High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois | #26 - The Purge (Part 1)

Episode Date: March 4, 2019

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run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes, with me, Tom, playing Kilokad Kalar, the bard slash cleric. I am Chris Trott. I'm playing Lucius Vue in Elowin Elanastro. And I am a High Elf Sorcerer. Hi, I'm Rhiannon. I'm playing Lucius Vue and Elowen Elinastro. And I am a High Elf Sorcerer. Hi, I'm Rhiannon. I'm playing Sentry. I am a Guardian Paladin.

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you can use the code HYROLLERS25 to get 25% off your order. Anyway on to the episode. Things are not going well and in the belly of the beast the team are mid-combat with some very powerful priests. Welcome back to Erois. A brief recap on what happened last time. Last time. As dark clouds gather over Caeli's rest, our adventurers have been tasked with infiltrating the Brightflame Abbey and finding proof of the Ashbringer cult's activity and influence, as well as rescuing the faith leaders for the goddesses Siaska and Kelara. Before departing for the Abbey, Valar, the teenage girl the party have been accompanying and encouraging,

approached them, upset she's being left out of their adventures and feeling abandoned. Valar's skills in subterfuge convinced some of the party that she should help them in the infiltration mission, and eagerly she accompanied them. Climbing over the abbey's walls at night, the party have snuck through the grounds and found that the cultists have made themselves ready with arms and armor and keeping patrols. Attempting to sneak in and disable scouts watching from the grounds of the bell tower,

the party failed to remain undetected. The bell was rung, alerting the abbey to their presence. Dispatching the scouts and using the bells themselves to kill a number of the guards The party jumped across to the roof of the church and climbed down into the Abbey's main building itself where they once again became embroiled into battle Valor was made invisible by Nova and then sent off to find two keys Needed to unlock the secret passage beneath the altar. But we begin in combat as we ended the last session. Oh, yeah.

Mid-combat. And I believe that we jump up straight into a new turn. I need a pen or a pencil, I just realized. Does anyone have a spare? I don't even have one myself. But once I have failed. Here. Thank you.

Well, I'm not going to make that promise. And at the top of the round is Ayla. You see, so we have a map this time. So you guys are currently up on a second floor, like a balcony floor looking down onto the church's main corridor. He's dead. It counts as a dead. It doesn't count.

There is a small kind of barrier that I wasn't able to replicate on the Dwarven Forge. There's a small barrier. It's like a couple of feet high, so you can easily jump over it if you wanted to. It's about a 15-foot or I'd say 10 to 15-foot drop down onto the main abbey floor itself. So not really harmful. A little bit, but not too much. Okay. There is one Ashbringer Cultist that Aayla is currently engaged with.

Aayla and Century are engaged with. There is another one on the other side that has been Shooting ranged spells at you, Lucius shot Nightfrost at. You can hear the Sounds of people in armour Coming up the stairs and one of them has reached the top of the stairs And then down next to the Altar on the main floor

There is a robed clerical figure who has Just healed some of his allies And we begin with Aayla I think the guy across the way, I am... Guiding bolt with him as well, so everyone's got advantage against him. The next attack. Yeah. The next attack against him has advantage.

Just making sure that that exists. And Nova frostbited this one next to Ayla, which means he has disadvantage on his next weapon attack. Yes. LOL. So, Ayla. Yes. Lol. So, Ayla, we begin with you. We kick off in this combat. You are next to one of these guys by the wall.

I guess I'm just gonna hit him. I suppose. How hard? A good whack. A good whack. A good whack him. No, I'm not because I rolled a shitty roll. What did you roll?

A three. Hmm. Hmm. Nine. Cool. Doesn't hit. Nine. No, sadly not. Can he make a dexterity?

He can absolutely make a dexterity saving throw. For a 11. Fail. Two points of lightning damage. Two points of lightning damage. And that is two. He's dead. That is to A.

So two points, would you say? Yes. Okay, so you blast, would you say? Yes. Okay, so you blast him with a little bit of lightning, you swing the hammer, he dodges underneath it, but he's blasted by this kind of crackling aura of electricity around you. Um, so you said that there's a barrier, like, two feet. Can I just duck to try and get a line of... It's kind of not like a full barrier, it's kind of got, like, arches,

like, it's kind of like a church where barrier. It's kind of got like arches. It's kind of like a church where you see those little stone arches. It's enough to stop people from just falling off the side. But it doesn't provide any cover, really. Okay. Damn. Can I skirt around him? As long as you don't move more than five feet away from him, yes. Can I skirt to here?

Yes. Cool. Do that without provoking an opportunity attack. Okay, so that's your movement done. That's all of your turn done. Lucius. Are we bonus actioning drinking your own potions? Yes. I'm going to drink

a greater healing potion. A greater healing potion? Wow. It's the only one I've got. Okay, 44 plus 4. Yes, please. Oh, that was not great. How much health did you have? It was good. It was like good and bad.

So it's 10, 14 hit points. Oh, bam. I rolled two ones and then two fours. So that puts you to 18. 18. Which is near his max. Nice. So bonus action.

I think his max is 25. I'm going to turn around. Okay. Birdie! There's people coming up the stairsies. I don't say that. There's people coming up the stairsies. I don't say that. There's people coming up the stairs. I'm gonna throw a Snilox Snowball Swarm at them.

Hopefully it hits back here. So you wanna kind of target it behind the first guy who's reached the top of the stairs. He's pulling out a, I believe a flail. Yeah, sure. Snil yeah sure snow snowball swarm is being cast okay give me the effects tell me what happens uh each creature a five foot radius sphere centered on that point makes a deck saving throw and magic snowballs erupt from a point i choose so right in the middle foot sphere right uh five foot radius sphere so that'd be five foot

basically round around around Yeah okay So That will catch It won't catch the one Who's at the very bottom Of the stairs Which is the last guy But it will catch two of them

Okay So what Dex 30 saving throws Please First one These are the militants They have plus 1 16

And 6 Okay One fails One succeeds Okay So it's 3d6 Halved for the Succeeder. Okay.

So we'll have eight. Oh, he'll fail. Eight. So eight total. Eight and four. Okay, so he's going to take four. That one will take eight. So you hear this kind of flurry of ice and snow erupt,

and you begin to see the stone pavements being frost, creeps their way along the stair thing the stairs and stones As this spell conjures up and I come glorious nobles Dichromancy would be my charisma plus what level spell was it to say to so charisma plus two Hi classic. I know you want to do your dichroma closest guy the closest guy So five total to him. So you watch as this swarm of snowballs pelts these guards. Christmas three, but it's level two. Level two, so it's five, yeah.

And then you catch a glimpse of blue on your outfit, and from this color you pull out a strand of ice magic that you throw forward into a blast of icicles. It embeds into the guy's shield, pierces some of his armor, and he staggers back, injured but still standing. That's your action. Bonus action, would you like to move? Just a little bit back here.

Just one space. Okay. Towards the brief access. Yes. Okay. So the men around the stairs, men and women around the stairs, now pour forth.

Oh, they go before me. They do. And they all have enough movement now to basically reach the end. Although this one would go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Can I use my reaction to squawk? You can, absolutely. There you go. That's your reaction, go on.

No! Okay, so as you see these three militants They rush up in a kind of uniformed pattern And they all begin chanting together as one And as they do, these flails These kind of like censure flails burst into flame So Quill, you're going to get one attack against you Century, you're going to get two attacks against you

Am I? So Quill, 13're going to get one attack against you. Sentry, you're going to get two attacks against you. Am I? So Quill, 13 to hit. Doesn't, okay. Sentry, first one is a 22. That hits. Second one is a 11. Doesn't hit. Okay, so the 22 hits Sentry.

So you're going to take six bludgeoning and yikes, 10 fire. Oh, goodness me. So 16. Oh, shit. As this flaming censure So bad. slams into your back as you're trying to fend off one, it explodes into flames, effectively, around you.

And they begin, they just continue this chanting like By the sun, this kind of low droning chant. Like Praetorian. And that's making their flames. And then sentry, it's like, Flaming. Flaming. It seems to be that when they're in close proximity to each other. Oh.

There's something I want to ask you after the session about your inspirations. Okay. Sentry. I'd like to move between the I thought you meant just move yourself

as long as you stay within your movement. He's dead again. Keep pushing people off the map. I'm like, no! Monty Python. So I think if you move there, one of them is going to get an attack. In fact, two of them will get attacks opportunity against you.

Okay. Because you're moving out of their threat reach. Right. So you could move here. Yeah. Okay. And then you'd still be within. Okay.

And then you'd be within five feet of Quill still. Okay, cool. Sounds good. Yep. Yep. And then I'd like to lay a smack down on this dude. Which one? The cloak dude. This guy? Yeah Sounds good. Yep. And then I'd like to lay a smack down on this dude. Which one? The cloak dude. This guy? Yeah, the warlock.

Just give him a smack-a-rooney. Okay, sure. Attack roll. 17. 17 to hit. Yeah, hits. Awesome. And then I'll just do a d8 plus 4. Your second d-caps. Now, do you roll a d4 and minus that from your damage? Because you're currently tiny sentry. Oh, that's very true

I mean it was an hour long. It's not being that long. It's been like I think you said it was like half an hour Half an hour. Yeah, so you got a long time. It's tiny century So it's like seven in total so what do you need to minus off that one? D4, you roll a d4 That's a d8, that one's a d4 So seven, 1-1-6 Do you want to Divine Smite or anything Or are you just going to do straight damage

And that was to the guy in the cloak Okay Okay yeah he's Definitely looking damaged at this point He's had multiple blows from Aayla From I think Nova From you He's been wounded in diverse ways

and he's kind of staggering like, ah, as he's turning around. Desperate to kind of get some purchase. Everything done? Any bonus actions or anything? I'm good to go. Quill. With my passive perception of 20,

can I see how injured everyone is? Yeah. How injured is everyone? I'm fine. I'm fine. 14. I might have, but in the grand scheme of things, things i'm fine i think these two are basically now at half yeah yeah but your half your half is my foot i know that's why i said in the grand scheme of things okay in that case i am going to cast bane Bane!

Bane! Heals the Bane! I was expecting a heal. Well, I mean... Don't super need it just yet. How interesting, everybody. Bane. He's made a calculated thing. Like a doctor, he's gone,

none of you are in need, are in trauma. Bane! It should stop them from healing. I'm a healer, but... They're not casting it on sentry, is what you're saying? I'm not casting it on sentry. No, I'm casting Bane on the three flamie flail boy. Sure, yeah, absolutely.

Okay, what kind of saving throw? And what does the spell look like? Uh... What does the spell look like? I feel like it is just images of like... Fluttering in their eyes, so it like messes up their vision when they're... What's your spell save, DC? My spell save...

I believe that's a bardic one, so 12. Oh, interesting. I thought it would be a cleric one. One of them fails it. One. We will say... It will be the last one, so this one. C, we'll call him.

Late boy. Yeah, only one. Sadly, dude. I rolled a 16 and then a 19 minus one. So that one guy now has d4 subtracted from his attack. Hand saving throws. Yes. Roll cantrips. It's a first level spell.

Is it? Yeah, bane is, yeah. It's a good first level spell though. I had it and I forgot that. I will say to Sentry that we're going to need that shield pretty soon. And that is some form of bardic inspiration on sentry. So you add a d6 to either your next attack roll or skill check or saving throw. You can use my shiny bardic inspiration.

It doesn't have to be your next one. It can be any one you choose within 10 minutes. Okay, great. So Quill, you're done. It's a cleric spell. Sorry? Bane is a cleric spell, yeah. But I have it learned as a bard.

Oh, weird. Multiplass. Multiplass. Are you done? Weird. I, weird. Multiclass. Multiclass. Are you done? Weird. I'm done. I'm not going to move around because I'm going to get killed. Okay.

The Sea of Warlocks. Warlocks. One of them has disadvantage on his weapon attacks. On his weapon attacks. Yes, he does. Oh, what's it not? On his weapon. Those attacks don't count for that.

Does it use a weapon? No. Did Kim realise this while driving around doing a shopping on Wednesday? Yes. His hand is a weapon. Those attacks don't count for that. Does it use a weapon? No. Did Kim realise this while driving around doing a shopping on Wednesday? Yes. His hand is a weapon. Drop the frozen peas.

Fuck! That's the reason I just went pushing a trolley around. Like I said, he'll be at disadvantage if he tries to target anybody that isn't Aayla.

So it says disadvantage on his next weapon attack roll. But he's shivering. It'll be hard to aim a hand if he's shivering. No, I'm saying that he'll have disadvantage to try and hit Ayla with a firebolt anyway because she's next to him, it's in ranged. Yeah, close range.

So I'm just trying to decide if he goes for somebody else because then he wouldn't have the disadvantage. No, he'll go for Ayla. if he goes for somebody else, because then he wouldn't have the disadvantage. No, he'll go for Ayla. Like the next viable target is me, Katie. I don't think this guy would necessarily know what Frostbite does.

Like he wouldn't, he'd be like, like, swing his hand. I think he'd just try and fireball Ayla, so he'll be at disadvantage. So 13 is my lowest, seven is my lowest. Oh, that's going to be 11 to hit you. No! So he tries to throw this like bolt of fire, you duck to the side as it rockets up to the

side. The one on the other side who is no longer restrained because he got out of that will attempt to cast... he will conjure a flaming sphere. A what? Oh no, that's she. He's gonna conjure a what? a flaming sphere. A what? Oh, no, that's she. He's going to conjure a what? A flaming sphere. It's like a big ball of fire. Sorry, I think I misheard you.

I heard flaming sphere. Yes. Chicken's on the menu. Is it really that, you know, hard to believe? Hard to believe. Well, a big ball of fire. How big is a sphere? Five foot diamonds, a sphere appears in an unacquisitioned, so your choice is a duration. A last of the How big is it? Five foot diameter sphere appears in an arc that can be associated with a choice of a range.

And lastly, the duration of any creature that exits a town within five feet of the sphere must make a dexterity saving throw. Okay, cool. And that's a bonus action. You can move it. I'm just going to keep that up for myself. So he's going to conjure this.

Oh, he's separating them. This ball of fire just erupts between Quill and Lucius. And you see him kind of holding his hand out as he's kind of keeping a concentration on it. Is it? And he just keeps it in place. Thank you. So I can't get through to those guys.

Yeah, and I think then he will keep concentrating on it. Oh, he's just running. Son of a biscuit hole. He's at the stairs, so I'm going to put him about here. Making my way downtown. You can see he's kind of peeking up from the stairs, keeping this concentration. Yeah, he's kind of like...

It's very much what he's doing. Nova. So can I still see him? Yes, but he'll have cover against some... He'll have a bonus to his AC. But you can still see him. Do I go for it? Go for it.

I mean, just decide what you want to do. Is he pretty injured? This one, he's not. He got hit by Night Frost. And Guiding Bolt. And a Guiding Bolt, yeah. Oh, he's got advantage to hit him, though, because he's got Guiding Bolt. And the Cleric down here, what's he up to?

So he seems unaffected. He's just been chanting and he briefly healed his allies. He's going to go next. So how's it going to work if he has Guiding Bolt on him, but he also has cover? You have advantage, he gets a bonus to his AC. I'm going to do it. I'm going to Eldritch Blast him.

Okay, sure. So you have advantage. If this misses, does it use up my advantage? Yes, it's the next attack against him. 24 hits. 24 hits? Yes! Boom. Ding dong.

That's a 10. That's a d10. That's a d10. That's right. Seven points of damage. Seven points of damage. Dead. That one? Dead. Well done.

Straight up dead. I didn't know that it ricochets to every person as well. Yeah. It kills all of them. Except it doesn't though. What? But I do have to make a concentration check for him. You dealt seven damage, so the DC would be 10, which he passes.

Nah. But you kind of blast him with this blue beam of light. It kind of like makes him duck under, the stone, blasts it into his face. He's coughing, but he's still maintaining concentration. Does he fall down the stairs and knock himself? No, he doesn't actually. I've got a big decision to make now. What do you mean?

So you see the cleric at the bottom look up. How much can he see? Not much. Can't see me. I bet he's got like a finger of death or some shit. I am behind a sphere of fire. You are. I mean, I don't want to throw Lucius and Nova under the bus, but... Ooh, can I move?

Am I allowed to move? You can move, yeah. Yeah, no, you can still move. I'm ducking back into this room. Sure. Get me some cover. You almost have a voice in your head. Absolutely'm ducking back into this room. Sure. Get me some cover. Sure. You have a voice in your head.

Absolutely. Something bad's about to happen. Yeah. I mean, we're in a very bad situation. He didn't start his turn, so technically nobody's turn we're still going. That's true. Nobody rules.

This is my child. Inspiration. Inspiration. Inspiration. So, the cleric at the bottom Raises up this kind of Crozier staff, slams it on the ground Begins chanting In this very kind of harsh As a flaming sword

A spiritual weapon Appears behind Lucius And he goes to strike you with it for an 18. Yeah, that'll hit. That will hit. That will be seven points of damage. Radiant, I believe. Is it radiant? No, it's not actually. Force damage. So this flaming sphere kind of knocks into Lucius' back from behind. As you can see, the priest ordering it from below. It's pretty nasty.

And then he will walk. If I had my Night Frost not in bow form, he has to switch to bow. And you also used Misty Step already. You used it in the bell tower. Thank you, Mark. Ayla. Mother fuck.

I do the recap every week, Chris Trott. I'm going to hit this guy again. Sure. I'm going to try and hit this guy. Hey, that looks pretty good. That one. 21. Absolutely hits.

Boom. Make a dexterity saving throw. It's over 20. It will. That is 15 for the dex saves. He's going to take half from the lightning. So it's making five. I know. I'm hoping if I so he's gonna take half from the lightning. So it's maybe a seven. I know.

I'm hoping if I slip- I'm trying to do the math! If I make up a load of rules, then he'll believe one of them. Well damaged from the hammer. Ooh! And- Ooh! So I rolled a five on damage, so-

Half, though. Half? Yeah. But still? Is that a three? Two. I'm fine. We'll make it a three. Aw.

That's kind. It's like he's still not worried. So you slam the hammer in, knocking this guy down, almost like barely holding onto consciousness. You can see he's alive, but very, very close to death. As he kind of staggers up, he looks around like, You'll never stop it. The cleansing will happen. The amethyst will purge all sin.

Would you like to do anything else? Fuck you. Okay. It hurts him emotionally. Yeah. Purge this. Purge this. I'm going to cast Armor of Agathys on myself, level 2.

Okay, Dicromancy still goes off? Yeah. So who would you like to target with your 5 damage? I would like to target Hal. What's the range on Dicromancy? I think it's 60 feet. I'm gonna hit him. The guy at the back? Does he still have Guiding Bolt?

No, that's gone now, but also Dicromancy just does damage. It's like when he casts a spell, he gets to chip in a little bit of extra damage, but it's a concentration check. Ooh, Lucius. That might have been a very good play. He's a Warlock. He has a plus one. Nine. He fails. Flaming Sphere does vanish, which is just right

because that would go off at the end of your turn, I believe. Wait, go on. Like as in deal damage. Any creature that ends its turn within 5 feet of the sphere. Yeah. No, it's like a burning orb that radiates heat and if you end your turn within 5 feet of it. It's like Moonbeast if you start your turn but it looks like... Oh, I didn't know that.

Yeah. No, so you watch as the spell fizzles as he kind of is like... Strokes down and don't forget with Armor of Agathys there's what, 10 temporary hit points because you cast it at second level? Correct. No, so you watch as the spell fizzles as he kind of is like, ah, strokes in. And don't forget with Armor of Agatha, this is what, 10 temporary hit points because you cast it at second level? Correct. Yep. Good to know. Well done there.

So would you like to move bonus action? If I do, I'll evoke an attack of opportunity from spectral. I don't think it, no, I don't think the spiritual weapon will provoke an opportunity. In which case, I'm going gonna move through quill there. Okay Cuz he's a spellcaster and he gets disadvantage against me some She spellcast against me why the red caped warlock. Oh, I see the range guy. I thought you're talking about the Entry so you so you watch as Lucius pushes past Quill. Sorry, buddy.

You've been struck. There's a floating weapon behind you. You can see Lucius now, by the way, is covered in frost-like armour. Like this elegant breastplate of ice erupts him. The militants now will step in. One is going to try and engage Aayla. Move here. We're kind of there at the minute.

Are you there or there? There? Yeah, so he's going to step there. So we are going to have attacks here against... Now, that is the one that's baned. So remember, when I come to attack you, it's baned. And then I think the other two will... They've seen Lucius cast the spell. Yeah, I think there's going to be one against Lucius,

one against Sentry, one against Aayla. So Lucius, this is going to be against you. That is a 17. Cannot protect as a real team. You would like to protect Lucius. That will give him disadvantage. That's pretty good because that means it's now a seven. Yay!

If he doesn't hit at all, if Sentry deflected it, my armor, Agathys, doesn't trigger. I don't know, check it for me. Does it say on hit when you are hit by a weapon? Then if it misses, it doesn't trigger. I just wonder if sentry physically blocks it. Yeah, she basically comes in and gives him disadvantage

so the weapon attack misses. One's going to attack you now, though. That is 21. That's another, and you can see it's still attack you now though. That is 21. That's another and you can see it's still inflamed the weapon. That is 11 points of damage total this time. That's really bad. And then Ayla, Bane, minus d4. That is going to be 14 minus 2 12 plus 3 15. Doesn't hit? Oh yeah you've got a super high AC don't you? So you watch as he swings down, you block

it with a hammer, kind of wrapping around the chain, throwing it to the side. But Sentry, as you're protecting Lucius, this flail just smashes you in the back of the head again. Like, bash! Sparks and flames. She's only little! Yeah, she is currently little. I've got little fiery hair. But it is

your go now. Okie dokie. Protect yourself. I don't know if I can lay on hands myself. Can I? Touch yourself. I will lay on hands myself then. Yeah, that's your action. Yes, please.

So you don't just make an attack. Okay. How much for? Let's do 10, please. Okay, so you basically put a hand on your chest, restore 10 hit points. Yes, please. Perfect.

Nice. I'm assuming you don't want to move or bonus action or anything. No, I'm good, Rory. And we go to Quill. I like it. This is great combat. It's speedy. Everyone knows what they're doing.

I'm so proud. Come back to us in 10 minutes. That's fine. A little look around. Sentry was bad, is now good. Did you take any damage? I've temp healed myself. Okay, cool.

In that case, I would like to use... Once again, I was like, is everyone okay? Right, yeah, great. Spell. How are you feeling? How are you? I've been better. So, 15 feet is quite a drop. Yes. I am an Aarakocra, so landing is pretty good, right?

Do I have any bonus to that sort of thing? You have one wing. Yeah, I have one wing, I know, but surely I'm used to landing at high speeds. You no longer have a fly speed, which means that if you fall, it will be an acrobatics check. If you pass the acrobatics check, you'll reduce the amount of falling damage.

Reduce the amount, falling damage. Okay. Reduce the amount, but you still take some damage. Right. Well, he can negate it entirely. It depends on how well he rolls. That sounds like death to me if I do that. Why split yourself? Well, no, please.

Do what you think Quill would do. He is going to gust the guy that's right next to me. Okay. Because I want to push him away from me. Okay. So what's that? Strength saving throw? That's a strength save.

On the militant. That was a natural one, so plus one, two. He's pushed five feet. Pushed five feet back, so he's not in my threat range anymore. By being pushed, oh, he's still within sentry's tackle.

Yes, he is. And also force movement. Doesn't do that. I've had so many people yell this at me, it doesn't provoke opportunity attacks after that so that's your action so can I

create a spectral weapon duel by creating my own casting spiritual weapon is a full action I think but then on your

subsequent turn no it's a bonus action is it a bonus action yeah it's a bonus action bonus action both

times alright there you go well I could have done more cool stuff but I guess that's fine. I fucked it up. That's fine.

Oh my god. I'm glad you didn't. Okay. Yeah, you can, I mean, you can't attack the other spiritual weapon. Fine in that case, I'll- But you could summon it next to him. I'm going to, yeah, summon it next to him, give him a taste of his own medicine. Woohoo!

My knifey spoonie. Spiritual weapon against him. Would you like these glowing orbs or a tiny hand? I think I would have I mean in the panic I'd probably go with spell clash and do the hammer again The hammer is being used by him so you have a choice of glowing lights or tiny hands. I think when there's a lot of magical energies

in one place and one person casts his has turned into a hand is what I'm saying His has turned into a hand and mine is a hammer God's sake Soon we it forward one can yeah okay so okay tackle that spell attack well plus five seventeen seventeen the big boy cleric that does hit him okay it's a d8 plus 3. I don't want to use that dice.

I want to use this one. Regret it. Wow. 4 damage. Okay. So your hammer clashes into him, but he does raise up his armoured gauntlets. It kind of impacts on his forearms. He kind of grunts and then looks up towards you.

Frowns. Anything else? I like how you Frowns. Anything else? I like how you said my hammer. Anything else? That is... I'm going to... I don't want to go towards the spiritual weapon. He's going to move it anyway.

He can move it anyway, can't he? So I'm just going to go here. Like right in the back corner. Right by the front exit. Sure, sure, sure. Can you do that without provoking it? He doesn't Spiritual weapon doesn't

He pushed the other guy back so he doesn't So this warlock will turn around And probably try and hit Ayla So he'll turn around This one can you just move him back up to the front He's going to try and flame bolt Oh he's going to come back to the balcony Not all the way to the balcony

But just step him into the room a little bit so he's got better visual. Actually, no, he has cover back where he was. Thanks. Sorry, Tom. So he's going to stay where he was? Yeah. So he's going to firebolt Lucius for a 20 to hit with firebolt. But does that activate your...

I don't know if he takes damage because of the melee attack, but he does still have the temporary hit points. That's 10. I'm sorry. Temporary hit points. That's really unlucky. Yeah. So this firebolt just shatters the armor around Lucius.

And then Aayla, the one next to you, is going to try and use his Morningstar, I think. He doesn't still have Nova's thing, right? No, it's only for the next attack. No, he lost that at the end of his turn. That is going to be... This is the Warlock. 21.

That's going to be two points of damage, but it's half... Yeah, because it's not fire damage. So he just kind of clocks you around the face. There's a little scratch, cuts your cheek. A little scratch is the best you can hope for from Morningstar. Nova. If I want to attack this guy with my stabby stab,

I've got the range to move up, but Lucius is in my way, so I can't really get next turn. Yeah, you can't attack from within Lucius' space. You can move past Lucius, but you can't attack from his space. So I would move to, like, here? You can't. You can't, yeah. Because there's an enemy in the way. They're totally blocking the path. So I would move to, like, here? You can't. You can't, yeah. Because there's an enemy in the way, yeah.

There's too many people. They're totally blocking the path. What if I push Lucius over the balcony? Yeah, yeah, you could do that, yeah. Straight up dead. I mean, I'd like to see that, because also he is actually stronger than you. Yeah, true that.

Yeah, you'd bounce off him. Yeah. I just ping between Sentry and Lucius, like a little ping ball. Can I poke my head out? So staying where I am, is there like a balcony here? Yes. Defending my view of the throne.

Yes, from where you are, if you move out so you're visible, you can see him. But you kind of have the thing of he can't see you currently either. Because he's looking up and you're inside the doorway. But if you just poke your head out, you won't get visual. Can I move out? I'll just blast him and then move back out. You've got the movement to do it, yeah, for sure. Yeah you won't get visual can i move out i'll just blast him and then move back you've got the movement to do it yeah for sure yeah so i'll move out sorry hand um can i eldritch blast him sure

17 plus uh plus six nice 17 plus six hits um nice 17 plus 6 hits um fuck 1 1 point of damage so this little blast kind of like

he throws himself to the side uh as you run back in you just he like looks up and follows you you cannot hide

from the purging flame it's gonna see uh on his turn as a bonus action he'll command the spiritual weapon to attack Quill oh Christ his turn, as a bonus action, he'll command the spiritual weapon to attack Quill. Oh, Christ.

Oh, Hesper. As a bonus action, this is 21 to hit. Seven points of damage. Fine. And then for his main action, he raises the staff, points it to that area of the upper balcony. Oh, come on.

And a glowing bead about this big of orange light. I need 20-foot radius. Hang on, I recognize that. I've seen that before. You'll have a plus two bonus for this dexterity saving throw. This is a bad one. Oh, no. Quill's straight up gone.

Lucius and Sentry and two militants as well. Oh, God. I need you all to make dexterity saving throws. Kim, you get a plus two bonus. It's not hitting the one person with hit points right now. What? Natural one. Four. You've got bonus inspiration.

Oh, yes. I've got inspiration. Can I use it? That guy's going to die. Inspiration. Yeah, if you want to use it for your advantage on your saving throw, absolutely. Please. You can use your bardic inspiration to stop it. Do you have bardic inspiration or inspiration?

I have inspiration. Okay, yeah, I don't know when I gave that to you, but sure. Just mark it off. I think it was when he killed the king. Sure. Okay. And you really- Was it?

Right, so what did you all get? So Quill? I got a natural one, 5. Natural 1, great. Kim? 8. With the plus 2? Yep. Lucius?

10. 10? 9. Century. 9? One of the militants passed, one of them failed. Can I use shield? Not against this, it's a dexterity saving throw. It's not an attack roll.

Could I protect anyone while this is going off? It's not an attack roll. It's a dex saving throw. Like this... Because what happens is as this bead reaches its point, it suddenly collapses and then explodes in a ball of fire. And as quick as you are, the flames just engulf this upper balcony. So I can't use a reaction. What do you want? Do you want to absorb elements?

Yes. Yes, you can do that because you resist yes the flames literally feel like yeah they burst through the door that's why you got the plus to the saving throw what's this spell what's it called I'm really worried okay so fireball. 24. That was almost perma-death. That almost... Yep, I know. Fucking straight killed me. I know.

24, halved if you succeeded. Which none of you did, but halved for Lucius because he's resistant. So 24 down to 12. Both of the militants are incinerated. Oh good. So how much more damage do you need to do to kill me then? You were at two?

I'm down. 25. 25, so I would have needed to have dealt 27. So three more points, and that would have been roasted. 24 points. And Lucius is now down. I'm down. Quill is now down.

Sentry is down. Oh, cool. Sentry is down. I'm down. Sentry took a bunch of hits. You know when you said, like, how is everybody, and Sentry went, I could use some healing, and you went, no, said like how is everybody and century when I could use some healing and you went now you're fine She didn't say I could use some healing shit. I'm pretty sure

She did you that was the thing is she lay on hands herself and you were like, oh you'll be fine I didn't think he was gonna do 24 But it's just it's comedy for the audience Comedy for the audience. Comedy? Comedy? It's like, you know, it's like a... It's really good. So, Lucius is down, Century is down, Quill is down.

Two of the militants have incinerated themselves. And you just hear a... Two of the militants are dead. Yes, the militants just got dusted. They just... Blackened bodies collapse. Hang on, Mark. Injury checks for everyone.

Yes, please. Constitution saving throws, everybody. Anybody who went down. The DC will be 12 because it's half damage. You just passed. 12 constitution. DC 12. So make a saving throw, constitution saving throw. Oh, 11. Roll the d20, please,

for me, Quill. Does this account for tiny sentry stats? Yes. Tiny sentry stats is mainly the same. You just do less damage, but you have advantage. So does another eye, for Christ's sake. Does she become big again? Yes. You're unconscious.

Sentry becomes big again. Oh! Nova, you need to make a concentration check for me. Oh, no! The dc will be 12. So constitution saving throw. And then you need to roll a D20 for me, Tom. I know, I'll do it in a sec.

I'll do it in a sec. I need to see if this happens. So it's constitution. And this will be literally 12 seconds after she left. 16. 16? Yep, you pass, you keep concentration. Do 24 minutes

please, Tom. Four. Oh, fuck. No, Tom! So, what happens to Quill is he is blown, the fireball blows him against the back wall of this room and there is a loud snapping

sound from his chest. You have broken ribs. Whenever you move or take an action, you must make a DC Constitution saving throw. On a failure, you lose that action or movement. You can't move. You basically, like, you're in so much pain, you just can't do what you're trying to do.

Wait. That goes away after... But it's broken ribs, actually. It doesn't go away. You need to get it healed. So, um after... But it's broken ribs, actually, it doesn't go away. You need to get it healed. So, what do I have to make a check on? So, whenever you take a move or an action in combat, in strenuous circumstances... If I do anything.

If you try and do anything, it's a DC 10 constitution saving throw. Okay. It's pretty bad. Broken ribs is okay. It's fixable. It wasn't like a fall. It's not an eye. I kind of expected something to come off me. Appendages. At this point.

The explosion literally like blows your body into the stone and the force is so impactful that you hear something snap. However we still need to stay in the niftrix because you guys are down. So Ayla So I know I'm good This went so badly It started to look pretty good I was like oh you guys are doing really well

Lucius got the concentration I was like this is getting great You can take off to which one? I can't avoid it I'm still in this guy's frame So just be from the warlock 16 misses Fuck I'm still in this guy's range. Yes, so it'll just be from the Warlock. 16. Misses. Misses, thank- fuck. I'm gonna use the healing salve.

Okay. On Sentry. Okay. Do you have that written? Do you have that added to the Indie Beyond? Yes, so it's... Oh, uh... Per dose, I think. 2d8 plus 2 hit points. Okay, do you want to roll that? 2d8 plus 2?

Because you're applying it. Oh god. Spiritual weapon of concentration It's not concentration It's not but he's unconscious I believe it still goes It's not concentration 10 hit points back to sentry That's good

Lucius Get Lucius up 14 14 success The one remaining militant. Sorry, can I, since I've only moved like... Yeah, yeah, sure, you can go where you want to. Can I go 15, 20? Now if you do that, this guy will get hit. Oh yeah, no, okay, I'll stay here then.

He is baned. No, but I'll stay here, it's fine. He's not baned. You're unconscious. It's concentration. I'll stay here. It's fine. I believe so. Does his spiritual weapon go as well? No, that's not concentrationed. You're unconscious. It's concentration. I believe so. Does his spiritual weapon go as well? No, that's not concentration. Quills will.

It's not concentration, it's not spiritual weapon. So he will turn around and try and attack Ayla. The militant. That's only a 13, I believe. So he goes to swing again, you kind of spin around, block it with a hammer. I want to put my body in the way of...

Yeah, absolutely. I'm assuming that's what you're doing. Sentry, your go. Hello. So... You can stand up. Upsies. Hello, it's me. I have returned. Everything's fine.

I'm going to kill wounds, Lucius. Kill wounds? So d8 plus charisma modifier? Yarr. So that is... To be fair, I didn't know I had it. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. So D8 plus Charisma modifier. Yar. So that is... Ba-ba-da-ba-ba. Paladin. To be fair, I didn't know I had it. Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. Shit.

I was gonna heal you. What's that on the dice? No, that's just a bonus. Okay, so that's two. So that's nine. So nine hit points. Nine for you all. Thank you.

That's alright. Quill. Let's see. Fourteen. Success. Cool. One remaining. The two remaining warlocks. This guy freed of Aayla, we'll now back off.

We still have Slime of Sight, that one will stay where he is. One will go for Sentry, one will go for Aayla with Firebolts. So this is plus four. Nine against Ayla. Twenty against sentry. Oh my god, how do you keep getting... One fire damage. Yay! And you just like, you throw up the shield

the pain of the burning rockets past you. Can you use protection on yourself? No. No. Nova. In your room of safety. It's a bit scorchy.

Close the door. Yeah, just like... Come on, Nova. Be the hero everyone needs. Yeah, sure. Remind me, what is it to chug-a-lug a potion down someone else? An action. Full action. Okay, I will...

But then Spare the Dying brings them back to... It just stabilizes them. A potion would bring you away, wouldn't it? Potion makes them conscious. I will stand here. Can I put myself between the hand and him? And for the most part you know that, like, they'll try and take down

active targets. Like, if somebody's down, they're not going to try and finish you off while there's still threats around. If I crouch, can this guy still see me? Cleric boy? Like, if I crawl... I'll give you cover. I'll give you cover, like, hard cover. So I'm just going to crawl towards the... The spiritual weapon, though, will still be able to hit you.

Okay, but doesn't he need to see... He needs to command it, but... I think he just says, it's going to move here. But doesn't he need to see the direct where the weapon is? I think he just says it's going to move here. But he might not see that I've crawled out. Maybe. Maybe. So I'm going to crawl out. I'll make a perception check for him. How about that?

He might hit you. I'm going to really quietly crawl out and put a ocean of... Yeah, if you want to make a stealth check because you've got enough movement that you could half your speed, yeah, I'll see if you can sneak out and try and not be seen by the cleric. Cocked. Sure. That was a good roll, though. 20.

Okay. Yeah, you don't think he's noticed you. You kind of crawl out, move over to Quill. Pour a potion of healing into Quill. Regular potion of healing? Regular. It's my one, Six. Six hit points. Cool. Cool. That's pretty much gonna be your full-time unless you've got a bonus action you want to do? No, but I'd like to just kind of sort of... Don't stand him up because you're still... and technically you're also prone if you're crawling so I'll just put myself down yeah so I'm basically you

crawled out of this room got to quill and like the blub blub blub blub and you don't think he spotted you because on his turn on his turn he would send the spiritual weapon 5 10 15 20 towards this threat he can see, which is sentry. He'll attack sentry with it. I'm gonna tell you to shush. That's cocked. 12. Glances off the shield of Solvin. He's down on those, he's down on those. He will cast a second level healing word

on the warlock, I this is main action actually how many of you can see standing out see loose he's not he's still on the floor so he doesn't know that Lucius is okay I'm alone just about no he's gonna do something different he sent you I need you to make a wisdom Not that. No, he's gonna do something different. He sent you, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. Oh, here we go, boys. He hits you with a spiritual weapon, he holds up the staff and he does some sort of work.

Natural 20! You feel this force trying to paralyze you and hold you in place. And seeing the desperate scenario around you, you're just like, no. Yes! The magic shatters around you. scenario around you you're just like no yeah the magic shatters around you remember you're back to normal stats now because you do you are not yeah so you don't know ayla yes this is a swinging around about like you had a bad thing but you pulled it back you're up this is my as well i don't know what to do

lots of now i know I was wrong about you. You got the hit points to go reckless and make sure you get wax in. I think now it's time for whacking. Could you baseball bat this dude into that dude? Oh, yeah. Could I try and do that? Sure. It'd be a shot.

You wouldn't be attacking him. You'd be trying to shove him. Can I try and shove him off the balcony? Yeah, absolutely. You'd basically move here and then then you try and do this yeah okay well that is contested strength check i'm going to put this down too so you roll with advantage because you're raging um just plus strength oh that was the same roll twice that's cool 19 19. i don't think you can push him 10 feet but you push him right up to the edge. You kind of like shoulder barge him right to the edge.

I'll say it's your movement. It's working time. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say that because you're basically like, you kind of like put your elbow against him. He's like, what are you doing? And then you just push him. Nice.

Yep. Reckless or normal? I totally missed. You could reckless. Fuck it. That totally missed as well. Oh, fuck. What was the total bonus, just in case?

11. No, that's not going to hit, unfortunately. Cool. Lucius. Okay. I'm going to ask Nightfrost to return to cloak form. What does that count as? Bonus action, I believe. Okay. I'm going to ask Nightfrost to return to cloak form. What does that count as? Bonus action, I believe. Okay.

Ah. He's pretty stressed because of the combat. You just went down. Yes, he does. He returns to cloak form. Yes, Master Lucius. You are in danger. We should run. They will capture you and then capture me. This is, we must escape now. Yeah, something like that. I'm going to cast Blur on myself using his. Okay. And then. That's the last spell of his per day.

Last spell of his. Yep. And then can I move through sentry to here? Yes. I will move there. Okay. That's my bonus action. That's my action. So you watch as Lucius's form becomes blurry and distorted.

He's kind of all around himself, and you're not quite sure where exactly he is. Can I see him now or not? He'll have cover. You're kind of peeking him through a tiny couple of holes. So I'll have cover. Yes, yeah, you would, yeah. I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb on this dude.

Okay, sure. First level. I keep forgetting about this wall. So that is a spell attack just just as a point this was meant to be like a fight at the end of like the Abbey kind of thing 21 jump straight in 21 hits 3d 8 big hit better that we do it now yeah many MMOs Kim no yeah cuz normally there's this thing of like, if you rush to the end and fight the end thing, all the trash mobs come towards you.

19 damage. Whoa! What kind of damage is it? Nice! It is ice damage. Ice damage? You freeze him solid. Wow!

His body kind of tips over. Yeah! Terminator style! Yeah, he's dead. Dicremency? That's level one, so it's four on him. Yes! Well done. Yeah! Yeah! Terminator style! Yeah. He's dead. Dicromancy? That's level one. So it's four on him.

Yes! Well done. Militant. Lucius, you're done! He hadn't been hit before, so that's the first damage he's taken. This kind of shard of ice impales on his shoulder. He's like, ah! You'll never defeat us!

That was a lot of damage. Yeah, it's right. That was great. Good round. 3d8. Did well. This one. Turns around. He's8. Did well. This one. Turns around. He's just like

never! I'm never giving! But you can see the censure on his thing has gone out now that his allies are dead. Oh, okay. Ayla, 16. Hits against that. We jump to Sentry.

Hello. Big old Sentry. Big bot Sentry. Hello. Big Sentry. Big old Sentry. Big bot Sentry. She's like Optimus Prime, like out of truck form. Is the... How far is the balcony across again? It's 20 feet, I think.

20 feet. What's it made of? It's 20 feet. I think 20 feet What's it made of? stone Okay, I'll watch set fire to it. Yeah Things like tapestries and things like that around but the floor is made of stone. Yeah, like the whole building is a stone church Yeah, no worries. I mean they follow the flame. Yeah Also my superpower than that's true. I'll just don't smack of the dude I mean they follow the flames. They love fire. They're flame proof. They're avi. Also my superpower then.

That's true. I'll just smack of the dude. Smack of the dude. Smack of the dude. She'll need to step over. Stepping over. Yep. Stepping up to that boy and give him a good old smack in the face.

That's a whacking. That is a whacking. Century whacking. So that is ba ba ba ba ba. Hang on. Where'd it go? It was an 11. 11. So that is plus 6, 17.

17 hits. Boop, boop. Yeah, hits. And then the 8 plus 4. 8 damage. Do you want to do any smites or anything? Nah, bog standard smackeroonies, please. Good job, because that was already him dead.

Oh, nice. Century's axe sunk into his skull. She puts the boot on his chest, pushes him over the edge. Two overboard. Nice. I'm so proud of us. Quill. There's one crawling on the floor.

Hey, she got Quill up. She's like... That is such a Nova move, though. I really feel that she would crawl out of this room that's on fire and be like, give up Quill, please. Mess and drop. Mess and drop. though i really feel that she would like crawl out of like this room that's on fire and like get up please drop mustn't drop i mean i'm gonna uh make an attempt to stand up i suppose yeah you can stand up uh i can just stand up for free concentration yeah exactly uh constitution saving three so it's a con saving three plus one like you go to get up and it's just like, and you just can't do it. You physically can't pick yourself up.

It's too painful. While I'm on the ground, can I try and crawl into the safe space through the door? That was your move action. That was my entire move. Your move was to get up. It was half my move. Yeah, and your move action. Oh, I failed my entire move check.

In that case From the ground I'm trying to figure out. Yeah, I know he's in typing. He's lost his move action He's so if I and what I'll probably say is like like you can't if you fail your move action I'm not gonna make you check for your action So you can either basically you can either do a move action or an action per turn The place a thing for okay, and if I think that rereading this now So you can either basically you can either do a move action or an action per turn. I see. OK. And if I think that rereading this now, I'm like, this is really fucking hard. Like, this is harsh.

If I fail a spell action. So the first thing you try and do on a round. That's what you make. You make a saving throw. If you fail that, you can't do it. And then you can do the other thing. OK. And if I fail a spell in future rounds, would I burn a spell slot? Yes.

Oof. That's a big oof. That's a big yikes. I will do a level Oh, I can't even I don't even want to burn any spell slots.

I know what's left. He's 60 feet so I'll cantrip Sacred Flame the Warlock on the opposite side. Okay, what's saving three? Dex. That is a nine.

Hey, that's a hit. 1d8. That's a hitting. 1d8 radiant, that's five damage on the Warlock on the opposite side. It scours his body, and you can see it burns part of his roams, this holy fire. And you can see he's staggering. Half of his face is burned. He's been shot. He still has the bleeding from the arrow from Night Frost.

He's in bad shape. And I guess my spiritual weapon's been inert for a couple of seconds, so I'll bonus action, reactivate that, and then whack the priest. Sure. Boom. 10 plus 5, 15.

15 does not hit him. Oh, really? Clangs against a breastplate beneath his robes. God damn. What a mecha-proof. The warlocks. Well, there's only one left. Now that you've sacred flamed him, he can see you and Nova.

Yeah, but I'm laying down. You're going to get cover. You get plus 2 AC, but he's going to go for you. Does he also get advantage, him being prone? I think actually if you're prone, you might have advantage or disadvantage. We're like, yeah, hiding. Attack roll against the creature has advantage

if the attacker's in five three, otherwise it has disadvantage, and you're both prone, so it has disadvantage. And we've got cover as well. That was a natural one. So, he like, launches it, but you're so pressed against the ground it's like it's great against ranged attackers melee attackers like hi thanks so that's their go because there's only one of those left Nova pop up

yeah I was kind of saying yeah you, could you do some heals? He plays a cleric like a sorcerer. It's great. In my head, I was like, throw the entire round. I was like, I'm going to heal myself. And then you said you should heal. I was like, yeah, I'm going to heal. I'd like to hit that guy. That was very surprising that you should hit that guy.

Can I... I'm so bad at this. I just want to make sure that I'm between this hand well you can do that I mean it can still move around you like can I pop up sure cost I would like to cast hex bladeblade Curse on the Cleric. Yes. Which does stuff. Bonus action.

So that's my bonus. And I'll just straight up Eldritch Blast him. The old Warlock special. Remember, it's crits on 19s and 20s now. Is that for everyone? No. Just for everyone. Just me.

It's Hexblade Curse. 13 plus 6 is 19. Which kind of is a 19. That's a critter. It's not a 19. It hits though. You do damage. So I do...

1d10 plus... Plus... Hold on. I'm just checking the Hex-y. Yeah. Curse. 2. I think it is just...

No, that's Hex Warrior. I just had it. I literally just had it. Um... You'll remember it. D&D, learn abilities. Yeah, two. Four points of damage. Four points of damage, nice.

Kind of like blasting, he holds a hand up like, ah, curse you foreigner scum. And then can I pop back down again like just behind just lay down yeah sure so your entire movement was get up get down again but he knows where you are okay i'm gonna stay up there okay okay he gets this event well the spiritual weapon spiritual weapon gets advantage that's right mike was like you can drop down if you want he's gonna go smack all right is it a hand is this spiritual

weapon a hand no it's like a crozier staff um like a pope staff okay all right seeing as you are stood up and ayla and century are the front line he raises his hands and three beams of fire launches out one for century one for ayla one for nova nova that's a natural 20. ayla 16. no century that's a natural 20. oh my god can i react yeah what do you want to do cat what did he cast on what did he get on me 26. Yeah, I'm not gonna bother with shield That's gonna be 14 damage to Nova fire damage. It's a crit and then 12 fire damage to sentry. I'm peacing out, guys. You're down again. Down again.

Constitution saving three plays sentry. Yep. 14 damage to me. Here we go, lads. I can't believe I got two. Look at me, crispy. 14? 14's enough.

Woo! That's enough. But you are down. He is now down to... Then she goes up again. And then she gets back down. Out of those, out of those. He's burning his spell slots, though.

Think of that. That's good his spell slots, though. Think of that. That's good. Killing us. We'll just be his punch bag. Aayla, you watch the sentries blasted in the chest by this fire. Probably light part of her vines on fire is just like slumps down. Fuck. Shut down.

Kill. Leap over like, I'm so bad of like, do a cool thing that might fuck you up. It might, it really would fuck me up probably. Yeah, you're low on HP, right? I'm not, I'm okay, but. Any fall damage would also be halved

because you're raging. Aw. Because it's bludgeoning damage. He's also a ranged spellcaster and you're getting in his face it's very true how if i was to go down the stairs how far am i it's literally the same amount of squares like the balcony occupies almost the exact same space like really politely running down the stairs but yelling at the same time if i could get to this guy as well. That guy would be harder to get to.

It's your go. Guys, if this goes really fucking badly for me, I'm going to need you to get me up. And I'm going to trust you on that. Yeah. I'm going to jump off the balcony. Nice. Maybe an athletics check. With advantage?

Yes. Yeah, sure. Absolutely. Do it. I fucking nailed it off the balcony. Nice. Maybe an athletics check. With advantage? Yes. Yeah, sure. Absolutely. Do it. Oh, you nailed it. Do it. So you go five. Summer salt.

21. Summer salt. From above. I mean, you would pretty much go like, I reckon you could land like here and then easily get round to that guy. Oh, you're in a place. If that's what you want to do.

Yeah, I want to smack him. So the other thing is, are you trying to reduce your damage? Like your fall damage damage should make an acrobatics check to try and like land sure sure acrobatics wait do i get adventure on that no it's dex 18 yeah i'd say that reduces it because normally you take 1d6 worth of fall damage per 10 feet this was 15 feet so i was going to do 1d6 but with that kind of check you fucking superhero landing yeah stone cracks you pick up the hammer and then you just run and charge into this guy oh stop stop stop oh you can reckless oh not that you need to 21 21 hits yes I will do. 10 damage from the hammer. 10 damage from the hammer, he failed his save.

His blast of lightning. One. So you watch as he staggers back, bloodied now, that you can see blood dripping from his mouth when he hit him, and he's just like, world elf, I'll kill you with my bare hands! What? Lucius. Whoops!

Made him mad. Someone needs to help sentry, because I can't. I literally can't. I could stabilize you. You can medicine check, stabilize. If I cast mending on sentry. Pew the guy. Go on, pew him.

Pew him. You need to pew some guys. Don't forget there's the warlock on the other side as well. I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb on him. On the big guy? Yes. Okay. Oh, you're going to try and die chromantic the other guy?

Yes. Yeah. Smart. Smart plays. Warp. Warp. Warp. America.

20. Natural 20? No. 20, yeah, hits. 3d8. And what kind of damage is this? This is ice again. Ice, okay.

Going for all the ice damage this time. Uh, 11. Nice. What's this on the warlock? Big hit. And then, Diacrementi the warlock? For... 4. Dead.

Oh! Hell yeah! Three hit points. Warlock tumbles down the stairs. Yeah, pretty much, like, yeah, like, like an icicle, like a spear goes through his chest like Boromir, and he just stumbles down the stairs like Bum bum bum bum bum bum

Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. Sentry, I need you to make a death saving throw for me, please. Go lads. I fail. Quill. Uh, I'm gonna try to stand up again.

Um. I'm just gonna be there like no! 90 yeah, you're like I gotta get up. I gotta get up You feel like this burning pain like this hideous pain. What about healing? Now with that I'm gonna heal. Oh my god Actually, can I get to her? 5, 10, 15?

Healing word is faith. But then I'll be right next to the spiritual weapon. Yep, but you could healing word. Is that your feat? It is healing word, but I also kind of need to to the spiritual weapon. Yep. But you could healing word. It is healing word. But I also kind of need to save myself as well. And me. And you.

What's the plan? I'm on three. What's the plan, Birdman? I'm going to bonus action potion myself. Yes. And then I'm going to go over and heal us. Smart! Healing word is a bonus action.

Yeah, but healing word is also garbage. Who wants to kill Wings? I want to kill Wings. Okay, so potion yourself. Do you have a regular healing potion? Regular healing potion. Oh, big! Ten! Oh!

Nice. Ten healed. Bam! Okay, and now I'm going to walk over to Sentry, right in front of the spiritual weapon, full of vim and vigor. How much do you have? 25? Fifty. No, I stood up up so 15. oh yeah 15. oh so i'm like 5 10 15 right in front of the spiritual weapon um is that within five feet essentially yeah okay and then cure wounds and then cure wound d8 is it yeah d8 plus wisdom plus three

i believe d8 plus three d8 plus three d8 plus three i'm just gonna do it d8 plus three three plus three D8 plus 3, D8 plus 3, D8 plus 3, I'm just gonna do it. D8 plus 3, 3 plus 3. Six, six, dang, we've got a clutch list. It's better than being dead, right? Six? Yeah, I guess. Warlocks are dead. Nova. Cool. So far, this has taken about 18 seconds. All of this. 18 seconds. There's been more than three rounds.

No? Oh, four if you include the first one, so yes. So 24 seconds. Really, I didn't even know. Wait, two, jeez. 18 plus six. Oh, plus six, not plus four, okay. Six seconds per round. Yeah.

I've had to very much track how long it's gonna take people to do stuff and how long everything else, so. Nova. I mean, you can think about it a bit, but come on now. I'm pretty injured, so I'm just going to lean on the balcony and just point a hand over. 11 plus 6 is 17.

Just hits him, yeah. Don't forget your plus 2 damage from Hexblade. Eight points of damage. This blast like rips you apart with his guts and he just looks down like, no. And he's like, he gets his staff and two whacks, whack whack. It's just a staff though, right? It's a very heavy looking, very heavy looking star. First one, 16. Next one, nine.

Just a 16. Your turn. Oh, actually one quick thing, he is going to healing word himself. Oh, for fuck's sake. Who heals? Yeah. Not you. Who does? It's not going to work.

16 now! Just hits. Just hits him. Yep. 16s his AC. Dexterity saving throw? Yes. Ooh, that is a 15. Oh, that matters. 4...

10 damage from the hammer. Does that include your rage? Yeah, because it's 4 plus 6. 10 damage from the hammer. Does that include your rage? Yeah, because it's 4 plus 6, right? Yeah. 10 damage from the hammer and 3 damage of lightning. So half. That is half. That is half.

Nice. Exactly. So you brought the two strikes and then as he's rearing it up again, you bring the hammer in an upward swing. It actually catches the edge of where Nova's blast ripped through his guts and again you bring the hammer in an upward swing it actually catches the edge of where nova's blast ripped through his guts and the edge of the hammer tears chunk from flesh and then from this opening the lightning crackles down your arms up the hammer and into his chest

there is a brief like and then he just hits the ground i'm gonna spit on him and then run upstairs I'm gonna spit on him and then run upstairs. Okay. I heal for eight. I'm gonna run. Sure. Yeah. Where are you running to?

Back up to these guys? Back up to these guys. Sure. Can I have a quick look at everyone? Sure. I'm still pretty hurt. We're gonna drop out of initiative, but let's just try and keep like a play-by-play here because I need to know how much time passes between things.

Cool noise. So if I'm having a look at everyone with my passive, how is everyone? Don't worry about saying with my passive, you can ask how everybody's doing. How is everyone? Half okay. More than half fucked. Still pretty bad. This just doesn't say that.

Guys, do we need to regroup? Quill, you can hardly move. I'm in a... I heard something crack in him. I think that is this time to call it. If someone carries you, by the way, then you won't need to make the checks. If somebody's literally like... Val is still in here.

The altar's here. We can go into the altar and close it off. We're not in a position to fight anything else that's down there right now. We are not in a position to do so. We're not really in a position to leave. We need the keys. If we escape, there's going to be more people

that spot us leaving, trying to jump a wall. We could hide in the altar. We can just smack it open with a hammer. Can you send Nightfrost in? Can I start looting bodies? I just want to see. The ones up on the balcony? I'm looking for keys and healing and money.

The ones on the balcony, in terms of money, I'll roll. See what you get. Six gold amongst the ones like Nova goes around patting their pockets. They have flails. They have armor, shields. They have their robes. About six golden coins. Anyone have any keys?

I have a spectral shield. Not on these guys up on the thing. Any potions? No. Right, I'm like leaning up against the banister and I'm just going to hold a hand up and say like, right, whoever wants it, just walk into it. I'll walk into it it i'll walk into it oh two okay what i'm healing oh um century can you heal two people i can lay on myself

i've got i've got ten lay on hands points left so oh well in that case lucius walked into it so i'm gonna uh kill wounds him or wherever the yeah kill wounds yeah the eight plus wisdom five plus three so eight hailed thank you i'm gonna go downstairs and look at this altar quickly okay vala vala uh vala's not in here you sent her off to find the keys yeah you go over to the altar and you can see this white marble altar decorated with beautiful engravings of the sun and of Palidor. But you do notice that there are, on the altar itself, there are two stylized gateways and they have keyholes that you can see.

I'm not going to make you do an investigation check because you know Night Frost has told you that it's there. And knowing that, you easily find them. They they're slightly hidden but you can easily find maybe we can pick these locks check the cleric um oh yes i'll check the i'll go downstairs and check the bodies that any of the bodies for keys yeah so you go through the bodies um searching all the different bodies like maybe another 30 seconds, I think. Everything so far has been about 30 seconds. So on the priest that you found, there is a set of keys, but they look very plain. Like they're for doors.

Could we lock doors around this room? Yeah, so what I can do is we can kind of slide this out a bit now. Like, should we just all say we go downstairs? Yeah, sure. Like, let's not split up right now. So, and then we can, do you guys want to slide this one back or we can probably... We can actually probably remove this entire balcony. Does anyone want to be anywhere in particular? Oh, so we're going onto the bottom floor?

Yeah, like maybe if you slide that over towards you and then I'll slide this over here. Cool. I have one spell slot. I think we should... So, you can see... There is a door over here. There is a pair of double doors at the very end. Those are the only two exits out of this church.

Where's the stained glass window? Behind where Lucius is, yeah. Okay. But that is about... 10, 15, like 5-10 feet off the ground. Could we maybe lock the... Try and maybe barricade, or move a pew.

I'm just thinking if we've got a set of keys. We could escape out the side exit. You're quite intelligent, Nova. You don't suspect this is the only set of keys to these doors. Something like this, people would have other sets of keys. I'm down. The time it takes to unlock a door, yeah.

Well, you have to find the person who has the keys and then they have to get the right one. Yeah, absolutely. By which time we've heard them and shit ourselves. Yeah, absolutely. Quill, you can definitely hear echoing, because you can see that there are these slit windows that lead out into the cloister and also the doors i mean there is shouting like there is you know people don't necessarily know

exactly what's gone on yet but there are people running around and things are being organized again you don't know if people are towards you or okay well they know we went through the roof they'll know we're in here um we could we mean i'll know we've been in here. We could... I mean, I'll know we've been in here. Can Nightfrost find Vala? Try and find Vala. Nightfrost, can you sense invisible people? Not in any magical means, Master Elanasto, but I can

try and search for her normally. Would I be able to feel vaguely where the spell is? Just that it's currently still in effect. Could I use message? And point because I point my finger toward a creature and whisper a message is toward I mean if I just point it in the direction, so what you just start doing this Well, I mean, I'm gonna be like rocketing out cantrip. Yeah, I mean, I know the vague direction she went and I'm also familiar with her

What's the range on it? 120. It says it's blocked by, like, one foot of stone. That's this whole place. That's basically these walls. Okay. Either we smash open this altar and go down it, or we escape the church.

Yes, you could try and break it. Yep. If we go down there, they're just going to follow us down there. And I'm fine. Also, isn't there a lot of energy down there? Yeah, but that's also where the two religious leaders are. Nightfrost, how far into the tunnel were the two people? The tunnel descends quite far, but it is a singular path.

Once you go down there, there are no branches. The holding cells were along the way. A few minutes, five minutes five ten going down no longer they didn't fight 15 20 minutes we should probably escape could we hide down there there is nowhere necessarily to hide but this is the only altar smashed open if you could if you could open the altar without anyone knowing then perhaps we could try to pick the locks but it's going to take time. In the meantime, we could... I can stand guard.

How many exits are there from this room? Two. Door over here, and then this pair of double doors at the end. Oh, so the way out... We would know that this is the exit to the hall. No, that's not the exit to the front of the abbey. That leads into the cloister. So if you bring up the other map, I can show you roughly the layout yeah so you don't

know the exact layout of some of these other rooms and stuff like that but basically this leads out into a series like a corridor that leads around the cloister this one leads here and then the main entrance is around there and from you would know roughly from the outside like where the main entrance was and stuff like that I'm not gonna give you too long to look at that. Sentry, start barricading the doors. Okay. If we manage to get...

Okay, make a strength check. Yep. If we manage to get down there, I have an idea. So you can both do different doors if you want. Oh, fuck. Eight. No. Nine.

Ten. Ten. Ten? Ten and nine? Nine, yeah. Okay. So you start, like, dragging pews over and trying to, like, barricade the doors, but it's heavy work, you're tired. If we manage to open the altar with the keys,

if Valor returns, I have an idea. You guys could escape, and I could hide down there with invisibility. I could let myself into the cells with the two leaders and hide with them, wait for this to blow over, and then we can all break out together. Where are we going to go? I feel like this only blows over when the purge is done.

Yes, the purge is happening. They're on their way here now. We need to decide. We're not in a position to fight. And I think that this is the point where this has been about two, three minutes. With the battle and then you dragging the pews and searching the bodies,

there is the two doors at the very end do open, and you begin to see more figures coming through. Oh, my God. We have to run. Smash the window? So you see as an armoured, like, fully armoured plate mail, great sword, knight, effectively emblazoned with these symbols of the Ashbringer,

and two militants, kind of like warrior types kick open the doors and you just hear like a we found them in the church that's going to be initiative I'm afraid guys we need to get out jeez I think the only way out is upstairs

through the roof again oh god I've only got one spell slot through the roof again. Oh, God. I've only got one spell slot. Yeah. Unfortunately, the ones that spotted you outside obviously raised the alarm, and they've now been searching and stuff. Then we have the paladin.

And then militants. I'm just waiting for them to be like, we're fat. And then Valor, two knives. Where's them all? One invisible. Step for steps, right? They're all dead.

It's probably a good time for a break, just FYI. Yeah, is it break time? Second combat. Is it break time? It is indeed break time. We're going to take a break. Man, it's a tough spot. We'll see how the guys get out of it.

Join us after this break. Don't go anywhere. You don't want to miss it. Oh, bye. Hey, everyone. Thanks for listening to this episode. Remember to check out both D&D Beyond and Displate with the links in the episode description. And we'll see you on Thursday for part two of this episode where we figure out if we

can continue our infiltration of Bright Flame Abbey. We'll see you then.