High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #55 | Explosive Revelations (Part 2)

Episode Date: January 9, 2020

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As a player, I'm really conflicted. Yeah, but we still would have had like a week and a half on the show. Yeah. I'm just thinking about what Quill just said about not saying it until after. I mean, if you want to do it beforehand, yeah. We'll just go back in time a little bit. My thinking is, okay, this is Kim talking. Nova isn't used to not telling the truth.

Yep. And it's kind of eaten her away. And it's eaten her away that since Quill's found out, he's clearly unhappy about it. And he said, the thing that would make me trust you is to tell everyone. Yep. So I kind of feel like she's, even though we just said, like, you know, we'd tell after. Yep. So I kind of feel like she's, even though we just said like, you know, we tell after, I kind of

feel like it might just kill them. Do you want me to make this somewhat easier for you? Yeah. Because this is like a could she keep, could she have the willpower to do it? You can make a wisdom saving throw for me. I'll set a DC and then if you pass the

wisdom saving throw, Nova keeps her lid on it and is like, no, I can't use it right. And if not, we'll have an awkward conversation where she just blurts it out to everyone. What's your wisdom saving throw? My wisdom plus two. Okay. Not horrible.

And then, set in a DC. What do we think for Nova? Would this be, would you say that trying to keep a lid on this would be easy, moderate, hard? I think hard because she's been growing up. She's a family girl. She's been growing up to tell the truth. She's always told the truth.

She's not used to keeping... She's not used to keeping secrets. All right, I have my DC set. Okay. So plus two. I'm using my Nova dice. 16, 17. 17, that's not enough.

For a hard check? Nope. So I think that there is a moment where, like, you speak with Quill, but the night before you land, when you know you're coming in, and even that morning, in eating your breakfast, it's just eating away at you. You keep hearing your mum telling you, like, lessons of, like, telling the truth, being honest with your friends.

And you keep thinking about, you know, what Quill said, how do I trust you? Tell the others first. How do I trust you? Tell the others first. It just keeps ringing in your ears. The ship begins to land. Set the scene for us well no one probably hasn't even been eating really much in the last few weeks like you're becoming

all skeleton yeah this is a good look um so how it's like come on you've got to eat you've not been eating barely anything thanks it's really tasty it's not you it's not you it's me do you know where Quill is do you know have you yeah I imagine they're well we're getting

ready for landing so I reckon Quill's probably up on the main deck and probably with all the others I don't know I saw Miss Aylor

she was punching stuff in the deck oh god she's gonna punch me by the end of the day I think Miss Sentry's in her room she's having a

quiet moment okay okay okay I'm gonna go get some do you want. I'm going to go get Quill. I think they've hit something. Do you want me to get it? I'll go get Quill. It's fine. Thank you, Howard.

I love you. Bye. Quill. So I'll find Quill. And I'm going to get Quill. Okay, yes, yes. I need to do it. I need to tell everyone now.

Now? We're landing now. I can't. I can't. I mean, okay, okay. Yes, yes. Look at me, Quill. I'm a mess. I can tell. I haven't slept. I, okay, okay. Yes, yes. Look at me quilt. I'm a mess.

I can tell. I haven't slept. I haven't eaten. She does look quite unwell. Then please, yes, please, for both of us, please tell them. Okay. I'm really sorry. I'm sorry. I haven't enjoyed this. I haven't either.

I don't like being at odds with you. Look, just tell everyone, and then we can all be at odds with you look just tell everyone and then we can all be at odds with each other won't that be great please don't let them kill me they won't I'll be bold of you to assume I'll help you out

she's unhinged. She is, actually. That's true. I'm going to tap the message and ring. Wait, wait, wait. Do you want to call Sentry? I don't know, Quill! You want me to tell them, and then you don't want me to tell them, and I don't know what to do!

I'm just thinking about it logically now. Do we want to tell Sentry? As in just us? Okay, I agree. She's like She's like, do what you want. Play the game. Tell everyone. Do what you must. Do what you must. Tell everyone.

Bad decision making from me again. Just go. Okay, I'll activate the messenger ring. Um, hey everybody. I can't wait messenger ring. Hey, everybody. I can't wait to land. So this is going to be the first time Nova's spoken for a couple of weeks, really. Especially on the messenger ring.

It's like if we were in a group chat, she just left you all unread. Ghosted. One letter replies. Okay, thumbs up emoji. Hi. One letter replies. Yeah, okay. Thumbs up emoji. Hi, um... Sorry, new messenger ring. Who dis? That's so dumb.

Can we have a quick meeting, please? Sorry? Can we have a quick meeting? Sorry? You want to talk? I want to talk. You want to talk? Yeah. Okay.

No, you don't. You don't have a messenger ring. I think it's time I talk to talk. You want to talk? Yeah. Okay. Full party? No, you don't. You don't have a messenger ring. Great. I think it's time I talk to everybody. Maybe not the dragon. Then a meditation session is in order. Quill, get the ring. Quill can't hear us right now. Quill can't hear us.

I'm stood right next to Quill. Okay. He needs to get a ring. Did Lucia suggest another meditation? He did. Great. How are you guys feeling? You could just lock the Plesudo dragon in a cupboard. Did Lucius suggest another meditation? He did. How are you guys feeling? You could just lock the Pseudodragon

in a cupboard. It can't really stop you. It just won't be very happy that you've done that. They'll probably report that. It probably would. Where is the Pseudodragon now? With Lucius. I think it spends most of its time with Lucius. So it will always

be with someone. Unless you stop it being with so you look in a cupboard Like I actually did to Milo Turns out he was in my wardrobe Anyway Right when I first started episode 1 no I think you did have a doll

no I think he had a stuffed toy yeah he had a bear I think and it had a hat it did have a little hat sure did not have matching pajamas where are we going with this I want to try put the hat on It did have a little hat, sure. Did not have matching pajamas.

This is serious retconning. Where are we going with this? Retconning all the way back to episode one. I want to try put the hat on this. Yeah. It will wear a hat. Amazing. Is that it? It's a dragon.

It's still part dragon. It loves having things. So yeah, it's like, just, you know, if it's a comfortable hat, if it's uncomfortable, it won't like it. It's a soft little hat. Yeah, if it's a nice soft little hat, yeah, it loves it. Or is it like a little kind of like droopy? It's like a... That's not where I if it's uncomfortable it won't like it if it's a nice soft little hat yeah he loves it or is it like a little droopy

it's a matching me and the bear teddy it's like a little matching pajama hat with a little ball on the end he loves it he's intelligent

but it's still part dragon so it's like i support this fully if you gave it like coins and stuff it would love that i'd love having coins distracted with a coin good to know um that's potentially i think nova's intelligent enough that yeah pseudodragons probably would give if you if you basically went here you go this here's a big pile treasure. It would probably distract it for a while. You're intelligent enough to know that, I think. Okay. Anyway, team destroying me.

Let's go. Well, I guess when they come into the ready room, I'm probably making a pile of gold in the corner. Okay. How much gold you got? Well, I'm not giving it to him. Well, then it's not going to be distracted by it. I'm just letting him play in it, and then I'm taking it back. Well, we'll see if he lets you take it back.

It's a tiny dragon. If you give it gold, it's now the dragon's gold. I'm going to say... 50 gold. Why not? Okay, 50 gold. So you put a little pile of 50 gold in the corner of the room. Yeah. Right?

And that's how you find me when you come in. And you're putting the gold in the corner of the room where you. Right? And that's how you find me when you come in. And you're putting the gold in the corner of the room where you're going to be talking. No, so I want to see it. I want to keep, like, diagonally. Okay. But we're going to be meditating.

Yeah, we're going to be meditating. Okay, so you're... I'm not going to talk, but I just want to see where it is. I just want to know where it is and distract it. All right. So you come into the room.

Nova has made a small pile of gold in one corner and then moves over to the other corner and sits in it. Quill, you've got the messenger ring. You've reached into it. As long as you give it back, I'm not going to fuss around too much. I burst in with this and the hat. What a glorious day. What a wonderful day.

Everything is going to plan. We finally found it. The tiny hat? No, the city of glass. Oh, yeah. Why is he wearing a tiny hat? Doesn't it look good? I have so many questions.

Doesn't it look fantastic, though? You know, at some point, we will have to give him back, right? Yes, a hat doesn't mean possession. It just looks good in a hat. Okay, yeah. Don't back, right? Yes, a hat doesn't mean possession. I just... He just looks good in a hat. Okay, yeah. Don't you, Vince? He does look good in a hat.

He does look good in a hat. I was just making sure that you don't... I'm not attached. Okay, okay. Okay. All right, sure. Let's meditate.

Let's. It hops off Lucius' shoulder begins making its way over to the gold it like looks around like is this somebody else's gold? it's not it kind of like jumps in the pile of gold and begins like pushing it all around

like gets coins in its mouth and then it curls up starts sleeping on the gold oh no someone moved some coppers over in there gets coins in its mouth and then it curls up and starts sleeping on the gold. Oh no. Someone moved some coppers over in there. They're not coppers, they're gold coins. He wouldn't have given a shit if it was copper. No one does.

I feel like that's what Lucius calls gold. Oh, that's true, yeah. Lucius doesn't understand. Stop platting him, what is this? Denominations. He just, yeah, he's like I just cross my legs and I point Start platting him? What is this? Denominations. He's like... I just cross my legs and I point silently at the dragon

and I go to the ring and then I go into my meditation, my faux meditation pose. Now everyone, remember, let's try and synchronise our breathing this time so that we can all reach the same happy place. Yes, happy place.

Happy place. Right. Unity. I can sit comfortably, cross-legged, in a meditation pose in my boots, so I take my boots off, but they probably smell a little bit. Okay. There is a very pungent odor. I don't think Aayla bathes.

It's nice breathing, everyone. She doesn't really clean the boots or anything Poker face You're like Smells What are they? All poker face You've got no other face

One face McGee Why don't we send her into deceit We'll see if that's true Let's see how the poker face plays out Let's see how this poker face plays out. Yeah, let's see how this holds up in the next five minutes. Conversation. Nova. You called this meeting, so please.

What I'm about to tell you, I wanted to tell you sooner, but I'm worried about the dragon. What I'm going to say needs to not go back to the dragonborn. It will put all of us in danger. So please, you're going to shout at me, but keep it to the messenger ring and try not to show anything. Internal screaming, please. I'm getting angrier by the second. Just blurt out whatever it is, please.

You can hit me later, Ayla. Just tell me what's happening. I don't know where to begin. When we came back from Aegis V, I brought something with me. I... It's called the ILS. Hmm.

It's the program that was talking to us on the space station and controlling the doors, the power, the oxygen. That's here? Of this ship? In my room. Oh. Yes. What do you mean, oh? Yes.

Yeah. What do you mean, yeah? I mean... No. Quill knew that there was something in your room. He detected it. Yeah. Well, that's why Quill and I had a fight.

it. Yeah. Well, that's why Quill and I had a fight. We've had Starbane tech on this ship the whole time. The whole time! Not the whole time, just the last couple of weeks. I keep an eye on Sentry's

position. I'm just going to stand up. Okay! And get out my axe and just smash the table and walk out the room. Oh, shit. There is just this colossal... I'm going to run after her immediately. Yeah, Sentry.

Sentry, I need you to listen to me. Listen to me. What if he knows we're here? He doesn't. He doesn't. Sentry, listen to me, please. I'm going to run after them too. Stop.

Without my boots. Stop. Stop, stop, stop. Look, you can smash it after we have this conversation please but just hear me out please say what you say is that spoken or is that messenger ringed i think i would probably i think nova's in control enough that it can be messenger ring i think century's the one who probably might say something out loud. I would probably say something like, stop. Like, just stop and listen to me.

Like, I would say that. And, yeah, it would just be a mix of messenger ring and... Please. Sentry, you wrote me a letter, remember? After Aegis V, you wrote me a letter, and you said you trusted me, and you said that... You said thank you, and you said you trusted me and you said that... that... you said thank you and you said really wonderful things about me and

I haven't done any of this to hurt you. I promise, I haven't. You didn't have to carry this by yourself. You could have told any of us at any time. I was worried. I was worried about you. We're worried about you too. Can I just, like, give her a hug? Mm-hmm.

May I interject? I think we need to go back into the plan room. I promise you, Century, if you don't like what I have to say after this meeting... ..we'll get rid of it. Okay, okay, I'll... Let's go back in the room. Okay, okay, I'm sorry. You don't have anything to apologise for, I deserve that.

No, no, you don't, you don't, you don't deserve that. Like I said, you saved us on that ship. Just looking at the destroyed table. What? And it's just this single big crack down the middle. That would be a great comic front page, wouldn't it? Yeah. As captain, I think we need to organise this meeting

because tensions and emotions are running high. Rightly so. So let's give everybody their time to speak their piece properly without interjection. So Nova,

give me a damn good reason why the ILS is on this ship. I've only spoken to it three times. It's on this ship because... Crackles of lightning. I made a decision to bring it with me because it is a tactical representation of Starbane. It has Starbane's knowledge.

To my knowledge, it has no way to send messages out or communicate with Starbane. But it's given me information, more information than we could have ever gained about Starbane and what he's doing than a hundred years of us research or fumbling around in the dark could have given us. In just three conversations. And in those three conversations, the amount of knowledge you have acquired, what has it gained? I mean, it knows where we are. It knew when we were at Vivex. It's why I'm not having a conversation next to it right now I

are you fully aware of what it's capable of not fully no but I am confident it doesn't have a way of interfacing with Starbane

unless it attaches itself to another spaceship or a station or a ship. And how do you know that? It offered me power in exchange for interfacing with the Vivex. The actual ship. It said it could bring the ship. It could take control of the ship. I don't think it has power outside of technology. It needs to interface. It can't interface with our ship.

Now, I don't want to speak... To my knowledge. I don't want to speak for To my knowledge. I don't want to speak for everybody here, but I believe such an important, albeit last-minute decision to bring such a potent device into our care should never have been done by a single person. That decision should be made as a team

and it should have been discussed straight away while we were very compromised early on. Who knows what it's learnt and what it's capable of and what you've fed it in that time. We've been having conversations completely normally. It's never been around those conversations it has been in my room so unless you're having conversations in my room next to it it knows nothing I've been careful who doesn't know where we are does it have a sense of where it has a vague sense and what does it want from you how did it offer up all this information for you? I'm sure it didn't do it without a cost.

It wants to help me. Because it thinks I'm working for Starbane. Oh. It thinks that? Why would it think that? I took it off his ship, didn't I? Why would you do that? Because suddenly we have so much

information about Starbane and what he's doing. And we do not consider the fact that he's only giving you the information you want he wants you to have so that you can run his little errands for him. I don't think it's intelligent enough to... It's Starbane.

It's intelligent. No, it's a program based on him. It's Starbane. It's intelligent. No, it's a program based on him. It's not him. But it has made demands. But it has his knowledge. It hasn't made demands. It's offered. It's tried to make you integrate with the Vivex. It didn't make me. It said it was an option and I didn't and nothing has happened. Nothing yet. Its information is vastly out of date. I'm sorry. You knew about this?

I did say. For two weeks and you didn't tell anyone? That's why we had the fight. Is this what you were hiding in that really fun meditation we had the other day? There were no books on shelves. No shit!

I didn't really say that about his wing. I'm glad you two aren't mean to each other. At least that's one positive we can take away from this. Oh, Sentry, you are too nice

for this world. I mean, he did try and kill me. I'm trying to look at the bright side at least. Considering the state of play... I'm sorry, what was that? I mean...

I fucking heard it. As a conversation, I think if we were talking, it wouldn't have... He tried to kill you. Considering the situation, you're being very level-headed, Sentry. The table took a hit, that's fine. We didn't take a hit.

Better to have let it out on a table than us. However, I understand what you did, Quill. To cover, seems like you were just trying to mediate the problem because we had other matters at hand, is it not? We had a disagreement. It wasn't my secret to tell. It was best for Nova to tell it how it's meant to be told. When I found out, it wasn't in the best of light.

So what does this thing want? Now, we've left Vivex, what does it want now? It doesn't want anything. Well, you've not used it. I've not spoken to it since, the Vivex. It's not made demand. It's not shown any capabilities of doing anything outside of when I activate it. And even when I activate it, it doesn't seem to be able to do anything because it has nothing to control.

No, but people keep saying that Kallus is persuasive. He has a way of making people do what he wants. He might not be demanding it, but he's still manipulating. And if this is based on him, if this has the same essence that Kallus has, then it's persuading you to do things that are going to benefit him.

So far, all it has offered to do is to take the Vivex, is to activate interface with the Vivex to make it fly. That is the only thing coming near to a demand. The only, the other conversations I've had, it's just talked to me and told me things. Such as? What do you unveil to it? You've had questions

before about Eros, about Starbane's position. You've questioned his motives, sometimes even liked his motives and understood them. I haven't liked them, I've understood them. I want to make a very clear definition about that. So would it not be the perfect opportunity to be alone with Starbane to ask him such questions? And that's what I've been asking. I've been asking what's Starbane's

plans? What, how do we defeat Tadar? What would you do if you were Starbane right now? And the answers? Destroy the cradle. Oh wow. And how do you feel about that? Well it's bad obviously. But? But at least I know about it and we know what he's going to do because then we can pinpoint at least where he is. Because to destroy the cradle we need to

it needs an energy force from this side. Like Tiangong perhaps? Tiangong's not capable of that. Maybe if you collect all the shards for Starbane it would... Well, why wouldn't Starbane just do that himself? Maybe he's incapable of doing so and you have a connection with Tiangong to certain shards that he's incapable of reaching.

Have you not considered that you're a pawn? I have. I don't mean to belittle you, Nova, and you're very intelligent and I would not be able to be in your position right now, dealing with Starbane, the very person that's brought down thousands of planets. And you stand alone against him. In your mind, at least. Yeah, because no one else will listen to me.

That's why I didn't tell you guys straight away, because I knew that you would be against me. You wouldn't give me a time of the day to talk about it. But also not telling us has made this worse. And our trust is at an all-time low, I do believe. At least I told you. In the end, you did. I always wanted to tell you all, but I didn't know how. I wanted to figure out what it was I had brought back from Aegis.

I wanted to figure out, I wanted to get some information and try, I don't know, find Starbane and get Tiangong back from him or stop him or get Starbane to join our side. Because it's not about Starbane, it's about Hadar. I've always said it's about Hadar. The problem is getting too close to Starbane becomes a problem because he has overwhelming power of the word. He's not going to show you all his hand. But that's the thing, he doesn't know I have the ILS. As far as you're aware, we don't know for sure the capabilities of the ILS.

It's technology beyond our understanding, unless you know more than you've let on. How do we know for sure that this ILS is capable or not capable of all the things that you've made deductions on and assumptions on. If it knows where we are, surely Callus can track where he's put these things. And it knows where we are. Maybe it can send a signal to him. He knows that already, given the fact that he can visit me in my dreams.

We've always known that. Come on. Then there's almost a direct connection to it, through you. So what do you want to do? Destroy it. I don't see the benefit of having it here. It could help me find Tiangong. We can help you find Tiangong in other ways Okay, the reason

The reason why I've told you today Is because It says that it can triangulate Where pieces of Tiangong are It just needs to see a map of modern day Eros Because it doesn't know Eros Since the Sundering

That sounds like Calus is trying to get information. But Calus is already on Arois! Yes, but he hasn't seen all of it yet. Oh, come on, he's got agents everywhere! You know that! Sure, but... You've seen that! So why would he need one defunct ILS unit

from a space station he wasn't even using? We don't know why he would need it, but he does. Therefore, we should crush it. We don't know anything about what he wants, and I don't think that we should be questioning it. Hesper agrees with Ayla. So... On what charge?

Hesper... On what charge? I had another meeting with him. Did you warn him? Well, he knows exactly as much as I do. He always does. That's how he does. Because you know the other way,

the ILS told me that the crater will break. I told you, remember? Go ahead and refresh me. An attack on the Hall of Affinity? Oh, yeah. Destroying the Titans. Hall of Infinite Resplendence. Sorry.

Okay. Yes. I told you to warn him. There's been a lot going on between you two. I'm sorry Titans that's new to the rest of us do you not see where we're coming from it we're going to be the people that are at the forefront of helping save a rowis and we can't even get our facts and our stories and our purpose straight and in your

plan of saving a rowis you're still fumbling around in the dark whereas in me talking to this thing I know know what Calus's plan is. Or what he wants you to think his plan is. So you think it's something other than bringing down the cradle? Because that sounds pretty much like the big thing. I think, you know. Well, we are fumbling around in the shadows because people are putting shadows upon us as well. If I can pause for a second.

Because I would like to know what Sentry is currently thinking and doing, if anything. Or is she just silent listening to all this? She's just silent. She's just thinking about solving while all this is going on, thinking about the war and everything that happened. She's just trying to make sense of everything, but also trying to quell...

The emotion. Her emotion. Okay. Say... Say Starbane wins. He breaks the cradle and he utilises Eros in whatever form he's decided to protect us or protect himself from Hadar and destroy Hadar.

He said that Eros is the key to destroying Hadar. Right. And he showed me Hadar. And what's the cost? Do we become a weapon? Do we become a weapon? That's why I was trying to get information out of the ILS so that I could talk to Starbane and try and have a way for him to resolve this without violence, without conquest, without death. That's what I was trying to do.

I understand your motives absolutely, Nova. And again, I could not be in your position. However, we need to also be careful of his manipulation, his ability to convince you of something and subtly encourage you down a certain path for his benefit. We don't know his entire motive, only the motive he's willing to tell us. Well, if I was going to listen to him, would I be telling you about this now?

Again, no, but there appears to be a civil war happening between us, so maybe that's part of his plan. To prevent the people that are ultimately going against him to break down internally. And it's very effective

right now. He manipulates. He persuades. I feel like he's watching us right now. He manipulates. He persuades. I feel like he's watching us right now. He kills. Nova, you need to understand that... Well, I know you do. I know everybody does. The last thing I saw before I woke up to Quill

was a scared girl and my home being destroyed by Starbane tech, like this one. We need to destroy it Nova. We can't, we can't let him do this again. Sentry, the reason I did all this was to try and avoid that. I know he kills. I believe you and I don't, I'm not taking it lightly that he is a man of conquest. I'm not ignoring that. That's why I was trying to do all this because I wanted to try and see if there was a way to do this without him... without further violence. Please. I wasn't... I wasn't naive in thinking... I don't know.

We could have figured it out together or, you know, we could be in this together and we could have worked out a plan together. But your reaction just now was immediately anger and to destroy. And I wanted a chance, just a chance to talk to it. And I have information from it, more information than we would have gained in months, years, when it's too late. Regardless of Sentry's reaction, she did not stop you speaking your piece. I know, and I respect that.

And you want it destroyed, it's gone. The only other thing I would suggest, maybe we give it to the Dragonborn. Is there a way we could maybe see it for ourselves? Maybe get an understanding of what it can do? If you want to... Please do that. Please do that. If you want to, but you guys have just spent the last hour lecturing me about... I fear I'm not smart enough and I don't want to speak for all of us.

I feel like this ILS, if it's capable of more than it's letting on, would get more out of us than we get out of it. I just, I'm not convinced it's capable of transmitting unless it's hooked up to more technology. I could ask it. And then just find out. Would yours, would that work on a technological hologram? Well, it's a try.

It's not a living being, so I don't know if your eye is linked only to living beings. You don't know the extent of your eye. Who knows? I just asked the question. If it's linked with a living being, that's a big problem if it works. I don't know if it can. But it's linked with a living being, that's a big problem if it works. I don't know if it can. But it's a way to find out if it's disconnected truly. Surely there's a way to craft a question to know if it's disconnected or not. I understand what you're saying, Nova.

Everything you've done is for the good of Arois. I'm just fearful, understandably, I don't know if you've considered this, of how much we give, being the one major opposition to Starbane and trying to protect the cradle, of how much we counterintelligence we're giving, you know? I mean, Starbane's already spying on us. Through me. Then what do we do about that? Maybe I should leave.

Cool, make an Arcana check for me. Okay. Nine. Yeah, no. Um, nine. Yeah. Maybe there's a way that we can find something that prevents spying on dreams. Something that also beats Starbane tech and power.

How do we block something of such magnitude, you know? Now Tom's desperately looking at his spells. I'm pretty sure I got something. Yeah, I think you did too. So, what's the plan? I don't want to just leave this lingering on awkward conversations forever. Do you want to have Nova show you the ILS? Do you want to basically tell her

that's what you want to do? Do you want to just leave it at this and that we cut back to you guys leaving the ship, heading into the City of Glass? What do you guys want to do? Do you want to keep this conversation going? How do we look at the ILS

without the dragon following us and the dragon not getting suspicious? Well, you can't be there then. I think the dragon will follow the majority, would it not? I don't know. Maybe. I'll try. How about we just shut the dragon away somewhere?

I think it might become suspicious. Yeah, but then it wouldn't know. It would be suspicious, but it wouldn't know exactly what you did. Yes. We could do that. Just lock this room. We could Yes. Just lock this room. We could just leave and lock the room. You don't seem to be sleeping.

I want to say I'm sorry. I know that sounds hollow, but I have been thinking about all of this and the severity of it and especially the impact of my relationship with all of you

and I'm sorry I did it with the best intentions and you've always known my quest and my journey has always been about Tiangong and that's why I'm talking to you because it wanted to see a map of the world so it could triangulate more pieces of Tiangong. Because I believe that if I could form Tiangong, we could get guidance from a very powerful ally and I feel like that's what we need right now. Absolutely. And it's also what Starbane needs right now. Starbane offered to give me Tiangong in his last message with me.

I can't believe that. He said he would just give me the pieces if I joined him. And at that point, yes, there you go. That's why. You would utilize you and Tiangong, and you would have what you wanted. And at that point, what does it matter? I have a belief. I don't know if it's going to... I need to test more.

I need more pieces of Tiangong to test it. I have a belief that maybe if I form enough of Tiangong, Tiangong would be able to summon the remaining pieces. It's naive. I need to test it more. I can only test it if we get more pieces. Does Starbane have any? I think he has three.

Then he's got some in his pocket, literally as a bargaining chip. But if you have the capability of taking that from him... Exactly. Then we need to make sure that we never even remotely suggest the idea around the ILS, just in case. And I haven't. I don't know. I don't know. I just, that's why I was thinking about getting the ILS to pinpoint more fragments, because I think if we get more fragments, I can at least bring more of Tiangong's consciousness back,

and we can get advice. Regardless, I think what's clear is none of us should take any action from here on alone. I think we are stronger together. Are we not? If you think it's best for you to leave, I think you also fall victim to becoming vulnerable. If I'm a compromise to you guys,

then yeah. I don't think you are. You're not at all. You're a strength. And we're better together. Cool. We would have died on Aegis V and over if it wasn't for you.

Yeah. We need you here. And that's as honest as I can be. I'm not some Starbane agent. I'm not I don't want you guys to come to any harm. Same here I think. I think the problem is, he's... you don't become an agent and start wearing his uniform.

You do things without even knowing you're doing them for him. Yeah, I'm beginning to see that now. And I'm sorry. I thought... I thought... I thought I was smarter. It's better to have five perspectives on a situation than one. So, let's keep it that way. I was scared. But you saved us, so...

What is the next steps? I'm eager. So what do we do with the next steps? I'm eager. So what do we do with the ILS? Sentry, it's not mine anymore. You do what you want with the ILS. I can't take it, Nova. Then I leave it to the group. I suggest maybe we give it to the Dragonborn,

or to the council that's meeting. They mentioned that they knew ILS technology. Can we trust any of them? I personally don't think we can trust the Dragonborn. I think they're too arrogant. They're spying on us. And they're too arrogant as well. They think that they've got Starbane beaten already.

I don't think anyone should have it. I think if we don't have it, we smash it. If Starbane already knows where we are, and this ILS has the ability to sense and understand where we are, then it's best with us, because

he already has that knowledge, right? As long as we don't activate it, we keep it hidden. From anyone else At the moment it can sense where we are And it can listen That's why I've not been having any conversations around it So if we keep it

It still has knowledge This is the thing The longer we hold on to it, the more it's going to learn Then we destroy it Could we perhaps Get it to our triangulate pieces and then... I don't think we should show it a map.

I think it's too risky. I need help finding Tiango. We can do that. As soon as we deal with this city of glass with sentry we'll get sentry better and then we can turn our attention there.

If you think that that's the next best weapon against Starbane, then we'll do that and we'll find pieces. We already have found pieces. We'll just do it together. It might take a little while, but it's better than risking it on some Starbane piece of technology that we know nothing about. We can only make guesses.

And you didn't set out to find Tiangong with the only hope that Starbane would give you that information? You had that motive all on your own? I didn't know what it was a bigger part of. Maybe Quill could help us find some pieces. Maybe your eye can somehow assist in something. There's an idea. I could. I mean, it might work on items. You haven't tried?

We're talking about testing on an ILS. Why don't we ask Tiangong where pieces are? It could work, yeah. Hey, I had a good idea. That's actually a... Just saying. Let's document that. I honestly can't believe it.

I'll write that in my journal tonight. Thank you. Excellent. Tiangong is more of a living thing than the ILS is. We trust it more than Starbane, that's for sure. Speaking of... You mentioned when we had our disagreement that you used the the the storm eye on me. Yeah. What did you see? I asked about your involvement

with Starbane. You used the storm eye on Nova? I had to. I had it coming. If you had it you would use it. Yeah to be fair I probably would have. I deserved it. Come on. Okay. Just so much we're unraveling here that's happened without us knowing. I also don't even want to think about what Ayla would use it on. It'd be embarrassing. You have the ability.

Let's keep it that way. I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. I saw a thread coming from you leading to an island I've never seen before. No. To a dying city. Sky City.

Sky City. That I've never seen it on any maps. I've never seen it on any maps. I've never seen it anywhere. But Starbane was communicating with Nova for his own intentions, but not, I don't know. Did you see him? I did. I remember he was in some sort of machine,

and there was some sort of figure with him. He was coming out of like a sleep almost yeah and there was a thread connecting us both lucius make a history check for me i know what the thread is doesn't know what history is though uh 12 12 there's something when Quill says a dying sky city it's there's something

about it but you just it's gone it's like a fleeting like I think I remember no no it's hmm

um so yes that is probably where he is now it was almost definitely where he was then but I've got no idea where that could be or how we'd even get to it

even if we wanted to this power we can destroy the ILS you know where Starbane is and you can find him. That means we can utilize your power again to find what we need to circumvent Starbane. We use the link to our advantage. I've used it on people. I could try with... He doesn't know this is happening. He doesn't know that you used it on me. I know, but... To see where he is.

Assuming he has a consistent thread with you. Maybe it's just during the spell. It's also relevant, and I think Quill would know this, it's relevant to the question he asks. What is your involvement with Nova? Nova showed him the most immediate minute that could answer that question. That's how the Storm Eye works. He gets a minute

of the most immediate answer that can answer the question. So, asking what's your involvement with Nova shows some sort of magical connection and what Starbane said. Because that is the nature of their current relationship.

As far as I'm aware, and what Starbane said. Because that is the nature of their current relationship. Yeah. As far as I'm aware, this is our one advantage we have right now. Just need to ask the right questions. And to the right things. I could try with Tiangong, I could try something on the ILS. We need to do it discreetly, out of sight of maybe even Nova. I don't think we should do it on the ILS first. In case it's gathering information.

If it's gathering information, then it's going to know that Quill has some kind of a power. I say we destroy the ILS. I say we have your capability. That's currently three votes for destroying the ILS, I will just say. Try it on Tiangong before the ILS. Cast it into the fire. Destroy it!

It's too long! There was a moment where Century was just like, I wanted Century to be like, Nova, I was there. Five home. And the strength of Starbane succeeded. Yeah, do you want to try using the Eye of the Storm on Tiangong? Okay.

What's the question where do shards at be where shards at where's the nearest hey baby near a shard how far back can you go I don't know when you were split do you know where your shards went How far back can you go? I don't know.

When you were split, do you know where your shards went? I think it is probably more useful to ask... Yeah, because that would be too far back. A more immediate... No, just, I think if we ask something like that, surely it's just going to show the moment he's split, whereas it's not going to show where those pieces are. Where is the next shard? Where are the remaining pieces of you

right now? Where did you go? Where, Tiangong? What is love? If I ask a question that I can't get an answer to, then I can keep trying, I suppose. I would say that you would be aware enough that asking a question that has, like, too many immediate answers, like, if you were, like,

where are all the pieces, it probably wouldn't answer that because it can't show you one specific moment. But asking where is the nearest, where is the largest, where, you know, where was, you know you know something like that you could definitely ask um asking where are outside of the room that we're currently in and yes there's another specification yeah because if you say where is the nearest it'd be like right there it's like nova you're talking to me what could you be holding it could you be holding Tiangong and asking,

where is the nearest shard that isn't in front, isn't in my hand? Isn't connected to this. Isn't in my hand. I could just ask where the remaining shards are. That's too big. That's too big. Too big. There's like hundreds of shards, right?

13. 13. 11 out there now, because you have two. What if I ask Tiangong how to find the rest of the shards, right? 13. 13. I could ask, well, 11 out there now because you have two. What if I asked Tiangong how to find the rest of the shards? Oh, that's an interesting one.

How is a different question altogether, yes. Then it would at least take us to the next step on the journey to find the rest. Could it? Wait.

Is our destiny predetermined? Oh, God. It's a big question. Are we going to see us in the future doing something that we already know is going toined? Oh, God. It's a big question. Are we going to see us in the future doing something that we already know is going to happen? Oh, no. You freaked out, Sanctuary.

Leave it. I can actually answer this one. I've had visions that haven't come to light. Oh. Right. Mainly in Kelly's rest. Time is a river. Everflowing. Okay.

So we need to make sure this vision happens. So we need to know the steps to get to that point. And make sure they don't deviate from it. As long as we find the bridge, then we can cross it. Yeah. Or if the bridge isn't a bridge. We can just ask where it is and then go cross it. Yeah. Or of the bridge. We can just ask where it is and then go find it.

And then surely there will be something in our path. Yada yada. I don't know. There might be something that will allow us to detect more shards than we're aware of. That's true. But also it might just show us the next

literal step, like landing here is part of the destiny of us finding a shard yeah we can try again surely it's not a one shot we don't know if it's even going to work

I can ask the quickest way to find all the shards what's your best way to find all the shards the most efficient way I think maybe ask it where the next shard is the nearest shard is.

The nearest shard. That isn't in your hand. That isn't. That's a good question. I think that's a simple enough question. I'm breaking the meditation circle. Well, that was a really long meditation. I feel very relaxed now. I need to quickly go back in the meditation circle.

And another bit of meditation just to tip it off. My mind's not fully at unity. I just remembered something. You know when I said Starbane last spoke to me? You know, that was the night I was crying, remember? And then Quill and I had a fight. Yes. I assumed it was.

Never mind. You know how I mentioned he said he would give me shards In exchange for me joining him He said he was also going to send A spy to me Wait Um A spy

He wanted me to give him Information on where... On the leaders of Erois. I haven't given him anything and I was never going to, by the way. Okay, okay, okay. So what else did he say about the spy? The spy thing is... He just said that he would be sending a spy to me to give him this information and if I did, they would give me more shards.

Um... And suddenly we have... Wait, I don't want to sit... I'm looking at the dragon. I don't think it's the dragon. Can we kill the dragon? Won't it be the ultimate play, though? Oh. He's really little. We could just...

What if the spy was already sent? At the top of the dragonborn. In the palm of Starbane's hand. I'll just... Should I just leave? I think this is the next year. It's just us. I don't think I've said anything

this entire session. You caused this. Anyway, we can ask the question... Who is the spy? Yeah. We could ask who the spy is. We could do a lot of things. Use up those charges, Quill. How many charges you got? I'd like to know who the spy is. We could do a lot of things.

Use up those charges, Quill. How many charges have you got? I'd like to know who the spy is. So you have three. Let's make a note of that. I've got the full amount. At least I imagine I have. I haven't used it in two weeks. Oh yeah, we've been travelling actually for two weeks. So he's got three. I have a feeling you're going to start using it on a more regular basis.

Yep. I'm the law master. What do you want to do? using it on a more regular basis. I'm the Lord Master. What do you want to do? Quill, you have the power. So, what are you going to do about the IMS? That's my next big question. One thing at a time. We need to wrap up this.

Climb down a combat what if you're the spy don't worry about that no we've been

through this it's a whole combat thing ready to go what if your mind is the spy and he's just looking through

your eyes quill okay the spy thing let's just think about that and stare at everyone oh I'm thinking about it yeah me I'm staring about it thinking and staring don't worry I'm not gonna give any intel okay the spy thing let's just think about that and stare at everyone oh I'm thinking about it

yeah me I'm staring about it thinking and staring and thinking and staring and don't worry I'm not going to give any intel or we could give him false intel we could start pretending yes

we're doing other things but that's it's going to be very complicated let's think about something else Quill here's Tiangong oh good

can you ask Tiangong he's just he just can't log into D&D Beyond right now. That's okay. I've got it. Yeah, the Wi-Fi is being really bad in here today. Can you please ask Tiangong where the nearest shard... Yeah, you're looking for the wording, aren't you?

Mm-hmm. D&D Beyond, yeah. Could you read out the wording? It's not the word. I know that I have to... For his thing. Yeah. Do the writing. He knows how to do it. Yeah, I know that I have to For his thing Yeah Do the writing

You can't love me He knows how to do it I know how to use it That's fine I don't need to remind him Just pass him to Yangon Like how Ask a question

How far in the future Can you ask I don't know Okay I don't even know If it'll work on this What a question like Where

Hey here's an idea Why don't you just try Yeah Rather than like You guys get in this loop Of like What if it doesn't work What if it does What if it doesn't work What if it does Just try it Hold Rather than like, you guys get in this loop of like, what if it doesn't work?

What if it does? What if it doesn't work? What if it does? Just try it. Hold it. It's a charge. You get it back in a couple of days, in a week. Where is the nearest shard of Tiangong that is not in my hand right now?

The eye crackles and swirls as mist fills your vision, Quill. And then we see Cal is holding it. He's outside! Just as a point, as part of the action to use this ability, you may ask a single specific question about your immediate surroundings and object you are holding or a person you can see.

Yeah! My wifi's disconnected. I'm out. Your vision turns cloudy and then becomes like a flying bird as you travel from the storm chaser you are currently on across the waves

and you sail north you fly north leading away from Gisela towards the Hawk's Dawn Archipelago and then your eye dips as the bird begins to plummet and it plunges beneath the waves as it becomes like a fish as it swims down deep into the depths you find a sunken battlefield you find the remnants

of towers of ruins bearing insignia you recognize as solvents. And you see at the heart of this immense battle, this battlefield, this ruined battlefield, you see one of these sunken war machines that you've seen before, smaller than the one you encountered at the night eye, but a beast of metal and strange organic material buried in the sand, almost like a giant face with arms and legs upon its side. In its core, in a kind of empty hollowed shell,

you can see plunged into the ground in front of what appears to be some sort of chair or throne, you see the hilt of some sort of bladed weapon, and it matches the styles and designs of Tiangong, and blue power just... echoes out from it, and then your vision back into the moment. Okay, well, it's not close. You saw something?

I definitely saw something. You don't have to tell us. No? Just in case. Nova's like... I mean... You can tell me later, but... Considering the situation.

That works. That means we don't need shithead McGee. You want to smash? I really want to smash. Can I smash? Let's go to my room. Okay. We all good?

Out of context. That sounded very weird out of context. We're going to smash. We're back, okay? Is everyone... We're back, okay. Is everyone happy with that? Yes. Yes. Yes. I think Century more than anybody. Do you... What about okay? Is everyone happy with that? Yes.

Yes. Yes. I think Sentry more than anybody. Do you want to smash it? It's okay. Sentry, you should get the first go at this, seriously. It's okay. Put it on a table.

It's okay. We could have both. Axe and a hammer. So you make your way down into Nova's room, the five of you. You can use my hammer if you want. It's okay. Sentry? Are you sure?

I've released my anger. The dragon does wake up and does start to follow you. Can I just close the door? Sure, you can just lock it in the room. Yeah, Aayla does that. You hear it like scratching. But you shut the door. Lucius, maybe you should stay if it's like, scratching. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

But you shut the door. Lucius, maybe you should stay if it's paired with you. Yes, I will. Uh, go on ahead. Okay. Everyone, don't say anything when you're in the room. Okay. So you lead them down into your room, your humble little cabin on the mid-deck, um, and

you find it tucked beneath your pillow along for the rest of you appears to be a long cylindrical prism like shape black crystal pulses with a purple energy overtakes it do you activate it first or are you just going to put it on the ground because as soon as you come near it begins vibrating he wants to talk. You know it does. He always wants to talk. 79 missed calls. I'm going to message everyone and say it wants to talk. We'll stir around.

I'm leaving. I'm by the door with this. Oh, so you do take it? I stay behind. Okay, so you door with the vis. Oh, you did... So you do take it. I stay behind. You stay... Okay, so you stay behind up in the captain's horse. Okay. He's trying to, like, get out of your hands.

Like, you're having to hold him because he wants to follow the group. He's like... I'll messenger ring. So long as we're all in agreement that the decision we made stands, I'll leave it with you. If you feel it's important

to listen to him. We don't have to answer it. No. At least, I mean, we don't have to talk to it. We can just hear what it says. Ayla? It's up to Santry.

I won't be in the room if you answer. I can't look in. If you don't want me to talk to it, well, activate it. I won't. You can activate it if you want, but I just won't be present for it. I'm not making a vote, you guys. You can all see it, just the air itself is vibrating quite violently. I got the hammer.

Well, don't worry. So you put it down. If this version of Starbane doesn't talk to you, I'm sure the real one will soon. I can't watch. So you put it down on the ground over? Quill. Destroy it. I smash it.

Right. I have a question. Who's in the room? Three of us, I think. Well, Century didn't look, but are you in the room? I said step out if they answered. Okay, but you didn't look but are you in the room or are you i said step out if they answered okay but you didn't so you stay you raise the howling gale and you can see this crystal just you bring the hammer down it's like everyone to make a dexterity saving throw okay advantage on that you do danger sense Don't forget Sentry's bonus.

It's a collar. It's plus... Oh, natural 20! It's plus one. What's your charisma bonus? It should be higher than that. Why is your iPad not working? I've got no idea.

Have I got Helios equipped or not? Yes. So I do. So everyone gets plus two to the Have I got Helios equipped or not? Yes. So I do. So it'll be plus two. Yeah. Yeah. So everyone gets plus two to the same amount who's in the room.

Oh, 26. Dex save. Okay. Natural 20. Dex save. Yeah. Taking a lot of damage. 15.

15. Quill. It's your character. My character's not working. Okay. His character. I rolled a 15. Wait, 16.

Oh, there's a problem. So 17 just from... It's on the screen, isn't it? That'll probably old. No, it's not. I've updated it all. You updated it last night. Oh, I updated mine today, sorry.

I mean, mine's 17 without my bonus. 17 without the bonus? Yeah. Okay. That's very good. That's very, very good. Did everyone pass? No.

Not everyone passed. I can't load your character. Nova, the ILS. I told you this when you looked at the ILS. This is powerful magic. Uh-oh. Destroying it has its consequences. Oh, no. The hammer comes down, and there's almost a scream.

As the hammer hits it. And at first you think it hasn't worked, but then a crack from a single point where you've dented it with your immense strength and a magical weapon. It begins cracking and calluses scream. Just echoes out and it explodes. You all take Quillen. Ayla, you're going to take half

of this. Nova and Century you take 100 points. Oh shit. Fuck. The ship, an enormous explosion erupts and blows out a huge chunk of the hull of the storm chaser so he takes this

can I use my reaction to cast tomb of leviticus you can use your reaction to cast tomb of leviticus because I feel like it's almost like it's tiangong doing a natural so that happens I need everybody to now make a dex saving throw as the whole of the ship is blown open as it's descending to the ground.

This was before we landed. No, you don't need to. Okay. You're not there. Nova, you automatically fail this because you're in the tomb. 100, right? If I failed that, I would have died. Fuck. When Quill passed that, I was like it I would have died 14 fuck 18

when Quill passed that I was like you could have died I no I've got 56 HP I've got 48 so I'm still up

fuck 18 if you'd taken 100 yeah you'd still be up but you'd be on close I mean you would have taken a crit as well

I mean let's find out what happens when I fly out of the ship 17 18 18 so you managed to grab hold of something as the whole like because it's not just nova's room it's the the deck below it it's a part of the deck above it i'm pretty sure one of the wolf pack gets annihilated just happens to be walking past at the wrong time as it's just Aayla you managed to grab hold of something stop yourself falling out Quill natural 1

Nova also fails as this block of ice begins to fall 14 also begins to fall out we've got feather fall the only problem is Century's unconscious so can I use any kind of reaction to grab We've got feather fall. Yeah, we all have feather fall. The only problem is Sentry's unconscious. Sentry's unconscious.

So... Can I use any kind of reaction to grab any of them? Saving throws to do that. I will say you can make a... This would be reaction speed. Roll a d20 and then add your initiative

natural 20 plus 4, 24 alright, you can grab one of them I'll grab Sentry because she's unconscious okay, so you see Sentry's lifeless body and you just grab it with her hand and she yanks you, you probably feel your shoulder pop like

out of its socket as her immense weight just and the ship is descending so you can you know it's not as high up as it could be but you're still like 100 maybe 200 feet in the air quill you begin falling nova begins falling so this tomb of the what is it it? She's literally frozen in a coffin of ice. So I like to see it as like... But it goes at the end of a turn. Like when Mei... I see it as Tiangong almost automatically throws a shield over me. So you get heavier.

From the dagger, which technically Quill was harmed, but I guess he would have given it back. This, yeah, this basically like a coffin, a cocoon of ice surrounds nova as her body just tumbles through the air she's gonna hit the ground this turn basically yeah but the tomb will still be up so you'll still have the temporary hit points because it gives you what 50 temporary hit points 80 temporary hit points and i'd say it's going to be about 100 well no it's probably about 150 foot four so i'm gonna roll some dice in a minute. I've got no idea how much.

So Quill, what do you do? You've got an action. You've got one turn before you hit the ground. Can I cast Fly on my ring? Okay, so you cast Fly on yourself, yeah? Yeah. Can I cast on someone else? You could.

You have one action before you hit the ground. What do you do? action before you hit the ground what do you do? no bonus actions or anything she's in a big ball of ice and it's an action to activate the featherfall token effectively it's like

you have a reaction when you're falling but I'm saying you can cast a spell or you can take an action unfortunately Novi I don't think you can take actions in the team yeah which means no actions basically but like the tomb of ice that's gonna survive the fall right maybe will knows about the arcana of that doesn't a featherful let's say you don't. Doesn't feather fall automatically activate?

No. Well, I don't know. What did I write on the tokens? It's been a while since I made those items, so... I mean, I create a lot of stuff. When you fall at least 20 feet... Wait, I said this on your person. The token's magic is expended after you land.

It just says you take it doesn't say how it's activated. Does it not? This small method disc is inscribed with the image of a feather. When you fall at least 20 feet while the token is on your person you descend 60 feet to around. And then I'd say it automatically activates. So for both of us.

Yeah, because Sentry's fallen in the past and it's just automatically. Okay, yours is gone. I think she bought several, though. Yours two are gone. I think she bought more than, because Sentry, remember Sentry was freaking out. We bought notes. I have three on me.

It's down to your thing. I think we had three. We should have three each. I think we all had one each. I think you had three each. Yeah, but Sentry freaked out about having... I think you kept some extra ones, right? I handed out several to each of you. Yeah, Nova's got one. I think you bought something like seven each. Well, I had three. Century freaked out about having... I think you kept some extra ones. I handed out several.

Yeah, Nova's got... I think you bought something like seven. I think you bought like seven, so you had one each, and then Nova kept the extras. Yeah, well, either way, I guess I... I don't... I think that's...

You're confusing it with Nova buying extras. Yeah. And again, if they're not on your character sheets, it doesn't matter what you think. I've got one, but I've used it. I got it. There you go. So it's gone.

You might as well delete it if you've used it. Yeah, I know. So delete one, delete one delete one they automatically activate but yeah but we're still going to have to potentially

sort out some initiative here just because well we're going to roll we're going to run through where you guys have rounds each cool and over you're basically just

descending to the ground you don't you can't really do anything unless you cast fly I was doing that to counter the fall but i guess basically we're going to one round around um because you've got to make death saving through it's because you're unconscious right so that's something we're gonna have to figure out

hello she's on the ship she's on the ship well ayla has currently got it so you are currently literally holding onto the ship centuries in's in one hand. She's unconscious. What do you do? In fact, let's roll initiative because this will determine the order of how death saving throws and your actions. Son of a bitch. Natural one again. Oh god. We've all got

a little roll. 21. Why am I rolling? Oh, I guess I'll raid for somebody like Grey Lino. Gravity. I'm guessing Grey Lino will have Grey as the sort of medic. So I'll just roll for her initiative. Right, Aayla. 21. 21.

Quill? 3, I think. 3. Nova? 8. 8. Lucius? 11. Century? 9. That's a big, important one. All right, so Ayla, you get a round. What do you do?

Can I try and pull myself up and pull her with me? It's going to be a strength check. Very difficult. Can I rage as a bonus action? Sure. You just took a shit ton of damage. You can absolutely rage. I rolled two fours, fuck

So Like eight Shit You're kind of like Captain America in Civil War The helicopter You've literally got one hand you're holding on With one hand You're gripping this broken deck of the ship

The other you've got unconscious heavy sentry In a full like plated armour. And you just can't, you don't have the strength to pull her up, basically. Until somebody comes to help you, you're going to have to wait until next turn. That's fine. In my messenger ring, I will just say,

Lucius, sentry's down, help! Okay. I mean, you heard the explosion as well, for sure. Lucius, you are the next up in the initiative in which case i will drop this and just run and you're up on the top deck weren't you yeah so we'll say in a round you can get to nova's room but it's like a dash movement and dash okay because you're on the top deck of the ship it's probably about 30 feet down into the first deck and then you need to get to the officer's quarters open the door and reach the side but that's going to be your whole turn to get down there because you were obviously upstairs um century you're gonna make that death saving

throw rock and roll sorry mate 11 11 so this is success um gray lano is currently probably pant like let's see see what she does. Okay, so Grey Llano manages to keep it together, and you can hear her voice somewhere in the ship kind of, like, calling out, like, who is injured? Bring them to the medical, you know, my medical room immediately.

Like, she's calling out, and you can hear that there are other members of the Wolfpack are probably injured by the blast, and they're being dragged in, but they don't know about the situation yet. But she is available and ready as soon as you can get someone to her um nova you are currently falling the tomb goes yeah well you said that i would have dropped in one turn well with the featherfall token you don't you descend at like a rate you'll just slowly floating down as it so how far down am I?

So does it say in the Featherfall token what rate you descend at? Did you not say 60 feet? I think it was like, yeah, 60 feet. So you would have gone 60 feet down. Okay. And so I've taken technically... I think about 20 points of damage. Well, I don't know how the tomb works. You use it to reactivate.

I think it activates, it absorbs the damage. From, I don't know how the tomb works. So you use it in reaction, right? I think it activates. It absorbs the damage. From the temporary hit points. So 80 hit points are gone. So you said 100 points. Yeah, so you would have taken 20 HP. So in fact, yeah, you wouldn't have even had the tomb, actually. Christ, if you'd fallen...

No, I think it holds, but it just... No, once those temporary hit points are gone, they're gone. Oh, okay. So you activated the tomb. The blast annihilates the frost around you. You take a bit of damage and then fall out. So if you hadn't had that feather fall token, you would have hit the ground and taken 15d6 damage.

Yeah, you could have used your action on that. Sorry, I don't even want to kill me right now. I don't know if everyone in this room wants to fucking kill me right now. No, I'm saying if you didn't have it. Don't make it about you, D.Va. So I guess do I see that Sentry is... I mean, you look up as you're, like, slowly floating down, and you see Aayla, like, her muscles bulging,

like, holding Sentry out of this hole in the ship. Is Sentry 60 foot from me? No. No, you'd have to fly 60 feet up. Okay. If you can levitate that far. I'm glad we had the tour. Le have to fly 60 feet up. Okay. Shit. If you can levitate that far. I'm glad we had the talk.

Levitate is 60 feet, so... Okay. Levitate is 60 feet. Talk. Create it. So, no, levitate is the range of 60 feet, so you can cast it on Sentry. Yeah.

So is that what you're doing? Yeah. If she's within 60 feet... You cast levitate on her. I cast levitate on her. Okay, and then what? Like, levitate her up? Shit.

Yeah. Okay. Back onto the ship. So you kind of feel like... I mean, she can't be... She's currently, like, hovering in front of the ship, because Levitate is just up and down. Yeah.

So, but Aelith is probably... I've still got her. All right. Quill. You float 60 feet down. And we're just... That's safety float, right? Yeah, you and I are safety float. Yeah, you're're just that's safety float right yeah you and I

are safety float yeah you're just going to hit the ground none the worse the wear apart from the 50 points of damage you took I've got a messenger ring and someone just said

sentries down yeah so I'm going to cast fly okay so you cast fly on yourself and then fly 60 feet up and go all the way up all right

that's it but that's like my action that's your action so we go to Ayla now I'm a little bit closer can I see what injury sentry took let's do that in a minute 100 yes full of hundo don't roll well roll at d20 You're just taking a crit injury at this like this you can't physically make the saving throw for this not to affect God

You can have a permanent star page Oh Not to affect you. Fair dues. You're going to have permanent star bait shots. That's a two. Oh. Oh, no. It was an 18 and it just went... Yeah, that rolled really last minute. Oh, God. Oh. Every week!

Do you remember what a two does, Quill? Oh, no, is it a limb? It's a limb. I'm not offline. I'm online, Google Docs. I know a two isn't good Well Ayla what are you doing? Pulling Sentry back

onto the ship Can I pull myself up? Am I angry enough to pull myself up? No I have two hands With Sentry levitating it's much easier to pull yourself up And I'm raging so I will pull Sentry onto Yeah, and it's essentially weightless. And I'm raging, so I will

pull Sentry onto the ship and put a potion in her mouth. Potion of healing. Okay, I'm gonna, so... No, no, no, it's fine. So you do potion of healing? Regular? Have you got one in your inventory? Yes, I do. I've got two. You've got two. Mark one off.

And then I will roll. Sentry, you get five, six, seven hit points back. You are no longer dying. You're not dying! However, so the result you got, which wouldn't make sense for Century, so I'm going to veto it. Sure. Okay.

I'm trying to decide if I just go to the next worse one or if I make you re-roll. It's pretty bad anyway. It's a bad anyway it's about explosion yeah i think i'm just going to drop down to the next one it would have been a broken jaw doesn't really affect century as much because she's a robot and also it wouldn't really make as much sense but the next one and this is oh you and quilly boy oh no it's one of the eyes right it's just the crystal is just shattered and part of the face plate is just ripped open with the explosion and so now like all the wood like this like the kind of

whatever liquid kind of like goes through your body is like draining away and like the metal's all being ripped off and the eye is just broken crystal um that's badass. You have disadvantage on the cross. I'm really glad that you put the ass at the end of that. Yeah. It's bad, but it's also badass. Yeah. Nice. And with that, we're out of initiative, and that is where we're going to end today's

shit. Perfect timing. I just got out of your narrow. Man. When you guys were like, we're going to destroy the ILS, right? I was like, oh, boy. I was like looking up magic items. Like there are some powerful artifact level magic items that when you destroy them explode.

And I was looking some of them up and I was like, yep. I think the thing is Nova would have been too emotional to have recalled anything. He thought like, hey, wait a minute. Here's the thing. What a great story moment. Hell yeah. Of like, we've done this thing, we've taken out this potentially bad thing we had with us. What would explode

unless it's a terrible thing and it needed to be destroyed in the first place? What would have such a defensive thing? Well, why would it do that if it wasn't the worst thing ever and we needed to destroy it? Yeah, good things don't explode. God! What wolf pack member died? Oh yeah. We'll find out. Kenny.

Kenny, no! You bastards! Thank you.