High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #50 | A Desperate Escape (Part 1)

Episode Date: October 28, 2019

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Pickaxe. your teen requested a ride but this time not from you it's through their uber teen account it's an uber account that allows your teen to request a ride under your supervision with live trip tracking and highly rated drivers add your team to your uber account today hello everyone welcome back to high rollers ageons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois, run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes, with me, Tom, playing Kelek Ad-Khalad, Cleric Wizard. Hi, I'm Rhiannon, I'm playing Sentry, I am a Guardian Paladin. I am Chris Trott, I'm playing Lucius Ewan, Elowen Elanastro, and I am a High Elf Sorcerer. Hi, I'm Katie, I'm playing Ayla, 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, D&D Beyond, the official Dungeons & Dragons toolset. Create your free account and speed up your campaigns today. Hello! Welcome back to High Rollers. The party ventured through a mysterious portal found in the Sahogun Caves at the bottom of the ocean. They arrived in a strange crystal room with signs of Starbane Empire technology. A curious Nova opens a series of metal shuttles to reveal that they are on some kind of structure floating in astral space above Erois and within a debris field of broken starships. Alongside this revelation, both Helios and Tiangong feel the presence of a corrupted

Eterna coming from below, along with the sound of music. Exploring further, it is revealed that the doors of this citadel only open to Aayla, who has no memory or understanding of why. The structure is an astral citadel called Aegis V, and seemed to be some sort of staging ground for Starbane's troops. It is abandoned with no sign of life and large parts of the ship broken and destroyed. Exploring deep into the heart of the Astral Citadel, the party find the Eterna's power core at the bottom of a large cylindrical shaft, where the Sahagin High Priestess appears to be praying to the corrupted Eterna called Silveredge. However, the Priestess transforms and reveals herself to be an Eladrin who works for the Starbane Diplomatic Corps.

She taunts the party and rebuffs their claim to know Kallus, and a fight begins. And that is where we kick off today. Aayla, for Aayla's relevance, there's quite a lot of stuff that happened. One of the other things you found is you found some sort of strange medical room where there were these kind of containment units or like glass chambers and Aayla had a very

strong recognition on them, had memories of being inside one long ago. But like as an adult, not as a child. Yes, as an adult, not as a child. And was somewhat stunned but then was quickly ushered on to do more uh and i believe uh sansara uh who is the eladrin who revealed herself to be the uh priestess in disguise um has summoned forth two strange flying mechanical creatures um and then a laser grid sprung out of the ceiling and

proceeded to kind of blast along in these four columns of light throughout the chamber itself. And that was where we left things off last week. And I believe the only person who was hit was Sentry. So let's kick this off proper, shall we? Let's go. Well, hey, before then, happy 50th

episode, everyone. Happy 50th episode. Big five-o. Big five-o episode what a way to celebrate it yeah the perfect age wow wow billy this is it the whole the whole session i guess contextually we're all in halloween costumes as well oh yeah the audio is going to be really weird a little bit weird we're all in halloween Kim is Billy from Stranger Things. I think that's the only one that's going to permeate into the episode. Maybe Thor as well. Fat Thor.

Maybe Thor. Fat Thor. Maybe Thor. Right. Well, Century, that is a 26 to hit you. Yep, that hits. As this giant column of radiant red light passes overhead, you take 15 radiant damage.

Okay, okay. I thought you were going to say 50. I was like, ah! So if we can switch to the map cam. So you watch as this radiant damage passes along and then it seems to reset. Alrighty. Does my

moonbeam You will need to make a concentration check. Thank you for remembering that and reminding me so it's a constitution saving throw cool beans 16 plus 5 21 that is more than enough to succeed nice so uh we jump in lucius is actually uh the very top of the round uh the laser grid will go first and then it'll go to lucius okay you also have a shield of faith on you as well so to set the scene uh it is a large pretty much a square or rectangular crystal room. At one end is the containment chamber, which houses Silver Edge,

inside of which you can see this kind of warped and twisted battle axe that is turned black and smokes with energy. It seems to be in some sort of like separate chamber, which Sentry is currently pummeling with radiant energy from her moonbeam. And you can see the glass on the containment field is beginning to crack as she does so. Sansara and her drones are off in one corner.

Aayla has already pressed the attack a little bit, so has Sentry, but not a lot of damage has been dealt so far. So Lucius, what would you like to do? If I remember correctly, last time I cast Elemental Bane on her. You did, yes. So, and that was cold? I'm assuming you would have used one of your Daikomancy options.

It was cold, yeah. In which case, I'm going to do a Chromatic Orb at level 3, cold. So, 9 plus six is fourteen. Fourteen? Not enough. She nimbly, or fifteen I think, she nimbly dodges. She has the grace of a dancer and as you kind of throw out

this orb, she just pirouettes and pivots in place, spinning to the side as the cold orb smashes against the crystalline walls of the cylinder around you. Dang it! That's all I can do. Would you like to move? I'm going to just move a little bit

forward, just to be a bit more spread out. Okay. On the left-hand side. Okay. I can't see that. Samsara's go. Having been pressed by Aayla in the previous encounter, and being quite put on edge by this

looming, threatening melee fighter she begins to sing softly and begins waving her hands and you can tell whenever she starts singing, one of the two drones is amplifying her voice from wherever it is I need Ayla to make a wisdom saving throw

Christ, I'm bad at this shit. Oh, 20. 20. I rolled a 19. That was good. Well, you pass. You feel this presence try and take hold in your mind and trying to turn you against the other. This voice

hidden amongst the lyrics, you just feel this kind of kill them, fight them, fight them for me and it kind of begins to burrow in, but you kind of shake it off throughout the barbarian's rage. And you do not do anything. She is going to then move. Oh, she's stepping up to me. Am I already raging?

Step to me. You are already raging, yes. And she did take some damage. Yeah, I saw that. Step to me, I run away. And then I think that's pretty much going to be the end of her turn. So we go to Nova. Oh, your face.

What? Contextually, I'm a character from We Happy Few. Which means he has a weird white face. Yeah, which means I have a weird white face. He keeps laughing at me. Show off your pills. Show off my pills? Yeah.

All right, for podcast listeners. Don't shake them. I've got pills. I've got some joy pills. Pills here. Pills here. Grab the pills. Wait, for podcast listeners. Don't shake them. I've got pills. I've got some joy pills. Pills here. Pills here. Grab the pills. Wait, who's done this?

My turn. I'm glad somebody remembered. All right, Billy. Okay. Now you do it. I would like to... Oh, I'm going to play Nova now. I would...

All right, I'm fucking Nova. Nova now. I would... Nova! Fucking Nova, you sligs! Can I... I'd like to... Can I, using messenger rings, telepathically communicate to the group and say... No more Billy voice. Ayla! Ayla! Lucius!

Maybe you can command the ILS to open the blast doors. That's it. That's all you get. Six seconds. I'm sorry, but it was just the Nova voice with the Billy expression. Oh, but I'm so worried, guys. I'm so worried. I love Tiangog's face.

Yeah, so I'd like to communicate that to these two. So you tell them to try and command the ILS. And then can I back up a little bit into the corner? For Katie, for your benefit. The ILS appears to be an illusory version of Calus Starbane. Where's that? It just vanished. He vanished.

It can appear. It seems to be the station. It's like a cool sexy hologram. It's like a cool AI. So Nova, what else? I'm going to Eldritch Blast. Are you moving directly so just because it's not 100% clear

on the map cam where you are. In the corner. Are you actually like pressed up into the far? In this little corner. And then I would like to cast Eldritch Blast on the nearest drone. Lisa 1. Which has taken slow, so minus 2

to AUC. Yes. Yes. Yes. Whoops, sorry. Eldritch Blast. Two beams. One is going to be a 19, and the other one is going

to be a 10. The 10 will miss, the 19 will hit. One beam sails past the drone, the other smashes into it as it tries to weave out of the way. That'll be six points of damage, please. Six points of damage. That is to the... For reference, the one closest to you

is the one that has some sort of cannon underneath it. We will refer to it as the Assault Drone. Can I also use my bonus action to cast Hexblade Curse on Samsara? Yeah, sure. After your go, Nova, I'm

going to use Samsara's one legendary action that she has, which is to cast Vicious Mockery. Nothing will hurt me. Well, she's not going to target you with it. She's probably going to target Lucius. Lucius, can you make a wisdom saving throw, please?

That's a two. That's probably a fail. Yep, that's going to be a fail there, chum. Chum. So you're going to take six points of psychic damage. You have disadvantage on your next attack roll. No. Yes.

No. Yes. She does that at the end of Nova's turn. And then after Nova, we go to Ayla. Hello. So this ILS thing. Yes. Is it something that I have to speak out loud and it would be...

You saw, you saw Sansara. Obviously you didn't, but in the previous episode, Sansara just commanded. She said, ILS, do this. Um, and this illusory callus appeared and then it conjured these laser beams and then it went away. Uh, ILS disarm these drones

immediately there is an automated voice it's a feminine voice actually that comes back with authorization not recognized bollocks to it can I just hit her do what you want do you want to move up where do you want to go

I want to move to her what's this? That's my spiritual weapon. Just making sure it's not hurt. Okay. Also, if you're doing Vicious Mockery, what were you saying to Lucius? Okay.

It's actually... Oh, no, it's a 20. Sorry. Was that the first attack or the second attack? The second. The first one was a 23. I was literally about to answer a question. The first attack, as you go to make it,

she's going to use her reaction where she teleports up to 30 feet away. Oh. Boo. You need to make a dexterity saving throw for me. As basically, as she teleports away. Natural 20. Okay.

So you're going to take half damage. You take five fire damage. As basically, as she teleports away... Natural 20. Okay. So you're going to take half damage, you take 5 fire damage. As basically, as she teleports away, this kind of explosion of flame erupts from where she was standing within 5 feet around her. So that doesn't hit her then? So basically, the first attack misses, but you still have any remaining movement

and you can make your second attack. So I moved like 10. You moved like 10 feet. And you've got enhanced movement because you're a barbarian, so... And that was a nat 20. Right, so the nat 20 will go through. We'll keep the roll then because obviously things were going nuts. So roll the damage.

So it's max damage on the dice. Roll the dice again. So it's original, so 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. So 17 on the max plus further 8, so 17, 8, 9, 20, 21, 12, 13, 14 so 17 on the max plus further 8 so 17, 8, 9, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 25 on the hammer and then deck saving throw the deck saving throw

is going to be a only a 13 oh I think mine's a 14 now okay so she took 25 so 3 lightning a 13. Oh, I think mine's a 14 now. Okay. So she took 25. Um, so 3 lightning. Okay, 3 lightning. As you smash her in the side with this mighty

hammer blow, for the first time the kind of like cheerful bizarre facade that she's been putting on this act kind of breaks. She's like, hey, don't fucking do that! And then, like, it seems to, like, stare down at you

for a moment, like, you're not supposed to be fighting me! Come on! Fight these guys! No! Fuck you! Um... Again, dress as Luna Lovegood. This is not the character. Anyway.

Your glasses are so thick I can't see where the fuck you're looking. The world is a little bit purple right now. Straighten me, baby. After Ayla, Sentry. You currently have your concentration. What would you like to do? Awesome. I'm going to move Moonbeam onto Sensara.

Okay. What's the radius on it? It's five where it goes. Yeah, and, you can stop it from hitting the others. Yeah, it's 60 feet of movement. Yep, perfect. So that's 2d10 damage. Does she make a saving throw? Con 13. That is going to be a 20. Okay, nice. So half yes. Let's do it. Six, eight, twelve, fourteen, seven. Fourteen... So seven damage. Damage.

Damage, yes. What were you using on her, sorry? Moonbeam. Moonbeam! Yeah, I moved it onto her, yeah. Yes, okay. Would you like to move or bonus actions? Bonus action was to move Moonbeam, wasn't it?

It was, yeah. It's an action to move it. Oh, action to move it. Okay, so action to move it. So you have move and bonus action. Cool, I'm was to move Moonbeam, wasn't it? It was, yeah. It's an action to move it. Oh, action to move it. Yeah. Okay, so action to move it. So you have move and bonus action. Cool. I'm going to move probably up this way. In fact, actually, Sansara was the target of a spell or ranged weapon.

So as you begin concentrating on the Moonbeam and moving it over Sansara, the little assault drone seems to hone in on you, and it's going to take a shot at you as a reaction oh um tracker cannon that is a 23 that hits you're going to take nine radiant damage and the next attack against you has advantage shit cool um rock and roll as you do that uh after century it's the assault red drones turn so that was its reaction now it's going to take its turn it will fly kind of in between the two of you in fact actually no it won't it will kind of hover about five feet back and then it will take a shy Ayla who's just taken a big hit towards its owner I'm gonna react against it I think five feet away yep give disadvantage okay So that would have been an 18.

That next one is a 16. No. So that's a miss. Sorry. What? Slow. I've still got slow on it. Yep.

It only attacked once. It used its reaction and then it attacked once. Does slow stop it using reactions? It can't use reactions. Okay. So, right. For the future, if I say that it uses its reaction, it then it attacked once. To slow stop it using reactions? You can't use reactions. Okay, so, right.

For the future, if I say that it uses its reaction, it doesn't. But I'm not going to change it now. So you need to remind me. That's the thing. I can't... No, I was looking up another story. Yeah, no, that's fine. It's just that I've got to keep track of so much stuff. That's fine.

But yes, well remembered. You can make a wisdom saving throw at the end of the drone's turn as well. So that would have been a... Yeah, 16, so it would have passed now anyway. Okay, so it's not end of the drone's turn as well. That would have been a... Yeah, 16, so it would have passed now. Okay, so it's not slowed. So it's not slowed anymore. After the assault drone, it's the idle drone's go. Idle drone?

The idle drone. And the idle drone... What are you going to do? Wait, something? It's not idle. That's against all programming. The other drone, which seems to have some sort of speaker system or some sort of amplifier that's playing out this weird music,

it flies in between Quill and Nova, and it emits this high-frequency, powerful ringing noise. I need you both to make constitution saving throws if you're concentrating on any spells. What's the... You get a plus two bonus speed for that? The normal speed? Its normal speed is 40 feet flying, so it can go 20 feet. It can go 20 here because of the path as well.

Technically, actually, it is a 20-foot radius, so Sentry, I need you to make this constitution saving throw as well. Cool. So are you two concentrating on any spells? I'm concentrating on Shield of Faith. On Slow. Is that a spell, though? Oh, Slow is gone now. No, it's only gone on that drone.

Yeah, it's on the other one. Does that count as a spell? No, it's an ability. Okay. It Yeah, it's on the other one. Does that count as a spell? No, it's an ability. Okay. It's basically emitting this high-frequency noise that's disrupting your concentration on your spellcasting. It's got some shit for it. It's kind of more of a technology ability.

12. 12, so that is going to be a failure, because it's DC 13. So slow's gone now. So you succeed. 16. You succeed. So Nova, you lose the slow,

but Sentry and Quill keep concentration on your current spells, and then that's its action. Oh, no, as a bonus action, this one swaps places with Samsara. Oh, okay. So you watch as it begins to pulsate and vibrate. It collapses space, creates a portal around it. It swaps places with a Samsara,

and then a bunch of other drones seem to fly out of it. About four more different drones kind of fill the space that it was previously in. Drone babies, no! No! Are they smaller? No, they're all about the same size. You can't tell which ones, like, they all look identical.

Oh, so it's like a mirage. Right, I see. I would say, yeah, Nova would probably recognise it. It's a spell called Mirror Image, which makes it harder to determine which one's the real one. Bonus action. What's that? It did that as a bonus action, yeah.

Quill, last initiative. Right, I'm not within range of her at the moment, so I'm just going to back up a little bit, so I'm a little bit closer to century. As a bonus action, I'm going to send my spiritual weapon. So spiritual weapon is going to whack a one.

We'll see. No, it's just one. 20. Unnatural 20. Yeah, that's going to hit. 1d8 plus 4. 11. 11 points? With my feathery gale.

My howling feather. What do I call that thing? Are you using that? Yeah. Nice. Using your hammer again. And as an action, I'm going to become a beacon of hope. Aww.

I'm so beacon-y and so hopeful. So everyone within range for the duration has advantage on wisdom saving throws and death saving throws and will regain the maximum number of healing. Oh. Okay. So what's the range? Oh, it's everyone within 30 feet.

Yeah. So everyone within 30 feet. Nice. So what's that sorry plus? It's advantage on wisdom and death saving throws. Is that concentration? It's a concentration, so your shield of faith is gone, yeah. I've lost all faith.

And then you gained hope. You lose faith, gain hope. Okay. Done? Done. At the top of the round, the laser grid... Here we go. Oh, wait, I've moved.

Damn it! So, this is going to hit Quill, Sentry... Drone? It doesn't affect the drones, and I'd say that's actually... so this is going to hit Quill, Sentry drone? it doesn't affect the drone so I'd say that's actually is that Ayla? no that's the drone space, I'd say Ayla's actually yay, actually no it kind of

is, well Ayla which square are you on? are you on this one or are you on this one? I think you're on this one so it is going to it is gonna hit ayla but it doesn't hit uh lucius so quill century and ayla the beams pass overhead as it makes its way back to its original position all righty uh it's not the same group it makes an attack roll against you so century technically oh you used your reaction already for protection didn't you yeah so you don't get it on this one.

Okay. But you can use it on these laser beams. You can basically use your shield over somebody and stuff. Awesome. So again, Sentry, 16. Doesn't hit. Quill, that is a 19. Does hit.

Aayla, that is a 25. Yep. So Aayla and Quill, you both take 15 radiant damage. However, when it reaches this end the actual kind of emitters built into the ceiling seem to retract oh so it seems to pass once, pass back

and then the emitters retract into the ceiling right, might be a different shape next time that's some video game logic right there well I know, I mean if it's retracting then there's space for others can I ask that if I see retracting, then there's space for others. Yeah.

Can I ask that if I see different notches? Make a perception check. It's quite dim light in here, though, so you can have disadvantage. Disadvantage. You can have that. Six, with my perception, is 13. 13. I would say that you can see that the ceiling here is almost modular.

Like where it's kind of divided into these slots, like it's kind of tiered. And the whole ceiling looks that way. So it looks like those emitters could come down in any configuration. Oh, God. Okay. Okay. Cool. Okay. Okay. After that, that's at the top of the round. Lucius. I'm going to respond to the messenger command at the other point of the combat.

Yep. Saying, why didn't you try, Nova? You've got the necklace. I gave it back. No, you didn't. Good boy. What good boy? And then I'm going to cast...

Remember, it's an attack where you have disadvantage. If I move away from this drone, it's got an opportunity attack, right? Potentially. Definitely. It can make a melee attack against you if you move away from it. You've not seen it make any sort of, like, attempts to actually physically hit people. I think Lucius is going to play it safe anyway.

So I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb, Cold, and then spend five sorcery points to twin it. Okay. So this one and this one. First disadvantage one on this one. Or does it count for both? It would technically count for both because of the way twin spells worded,

because I've been looking up into this recently. You're adding a second target. You're still casting one spell. So, well, actually, it's against the first attack roll. you're adding a second target you're still casting one spell so well actually it's against the first attack roll it would technically be against the first target so yes I will let you put the disadvantage one on the drone and then the higher one on her that's a 15 and then yeah 23 23 on her C C C R R A C that's technically she hasn't had her round her turn so she doesn't have her 23 on her.

Technically, she hasn't had her turn, so she doesn't have her reactions back yet. So yeah, they're both going to hit, actually. What do you need? D8s. Was that just a first level? Like a normal level? No, third level.

Third level. How many D8s? Twinned as well. How many D8s? Five in total. Whoa, against both? Yeah. Is it five? Oh, Chromatic Orb's first level. Yes, in total. Whoa, against both? Yeah. Is it five? Oh, Chromatic Orb's first level. Yes, it is.

Chromatic Orb's third level. For some reason I'm thinking it was a second level spell, but you're right. I can cast it. Five d8s. Just roll one damage roll for both targets. Oh. Oh. 25. 25 damage. Add 2d8 for her because you have elemental bane on her. 2d6, I believe.

Oh, 2d6. I know my spells elemental 2d6 I believe I know my spells 3 extra 3 extra I have to blink because I've got my contacts in I can only just about like my contacts at screens are really bad so I can't quite see so it was 25 to the drone and then 28 to her right okay that

really hurts her and you can see she flinches um and you can see fear in her eyes for the first time like she looks around and she's like maybe you guys are a lot stronger than I thought. And seems very uncertain of how things are now going to go. Well, I used my six seconds to talk in a messenger ring, so I can't really respond. Okay. Her go next. She looks around

and she's just like, I'm not going to deal with this. ILS, release the containment filmed around Silver Edge. She pulls on a ring and vanishes. Oh. Alrighty. So, yeah, this is going to be really bad. Let's see what's happening.

I just realized I need a new miniature as well. I didn't get it. Oh, I have to step up in a minute. Yeah, she just basically, you watch her pull this ring off of her finger, and you've kind of seen similar effects when people have gone through portals and stuff before. She teleports away. You have no idea where she is.

She just vanishes. So she hasn't gone invisible? Nope, no. She vanishes from the space. She just completely teleports away. Oh, right. Well, and that's the thing is now you look around and you see this alarm begins to ring out throughout the room.

It's kind of whoop, whoop, whoop as the glass containment sphere around the Eterna begins lifting. Right. Warning, power stabilizers have been compromised. Astral Citadel cannot remain powered. Yep. Whoop, whoop, whoop. Right. Warning, warning, one minute remaining. Oh, shit. What happens to the drone? ship astral citadel cannot remain powered warning warning one minute remaining what happens to the drones

the drones remain oh okay I'm just going to have to roll a new initiative here what's happening what's happening what's going on self destruct

the power is just gone yes in fact Nova What's happening? That's easy. What's going on? This is self-destruct. Yeah. Okay. Well, no, it's more like the power is just gone. Yes. In fact, Nova, you would say, yeah. Basically, you think that you have a minute until the station no longer has power, which Nova would know means no portal home, means no gravity, no air, potentially completely life-threatening.

Oh, shit. I have to go get another miniature so enjoy your brief moments of peace I don't know how to fix this enjoy the rest of your life I don't know how to fix this ship is being powered

by a cursed not cursed and the door is still shut yeah the door is still shut fuck corrupted you know that you moonbeamed that

I was a bit like ahhh yeah I was like probably not my brightest moment. Probably not the best thing to do. I kind of like breathing. Yeah.

And also, that portal's not going to work, so we can't even run to the portal. How do open door? What do then? ILS. But ILS, we're not authorized to use ILS. We haven't tried it with an authorized... We haven't tried it with this, but...

Let's try that. Mark is so giddy and I, it worries me. He gets like that whenever there's a threat of death. Or a costume.

Oh, cool. So you've replaced the miniature with what? A little dude. That's an Eterna, isn't it? That's well cool. A little corrupt.

So by the way, this is an Eterna. Yeah, it's corrupted. It's corrupted as hell. We can't save it. Helios doesn't know how to save it. Hi! This is the perfect moment where, as this all goes around,

you can still see the drones are still engaged with you. They show no sign of powering down. And as you look over, you feel Tiangong tremble in your hands. As you watch as the warped axe begins to shift, glitchily so, like almost it begins to break apart and form into this humanoid shape

that takes one big step out of the field. The Hunger Life. What'd you do? What'd you do? ILS, open the blast doors. Authorization accepted. The blast doors open yeah yes so you see the blast doors behind you open

leading into this impossibly tall not impossibly tall but this long shaft leading up and down there is this ramshackle hastily built staircase that seems to wind its way up. And when you made your way down here, you were under no threat. There was no time limit. Racing up that staircase will not necessarily be easy. However, it is far better than the consequence, which is straight down, where you see astral space just endlessly expanding. The bottom of the citadel is broken away

and just leads out into open astral space. One slip could send you plummeting on for eternity. Coolest death ever, though. Nova, suit your turn. Pretty sick. Don't you breathe, guys. I'm here forever.

Thinking about the route that we took, would Nova think we have a minute to get back to that portal if you all rush yes if you all so i would say if nova knows that if you basically make for the portal at full speed there you can possibly make it um the tricky thing will be that the fact that the stairs will slow you down they do count as difficult terrain going up them in a hurry um and also if these drones continue to they can fly they're just going to pursue you you have no idea what the eterna can do um but yes you think if you hurry you may just make it in time yeah um perhaps with a few seconds left to spare

Perhaps with a few seconds left to spare. Okay. Nova's very intelligent. I would say that doing the math in her head, you have just enough time. If you rush now, you have a couple of rounds spare. Given that I've just said the thing to ILS, do I have enough time to communicate that to the rest of the gang?

No. That's your six-second free action of speech. If you want to take an action to just communicate a plan, then that's fine. You can spend your action to do that to the rest of the gang or no like no that's your six second free action of speech if you want to take an action to just communicate a plan then that's fine you can spend your action to do that um and you can still move on your yeah can i move uh outside of the door so you basically start making your way and then as i'm saying that can i use my action to communicate to the gang that if we move fast enough we can get out through that portal while it still has power but the drones are going to follow us and the

stairs, bad, fall, space, death. Ayla. Hi. The raging barbarian. What would you like to do? One last question. Because I hexblade cursed Sansara, I don't suppose there's any kind of feeling that she's... It's not Hunter's Mark, sadly.

Hunter's Mark, you can potentially track people up to certain miles away, but not with Hexblade's Curse. Cool. Carry on. Okay. I can use my fucking teleport as well. Would it slow me down? You'll levitate.

I know. I know. I know. The DM knows all. Would it slow me down if I grabbed Lucius and ran with both of us? Yes. Would it slow me considerably to DM? Yes. It'll half your speed.

Okay. Carrying another creature, whether it's a light person or a heavy person, I'm letting you carry him because you're super strong. It's going to slow you by half, for sure. I was more just thinking, can I pull him towards this area and then dart? Potentially, yeah. I mean, you'll still provoke opportunity attacks and stuff

like that. What would you like to do? But would that save him from an opportunity attack and I would get it? No. I think it would get an opportunity attack against either of you. It would have to pick the target, but you'll both be moving out of its threatened space. Okay, I'm going to do it anyway. I think that if you actively rush forward, grab Lucius,

hold him close and turn your back so that the drone... You make it so it's easier for the drone to hit you than him, then the drone will just go for you. It's not a super smart creature. I think I'll do that. Okay. Just to push him out a bit and then use whatever. So you basically, like, step over.

You grab Lucius, who I believe is wearing a Starbane uniform right now because he didn't have any other clothes. You grab him by, like, the collar of his shirt, pull him towards you close, like, grip him with your arms, turn your body. You begin stepping away. And, yeah, this drone is going to make an attack of opportunity against you. It's just going to try and slam against you with its body for a 24 to hit.

Seven points of bludgeoning damage. So half. Half to three. It smacks you in the back as you begin stumbling forward. You take a few steps so you can move, what, 20 feet? I can move 45 feet altogether. So you can go 22 feet, but 20 for the sake of this. So, and 15, and then 20?

And then you can start making your way up the stairs. And then can I use the... And you can pull Lucius with you, yes. Is that my action to do that? Or do I have... Can I... You can dash if you want, yeah. Do you want to let go of Lucius?

Yeah, I just wanted to get him... You pull him away from the thing, and then you drop him, and then you begin dash. So I want to take Lucius to the same point, and then dash. And then you dash, yeah. So you just take yourself off the to the same point and then dash. And then you dash. So you just take yourself off the mini-map for now. I mean, this is now going to become more of a theater of the mind

combat. Yeah, cool. Alright, perfect. So that is Aayla's turn. Sentry. Cool. So seeing everybody else is making a break. Well, you hear Sentry as you currently have Helios empowered into your armor and shield, this kind of golden raiment around

you we cannot allow him to remain we must destroy a silver edge he cannot be left alive like this it is torturous for him to be like this please okay um I will okay I will concentrate moonbeam on

silver edge and then so it's your action to move it over. And then bonus action, run away. Well, it'd be your movement to move your normal movement speed, and then your action to move Moonbeam. Yeah. Yep, okay, you can do that. Cool.

So what's your normal movement? So my normal movement is 30 feet. Okay, so you can basically get up onto the stairs, and then we'll have everybody start from vaguely the same position. Yeah. Just as a point, by the way, you would have gone 45 feet up because all of the stairs are difficult terrain. So you would move another 20 feet, yeah.

Okay. So. Cool. They're still faster than everyone else because they're going to be going up at 15. So Moonbeam, I make a saving throw. All right. And it's Constitution.

Yeah, 13. 13. That is a 15. So he's taking half. Half damage. Ace, four. Four points a 15. So he's taking half. Ace, four. Four points. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. So yeah, you kind of bathe him in this silvery light, and you can see the creature's like, no, no, life, give me life. And then you basically move your edge to the end, and then that's it. Anything else as a bonus action? No, I'm good, thank you.

Okay. Assault drone will come and fly out. And seeing that a few of you are trying to speed away, it will take a shot at, let's make this random. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. So 1, 2, Aayla. 3, 4, Lucius. 5, 6, Century.

1, 2, Aayla. Just going to take a shot at Ayla. Three, four, Lucius. Five, six, Century. One, two, Ayla. I'm just going to take a shot at Ayla. That's not very high. Thirteen. No. Okay, so the shot goes wide. It misses you as you're running up the stairs. It blasts into the crystal walls of the cylinder leading up.

Okay. It does look like, by the way, those of you who are now out on the stairs, you can probably go up the stairs faster by kind of jumping and trying to climb, scramble up them. That will involve an athletics check. And if you really fuck it up, there's a chance you'll fall. But it means you can move at your normal movement speed. I have minus

two athletics. I think I'll just... Okay, so you're just going to take it slow and steady. Well, there's other things I can do. Yeah, absolutely. So that was the assault drone's turn. It can't really do anything else. The idle drone will do a similar thing where it will fly up and out and then it will use its sonic pulse.

It will try, what's its speed? 40 feet. It can go 5, 10, 15, 20, 20. It will get in front of Lucius on the stairs and it ejects this pulse of forceful energy out towards Lucius. 22 to hit you, Lucius. Yeah. I'm going to say...

Can you make a strength saving throw? I'm going to say no. It's a four. Okay, it's a four. So nine to hit you. No. So it doesn't show. Quill, you call out, Lucius, duck!

And then as you kind of follow Quill's actions, this pulse erupts over your head, and you see it nearly, like, the force of it nearly throws you off the staircase into the void. I look down at the void. Oh, my God. Oh, I don't know how bad that could have been. I mean, it would have been a strength saving throw.

Yay! Quill, you are now the only one left kind of in this room. Nova just behind you. And you can see this creature, whatever it once was, all that was probably good about it, all that was that made this a defender of the galaxy has completely gone. It just bleeds darkness as it just begins

floating towards you. Just fly away. I'm going to spend a bonus action to 1, 2, 3, 4, move my spiritual weapon just a little closer to it. Okay. And then... Oh, Nova said she hasn't got any

levitate left. Well, you would have seen me use it. Yeah. Don't worry about me, boo. I'm going to use my Dusk Willow Ring to cast Fly on myself. For the first time. So that's your action? Yes.

Okay. Nice. Do you have, does it give you a flying speed or is it just your walking speed it says that it gives me a flying speed of 60 feet oh so you can use your action nice um so that's why i said the bonus was to move that and i'm gonna 60 feet up yeah so you can just fly up so uh can someone do me a favor here can somebody make a note um if somebody can make a note for me um that we currently have quill is at 60 so 60 feet vertically we'll assume or actually technically yeah because you could have flown up in the ceiling um ayla would be 40 feet

i think and then lucius and century are um at 0. Alright. No. Aayla at 20, Lucius and Sentry at 0, Nova is also technically at 0. Okay. Because basically we're going to track distance and see who can get to the top fast. Cool. Okay. Silver Edge just flies

straight out. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, and then it will spend the remaining of its 60 to go 60 up. Oh my god. So if you can note down 60 for the silver edge.

So he's right next to me. And the two drones are both at 20 as well. Sorry, thank you for doing this. Are they outside of the room now? Yes. Everybody, thank you for doing this. Are they outside of the room now? Yes. Everybody except you is outside the room. Cool.

Which is interesting because at the top of the round, Nova, you see the laser grid appears in the middle. Just outside the door. Yeah, and that's why you aren't hit by it when it spins. Oh, fuck! Oh, bram. It's a good thing we were out of the room for that. Yeah. I'll just write that down in my notebook.

I'm spinning lasers. So you watch, and you just see the projectors kind of emerge in the ceiling, and then the whole ceiling just rotates. Oh, cool. Creating like a web of these arcing leems. Oh, I love that. Laser whisk. God, I was really hoping I'd catch you guys in there.

But you dealt too much damage to Samsara quickly. At the top of the round, we go to Lucius. You have a drone in front of you. There is a wraith-like creature about 60 feet ahead. So is Quill,

who's flying through the air in a sort of race with this other creature, this otherworldly being. One wing. I will cast... Well, I imagine, what does it look like? Because I imagine, like, for me,

it's you conjure another spectral wing. Yeah, it's a sort of celestial shimmering wing. Yeah, which replicates your other normal wing. Yeah, takes a place. Aw, that's really cool. I'll cast Armor of Agathys at second level. Okay. Which means 10 HP, 10, and if it hits me, 10 cold.

And it's a cold spell, so you get to Dicromancy as well. Ah, yeah. Which is second level. Yep, so... So that's five. Five points to which one? The drone in front of you? Yeah.

Okay, so that's the Assault... No, that was the Idle drone. But I'm casting it on myself. Yeah. So... Yeah, it's when you cast a spell that deals a dash type. Technically, Armor of Agathys deals cold damage. Only when I'm attacked, though.

Yeah, but that's fine. But the spell, it's the way that the wording of the spell means that you still get it. Sick. And then I'm going to run past it. Okay. So you're just running straight past it. Yeah. Difficult terrain.

Yeah. So are you going to move and then dash? Or are you going to move? I can't. Oh, no, action. Yeah. So you go. So if you put Lucius, please, at 35 for me now.

35. And then it's going to make an attack of opportunity against you. Okay. That is a 25. Yes. Seven bludgeoning damage as it slams into you. It takes 10. So it takes 10.

You take seven off your temporary hit points, but you still have three remaining, so the armor is still intact. Slams into you. You weren't dashing, so I won't have you make an athletics check. You're kind of like keeping yourself as close to the wall. I'm on difficult terrain right now, right?

You're on difficult terrain, so you're running up these stairs, it slams into you, you think if you'd been going any faster, like say dashing, and you'd run past it, you would have had to make a check, like an acrobatics to keep your balance. Because this staircase is incredibly narrow. It's just wide enough for one person.

So just go at normal speed, I need to check, no? No. If you're just moving normal speed, if you don't dash, if you don't try and jump, if you don't try and climb, no check. Cool. Okay. After Lucius, we go to Nova.

Is there anything within 10 foot of me? No. How far do I need to move for the drones to be within 10 foot of me? So they are currently at 20 feet up. So you would need to go 20 feet. Well, to get within 10 feet of you, 10 feet up. Okay. Which would cost, if you move, it's half.

So you can move 15 feet. So yeah, you can get within range of them. Okay. You will, however, be in the same range as Sentry, I believe. Who else is at 20? And Aayla. Aayla's at 20. Aayla's at 20.

Aayla's at 20, but what about Sentry? Sentry's at zero, yeah, so she'd be okay. So would I hit Aayla? If this is for Thunderstep. Yeah. Yes. You'll hit both drones, but you'll also hit Aayla. Is there a way I can do it so it doesn't hit Aayla?

No, because this narrow staircase, like you'd have to be either in front or behind Aayla, trigger it. Can't you take somebody with you? Yeah, so I was going to take... Ah, you're going to take Sentry with you. Okay. Because otherwise I'd hit... Well, don't forget that you have to move up 15 feet.

Yeah. Then cast a spell. Sentry would still technically be downstairs. You could ready an action to do it. Imagine that, like, you're at zero. 20 feet up is Ayla on the drones. Sentry is also at zero. Oh, she's next to me.

Okay. Yeah. Sentry's basically just left the room and started on the staircase. And this is technically turn two. Yeah. That's important to know. What's your turn? Your turn is...

12 seconds. 12 seconds have passed. My God. Do you know what? I'm just going to do it without hitting. So if I just say to Sentry, we're going to... So you do it from the base. So you don't hit the drone. So I'm just going to do it without hitting. So if I just say to Sentry, we're going to hit. So you do it from the base. So you don't hit the drones.

You're just going to go 60 feet. Yeah. So I would like to... So here's what's going on in my head. I'd like to look to Sentry and then teleport. So it's 90 feet to a point that we can see. So I imagine it's like the top of the staircase. Yes.

You can easily just go to the staircase. And then can I also say um ils you already did that i'm gonna try it anyway um deactivate the drones okay so you grab uh no i had a different idea can i ask ils if there is any emergency pods in the space state in the what the fuck is this called? The Astral Sit-Down. The Astral Sit-Down. Ages 5.

Okay, so you grab Sentry. So, Rihanna, if you can note, you and Nova are now at 90. 90, yeah. So you basically teleport 90 feet straight up. Awesome. Taking you past Quill and Silver Edge high up into the ceiling.

You then turn around and ask the question to the ILS. Escape pods. ILS, are there any functional emergency escape pods on this station? Citadel. There are no more remaining escape pods. All pods have been jettisoned.

Cool. That's me. Okay, that's you done. Ayla. I am just going to double move up the stairs. Okay, so you're going to double move. So one of the drones is going to double move up the stairs. Okay, so you're going to double move. So one of the drones is going to get to slam you

as it makes an attack of opportunity. That's only a 14 to hit. Nope. Okay, so it misses you as it tries to slam into you and knock you off. And that would take you, so you move at 20 feet half, don't you? And then dash. I've got 45 feet movement, so essentially I'd be taking 45.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Aelin moves up 45, putting her at 65. Okay, so you are now basically on the same eye level as Silver Edge's Wraithform and Quill, who are flying up the center of the spire itself. And you look over and see them.

Can you want to do anything else? Can you do any bonus actions? No. Okay. Because I believe my... Would my rage have dropped now? You took damage, so you still got rage for now. Are they in my aura?

No, it's a bit too wide because it's five foot, right? Ten. If you go right to the edge of the staircase, maybe. Well, can I do it to the drones before I go then? Sure. To whatever drones. That's like a 22 deck save, so half. So two halfed then. Two half drone. That's like a 22 deck save, so half. So two halved then.

Two halved. One. No, no, two was halved. Okay, nice. Yeah, you blast the drone, and it does look like as the lightning hits this assault drone, it doesn't quite short out, but it kind of pauses for a moment.

It looks like it can't take reactions when it's hit by lightning damage. So it's like... Interesting. Yeah, but the idle drone still gets to hit you. Okay. So after Ayla's turn, Sentry. You are now far above the others. Right. I'm gonna

stay perched at the top of the entrance and... Well, you look up, there's still a long way to go. There's still a long way to go. So we're safe. You're currently 90 feet up. The cylinder when you made your way down was about 200 feet. Oh, are you not 60 feet up? We're 90 feet. We're already here.

I went 90 with my teleport. So you look up and you've still got at least halfway up this this rickety staircase to go. Okay, I'm gonna ready an action. When Silver Edge comes to my level, I'm gonna hit him Divine Smite him. Okay, so you make an attack and you'll i mean you can choose to use the divine smite so you're just gonna ready and attack ready attack against silver edge all right how far below silver edge is 60 he's only 30 feet away 30 feet away it's 30 feet away um okay so that was centuries ago uh the drone will um kind of half fly up it

looks like it's been slowed down so the assault drone goes 15 and the idle drone will go 15 as well um so they just basically float themselves up 35 each yeah um and then i think the assault drone goes 15 and the idle drone will go 15 as well. So they just basically float themselves up. 35 each. Yeah. Cool. And then I think the assault drone will just try and make one shot against Lucius for a 21. Yep. So that's going to be another six points of radiant.

My thing goes away. Yep. Oh, it takes another 10. Yeah, 10. Which is enough to... You see as the armor shards fly up into the assault drone, it pierces it in several places, and whatever lightning and wiring has been exposed

just begins to short, and the whole thing just... Nice. When it dies... Not nice. It appears to self-destruct. Lucius, can you make a dexterity saving throw for me, please? Shit. Who else?

Is there anybody else near the drones? 15. 35. It's just Lucius. Yeah, so just Lucius. 15? Okay, you avoid all of the damage. This thing blows up, and you basically throw yourself to the ground as these

flaming shards of drone just kind of smash into the walls around you. You kind of look up and seem to have avoided most of the harm. Does it hit the other drone? It would do. Well pointed out. The other drone also makes the same throw. We've got 18.

So the other drone sensing the early warning signal of the thing just hovers out the way way, basically, and avoids the damage. But well spotted. That's the drone's gone. Technically, the idle drone will now fly up. It will try the same thing against Lucius or Quill. Do you have any more portents you want to use? I just rolled a natural 20 for the idle drone Drone's Sonic Pulse against Lucius.

Sonic Pulse, that's the force thing, right? That's the pushy one. A natural 20. I mean, I can replace it with a 17. But it's not a natural 20. It's not a natural 20. What do you want to do? I'll save it.

Okay. So, Lucius, you're going to take 18 force damage. What's the... Was it attack? It is an attack, yes. It was a natural 20, so it goes to 25. Okay, go on. So 18 points of force damage.

Strength saving throw. This is where I might replace it. You could just right now say you get a 17 on the strength save. I mean, I could just, I'll see what he rolls. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, you can use it afterwards, yeah. 13. Is that the total?

Yes. Damn it, yeah. I'm going to use the 17 on that. Okay, so you call out something again, or you force see it, throw a magic spell to secure Lucius in place. As you feel this force nearly throw you off into the kind of open cylinder itself. But you manage to just kind of hold on

against this pounding force-like energy emitting from the drone itself. I'm really hoping the 13 wasn't a pass. You'll never know. I'll never know. You'll never know. Yeah, but he could have died. Quill! Oh, right. I'm going to do... So Silver Edge is right up in... He's next to you.

I'm going to do a shocking grasp on him. Okay. A cantrip. So I need to make an attack roll. While you do that, I'm going to plug in my laptop. Okay. Running out of power. Your laptop needs a shocking grasp. Wow, what a joke, Tom! 24.

Wow! 24! Damn! Yeah, that absolutely hits. Nice. And I do 3 damage. Because it's resistant to lightning. That was 2d8, by the way. Also, he can't...

Really? Yeah. He can't take any reactions. Yeah, that's very good, though. For this turn. Nice. And then I'm going to cast Expeditious Retreat on myself. Okay.

So I can use a bonus action to dash, yes? Yeah. So you cast Expeditious Retreat on myself. Okay. So I can use a bonus action to dash, yes? Yeah. So you cast Expeditious Retreat on yourself. Yeah. And then your fly spell. Concentration. Oh, is it Concentration? Yes.

It's not. Oh, it is! Oh! You could not. I will let you make a dexterity saving throw to see if you can grab the edge as the spell fades. Give me a retcon. You cast that spell.

It is not up to me to remind you about concentration. You've got to check that shit, son. Shit. That is a decision of your own making, I'm afraid. Well, at least I can dash now, right? You can dash. What am I doing? I'm already saving throw to see if you can grab the edge.

Oh, my God. Jesus Christ. Natural fucking one. Quill. Quill. Quill. Quill, quill, quill. Oh, my God.

I need, like, a concentration token or something. Oh my god. I need a concentration token or something. Oh my god. Well, this is what happens. This is what happens. You feel the spell in a moment of just complete panic. You go to channel this energy to enhance your speed, completely forgetting that the energy of the fly spell is still bound to you.

And as you dissipate it, you suddenly realize what's happening and your body just begins to fall. You desperately try and reach out to grab another one of these kind of rickety platforms, but you're just one free hand just isn't enough. And the spectral arm that you were conjuring to help yourself fly, you reach out with that and it just passes through as it fades. Your body tumbles and spins as it plummets, say about 100 feet down. The slowed

gravity, slowing your speed somewhat as you plummet about 100 feet down, so you go to negative 40. Even with momentum? Yeah, well there is lesser gravity in this particular chamber, but with the momentum you're still flying down.

Has he gone from 60 to 20 or 60 to minus 40? This is 100 feet total, yeah. And you can feel yourself just falling, and as you get to the bottom below the Eterna Power Core, you begin to realise that this section of whatever the Astral Citadel was

doesn't really seem to have air. Alright. Who goes it next? Well, it is the Wraiths go. God! I've made myself a concentration token and I'm going to stick that

here so I never forget it. We'll see. We'll see what happens. The creature, sensing that you have plummeted, will fly up, and in an instinct it would go towards the greatest source of its life energy,

which is Nova and Sentry. So your reaction takes place. You get to make an attack. Nice. Let's go. So you get to do this before it does anything. 18 plus 4. That is a hit. And you are Divine Smiting? Divine Smiting's go. So you get to do this before it does anything. 18 plus 4. That is a hit. And you are Divine Smiting? Divine Smiting.

What level would you like to Divine Smite? Level 2. Okay, so you get 2d8 for level 1. Yeah. Another d8 for level 2. Yeah. It is undead, so you roll an extra 4d8. Oh, my God.

Plus your normal weapon damage. Yeah, and I get an extra attack, so twice. And we'll make the second attack in a minute. Cool. All righty. So let's do 4. Where's my other d8 gone? There he is. That's right, I got one. She's gone. Oh wait, no, he's gone on the floor. Never mind. You go in.

Just take that case. I'll take that one. Three, four. And then what's your normal base damage? Normal base damage is 1d6 plus four, so I'm still using the short sword. Right, okay, so yeah, just take a... roll it all together. Cool, so d6 and another d6. Alright, one. Roll it all together. Cool, so D6 and another D6. Shot. All right.

One. Six, seven, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, plus eight. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. 31. 31 points of damage. Thank you. That was your first attack. Would you like to make your second attack?

Yes. Maybe. So the first swing just passes through his form and you feel this psychic scream emanate from his body. So d6 plus 4. Roll to hit first. Roll to hit first. No. So the second attack, you swing with all your might and you channel the power of your core into the strike and you feel the energy dissipate into Silver Edge

who screams in the minds of anybody around. But as you go to swing the second time, it just pulls away from you like liquid smoke trailing away to reform into its body. And it just kind of looks back and then it shoots forward again to swipe this time at you, Sentry. Cool.

As it swings in. Rock and roll. Whoa, that was a big hit though. Yeah. Loving. That is going to be a 22 to hit. Just hits. Okay. Just. I'm gonna roll this damage. I feel the

flat damage is very high. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Oh, it's fucking two, Quill. It might be cool. I have one idea. 20 necrotic damage to Sentry. Can you make a constitution saving throw for me, please? 20.

Oh, no. Excuse me. Stop crashing. That's cocked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cocked, yeah. That's cocked. That is...

Fuck. Sorry. 13. Con plus five. That's 18., yeah. That's cocked. That is... Fuck. Sorry. 13. Con plus five. That's 18. 18 is enough. You feel as this creature strikes you and it reaches for your matrix. Oh, shit.

You feel it trying to suck the very life out of you. Fuck. If you had failed that, your hit point maximum would have been reduced by the damage it dealt. Shit. Your hit point maximum would have gone by 20. Spectre. Wow, that's crazy. So, yeah, it reaches out to strike you, but, yeah, you managed to fend it dealt. Your hit point maximum would have gone by 20. Wow, that's crazy. So, yeah, it reaches out to strike you,

but, yeah, you managed to fend it off. Nice. Right, at the top of the round, laser grid goes off, but nobody's in the room. Yeah. Lucius. Fuck, I mean, I was going to do something cool, but the range just isn't there.

So I'm at 35 feet. 35, yeah. He's at minus 40, so there's 75 feet difference. If I run back down... You can run 15 feet to get within 60. Yeah, which I was going to do a lightning lure, but I was going to distance spell it, but that's still not enough.

That's 30. How much does distance spell cost in sorcery points? One. I can do two sorcery points. I will let you in this instance. Don't expect me to... And I feel that you have to justify why does Lucius care that much? It's Birdie Boy, and he can't come back again.

So in this kind of panic, you feel this energy, and you've never really tapped into this amount of your sorceretic energy before, and you feel it channel through the augment gauntlet made by your sister and it just seems to enhance. Spend two sorcery points

and effectively double the so you get basically to have enough range to try a lightning lure. 15 feet and I will cast lightning Lure on you. Okay, so you have to make an attack roll. Yes.

So have you gone down? Yeah, I've gone down. Or is it a strength save or is it a saving throw? I think. That's okay. This was like kind of a complicated thing, so I don't mind. Strength saving throw. Yeah.

On the target. Okay, well, you can choose to fail saving throws. So you just let, you kind of like see this impossibly long arc of lightning that you've cast this spell before, you know it's not that long. As the tendrils wrap around your body and you feel this thing pulling you back

and I believe it pulls 15 feet closer. So I can pull you basically towards me I guess, to the closest ledge. But here's the problem. There's no ladders down below the Eterna Core. So you pull,

you yank him up 10 feet. I will say with the momentum and the low gravity. So how much damage does it deal? It does 1d8. Okay, so roll a d8. You're going to take this much damage, Quill. Three. Three points of lightning damage.

Oh. Sorry. Make another dexterity saving throw for me. Me? Yeah. This is your chance to grab onto the very bottom of the ledges by the power core. As you're pulled up ten, the momentum carries you another ten, and then the lower gravity gives you another ten.

Unnatural 20. Unnatural 20. Nice. One hand. And you're not sure if you could have the strength to pull yourself up but you have your hand on the ledge and you're not falling anymore shit fuck uh nova damn cool um can i try it's probably not going to work. ILS! Can you activate low gravity in the central chamber? You just hear a...

You have the officer's pendant, don't you? You wouldn't necessarily have authority, and I don't think it can control the gravity in the elevator shaft because it doesn't normally have gravity. It's just residual gravity. So you hear this feminine voice like, negative, unable to control gravity within central spire. I try.

Can I move as far as I can up naturally without having to make any saves? You can. He's not near me, is he? He is. You and century are in the same spot. You can make an attack of opportunity. Okay.

In which case, I'm not gonna. I'm gonna stick next to an owl. He can't make off any attacks. Shocking grasp. In which case, I'm not gonna. I'm gonna stick next to an owl. He can't make off with any attacks. Shocking grasp. In which case, I am gonna move as far as I can. So is that, what, halved? So yeah, your normal movement speed halved. So if you action move and then dash move, you just go your normal movement rate.

I'm gonna go 15 feet up. Okay, so you go 15 feet up. So Nova gets plus 15. Sorry, thank you for doing this, Rhiannon. It's one less thing for me. Sure, you can Eldritch Blast. Silver Edge? Two beams on Silver Edge.

That one's cocked. Sure. Mega cocked. Natural 20! What's the other one? 9 plus 7, 16. Roll that one first, so just roll D10 for that one. Two.

Two. And then the crit would be 10 plus another D10. 10 plus another D10. 12 points of damage. And that's not including the two from before? No. Yeah. So it takes...

14. 14. Cool. Yeah, the Eldritch Blast seems to strike the creature and kind of send it staggering back. Yeah, yeah. Definitely seems to injure it.

You can see it kind of like shirking away, but just this kind of ravenous hunger is overtaking it, and it seems intent on draining the life away from Sentry. Ayla. This is my favourite bit where it's like, oh no, there are so many moving parts. And also this is the true colours of the PCs.

Like how much are you willing to risk yourselves to save Quill? Or is this a, we can't save him and if we all try, we're stuck here together and we'll all die? I've got, like, nothing. I'm out of everything. But it's not constructive for me to go back down, so I'm going to make my way towards what the threat is, which is currently threatening sentry. So I will go...

What am I at? Aayla's currently 65. What's the wraith at? Wraith is at 90. Yeah, so you can get there. So I can get there, but I can't hit him. You can't hit him, yeah. So I'll get up there, and yeah, I'll do that for this turn.

So you basically just move your full 45 up. Yes. Okay. So you're now 100. Well, she's going to go to 90, so she's next to you. I'm going to go to 90. Fantastic. Okay.

Sentry. Sentry. I'm going to schmack the wraith again. I believe this is turn three. Cool. But I don't have... 18 secondsith again. I think this is turn three. Cool. But I don't have... 18 seconds. Can I do...

Let's see. I can do Divine Smite. I think it's level one. Troy, are you just like, yeah, we're done? We're pretty much done for anyway. No, you're not. Me and Quill are done. No.

Yeah. I'm fine. I've got several rounds. Cool, let's get some dice now. You technically do, yeah. Although, concentration check for the lightning damage. Sure. Ugh.

6. Why did you roll that dice? Don't know. 7. You know that's a shit dice. 7 is a failure. I'm sorry, dude. I don't have Expeditious for 3.

You really coughed this one up, didn't you? I could just hold my breath. Yeah, it's going to get cold in here. I know it's going to get cold! Anyway, sorry. That's all good. So it was Sentry. Yeah, I'm going to just do the attack again,

Divine Smite at level one. Okay, we'll see if you hit first, and then you can choose to Divine Smite. 14 plus seven. Yep, yep. Nice and nice. So level one, so it's only 3d8 this time. 2d8 plus 1d8 because it's undead.

2d8 plus 1d8, cool. So the d8s first. Letd8 plus 1d8 because it's undead. 2d8 plus 1d8. Cool. So the d8's first. Let's do 411 plus 7 is 18. 18? 18. Then I'll do the 6 as well for my regular attack. 5 plus 4 is 9.

So, hang on. 18 plus 9. Plus 9. You can see its form is beginning to dissipate rapidly. There's not much left of itself holding itself together, but it shows no sign of turning away from you. Right. Second attack.

Second attack, d6 plus 4 again. Roll to hit first. Roll to hit first. Oh, yeah. That's all right. 16. That's going to be a hit. Nice.

Start again. Remember, you can Divine Smite again if you want. Yeah, I'm going to do that. So 4 plus 4 is 8. So 8, and then level 1 Divine Smite. Three more Divine Smites, I'm going to do that. So four plus four is eight. So eight and then level one Divine Smite. So that's four, nine. So nine plus four.

What was the effect of undead Divine Smite then? Yeah, she's added it. Nine plus eight. 17. The axe comes swinging in and you feel Helios kind of rise into the blade even though you kind of feel this he has this desire to protect. He kind of lends this strength to your arm.

As the axe connects, there's this burst of your power from your core, and you watch as Silver Edge's wraith form is just obliterated. Oh, nice. Nova and Sentry, you watch as its form is struck, you see this crack forming along its body,

and pouring out of it is what you can only describe as life essence. Whatever essence was fed into Silver Edge to reawaken him now pours out. Nova from Tiangong, you can feel that if you willed it, Tiangong could feed on this energy. Oh. Sentry, through your matrix, you could also feed on this energy. Oof. Shit. You can decide now, yes or no.

Can I ask Tiangong? You know that he can't communicate to you very strongly. You basically, if you try and communicate with Tiangong in the few seconds you have, you get a mixed sense. Tiangong in the few seconds you have, you get this, a mixed sense. Tiangong feels weak and wants to be strong, but is also uncertain. Century, this is all just down on you. I'm going to decline. Okay.

So you kind of just let the energy flow around you and you just reject it. You basically prevent your matrix, you shut it off from absorbing this energy around you. Tiangong? No. Okay okay so you do the same thing you just will and you just watch as this energy just dissipates and it just fills the chamber and just into nothing i think i'd almost instinctively like cuddle tiangong to me to be like yeah even though i know it wouldn't do much but like no it's not right yeah it's not right well i open my mouth at the bottom of the chamber does helios do anything um hit no helios doesn't 100 helios doesn't oh good moral compass right it's annoying we're still technically initiative because a you have a time limit and and B, there is still one drone, this little amplification drone. Oh, that guy.

Hoppers around. What's the little drone at? Little drone is at 35 currently. And is there anything near him? What's the closest thing? I think Lucius went down. Lucius is at 20. So it flies down towards Lucius.

Oh, no. That is a 10 to hit. No. You throw yourself to the side, still probably looking towards Birdie as this force erupts into the wall behind you. Yep. And we carry on. Quill.

Okay, so I'm minus 20 right now? Yes. No, you're now at zero again. So basically the lightning lure pulled you up, the momentum of the pull carried you another 10. Thanks to the low gravity, it took you to the base. You made the saving throw. So the gravity isn't so low

that if I... Yeah, if I was to do a levitate and then a gust... Maybe. I can't do it on the same turn, but... I mean, levitate allows you to move vertically anyway. What's levitate?

You can't move side to side. You need to push yourself off stuff. Oh, but you need to push yourself off stuff, don't you? Yeah, but you can... At the moment, Quill, you just need to go up. You need to jump. And levitate. Okay, I'll do levitate. I was just wondering about if Gust would...

I was going to levitate anyway, but I was wondering... Gust might speed you up, yeah, for sure. Yeah, I'll have to do it on a future turn anyway, but... So you can't levitate on yourself. Levitate with the ring. Yep. And then... anyway but um you can't levitate on yourself levitate with the ring yep uh and then uh i guess i'm just gonna push myself to do that and you go what's what does it say on levitate as a spell uh it says uh something along the lines of tom's trying to find the spell uh

levitate target weighs 500 pounds uh Blah, blah, blah. Pushing, pulling, fixed surface. Can move 20 feet in either direction on my turn. So on your turn, you can go 20 feet straight up. And with dashing help with that? No. I'm just wondering if it's... But if you use levitate to, like, levitate yourself up to the next level of stairs,

I would say you could use your action to then run up. Okay. Yeah, I'll just levitate to like levitate yourself up to the next level of stairs i would say you could use your action to then run up um okay yeah i'll just levitate 20 up and then uh and then use i can't i can't even dash no i'll just i'll just use movement then okay so you're just going to spend 20 feet going up each time yeah yeah okay so you luus, you watch Asquil as you desperately saved him, and he just goes, touches himself, and then goes, whoop. I'm sorry. Straight up. Sorry this is taking a long time. It's not eye level with you.

It's just like, oh. I think I've asked this before, but if I use a cast charge on my ring, does that count as expending a spell slot in the purpose of casting another spell? Yes, it does. Fair enough. Then I can't use Expeditious Retreat casting another spell. Yes, it does. Fair enough. Then I can't use Expeditious Retreat. I would say so. Maybe that's wrong, but for now I'm going to say

you can't cast a spell from a magic item and cast a spell normally. Sure. Sounds a bit OP. Yeah, that's fine. In that case, I'll do that. We begin turn four. Alrighty.

Lucius. 12, 18, 24. Bonus action. Quath, my last potion. Okay action. Quaff my last potion. Okay. I'll roll that for you. Is it a regular potion? Yeah, it's a regular pot.

Oh, that's all right. Nine hit points. That's not bad for a normal potion. Nice. I'm at 15 HP. Cool. I'm going to... Quell the healer flies past you.

I'm panicking now, so I'm just dashing. Okay. So you go to dash. Oh, god. The drain's gonna make an attack of opportunity against you. That's a natural 20. Oh! Well, so you're gonna take... Hang on. Hang on here. Hang on. It's not too bad. It's another 18 points,

so you're on zero. Um, yeah. You're dying. Yeah. That natural 20 is the worst timed natural 20 that could ever occur in the history of Dungeons & Dragons. So Quill, you look over. You're like, Lucius, come on. You fly up. Lucius goes to run past this thing.

It just swerves, smashes him into the wall, and he just crumples to the floor on the staircase, unconscious. All right, that's Lucius' turn. Nova. We are the fucking worst. In. Alright, that's Lucius' turn. Nova. We are the fucking worst. In fact, before we go to Nova's turn, because I think that's a great point, to just

have a quick break. Yeah, I think so. I'm panicking. I'm freaking out. Thank you.