High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #48 | Darkness of the Coldlight (Part 2)

Episode Date: October 10, 2019

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to High Rollers, a Dungeons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois, run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes, with me, Tom, playing Kelek Adkalad, the Cleric Wizard. I am Chris Trott. I'm playing Lucius Viren, Elowin Elanastro, and I am a High Elf Sorcerer. Hi, I'm Rhiannon. I'm playing lucius view and eloine elenastro and i am a high elf sorcerer hi i'm riannon i'm playing sentry i am a guardian paladin hi i'm katie i'm playing ala a wild elf barbarian and i'm kim i'm playing nova who is an air ganassi and she is a hexblade warlock thanks to our regular sponsor dnd beyond the official dungeons and dragons tool set create your free account and speed up your campaigns today.

Well, after the savage murder of Clyde... Oh, for fuck's sake. I'm sorry, Clyde. My question is, what do you guys do? Like, do you just want to head in the direction he's pointed you? Or do you want to take a moment? Is there anything you want to do? I mean, I could do with a short rest. Yeah.

I could do with a long rest. Yeah. Well, what do you want to do? We don't have time. There's going to be another patrol. Yeah, I mean, a long rest. Yeah. Well, what do you want to do? We don't have time. If we wait, there's going to be another patrol. No, no, no. Yeah, I mean, obviously if we wait, but I just want to say if you're worried about the breathing underwater thing, I was-

I wasn't thinking about it until right now. Okay. And now I'm panicking. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish.

Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. Are you letting me finish? Are you still panicking? I'm panicking on the inside. Okay. So I've been running some tests. I'm visibly vibrating. I'm trying to stay still. I've been running some tests while we've been down here,

and I think I can actually cast the same spell and make you guys breathe underwater for another 24 hours. So it's fine. That's good. It's fine. We can spend more time. I know you don't need it. Nailed it.

But I've also beening how you swim underwater, and I think I can replicate it. So I just want to say thank you, Ayla, because remember a few months ago, you shouted at me to get stronger, and then you said you were going to teach me. Well, you kind of have, and now I can swim better. Hey, guys.

Making friends. Progress. Doing things. Doing it. So, you guys just make your way on towards the deep parts of the ravine. Uh, yeah. I straight up grab

Sentry, close my eyes while we go over this ravine. I'm just as scared as you are. What? Are you taking a short rest? I thought some people wanted a rest. I want a full long rest. I mean, I think if we stay here for too long.

Yeah. You know that the patrols are pretty regular. The patrols are fairly regular. If we wait too long, there's going to be a patrol. I don't know where we're going to get another chance to get down. Yeah, also, one of the patrols is now missing. Yeah. That shark's gone back.

And when a shark goes back without his two You could follow the shark You know that there is a place where all the sharks go Or you can just follow the directions Let's go and hang out with all the big Vicious sharks guys Sounds like a fantastic idea Can we tame them?

No Can we tame them and ride them? They're not going to like us They don't like us. It's fine. Erin is like, if you want something to ride, I can literally summon dolphins, but I've been saving that as our emergency escape. Yeah, alright. So, you begin making your way. Now,

those of you who... So, the two tritons are absolutely fine, because as you begin getting deeper and deeper, the pressure begins to to build and the temperature begins to drop it starts getting cold freezing cold the deeper down you go um those of you who don't have any sort of protection against the elements it's so cold you can't stop your body from shaking you're going to have disadvantage on things like ability checks and attack rolls unless you find ways to keep yourself warm um i think century you wouldn't

be affected by this as much so i think you're okay being a guardian like you know it's cold but your body's still able to perform because it's like more pressure and and you know temperature than anything else um but i think like even ayla Nova, you guys are feeling how cold it is down here. Lucius is particularly bad, so is Quill, because you both decided to get rid of all of your clothes before coming down here. I've got feathers. You do, so you're not as

bad as Lucius, but it's still cold. Lucius, your nipples could cut glass down here. There's a lot of shrinkage there. There was already a lot of shrinkage there. There was already a lot of shrinkage before. He rolled real bad for the genital check.

It won't do too much, but it will help. Inside. I have my green cape now. I have my green cape now. Oh, thank you, Century. It's okay. Thank you.

Would create bonfire work down here? It will, but its effects are diminished. But would it be enough to keep us warm or? Not enough consistently, if you stopped, yes. Okay.

Is that also going to create a little bit of bubbles? So, if people can help me just by gathering up your minis please. Wait, bonfire needs oxygen. So it knows it from- It's a spongebob rule. Yeah, it's kind of a bit broken. Rock and roll! Just put it on the ground.

Okay. And then Booth, if I just give that, can you put that over on your end, maybe? Can you actually move them from the middle? Because I've got to put something else down. Okay. Put someone else down. Where are we actually going? We're going to the light corridor.

Right, okay. The cave. And the wall of light. I'm guessing the stargate. We need to figure out how to get through the wall of light. So. You swim down the dark depths of this ravine. Soon any light from the surface is long gone.

You only have the dim light of the few magic spells or items you have. or items you have and even that just illuminates strange fish of weird proportions and see-through skin and texture the pressure is so much that's hard to hear anything more than five feet away is this kind of pumping blood you can hear your own heartbeat in your ears and the waves pull at you with currents that border on a dangerous strength threatening to sweep you away from the rest of your friends. But with the two tritons leading, you swim down and find yourself amongst a series of coral caves. You see traces of blood splattered across the coral, being eroded away by small little fish and plankton, just eroding it as they go. Strange ferns cover a large, dark, mouth-like entrance.

And as you part, you find yourselves in a series of underwater caves. And I will place you in the entrance. So there was no interruption on the way down? No. You dealt with one of the patrols, and it is enough that there is nothing too much to worry about. Neato. So we'll have Erin and Drax leading it. Maybe with Sentry as well.

I think Lucius and me should lead. Sure, you can arrange yourselves as you want. I'm lying. I'm so mischievous. What's wrong with you? I don't know. You are still underwater, but there is now a ceiling. There's probably the cave itself is no taller than about 10 feet.

You can see that there are large kind of columns of stone in between it. And the entire cave is filled with, you know, flora. You can see that there are these thick seaweed like vines that grow all over the walls. these thick seaweed like vines that grow all over the walls there are these large plants with flowering tendrils that kind of hang and kind of loom over the ceiling of the cavern itself quill sees everything with your high perception the walls themselves you realize you initially you thought it was a stone and everybody else just seems to assume it's some sort of coral or stone formation, but you notice that the walls are covered in a very thick, hard layer of slime, and amongst the slime you see dozens, hundreds of small eggs,

and there are little creatures inside the eggs themselves. I don't like that one single bit, Mark. little creatures inside the eggs themselves. I don't like that one single bit, Mark. Do not want. No, no, no. And occasionally, like, you look past, and I think the rest of you, as you get closer to the walls, you notice it where, like, you'll be walking past, look at this slime-covered wall,

and one of these eggs, like, a pair of eyes, will just blink and start looking at you, kind of floating around. Can I do a nature check? Sure, yeah, go for it. Trying to figure out what the Sam heck is going on. Can I say I love your utilisation of natural fish tank ornaments. Thank you, Duncan.

20? Natural 20. Natural 20. Natural 20. Plus 5. 25. So there's a couple of things. Those are very clearly hog and eggs. This is likely some sort of, perhaps was once used as a nesting ground or a hatching ground.

The natural fauna is kind of helping disguise some of the egg patches and things like that. The actual fauna itself you don't think is harmful. You think that there is definitely a lot of it looks quite scary, but it probably isn't actually harmful. And yeah, you just see the cave. You can see a very dull blue glow coming from the end of it,

but it's so dark down here that you are relying on, I'm assuming you cast Light, for example, Quill, or you have Dancing Lights, Lucius, which illuminates about a sort of 20, 30-foot radius around you. So you don't have super far vision. Helios' shield is also glowing. Does that illuminate much? Not much, no.

Drex, you are currently leading the way with Erin, who is the other Triton. Is there anything you would like to do? Or do you just want to plough on forward? Also, did you bring the rifle with you? Yeah, I think I have still brought the weapon. Yeah, you can keep that on you. So basically, mark it down.

You don't have proficiency with it, so it's just you add your dex modifier. It has a range of 60 feet, and if it it hits it deals 3d6 force damage right so but i'll remind you of that you remind me of that i'll remind you yeah don't you worry um i mean i think we should just cautiously plow ahead because i don't i can't think of literally anything else i would do in that situation i'm not yeah sure so do you want to stealth wall of light oh yeah are we at the wall of light no i've just put you in the entrance and i'm assuming you're kind of lingering at the entrance as you figure out what to do sounds like drex wants to move forward cautiously so stealthily i'm assuming yeah so make a stealth check for me okay and then then you can move about 30 feet forwards if you like. It's a three.

Plus one, four. Great. Cool. So, Drex, so you begin swimming forward. You go past this large column. Tell me when you want me to stop. I kind of want to stop there. Okay.

So you move up to the corner and you peer around. And you can see that there is embedded into the cave. You can see there is this just wall of shimmering, pulsating energy. It's blue in nature. It's not completely solid and it's not completely see through. It's quite opaque, but maybe if you got closer, you'd be able to see through it. But it seems to shimmer and shift and warp as it does and there are clearly machines or devices like crystalline devices on the other side which are conjuring the shield itself and yeah you you make your way up there as you begin sliding up there though there is even though the you can't see through

the field itself there is very clearly a shape behind it and the shape seems to sense something turns and is looking around you're not sure if it's seen you yet right okay so the others you just watch as drax kind of pushes forward and begins peering around. So if you want to move like now. Good on her. Yeah. Nova you want to move up? I'll go behind. That's it. Okay. I'm going to go put my tongue on it. Look.

Typical new player. Erin will also swim up. I want to touch the shiny thing. I'm not going to spy more than one episode in any way. Do you want to like come up or do you want to come around wider Ayla? Or do you want to touch the shiny thing I'm not going to survive more than one episode in any do you want to like come up or do you want to come around wider Ayla

or do you want to come up just behind that area just behind is fine that's fine cool so yeah we'll all nudge up

I think nudge up nudge up Lucius do you want to nudge up I shiver forward using the power of shiver

to move like a foam vibrate there is a few beats and nothing seems to happen does the wall does it look like Starbane Tech

I'm not even going to make you roll yes it does you've experienced similar stuff to this before you went into the ship beneath the Rosewater Lake. You've encountered little bits and bobs of Starbane tech. And the pattern of energy, I think Nova of all people would recognize that this is way more than just a magic spell. This is Magitek.

This is a mixture of technology and magic together. That's cool. So we haven't seen a burial like this before. Never. Never. Do we know what kind of magic that's emanating?

I don't think it's... Is it an element? I don't think it's magic. It's... It's energy. It's energy. And so it's a technology. Or like radiant or lightning or cold. Everything's cold. It's energy. And so it's a technology. Or like radiant or lightning or cold.

Everything's cold. Probably force, like a force field. I imagine there's probably a machine somewhere that's emitting it. So if we could disable that. But it's probably not on this side. Nova and Drex. Oh, cool. As you are kind of lingering near the edge,

and Nova is excitedly speaking about the energy, from the other side of the field, two harpoons with chains narrowly impact into the stone and slime above you and pull this chunk of cavern, and they whip back behind the force field it's going to be initiative i'm afraid i think they noticed that oh and i think they know we're here oh i think it's energy field blah blah blah blah blah blah that would be very nova though is like oh new technology yeah absolutely i love it i personally love it i must tell you everything about it um man if they hit though they're the ones that pull people in yep guess what's gonna happen to I must tell you everything about it.

Man, if they hit though, they're the ones that pull people in. Yep. Guess what's gonna happen to you? I'm about to get fried. Fried chicken. Black chicken. I know, do you fry with force? On the plus side, I have a teleport spell, Thunderstep, but it does damage and it makes noise up to 300 feet away, so I was like, that's not the stealthiest way to teleport, but now that they know that we're here...

They know you're here. Fuck it. And you were just yelling about force fields I fucking love force fields! Force field? This is my jam! I like to think that Drex is just like what the? I've never seen the- you big nerd! I'm trying to think what other force- like other teleport spells we all have

I have Misty Step but I'm out of spell slots. I am mega low on spell slots. That's a shame. I'm shivering to death. You shiver your way through it. Vibrate through space and time. Yeah, you're so cold. Sorry, Ayla.

16. Quill. 22. Drex. 12. Sia. I'm just going to default. Call me Drex. Drex.

12. Yep. Nova yep Nova 11 Lucius for century a very nice time you're doing really well today when I lost it was good I'll sleep behind was man oh, that was like two, I think. Oh. OK. Hey. I might just buy you some dice. Your dice are crisp as well. Got a lot. No, mine are.

Got a lot of dice there. These ones, these ones are great. Where's the d20 of this one? This one? This one's weighted. It's perfect. I might. Sir.

Don't worry. Hang on. Where's my poetry bag? Don't forget about your 69 dice. Oh, yeah. Can I merge the two together and make it someone roll a 69 on their d20? No. No.

Erin will simply swim sort of like to the side and ready an action that, yeah, if anything tries to, like, come out, she'll attack it. But she can't do anything while she can't see. And then we go to something else. From around the walls, the eggs begin to hatch. What? As dozens of these little tiny

sahogun-deformed fetuses, these giant jaws begin to erupt. How big are these eggs? Oh, it's just tons of them. Like swarms. Yeah. Yes, exactly like a little swarm. I do have an idea. I love it. I can't wait. Is it the word

genocide? No, not quite. I was gonna think about casting hallucinatory terrain and if I cast that, can I make it seem like the terrain is exactly the same as it was before without us in it you could yes yeah would that be a nice idea that I will never tell you if it's a good idea only that you can do it what does the dice before you do that though yeah quill and uh

lucius in fact um you are both surrounded by these swarming eggs, basically. Are they warming? When they start biting you, it probably will be. Yeah, your bite's warm. Oh, that's a natural 20. That's a natural 20. No, it's not. Oh, is it not? Oh!

You're going to give them a six? Ah! Okay. So that's a 10 to hit you. There's no way they're using a natural 20 on me. And then a seven to hit Lucius. Okay, so that's one of your Portents gone. Nice!

So they begin swarming around you, and you bundle yourselves up, and they're kind of nipping at you, and you can tell they're hitting your flesh, but you're kind of swishing your arms around, trying to not let them grab the purchase to bite and tear at your flesh. How thematically does Portent work?

Have I foreseen? Yeah, I think that it's like you have a flash of a moment of like they're going to go through your throat. So you like duck your head in and like push yourself back on your feet. And it stops the Zahogun getting to your throat to bite away at you. But like 10 hours ago, that was just a weird dream. Yeah. What the hell?

Weird jaw monsters are going for my neck. Oh, there it is. So I guess if I move away from these nerds, they're going to hit me, aren't they? Maybe. You don't know. Attack on nerds there? Sure. I'm going to... So Drex said there was someone directly behind the wall.

She saw a shape, yes. And also they shot at us with a harpoon. And then you saw two harpoons go... Forget that bit. Cool. I'm going to... us with harpoons. And then you saw two harpoons go Don't forget that bit. Cool, I'm gonna... Are the harpoons still embedded in the wall? No, they went back. They pulled out. Can I be in the same tile as

Drex here? Yes, you can, yeah. You can be basically swimming above her. This is tall enough that you can swim above her. As you do swim away though, you get bit by these creatures, unless you want to try and portents it away. It is a total of 25 to hit. I mean, sure.

Are you going to portents it? No, I'm going to let them. You're going to let it go? Let them come. Let them come. Well, you might regret that, because that was a lot of damage I just rolled. 19 points of damage. Oh, God, they do way more damage than I thought.

As they bite into you, desperately nipping away at your feathers and body, tearing at flesh as you escape. But you do escape, and you get above Drex. And what would you like to do? Can I do a lightning lure on the thing through the wall? What's the range? 15 feet.

Well, you are currently counting out the squares. 5, 10, 15 through the wall. You can try to. You lash out, and you can still... With your good vision, this wall is distorting the space behind it.

You have to be next to the wall to see through it completely. So you just see a vague outline of what's behind it. The thing that you thought was right behind it is obviously perhaps a little bit further, as the lightning lure just hits nothing. Oh, okay. Damn.

Yeah. Well, that's next turn. Also, now I'm on the front line, so that's cool. Let's go. Ayla. Damn it. Like Aaron, I'm probably going to have to hold until something comes. There is a giant swarm behind you.

Three. I could take this. There is a giant swarm behind you. Three. I could take this. There is a swarm of tiny Sahagin babies. Kill the younglings. Mouthy fetuses kill the younglings. Can I step up

to the swarm then and rage? Yes. Which, by the way, says I can do it immediately. Yep, you can. Make it two attacks as well. Yes, by the way, says... You can do it immediately. It says I can do it immediately. Yep, you can. Make it two attacks as well. Yes, please. Okay, so you just move up to the one that attacked Corleone. Yes. Okay. One's a natural 20.

God, you're a beast. And one is... 17. It's gonna hit. Okay, so the nat 20 will do 17 on the hammer. What, base? Base.

Yep. And then you roll the weapon. Wait, plus 17 plus... 18. One. Yep. So 18. So they do take half from this, no matter what. From bludgeoning.

Yep. It's because they're a swarm. They're made up of lots of creatures. So, nine. So, that was from the first attack. That's from the crit. Second attack hits. Dex throw.

I'll do that as well. That's a natural 20 on the dex. So, second attack hits. 15 on the hammer 7 yep and then the lightning does half damage as well if they make sense

they did yeah I rolled a 9 oh yeah of course so 1 half no the 1 is fine so you you swing the hammer

but there's so many of these tiny little egg babies. You just got nipped by tiny fish. Babies. The lightning slams into it. People pay good money for that in shopping. But the swarm is still active. You're baiting. Oh, yeah.

Have I been out for children? You've injured it with disease. There's still more than half existing. Not children. Still more than half there. Those fish carry diseases. From behind the... Oh, I left it in the thing.

Get out. I can't believe we're going up and getting it. Go to the supermarket, put your feet in fish. Get out. Get out. Algae rot. Thin rot. I'm going to call me a titsy.

I've got dropsy. Yeah, she'll just... You hear, from the other side of the wall of light, you hear this deep chanting. Zakiya, give my servants power. And some sort of spell takes place.

This is awfully familiar to another situation we've been in. I am absolutely unsure of what to do at the moment. So you can use your action to say I'm going to hold my action until something happens and you can say like, until I'm attacked or until I see an enemy and then

you can say what you want to go off. You can do that. Or you can just say, I don't know and you can just not take a turn. I'm not going to take a turn this time because I don't think I have anything that I could potentially mmm I could disguise self as a Sahagun. Yeah, you could like

dip back. Yeah, could you do anything defensive? Yeah. Rather than... Doesn't have to do damage to anything, you can do defensive things.

Sure. I will take a few steps back. Yep, so you're out of sight of the wall. Yeah. Cast disguise self to make yourself look more Sahagin. Yeah, and be like

hopefully that'll mean that they don't attack me. Sure. We'll see. We'll see how good your performance as a Sahagin is. Yeah, we'll see. See if you learn anything from Clyde. Oh, Clyde! Don't bring it up. I've got Clyde, I've got Bonnie's body. I've got his weapon.

I do have his hand. Yeah, you have the lance. Nova, it's your turn. Uh-huh. Can I... This could be a terrible... Can I see any of the devices that are generating? They're on the other side.

They're on the other side. Can I see them, like, where they vaguely are through the wall? Mm-hmm. Can I see vaguely how many forms there are? There's maybe, I think, like, two in the corners of the roof of the cavern. There's, like, two crystalline, like, cylinders or, like, metal cylinders with crystals in them

embedded in the ceiling. And then they're projecting the wall straight down, but they're on the other side. Oh, I meant Sir Horgan. Oh, you can see a vague shape. Vague blurb. I will say, for the purposes of the map, you see a vague shape about here.

Literally five feet out of the, like, blurb. I'm going to go to Sentry and Aayla. I can take one of you through, but it's going to be a lot of bad stuff on the other side. Okay. one of you through, but it's gonna be a lot of bad stuff on the other side. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo! I think Ayla's ready to go. So can I, ready in action, and I'm gonna say to Ayla, you need to come to me

so that we're not near anyone else. Okay, well Ayla's not got another turn for a while. So you could move to me. Yeah, so, yeah. But are you near any other people? Because I do a 10 foot radius of damage. You'll hit Lucius and Jax and the Saurgans. So I'd rather be away from people.

Sentry's after you. You could take Sentry through. So if I say, yeah. So if I swim over here? Yeah. Yeah, you're going to go next to the plant. I've got 15 feet movement. You've got 15.

Yeah. Where am I? I'm here. It's the pillar. You're the blue one. So you can go there. Yeah. I might catch Quill, though.

Unless I'm there. Yeah, do it. Is that 10 foot? Odyssey's shield. Is that in the blocks? A 10 foot radius is 10 foot out all the way around. So I catch Quill. Right now, Quill's actually here.

He's above Eren. They're like that, basically. So if I'm there, then that's safe. So I would like to ready an action so that when Sentry is next to me, I would do Thunder Step to go through the shield. I love it. I have some bad news.

Things are going to try and do stuff before you see that. You see a very large shape. I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to do it. He's so large he can't see. That is a huge shape. I don't want to do it. You see a very large shape just in front of the wall

and it's going to throw a harpoon at you. At Nova? At Nova. 18 to hit. Yeah, I'm not happy. The harpoon comes sailing through the chain. Look how happy he is about it. I'd like to think that I've turned my back,

and I'm like, Sentry, come to me. I'm using it. So, Quill, you saw this coming in a flash, and you call out, Nova out Nova Duck as this thing... above her head. So that turns into a nine plus. Okay. So nine plus 15 to hit.

Nope. I am off 17. She just manages to duck it as this harpoon... and then pulls back. And you can hear this, like, very confused grunt. I'm sure that hit in an alternate timeline. It's okay, because there was another one behind. Oh, my God!

He can't fit his minis on the map. You're actually crushing all these minis. Well, I've doomed us both. That's only a two. So, eight to hit. So, both harpoons miss. Oh, I forgot. They were blessed.

Hashtag. 17. 17, exactly. Fine, I won't count it this time. That was my bad. I forgot that they had bless on them. Oh, damn, so I could have potentially used that and they still would have hit.

Yeah, it can hit. It's the thought that counts, though. Yeah. It's the thought that counts. Why heal when I could just stop you from taking damage? Sentry. We're doing the plan. counts, though. Yeah. It's the thought that counts. Why heal when I could just stop you from taking damage? Sentry. We're doing the plan? We're doing the plan?

I mean, she's ready to match it. As far as you knew, that was the plan. I'm ready. Does the two harpoons coming through change the plan? I don't think so. Plan. To death! This is such a bad idea.

Your reaction goes off. You can choose not to do it, Nova. Would she look at those two big harpoons and go, this is terrible? She's already seen them. You've seen Mero before. You know that it's Mero. Oh, Mero, boys.

Fuck it. Let's go. I was going to say, you've seen Mero before. Rad together like a body and blood baby. Let's do it. You can go 60 feet. Yeah, 90. 90.

So you can actually go behind them, like a point behind them if you wanted. Yeah. Nice. Just show them the way. There's just a bin of minis in there. It's just a bin. You can't be bothered to weigh it up. So there's a couple of things.

So you appear directly behind with this kind of thunderous burst of energy that erupts through the cavern. You then appear on the other side and you see a couple of things. The first thing you see is a Sahagin priestess stood next to an altar which is laden with treasure. You can see that a bunch of items have been placed upon it, different things. You see two Merrow facing in the opposite direction

to where you've just arrived, like they're harpoons pulling them back through the energy field. You can see there is a small chamber off to the side where you see a large, round Starbane generator with crystals built into it that appears to be powering the actual energy barrier, the shield itself.

Then there is a room behind you with a shining archway of purple light. And behind that, there is a further deeper cavern and you can see what appear to be hastily built cages and you can see tritons in the back of the room. We're going off planet, boys! That's your whole turn. That was your reaction, Sentry.

You moved, you dashed to get to Nova, didn't you? So you're pretty much done. Bonus action you want to do? No, I can't do any bonus actions. You're good. Yep. That was you want to do? No, I can't do any bonus actions. You're good? Yep. That was the Marrow. Century Lucius.

Okay. You are currently being swarmed by this one. I'm going to simply start moving forward, casting Armor of Agathys on myself. Okay, so cast... It's probably smart to cast Armor of Agathys now and then move. While I'm moving.

Yeah. I'm moving. I'm going to get an attack. Dicremency? Live to win. Yeah, so it's only when it hits. It's when you cast the spell. Explained it how many times? It's when you cast the spell, the Dicremency

goes off. So what's the level? So five to one of the one around you, yeah? Mm-hmm. Okay. And then you're going to move away. It's going to make an attack of opportunity. Oh, that's not going to hit. Ten.

No. No? Does it still go off? Yeah, I think so. I think they take another five. Five cold damage, please. So ten. They do not resist that.

This cold, several of the little baby hatchlings freeze to death. Oh, wait. And just collapse. I did it at third level, so it's 15. 15 points of damage. Oh, my. What, three? Yeah, because if he'd cast it at level three,

he gets, like, more temporary hit points, and it increases the damage. I'd like to think you're just so cold. Yeah, it's just erupts out. I may as well use it out Cold armor of Agathys And where do you want to swim to? Just 15 So next to Erin basically

Okay just put it down Just put it down next to Erin Oh my god Quill So there's just vanished Yeah you hear this pulse Yeah but she shouted out I did shout my entire plan Quill! Oh, um... So there's this vanished sentry. Yeah, you hear this pulse, this... Yeah, but she shouted out... I did shout my entire plan.

Yeah. Like a villain at the end of a Scooby-Doo movie. So... I will... I mean... I'm not in range of a lightning lure again, am I? Well, you don't know. You can't see through it, really.

Yeah, it's 15 feet. Yeah, but you technically can't see what is currently there. I mean, you could just go through it, but you don't know how much damage it's going to do to you. That's going to kill me. That frightens the bird. It's like one of those fly grills, you know, you get in a restaurant.

There's an element of that. They never kill flies, ever. Like, I've never seen one kill a fly. I have. Ever. It's like a little spark. I have. I've seen death.

It can't kill flies. They're mortal. You know, Spirit Guardians follows me. What does the spell say? Unfortunately, I don't know. I call for spirits to protect me, and they flit around you to a distance of 15 feet. Okay.

It sounds like it follows you. Yeah, it sounds like it follows you. It's an aura around you. Around you, yeah. Neato. I'm going to do spirit guardians. So anything within 15 feet of me has to make a wisdom save. Right now?

Yeah, so... So both of the Sahagin hatchlings, they both fail. That means they take 100 damage. Oh, wow, they're all dead. Carry on. Oh, look at that. 3v8. Bam, bam, bam.

4 to 12. 12 points of damage to each. To each of them? And then could I just dip forward a little bit and then just catch those guys? So you catch the ones that were around Lucius are reduced to about half their number now. Like, the Spirit Guardians, just these little tiny feathers

begin just impaling them and burning them away with the radiant light. So does the one that was around you and is now on Aayla. Also seems to be about half strength. Cool. And I will stay there in this sort of middle ground. Okay. I'm not really sure how Spirit Guardians works with that big wall of force. Lucius, the hatchlings that were after you are going to follow you.

And then Aayla, they're going to attack you. Lucius, that is a 20 to hit. Yeah, but they take like 15 points of damage. They take 15 points of damage. You, however, take 14 points of damage. Most of the hatchlings are nearly dead or attacking Lucius, but there are still a few remaining. Ayla, that's eight to hit. No. You just bat them away

with a hammer, kind of swiping to the side, keeping them away from you. Erin on her turn will help out Lucius by casting Magic Missile. A classic. El Classico. El Classico. Guaranteed hits too.

Yep. Five, and it's force damage. Seven, ten points of damage, which will be enough to kill the ones around Lucius. So we can just pop you down there. Oh, fishes. And she just blasts them with these kind of... Tridents made of magic as they just sail forward

and impale the last few remaining hatchlings um after erin goes i'm just trying to speed through this the priestess the priestess sensing the new threat of century and nova turns to you and raises up this kind of clawed hand of of finn sort of malformed Finn. She will point at Sentry. Can you make a wisdom saving throw, please? Oh!

Oh, my heart. Oh, my heart. So that's... That's a nat 1, but I've got plus 8, so that's 9, plus 2, 11. Nearly saved! Oh, my god! The plus 2 is already included in your saves, but I've got plus eight so that's nine plus two eleven wait nearly say oh my god the plus two is already included in your saves but okay D&D Beyond already

adds it you have a paladin's order as well that's included in her saves you guys don't it's yeah you guys have nine so nine not enough you freeze up you're paralyzed are paralyzed. No! Oh, that sucks. Yep. Uh, Drex! Live through it. Looking like a sahagun, and it's just like do-do-do-do. Just hanging out. So, if I cast Mage Hand, can I go put the Mage Hand through this Wall of Light

and see how much damage it would potentially do to anybody? I will say you wouldn't know how much damage it would do, but you would see the effect if you sent the mage hand through. I kind of want to figure out what would happen. Okay, bye. Is that what you want to do? Yeah, because I... Are you banishing

your dice? It's the second one this session I've banished. I'm trying to... There's nothing else that I could really do except for take out some more of the little... Give us a try. What are you... No, I can't point at at stuff that's been met again if i just tell you i think i'd like i would like some guidance like as a guest and new that's pretty good this yeah yeah i think that's that's probably a good one um i mean i was looking at that and also um

that secret secret no No, it's... No, I know, I know. But I think probably Fog Cloud would be... That's probably a good one. What third level spells have you got? Leomund's Tiny Hut, do that. Yeah? I love how you do it.

Leomund's Tiny Hut. I just want to put us all over a table. I don't want to make him again. We're just going to sit here for a while. Why don't you create the heart in between the walls and use it to go in and through it and out of it? Do you want to try that? Yes, I would.

Is it casting time? I'd like to try that. Is it long casting time? Oh, it's one minute casting time. It's a minute casting time. That's the thing. I knew there was a thing that wasn't... That's 10 rounds of combat.

You just tombed her. I know, but I don't want her to waste things. No, but this. She's just standing there for a minute like... You could try. Hmm. Technically, that might work as well. A wall of...

A wall of water. If she made a ring of water, could it block the water? It's still a wall. Yeah, I could try... But could you use that to create, like, two pillars that blocks the waterfall? Like Moses. Yeah. What? I could try... You could use that to create two pillars that block... Like Moses.

Yeah. You could create a cube, effectively. You can create a ringed wall. Yeah, you could try something like that. I'd like to cast a wall of water and see... Well, it's kind of like... Right, so... You know...

So... Down in really deep water, you get water of different salinities. Yeah. And it's of a different consistency. Temperature. Temperature. So it's more dense. This is very salty water.

This is super salty. This is so salty that it's like you can tell that this is where one bit of water ends and the other one begins. It's like the meeting of two oceans in different things would you like to try it you can freeze water okay so i could freeze water so i could like i think you can yeah you can freeze some water with it sure well you try that just for i want to see how effective or more how long this would last for yeah roll a arcana chain or just charisma just d20 plus your Charisma modifier. d20 plus my Charisma modifier. Okay. So your bonus to...

18 plus four. 22. 22. Jeez! You kind of let... And what does it look like when Drake's cast a spell? Is she singing? Does she kind of, like, gesture? Is it like an internal power? What's it like when she casts spells? I love putting people on the spot for this stuff. Role play it.

Because I'm a stupid person, I was like, immediately when she casts spells, it's like she's throwing up. It's like... I changed my mind instantly when I thought of her. It's like she's singing and you can almost see the song. She's like a lyre, doesn't she? Yeah, she does. And she shreds on the lyre.

And you just watch as these notes and the sound waves of the lyre and the singing drift out and then they actually begin to rise and form as they form these kind of... It's almost like it solidifies. It solidifies the water and also changes the current so it's in opposition to the water around it. And this water is quite, you know, it's quite still because it's in this cave. There's no current down here, really.

So this water with a new current, you watch as it does split the field. Why not for a creature to pass through it? And you can now see what the others see. And in fact, we'll remove this because... Bad. Bad. Bad.

Oh, that's not good. All these minis just... Tumbling out. We weren't ready. Every mini's a mess. They're like, fuck, like this. Finally.

Oh, we're free. We all just pile out. So you see, those of you who are in the other room can now see not only the altar, but you can also see Sentry frozen in place, Nova

panicking, and these two marrow Panic is the word here. Great job. Would you like to move anywhere? Or would you like to do a bonus action? I think I'm going to just stay, just kind of peering around and observe for now. I'm going to remind you just kind of peering around and observe for now.

Okay. Because I'm just going to remind you of one thing because it's the last thing because I know that this is the first time you're playing

character as a bonus action. You can also give something called bardic inspiration which you can give anybody else in your party you can give

them a D I think eight for you that they can add to an attack roll or a saving throw or anything like that as well. So just as a heads up

if you'd like to do that you can do that as a bonus action. I would quite like to help out either Sentry or Nova, depending on who feels like they would need it more. Give me a shout from the back over there. Yeah, give them a shout, Sentry. Yeah, Sentry's power high. But do you get to save from that?

Do you get to save on that? Maybe. I'm going to save from that. Do you get to save on that? Maybe. I'm gonna give Nova an extra. She's right. I'm panicking. I'm just like, save me. Well, it is Nova's turn. So you don't need to roll anything.

You just give a D8. She can have that, whatever D8 that is. So you call out something encouraging or inspiring. You can do it. There you go. You can do it. There you go. You can do it. Don't worry. No, though.

I got your back. How sturdy does the generator look? It looks to be made of black crystal like many of the ships and things in Starbane's Armory, but it is underwater and it looks old. And maybe make a perception check for me. Perception. Hold on, my Nova dice? 17.

I think that Nova would recognize that the generator itself looks sturdy, but there is like a, effectively like a metal coil that runs from the generator up into the cylinders that connect the barrier. But you also notice that the barrier is now being split open by these walls of water, and you can see your friends clearly. So it's up to you. You think the coil would be easier to damage than the generator itself? Is there anything, like, on

writing or anything on it that would be, like, press off? You would need to be closer to it to examine it. You would need to try and swim past the marrow. No. I don't know. Do I attack the marrow I'm gonna go for the coil cuz if Booth gets damaged it might go in Sure. Poof. Okay. In which case, can I Eldritch Blast the coil? Yep.

So just make two attack rolls for me because it's quite a small target. It's easy to damage but hard to hit. Mother of God. You've got a D8. Did you just roll two nat ones? I rolled a natural one and a five. Okay. So five plus seven is 12.

You've got a D8 to it. You can add a d8 to it. You can add a d8 to it. Is that a fail then? I'm guessing. You have to decide whether you're going to use the Bardic Inspiration or not before I tell you.

Quite a small target, right? I'm not going to just either you roll it or you don't. Choice. I just don't know whether not to roll it on the nat

one on the five. I'll roll it on the five. Seven. So 19. Yeah. Enough that the on the nat one on the five I'll roll on the five seven so nineteen yeah enough that the the one blast

hits above and shatters the stone and the coral around it the second one as Drex calls out you just feel this kind of intense bit of power

kind of surge through you and it shears the metal cable in half and the force field just completely evaporates nice I rolled ten points of damage and just you stat nerds out there nice shears the metal cable in half, and the force field just completely evaporates. Nice. I rolled 10 points of damage. Are you stat nerds out there?

Nice. As you do this, the two merrow, sensing their easy prey in sentry, turn on sentry. Oh, no. That is a 20 to hit you century That's not actually a hit So

What Oh because you've got Helios Helios literally saves her So you feel this kind of pulse From the Shield Evaporate That was with its harpoon

Now it tries to bite you For boof Helios 18 Is Ah nice The second Merrow.

Armor that looks like a big golden lion. 24. Cool. Nice one hits.

Sadly, because you are paralyzed, it's automatically a crit, but it's not too bad. That was with the harpoon, so it's going to

be... How many of those crit? There's currently great concentry. Only one hit. Yeah, yeah. I know, I know.

12. He's going to be a fuck as well. Really dead for a while. He hates Nova. Yeah, yeah. I know, I know. 12. He's grumpy as fuck as well. Really grumpy. He hates Nova. Yeah, he hates me. I thought the X-Men theme started then. Sorry. That got very exciting.

Sorry. That's going to be 23 points of damage, and your body is technically pulled closer to the marrow as well. Cool. Because you automatically fail strength checks, so you're kind of like hovering in the air at the moment as well. Cool. Because you automatically fail strength checks. So you're kind of like hovering in the air at the moment. That's it. Out of the two attacks, thanks

to Helios and your new armor plating, these attacks just bounce off for the most part. It's lucky. You're not even trying to defend at this point. It just starts bouncing off of you. Bounce, bounce. Sentry, at the end of your turn, you may repeat the saving throw. So wisdom saving throw. Nat 20!

Oh! Paralysis ends. You are now out. Lucius. Okay. I'm going to hobble around the corner. I should just really stand next to... To Aaron. To Aaron. And I'm going to cast

Melth's Acid Arrow at 4th level. I'm going to spend 4 sorcery points to twin it. So I'm going to hit both Melth's Acid Arrow at 4th level. I'm going to spend 4 sorcery points to twin it. So I'm going to hit both Melth's. I love it. So you conjure these two swirling orange projectiles. I fire one that splits into two. And it splits, nice. You conjure this orange

blow, orange bow. You never mold, Melth. I love it. Also, your Dikemancy will go off, and that was a fourth level spell. And that will hit the Priestess. Oh, okay. Seven. Seven to her for acid.

So, ranged spell attack. That's sick. Ten. Is that it? It's a miss. It's a miss, unfortunately. Second attack. Is it going to be the second target?

Eight. That's a miss. Oh, my God. You do do damage on a miss. It target. Eight. Miss. You do do damage on a miss. It's going down the table. I believe it's 2d4 or something. On a miss, the arrow splashes for half as much as the initial damage. So 4d4 halved. Are we still doing the bad

right dice roll inspiration fail dice system? But have fun coin. Not right now we're not because I've got too much in check. Is that already halved? That's halved, yeah. Yeah, so four points of acid to each. Oof.

That was a big old whiff. But still, the acid kind of splashes out and you watch as this cloud of acid just like pits against the mirror itself.

I did it at fourth level. I'll do two more. Okay. And half it. Fucking hell. That's one point more that's your one. Fucking hell. That's one point more. Nice. Five damage to each.

Yeah, you watch as this acid just coats the marrow and the creatures, but doesn't actually seem to harm them too badly. I feel like I can't really high-level shit and spend loads of sorcery points. Well, you did roll really low. Yeah. What's your attack bonus? Plus six. And then you roll once. So there you go. So, like, yeah, if you roll low, low. Yeah. What's your attack bonus? Plus six. And then you roll once.

So there you go. So, like, yeah, if you roll low, like, what do you expect? And then you roll once. And then you roll once for damage. Yeah.

Yeah, fun dice. Nice. Well, there's also... Did you do Diachromance? Yeah. We did. Yep. Okay.

I've still got my Spirit Guardians just flittering around me. I'm going to just nudge around the corner so that... The mirror. All of those... So what is that little tiny the corner so that the marrow, all of those.

So what is that little tiny boy? That's the priestess. All right. So you step up next to the marrow. And yeah, it's in range of

the priestess as well. So on the starts of their turns, they have to do that. Yep. I'm also going to cast at fourth level.

Oh. Ooh. Hmm. I'm going to cast... What range? Come on, Tom! Oh my god, I feel like I haven't had a turn in decades. Yeah.

I am no way the slowest person on the table. You are being slow today. I'm going to do Thunder Weave. Okay. So this is at fourth level. They have to make cons saves. Yep. Fail. Pass. So 13.

Actually, no. Oh, no, that's the priestess I'm looking at. Their con's actually pretty high. 16. Is that a pass? Yeah. So one fails, one passes. What's the range on it? 15 foot cube. It will hit the priestess as well. She's also a failure.

So two failures, one success. Cool. 5d8. One, two. Ow. Is this mockery? Seven. Plus nine, so 16.

And then one more. 20. 20 points. And also I'm pretty sure they're launched like a million feet. Also lets out a thunderous boom that's audible for 300 feet. We're letting off a lot of booms here. I didn't read that part of it. Cool.

So this enormous thunderous roar just echoes through the... And this is a cave, right? So it reverberates. And for a moment, you're all kind of like, have to hold your ears as this thunderous boom erupts around. Does it hatch all of the wall of eggs? Nova, make a deck save for me.

Where are we fucking? Well, because of Shehagan Freestess. Save. Century, can you make one as well for me? Yeah, you are. Eight. How far does it push them? Ten feet.

What the fuck? Did you run another one? I'm so mad. Oh my God. How many D20s have you got left? How many nap ones have you got today? It's got to be a stamp. You can have inspiration, mate.

You can have inspiration. I think it's time. I have some good news People who call us take half as well That's fine, I already did half So Nova and Sensual You both take 8 points of damage Whereas the Mero and the Priestess Are thrown with such force

That they slam up against the back Of the cavern The Priestess, her brain is just splattered against the wall. Wow! Yeah, she'd taken a bunch of damage. Had she? Yeah. Yeah, I knew that.

Boom! The thunder wave just did like 20 points of damage to her, and then Quill slams her against the back. And then the two marrow also slam against the back of the wall as well. Cool! Great turn, Quill. Thanks.

See, I took a bit of thinking, but I got there. Ayla, the hatchlings miss you. Yay. If we call ourselves low rollers, can we work? The luck might change. Fucking Aaron misses. Can you work out what 30 feet gets moved for me?

Yes, it will get next to Erin. 15, 20, 25, 30. You can literally go in front of Quill. I was just wondering. Do you want to do that? Or finish off this thing? I might finish off that swarm, actually. Yep, sounds good.

Just to take a bite. Yes. So, um... 19 to hit. Hits. Sorry, this has been a very combat-y one. A lot of stuff going on. 17 to hit.

17 hits. First time in high rolls. So, oh my god, I rolled two ones. Wait, wait, wait. So, oh my god, I rolled two ones. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So six, eight times two, so 16 damage for the hammer altogether for both shots. And then make a save for the lightning.

16. That passes. I rolled a six, so three. Three. And I believe that is enough to finish those off as the lightning blasts the last few of the hatchlings. I'll just reach the corner

a little bit. There's a lot riding on this one. There's a lot riding on this one. I fell over. I can't get up. It's going to be a good time. I promise. No need yet. Okay, so I am going to move out I'm gonna be at 20. I'm gonna try to fly around the world. I promise. Dress. No need, yes. Oh, your turn.

Okay, so I am gonna move out into... Swim out here. Swim out there, sort of thing. What's the range on that rifle that I've... 60 feet. 60 feet. Oh, yes. I'm gonna go, yeah, I think I'm gonna go straight.

I'm gonna go for... You got big boy one and big boy two. I'll go for big boy two. I'm gonna go oh you're a big boy one and big boy two I'll go for big boy two I'm gonna go for big boy two what what do I need to roll that's big 20 d20 plus dexterity there's big client okay big client we've got big Bonnie a big client sure okay so oh really spreading around I really do ones on my damage. The heat blast just kind of kicks you back and the rifle just kicks up in the air.

You're just kind of this little delicate form. I have no idea how to do this. You almost like spin the water. I don't understand. I'm going to roll for this one. I've cursed everyone. When you fire a rifle or something, if you roll a one, doesn't something bad happen?

Yeah, on a Thunderstone rifle. Yeah, on your stupid rifle. Okay, good. Not a Starbane rifle. This is is premium quality let's do anything as a bonus action um i it is no the next i think about what you're doing no i know you could do bardic inspiration again yeah i could do bardic inspiration again and uh considering centuries rolling so bad is And considering Sentry's rolling... So bad. We're not having a good day on that. Spriteflame all over again. And you've been tanking quite nicely.

Give you some bardic inspiration. What do you say? Thank you very much. How do you inspire? Because everyone kept asking me about that. You are so shiny and pretty, and I think you got this. Look at all that gleam that's coming off you right now. You're lovely.

There you go. D8. A whole D8 of extra points. I make a little whimper sound. I am shiny. Nova. Can I attack? I want a hexblade curse.

Take Bonnie. Whoever the fuck that is. I'm going to attack with Tiangong. That is a 13 to hit. Hits. And a green frame bread. Green frame bread. Sure.

Green frame bread. So weapon damage plus an extra d8. So weapon damage is 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, plus 3, 14, 15, 16. You don't need to worry about it. Do I still get damage on him, though, because I green frame braided it? Yep, yep, yep. Green frame braid. D8 plus your normal modifier, whatever it is.

D8 plus 4. There you go. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Nice. 12 points. Max. So you watch as you cleave through, 9, 10, 11, 12. Nice! 12 points. Max. So you watch as you cleave through with Tiangong, and it almost cuts through the mirror,

and this green energy pulls away and slams into the mirror beside it, and you just watch as the body next to you just falls away and begins floating to the roof of the cavern, this huge cut through its upper body. Does my Hexblade curse do plus, because it says plus three to damage rolls, so does that add another three? Well, the one that you cursed just died, so you actually get health back and stuff as well.

You cursed the far one. Okay, so it wouldn't chance... No, yeah. But you do get your HP back. But I do get my HP back. That's nice. That's me. The remaining Marrow will, sensing fear but to fight until the bitter end, will turn on Nova.

Are they humanoid? 14 to hit. No. We found this out last time, they're monstrosities. Misses you with both attacks. Excellent. As you carry its attacks to the side. Did someone sign me up?

Century. Nice. One last thing. One last thing. I'm going to hop on down, down here. Hop on down. Hop on on down. And I'm going to flame lance the dude.

Okay. Point blank flame lance. Point blank flame lance this boy. So DC 13, please. Seven. Whee! 3D10 fire damage. It is half.

You are underwater. Cool beans. Every little helps. Oh. 16. 18, 16 16 24 23 Half

11 Yeah 11 11 damage And then can I attack again You don't need to It's just enough damage To finish him off Yeah

Half of you can help So actually In fact actually The way that you lance him The lance catches The shield generator And a mushroom spore That was hidden Around the corner The mushroom spore that was hidden around the corner.

The mushroom spore, when it's ignited, explodes and the shield generator basically crumbles as well. Yay! Just the whole system just... Oh, would have been nice to have that. Shutdowns. Well, it's gone now. It's blown up.

You could try and repair it, but it's very large. It's, you know, maybe about 10 foot radius. No, I more meant like if we tamper and stuff comes this way. Anyway, carry on. Well, you're on an out of initiative. You see what I described before. So you see this altar. There is a number of treasures, a statuette, a gold ceremonial dagger,

and some sort of red gem are on the altar. The altar is covered in symbols depicting a woman with a snake-like body and giant wings, which appears to be Zarkira, Kallus's right hand. You also see the room behind you, as mentioned. This kind of... The cavern, it looks like maybe it was like a natural crevice that's been opened up maybe recently.

And then beyond, there is this, yeah, metal archway, it looks like maybe it was like a natural crevice that's been opened up maybe in recently and then beyond there is this yeah metal archway which contains purple light um and then beyond that you can see uh the cannons stretch on and there are these metal cages that have been formed um crudely built um and you begin to hear kind of whispered and moans and cries coming from further beyond. Number one, loot. Number two, is there a console for the gate? Well, those are two very different things in different areas. So which one would you like to do?

I'm going to tell Ayla to loot. And then you go over to the gate. And then I go over to the gate. Okay. What's everyone else doing? I guess I'll go to the gate as what's everyone else doing I guess you know I'll go to the gate as well because I imagine

that's an arcane thing and I will assist in whatever Nova is doing okay also making sure she doesn't press any buttons I was going to say

free the prisoners but wow but you're being heroic they're beyond the gate though right they are beyond the gate yeah

they're around here yeah beyond the gate that's what I'm saying beyond gate but I just before we go beyond the gate though, right? They are beyond the gate, yeah. They're around here. They're beyond the gate. That's what I'm saying, beyond gate. But I just, before we go through the gate, I want to see. They're not in the gate. They're in the cavern here. No, but isn't the cavern behind a big gate? No.

No, you can go around the gate. You can go around the gate and see the cavern is stretched beyond it. The gate is almost stood in the middle of this cavern, and it's like a metal strut that comes out into an arch shape, and it seems to have just been built, and there is like a circular base, but it just stands freeform in the middle of this underwater

cavern, and then the cavern continues past it, and deeper further into that cavern you can see these metal cages. Gotcha. Erin just looks, is like you deal with the gate. Those are my people and she just swims past Yeah, Drex, you might want to

go into the cages and see who's in the cages Sure, yeah, okay. So you swim past that way and you begin making your way there What about Sensory and Lucius? What are you guys doing? I might want to have a look at this thing. Yeah The shield, the busted up shield generator. Because it's like, it's Starbane tech.

I'm just going to, I'm not happy that this is still around. Okay, yeah. So you're making your way over to that. I'm going to, like, kick it and maybe, like, just smash it a little bit. So you're not really investigating it. You're just being mad at it. I just want to be really mad at it. Okay, sure.

Lucius? I'm just going to be shivering and then slowly trying to capture up to everyone. I forgot you guys were cold. Are you cold? Oh, yeah. Oops. Oh, that could have changed the entire... Hey, love.

Hello. What are you doing? Are you going off to Christmas? I do. Probably. I mean, we can come back and get stuff. Okay. Right.

So those of you investigating the console, you see, yeah, as I mentioned, it is an archway made of metal on a round metal disc. Okay. Right. So those of you investigating the console, you see, yeah, as I mentioned, it is a archway made of metal on a round metal disk. It is made of purple energy. You cannot see what's on the other side. There is no control panel. There does not appear to be any sort of interface. It is just on a circular disk, a metal archway with a glowing door of light that you cannot see through so it is active it is active, yes, it is humming

vibrating with power casting purple light through the cavern and there's no runes or anything on the gate uh investigation? you can make an investigation check if you want, yeah, you can make an arcana check Uh... Investigation? You can make an investigation check if you want.

Yeah, you can make an Arcana check. It's up to you. What do you want to do? Are you investigating, like, the magical... the actual portal itself, or its construction? The construction. Okay, investigation. Investigation. Yeah, that'll be a nine.

Nine. You don't find anything else. Drex and Erin, you swim past this gateway, leaving the others behind. And you find yourselves in a very cramped, narrow set of tunnels that seem to stretch deeper and deeper into the caves. And there are numerous crudely made metal cages. Or tunnels have been blocked off with like a cage door in front of them and you find

many of the citizens of Twilight Corals not all very small amount really but they are clearly survivors some of them have been injured some of them look a little malnourished but they are there you search for a time.

You scan the faces. Erin begins speaking with them as you begin frantically kind of moving down, calling out for your sister. And then at the very edge of the final cage, you just see this golden haired triton kind of in the corner. And she kind of blinks a couple of times. And you can see she's got bruises and she's got a few cuts and scrapes on her. But she looks up and she just looks over and is just like, Drex, is that you? Kind of like blinks for a moment.

And I'm just elated. I've forgotten her name again. But she's, you know. Amlin. Amlin. It was random. It was random and I forgot. Random. Random! Random!

And I know I'm trying to find a way to get her out of this cage. You're looking. There doesn't appear to be a lock. It's almost like the whole thing has just been embedded. There is a door, but it's... I'd probably say it's probably like... I guess it wouldn't necessarily be a lock,

but maybe like a chain has been wrapped around it and secured with some sort of like bar or like heavy metal, like a fused ring. So it looks like it's just, it doesn't appear to be an easy way to open it. Like maybe they had some sort of magic or something like that that they could use. Or maybe just brute strength.

You could actually pull the bars out of like the stone. Right. I would like to assist. Okay so yeah while Ayla swims up behind Can I? Because I was going to go and see the prisoners anyway. So can I see if I can help open these cages and stuff? Yeah so yeah you can make a

strength check for me and then if you want to assist Drex you can also make an athletics or strength check for me. Nope. Probably not. Let's find out. What did you roll? For podcast listeners? I rolled a not. Let's find out. What did you roll? For podcast listeners? I got 11.

Am I rolling strength? Yeah, so athletics. Athletics? It's a 3 and the athletics is a plus 0. So the two of you are straining and you're putting your feet under the water, Ayla. You're still adjusting to being able to get your full length strength and leverage

Amlin kind of swims up and she's kind of like trying to push but you can see she's quite weak from maybe not eating And things like that. Yeah, yeah It's gonna touch the cage and do acid splash on the just like on like on the corner bit to try and we A roll again, but give me advantage going to touch the cage and do acid splash on the corner. Just like on the corner bit to try and weaken it. Sure. Ayla, roll again, but give me advantage. That's like, so Lucius spends some time constantly summoning acid to weaken the bars. Hands all over the place. And then Ayla gives it another tug.

19. 19. With that, you kind of hear this as the one bar comes loose. Just so you know, the other one was a one. Well, it's good to have your advantage then. That's a bit of teamwork. And that space is enough that the slim form of Amlin and the other tritons, there's maybe like one or two other tritons in there, like elderly tritons,

and they manage to like squeeze their way through. Looking back, you can see that Erin, Baroness Erin, has basically summoned like various magic similar to you. She summoned cold to like kind of super freeze the part of the bar and then she smashed it um and it's kind of broken a bar loose as well and she's kind of letting the others out free um ameline just kind of swims over and just wraps her arms around you and kind of like clings on to you in that kind of i'm weak and probably not passes out but doesn't really have enough energy to really converse but just kind of like limply kind of holds on to you um erin looks to you ayla and lucius

listen i need to help my people get out of here those sahogun are still going to be patrolling outside and i think maybe if we move in small groups and keep hidden in the kelp forests i can get them back to the twilight corals. But clearly something's going on here, right? You saw that shield thing that they had, this portal. I figured this is something... Her reference. Yeah.

I'm shivering. I've got two strings of snot just kind of floating around. Lovely. She's looking like a catfish. She's also talking to Aayla, perhaps more at Aayla than at Lucicius then if that's the case you do what you need to do for your people well i'm saying look i need to stay here and help them but

this high priestess we still need to put an end to what they're doing here if we close the gate do you think that would shut it off i think they're looking at it and i don't know i don't know how to stop it. Maybe if they can close it, but if this priestess is the one who opened it in the first place, like Drex found out from that marrow, oh, that's a hoggin,

I think that they can just open it again. I think... I hate to ask you this, but you might need to go through and put an end to this properly. But also, I might find the answers for whatever you came to search for. I know that you came here for reasons. i think that maybe they're through there um and she just

turns like drakes if you'll help me we'll get everybody back and safe as best we can absolutely great that sounds good um meanwhile century once you're smashing this piece of equipment around yeah it's clearly starving tech but you do notice like you spin it as piece of equipment around, it's clearly starving tech, but you do notice, like, you spin it as part of, like, breaking it, and this piece of metal kind of, like, floats up, or piece of crystal in it, and you can see that for the first time there is some writing on it. Okay.

And it reads, I don't know, I don't know if you would necessarily know how to pronounce it, but it reads as, let me write this down for you. It's something that if you read it in a certain way, it says, but I have. Starbeam. It says, free shivarkadoo. Wow.

Free shivarkadoo. What, did you just call me? What is it actually? It's something called free shivarkadoo. Bring that meme back. But yeah, so you see these you just call me? What is it? It's something called Freesia Barker. Freesia Barker, dude. Bring that meme back. But yeah, so you see these letters

arrayed, and it's written in common. It's written in common, you know, language. Uh-huh. But yeah, you just,

that's something that kind of floats up. Okay, I'm going to keep hold of that. Mover and Quill, you finish examining it. Quill, did you want to do anything particular?

Are there any controls similar to when we saw the Starbane port? With Valor? No. There is no control panel around that you can see. At least not this side. Not on this side. Quill? Yes?

Your wonder eye. Find out what happens when I go through that? No. Well, yeah. But does it work? because obviously it would work with this room, but if this portal goes somewhere else, it probably wouldn't tell you... I could find out what happens when I walk through the portal. Well, you're going to teleport somewhere. It's just where.

But that's what I mean, I can find out what's the other side. Oh yeah, because it would be on you. I was thinking of me. No, yes, that would work. Okay, so that's... I'll do that. I'm thinking of me. No, yes, that would work. Okay. So that's... I'll do that. I'm going to ask...

This is your second charge. I think this is my final charge. For another week. For another week. Okay. So, you summon the power of the Eye of the Storm. I'm going to ask what happens when I walk through that portal. Okay.

So your vision goes cloudy, and you begin to see mist and fog form in the same way that you have when you've summoned this power before, and you feel that rushing sense of speed. But this is quite fast, almost like as if you're seeing yourself do it again. You kind of have this out-of-body experience

where you're watching your own body do something. I projected from myself. Yeah. You see your body step through the portal, and as soon as it begins stepping through, it vanishes. Yeah, correct. And then there is this sudden rush. It's this third astral kind of body

where you are watching yourself in the cavern step through. It's now like you're trying to catch up to your real body, and you feel a really rapid acceleration and ascent, this super fast amount of movement, and then you find yourself in a quite very square, like perfectly geometrical square room

emerging from a similar portal. There is a metal door on one side, engraved with the same thing that Sentry saw in text. So you see the word, well... Free Shavokadoo.

Oh, yeah, you're right. I can't pronounce that. Okay. Aegisiv or something like that. Aegisiv. Aegisiv. Aegisiv. Yeah.

Which appears in text written on the door. There also appears to be what look like metal shutters, and the walls are made from the same black crystal that you've seen Starbane's stuff made from before. But there appear to be metal shutters on the wall. And that's all you can see in the room. The room also has like strange metal tubes embedded on the walls

as well. But I don't see anyone in the room that's safe-ish. Yes. I would say it looks safe-ish. And then the question is answered, and your vision rushes back to as it was. And when you come back, Eren, Drex, and a number of Triton civilians

begin making their way up towards you and towards the portal. It looks safe enough in there. There's no one through there. But, I mean, I can't tell you where it is. I've never seen anything like it. What did it look like? It looked perfectly constructed.

There was a word, A-E-G-I-S-V. Drex, as you're kind of making your way up, you hear Amalyn like, that's where the priestess went with the others. Through there. They were taking some of us through there, talking about a temple, going to meet with Starbane, with Kallus. Right, so that might be bad.

Portal to evil. Visage. This is where I walk up and i'm like hey i found a crystal that says yeah yeah essentially joins it yeah you can see that the the metal matches the same black crystal the same text the shield generator was obviously from wherever this portal leads to this room yes did it look like the ship under the lake similar very similar definitely Starbane so it's a ship

well I mean I guess I did feel the ascension didn't I you would also have noticed there wasn't water in the other room I was gonna ask that

yeah was it cold and was there water no it looked like a dry room like Quill came out and his feathers were like you know

he kind of shook like future Quill yeah kind of shook and I guess I felt like massive ascension sort of thing when I was, yeah. No water. So, and I don't even know, if it is a ship, then I don't know where it is. It's not underwater.

And if they're going to meet Starbane, it might be Starbane's ship. And with that, we're going to end today's episode Visage Visage I'm calling it Visage

or Aegis V or Aegis V so they use Roman numerals in a row why would they use Roman numerals that's Roman

well anyway anyway first and foremost thank you very much Boo for joining us for an episode thank you I'm sorry it ended joining us for an episode thank you I'm sorry it ended up

being quite a combatty one simply because of the events that were already in place exactly that was awesome thank you so much

but I think that it's the kind of thing where you know if you ever want to come back we'd love to have you and Drex come back for more shenanigans

you just hop out of the ocean and land on the airship well I mean maybe a case of you guys going to visit more Triton stuff in the future as well

if you want to go and check out Solvents. Who knows? But seriously, thank you for joining us. Thank you so much. Where can people find you if they don't already follow you,

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