failed. Those of you who failed at a Charisma saving throw, you take 18 psychic damage plus doom tokens. Who made one? You have two? I have two.

You have two V6 extra for sentry. So nothing for me because I've passed. You succeeded. Four extra, so that would go to 22 psychic damage against Sentry. And you are also affected by a spell. So who failed the intelligence ones? It was... Me, bro. Me and Ayla then.

So it was Quill and Ayla. Both of you suddenly feel as if a... You see this kind of wall of, I don't know, something that you would be afraid of, something that would spark a kind of primal fear in you. So perhaps for Quill, it might be lightning, like a living aura of lightning. It's a lightning Zahkira. It's just me.

Yeah, or like, yeah, maybe it's like Zahkira's spears kind of spinning and swarming around you. Do you see? For Ayla, this could just be just blades or like something harmful. It doesn't necessarily need to be a fear, but it's like fire or something like that. The rest of you don't see this,

but Ayla and Quill are like acting as if they're being encircled by something. This is, you've actually seen, I don't know if you've seen this spell. Ah, no, I'm not saying what it's like. I feel like I've had it on me before. Oh, okay, yeah, it's called Mental Prison, and it is a spell.

Oh, I think, yeah. Those of you who failed a Charisma saving throw, which I believe is just sentry. Sentry. Kick it in. Vanishes. Oh, boy, oh, boy. Oh, okay, bye.

See you later. Later, I'm out. Bye, yo. Bye. You find yourself in just a room of stone and darkness as you have been banished. Oh. You're back on a rose. Have you been banished, maybe?

Maybe. I don't know. Um... That is Hadar's turn. Neu. That's a great turn, Hadar. Hey, well done, Hadar. Well done. Good first turn. Well done.

Good shit. And then you can. Good first turn. Well done. Good shit. And then you're going to use the first of his raid actions. Yep. Oh. Yeah, yeah, we'll go sit back and roll. And the first one that he's going to use are the Eyes of Entropy. Eyes of Entropy. Oh, these are the testicles.

The testicles are pink. Stop calling me that. Hadar has balls. They're mouths. You watch as these two orbs of red light summoned on these floating platforms. You see they project a faint line, like a ribbon of crimson light,

to one towards Siaska and one towards Vala. Oh, shit. That is what you see. What did they do last time? to one towards Siaska and one towards Valor. Oh, shit. Ah. That is what you see. What did they do last time? They were... They did a... Whilst I have used the same miniature...

Sure, they are appearing differently. These are just like... They don't have the same random eccentricity as the ones Sarkeris made. These are just like glowing orbs of light. And they have a faint line heading towards one towards Siaska Centricity as the one star Charism. These are just glowing orbs of light. They have a faint line heading towards one towards Siaska, and whichever one is closest to the two targets. Are they throbbing? No. Nova!

Can I use my movement to hop over into the right-hand side chunk of chunk. Right here? Yeah. So, yeah. That will take you 20 feet to get to the edge, basically. And then just 10 foot, a little bit more, so I'm more securely in the middle. I will bonus action.

I might need you guys to help me move these thumbs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just can't reach. I'm gonna bonus action, heaven's word, so activate my Farseeker radiant abilities. And then looking at the ball, I mean sorry, eyes. Yeah, remember we're going to use my same mechanics, bonus action or action, your choice whether you want to, if you want to analyze one of these things.

Oh, analyze. Yeah. I'm not going to analyze them. No, that's fine. I just want to remind you of that. So I will start with a tentative raging. You don't need to roll. So you Eldritch Blast.

Yeah. You fire the blasts. They do nothing to the orbs. They just kind of pass through or deflect off of it. They are immune to damage. So... They are not things. They are like energy.

If I have four beams, can I blast one and then be like... Yes, I would say absolutely you can do that. You would basically go, that did nothing. That did nothing. I'm going to stop. Sure. And I'll blast the next thing, which is Hadar. Yeah, absolutely.

So that is a 23 to hit. 23 will hit. Oh. Eight points of damage. It's a tickle. It's a little tickle. How hit. Oh. Eight points of damage. It's a tickle. It's a little tickle. How much? Eight.

Eight points? It ends up. It ends up. As a response to being hit, before you make any more attacks, I'm going to use a reaction. Gravity backlash. Oh.

When Hadara is hit by an attack, he deals 10 points of force damage to the triggering creature and can move them 15 foot in any direction. Oh. Oh, shit. I'm falling. Yeah, you're off the edge.

Yanks Nova and you feel yourself pulled off this platform as you begin to fall into the void. Cute. Can't really do anything with my reactions or anything. See ya. I mean, I can teleport, but that's a bonus, so I already bonused I mean I can teleport but that's a bonus so I already bonus so I can't bonus on top of a bonus um I could tell you what's happening to you can I try something that Nova would try even though you don't like you can do

whatever you like can I point down and blast down and thinking that maybe the blast will blast me back up because there's no gravity in this area? Sure. Iron Mish. There is no, yeah, you can't Iron Man your way out of this. There is gravity. It's just lighter.

Yeah. When you blast down, though, you realize that you are falling, but you're not moving that far from the battle. You have the sensation of falling, and in the void, it is extremely cold. And you are also, you are lucky because you're an Aganasi, but you know that there is no oxygen. There's oxygen on the platforms if you're on the platforms,

but if you are in the dark blackness of the void, it is like being in the astral void. But you are not moving that far from anywhere else you blast down it doesn't move you up but you quickly realize like okay like i'm not oscillating but you're falling but you're just almost falling and then sort of bet slingshot in back like you're just being held in this place um you are basically restrained you're like oscillating basically but i'm moving a free action yeah no i get it yeah so ring of reaction won't help you on this it's like it's you're not restrained but you can't move because there's nothing now that means that somebody might be able to come and get you um if

you could fly you could move as well you would know that as well well i can misty step on my next turn yeah absolutely um and so you can continue your attacks i would say in which case i'm gonna so i used one beam on the ball. I used one beam on him. I used one beam to test this out. You've got one beam left. So I'll use this roll. It's 26 to hit. 26 hits.

Nine points of damage. All righty. Nine points of damage. You just watch. These blasts hit Hadar. They're affecting him. It's not like he's immune to this, but just seemingly isn't phased by any of it.

Doesn't seem to feel pain or force or anything. At the end of your turnover, as you are in the cold astral void, I need you to make a constitution saving throw. Seven, eight, nine, ten. Eleven, twelve, thirteen. Enough. You're going to take five points of cold damage. And you are holding your breath. As long as you hold your breath, you do not suffocate, because you are an air ganassi.

Alright, that is the end of Nova's turn. Lucius, before you take your turn, I'm just going to describe. You can see that that line pointing towards Siaska and Valor from these orbs, the orbs are projecting like a pulse of energy, like a projectile along that path. They move slowly, but you can tell it is basically this projectile is heading towards Siaska and Valor on a projected path. And you can see that slowly getting closer and closer to them.

on a projected path. And you can see that slowly getting closer and closer to them. We can do a raid action any time, right? You certainly can. I'm going to say to the team, let's utilise the shield of time and space when those beams get too close to Siaska and Vala. Protect them.

Okay. Yeah, well you can say it to the team, but like, remember six seconds. That's all I say. And what I'm gonna do for my turn is move forward. I'm skipping a one, 30, next to Siaska. Love it. I'm going to think back to when-

I do apologize. Sorry Lucius. Nova attacked a number of times against Hedar. Concentration saving throws. Oh! You hit him twice didn't you? Oh on the balls? No. No. No.

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Right? When Hadar was like fully in my head and it went silent for centuries. Right, yes, yes, yes, yes. He, well, yeah. You can make assumptions about what that was, yes. I want to make intelligent assumptions, kind of extrapolate on that and try and bring Hadar into my mind again to distract him from everyone else so that they can attack him whilst he is doing his Hadar?

Do you want to make a check to think if that would work? That would be a bonus action to do as an Arcana check. Or actually, I would say an Insight check because this is trying to gauge. You're actually kind of more like, is that something Hadar would do, right? Rather than just the magical element. It's like taking the bait, essentially. Yeah, kind of.

Yeah, I'd say make an insight check. 14. 14. I will say this, it could work. It could also be that he was just kind of tormenting you or taunting you. You're not sure if he would just solely focus on you i mean you can try and sort of like get another focus we know that siasca and valor is the real food it may not be yeah the thing i mean he specifically did kind of almost

he was talking to you but there was definitely an element of like dismissal like he doesn't even really consider you worth his time he was element of like dismissal like he doesn't even really consider you worth his time he was almost just playing with you because he could okay because he's bored i'm gonna blast him okay um yeah by all means you still try like i don't want to put you off like cool ideas but like i would say with a 14 and what you've witnessed like it would be more of like are you just trying to taunt him into attack into like focusing on you it's more the fact that i knew that he would he has hyper focused on me in that moment silencing everyone well or he just wasn't interested i was wondering if that i was just going to test the limits and see if i could focus all his attention on yeah if you want to try that i'd say that that

would be like a persuasion check or a charisma check to try and bait him. Like a taunt, right? Like a taunt, basically, yeah. You can certainly try that. Or you can just blast, or you can do something else. I'll do something different. Why not? Okay, all right. I'm going to goad him then.

Okay. Well, you tell me what you say, and then we'll make a roll. I don't believe you can truly bring everything to nothing. It didn't work on me, clearly. Give me a persuasion check. This is you trying to almost goad him into an attack. 14. He kind of looks in your direction vaguely,

as much as you can tell. kind of looks in your direction vaguely, as much as you can tell. Oh, Lucius, I haven't even tried. You're not worth my time. Fortunately, yeah, it does not work. He is not go-get. I will say that that's just a free action, because just speaking to him isn't gonna be like a big...

I'm gonna reactively blast him then. Okay. I'm going to kick things off with a sick old Chromatic Orb. Can't go wrong with that. Classic, traditional. Problem is I don't have Prismatic Mastery, so I can't make it radiant or anything. 21?

21 will... Let me just check. Oh, does not hit. Oh. Shit. What the hell? It nearly, it narrowly hits him, but he does... Maybe he just kind of uses his arm and just

kind of swats it out of the air. As he's speaking to you, he's like, you're not even worth much, and then just knocks it out of the sky. Sounds like my cat. Unless you would like to do anything to try and make it hit. In which case we will reverse that. Seeking spell? Magical Guidance. Oh!

Which is another one. It's one sorcery point to reroll it. Okay. So do that and seeking, technically. Okay, yeah. This one's cheaper. That's three more than what it was before! That will be a hit. 24. So he goes to knock it out of the way, but it does kind of explode over him as it does yeah just doing the first level in for the long game yeah yeah yeah 17 17 points of

damage first I was not bad concentration because the damage you to the DC would only be 10 on that one, because it's not above a 20, so it's not half. So basically, unless I roll a 1, he succeeds it on a low DC. I was going to say, by the way, he has disadvantage on concentration checks from me because of Mage Slayer. Important to note, a natural 1. Nice. So what we'll do is we'll basically have that apply to Lucius this time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just because it fits the theming. So he kind of tries to knock it out, but as it explodes, was it acid or cold? Acid. Acid. It kind of sprays over him, and there's this kind of, not like grunt,

but there's just this kind of movement. And you see this would be, I believe, the mental prison surrounding you two, and Sentry reappears. Yay! I forgot it was the same spell. All in one thing. It is unusual in that it basically is one move

that applies the spell to a bunch of you. Very cool. So you watch as, but you all do, you did all take the damage and stuff like that. That's awesome. Thank you, Lucius. What is magical guidance then versus seeking? It's just one small thing. Magical guidance applies to ability checks and stuff like that yeah yeah awesome thank you lucius what is magical guidance then versus seeking just just basically uh magical guidance applies to like ability checks and stuff as well oh it doesn't matter uh so uh lucius that was on your turn is there anything else on your turn

um no okay well after your turn you probably will take a legendary action probably will take a legendary action. That makes sense, yeah. I agree, actually. I think you should. Stop talking. I should stop talking? What's wrong with me?

No, it's in your brain. Yeah. No, I'm not going to use my legendary action. Save it. Save it. Which brings us to Calus. Daddy. Yeah.

Alrighty. Calus will probably kind of like shout out, these things are getting closer to Valanciaska. Can I have Calus jump up onto... Let's see. Can he make it up to one of the ball platforms? There is no space for him to occupy, because this orb, he would have to jump into the orb. What I would say is where I've placed him now,

the projectile that this ball is firing, he is currently standing in the way of it. So imagine that these balls basically have these like ribbons of light that are going between the two. So Lucius, you're like nearly in the path of it, but not quite. But currently he's stood in front of it. But yeah, he could jump up and collide with it. Yeah, can I have him take the Guardian stance as a bonus action? Yes.

So he kind of brings the sword up into a protective stance. Sort of ready an action to protect Valor and Siasma from this incoming beam. Okay, absolutely. Anything else on his turn or are you just going to basically hold that action? I'm going to hold that action and let him protect them from that. Great. Perfectly well done because this allows me to introduce a macaque. So, as you've seen, Hadar's raid actions target Valor and Siaska specifically, to try and harm them.

When he makes these attacks, you and Calus have the opportunity to intercept them. If you are within certain ranges, depending on the attack, you might need to be close to Valorant Siaska, or, for example, in this, Kallus is actually in between the one reaching towards Valorant, like he is in the path of this projectile. That means on his turn, on the raid action turn, if he is in the right position, he can choose to intercept it, and that means he takes the attack instead of Valorant Siaska.

Cool. In this case, on raid action two, the projectiles are about halfway. So at this point, Calus would be able to intercept the projectile heading towards Valor. If he would like to do so, which you did ready the action for. In that case, with this one, which is the Eyes of Entropy, as it collides with him, Calus is going to take 25 points of necrotic damage as he intercepts the projectile. It is about half strength when he intercepts it. The other one is en route to Siaska.

So it builds power, and it vanishes. Once it is expended its power is gone. So you see Calus maybe waits, takes the guarded stance, takes it. I believe he maybe like weight takes the guarded stance takes it i believe he has a thing on his guarded stance reduces damage by one d10 there you go one d10 so if you would like to roll that d10 three three so he takes uh 22 necrotic damage i wish i could pencil yes please thank you can you please shout out guardian stones guardian stance thank you nice perfect um but yeah so with that that is on the raid action two the other one gets about halfway Can you please shout out Guardian's Dance? Guardian's Dance! Thank you. Nice. Perfect.

But yeah, so with that, that is on the raid action two. The other one gets about halfway. It's about half power on raid action two. Calus has intercepted the other one. He's mine now. In which case, we come to Sentui. All right. Sentui's going to act.

I will also point out, Calus only used, I think, like 10 feet of his movement there. So he has 20 feet of movement he can grant to any of you at this point. Who would you like to grant that extra movement to? This is Sentry's choice. This is Sentry. Rhiannon is currently running callous, so she decides. Sentry?

Yeah, yeah. He just calls out, Sentry, come now, move! All right. And you feel this kind of surge of like, okay, let's go. All right. I'm going this kind of surge of like, okay, let's go. All right. I'm going to activate my elder champion form.

You got the touch! Yeah! Bam, bam, bam! Give up the power! Yeah! White armor, humoring in the redness. And then I'm going to move on up to Hadar. I feel like with Calus' extra movement, I can make it all the way. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

25, 40, 45, 50, which I think is 30 plus 20, right? Yeah. So 5, 10, he's just 5 feet out of range. Oh. Okay, never mind. This is fine. You guys are getting through this. Okay, action, surge, move. Oh, okay. Never mind. It's fine. It's fine. You guys are getting through this. Okay. Action. Surge. Move. Oh, action. What am I trying to say? Action dash. Action dash. Yep. Get right up into it. Get right up into him. Bonus action because I've activated my elder form.

Oh. So, um. Three? Yeah. Destructive wave. Okay. Is the bonus action. You tell me what this does. Um... Three? Yeah. Destructive Wave. Okay. You tell me what this does.

So, strike the ground, creating a burst of divine energy that rips up towards you. Each creature you choose within 30 feet of you must succeed on a constitution saving throw. It will take 5d6 thunder damage as well as 5d6 radiant or necrotic damage and is not prone. Constitution, yes? Yep. That is going to be for old Hadar. 17 to 60.

Ah, ooh, I mean he's got a pretty big old bonus here. I imagine you do. Ah, that is going to be for old Hadar. 17 to 60. Ooh, I mean, he's got a pretty big old bonus here. I imagine he do. That is going to be a 27. Yes, that's half damage, but he is not prone. He's not prone. One, two, three. You run up and you slam Starbreaker into the ground and it sends out this pulse of radiant energy

cracking the ground around you. That was a huge clack clack. Five, 10, 15. Which dice are which? Paladins are so broken. Level 20 balance, especially. I've got a lot of ones. 21, 22, 23, 24, 28, 32 total.

So 32 halved would be 16. You watch as the ground kind of cracks around him, the glaring light kind of sprays up, He's 16. 16. You watch as the ground cracks around him, the glaring light sprays up, but similar to the other attacks, just very little reaction. Is that it? Little light. Anything else?

Oh, that's it, that's my whole turn. I just have to make, oh no, I failed the concentration. Don't have to worry about it anymore. Oh. If you're going to take a turn... Go on, have a little turn. How do I...?

I don't think I put Quill on the initiative. I rolled a five. You rolled five, so you're going to go with the bottom. Yeah. Staple me onto the bottom there. He's a bottom. Yeah. Annoyingly, I can't.

I have to put something else first. I generate all the force. It does actually balance things out nicely. Right. In that case, after Sentry, it is Quill. Your turn. Hey, what up? I would like to try to save Nevaeh.

And I'll do that by flying 15 feet. I would like to try to save Nevaeh. And I'll do that by flying 15 feet above her and using a lightning lure. Aw, alpha. I was gonna do that. It only does damage if you are within five feet of me and it only pulls you 10 feet. But because of like low gravity,

is there some kind of like momentum rule? I'm pulling them 10 feet out. We'll find a shot to the other side of the match. We'll find out, won't we? When you perform this. So I mean, in this instance, I'm literally like above her to pull her onto the platform that Nova was on before.

Okay. So yeah, it's a, do you want to fail this strength save or? I mean, I'm going to fail it anyway. I have minus two strength. Fine. Yeah. I could just roll it through. For the sake of this rescuing over, I am going to say you still do the damage.

Okay. I guess if it's lower gravity, you would be going past it. Yeah, it kind of launches into the lightning whip. But I will say it will put you on the thing that you were. You're going to fall prone, though, because it's going to basically pull you up and knock you down. Hit my head on it. Ow. Yeah, get skewered by a spike. Hey, that damage is massively increased.

I've got clerical, uh, cleric cantrips. Check these things. 48 plus 6. This is a bad roll. 21. Why would you not check that? Can you look at me while you say that? Sorry?

Can you look at me while not check that? Sorry? Can you look at me while I say that? I just did 21 damage to you. To be fair, it only does the damage if I pulled within five feet, and ordinarily that wouldn't have happened. So this is Hadar realm influence. Yeah.

Don't try and justify it to me. Well, I'm also arguing that you're flying directly, you're above her, you pull her up, the gravity has her come past you. She does move within five feet of you. Yeah, it's because of the low gravity. Because of the gravity, yes. It wouldn't have ordinarily done the damage.

So, yeah, 21 damage. Right, well, there you go. 21 damage, Sniper. Yeah, she could have saved herself. Quill, anything else on your side? I'm just going to punch Nova. Yeah, she's just like... No, I'm going to use a bonus action to give you a holy weapon oh cute um

thank you tom there you go i can do more stuff you get an extra 2d8 to your damage rolls oh cute thank you i hope that works on end of turn quill uh end of turn yeah great do you do you want to move anywhere by the way because you still have quite a lot of movement left. I don't know if you want to get somewhere. I will go and land next to Nova if I have the movement for that. I should do. So you want to land next to? Next to Nova, yeah. I'm guessing that's radiant.

Radiant, yeah. Cool. Thank you. All right. At the end of your turn, Quill, Adara's going to use Legendary. He didn't like that. Grasp of Darkness. Oh. The central platform of the Demiplane is filled with a thin layer of darkness

that clings to the ground like a heavy mist at the start of Quill's next turn. An effect will happen. You watch as this whole central platform becomes filled with darkness. Okay, so I'm out of it then. You and Nova are currently the only ones out of it, yes. That's okay. I will also tell you this, apart from the raid actions that specifically target them, Siaska and Valor are pretty much protected against most of like the damaging effects and things like that.

They're using their like magic to kind of protect themselves. But these raid actions are like specifically breaking through those

barriers, right? So they're affecting them. And I bring that up because it is the end of the round and the third raid action

as this one slams into Siaska. Lucius is within five feet. You can choose to intercept it. You wish to? Yeah.

All right. You take 50 necrotic damage. Ooh! How many doom tokens do you have? Two! Two? That's another four. Oh, boy. Okay. Someone else should do that next time. That hurt a lot. So, yeah. That is...

Lucius, you have a torso embarrassment. I put my head in it. Round one, complete. At the beginning of round two. Fight! Adara's going to use their next raid action. You don't know what happens. What?

It's fine, you'll find out in a minute. I hate when he does stuff secretly. So at the moment, this central platform is covered in this thin layer of darkness and it feels cold and trying to grab you and hold you in place. Grasp of darkness. So, what? I kinda wanna shout to Calus and Siaska and Vala and say,

what is the best thing for us to do? Attacks are having no impact here. What do you need? Siaska and Vala are too busy concentrating on this shield and protect themselves. Calus will say, we must find out what a weakness or some way to weaken him. Okay. And yeah, you are free to make little checks or if you want, just do whatever you want. Can I...

I'll use a charge on my hammer to fly so that I'll be off the ground for the next round as well. I would like to fly up and just hit him in the face. I die. I want to hit him in the face. You fly up. You're literally at head level. As the Howling Templars come swinging in. 17 plus 15 to hit. That will hit. I'm a lady's aide.

18 on the hammer, six lightning. With the first one. So 18 plus six would be 23. Well, hang on before you roll that second attack. I was going to say, crap. As you strike, two things happen. The first is as you fly up into the air, full of rage, crackling with lightning,

the hammer slams into Hadar's face. And there's no movement, no grunt of pain or anything else. But you see something. From the neck, almost with the momentum of the strike, some silvery white golden light seems to emerge like blood and falls to the ground beside Adan. And you see just the faint kind of twist of a neck, almost like he felt that blow. And he looks down.

You hear a flare of anger. What would you like to do? Oh, the second thing that happens is I am going to use my reaction and use Gravity Backlash. You take 10 points of force damage, and he's going to move you 15 foot back still in the air or still in the air he'll kind of angle you down actually but i think you would have flown up high enough so you're about uh your flight is like 60 feet right 50

feet so he would have i'm assuming you would have gone your full height to his top of the head so he'll put you about 10 feet off the ground it'll be like i have any uh extra moves oh yeah i think so you didn't have that you didn't move that far 10 15 20 25 yeah so you move like 25 you've got 25 feet of movement left can i the droplet is on the ground can i do a swoopy scoop swoopy scoop a swoopy scoop? Swoopy scoop? A swoopy scoop? A swooping scoop, huh? I think it's 15. Yeah, I'd say you can.

A swooping scoop? But you will only get, like, 10 feet in the air. That's fine. It is what it is. Yep. Here. Square. Ayla.

As you swoop down, your hand just touches this piece of light like an ember of a flame, silvery and gold. You feel power surge through you. Something great, like... something left behind. Ooh. like something left behind. Oh. Oh, damn. This, I guess you gained,

keep that to yourself, I suppose, a divine essence. We're extracting the things he's consumed. Yeah, because he consumed a divine, certainly seems to be what has just happened. Hey, that guy just bled. You know what that means? We get holy? We can kill it. That one we can kill it. Not Maus.

Maus. Chinese food? Do I still get another hit on him? You are still within range. Can you pass me your token as well, please? As it does say what it says. We need droplets. You can communicate that in character as you wish. But let's make your second attack. Do we have to punch them to get those?

Do we have to punch? I'd get real hard. 14 plus 15. 14 plus 15 will hit. Oh, I rolled full damage. 23 on the hammer. Six lightning. I rolled full damage.

Yes. So you watch as, again, you backspin, I rolled a vampire. Vampire. I don't know what you're thinking. Six lightning. I rolled full damage. Yes. Pointy mouth. So you watch as, again, you backspin, slam the hammer in, and you see Hadar just trying, trying insects. Why, why are you bothering? You think that this changes anything? At this point, I don't really care.

I just want to hit you in the face. And then he'll get a blast of lightning. Make it dance. He can. Oh, natural one, fails. Cute. 14 lightning damage. 14 more points of lightning damage.

End of turn? Yes. Okay. Hadar's turn. You're not going to like me very much, Rina. Yeah, he's got you and Sentry right in front of him. Big ladies. With one big claw, he swoops, hitting you both, or trying to hit you both. He does a swoopy scoop too. A swoopy scoop too as he uses

entropic claws against ayla that is a 33. yeah that might hit against century 33. uh-huh uh so i'm just gonna use the average damage here because uh it's too much rolling it's gonna be 26 slashing damage so that's 13 to you do Ayla. Do I have that again? Because I have resistance to all damage. Uh... But I already have resistance. Yeah, I'd say technically you do. So do I quarter damage? Yeah, I'd say you do. So 13 would go down to six.

What'd that Divine Essence do, though? Hang on, we've got a bunch of other stuff to happen. So 26 slashing damage, less to Ayla. And then it's seven necrotic. So you would take three necrotic Ayla, because it's necrotic, so you don't half that from your rage. Century, how many doom tokens do you have? Two doom.

So you gain actually, this is another 2d6 on top of that seven. So that's gonna be 13 necrotic damage to you. And then you both gain a doom token. Doom! I'm just gonna give you that one back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. As he sweeps his claws, striking you both, as he strikes you both, and then he is going to, Nova Vija. Hiya! He is going to whisper something and strike your mind. 24 to hit. The words almost seem to take form and force and strike into you.

22 necrotic damage. How many doom tokens do you have? Dos. Another, ooh, big one, nine. So that will be 31. Of course, a big one. But you are not restrained, charmed, blinded, frightened, stunned, or paralyzed. So nothing else happens. That's nice. That's really alarming that you just read that list off like, you know.

And then, as a bonus action. Oh, he's going to do a bonus action. As a bonus action, he's going to rise up his other claw that he did not strike sentry in Edelwith. Come, children, we have guests. As he is going to summon minions. Oh, he's going to get minions! He's about to grab a fistful of minis again, isn't he? My favourite! Fistful of minis. New bandit. It's the red boys. It's the red boys.

It's the red boys. Red boys. Just going to slow down old Calus up here. Two and three in front of Calus. Oh, look, what's this? Oh, that's in with us. Hey, what's up? Nothing personal here.

One, two. Oh, we got two. Uh-oh, on a prone Nervous. Nervous? Wait, are you prone? Prone Nerv'm on a prone novice. Novice? Wait, are you prone? Prone novice. How? Because you hit me.

You tossed her with a lightning. You tossed me with gay abandon. So you watch as the black mist and the teeth embedded into these rocks seem to almost pull themselves free and become these horrors, these abominations of magic and darkness and entropy made manifest. And these minions are now active. That is his bonus action, which brings me to first raid actions. Calus teleports from his current position. Calus?

Sorry, go down. He's not the bad guy anymore. Oh, he's just right up in, he teleports in front of Siaska and Vala, and he raises his fists as if he's about to strike down at them. Raid action. Player raid action.

It's not your turn now. Fuck off. I thought we could all do it. At the start of anyone's turn, at the start of any player's turn. Lucius put that out on his turn. That's the way we can all do it. At the start of anyone's turn, any player's turn. Lucius got that out on his turn. That's fine. That move, Nova Vija. So this ground is covered with Black Mist, right?

The central platform. You and Quill are fine. All of the floating platforms are not covered by the central mist. But where Sentry is and stuff like that is. Aayla's technically flying above it. Kallus, Lucius, Sias Aayla's technically flying above it. Callus, Lucius, Siaska and Valor, yes.

Hmm. Hmm. I think we've got a bit more of a medium problem, unfortunately. I don't know if I can help in any meaningful manner. Horrors are like looming all around you. Yeah.

Are we stand up? Yep. And I will summon Tiangong. They are on top of your potions. They are. Where do you want them? So the other side of the minions, so we're kind of like pincering them and i will just roll a d10 to figure out it is tian gong okay um and yeah i'm just gonna start whacking um so i get an extra d8 from well i will tell you these are minions so hit them first and then we'll worry about the damage that is cocked. Sure. Roll it again. 25 to hit. That will hit. You don't need to roll back damage, you destroy one minion. Okay.

That is within reach, so one of the two. Yeah, I'll just keep working through them. Sure. 23. That will destroy the other one. As both of them die, I need you and Quill to make constitution or charisma saving throws. For both of them, or...? Yeah, well, there's two. You have to make two now.

Uh, first one is 20. Uh, success. Oh, second one is... 18 plus 11. Two successes, it sounds like, for Nova. 13 and a 17. 13 and 17. Well, the 17 is a success, the 13 however is a failure. Okay.

A Doom token! But no damage? No damage. Just Doom. Perfect. Doom token. I'll go for it. Then you can move around. You'd have to move five feet and then you can make the attack against the other one.

I'll just have Tiangong move up right now. Oh, sure. 28 to hit. 28 will hit. Another constitution. From you and Quill, please, yes. As the other minion is destroyed. As their doomed demise. 17. 17 is a success.

That's a failure. That's another doomed token for Quill. Stacking the house over here. So you watch as these things die, as Tiangong carves through them, the blade itself, sorry, the blade farseeker carves through them, as they crumple in on themselves, almost like a singularity is in their chest, they pull from you, Quill.

Like they leech hope and life and light, and you just feel this oppressive darkness beating down on you as you gain doom. I feel mad oppressed right now. Action, bonus action. Um, I don't think there's much else I can do so that's me. I guess I just want to turn and look at what's going on down here. Okay.

And that's it really? Yep, no movement or anything, just happy to turn and look at what's going on down here. Okay. And that's it, really? Yep, no movement or anything, just happy to stay where you are. So I've lost movement from standing up, Tiangong. You moved, you used half movement. Just maybe, I guess, a bit more, be a bit more, actually no, I'm gonna stay,

no, I'm done. All right. Carry on. In that case, we go to Lucius. Is it me? It is you. Okay, so we go to Lucius. Is it me? It is you.

Hi. Am I in his attack of opportunity range? So if I were to move away, he's got... Oh, yeah. I am nodding vigorously and smiling. Ah, yes. That's bad. You are currently... I will sell you now, like, looking at his reach and stuff,

he probably has a 15-foot reach. Bloody. So you can move around him, he probably has a 15 foot reach. Bloody. So you can move around him, but if you move away from him. Raid action. Yeah. Goes off. What would you like to do? I would like to use Shield of Time and Space.

So you watch. So how does this look? Are you calling out like, what do you say to Valar and Siaska? Like, make this RP and epic. Do it. Make it epic. It wasn't gonna be. But now? It doesn't have to be epic. Siasca Vala, please, protect yourselves. So you watch as they kind of look and sort of... Bring forth the Dermabowl!

You see them raising their fists. They reach out, they grasp each other's hand, and around him, an orb appears and pushes her down her back. Oh! Wait, can he... The end of the purple. As this dome encapsulates you, Valat, and Siaska currently. Excellent. And you still have your turn.

If I stay in this until the next turn, I get exhaustion. Yes, but you're also protected from harm, whatever that means. I am going to blast him. Yeah, your spells and stuff pass through this dome without issue. Yeah, okay, sweet. Then I will be doing, you know what, because he's big, he's a big boy,

I'm gonna do vitriolic sphere, which is a radius around him. 20 foot. Yes, there is no way you can target this because it is a sphere. I guess if you did it up, but you would also catch Aayla because she's up in the air. Are you trying to hit the mignon as well? It's fucking big. It's too big. It's this big. Oh, fuck it. That's quite's this big. It's too big.

Oh fuck it. That's quite big. Might be a bit too big. Actually, no, you can do it without hitting Aayla. Okay, what, in the air? If you did it in the air, then you won't catch the minions. Yeah, I put a location within range, not a surface.

So you could do it like up here. I explode his head. Yep, done. With that. So that will be ax saving throw of 19. You failed. Ooh. However. Ah.

Oh, you're gonna, no, you're gonna like this. Oh. Oh. Because he is gonna succeed, so he's gonna take half damage. But I'm going to use his ability, Soul Sacrifice. Oh. So, Lucius, tell me how much damage.

It would be 10d4 acid, what level am I doing it at? Actually yeah, that depends. I had it at this level, so I don't fudge it, it's 4th. 10d4. 24. 25. 25 points. 24 25 25 points of SC

well that would be halved because he does technically succeed it so then you'll get it next turn 10-12 he won't get it next time because he succeeded

yeah however as he does you see his form kind of shudder and shimmer and as it does you you see his form shudder and shimmer. And as it does, you see that kind of light leak out of him, as he almost warps reality to prevent this vitriolic sphere hitting him.

Can I? Let me describe it. Yeah. Because what you see is that light takes on a ghostly form. They appear to almost be an elderly human-looking figure with, like, antlers cloaked in, like, a cape of leaves and with a staff. And you can see that, on one hand, they have, like, a cage. They look ancient, though, like an old human, but they're ghostly and wispy, barely there.

But they almost seem to appear looking around lost confused and you see Hadar like where do you think you're going this way just spent everywhere all right you call out to them but they they don't seem to hear you. Okay, so I can't guide them to the wall? No, not from where you currently are. Oh. I'm going to go out then, because I pushed him away.

So I'm going to move up to him with my movement. I'll do it. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I can get up to him. Is it the spirit? Yep. Hello? It kind of looks, the spirit looks in your direction.

Make a persuasion check for me. Yeah, I'll say, you don't need to go back. It's okay now. Persuasion? That's a three. But with persuasion, it's plus 11, so 14. 14. Oh, 14 is not enough.

I'm going to tell you now that he sees 20. Mmm. They look in your direction, and it's like they can hear you, but they look back at Hadar terrified. And they're holding a trembling hand towards you, but then they kind of snatch it back, and they just look scared. Oh, this guy, and with my finger, Dicromancy. Nice. How much?

That's four plus five. Nine. Four plus five is nine. It's hot in here. It is hot, though. I appreciate it. You kind of... The acid strikes against Hadar, but again, very little reaction. Like, pain doesn't really mean anything to this creature.

All right, I would like to finish this round, so we might go a little bit I'll call out to everybody okay I think this spirit is good and we should protect it get it away from the darts it's part of his power you hear see asker very faintly it's just if you can bring it to me bring it to me and Valor if you can, bring it to me. Bring it to me in valor, if you can convince it. All right. I recognize them. They're divine. Oh!

Not the whole, but a piece. Bring them here. She's concentrating on this orb. Of course. All right, Calus. Calus. Yeah, who's Calus now? He's there. He goes up. Calus is going to attack the minion.

If you want a moment, I can take a legendary. No, he's going to. He's going to. No, that's good. He's going to attack the minions. Yeah, wrath stance. Okay. So plus 10 damage on attacks.

He's going to do two attacks. He's going to switch bonus action, switch into wrath stance. Yep. Yep. And he's going to attack their minions. Okay. That are surrounding him. All right. 13 plus 10. Destroys a minion. Can he make a constitutional charisma saving throw? into wrath stance. Yep, and he's gonna attack their minions that are surrounding him.

13 plus 10. Destroys a minion. Can you make a constitution or charisma saving throw for me? Shit. Constitution is probably higher. Save is 13, though, so 26. It's a success. 16, sorry.

16 is still a success, just barely. Cool. If he rolls a one, then I'll treat it as a failure. Alright, so first move, 1 million down. There you go. Thank you very much. Don't give them back to him. Sure. I'll just keep them there.

Alright, so this is his first attack. Don't need to worry about any extra effects, because it is just going to destroy the game. I should have kept him in Guardian. It reduces the damage. He's not going to take damage from them. It's not damaging. It's just doom. It's just doom tokens. Trust and believe, son. Eight

plus, is it ten? Plus ten. Oh, eighteen, sorry. Yes, that will destroy another minion. Can you make another constitution saving throw for me, please? Yeah, that's a real good roll. That's a big one. As these things die, he just kind of brushes the mist away.

Get out of my way! You rolled a 19 plus 13. Destroys it very, very good. Very much a lot. Anything else on Calus' turn? Calus is... Maybe just move up to goddamn Hadar. I actually forgot on some other people's turn, Sentry and Nailer's Bungler, checking out. You

moved within a certain range of him. As Calus moves up as well, you and Calus both take 10 necrotic damage, plus how many doom tokens do you have? Two. Another two, so you take 12 necrotic Lucius, and you gain a doom. So does Kalos. Oh, Kalos is gaining. Is that just by being next to him? Yes, moving within his Aura of Despair, which is why I forgot when you and Sentry moved up to him.

What was the damage for Kalos there? 10 necrotic damage, yes. 10 necrotic. And yes. So ten necrotic. And one doom. So eleven total. No, no, no, the doom is just a token. One, two. Three, one, two, and then one doom.

Okay. But yeah, so that is his Aura of Despair. You kind of move around Hadar, you feel this oppressive aura around him. Only if you move into it or around in the aura. Okay, and that's within, like, 15 feet, his reach? It seems to be... When did I feel it? Oh, that was actually...

Technically, he uses... Sorry, he uses his reaction to that, so I wouldn't have done it against Aayla, but he has multiple reactions, so he does it against you anyhow. Okay. All right, so he's used two of his reactions. All right.

Great. Did you shout out Wrathstones? Yeah, Calus did that. Hey, let me keep doing some stuff, because I do want to try and get to the end of the turn before we finish the episode. Raid action two. Oh, God.

Electric Boogaloo. After Kalos' turn, he brings his fists down on this dome, striking where Valorant Siaska would have been. I will tell you that this attack would have done it would have done 80 points of damage. Anybody who is in within five feet of Valorant Siaska

can intercept and will split the damage out. The more people that are within that area, you can divide the damage down. So if you had four people there, they could each take 20 points of damage. Exactly that. But because because the dome the shield of stars or the uh shield of stars and time i remember what i called it time and space time and space uh the attack strikes the dome um and does seems to have no effect on varan siasko who are protecting themselves inside at that point um

who are protecting themselves inside at that point. That's a good problem. Hell yeah. Good shit. They protect themselves, holding it up in place. Sentry. I'd like to move five feet towards him, so that she can give me a ten-foot reach towards him. I'm not going to use my Aura of Despair reaction. Okay, I'm going to make two attacks against him.

Okay, here we go. Well, also to tell you, Sentry, he is, of of course an admiration uh so it's uh 19 plus 13 to hit well hit nice level four divine smite so that is 68. and a d12 And a d12. A blip! Nice. Right, math time.

Uh, 40. Get them numbers. Put them together. I'm ready to take the damage. 21. 22. 27. You fluffy, you fluffy boy.

A little bit fluffier. Just want to listen to Rhiannon count numbers. 41. He just keeps going. No wonder it's track. 41. I'm going to count. I'm going to count.

I'm going to count. I'm going to count. I'm going to count. I'm going to count. I'm going to count. I'm going to count. I'm going to count. I'm going to count. I'm going to count. You fluffy, you fluffy boy. Just want to listen to Rhiannon count numbers. 41. He just keeps going.

I don't want to distract. 49. Just round it up to 100. 53. 63 total. 63 points of damage. Wow. Oh my god.

Again. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Are you going to use Divine Spite on the next turn? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah? the next attack? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?

Yeah? The first strike! Wait, wait, wait, wait. The first strike slams into— Hang on, guys, give me a second. The first strike slams into Hadar's back, and the tip of the Starbreaker kind of almost just like digs into the skin, but doesn't have enough force to penetrate through.

But you do see almost like a— like a—a tension in Hadar. Starbreaker kind of almost just like digs into the skin, but doesn't have enough force to penetrate through. But you do see almost like a tension in Hadar. The first kind of sign of any physical kind of like, as this lance digs in. Wait, wait, wait. What? I'm sorry, what? You rolled a natural 20.

You said, you, what? Oh. I'm giving you portent. Oh, he's giving me portent. That's what I'm hinting at. Oh, sorry. You meant to take my dingus, or whatever I said earlier. Sorry, I just chomped it.

Tom's dingus? Tom's dingus? You could have made it so cool, and you fucked that up so hard. You made it so cool. Like, with the dingus thing, you could have been like, meh, describing it. I saw it in my million and one possibilities, but also, I said dingus earlier, and I needed to follow up on it. Okay, sorry.

You don't wanna see what else Hadar had up his sleeve for. So, it doesn't matter if he's dead. As you go to strike, Sentry, Quill, from in the distance, calls out some sort of warning or a moment, tells you to wait for just a second. As he knows, Hadar turns and you see one of these almost like veins of silvery light pulse through

his body, and you know that's the moment to strike. As Starbreaker touches it, you deal a critical strike. Hell yeah. So just tell me how much dice, and let me help you work this out. So it's 1d12 and 6246 8d4. 84? 88. I'm running off very little.

So, yeah, that's fine. That's 64? 88? Yeah, 88, 64. So 76 with the d12. Yeah. And then plus 3 for Starbreaker and plus 7 for my... So 86.

86. 86. Right, now roll that d12 and the 8d8 again. Oh my god, it's disgusting. Yeah, I mean, it's either this or using it on Ayla for the... No, no, no, it's wonderful, but it's disgusting. Yeah, last time I forgot my extra 4d12. And I was so pissed off after the session. I've got the damage here, so if you just tell me what you roll.

We will go a little tiny little bit. He's got good rolls. Good damage rolls. Yeah. They're triumphant. 56. Another 56. So that brings us to 132 points of damage.

But wait, I'm not done. What? I'm not done. What do you mean? My bonus action, because my... Well, okay. Let me add this damage first. 132. Bro.

She's done when she says she's done. Right, because things happen. that's the other thing, is I need to do it in part. Because as you strike, that second time, that hint of silver, you strike, and as you strike again, the Starbreaker doesn't pierce through Hadar's skin, but it does enough that that little fragment,

that essence of divinity breaks free. It'll strike you, so I'm going to put it... No, I'll put it near Cetrid, actually. Right next to you. As it leaks into the ground and forms just this little ember, like this little crystal of light that hovers just gently above the ground. Bonus action, destructive wave. It's true, you can technically, yeah, because you've got your Elder Form on.

And also, I forgot this last time, because I have my Elder Form active, you have disadvantage against my Paladin spells. Okay. Of course, good to know you. I forget he's spaghetti. What kind of save? Pond. I think I'm still going to pass it even on a seven. Yeah, yeah, I passed it.

So half damage from it makes good. Six, twelve, eighteen, nineteen. How many dice has she rolled on this one turn? You gave her half of these dice! I know, but... It was a beautiful gift. It was a beautiful gift. Outside of the crit, I didn't add any new dice.

Thirty-five, half, seventeen. Seventeen. Thank you, Thomas! NP, bruh. Thank you, Talmud. NP, brah. That's dingus giving. Thank you for the dingus. I think it was dingus. It was something.

It was dingus. Or dinger? Dinger. Dinger, yeah. I took my dinger. The destructive wave then kind of blasts out from the tip of the spear, shuddering against his red crimson skin,

kind of causing it to ripple and undulate. Enough! He calls, barks back again, no physical sign of damage, but that little essence now spilled out onto the ground. I am beginning to tire of this. End of turn, Century? Can I touch the mode? Yeah, you have movement, Century? Can I touch the mode? Ah, yeah, you have movement, right?

Yeah. No, actually, I shouldn't have allowed Ayla to do it. I will allow you to do it. From now on, it is a bonus action to pick up the modes. Oh, okay, I don't want to. No, no, no, it's fine. You pick it up, though. It's fine, he's got far worse waiting for us. Yeah, exactly. I'm not too worried about it.

You guys are good? Yes, if I can pass this over. Thank you very much, Ayla. It's a one-parer, then. Yes. But do you have any doom tokens? I do have three. Pass them to me, please. Okay.

As you feel the divine power suffuse through you, as you gain, you feel strength, feel this divine power channel into you. I'm going to quickly try and wrap this up. One last minion is going to attack Kalos. Feel this divine power channel into you. I'm gonna quickly try and wrap this up. One last minion is gonna attack Calus. Natural 20, of course, a fucking minion gets a natural 20. Wow.

Calus takes 10 necrotic damage, please. 10 necrotic. And he's got one doom? Oh, he's got one doom. Damn it. Technically, it's two more. Kill him. The destructive wave could have hit him, but we can see him.

That's fine. In that case, don't worry about the... We'll have the... It all balances out. So Calus just takes a little hit in the back as the minion's like, trying to get to him. We then go to the start of Quills, but before that happens, Hadar's legendary action that he channeled last time, the Grasp of Darkness, will trigger the floor that was full of darkness.

Any creature on the main platform, I believe that is everybody but Aayla, Nova, and Quill. So Lucius, and Sentoui, and Calus. You all take 20 necrotic damage. How many doom tokens have we got around? One here. One for Nova. No, for Calus.

Five extra to Calus then. Lucius? Three. That is gonna be eight more. So 28 for Lucius. You also gain two doom tokens. So essentially those two that you just got. Thank you.

Lucius, pass those to Lucius please. A doom for me. And please note that Calas also gains two. He's got three now. And you are restrained. Oh. As the darkness latches onto your legs, holding you in place. Burger.

No more games. And I can't be restrained. Can't be restrained. Can't be restrained. Is that another? Starbreaker. Oh, Starbreaker. Okay, I thought that was an Elder Guardian. I break free of restraining.

Oh, yeah. There you go. I forgot I gave it that. What didn't it get? At the end of... What didn't that weapon get? Hey, it was there the whole time. Anybody could have used it.

At the end of Century's Turn, I'm also going to activate his other legendary action. As he opens the Doom Wall. The what? Appearing behind Quillanova and Tiangong. Oh no. A living maw of entropic energy will appear. Oh, one of these guys again.

Oh, cool. I like these guys. I think one of these ate Luke. Yeah, no, it ate you. No. It definitely ate you. Yeah, I think I've seen your mini in there. I just think they were both being in there. Ah, this is it there. All right. Being in there.

That is at the end of Sentry's turn. Importe Sovrano. Quill. No. Oh, hey, I'm guessing if I move away from this moor, he'll tongue lash me or something. You don't know? No, no.

It does, it's not like, it just like is a kind of a form of darkness and entropic magic, red kind of light streaking through it. It's not like a living creature, it's not an ooze, although I've used an ooze many. It's just mouthy. It's just this kind of, yeah, gaping more of darkness. If I take a little step back, does he look like he's about to lift his… Whoa. You can make an insight check. If I take a little step back, does he look like he's about to lift his... Whoa! You can make an insight check.

No, I'm not going to use a bonus insight. Didn't think you would. I'm just going to move away from it then. I want to fly... Is that what you're checking for? So lucky. Natural one. Tries to grab you. I want to fly across to this island over here.

Yep. It's 20 feet of movement. 20 feet, yeah. I'm going to bonus action Elder Queel. Okay. And I'm going to... Can you be Elder Queel? Why wouldn't you be able to?

Wait, yeah, can I? So you sacrifice to something? No, no, no. It was a roll that I succeeded to sacrifice. It's fine. And I'm going to cast... Oh no, bacon is 30 feet of range, isn't it? Shit.

Can I hit sentry with that at least? Don't know. Five, 10, 20, 20. Flying. It's 20 feet, basically, from these, so Sentry would be 35 feet away from these platforms. There is no like, actually it's 20 feet from here to the main platform always. Yeah. Okay, instead of flying to that platform, sorry, I'll fly to above I guess where this starry shield sphere is right now. Yeah, in a place where it would hit both Lucius and Nova and I guess everyone else for bacon.

And also not within 15 feet of this guy. Is that reasonable? I'd say you can't hit Nova because of the gap. Although, remember, the gaps between them are not even yet. Oh, yeah. I just can't represent it that well. So you can fly here, you can hit everybody but Nova, basically. Maybe not Ayla.

Oh, yeah. God, I forgot you were that far away. No, Ayla's too far. Okay, everybody but Nova and Ayla. It's all right. I'll cast Sunbeam instead, then. Okay. On his entire face. Wow.

Okay. Can you not angle it towards me? I can't see Ayla right now. It also hits Ayla. It doesn't. I'll put it back on this island. And Sunbeam Hadar. Sure.

Save three. He makes a constitution. Good. Save. Is that a nat one? Nat one again. It's a natural one. Oh my god. Soul. Is that a nat one? Nat one again. Snatcher one. Oh my god.

Soul sacrifice to succeed the save. Oh shit. By using soul sacrifice. Amazing. Oh god, so many things. You see a little form appear. Oh, yay. So another little spirit.

Spirit appears in the far edge of the platform. This one, a little gnome, almost. Long ears. Looks different to the gnomes of Erois, though. Hair is wilder. The eye is bigger. Almost looks a bit like a kind of anime, cartoony kind of character with these big round features.

Dressed quite simply in like a little apron and things like that. Kind of looking around half-scaled. Hmm. Ah. But Hadar will automatically succeed. So on a success, he takes half damage and isn't blinded. So 68 damage. One, two, three, four, five, six.

He takes half of 27, so 13? Yeah. 13 damage. 13 points? Yeah. 13 damage. 13 points of damage. Lucky number. My lucky number. It's not. That's the legend.

He kind of scorches along him, and again he has to do that thing where he shifts and the air around him warps, and again this bleed of light forms into the spirit nearby. No, no. Anything else, Quill? That is a bonus action everything.

That's movement, that's everything. All right, and the very last thing, the raid action three. And to teleport. Basically. Oh, he can stand on the abyss. He can float in the abyss. He's an abyss baby.

And he's still able to reach up to grab Quill. His form almost seems to expand. He's able to almost control his shape. Able to reach Quill, able to reach Calus, able to reach Sentry with his attacks as he teleports back and swells in size. Oh, shit. And you see a change. There is no visible facial expressions.

You do not understand what you are doing. Even now, you are going beyond limits that you do not realize their danger. I cannot allow this game to go on anymore. I've toyed with you long enough. Now it is time to die. That's what we're going to win today's session. Okay. A little bit longer.

No, that's good. Just to stretch out. I want to get to the end of the turn. So we will begin with a brand new round. So it'll be Ayla hitting us up first turn next round. For our final episode of Arois. That is the end of this part. Thank you for listening.

We love you. And we'll see you for the final of Arois next week. One more episode. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.