High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois | #43 - Secrets of the Galecrown (Part 2)

Episode Date: August 22, 2019

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Trot, can you speak? Yeah. There we go. No, I had a problem speaking. Problem fixed. Problem fixed. The party have headed to Galecrown, palace of the Sky City of Gusthaven,

home to Sky Prince Aradan, and in their investigations into the mysterious death of Lucius's parents and his alleged own death in the courts of the Sky City of Lucius' parents and his alleged own death in the courts of the Sky City of Gusthaven. The party have found themselves in the library where they discovered a secret door and accompanied by Elois, a senior stave of the city of Gusthaven,

they have begun to explore it. Making their way down the stairs with a little bit of time remaining on his detect magic, Quillock and Kalar have spotted a glowing magical glyph upon the floor. Sentry, wait. Sentry, stop. Okay.

Okay, there's another glyph on the floor there. Okay. What school is it? I am just about to find out. Destruction. It is abjuration. Oh, okay. You can describe it as a thing.

It covers an area no more than 10 feet in diameter. So it's basically like two steps of the stairs going down. So large, kind of like five foot wide steps heading down. Okay. Because everything in Dungeons & Dragons, everything in every fantasy world, is measured in exactly five foot squares. Nice.

Perfect. I could dispel it again. But then that's it. I'm out of spells for today. Does it cover the entire width? Yes, it covers like the entire width of the two steps on the floor. What if we jump over it? You could jump, yes. You can absolutely jump it. I mean, there's a risk of someone

failing that jump. I cast Shield of Faith on Quill. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. That's a good start. How long does that last? It'sill. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. That's a good start. I got you, boy. How long does that last? It's a concentration spell, ten minutes, plus two bonus AC. If you were protecting an area and you were...

Calling back to him. Yeah. If you were protecting an area, what would you put on the floor? He looks at you, he's like, Well, there are several. A Glyph of Warding is the most likely. If that's... Can we hop over it?

Generally, it requires contact with these sorts of trap spells, yes. I'm going to jump over it. Okay, so what's your strength score? It's fucking incredible. Minus two. Thirteen, and you are... Now, this is a very tight corridor, but you could have everyone stand to the side.

I've made it a bit wider in the miniature, but it's not really more than about seven feet wide. I could, like we did before the abbey, I could help you jump it. With gust. Gust can't trip. I'd trip downstairs if you did that. It's two steps.

I can jump two steps. It's about ten feet of distance. For two steps? Yeah, they're five foot long steps. Yeah. I did say that. I said five foot wide steps and it covers two of them. D&D is like Minecraft.

Everything's just blocking. It's just blocked. No, it's more than two steps, but it covers a ten foot amount of them. It's just blocked. No, it's more than two steps, but it covers a 10-foot amount of them. It's not two steps. It's several steps, but the glyph is spread out over about 10 feet of steps. If we all need to do this, we need to get rid of it.

Because that's too high a risk for one of us. Let me through, let me through, let me through, let me through, let me through. Coming through, coming through. Don't go too far, don't go too far. Just so you guys know, I will explain a little bit about like jumping and stuff because it's not that difficult um it's basically well the problem is is it's difficult for people who are not very athletic hello uh generally when you make a jump uh you can if you're if it's a long jump like

you're trying to go distance um if you have up to 10 feet of a running start, you can jump your strength score in feet. 13. So you can jump up to 13 feet. As long as you have a 10-foot run-up, you can jump 13 feet forward. 7 foot. That's the problem. Nova can't jump very far. I can do 12 feet, apparently. 18-foot horizontal leap.

Oh my god! That is if you have a running start.'re just Luigi jump Almost imagining M.Python It is It does decrease If you are making just a standing jump

Okay That is a running jump 18 feet Standing jump you are not like God damn Luigi just flying through the air I mean Eloise are you happy to make the jump 18 feet. Standing jump, you are not like goddamn Luigi, just flying through the air. I mean, are you happy to make the jump? He's quite elderly. He's like, I'm

not sure I could make it. I could stay on this side whilst we investigate down below. I'm just going to start dispelling magic. You cast Dispel Magic? Yes. Okay. Give me a second. I was looking up jumping, but now I'm just going to start dispelling magic. You cast Dispel Magic? Yes. Okay. Give me a second. I was looking up jumping, but now I'm looking up something else.

Here we go. You would clear it if I used Gust on you as well. What's Aayla's? Because it does 5 feet. Aayla's strength. Oh, he's 18 as well. Okay. Yes, you can just dispel this glyph without any extra check.

It's a third-level spell or lower. So with Dispel Magic, the glyph fades. Okay, cool. I guess we'll carry on. Look, face it. I was never going to make it. Look at me. I'm a noodle.

Yeah. It's these sorts of things which kill us ultimately. It's true. It's best not to risk it. And it just ends it. It doesn't suppress it. It just ends it completely. Worst case, that could have been an alarm.

And then again, I think we're being super sneaky right now, but we don't want anyone knowing And then again, I think we're being super sneaky right now, but we don't want anyone knowing we're here, I guess. If you've not detected any more spells, then it's unlikely there is an alarm here. Let's go down here. You continue the remaining sort of like 15 feet of these stairs.

You see two more magical effects. Okay. One over the actual entranceway, like the corridor that leads into the room That you can see Stretching out beyond you And then another Large glyph

On the floor Covering about Another ten feet Both are abjuration spells Again Wow I mean if you give me A rest for an hour

I could try again I just feel a bit dizzy Actually Is there a way We can trigger it With Something inanimate would that work

why would we want to trigger it no I'm generally when you conjure these kind of effects the way that abjuration works is whoever created these would have had to have set conditions normally it would be a creature passes here or some

such to prevent things such as sneak I mean there is this moment where it's looking at him and he's there on the stairs looking up at Ayla

it's like everybody does the like and he's just like again we have no idea what these spells are I can also dispel twice if we want to get rid of both of these. And what would you have left in case there is something nasty in the room?

I've got three third-level spell slots. That would use two of my third. Two of my third and highest spell slots. Give me an hour. Sit down, and I'm back in business. An hour? Mm-hmm. Do you restore spell slots's on like a short...

Warlock, baby! Oh my god. Yeah. Do we want to sit here on the stairs for an hour? Smeak's just going to run into it in an hour's time. Yeah. Use your spells. Okay.

Shall I just... double dispel? Yeah, sure. That's just Thundergun. One of them, so the one on the outer frame, you cast a spell, it evaporates. The other one, I need you to roll a d20 plus your wisdom modifier. Ooh, that's a tough one.

Right, okay. Plus my wisdom modifier. If you're casting this as a cleric, which is what I'm assuming you are. Oh, I think so. Spell magic, cleric, yeah. Ooh, ten. The spell does not vanish. It is too powerful for your dispel to remove it and I still burn the slot I suppose make ways now what do we do this

telepathic talking some of you could attempt jump over it and investigate the rest of the room that's true send echo it, see what happens. Okay. Yeah? Yeah, I haven't seen Echo in ages. As long as Echo doesn't touch the floor, I think it's fine. Yeah. Yeah. Echo can just fly over it.

Yeah. Yeah. Way he goes. Okay, so you conjure Echo and you send it in. So Echo, you actually see what is on the map, basically, with one small exception. You look into a large circular room with bookshelves surrounding the walls uh gold furnishings very similar to the library you saw upstairs you can see a small desk over to one side with a few uh journals or papers um you can see potion vials, some strange spheres, like metal spheres. But then Echo's attention is drawn to a creature,

basically in sort of like an alcove in the stone wall. It is humanoid in shape, but made from metal. It's not a guardian, but it is of a similar style and design, but it lacks the matrix that gives a guardian sentience and it's just kind of locked into the wall. Okay. I will send Echo back and I'll relay that to the guys. Okay, so that glyph on the floor,

could that potentially awaken? It could do, yeah. If there is some sort of creature. All we need is confirmation that this is the room that he's been teleported through, right? I could use the eye again. Sentry? Yeah.

Or you could jump it. Those circular metal thingy with loggies you said that Echo saw, did that look like the thingy that blew us up? Oh, did it? Could be. Could be. Cool. We should be really careful.

Eloise, with your witness of this room and its goings-on, is that enough? Yeah, I mean, this certainly gives us a cause for concern, but the problem is we do not know who in the palace has been visiting this room. You mentioned papers of some sort? Perhaps they may give us some more clues, or perhaps this creature has something on it that we could use? I think, considering it's my fault for all here, I'll do the job.

Wait, I can cast Levitate on you. Or anyone. Me. There's so many spells. We need to be careful. In case that thing does awaken and I need you, we need aggressive action. It's not a spell, it's just me being a ganassi. Ganassi are cool. I could find out what happens. You can only do it once.

I could find out what happens when you walk on the cliff. I just need to ask the question, see it in the eye. Do you think that's really remarkable power? I imagine that whatever it is, it will not be good. It will either awaken this guardian creature that you saw.

The most common use of a glyph is to provide an explosion similar to a fireball. Would that not be a different school of magic? No, the spell glylyph of Warding is an abjuration spell, however you can instill other spells into it

I see I imagine that to detect magic ritual you would see the glyph itself Okay I can jump this easily Just give me a run up, everyone stand to the side So this is just blocking the entrance this other glyph I can jump this easily. Just give me a run up. Everyone stand to the side.

So this is just blocking the entrance, this other glyph. It's like right in front. So if I were to, I don't really have anything on the map, but I can put like a D4. It's basically covering like this 10 foot square. Of just the entrance. Okay, so the rest of the room, as far as I can see, is clear by detect magic.

Which I guess is on its last legs. Detect magic. It's flickering flickering yeah what if i was to i was just wondering if i could like maybe levitate sentry or ala and then they can hover there and help swing everyone across yeah i could also just still i can still gust people across as well we don't all need to be in the room no I feel like I could just go in there find some information and get out again yeah if you levitate Lucius he just gets in there gets out okay back up in case the Guardian comes alive yes I'll jump straight out okay if you're sure you want me to levitate you or are you gonna jump I'll jump it that's fine well it looks like I'm going to hit the floor

So if everyone moves to the side Lucius can clear 13 feet Which is enough for him to jump So Lucius runs down And just like Lands just a little bit beyond the glyph itself Nothing happens, there's no flash Do you do a front flip?

As you land There is a moment You all kind of have that intake of breath as he lands, but nothing happens. The guardian doesn't come to life, the creature doesn't come to life, no spells go off. I don't see the glyph change at all. Okay, I'll skulk up to this left side

and start working my way around, checking for papers. I'll look at the papers, I'll look at the papers I'll look at the thing if there's any traps I don't like your face so you move up to here it's the left side of the room you mean making your way look for any loose papers or anything like that I can look at okay you go around looking at the bookshelves which are full of books I was like you know I'm looking at all the shelves, which are full of books. I was like, could we be trapped? You're looking at all the books, and you're like, is it trapped? Oh, look at the book traps. And all of the books

are historical books. Some of them appear to be magical theory, detailing events of the past, Gusthaven's history, histories of nobility, and then you see the desk that Sentry pointed out on the other side of the room to where you started, which has the loose papers on it.

So you kind of go around the whole thing. I'm found it, Sentry. Thorough. Excellent. And yeah, you find a collection of papers. It is written in Elven, which you obviously speak and read. I can't.

And it is a collection of written orders i don't have them written out because i didn't expect to actually recite them but it basically the gist of them is uh they seem to be orders of how to manage how to set up a number of people into positions of power within Gusthaven. It is communications with somebody called the Wind King, who is the leader of the Wind Barons. And it is detailing

messages like the Gusthaven scouts will be scanning this area on this date. Avoid it. Trade cargo coming in from gold throne this date this trade this wind route blah blah blah it's like giving insider information about where to strike supplies to steal uh there is there are reports of blackmail um several knights of siasca from the cathedral have been basically blackmailed into

spying and providing information by basically having their families threatened there is also the last couple of pages however what catch your attention they indicate your return one of them is specifically in fact in amongst the papers you find the letter you sent from Kaylee's rest to Gustave. Oh, my God. Here. Holy crap. From that letter is, the Elinasto boy is alive. We must deal with the contingencies.

Our agents may be compromised. I've dispatched assassins to Kaylee's rest where he sent the message. compromised i've dispatched assassins to kaylee's rest where he sent the message later on in the pages the the boy is missing from from uh kaylee's rest he seems to have vanished nobody knows what happened to him we may have been lucky blah blah blah blah he's returned i must must quickly deal with this the easiest scapegoat is Anastasia. He knows that she hates his family. Oh. However, we'll need to move quickly. I'll send agents to deal with him

and the nanny as quickly as possible. There are no names on these pieces of paper. Until the very end. Oh. Until the very end, where you find it is, it's written by somebody else and it's being scrumpled up and kind of thrown away in like anger. But you kind of pull it and you start opening it and you read in it, it is from somebody else. Juicy, juicy, juicy. It is from. else. Juicy, juicy, juicy.

It is from... The Sky Prince. It's from Salvarius Atheron, who is the head of the Atheron noble family. Oh, we don't want those guys. Salvarius Atheron basically says, I can't believe you've let this happen. Why haven't you dealt with him already? He's going to ruin everything.

That whelp owes me money. I won't forgive this, Eloise. And as you read that and you begin turning around, you see above the door this long iron staff and you just see Eloise, like, his hands crackling with power as you turn as... It's Eloise!

You shout that as something happens. he's going to take you. Shout that as something happens. I was going to do zone of truth. You should have zoned it. You were so close. And I absolutely weaseled my way out of not doing it. Fucking Brookstone every fucking time. I need everybody except Lucius to make a constitution saver.

Oh, my God. Oh, you'll get plus twos. You'll get plus twos every fucking time. Oh, shit. Woo-hoo! We got Brooks turned. I even said it! I even said it!

We suck at this. I really did. She just got it. I was, like, if you hadn't spotted all those things like the next thing I was gonna do was use the eye and just be like who has access to this room strange You bastard What'd you guys get? 20 9 24

Ayla Oh Ayla I've already rolled Smeeks Oh shit Ayla Constitution Smeeks dead right? 19, 22, 3, 5, 20, 21 Okay so everybody who got above a 16

Which is not Smeek Or me Or Quill Take 30 points of cold damage Okay, so everybody who got above a 16, which is not Smeak. Or me. Or Quill, take 30 points of cold damage. Whoa! Those of you who saved take half, so you take 15. As a cone of cold, Eloise steps back and fills this narrow corridor where he was at the back with ice. Smeak is frozen solid and shatters.

Oh! No! No! Oh, actually, no. He becomes a frozen statue until it thaws. He's frozen solid. Smeek is just... Frozen completely solid. Look at the T-shirt, Mark! I'm sorry!

I didn't choose to come down here! I didn't choose to figure out the big conspiratorial villain that I was going to have revealed way later on did I? You also hit his staff Can you track initiative for me because I actually don't have a reason to do it I guess we need to roll initiative Yeah, can we roll initiative?

By the way, everybody's name that you damaged me is bad news Why are you here? Just to watch us all suffer Can you put a Lois Lois Lois now can you also put Guardian Guardian oh cool nice rock and roll so let's do some initiatives. Rock and roll. We've got danger lights now. So Alois is an eight. Eight for Alois, yeah.

And the guardian is a seven. Seven, nice. Right, so what did we get? Let's go around the other side. Let's do Lucius. 22. 22. 22 initiative.

Nova. 22. 22. Quill 18 no sorry 14 14 Aayla sorry

natural 20 plus 4 so 24 Aayla's going first cool I got 4 damn it don't need to worry about Smeek there you go

do you want the boy yes also if you've got like a spare spare pen or a pencil. Oh, I brought some. Nice. Nice. Fucking hell.

Okay. Fucking elves. Right, so Ayla is the first one to go. And she would have taken 15 damage as well, right? Yep. Okay. Ayla first to go. And where is she? She's right next to him, and where is she she's right next to him she is

right next to him yes she is going to turn around and literally two-hand grab the staff and like try and push him against the wall okay um i guess subduing him in some way she just wants to try and like grapple him basically yeah and like is it the staff uh no the staff is actually above like you can see this iron staff but he has he's not no the staff is actually above like you can see this iron staff but he has he's not holding a staff oh he has like a bracelet with like a little uh arcane focus staff is above the door yeah it's like basically above the door so like lucius that's why none of you have seen it because lucius as he turned around sees this iron oh i see so i thought it's the staff that quill recognizes no in that case she'll just turn around like press him against

the wall like grab both his hands, press him against the wall. Like, grab both his hands and hold him against the wall. I guess that would stop him from... Potentially. So she can make a Athletics check. Okay. 11 plus Athletics. 18.

18. Athletics plus 7. Damn. I mean, yeah. Like, she basically gramps him like gramps his arms and shoves him against the wall

he just kind of is just like I was hoping that you would not find this place but I must deal with you now what a shame why

Ayla says there are many reasons none of which I have to why? Ayla says. There are many reasons, none of which I have to, none of which I have to explain to you, waste, what do you call that? Lowland wastrel.

Waste? She's a wild elf. He's looking at Ayla with just like, Racism. Super racism. Racism powers. Oh my God, you can see it in Racism. Super racism. Racism powers. Oh my god, you can see it in his face. Super racism.

Nova. Oh, super fucking high AC. In its... In its... What? Just Nova. You're okay. I'm gonna attack and green flame blow. Green flame blow.

Or him. Yeah. Oh, Aayla. Or Smeak. Get off him! Yeah, I'm just gonna kick S. Or him. Yeah. No, Aayla. Or Smeak. Get off him! Yeah, I'm just going to kick Smeak over. Okay. Yeah, okay, so plus seven. Wow, that's three 19s in a row that I've rolled.

Plus seven is that. Okay. And I'm going to dual wheel? I guess he subdued, so is it like... You'd have advantage, yeah. Should I roll again just in case? Yeah, just so you get it correct. 18.

So that's a d10 plus 4, so 7 points of damage. And a green flame blade. There's no other targets within range. But doesn't that give him damage, though? No. Oh, no, it does extra d8 point of damage to him yeah but then it strikes a target within five feet as well it does extra damage to him yeah so i thought you'd already rolled that uh plus five so just seven plus five so the seven

was your base weapon damage and then you add the extra d8 okay okay so yeah you strike him and you can see that there is some sort of ward. Like, you kind of strike him and you feel this kind of globe around him that begins fragmenting as you hit it and deal damage to him. But it doesn't seem to affect him directly just yet. Some sort of shield. Some sort of shield.

Trixie bugger. Mmm. After Nova, Lucius. You see the Guardian, by the way. As soon as Nova's blade hits Eloise, the Guardian creature begins pulling itself. It's obviously not acted yet, but you can see it is activated. I'm going to move 5, 10, 15, 20, 15.

You moved. You stepped on the symbol. I thought that was related to the animated armor. No, I need you to... Oh, dear. I need you to make a constitution saving throw, please. Would anyone else? Plus two.

Nope. He is not within range of sentry. Oh! That just teetered around for ages before landing on the one. That was like fake. No, wait. One. That's a natural one.

Plus two. You don't get the plus two from sentry. You just have your normal one. Sentry is too far for the aura. Six. I just quickly borrowed d10. I just need to do this twice. Do I have one?

I don't think I've got one out at the moment. There we go. Bam. I guess I'm just so shocked that it's Eloise that I'm just stumbling. Yeah. No, I like it. I like the RP. Thank you.

Not going to like it in a minute. Oh, my God. That's so bad. Uh-oh. I just rolled so high. Hello, darkness, my old friend. What's your max hit points? 34.

Okay, this isn't going to kill you outright. You take 59 necrotic damage. Oh my god. Like black lightning just shoots up as it strikes you and just sucks the life force out. 59 necrotic, 10d10 necrotic damage on a failed save. Needed another five more to outright kill you. Is it still at you? Bah!

That's how I die. You turn around. Elois, Elois, you kind of step forward, and it hits you, and you just watch as Lucius's body slumps to the ground. The symbol does, however, evaporate. Got rid of the glyph! Scream, Lucius! Like, scream to the ground. The symbol does, however, evaporate. Get rid of the glyph! I scream, Lucius! I scream out.

Yeah, you scream out. Yeah, but what part of his body does that lightning hit? Injury check. My favourite part of the game. Yes, this is a magic spell, so it can't, like, break bones. He's still damned. Roll, yeah, do an injury check.

The DC for this is half of 59, so... Oh, really? Yeah, because it's half the damage taken. 25? It'd be 25 plus another 4, 29 the DC. I don't think you can pass it. Four. So roll the d20 again.

Oh. Ha! That's an 18. That'd be, So no lingering permanent damage You're just laced with lightning As this black lightning just Coalesces around you When you cry out Lucius You just kind of hear just like

Elois just like Perhaps now it can all be done and my plans can continue I had hoped that you would stay away from this place boy. After Lucius because that ends your go, Quill. I thought this was going to be like an investigation episode I swapped out so many spells.

So did I! But I swapped out like a ton of spells like specifically for an investigation to overcome that. So then Quill, you perceive Quill to have a he went to the library I didn't expect you to guys I forgot that like I guess like

because I had forgotten that Quill had seen the place and Tom's idea of like well I can just go and see if I recognize them I hadn't even considered it I was like fuck this whole session by the way I had planned for you to be like let's follow this mysterious mage who's gone missing. Oh, we're going to follow the clues

and try and track down where she is. Oh, I had a whole thing placed in the chains, which is a cool place below the city. New piece of history lore. Oh, that'd be cool. Nope. She's dead. I want to fight Sephiroth, please.

Out of Midgar, Sephiroth, here we come. Just going to load in this PS1 save. Fuck me. Like speedrunning Breath of the Wild. Quill. Yes. That's what D&D is all about. Christ.

So the Guardian's awakened. I can't see that, really. And Eloise is pinned against the wall right behind me, right? And Lucius is smouldering on the floor. I'm going to run towards to run to Lucius. I guess I can see that the spell's dispelled. Yeah. Or used.

And I'll do a level 3 Cure Wounds. Nice. Thanks, buddy. So what is that? 3d8? Level 3 Cure Wounds? 3d8 plus 4? 3d8 plus Wisdom.

Yep. 3d8s, please. 7.8 3d8 plus wisdom yep 3 8 please 7 nice 6 13 nice 2 15 15 plus 4 19 I healed yeah 19 health as well that's pretty good um anything else I haven't got any bonus action. Oh, actually, what's shillelay? Shillelay. Shillelay. You can make a quarter star for a cudgel into a weapon that uses your wisdom. Can I use the bonus action of just...

Can I bonus action dodge? No. It's an action to take the dodge action. I will... Yeah, I'll just... Do you have the barrier ring anymore? You have the barrier ring. He has it.

Quill! The armour! Yeah, I can't do anything. Bonus action. Disappointing. Eloise's turn. Can Aayla make a charisma saving throw, please? No, don't.

I'm not a master. Aayla charisma. Mm-hmm. You're not... I'm on range. I'm on range. I don't think I am, am I? For Aayla.

Sorry. I don't know why that noise am I? For Eloise. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. I don't know why that noise is necessary. She got Constitution. Doesn't actually say... No, Charisma. Oh, Charisma. 17. 17?

Potentially plus two from this aura. Oh, wow. The 17 is alone. What did you roll? 17. Oh, nice. Plus zero. So, Eloise tries to banish her with Earthquake.

Oh, my God. Black Shroom magic. Wow. I mean, it wouldn't be permanentish her with a flash of magic. Wow. I mean, it wouldn't be permanent because she's on her home plane. Is she, though? Is she, though? That's a good question. She tries to banish her, but she kind of shrugs off the spell. She's in space.

That's what she had to go on. Yeah, by the way, is she... Yeah, she's... Did she think about that much? No. Just like, ah, I need a spell to get rid of the barbarian.

Banish is a great idea. She's not got a great charisma. We don't know her. And then as soon as Tom said that, I was like... We don't know what would have happened. This is why you don't take days off. That is actually all Eloise can do

on his turn. Good. However, that is an amperation spell So his ward regains hit points How is he being pinned? Where's the level of the spell? Is he able to cast banish? So the thing is

He's being pinned I'm not treating it as like He's not completely restrained Because he can just move his hands And he can still speak Oh his hands are still just like squidly paralyzed. Yeah, he's just like

like the same way with you guys, like just being like pinned like against something, I wouldn't stop you casting spells. Yeah.

If you had your hands tied and gagged, that prevents you casting spells. Gotcha. After Eloise, it is the shield guardians

go. It ignores Quill and that And unable to get past Because you're not Attacking Eloise At this point He's coming for Aayla You can see it just

But it can't get past Sentry So it's going to Attack Sentry He tries to punch you With his big metal fists I've got my 18 to hit.

18 does not hit. I throw in that go. 16 to hit. No hit. Bam! Essentially just holds up the shield. These huge, strong arms just bound into you. How titan-like is this guardian versus our resident plant guardian?

The shield guardian is bigger. It's a large creature creature so it's probably about nine feet tall um it's quite bulky but in terms of raw strength it and century are probably equal but this thing looks tankier it looks you know more well built this is like iron man 2 when you have the oh yeah the big chunky one yeah there you go like it thanks uh who is s century yeah i just need to like all right i'm gonna i'm just gonna attack the guardian then um i'm gonna use divine smite on it as well uh and i can spend that until you hit so no so i will do that 12 plus 6 12 18 plus 7 even yes hits definitely hits nice cool and then 18. Plus 7. Plus 7. Even. Yes. Hits. Hits. Definitely hits. Nice.

Cool. And then d8 plus 4. Where are your d8s? I always hide them. That's a 6 for the first one. And then I'm going to attack again. So that's d8 plus your plus 4, so 10. But then you Divine Smite,

right? Yeah. So what level spell do you want to spend? Because it's 2d8 for a first level spell, and then you get an extra d8 for every level spell slot. I'll do it at level 2. So you get another 3d8 on top of that. 3d8 on that one. So you're currently at 10. 10.

So 1, 2, 3. 10, 19, 22. 22, and then you can attack again. Attack again. I can't remember if I'm doing it for roll again. Yep, you do, yep. 12 plus 7, 19. 19 hits.

And then another d8 plus 4. So there's an 8. So 8, you could divide this might again if you want. I will do that as well. Can you burn two spell slots? I can burn two. Because it's not casting a spell. Huh. So

I'll do another 3d8 on that one. So you're casting a level 2, yep. Yep. Yep. Mine smites fucking dope. Oh man. That's 10, another 11 on top of that one. So it was 10 plus another 11. So 21. Yep. Holy crap. Damn. 43 points of damage. The axe begins

cleaving through the Guardian, and you can see it stumbling like, and it's just like, must reach Eloise, must reach Eloise. As you strike it, you do begin to see that its metal is beginning to knit itself back together very slowly. Right. It's like regeneration. Okay.

But yeah, you strike two whopping blows against it as we jump to Aayla at the top of the initiative. Could, I guess she saw him casting spells. Could she literally cover his mouth, but in the same movement, like, shove him against the wall? She can't do, you can't damage and try and, like, completely restrain

and silence somebody. Okay, well, I guess, yeah, just a very rudimentary version of silence. Put your hand over their mouth. Yep, she can try. What would she do? Probably make a strength check. 15.

So you've got a 20 on a dex. So he actually wriggles free, and he keeps moving his mouth, and she's not able to completely cover his mouth. Also, leaving one hand from pinning him, He now has more reach with his arms and stuff She's trying to like clamp her hands over his mouth Okay Can she do anything as a bonus?

She could rage but I don't think that would have affected her strength check wouldn't it? No, I don't think there's any other bonus action she can do No, I don't think there's any other bonus action she can do. So I guess she'll continue with whatever grapple she currently has on him, which is still better than nothing. Okay. I mean, she could just wail on the guy, but I'm still not sure about killing him. We can knock him out.

We can say, like, knock him out. Yeah, true. Okay. After Aayla's go, Nova. So I would like to cast Hexblade Curse on Eloise. And then, yeah, I guess I'll attack and Green Flame Blade him again. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 to hit. 12 does not hit him. Your advantage.

I have advantage? No, he's no longer properly like... No longer fully restrained, okay. Do I get anything from sentry being restrained? Nope, you get bones. Save me, Froze. Done? Yeah.

Okay, Lucius. Can I even see Eloise at this point? Yeah, I mean, the corridor, the creature is blocking a lot of the corridor, but you can definitely see, like, Ayla Nova basically fighting with Eloise in the back, but he's kind of behind one, 2, 3, 4 people, basically. All right.

I'm going to do a Chromatic Orb of Acid on the back of the Guardian at level 3. Okay, go for it. Spell attack! Spell attack! Acid as well. 15 plus 6, 21. 21 hits?

Yeah, hits the Guardian. 5d8. Nice. 2. I'm going to quickly go and run some... I'm just going to quickly grab some stuff from my cupboard. I need some. 21 hits, yeah, hits the garden. 5d8, nice. 2. I'm gonna quickly go and run some, um, I'm just gonna quickly grab some stuff from my cupboard. I need some extra items. What? Oh!

Okay, work out the damage while he's running off, I don't like that. 5. 17. I need all these d8s. Hey, now he can just say that you rolled max damage. He's gone. The players take control. Oh look, he fell over.

He's dead now. Where's the mini for Elois? But we banished him. Yeah, took a leaf out of your book. He's gone. What are you doing on DMs not here? Just rage, right? Yeah, he rolled max damage, weird. Yeah, yeah.

Got crits all around. Elois died. He's gone. He had a change of heart. Got crits. Crits all around. Eloise died. He's gone. Yeah. He had a change of heart. I get to decide that, not you. Right, how much damage?

22 acid. To the guardian. Yeah. Dockomancy. Yep. Of six. To guardian. I don't know if we can weave to Eloise.

Yeah, you can. Yeah. So I'll do that. So six points to Eloise. Just so he knows. Yeah, so you kind of streak out with this orange bolt that kind of weaves its way through your companions and strikes into the shield surrounding Eloise and begins fragmenting a little bit more. He kind of grunts a little.

He needs to be held accountable for his actions. Subdue him. Yes, gosh. He just laughs when he hears you say that. After Lucius, we go to Quill. Um, okay.

So this guardian is still just going hammer, hammer, ding, dong. It's trying to push, it's trying to get to Alice. But Sentry's kind of blocking its path. Like the true tanky guardian Sentry's kind of blocking its path. Like the true tanky Guardian Sentry. You shall not pass.

I will cast Hold Person on Elwes. Okay. I will counter spell that. Shit. I cast Cuddle on Eloise okay

um bonus actions movement uh I will use uh bonus action to inspire

sentry bardic inspiration Bardic inspiration. Bardic inspiration. What do you call out? Fight it. Fucking do it. Just do the thing. Thanks, Quill.

Do it. Do it. Eloise vanishes. He teleports. Oh, I knew it. No, he teleports to the back of the room. There's no impact from either. Oh, God.

No, it's just he can just teleport. It's a verbal only. What does it mean if we're all in a line, Mark? No. Sadly, casting teleport is his action. Yeah, shut up. But he will actually teleport himself next to the desk, actually. Oh, he's going to bomb us.

He picks up one of the spheres. Oh, shit. Guardian's turn. the desk actually. Oh he's gonna bomb us. He picks up one of the spheres. Oh. Shit. Guardian's turn. Guardian will seeing his master move and basically moves his way back. Century you get an attack of opportunity. We'll take that. You get an attack of opportunity. With what? Lucius? Uh no.

Lucius he doesn't ever really leave your threatened area. I guess I just try and scratch at him with my talons. Talon is good. It uses your reaction, so decide if you want to use it. Yeah. Because you hit first. Oh. Do I have any other reactions? Yes, you will.

15 plus 7, 21. Yes, you hit. You can keep that 8. 12. Yeah, d8 plus 4. 12 to hit? Yeah. Scratch at the air. Yeah, d8 plus 4.

So 12. 12. I'm not going to use my pistol. I thought you were going to use your pistol. I'm not going to use? Yeah. What did you do? I did the 8 plus 4. So 12. 12. I'm not going to use my pistol. He does regenerate at the start of his turn, but the opportunity attack helps mitigate preventing him from healing too much.

It essentially just cleaves him as he stomps past, and he just puts himself in front of Elois, and he just seems to stand looking at you. Oh, no. He can take an action, actually. He raises up a hand and you can see a small crystal embedded into it. Accessing. Spell storing.

Fireball. He's going to put a fireball about... Where can he catch most of you? Wait, he's casting five. Yep Everyone decent X 30 saving throw please We get plus twos from those of you who are within 10 feet of century so an over an Aila, but nobody else Dexterity so for ya, so that's plus two plus four, sixteen for me. This is it.

It's been an honour. It's been a pleasure and an honour serving with you. I mean, you'll go down, I doubt this will completely kill you. Don't say that. It's been a great time! Don't say that, don't say that. Banish me! Fifteen.

I'm a space elf too. Oh, a nice even twenty-five for the max, but what did you get on saving throws? 16 16 is enough Nice Well I got 17 as quill But Ava definitely fails Okay

So basically anybody who got above a 16 So what did you get? 21 21 So Lucius failed So anybody who got above a 16 You take half of 25 It's going to be 12

Okay Those of you who did not pass Take 25 fire damage I'm down You're down You're not outright dead Yeah No A little tickle 12. Those of you who did not pass take 25 fire damage. I'm down. You're down. You're not outright dead. No, it wasn't. A little tickle. Sid, just so you know,

the eagle is landing. It was 12 to people that halved. That's too interesting. And then Ayla took the full 25 Yeah but she's What happens to Smeek?

735 Oh that's right I mean it does say he's frozen until thawed So would that thaw him? I think it thaws him His body is pretty much like Burned Also I haven't made death saving throws For Smeak

He would have made One so far Yeah That was a 19 Right Like right now Trot What are you asking

735 Oh okay Um So he found that Death saving throw But then being struck By the fireball Would give him

An immediate One strike Not two But it thaws his body But One or three Because it's melee strikes do two. Okay. Yeah, put him down.

Thank you, Kim. Drop injury checks from both of us. Yep. Constitution of the Same Throws, DC 12. You ready? The powers combined. Constitution of the Same Throws. Broken arm. Go! Again, it's a fireball, so certain effects won't take place. 21. Pass.

Constitution. Yep. Eating. Pass. Constitution. Yep. Eating. Pass. Yay. You're blown, kind of launched to the ground, but you are not critically injured. That was the Guardian's Go Sentry.

Okie dokie. You see your two friends just get annihilated by this fireball. Oh, God. I'm going to have to run and heal these boys. Okay. You can only heal one of them at a time. Yeah. Oh, God. I'm going to have to run and heal these boys. Okay. You can only heal one of them at a time. Yeah. Don't worry. Okay.

I will give... I'm burning spells while it's like a motherfucker. Yeah. I'll give a quill potion of healing. Okay. Just a regular potion of healing. Regular potion of healing. D4 plus four? 2D4 plus 2.

Sorry, I got it. I normally roll it. Four, six hit points back to Quill. Cool. And what about Leon Hand? Who saved that? I know! Wow! I'm saving it!

That's what you're going to do. Thank you. Ayla I'm saving it. That's what you're going to do. Saving it. Thank you. Ayla is going to rage. Obviously. Yeah. And he's holding a bomb. What was the radius?

Do you remember the radius on the last bomb? It was pretty big, right? It was a fireball. Yeah. It was exactly the same spell that the Guardian just detonated. With us on the floor, it'd be bad. It'd be an

immediate death saving throw if you're unconscious. Cool, it isn't unconscious now. Double fail, is it? No, it's just one. So basically, it has to be melee within five feet is two death saving throws. Any other damage is one death saving throw. It's damage is one death saving throw. It's like an immediate death saving throw.

Fail. Because you're not like... Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, but I don't... He's got the bomb. I mean, yeah, she'll... She's got like, what? Quite a high amount of movement. 45 feet, yeah.

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. She can get right up to both of them. Okay. But I think she's just going to recklessly just... I mean, if she recklessly attacks, I guess that's not knockout, is it? She's wailing on the guy. Can she knock out Eloise?

Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing in reckless attack that says you can't make your attacks non-lethal. Reckless Knockout Attacks. As soon as you just have to knock them down to zero. Zero. You just have to get them to zero hit points, yeah.

It's when you get them to zero you decide is that a lethal blow or is it a non-lethal blow. That's how I run it. So basically, wail on him. Wail. All right. Remember, it's like hit points aren't necessarily like actual cuts and things like that. It can also just be running out of energy. If it's reckless, you get to roll twice. You have advantage. Remember, hit points aren't necessarily actual cuts and things like that. It can also just be running out of energy. If it's reckless, you get to roll twice.

You have advantage. Oh, awesome. Like 25? Hits. Are you going for him? Him, yeah. Lois? Yep, you hit.

And the second one, should I just do both? Sure. Oh, yeah, you roll with advantage for all of your attacks with reckless. She attacks twice, doesn't she? Yeah. And then 20. 20 hits. 1d8 plus 5 bludgeoning.

So 8, and then... I mean, I will... So just as a point, because I want to play my NPCs this way, on that second attack, he does conjure up his shield, because he thinks he can deflect it, but the 20 still hits him. Oh, okay. Just for a point of I'm mocking off his

spell slot. That's 20 damage. From both? From both attacks and then does she get a zap as well? Yeah it gets the lightning.

Yeah I have to make a dexterity saving throw. That is a 16. So half damage. One. One point. I'm rolling my

K though. You watch as the The shield Protecting Eloise But like Cracks and breaks And then a little bit Of the force hits him

And he's kind of Lolan scum How dare you I'm a child of the sky She's just roaring Cool Nova Bastard

My whole life He was a cock Am I actually up or am I just No he hasn't stood up He's just conscious I've got health He has health Kill him

I am of health Can I get to this side of Lucius? Yeah, you can move through allies. Just stand over him? Sorry. And can I... Because I gave him a greater healing... Did I give you... Do you have a greater healing?

Is it in his inventory? Yeah, please tell me. It's a potion of healing. Oh, great healing. So because I bought it for him... You know it's a potion of healing. Oh, like greater healing. So because I bought it for him, is that... You know it's there. Yeah, yeah. Like, I assume you guys tell each other.

Unless you're deliberately like, no, I'm keeping this for myself. I don't want anyone to know I got this. I freaking bought it for him, gave it to him. Can I shove it in his face, please? Yeah, sure. Was it greater? Greater.

So that's 44 plus four. Yeah. Boop. Oh, that was a bad roll for Mark Humes, though. All four ones. Eight hit points. Oh my god. Yep. Hey, it goes that way. Sometimes I roll 59 necron damage, sometimes I roll four ones on 44. What are you trying to do? Damage or heal? Oh, dice hate you for that. Can I bonus

give myself a potion? Yes. Okay, Can I bonus give myself a potion? Yes. Okay, I'll bonus give myself just a regular. You're just backing there like. See, now I get two fours. Hey. 12 hit points. No, 10 hit points.

He's 10. Lucius, buy it. That is very unfortunate. It's very unfortunate that I saw you move on the symbol and I'm like, no, you choked me. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. You were moving on that until I said stop. You don't get to say, no, I don't.

Not me. Okay. That's all I can do. That's all you can do? Lucius, you're conscious on the floor. For goodness sakes, can't you even die with dignity? Not with the power of friendship. We'll see.

How long have I got? Do you mean how long have you got? Do you mean on the earth? I know it's a deep question. Yeah, I mean six seconds, but if want to like Say something Say something to him Before I cast this I'll say Why my father

He was in my way He resisted change Hypnotic pattern You bastard Do you have to roll Or is it a saving throw On a hypnotic pattern I like to roll

But It's yeah It's just saving throw Oh my god I'm going to counter spell it Where's the I'm counter oh my god I'm gonna counter spell it I'm gonna counter spell it jeez he knows magic man he's a magic man

he's a magic man but I am slowly running out of spell slots um as a bonus action yes I'm going to use a my font of magic Oh yes. to convert some

sorcery points back into a level three. I love it. I believe it's for a third level it's five.

Fuck. It's almost all of them. There you go. That's what I did. For what? A third level? Five. Yeah you spent five to get a third level spell slot. There you go. That's what I did. For what? A third level? Five.

Yeah, you spent five to get a third level spell slot. Yeah. Nice. Quill. Yeah, I'm going to stand up as well. Sure. I'm going to stand up. I'm going...

Take care of that for me, Kim. Thank you. I'm going to... Secretary, please would you stand the miniatures up, please? Oh god, I dropped Quill. No! It's fine. I'll make another injury check. I'm going to strum my bandore,

which I guess is, like, on my waist, I suppose. And that's going to use... Fuck, what was it called? What was it called? I had it right here. Where's the spell gone? I mean, I can't help you, I don't... Entangle.

Okay. Um, so, grasping weeds and vines sparrant from the ground and 20 foot square. Um... The creature in the area when you come... Oh, crap. That's everyone! Can I choose? I mean, you can place where you choose it, can't you? You can, like, put it in, like, the corner here. Yeah, I mean you can place where you choose it, can't you? You can like put it in like the corner here.

Yeah, I mean 20 feet. 15, 20. Okay, yeah, I'll just cast on the very back corner of the room so it only catches Guardian, Mad and Eloise. They have to make a strength saving throw. Eloise fails. Okay, 15 is the... I don't know, I know what I rolled. So does the Guardian.

I rolled a 1. Ooh. They are restrained until the spell ends and its concentration for a minute. Okay. So a restrained creature's speed becomes 0. It can't benefit from any bonuses to its speed. Attack rolls have advantage.

Its attack rolls have disadvantage. Oh. And it has disadvantage on dexterity saving throws. So these vines kind of wrap around their legs like catching their arms but they're not like paralyzed. We all have advantage though. On attack rolls against them, yes. They have disadvantage. Is that you done, Quill? Yeah, now if that was cast on my Bandori, can I still use a spell? Yes, I will say yes, because you're using a magic item, sure.

Maybe we might change that but I'm gonna rule it as a yes for now. Yes, I will say yes, because you're using a magic item, sure. Maybe we might change that, but I'm going to rule it as a yes for now. So you can bonus action spell. Bonus action, Shield of Faith on Lucius. Okay. Thanks. Okay, plus two AC. Eloise's turn.

Hmm. I should probably use the barrier. You're all looking a bit weak, aren't you? Give up. No. Give up. No, no, no, no. I probably should have used my movement there, but... I think he's feeling very confident.

So he... Is going to give us a five-minute speech about how great he is? No, he conjures a wall of force. Oh, not the easy thing. No. He's blocking us in the room. Look at poor Smeek over here. He's just us in the room. Look at poor Smiko! He's just like, RAAAARGH!

Smiko! That is a lot of walls. What the? Oh, for god's sake. Here we go again, boys! Oh my god! Here we go, here we go. He's totally separated Ayla, the guardian, and himself.

Is there this little gap here? No. It's a continuous wall. It's a continuous wall. Oh shit. What do we do? Lay down. Cry. He conjures this wall. Aayla is raging, but you can

still hear him, although it's muffled through the sound of this wall, which stretches to the ceiling. There might possibly be cracks in the stone that a thin gas or something could go through. I fucking used all my spell slots on this spell magic, so thank you.

He basically calls out, he's just like, Lucius, if you surrender, I might let your friend live. I might throw this wild elf from the Sky City and see if she survives. Otherwise, I'm going to kill her, and then I'm going to kill the rest of you. You may decide what she wishes to do. I suggest you take the Noble Manor and end it yourself.

On the Guardian's turn, it will regenerate 10 hit points. If we could wait an hour. And then it will attack Ayla. Attack Ayla. Nine to hit is a miss. Don't wait. Oh, it has advantage because she was reckless. Oh, yeah.

So 25 to hit. Yeah. Second attack is a 17. Exactly. She's going to take 22 points of damage, but she'll half both of those, so it would go... It'd be 5, so she takes 10 points of damage. Okay.

Oh, 22, it'd be 11 points of damage. Okay. So it just, like, pounds into her as she's, like, trying to deflect it and fight off this creature. Sentry. She said there's cracks in the wall. Can I peer through and then cast Misty Step?

There's no cracks in the Wall of Force. Okay. The Wall of Force is completely solid. Okay. But there's, like, the stone and stuff is cracked on the ground. Right. With Misty Step, also the bookshelves themselves, I would say that, yes, like, as long as you can see through it.

In fact, you don't need a crack. The wall is see-through. Oh, see-through, so I can go through. Yes, you can. Awesome. So do you do that? Go next to those two. Like here?

Yeah. So Sentry just vanishes in like a blossom of flowers and leaves and then reappears on the other side, axe swinging. Axe swinging, so I'm going to... So bonus action commission step two attacks who do you attack Eloise or the

guardian Eloise okay I'm gonna try and knock him out so 17 plus 5 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 for the first one

that's going to hit and 18 for the second one 18 on that second one he's gonna cast shield and deflect it right fair enough

so one so one hits one hits so it's d8 cast shield and deflect it. Right, fair enough. So one. So one hits. One hits, so it's d8 plus four, and then I'm going to do Divine Smite and level two again. So that's 4d8. Oh wait, did you advantage those? Downstairs. No, I'm attacking twice.

No, but you do get advantage, you might get a crit. Oh, nice, okay. Yep. I'll do them both again. And you also might hit on that second one. No, I didn't hit. Yeah, we'll say the second one hits even with the shield. Okay, cool. Yeah, so you hit twice.

So... Remember when you have advantage, though. It makes it easier. So 8d8. Yeah. 8d8. Oh my god. I mean, do you have the spell slots to do another second level, though?

Oh, that's true. No. I'll just do it. No, okay. So you can do a normal hit. Yep. And then you can spend like a first level spell slot to Divine Strike. Yeah, okay. Which is 2d8. So 2d8. Cool, okay. So you can do a normal hit. Yeah. And then you can spend like a first level spell slot to Divine Strike. Yeah, okay.

Which is 2d8. So 2d8. Cool, okay. So 3d8 total. 3d8 total. And then, yeah. So 8, 9, 10. Yep.

Plus 4, 14. So 14. 14. Okay, I have to make a constitution saving throw for him. Come on. Die. Oh. No, that's the shield guardians con con Yeah, he's going to fail

The wall of force collapses Yay Oh my god Centurion fails Century play of the day That was the big play Misty stepping Very, very good

Very smart play Top play Second attack Second attack, oh Also a fucking shit roll at six on his concentration check. So another 3d8. Yep. Six, 12, 13.

13 more points. Nice. You can see, like, as Sentry pummels him, his magical protections and armor are beginning to fade as he stumbles back. Guardian, deal with her! Quickly! After Sentry's, let's make a death saving throw for Smeak. stumbles back. Guardian, deal with her! Quickly! After

centuries, let's make a death saving throw for Smeek. That's a four. It's an extra check. He's on two death saving throws. Aww. I mean, our priorities. I have spare the dying for, you know.

It's kind of what you wanted, right? But Kim, Think of the shirt Could Do you like merchandise So is his hand like Pinned in place And he's still holding this Bomb

He's not pinned He's not But he's still restrained isn't he Restrained doesn't mean pinned Like it just means he can't move Like his legs are frozen Oh right The vines have wrapped around his legs

It doesn't like The restrained condition Doesn't Isn't paralysis. I'm trying to figure out what she could do to get the bomb off him. Smash him until he dies. She could just whack his arm, but then the bomb will just go rolling onto the floor. I mean, he's holding a sphere.

Yeah, you don't know if it's a bomb. It might be. Because he has to put the spell in it. True. There might be a spell in it already. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you don't know. Aelod certainly wouldn't know. Okay, well. Yeah, you don't know. Aelod certainly wouldn't know. Okay, I think she is just going to continue

just mega whacking. Okay. So advantage on both. 11 on both plus. Round. 19. I'm going to shield it. Okay.

That's my reaction. And the second. 20. That's it. And And the second. 20. That is, and I can't do anything about it. 1d8 and a dex save from him as well. 16. Saves. 1 damage.

Half of 1. 1. Okay. Lightning crackles up and strikes him, but he manages to throw himself just to the side after a vicious blow. Grunts and staggers to the side. After Ayla, we go to Nova. Okay, can I move?

You move yourself where you need to. I'm going to just move really far. And then... I'm just trying to decide what to do! I'm so confused! Um, sod it, I'm going to attack the Guardian and Green Flame Blade, both of them. Yep, you have to move next to the Guardian. And then I have advantage on this? Yes, you do, yeah. Okay, so... I have advantage on this? Yes, you do, yeah.

Okay, so... 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 to hit. Hits. So, d10 on the hit on the Guardian. Freaking out. 10 points... Tiangong damage. Yep. And then Green Flame.

Is it two d8s or is it one? It's one d8 to the guardian and then you do a d8 plus thingy to Eloise. But is it a separate d8 to Eloise? Yes. Okay. Separate target, separate dice. Yeah. So it's 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 to the guardian.

Hang on. You already rolled damage against the guardian. Yeah. So you roll the damage against the guardian. Yeah. So you roll the damage against the Guardian, which is your normal weapon damage, but then you add a D8 to that. It's not D8 plus your modifier again. Okay, so plus

7. So I rolled a 6, 7, 8. So I need 17 to the Guardian. Yeah, okay. And then to Eloise you do a D8 plus your modifier. 8. Okay. Points of green flames to Eloise. So you get damage. Oh, wait, wait.

Plus three to Eloise again from my Hexblade Curse. Sorry. Okay. Yep. So the green flame launches across and scars across Eloise's arm as he recoils back, desperately trying to gain some leverage, looking around at the enemies before him. That's your go? Lucius?

It's just turned to seething hatred on Lucius, which you've probably never seen before. And he just throws an acid chromatic orb past the Guardian at Eloise. You have advantage, because he's restrained.

Wicked sick. 17 on that one. And sick. 17 on that one. And then a 4 on that one, so 17 plus 6 is 23. Hits and he can't do anything about it. 5 D8s. Can he counter spell because he shielded earlier?

Otherwise I would have absolutely counter spelled that. I would have been like, no! Just D8s. I think we're doing this properly where we're just all wailing on him it's just burning reactions so quickly

against a high level spellcaster it's the end 24 points of acid damage 24 oh my god the acid just coats like one side of his face and just begins dripping down and you hear this sizzling he's like

what have you done just coating him no dripping down and you hear this sizzling he's like ah what have you done ah he's like just coating him um no is it just completely covers his face same response i've avenged my father you've done nothing dichromancy how much of six damn still. Hits him after that speech. Yes. He's just like hissing in agony. I forgot to add, he does have a bit more of his shield recovers when he casts Walt of Force. But yeah, he just splashes all over his face.

And he's just like... Desperately trying to claw off the acid away from the wound. Quill. I'm going to put a hand towards the guardian, and I'm going to use command as a wisdom saving throw. And the word I'm going to use is deactivate. I believe, does it cause a charmed condition? Read the spell out to me.

You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range, must succeed a wisdom saving throw, or follow the command on its next turn. Okay, but it's not actually a charmed effect. Has no effect if the target is undead or if it doesn't understand my language. Nope, it understands. Yep. Okay.

Yeah. So it's not a charmed effect. So it does place a wisdom saving throw, you said? Yeah. 14. 15. Okay. What did you, what was the command?

Deactivate. Deactivate. Okay. Yeah. You watch as it just shuts down. It will only last briefly because it can reactivate itself when

Eloise is attacked but it means that this turn it takes no action. Oh. Okay. I thought it was just going to like

shut down. No. I'm not going to do that but it's basically like it shuts itself down and then it will have to come back to life again when Eloise

commands it to you. Right. Okay. Which you can do as a free action but. There's nothing I can do for sneak, is there? Like, I can't spend any more spell slots, I mean. Medicine check.

You could move and then medicine check. With a bonus action? Oh, with a bonus action, no, no you couldn't. No. Let's leave it to fate. But let it be known that I tried. You didn't try. I mean, you could have done anything else,

but you wanted that command, which is a good spell. The command, I think that's worth it. I fucking love it. But I do want to go back and get him. Absolutely. Well, it is after your go, Quill. We could always go on a wonderful resurrection adventure.

Eloise, he looks infuriated at Quill. He's like, Guardian, activate! And you see it beginning to come back to life. And he will... He's got a lot of melee around him. This is a tricky one for him. So many

things I could cast. How has he still got slots? He's got a lot of slots. He's got a lot of slots. He's got a lot of slots. He's a very high level. He is against like six of us. I can't even cast that anymore because I've used a slot. He will...

He basically, so he rises up he's just like how how dare you I am Eloise Iron Staff Celestor I am a servant of this great city and I have watched it fall to reckless young nobles

like you for far too long I will make sure that Gustaven survives. You will not stop me here! And he conjures a bead of orange flame and he throws it desperately hitting

10, 15, 20. He will catch the guardian, but he will catch everybody except Aayla and Sentry, so Quill, Lucius, Nova. Dexterity saving throw. Do we still got anything? Nova, you get my plus two so Quill, Lucius, Nova. Dexterity saving throw. I think it matters to me. Do we still got anything? Nova, you get my plus two, I think, because you're close.

Nova does. Is Lucius... Oh, my God, Lucius! I've got eight HP anyway. I've got six. Oh. I think we're both going down again another fireball

what'd you get? 16 16 is just enough to pass you're going to take half 29 fire damage half to 15 14 for Nova up and down three times now

as a bonus action he twists off the sphere and opens it. But this was an experimental sphere he had. It's a wild magic. 82, nothing. You watch as a spell begins emerging and then it just... And just dissipates. And he throws the broken spheres down in rage. Guardian, finish them!

Open the party popper sphere. Yes, laid those back down. The Guardian, he has ordered it to activate, but it will take some time, so I'll say for this turn it has no action. Century. Before we do that... Critical injury checks.

Injury checks. DC is the same, but you get 11. The DC would have been 14. 16. 16, 16. 20. 20. You both succeed.

Oh, God. I'm really dicing. These two are getting knocked down. You boys. Century. I'm just going to attack Eloise twice again. Same. Do they have advantage?

That's 20 or... Advantage still. So that's one attack with a crit on their first attack. Nice. So I just roll the second one again. And the other one. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 23 hits and he can't show it And the first one's crit as well

Roll the crit, let's see how much damage you do So, d8 plus 4 So you do Your normal damage is d8 plus 4 So you do 12 points of damage Roll the d8 again 6 6 points, so that's 18

Plus your modifier as well Plus my mod is 4, so it's 18, 19, hello, where'd you go? 6. 6 points, so that's 18. Plus your modifier as well. Plus my mod is 4, so it's 18, 19, 20, 23, 24. We've already added the mod. Okay. It's D8, so the weapon damage is D8 plus 4. For the crit, you max the D8, so 8 plus 4, 12. Roll a D8 again for the crit effect. Yeah, 18.

That was a 6. Okay. Oh, yeah, okay. So that gets added, so it's 18. Yeah. That's the that's the crit damage yeah

unless you're divine spying um I'll divine spying on that on top of that one as well okay so roll uh

so you would get 2d8 maximized is 16 plus another 2d8 oh 16 21 21

for the first one okay that's all my level 1s seeing like this kind of explosion sentry you rush forward with the axe How do you want to take him down?

Oh I just want to Do I want to knock him out Or do I want to cleave him in twain? I mean you said in twain Knock him out We need to This is Sentry's decision

It's up to you I'll knock him out I'll take the butt of my axe And just Bonk him on the head You can like slam him against the back wall Yeah And he just watches his eyes roll back,

and he slumps down. The Guardian does not deactivate, though. Okay. Even though he's unconscious, the Guardian is still like, must protect Eloise, must protect Eloise. Begins storming around. At the end of the centuries go,

we have death saving throw. No, it's on your turn. Smeek has a death saving throw. 17. Still going. He's still going. He's two for two. He's two for two.

He's two for two. After that, Ayla's go. I mean, the Guardian's still going. The Guardian is still active, yes. What other actions does she have other than just whack and whack get those whack I think you just

answered your own question there just keep on keep on whacking you got advantage as well keep on smacking 18 plus so yeah

hits 18 plus 8 and then 13 plus 8 21 both going and another deck save from him.

So 21 points of damage was that? No, that was two hits I just did. Right, so give me the damage. 4 plus 5, so 9. And then 8 plus 5. 13. 17. 8 plus 5 is 13. 23 total.

23. For both attacks. And then the lightning as well. Yep. He has disadvantage on decks 4 damage he's at even 100 hit points what?

holy whatnot as in like he's taken 100 points I was just like what? he's taken 100 points of damage so she slams the hammer into him a couple of times and he just turns. And you can see he's still trying to protect Eloise's body, like deflecting it with his body,

but his arms are swinging out. Is there anything she could do to try and taunt it? No. Does she have an ability that can do that? Bonus action, roar. Yep, cool. You want to make an intimidate check for me? Intimidate?

Yeah. 10 plus intimidation? I can't believe people still use paper to play their games with D&D. 13. 13. This thing seems like it has a singular purpose, which is to protect Eloise from all threats.

And it is engaging Aayla, but it's also engaging Sentry. It's engaging the two active threats right now. Okay. She just keeps glancing down at him like, ah, he's next. Me! Um

Can I I want to finish this. I'll give Lucius a potion. Okay. Regular potion? Yeah. Make sure you're marking these potions off by the way. Yeah. That is 2 to 6. 6 HP for Lucius.

Six HPs. Thank you. Okay. Lucius, your turn. You don't need to make a death saving throw because you are not unconscious. All right. I need to check for being drowned in healing potions.

Oh! I've got an allergy. Too sticky. Chromatic Orb of Acid at level three because I've got the spell slot. Okay. You did use one before. Yeah, but I used the...

Yeah, you've cast it twice before. You cast it once. Advantage, because he's restrained. He's not the entangled ghost. Oh, okay, sorry. So 8 total is a miss. Like, it just splashes overhead

as the creature ducks underneath um end of your turn does it still I have to hit do I yes uh no

it's when you cast the spell so you can still dichromancy it boom six damage okay quill make a death saving throw please

okay uh fifteen that's a success whew uh after quill okay Quill make a death saving throw please okay 15 that's a success after Quill we go to it's go it will make

one attack against Aayla and one attack against Sentry in fact it will also reach down and like scoop

up Elos's body with one hand and then it's going to try and punch Aayla with its remaining hand instead natural 20

okay this is a lot of damage yeah shit And then it's going to try and punch Ayla with its remaining hand instead. Natural 20. Okay. This is a lot of damage. Yeah, shit. Has Ayla gone down before? Nope. Oh, two ones. 18 points of bludgeoning damage, half to nine, because she's raging. Oh, cool.

Remember Rage. And then he is going to try and run. So Sentry, Ayla, Nova, and Lucius all get attacks for opportunity. Rock and roll. Come on, everybody. Can he run? He's entangled. No, he's not. You went unconscious.

Oh, yeah, I remember. Sorry. You're sleepy. 15. 15 is a miss. 16. 16 is a miss. Natural one. Miss.

18. 18 is a hit. Going for it. Guardian, it's huge. Six. 16 is a miss. Natural one. Miss. 18. 18 is a hit. Going for it. Guardian, it's huge. Six points of damage. He's the size of a building! You cleave him in the back as it's just like running down the corridor,

trying to make its way for the door, carrying its master. No! Sneak. Oh, bad news. No! Oh, come on! Matt, there's a two. Does the Guardian, like, step on him? Is he, like, laying on the floor? Speak That's a failure you just hear this kind of The way you would have wanted to go Oh my god!

That's the way he would have wanted to go, right? No, no he really wanted to die by lightning. And he was frozen, burned and stomped. Literally the opposite. Yay! We don't need to release that t-shirt now. Hey, let's go! Oh my god. No, it's a memorial t-shirt now.

It's a memoriam. R.I.P. I will remember you. Ayla is going to... I miss his sweet garbles. Run to the end of the corridor. I want to see if he can get away. I don't think he will, but... She's going to use her Tempest Lance thing.

I don't know. Oh, the vining hammer thing. Yeah, what do I don't know. Oh, the lightning hammer thing. Yeah, what do I need to do to throw this at them? Okay. Although, will that hit Eloise? I mean, it will. It's like a... She does it.

Okay. So you throw it. It turns into a lightning bolt as soon as she throws it. It passes through. What's the... I think it's 46 lightning damage. So basically, let's roll from death's end

for Alois as well okay that's a failure that's not a failure so the lightning bolt passes through his dead body and then it strikes the shield guardian

make a like normal weapon attack against the guardian okie dokie so like a normal hammer attack? 13.

13's not enough, it actually kind of like, he turns around knocks the hammer to the ground and then it flies back into her hand. Because it basically, it turns into a lightning bolt and then she makes an attack against the last creature and if that hits it adds extra damage to it. Okay, well she'll then use the rest of her move to run up. Yeah, behind

her so when it moves again. When it moves again. Nova. I mean, I think you guys have got this, even with its regeneration

I can't even output the damage quickly enough. I kind of want to spare the dying on Quill. Do that then. Or I don't know

what it looks like for Guardian though. Well, choose. Let's try it actually with Quill down. I don't really want to end this

combat until I know what you're doing. I don't want to die. Yeah, I'm going to spare the dying on Quill down. I don't really want to end this combat until I know what you're doing. Yeah. I don't want to die. Yeah, I'm going to spare the dying on Quill. Okay. And then can I also grab, like,

as many documents as possible from the desk? I mean... Is that too much? Five, cast a spell, five, ten. No, I'd say you can do that, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, so you spare the dying on Quill, and then you run back and start gathering up the papers. Yeah.

I mean, Lucius had them, actually. Lucius was holding them. Oh, he had them in his... Yeah, he was holding them. So you've got them. Okay. I mean, maybe he put them down, I guess, or something. Fireball.

Could have been burnt away. Yeah. Maybe. Well, can I... Let's see, I grabbed... Yeah, they're on the table. You didn't actually... You just read them and then put them down.

You can grab them. So you can grab some. Lucius. I'm going to cast a spell from my spell list. And it's going to be Melf's Acid Arrow. Because I'm in an acid mood today. Okay. On the creature.

No advantage. Just go for it. Damn, Lucius is so toxic today. 12 plus 6, creature. No advantage. Just go for it. Damn, they're just so toxic today. 12 plus 6. 18. Hits. 4d4. And Dicromancy at

5. Second level. So 5. 2 is me. I know, Sid. 7. I know. Wrap up you're going to wrap up 7 extra points 1, 2, 4 Okay and then he'll take on his turn

He takes like another doesn't he takes 2d4 more or something Yes Just roll that now Half as much on the next turn 2d4 sorry So 4 Okay Quill I just really want to quickly Because the next two rounds will change some things massively Four, sorry. Yeah, so four. Okay.

Quill. I just really want to quickly, because the next two rounds will change some things massively. Nat 20. Oh, I'm back. I'm spare the dying, so I can't do anything. Yeah, let's true you down. I got Nat 20 as well, damn it.

Let's just stand up. This is the main thing I was waiting for. It's Eloise's Death Saving Throw. Right. It's an eight. Okay, that's one fail. Is it? Is it?

He got hit by lightning. Mm-hmm. And there was a turn where he was just unconscious as well. The Guardian basically moves away. Ayla gets an attack. By the time this thing gets to the door,

you're all just going to be going with cantrips and stuff. Yeah. We're going to call it. The Guardian, the Shield Guardian collapses under the firepower and the attacks and everything else but as you reach elos's body he has bled out and has died of his wounds he three felled saving throws it was one while he was unconscious one from the lightning bolt and one just now it's like the second worst

result we could have had he was he was already that's why i was waiting for that turn because that he was three on that that was his third death saving throw holy crap so he is dead dead you are left with this library the evidence of the papers gathered elos's dead body the secret chamber what ramifications this have whether people believe you we'll find out next time mark needs to horribly figure out for next week yeah we could just resurrect him. Thanks. Thanks for watching. Man, I know you

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