High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois | #30 - Depths of the Night Eye (Part 2)

Episode Date: April 4, 2019

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Deep in the Night Eye's ruin, the team must figure out how to proceed. Welcome back to Arise. Thank you guys very much for joining us. We jump back in as the party are exploring a flooded ruin, a ruin of a watchtower to Siaska. And yeah, the party have explored a couple of rooms, figuring out moving around underwater, exploring strange places. They've just discovered a scrop case, excuse me, with a key.

Every time. Guaranteed one per episode. Meh. Instead of a daddy count we should have a burp count. Burp-y. Burp-y count. So what's the plan? What do you guys want to do? Um, can I use my mage hand to open the scroll case and see if there's a scroll in it? Uh, yeah. Are you just going to hold it and then mage hand open? I want to like point it away from me and like, I'm just afraid of things jumping out of my face. Okay, so you point it away from you,

and then you summon a mage hand to open it. Who are you pointing it at? Because if you point it away from you in this kind of... Do you want to point it towards the rocks, like the cave-in? Or are you going to point it back towards the rest of the party? Where are you pointing it? It's very important that I know that. I could...

If you want, I could just... He's either really fucking with you, or he needs to know. I'm going to point it towards the rocks. I could... If you want, I could just... He's either really fucking with you, or he needs to know. I'm going to point it towards the rocks. I could... Oh, interesting. I'd point it towards the cave-in. Cave-in!

But if you wanted, I could just read what magic is in there, if there is any. Just open it. Open it. Could you try me off a bit? Try you off? Yes, I'll stand up against this wall, and you do gust.

Oh, yes. I mean, it might be sure. Do it!, Quill. Try you off? Yes, I'll stand up against this wall and you do gust. Oh, yes. I mean, it might be sure. Do it! Can I do it with my hammer? Do it! Can I do it with the hammer? You're going to have to go really close to the wall. Yeah.

Okay. I'm pressing up against it. Are you helping me, Ayla? Yep. Close my eyes. I'm not going to make him take damage, but you are pounded by this force of wind. Just...

Your hair blows out. It doesn't really dry you. It's just you've just been hit by like a sudden gust of i'd like to think that his hair is just like straight back it doesn't stay that way it just kind of falls down yeah does it kind of look like a bit like a l'oreal advert though yeah like because he's really just very forceful like a blast like if you slowed it down yeah if you slow mode it it would... No but dude, so like yeah, if you slow-mode it it would look great. Yeah. But do his cheeks go as well?

Yeah, his cheeks go as well. Cheeks flapping. His hair looks great but his face... His face. His lips. His lips. Yeah. Okay, so they do that.

Is that better? And you point the thing away and then open it with Mage Hand. Nothing happens. Not even a little spider? There is a piece of parchment inside. Just crawls out the end. Can I read the parchment? Yeah, you pull it out.

The parchment hurts you. Yeah, it's written in old, old common. So kind of lots of these and thous. But it appears to be a kind of like the orders that they would send between a commander and like people on the front line. So it's very hastily written. It says something along the lines of like... It's in a really ornate casing. Yeah, it looks like...

But it just looks like that's what they were just carrying. It just reads... I didn't actually have it written down here. It's written orders. It's signed by somebody called Watch Commander Eloquus. And it's basically telling the troops to have the wounded move to the dormitories and to activate the magical

security leading to the shrine for fears of the watchtower being overrun. Magical security. Wow. That sounds fun. Sounds like I need to spend ten minutes preparing something real quick.

You have to cast it immediately. You don't just hold the spell. You spend 10 minutes and then you cast Detect Magic and then it lasts 10 minutes. Yeah, that's what I mean. Oh, okay, I spend 10 minutes ritualing that thing. And then what, just keep it active? Concentrate on Detect Magic? Well, I guess when we're prepared to leave, I'll just say, like, okay.

Well, right now there are no exits except the way you came yeah so when i guess when we're ready to carry on i'll use a detect magic to okay trying to take that magical security okay gotcha with you on your level um what do we want to do guys then we could go back to the first room I found or there's a there's a further down the corridor I didn't quite get there there's probably more of these there's also that guy who definitely saw me in the other room but if we have battle orders now there's no air in there. We can't talk. Oh, yeah. And also, if he sees me, I mean, I'm not from his time. He'll probably assume I'm Starbane.

Starbane? Starbane. Oh. Although, now you mention it. You don't look particularly evil, Quill. Well, no, but I've got a scar across my eye, lost a wing, and I think I look pretty badass. I remember my history starving.

The Court of Shadows had lots of bizarre creatures with them. I think that what Mr. Quill says is quite true, that these spirits may mistake him for some sort of alien entity. They'll see the birds as a threat. Mm-hmm. Like we are. Yes.

So scary. Yes. Well, that griffon was fairly scary. Although I guess technically it's not a bird, is it? It's kind of mammal. No, it's more scary. You're the beast master, expert. What would you say? Beast master.

Bird or mammal, mammal-y bird? I mean, I wouldn't consider that one a question. Can I roll a nature? It's a monstrosity. Monster? Yeah. It's a mammal, I would imagine. Yeah.

Yeah. It's more beast than bird. Beast? Its body is of a lion. It's more beast than bird. It's more of a mammal than anything else. Yeah. Mammal. What on earth of a mammal than anything else. Yeah. Mammal.

Why don't I help with this, XM? Moron. No. More ghosts than people. Knowledge is power. Are we getting back in the water? Yes. Yes.

Well, in that case, ten minutes, and we'll be good to go. And I can check for those security. So do we all want to go now, or do you want me to scout ahead again with Scaldi and Oriah? I mean if you run into the air pockets are yeah for it not so much for us But I don't think you can swim as fast Through this no, but the ropes useful. Oh, um, you've got your spell book back. Can you do the detect magic? Have you ever been able to do that I am Oh, you've got your spell book back. Can you do the detect magic? No. Have you ever been able to do that?

I tore my ritual pages out. I helped. You helped? Very therapeutic. You tore up a book? Yeah. Also, isn't your current book just waterlogged right now? It's a spell book

No it's soaked Oh is it? Okay Like any unprotected books or parchment you have your maps They're a scroll case Are they?

Do you have a scroll case? Yeah I'm sure I do You've got your century soul Oh yeah I'm a century Okay yeah As long as they're in there

it's fine Jeez As you say that Like ruined I'll just like panic, panic, like, and hold up my spell book and just be like... Oh, not just your spell book, Kim. If you had any other books...

No, I left them all on the beach. Oh, that's right, yeah. Come on, my traumatic freaking moment. Right, yeah. I thought you still had, like, some of the books from your... I love them all. Daddy's briefcase. It's been here the whole time.

It has been. It's soaked. Has it? Oh my god, it has. He's been carrying it around in his little backpack. Oh, what about the airship engine we found in episode two? We've been carrying that around as well. Is that soaked?

Well, I mean, that was just like an Ethereum core. It's like a rod of metal. It's fine yep that's ruined anything that can be ruined by water is pretty much ruined you will all be very pleased to know that i carry none of this and everything is fine not even toilet paper the bedrolls the tents and bedrolls are pretty ruined which you do have they're just wet they're wet they'll dry them out yeah which you do have.

They're just wet. They're wet. They'll dry out. You need to dry them out. Why don't we leave anything on the surface? They're not paper, though. No. So, what's the plan?

I'm just looking at my spell book. I don't think we should stay here. No. I'm happy to party up. We need to find air pockets. Let's try this new route,

I'd say. We know the other one is locked with a door. The other one has potential to lead to the source, so to speak Yes, and we know we can deal with ghosts These are just dealt with a bunch of them We'll be fine Nova's not listening

She's just staring at the spellbook I'm going to go and just take the spellbook and just close it I think I've got an iron grip on it like you've never yeah yeah give me a strength check there nova because what's your strength seven yeah check or uh like a straight up check yeah sure straight just pure strength 13 13 it's the strongest you've ever like see how well kitty's rolls 16 it's the strongest you've ever held like there's some resistance yeah and you still just like let's pick up nova as well just splashes yeah it's

nova probably like it's thrown forward just it's fine i know we'll fix it i just got it back the power was within you all actually Actually, no, you definitely need that spell book. Stop ripping pages out of it. It was because... When she tries to talk, I'll just go... On her head. No, listen. Just a little smack. Listen.

I took the pages out because I was upset about what happened to Sentry. So I took them out because I thought it was useless knowing them. And then I tried to learn some more powerful stuff. So I could be better. So that what happened with sentry doesn't happen again what have you learned it's just gonna just smack your in the head with it no not really hard but just like a gentle yeah I'm not sure my hair is topic yeah I don't think Don King's gonna help on everything in the book is helpful to you so stop working pages out right no but but that's what I just said! Stop ripping pages out!

I just said I took out the useless pages! I don't know how magic works! Okay, good! Take it! I took out the useless ones! And I tried to learn stronger stuff so I could be stronger like you told me to! Good! She did just nap two ghosts. Yeah! I didn't see it but I heard it was good through what you told him. It was very good, it was very impressive. You were very strong. Thank you, Oriah. It's okay. I'm trying my best!

It's a great job. Look at where we are. Look at where you've guided us to. This is all you. Now is not the time for some self-pitying either. We're in a very dangerous situation. Nova. Nova. I'm just explaining what happened to the spell book and why I can't cast Detect Magic anymore. Okay. Now is the time. Explanation is done. Let us move on.

Now is the time where you can help us out a lot by sourcing some air. I just want my book back and I will go. For goodness sake, give the girl the book back. Don't donk her again. I won't as long as you don't do this again. I'm fine fine give it back okay let's keep moving right who's coming with me i'm coming you see i got that attitude over and it worked right i'll come with you you you guys stay here i'm going there's no room

yeah well the rope is there it's just secured between the two points. Well, I'll untie the rope. I'll just, I'm gonna huff. Well, no, I imagine I'll start trying to untie it and then just be like. So you're gonna take the rope from this end, untie this and then leave it secured by the entrance. I'm gonna give you my rope.

50 feet. Tie this to the corner. When you reach the corner where we turned into this room, tie this to that. In fact, Oriah, you tie it because you'll probably do a bit better than not being a sailor and all. And then we'll go from there.

Right. Oscar, Mike, go! Who's not on the mics? I don't know who they are. I'm going to tie one end of it to Nova, though. So I'll tie one end of it to Nova, give the other end of it to Oriah to tie to the corner when they get there. That's fine. Making a little system. Tug tug cannonball, going! And I'm just gonna stomp you for water.

I don't think she'll realize that wouldn't actually work. Okay. Oh it won't work. So you start going. It'll only work through this room, wouldn't it? So we've got, uh, Nova, Oriah, and then I'm gonna useor's Mini for Scaldi for now. So 5, 10, 15. You're just basically going to move your full distance up into the corner. So that would take, so for the people that are breathing, let's just work this out. So 30 feet.

15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. So two rounds to get the two breathers to there. Breathers. Breathers. Filthy breathers. Two rounds. Two rounds so far. And so then you're going to tie the rope to this corner here.

So breather 510. Yeah, that's the point. That's an action. So that's another. That's a third. Yep. But the rope is tied halfway along. So where next?

We're next, Nova. To that way. So you're going to start moving down? The unexplored. It's more to find our way back than anything. 5, 10, 15. And we get 5, 10, 15 down. What is that?

I don't know, but I'm getting more and more off the table. We'll see if you want to do actions in a second. You come across, half lowered down this room, is a portcullis, like a series of metal bars, pointed, barbed at the end. They've come halfway down the corridor, and then it appears it's gotten stuck and then rusted or stayed in place.

And you can see, kind of impaled on the portcullis is a large probably nine feet tall if it had been standing um but now it's like hunched and crouched down obviously creature its skull has these huge horns curling from the side of its head its bulk is very wide skeleton um its legs appear to be more like an animal's almost like cloven um and it's got armor it's got rusted black metal armor um and it appears to have been impaled by the portcullis but obviously kept it in place so long that now the portcullis is lowered um and it's just difficult terrain to move past because you kind of have to go underneath it.

So we can go, it's just... Yeah, but if you do that you'll basically be like here. So that's another round, so it's now four rounds. Okay, yeah, just move that down. Scoot that down to about there so you can see um just ahead of you you begin to see that the corridor turns to your left but then it appears that a part of the corridor has broken away to the right and created a very narrow natural kind of like k like uh passageway but it's very tight. Somebody would need to squeeze through it like you'd be spelunking

kind of thing. Oh, no. You ever seen The Descent? Nope. That had spelunking in it. It was real claustrophobic. At the end of this coil, the rope's going to run out, I think.

Yeah. So it's 55, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 25, 50. Yeah, it's about there. Okay. Yeah. So can we see that it divides off? Yeah. T-junction.

But one of it is like a natural, like it looks like the corridor's broken, caved in, crumbled. And it also appears to go lower. It seems to go down. It's probably dangerous. You don't know. Although... Yeah, you don't know.

I'll point to Uriah and Scully and I'll kind of point one hand to the right and one hand to the left and shrug and just, okay. I'm going to go left. Okay. So, yeah, we'll go to the right and one hand to the left and shrug and just okay. I'm gonna go left Yeah, so we'll go to the left. Okay, so you go so that is 15 the natural path or the broken That's the natural. Left is this way So as you come around the corner, you can see, again, it seems to descend down.

You do get the sense that it opens up into a room, but you can't really see beyond this kind of murky, silt-filled, sedimenty water. I guess we carry on? Yeah. Carry on. I guess I'm still open messaging? Yeah. Carry on. I guess I'm still open messaging you, by the way. So that'll be five.

This will be the fifth round. Okay. So, Araya, when you get to about here, you're all kind of on the same two squares. There is an entranceway into this room. You can see that it opens up. You notice, Araya, with your passive perception, see that it opens up you notice ariah with your passive perception above you there is a thin like about the same width as an iron bar like space in the ceiling um like a like a groove okay you just

notice that as you're walking underneath it you're like look up and you can see this groove leading into the room okay does it like does look weird, like a trap or anything? It's a groove. It's a groovy groove. Yeah, you look up and where the rest of it has all been perfect carved stone, you kind of just glance up and you can see this kind of thin groove, like a space above the corridor. Can I swim up and have a look at it?

Yeah, you want to inspect it. It's an investigation check. Nice. Invest that's an eight. An eight. You're looking at it and you could have put your fingers up a little bit and just it but it's quite dark and the angle you can't quite see. Yeah you're not sure how far it goes up or what, some sort of groove. I just gesture to Nova, point of it and just shrug at it. Once a riot points out, you can all see it. Can I investigate? That would be round six,

cause an investigation would have been six seconds. Can I investigate it? Sure. 20. 20? Unnatural. Looking up, you can get the sense that this is actually very similar to the portcullis you just passed. It looks like iron bars are hidden quite far deep in, like you're really having to peer, use like a little bit of scarf to get your sight,

and it looks like the portcullis will drop down. Okay, and you say it runs the whole length of the room? It basically, it runs like across the doorway. Oh, across the doorway. So it looks like it would cut the doorway off so i'll try and mime um like i'll point back to where we came and just mime my hands dropping cool thumbs up scaldi just kind of like nods and shrugs like what are we doing now yeah Yeah, I'll look to Araya and be like, sort of point further in the room and shrug. Can I look around for any sort of trigger?

Yeah, that would have been part of the investigation. When you searched the groove, there was no indication of what would trigger this. Okay. It doesn't appear to be connected to this entryway, the trigger. I'll say that much. I guess we keep looking? Yeah, just move, move yourself if you guys want to.

So the group is all of you is moving together. So, so do you move like 15 feet in here? 5, 10, 15. Okay. Can we be like super cautious for like a pressure plate? You can do in a second. Hang on. I got it. 10, 15. Okay. Can we be like super cautious for like a no pressure plate? You can do in a second. Hang on. I got it. You got it. Cool. So as you swim into this room,

get ready to roll some dice. Um, so as you begin swimming through, you can see the sediment, um, to this room. Um, it's still that kind of like murky sediment, but what you can see is in the corner, half buried, half submerged, but leading up, there are stairs and actually there is air above you now. As you kind of swim into this room, you get the sense that this is a much taller room. Like there's maybe about a good 10, 15 feet

above you of air. And you can see a stairway that leads up onto a lipped platform that is looking down on the water from about 10 feet high. Mounted into the ceiling at the edge of that lip and looking down, you see a colossal device that appears to be resembling like a ballistae that's mounted into the ceiling with rusted clockwork gears you hear this As it snaps into place bolts fire down

So give me a second. That mini has four shots and that ballista. That's crazy. The mini is, I've had to use a Warhammer mini because I didn't quite have an example one on here. Let's do a quick initiative round for you guys because this thing isn't the fastest thing in the world. It's going to go well. One.

Natural one on Rhiannon. This thing does have disadvantage because of its rusted gears, but that was still a 15. Is there disadvantage for it shooting into the water as well? If it was firing normal bolts, yes. It does not appear to be firing... Firing water appears to be a bolt.

Do we get disadvantage because we're underwater? Not to initiative. Just like a really strong water. So Nova, what did you get on initiative? 17. 17. Oriah what did you get on initiative? 4 in total. 4. Scaldy is not much better at a 5. So as you swing into the room and you look up you see this thing like... I'm not using you. Or you. And it fires twice. Please, more noises. In fact, no. It fires one bolt of light,

and we'll divide up who it attacks. One, two, three, four, five, six for Scaldi. It's actually Scaldi the bolt fires at. And then the second... You hear this like another clunk, and a pair of weighted bowlers attached to a thick cord fires out towards...

One, two, three. Towards Oriah. I can't be mad, it's so cool. This is the best way to die! Yes! Take me, robot man! So, Scaldy just manages to, like, swim to the side

as this bolt scorches the ground next to her. Bowling drowned would be the worst way. Does a 12 hit you? No. Okay, so you do the same thing. You're like, boop, as this pair of weighted bowlers like, and just wraps and hits the ground. You can see it's actually connected to a chain,

and then you hear like, as it snaps back into the bolter. So cool. Nova, your go go you can see there are stairs leading up um so we we underwater you are currently so imagine if this was 3d you guys are underwater there's about 15 20 feet of air above you this thing is at the far end of the room mounted into the ceiling looking down like it can see everything in this room you see it all it's this and then you can see a stairway leading up to a stone platform which appears to be above and is look is you know underneath the the creature this bolter

it's just like i think technically you guys are like this because you're all swimming together is it made of metal? Parts of it appear to be. Can I cast heat metal on it? Yeah, you can try. So how was your day? Well, swam into a ruin. Found this treasure.

There was a map down there. That was very cool. It was, yeah. Nova toolkit. Oh, that map. I can't believe it doesn't get set, it's just a metal object. It's an action. I keep sending messages to them but they're not responding. One action, 60 foot, within 60 foot. Is it within 60 foot?

35, and then it's about... Am I hungry? Yeah, you could do it diagonally. Yeah, it's within range. No. Yep. Scaldi had all the rations. Oh, shit. So 2d8 fire damage. All your rations are waterlogged, by the way, now.

2d8 fire damage. Okay. Yep. Just roll 2d8 and then half it. What level slot is this? It's from an item, so it's always second. It's always its base level, basically, because it's from an item.

Three. Three, so it's always second. It's always its base level, basically, because it's from an item. Three. Three, so half to one. So you watch, as you cast the spell from Tiangong, you see the shimmer of magic around it, and the shimmer seems somewhat distorted, and the thing just spins around again. Anything else you'd like to do?

That was your action. Where would you like to move? 15 towards the stairs. 5, 10, 15. Yep. That's it. You good? Okay.

We go to Scaldi, sees you swimming forwards, is just going to try and follow I'm sure what else to do and will sacred flame up towards this thing it doesn't seem to necessarily it doesn't dodge out of the way but what it does is

as the kind of flame hits it this shimmering field of magic somewhat seems to protect it and the it's just a way of it making deck saves without making deck saves i'll see the thing roll out of the way uh if i if i had wanted i could have put it on like a little track but i was just like no i'm gonna do that it does appear to be fixed in one place um but the sacred flame just doesn't seem to affect it in any way oraya um i'm gonna

cast zephyr Strike for myself. Uh-oh. So I move like the wind until my spell ends. My movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks. I get an extra D8 of force damage on a hit. But my walking speed

increases by 30 feet until the end of the turn. Okay, great. So I'm going to do a whole lot of moving. Okay, great. Take us for it. So I'm going to...

But you're swimming. I'm swimming, yeah so just half five ten fifteen and then I can dash can I dash? So let's do your food moves if that's your movement. Yes, you add another 30 feet so you get another 15 basically underwater 10 15 yeah, and then you can bonus action dash, but how what was casting Zephyr strike was that a bonus? That was a bonus action, so you use your action to dash, but then you won Zephyr Strike? Was that a bonus action? That was a bonus action. So you could use your action to dash, but then you won't be able to attack. Okay, that's cool. I'll do that. Okay, so you're going to dash? Head for the stairs! Okay.

Stop. When you get to this point on the stairs, I need you to... Oh no. Oh, the steps. They're lava. No, I think... Can you make a dexterity saving throw for me, please? Will do.

That's a 16. 16. So the stairs, as you kind of put your foot on the middle stair, the whole stairs into a slide. You begin to slip, but you grip onto the side of the wall as the stairs begin to slide back. I love the re-enter. That's the first sound the wall. I love that. As the stairs begin to slide back. I love the re-enter.

That's the first sound you hear. Oh. Nova and Scaldi from behind you. Cha-chunk, cha-chunk, cha-chunk, cha-chunk, cha-chunk. A heavy iron, rusted but still functional portcullis slams down into the corridor itself. Sorry. So how are you feeling guys? I was going to ask, what's your favourite colour Lucia? Oh that's a good question.

Is it white? Is that why you're so afraid of being dirty all the time? Purple, like my clothing. So technically you can still move, because you still have, I think, 15 feet of movement, thanks to Zephyr's strike. Nice. But to do it you need to make an acrobatics check as you're basically like pulling yourself off a slippery wet Algae covered stairwell You just

Into the water however your breathing has reset because you were up in the night at that point question so it says on the heat metal that if it's an object the creature is holding, they have a disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. It's because it imparts the creature. It just takes the damage. It just takes the damage, unfortunately. The turret is going to try and fire again this time it just fires two of the bolt of energies basically uh probably you've just fell down the trap you hurt it with

magic which it does understand came from you so both bolts go towards nova um that is going to be a 25 to hit and then another 25 to hit. First hit is, oh my lord, 2d10s. Guess what I rolled twice? 24 points of damage as this blast like hits you, this force damage, and then 16, another 20 points of damage. Oh! And you're, like, struggling. You make a concentration check for me.

Are you unconscious? The heat metal fades, your air... Do I hear that? Out of your mouth. How would you? Message, I've been, like, constantly... She didn't message back. She didn't message.

But could I not hear it? You haven't said anything. She has to physically go, I've been like constantly... She didn't message back. She didn't message. But could I not hear it? Well, you haven't said anything. She has to physically go, I am messaging back. Oh, I've just been like, I've been calling that an active... Oh, I didn't realize you're doing it. Like every six seconds. And Kim, Nova would have on her turn had to say, I am going, I am replying to the message. It's an active thing you have to do, unfortunately.

Yeah. Nova, bloop. You kind of just turn over and your body kind of like lifts up. Scaldi looks at you desperately. It would be your go, Nova. It's a death saving throw. Ten.

Okay, so it's a success. But don't forget, you can't regain hit points until you can breathe again. So even if you get three successful saves, you're still making them. What if someone lifts me up, though? And that's what Scully's gonna do.

Is that a save? No. Ten? Yeah, ten is a success. Ten or above. Yeah. What are you taking care of there, Tom? What am I taking care of? Oh, someone's just been shot. That is a constitution saving throw, please. And the DC for it would be 24.

Ah, the mirror. No, it was 20. It was exactly 20. Yeah, DC 10. Okay. Constitution saving throw. 17. Yep, you're fine. On Scaldi's turn, Scaldi will grab you,

swim you up to the surface. So she, like, drags your body up, about, you know, 5, 10 feet up to the surface, pulls you up, and then will cast Cure Wounds on you. Actually, does she have Cure Wounds? I think she only has Healing Word. She only has Healing Word because she does it. Okay. That's only four hit points unfortunately

I'll take it but she swims you up to the surface it's a novel concept isn't it takes a deep breath and casts healing word that's her bonus action

she will say we need to get out of here we shouldn't be fighting this thing on our own and then she will cast no she need to get out of here. We shouldn't be fighting this thing on our own. And then she will cast... No, she's already cast a spell, so she can do a cantrip. She'll try and Sacred Flame again.

That, however, does hit and deals four points of radiant damage to Zikricher. To the boulder. Oaken boulder. Oriya. Can I cast Fog Cloud? And try and like... Around this thing?

Around the thing, yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah, absolutely. You can do that. Cool. It's a clever way of using it. I'd like to... Yeah.

Yeah, so you create this thick mist that fills pretty much the whole area of the room, I think, so it's like 20 foot radius, right? 120 feet. Yeah, so it's like a 20 foot radius from a point, so you could do like 5, 10, 15, 20. So it's basically this whole half. Yeah.

Which heavily obscures it, which means that it has disadvantage on any of its attack rolls now. Cool. It blinds it. So you fill the whole top part of the room with this fog cloud. That's your action.

Yep. You still have movement. Yeah, I'm going to... Your Zephyr Strike, I think, is stills it. So you fill the whole top part of the room with this fog cloud. That's your action. Yeah, you still have movement Yeah, I'm gonna use that first strike. I think it's still honest just until the end. Yeah until the end of the turn Yeah, so I'm gonna I think one of the abilities stay. Yes, there's force damage. Yeah. Yeah, it's until your next attack roll. Oh That's also very tempting. Well, you're actually supposed to cast for cloud. It was the actions gone. It's gone You got bonus action move. I'm gonna move I'm going to move back to Nova and Scaldy. 5, 10, 15. Yep. And, yeah, try and find a way of getting out while it's... You could bonus action, because you've got cunning action as a rogue,

you could bonus action dash, or you can try and hide. Can I take Nova and try and hide hide can't really hide another person no it's like trying to swim down to the bottom yeah yeah okay um i think i'll just stay with the guys for now yeah sure okay so the thing clearly like unable to find its targets its enemies that it was trying to find um begins whirring you enemies that it was trying to find. Begins whirring. You can hear it clanking and clocking away. It will target the vague area

that it saw Nova and Scaldi in, and you hear a fizzle as it launches an explosive projectile to the point. I need all three of you to make dexterity saving throws. I will give you advantage because it was targeting a rough area. Oh, my rolls are so garbage today. Oh! What did you get?

Four and a two. Oh, my God. So fail for Raya. Nova? Fifteen. Fifteen is a pass just. Sc. So fail for Uriah. Nova? 15. 15 is a pass just. Scaldia unfortunately also fails.

Why do all my guys hate me today? Stop microwaving them. Yeah, I should probably, yeah, stop putting them in the microwave. So 23 fire damage, halved because you're in water. So you take, so that'd be 11. And then halved again for Nova because you passed your save, so it's 5 fire damage.

I'm down again. Oh, yeah, you are. Constitution saving throw, please. DC 10. 20. Okay, no injury, but you're unconscious again. Why? Because I've got it now.

It's my control. That's its whole turn, though. so Nova, Death Saving Throw please. Oh my god. 14. 14% Jeez. Yeah, this is... I get knocked down!

But I get up again. Anyone? I get knocked down again! I get knocked down! Oh, let me get another d20 because I don't like any of them. I feel terrible but I have no idea what's happening. I've got my better one. Goldie will drag you and healing word you for six hit points this time. And I get up again!

She's down to four spells. I want to come back to this. Uriah, your turn. Hello. Do do do do do do. I feel bad that three of you are another room tracks. It was six originally Yeah, so oh yeah the six healing. Yeah, so you took five damage and got six healing you're on six HP So I'm up again. I don't think my favorite color is what I'm wearing. Oh, I need you to make a concentration check for your fog cloud

Oh, yeah. Oh, that's very true. Yes. DC 11. I'm not going to use that one. Use my one. I'll use this one. Oh, my God. What was it? The fog cloud dissipates.

Check the fog cloud is concentration. It is concentration, yeah. I do love this reaction of like, I hate my dice. Chaos. That's how I am when I roll. Oh, that's a seven. Yep, I hate my dice. Chaos! That's how I am when I roll. That was a seven. Yep, the fog cloud goes, unfortunately. So it's your turn, though.

Fuck! So the fog cloud dissipates and you see this thing like... and targets the two swimming desperately at the surface. I know exactly what I'm doing. I can just have a turn. Nova's stable. Oh, yeah, heat metal went. It went.

Nova is, you see her eyes flutter open again as Scaldi's like holding, feeling hands. We've got to get out of here. We need to go. I'm going to cast Fog Cloud again. Okay. Has anything been said, Quill? We need to get down to the pier. Yeah. We need to go. I'm going to cast Falkland again. Okay. Cast it again. Has anything been said, Quill? She's not responding to me.

There's no tugs on the rope. I don't know what to do. Cast Falkland. The rope is dangling outside the room. Zombies just tugging at it. But it's not been that long, though, since they've gone. No, it's been, like, less than a couple of minutes. You're just sitting there, like, I guess they, though, since they've gone. No, it's been, like, less than a couple of minutes. Yeah.

You're just sitting there like, I guess they'll tell us when they find something. I feel really bad, but I can't do anything because it would be mad gaming. So, action. You cast Fog Cloud in the same area. Okay, yeah, so it works. Yep.

And then... That's how my spell slot's gone. I'll just correct your injury check. So Nova's injury check should have been a plus two to the DC. But she rolled. She mega passed. Thank you for reminding me. It does get harder every time.

Harder every time she goes down. Yep. Thank you. Well done, bro. Thank you. I really love the injury table. I love him. I love him.

Special boy. Gold star. Inspiration. Move and bonus action. I'm gonna move up. Move up. Move up to them again. Okay. And then anything you want to do with your bonus action? Oh god. I'm gonna move up. I hear you. I can move up to them again.

Okay. And then anything you want to do with your bonus action? I think you spent the entire battle swimming towards it and now swimming away. Oh my god, what have I got? What can I do? Is there anything, like another way out of this room? Looking past the turret you think you can see a doorway. Past the turret?

Mm-hmm. I can't really do anything it seems to be like kind of hidden by the lip of the floor but you get just the faint edge of like the top of the doorway at the back of the room it's almost like that scroll that said magical defenses hmm i wonder what that might be referring to yeah nugget so it's like when Quill was like I'm going to cast detect magic and move along with him I'm like that's a great idea

Anyway At the top of the round The thing will see if it's explosive bolt recharges Stop hitting me It doesn't recharge its explosion So instead it will target Uriah and Scaldi

It will fire a weighted bolas at No it will just fire two piercing bolts One at each but it has disadvantage because of the fog cloud So Scaldi That's a 14 and a 14 For a 21 That's going to hit Scaldi For 12, 16 points of damage

And then Uriah That's going to hit Scaldi for 12, 16 points of damage. And then a Raya. That's a four. Or a one. Out of the way, disadvantage. So an eight, so it misses. So you kind of like... Throw yourself to the side, there's another. Scaldi takes one in the back.

He's now like carrying Nova, this dwarven lady in all of her black leathers, her long blonde hair just matted against her. Nova, this dwarven lady in all of her black leathers, her long blonde hair just matted against her. Nova, your go. And you're not dead. I've got a thing I can do. Sure, I'd love to hear it. But I have decisions to make.

Well, you've got six seconds to make them in. I'm thinking about casting Thunderstep. Sure, do it. But who do I teleport with me? Yeah? That's a good question. Oh shit! Because whoever you leave behind will be taking some damage. You need to make a decision Kim, can't spin forever or you're going to delay your turn. I think Nova would take Scaldi, because Scaldi can heal Sentry. Okay, so, yeah, what'd you do? Thunderstaff?

What was that, by the way? Just gonna, I'm gonna be... Let me roll in some dice. Oh! Oh! I thought that was your gavel. I thought it was a clock. Ah, there was a chrono trigger. A chrono trigger. So what are you doing?

I'm going to give you... I can't cast two spells in one go, can I? Not first... You can't cast a cantrip in another spell. Yeah, you can't burn two spells. Because here's the other thing I could have done, was invisibility and misty step. Could have done.

But I can't. No. No. Could I... That's a long six seconds yeah i know can i use one so my action to do um thunder step but a bonus action to throw my glamour disc out um with the image of ayla does glamour disc let you activate as a bonus action should say in the item are you in the glamour desk yeah yeah i think it's literally like ayla just standing there looking mad like sounds about right should say as an action or as an action to store it then i would say it's an action yeah all right what are you doing? I need a decision right now, or I'm gonna delay your turn.

Can I bonus action, give a potion to Auriah? What potion? Healing? A regular, a regular healing potion. Sure. Mark it off. And then just be like,

I'm so sorry, I'll get help! Boo! Mark off your healing potion, and then you cast Thunder Step. And then just be like, I'm so sorry. I'll get help Mark off your healing potion and then you cast thunder step and you're mega run the water when you said that There are the cuz skull they brought her up so she Yeah, that's why they can cast spells because if you're underwater spells have speaking components components. How does Eldritch Blast have a verbal? I don't know if it does actually. If it does, she has like, with Nova it's a bit

different because even if she's got 10 seconds of air, she's like doesn't matter. Yeah, so verbal and somatic. So it does but for Nova it won't matter. Can I make sure that I'm away, like so move away from... Let's do this by thing. So bonus action, you get her a potion.

You can now move 15 feet. Move away so she doesn't get caught in the... Right, but if you move away, Scaldi won't be next to you anymore. No, but I'm going to... You're not very strong. She's a dwarf. Just delay the turn.

Just delay it so you can think about it. She's said what she's doing. So either you pass it where you are, or you move away and hope Scaldi moves up next to you. And you can ready your action to cast it. Kim. Have you known? No.

Not like green? No. So she is caught in it. I've never even thought about it. But what if I move the other side of Scaldi? So it's like, so I'm just moving the other side of scaldi so it's like so i'm just moving the other side of scaldi so if scaldi's here you were here so you swim around here ariah was here still 10 feet because it's 10 feet from you it's 10 foot radius right yeah she'd still be in it what you could do is move like here and then you and then ready in

action that when scaldi gets to you you teleport away but that relies on Scaldi coming to you and doing what you said. I'll do that. So I'll move away. You have to communicate to her what you want to do. We're all above the water, so I'll move away. Say, Scaldi, come here. We're getting out of here. Okay.

Yeah, sure. She won't know what you mean, so you swim to about here. She goes next after you, so she moves there, and then you're going to thunder step, right? Yep, so nobody's in range. So you can thunder step 60 feet. Does it say it has to be somewhere you can see? It's 90 foot. Does it say you have to be able to see it or just anywhere?

An unoccupied space you can see within range. So at most you can pretty much go to about here. Yeah. Like, there. Okay. Lucius, can't trust him dancing. You can see within range so you can at most you can pretty much go to about here There Okay, Lucius conscious and done you here there. This is all of you by the way. Oh you hear this Underwater like a thunder like a lightning bolt hitting underwater and it always is Like a and probably a shaking but it's probably stones fall down and like... Oriah, Nova and Scaldi disappear in a shockwave of water.

You're like... I'm sorry! Because Nova just disappears. And it's now your go. Okie dokie. So you've left. So this mist is still filling up the room. You've got potion healing, so you've left but this mist is still filling up the room

you've got potion healing so you're fine awesome thank you can we roll initiative? do we get a reaction to this? yes let's roll initiative for all of you guys the game we're in it

I feel bad but this is your decision. No, we've been talking about your favourite colour. 16. 16. Quill? 13. 13. Lucius?

14. 14. Okay, Oriah. Okay, so he can't see me. Yeah, he can't see you, but as it's just been witnessed, he can fire roughly where he thinks you are. Yeah. And it's just been witnessed he can fire roughly where he thinks you are yeah and it's

a scattershot i'm gonna like swim to somewhere i think he's not gonna see me so i'm probably gonna go like five okay before you do that because you're a train hunter this thing can see the entire room right even straight down it can angle itself and just shoot down but you want to move to where you think he's not gonna but it can shoot yeah so if you want to move to where you think he's not going to... But it can see every single thing. Yeah, so if you want to do that, that would be trying to hide. You'd basically be using the fog cloud to try and move away without it knowing where you are. Yeah, you can do that. Yeah, that's a stealth check, and then you can move 15 feet.

Nice. What'd you get? Oh! Is that a natural one? That's a four. I got a ten. Okay, so you try and stealthily swim away. Like you kind of...

And then you kind of swim through. So you can move where you want to move. Cool. So bonus action to hide. You've got move and an action. I'm going to move maybe up to this corner. So like five, ten, fifteen. Uh-huh.

And just chill out. Okay. Yeah, just think about life. Yeah, just think. If you've got your affairs in order. Yeah, I'm just like... I've killed another person. Yeah, just think about life. Yeah, just think. If you got your affairs in order. Yeah, I'm just like, I'm gonna go to the taxes. Oh, I've killed another person, guys. I've killed another person.

It's nice of you to go up against the wall for him to, you know, pin you to. Yeah, you hear a, crunk, crunk, crunk, crunk, crunk. As one bowler and one bolt come flying out. The bolt is at disadvantage still, because of the thing. That's still a 20 to hit. Oh, yeah. This thing is really accurate. I rolled an 18 and a 13.

Oh my god. So it's got 7 to hit. That's 16... 20 points of damage to the Raya. Unconscious or still up? No, still going. So the next one is the bowlers come flying out. That's a 20 to hit. Yep. So you are grappled. So this bowler wraps around. Oh no, I didn't roll with disadvantage, so that was... Okay, a 12 with disadvantage. See? So the bowler's... And you're like...

You're still bleeding profusely from this wound. That's its go, it doesn't do anything else. Nova? Has Quill messaged me? He's not gone yet so they've just heard the explosion and now you're going well can I grab

the rope? so you are now underwater, yeah you can grab the rope oh I can uncanny dodge you've been able to do that the entire time can I do that yet? no not yet, 5th level rogues you're not your 2nd level rogue aren't you because that's do that yet no not yet fifth level rogues I'm not fifth level you're not your

second level rogue aren't you because that's the thing it's fifth level rogues can uncanny dodge but you're a three ranger two rogue two three ranger two rogue

cool oh yeah chat are like uncanny dodge no you're wrong I want to move and

sure yeah just go ahead but tug the rope as well as hard as I can. Can I ready an action? I don't know if it's like so...

If you move, well, tugging the rope... I'll let you tug the rope for free. If you're moving, you can like... I think if you're pulling yourself up with it, that's tugging at any moment. And then ready an action so that if Quill messages me, I say, Auraia's in trouble. Come as, like, now.

Okay, yeah, sure, yeah. So do you want to move as well, 15 feet? Yeah, so 15. So you go 5, 10, 15 to there. Okay, and then you tug on the rope. You guys get the tug, and it is, in fact, Ayla's go. You, mm-mm, you feel the rope.

Okay, so I know that, no, I would, because I was thinking about this. It's not tied on No, it's true. You'd be a gentler tug. It would be, but I would still feel it. So knowing that I will just immediately follow the rope into the water and just go Okay, because I need to get to here before I can pull her along. Yes. Yeah, you know that yeah, that's fine Yeah, so you jump in so so back from back here. I've got 45 feet movement usually

So are you gonna dash you just gonna spend your whole thing? Yeah, because then basically it'd be 45 twice would be 90 half 45 So 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 That's your whole movement. So you just spend your whole turn Lucius you see Ayla just like perfect diving can I say they're in trouble

and then then I'll dive in I mean they see you the rope get tugged okay let's go hold your breath I've forgotten how

okay okay yeah so you can move are you just gonna dash as well yeah so you only go Let's go! Hold your breath! Buh! I've forgotten how! Just, okay. Okay, yeah, so you can move, are you just gonna dash as well? Yeah. So you only go 30, yeah. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Uh, Quill, are you gonna do the same thing? Yep. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. So I'm just, yeah, pulling the rope as well. Good message at all.

Out of interest. But yeah, do you want a message before you jump out? Oh yeah, I mean, yeah, like I said, I'm constantly just pinging that message. Well that would be 15 feet actually, yeah. So that would take you back, yeah. Would it? Yeah, because it's a message before you jump? Oh yeah, I mean, like I said, I'm constantly just pinging that message. Well that would be 15 feet actually, yeah. Would it? Yeah, because it's an action to cast message. Is it? Yes. All spells.

Huh. So you cast message. What do you see? Everything okay, Nova? Nova replies, Horizon Danger, come help! You lose about 30 seconds of breath, but we'll just keep that in mind. Fine.

I kinda knew that anyway. But fine. Sure. Well you wouldn't. You know it, but Quill doesn't. Oriah's in trouble. I know that Oriah's in there, but now I can't use message to get any reasonable distance. Scaldi will...

She's still got breath left. She can't see. Aria! She was gonna try and help her out, but she can't. She's like, I can't see her. Aria, you'll go? I'm gonna, okay, okay.

When I was making this encounter, I was just like, this is either gonna go really, like, they're gonna be fine, or this is gonna go really badly and it's gonna be a real clusterfuck What do they say about splitting the party by the way? Yeah, what do they say about that? Because we split it three ways now Oriah, what'd you do? I'm gonna bonus action move up 15 feet and then I'm gonna try and like lift up

Yeah, yeah, you can do that. Yes. So you go five, 10, 15. Yeah. Scully sees you just go, woo! And then you're gonna try and lift it up. It's a strength athletics check to try and do this. How is that possible? I'm on my way! Actually double figures this time.

16? 16, I think that's actually enough to start lifting it. That is exactly what you need. Ooh! You came through! So you can... You did it! You lift it up. Whilst you are lifting it, so you can either basically,

because it's just you, you can pass under it and just let it drop again, or you can hold it up for, like, if other people were trapped in here, you could hold it up, for example. But you just... I'm going to go through, I'm out. Yeah, you're just like... And then it slams down.

I was very much nervous. Yeah. So Scaldi's like... And kind of gestures you along. Cool. Yeah. So that was your bonus action to dash. Action to lift it up.

Movement to get to the other side. So technically you can be like here. Nice. Perfect. Okay. So at this point, in terms of the initiative, we won't keep track of that because there aren't actually any monsters now. The bolter doesn't shoot past the room.

Um, so basically it would take you two or three rounds. So, four rounds for the two lonely boys who can't breathe very long. So it's been about twenty-two... Lonely boys?...twenty-four seconds. Lonely boys? I can't breathe very long. So it's been about 24 seconds. Lonely boys? I can do it in three. But you guys can meet up. Scrubs.

Oh. Yeah. So all of these guys basically get to a meeting. So we all have a lovely little meeting. Yeah. Everybody swims up to the back. I suppose Nova swims to us, tugs us to come backwards,

Uriah turns up. Yes. I'll point towards the entrance, the main entrance that we all came in and say that we can go, well, I'm going to say that, obviously.

So you all just basically go back to the main entrance. Blah! Back to the staff. Back to the staff. Blah! You burst, you break water,

take a big breath of air. What was that noise? I'm bleeding profusely. I'm just bleeding profusely everywhere. Please, how's everyone else? This is the wrong way. This is the entrance. Well profusely. I'm just bleeding profusely everywhere. Please, how's everyone else? This is the wrong way.

This is the entrance. Well, I know. I just figured we'd need to find a place to get to quickly. What happened? There was a great big thing shooting bolts, and it was horrible. Some sort of old weapon attached to the ceiling, like a big crossbow. Just started shooting. That's what they said in the ceiling, like a big crossbow. Just started shooting. That's what they said in the scroll, was it not? The defenses?

It's done, magical defenses. I'm so sorry, Uriah. No, don't be, it's fine. I didn't know what to do. It's fine, I've got plenty of health left, don't worry. Well, I, plenty of health. Plenty of health. That's very exact.

I'm very, very healthy. I feel very healthy. I'm very very healthy. I feel very healthy. You've got a bulge in your back. Despite this, I know it looks awful, but don't worry. Give me ten minutes and I'll start casting Prayer of Healing. Yeah. So that will affect, I guess everybody, up to six creatures.

That literally affects everyone. Yep. You do that, you're not interrupted. Ten minutes. Carry on while I just figure out what I need Eshun to do here. 10 minutes. Carry on while I just figure out what I need to do here. Yes, some sort of device mounted into a room seemed to be protecting a doorway or something. Well, if that's what the scroll was talking about, then there's a doorway to a shrine. Shrines are nice normally, right? Shrines have probably gone bad, and that's where all the ghosties are coming from.

Sounds like that would be where bad things nice normally, right? Shrines have probably gone bad, and that's where all the ghosties are coming from. Sounds like that would be where bad things were happening, right? Sounds like that's where, if we want to put a stop to what's going on, then yes, we'll need to go that way. Had we stopped... Bwaah! 17 healing to everyone. Perfect. Bwaah!

Galdi's back up to form. Thank you. Thank you, Willik. I've got even half. But yes, we'll need to figure out some way past it. It has perfect vision of the entire room. Oriah tried to go up some stairs, but they seemed to activate some sort of trap,

a gateway that shut on us. Can we get back through there? Is that the way we need to go? I think so. I don't know. There was another natural looking cavern. But it was small and narrow and

probably quite dangerous. Quite tight. Nova, give me a survival check. Why? Am I bleeding out in the water? Yeah, you're bleeding out. 14. The only thing you can think of, that natural cavern, it would be vaguely where part of the mech was.

Like maybe its hand, because you could see its other hand was buried in the ground. So its arm is probably in that vague area. And its chest is separate. I guess she just swam from that direction. So she just needs to look backwards over the ruins. She knows where it is, yeah. Oh, now that I think about it and look at the war machine, I think that naturally leads towards the war machine

with the Tiangong fragment, yeah. Tiangong, you want to say anything? No. It doesn't respond. Nothing. So we need to go down back that way but not towards the magical defenses. Well I would imagine that if there's ghosts they might be hanging out in the shrine. I don't know, Scaldi? I imagine that normally a corrupted source of faith will anger spirits and these were defenders of Siaska. So I imagine that that's the cause, but I mean, if you want to investigate the giant

war machine for your friend here, yeah, I suspect that maybe its arm would be in that area, but the rest of its body would probably be deeper below. I mean, it could be that whatever magical energy Tiangong is picking up is what's causing the whole... It could be. I can't give you any easy answers, I'm afraid. If we shut down what's happening with the ghosts, then we don't have to deal with them while we go and find...

Well, yeah, I assumed we'd do ghosts first and me maybe a second if you guys are nice enough, but... Oh, I just assumed the... I'm certain they're assisting. I just assumed the shard was what was causing it. Do you think? I don't know. Actually, that's true. We know nothing true we know nothing they don't know in my experience Tiangong's energy powers

machines weapons I don't know about ghosts but could it cause unrest I don't know could it be powering the bolt fire Bolt? Fira? Oh, maybe. Can Mark help a girl out? Looking at the defence, that looks like it was installed into these rooms. Long before the mech would have turned up. That was the defence of the keep. No, I don't think so, because also, using the ether, that's something Starbane would do. And the bolt mech thing, the bolt machine looks like good guy stuff.

So how do we shut that down without it shooting at us? How high was it on the ceiling? I mean, the water, the platform was about 5, 10 feet out of the water. There is air there, but then the machine is set into the ceiling. It's about maybe 10, 15 feet from the ground, from the water. If I could sense, see the magic, would I be able to tell where the activation button is?

Or deactivation button? I don't know. Why would there be a button? Lever. Switch. I don't know. There must be a button? Lever. Switch. I don't know, there must be something to turn it on. I feel like it just needs smashed pieces probably. I imagine that breaking it will certainly work.

I mean, it did seem to, Nova used some sort of spell to make it hot, which seemed to do something. It didn't, yeah. It seemed to have some magical defense, though. Yeah. Yeah, my spells seemed somewhat effective, but... So hit it more times.

I couldn't get close to it. I don't have any long range that would be effective underwater, so it's difficult. It's a tricky one. Either we could try and sneak up way past it or, yeah some way to fight it but once you get it seems that once you stepped onto the stairs that's when the gateway shut down on us so at least we know that now that we can't get caught out by it well I think all of us together we might be able to deal with it I mean it was there there that's the next place to be then just tackle it as a group mm-hmm yes yeah I think it was probably my bad for being so headstrong and saying we all go to the head.

It's fine. There is no way that we could have known about it. No, there's no way. I'm not doing a self-pay thing. Please don't shout at me again. It's okay. All of us here will be totally fine. We can go against it, smash it to pieces, or turn it off. I'll touch you on the shoulder. You've just healed for 10 HP. Again? Yay! I don't think I can reach it. I had Scalby stacked underneath all my other notes the whole time. smash it to pieces or turn it off and like touch it on the shoulder you've just healed for 10 HP again yay I don't think I can reach it I had Skaldi stacked underneath

all my other notes the whole time wow mark you oh no she has a spell and I had one for her I had all of her stuff because Nightjar sent it to me but

it's the fact I spent ages looking at it and then it's because it was on a bigger piece of paper than I thought it was anyway okay so we need to lift up a portcullis everyone get in there And then you're just looking at it, and then it's because it was on a bigger piece of paper than I thought it was. Anyway. Okay, so we need to lift up a portcullis. Everyone get in there. I could levitate you, and you could go up and whack it.

Plan. Sure. So we'll need to do a portcullis. Sure. Give me ten minutes. Yeah, that's the thing. We're going to be trapped in there, because as soon as you... Well, at least as soon as you touch the stairs, it went off, right? Yes. The portcullis came down okay sounds like it

targets areas so spread out okay I'm ritual casting yeah it's fine it's like detect magic shall we give us a go let's right so basically you can swim up to the room without worrying about breath so just put yourselves in the order that you're going well as you get to have to open the portcullis. Well, as you get down to the end, the portcullis is gone. It's like it's retracted back up. Okay. Oh, so you basically can breath.

Breath not detected. It seems to be that because you spent about 20 minutes outside doing ritual magic or casting prayer and then ritual spells, that's reset because the stairs have gone back to normal stairs as well it's all these healing magic a cantrip or like a normal spells no such thing what a dream so yeah so you're basically i'm assuming you're keeping back so you're not stepping into the room because this thing only seems to target when you go in um but yeah you can see the portcullis is raised, you can see the room as normal.

But the second... I mean, you guys are prepared, so I'd say that you guys can have a surprise round, you know it's there. You can basically all take a free full turn. Okay. Okay. So I guess, are we re-rolling initiative? Do your surprise round first, then we'll roll initiative. Okay. Because you might be able to destroy this in one surprise round.

You said you were going to levitate straight away, didn't you, Nova? Yeah, I guess. If you want to levitate me above the water... The only thing is you have to get up. I can cast levitate on you, but it means you go like... You can just go vertical. Oh, right. So I need to get...

It's not flying. You can just go up and down. So you have to wait... Unless you push against the wall. Yeah. But the other thing is, Nova, you don't forget you can ready actions. So Nova could just be at the entrance and say, when Ayla is underneath it, I will levitate her up.

You could do that. Yeah, I'm just double checking if it's a touch. It's going to take me a couple minutes to get there. I don't believe it is. I've used levitate, it's not touch. Okay, so yeah, when... It'll take me a while to get there. When Ayla's in place, I'll cast Levitate on her.

Okay, so that's your, you're just going to hold your turn for that. Anybody else doing anything? Because you've got a surprise round. The thing is, the surprise round is going to be taken up with ganging into the area. Yours is just swimming. It is, yeah. For most of us, it's going to be ganging into the area. Well, for the people with ranged spells, they'll be fine. Because they can just go up straight up into the air and then So I'm going to do...

Okay, so do you want to just move Ayla? So she's going to go 45, 10, 15, 20, 25... I'll just open up with a... 45, so you get there with the whole turn. So next turn you can just step in and then get... Can I bonus action rage on this turn? You could do, yes. Yep, you can do that. So I'm just ready in place?

Yep, so you're raging. So Ayla swims forward like, just getting mad as she swims through. Angry. What are the rest of you guys going to do? So you're going to wait here to cast the thing, or do you want to move in? Can I move in?

Not that far, to the left there Not that far to the left there. So Kul moves in there. Lucius, I'll go there. 15 and be on the surface. Okay, so you just want to go like here? So I'm going in and I'm doing a Readied action for when Aayla is about to use an attack. I'll guiding bolt it so that she has advantage. Oh, okay. Can I do that? Yeah, sure. And then Raya, what do you want to do?

Yeah, I'll move in, yeah. A massive arrow ring. 15? Yeah, and I'll stay about there. Yeah? Yeah. You do want to dash and try and get to the stairs, or do you want to just, like, get to the surface? Oh, I could try and get to the stairs, why not? Yeah. Yeah.

5, 10, 15. Yeah. So I can go about there. Okay, so those of you who are doing ranged attacks, you guys can do those now. Can I bonus attack hexblade cursor as well okay yeah yeah natural 20 actually no you can't explain it if you're ready to action is to cast a spell you can't break the two spell kind of limit because that's a bonus action yeah but it's still a fur it's still a spell slot spell it's hex yeah it's a spell. Hexblade Curse. Oh, Hexblade Curse.

No, you can do that. Sorry, I thought you were casting Hex. I don't got Hex. Hexblade Curse is fine. Yes, you can do that. Skaldi is going to cast Sanctuary on Oriah. Ooh. Which means that if it tries to attack you,

it has to make a saving throw. Oh, nice. You're protected by Field of Magic. Cool. 20 points of acid damage. Wow! Wow! Yes. He rolled an acid damage of 20. Fuck yeah. How. 20 points of acid damage. Wow! Wow! Yes.

He rolled an acid 20. Fuck yeah. How much? 20 points of acid damage. Yes. And then that's fucking good.

I command C. Yeah. How much? So that would be another five. 25. And is that acid arrow? Acid.

Mel's acid arrow. Mel's acid. So next turn, on its turn, it will take damage as well. Yes. That doesn't get doubled unfortunately for the crit.

Okay. And Quill? So I did 10 damage with the Guiding Bolt, but that means that Ayla will have advantage. So you hit with that as well. What did you roll to hit? A 19. 19, yeah. Plus.

Cool. So that was that from that, that was that from that. Da-da-da. Okay, so now it's initiative. Wait, didn't you Hexblade Curse it? Yes. It doesn't do damage. So that 19 is a crit. For me. For her. Okay, so now it's initiative Wait, didn't you hexblade curse it? Yes For me for her, okay For you. You're not a hexblade warrior. Not yet. I'm not you could be over a little

15 quill Steve Let's see if we can get this wrapped up Lucius 19 Nova 15 if we can get this wrapped up lucius 19 uh nova 15 uh ariah 13 scaldi 15 i'm lucius right um lucius is actually the first to go first again melt yep okay i will um chromatic orb at level one acid again okay acid seem to go yes acid definitely you can see it pitting its metal components eating through the wood that makes it you can hear like the grinds you know

parts of them being broken off and grinding away 13 13 does not hit this thing unfortunately so you conjure the chromatic too much too early the dichromancy though you spaffed your acid up the wall yeah but 25 damage so that wouldromancy. So that would be four. Four. Yeah, so you watch as the orb splashes against the roof, but then you pull some of the orange colour and slam it into the thing. The only colour you can really see

is because you're close to Nova. You just have the dim light of her scarf. There's no light in this room, so you're pulling out just the faint bits of orange from your clothing that you can see. It's go, so roll your Melf's Acid Arrow damage. 2d4. That's a 3.

Another 3 points. On its turn, you can see it panicking, like, turning around. The fog powder's dissipated. It's going to shoot one bolt at Lucius, one at Quill. What the hell? You're the only ones who damaged it. 20 to hit Quill.

Yep, that'll do it. 12 to hit Lucius. I was actually healed. It hits. Wouldn't have blocked it, still. Your AC is 12, so it hits. So Quill, you're going to take seven. Can I not look? Huh?

I rolled a 12. I know I am. That's going to be 11 points of damage to Quill. Oof. And then 11 points of damage to Lucius. How fair. Diplomatic. As you both get blasted by these bolts.

After them it is Ayla. So can I move up so that I'm definitely going to be in a position? You're underneath it. Yeah. move up so that I'm definitely going to be in a position. You're underneath it. Yeah, but if this platform, I want to make sure that when I come back down, I can perch myself on that platform. You're basically hugging the wall and then

you gently. Okay, that's fine. But I just kind of wanted to be on the platform. So you get up to it and then Nova levitates. So you get levitate. I'm going to reckless attack twice. Cool. I believe this is Reckless Attack twice. Cool, yeah, go for it. This is when I would have done the Guiding Bolt.

Oh, well, yeah, but I'm going to do it twice anyway. Yeah. Wait, oh, yeah. Lucius would have had advantage. No, because my hold action was to Guiding Bolt when Aayla attacked. Okay. So technically he wouldn't have shot me because I hadn't damaged him yet. So I'm getting this.

So this is not Reckless. It's from Quill's Guiding Bolt. Just take the one. Divide that by... 25 to hit. Hits. A riot. What do you get? Saving throw. Ooh, that fell.

Win the campaign. Passes at saving throw. Credit roll. 9, 10, 11, 12. I think we're done here. 14 damage from the hammer. And then 3 damage halved for the lightning. You get levitated up, and with the acid having eaten away most of its form and the guiding bolt having blasted many of its components on, one swing, you knock it off of its entire mount, into the water.

The thing is destroyed. And it lands on a rock. This thing is like, when you concentrate fire on it, it wasn't much of a challenge for you. It was when three of you swim in the room on its own and it locks you off and you can't escape that it's like lol, lol, lol, lol, lol. Where is it?

I'm just standing up there with a hammer like, ah. Yeah, you're like, and then oh, it's dead. And now, actually, Ayla, as you reach the top, you can see that there are a few dead bodies lying around. They look like they once held like bows, but they've kind of rotted away.

And then behind them, there is a large door, this large, about 10 feet wide gold door with the images of Siaska emblazoned onto it that seems to lead further into the complex. Complex. And that's pretty much where we can wrap it up. I mean, you guys, I'm assuming, will swim up. What happens when we get up?

The only thing is you get up to the stairs. So this is actually quite funny. So what are you going to do? Because you know that they're going to turn into a slide. What do you guys want to do? I'm just standing up there. This is like 10 minutes. Because Ayla just floats down and then just stands on the time reach up to a limb

All right The stairs right here. I'll go up the stairs Five plus decks so Wait, thanks a save? Dex save. Oh, ten. The stairs, as you get to the top, you hear this k-kunk. The stairs lock into a slide.

You slide into Lucius, knocking him back into the water. And the portcullis slams down. That's hilarious. But seriously, give me your hand. 1.1, Ayla just helps you all up. It's like that river you fell into, remember Aayla? Oh yeah, really, and then as I pull him up I'll just drop him back in.

You're getting dropped. What river? Was it like the room you fell in? Please. Eesh. I've only got one arm, I can't swim. Or Dwalendil. Don't sass me and then expect me to pity you. I don't know that.

You don't know that. I don't know that, but lol. Just like Dwalendil. Oh, yeah. Holy crap. Cool. And with that, yeah, I think we'll wrap up today. I'm assuming you will move up to the door and head on through.

Yeah, we'll carry on next time. Which means that I can just start with a fresh map next time. Woo! Buy some new dice. That was bad. Yeah, I will. Rhiannon's had good dice rolls for a lot of stuff

that was bad that was a really bad session the highest I got was a 10 that whole time holy crap it happens that was funny it happens to me a lot

new dice week I'm kind of pleased that three of you went in that room by yourselves like I was just like a bunch of e's that was so funny that is D&D

like going through the dungeon still haven't, I'll just go up these stairs. Nothing bad can happen to me, it's not happened before. Meanwhile we just had some really dumb conversations about favourite colours. You guys are just sat in like a little kind of like musty damp corridor like, do you like green? I'm just really glad though that Oriah didn't die I know

How close were you? I was miles away, I'd only taken like 9 damage that encounter And then you took the 20, so it wasn't that bad Actually I didn't heal that much You were the closer one I think it's because so much damage was dealt to everyone as a whole that we thought

that you were really low I was just like nah, it's fine. I should learn though. I should learn my lesson. My prayer of healing was quite good though. It was 2d8 and I rolled like 2 7s. But I think MVP for the definitely old crit boy over there. 25 damage.

Acid damage, which it was resistant to a lot of different damages. In fact, it was immune to a lot of damage. Oh wow. So acid was a good shout. I did kill two ghosts. acid damage which it was resistant to a lot of different damages in fact it was immune to a lot of damage oh wow so acid was a good shout I did kill two ghosts you did kill the two ghosts the two weakest things thanks very much

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