High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #58 | The Dark Herald (Part 1)

Episode Date: January 27, 2020

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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. Welcome back to Erois. Welcome back to Erois.

Last time, our party travelled to the ruins of Kamina City, once a part of the exalted domain called Solvin. The ruined city now lays at the northern tip of the continent of Gisela and seemingly contained answers and guidance for the Guardian Paladin Sentry. Making their way into the city, accompanied by Kaltain Ramavulthir of the Sansian Commonwealth who bargained to help the party in exchange for troops and labor to repair their airship to investigate it. The group encountered ancient rusted feral guardians who have gathered here in great numbers. As they stalk through the ruined city streets Sentry sees a visage of a golden angelic guardian and chases after her. The party follows, bringing the attention of the roving feral guardians towards them.

Sentry finds herself in the glass scar, a section of the city transmuted into glass by an ancient weapon of Stuckala Starbanes. An open set of doors leads down into an ancient chamber. Flinging into the chamber and sealing it behind them, the party discovers a strange echo bearing a similar resemblance to the angelic guardian that Sentry saw in her vision. The guardian is imprisoned within a strange crystal and waiting beside it, an imposing knight of Calus Starbane's empire. The knight reveals himself to be Maximilian Taldros, a strange humanoid that the party do not recognize. He also reveals his companion, Dana Glomfire, the Durgar sorceress. The pair explain they were

sent to investigate a missing research team and have found that a powerful guardian now controls the city, fully corrupted by Hadar. Century frees the trapped Echo and together her and Lucius witness its memories, revealing that the corrupted guardian is called Herald and she was sent here to await the Prime's successor. And to save off her own death, she fed on the life of other guardians to extend it. Placing the last vestiges of her sanity and inherent goodness inside the Echo. She sealed it away and has become a terrible power within the ruins. The party make an uneasy alliance with the two forces of Calistar Bane and head towards a temple of Siasca where they intend to lure out Herald and battle her to try and free her of her malign influence and reunite

her echo a battle begins and a powerful bodyguard of the Herald's appears a formal royal guardian of Solwyn that called rook who clashes with sentry and that is where we begin today fully in combat yes Tiff already rolled and it is time to begin. I'm spooked. I'm scared. Die. I don't want to die. And in fact it begins with

the Herald herself. She will bugger. Bugger. Oh hello. She's flying away. She's actually going to lower herself slightly.

Oh. Bringing herself to about 20 feet off the ground, she swoops down. Oh, hi. Oh, no. Making a line to... Hovering above where Nova and Lucia stand in front of the Grand Temple of Siaska itself,

she lets out a mournful, terrible wail. Siaska itself. She lets out a mournful, terrible wail. She raises her staff with this kind of jagged scythe blade melded onto it, and she throws it, spinning through the air. It collides towards Lucius, and

then doubles back to strike Nova before returning to her hand. Cool. She's going to make two attacks. Boomerang scythe. Boomerang scythe. Damn. Lucius, that is a 24 to hit you. Nova, 311 to hit you.

So you dodge to the side as the Scythe spin past. Lucius, however, you are going to take some damage here, my friend. Is this fine? This is fine. Is this Rook? Yeah. Yes, that's Rook. Smash? Mega Smash. Smash? Smash.

Mega smash. Smash? No, don't smash him. Just smash? That's a million. There's a smash. That's smash. That's smash.

Thank you. They're guarding the other exit. Lucius, do you have any resistance to psychic damage? Yeah. No. Nope. You take 27 points of damage at this site. Nope.

You take 27 points of damage at this sight. Not only does it cut your body, but as it does, you feel the torment and the agony and the misery of this guardian's life pass as flashes through your mind as the blade strikes you, and then it snaps back into her hands. I can relate. Nova, at the start of your turn,

I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. You're in that aura. What aura? She does that bad aura. She's not suffered from it yet. Eleven. Eleven, I need you to make... It must immediately take the attack action

against a random creature within reach. So using... Everyone's in reach. Now, one thing I'm going to change on this is uh it wouldn't make you use your spells which is what I did with Lucius before so this is you either have to make a melee attack um or a ranged attack if you have one if you have neither you have to throw your weapon so uh eldritch blast is 120 foot okay so if you want to yeah rather than throwing ten gong if you want to use eldritch blast you can I'm not well it is

Cantrip yeah, so I'll say if that's what you want to do rather than using a weapon attack And I'm gonna give you the choice and it's random person. It's a random person so it basically between Everyone's here. It'll be everyone. It'll be everyone. Yeah, pretty much. Maybe not these guys It will reach these guys. Yeah, all right, so So let's count them up. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. These guys are actually technically off the map. So we'll do 9 and I'll just re-roll a d10. What about

the Echo itself? The Echo I don't think we're going to have targetable. So, I mean, actually, technically it probably would be. Oh, but it's only got like one health. If I take it back, ignore me. So, 1, 2, 3, 4, against Aayla please sounds good

and this is the full attack so this is both beams full beam natural 20 on one cool and an 18 on the other just and this is force damage so you're not resistant to this. Am I raging already? Yes, you are raging.

I wrote out my crit scores. So it would basically be D10, so it would be 10 plus another D10 for the crit. So just D10 plus 10. 20. 1. So I rolled a 1. So 11 for the first one, and then the second one is just

a D10. That's an okay crit. Wait. Plus, wait, no, I'm reading the wrong fucking thing. Yeah, if it's Eldritch Blast, it would be d10 plus the max, which is 10, and then the next one would just be normal damage. d10. 8. Oh, come on, Saz.

What a lot of damage. Saz! So you feel this maddening influence from this herald. The herald that is me. It warps your thoughts your vision The city almost seems to flash back into how it was and you just become confused and you lash out with your You know an attack something familiar to you, and then you look and see you've struck Ayla. I probably scream like no You can still move and take any bonus actions on your turn.

Oh, that replaces your attack action. It's you immediately take the attack action. That's pretty bad. Damn. I'm going to move away from her, so I can move. It says if no creatures are within reach, it makes a ranged attack using a random creature within range, throwing its weapon if necessary.

So if you have a ranged cantrip, I'd say actually, yeah, you would use that. Yeah. Because it's not using a slot. So move or bonus action. I want one or the other. No, no, you've got both. It's just your action you've used. Can you move me 30 foot away from her?

So you could try and jump 10 feet down off of this raised area and then run back, or you could try and run forwards if you want. If you want to run forwards, then you might as well just run down here walk forwards if you want to run forwards and you might as well just Yeah, I just want to be away 5 10 15 20 25 30 5 10 15 20 25 you're still just out of range and then Hexblade curse Who should I hexxblade Curse?

Me. You'll sign quickly. I'm going to Curse... Trudette. I'm going to Curse one of the... One of the little scrubs? Little scrubs. Okay, sure.

Should we say the closest one to you? Yeah. This one? Did I bring something for this? We can use this. We'll just use this to designate that you've currently got your Hexblade Curse on it. Cool. Afternova's go.

Ayla. The Herald is flying up in the air. You can see she has these black wings of light. You've seen this other Guardian rush up to Sentry, and they've literally locked weapons and they're fighting. Three more are currently rushing towards down as well. So, seeing that Sentry's

a bit injured, I'm probably going to go for this dude here because she's had some hits. Now, if you just go back to where you were for a second. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. You're just out of range. Also, is she up a ways? She is up a ways as well, yeah. But if you count technically diagonally it's like a radius

Like a globe around it D&D diagonals are weird D&D diagonals Okay so you rush up to The rook the guardian Yes I will attack twice Reckless or normal

Normal please No 21 on the first one Second-price Reckless or Normal? Normal, please. No, you got Dairy now. 21 on the first one and 24 on the second one. He, I'm going to be really annoying, he's going to use his reaction to cast Shield, which gives him an AC of 25 until the end of his next turn. So you watch as you spring up behind him,

Sentry, you just watch. He's been kind of muttering like, Find the Prime, Find the Prime, Find the Prime. You see Aayla raging, screaming up behind him um century you just watch he's been kind of muttering like find the prime find the prime find the prime you see like alo like raging screaming up behind him he just brings the shield arm round and the emblem of solving projects in a magical like barrier and holds your attack off still locked blades with you um yeah against your lightning it's's a natural 20. So half damage. Half of three. So one.

You see, like, this little blast of lightning kind of strikes through the shield, and he just seems to, like, shudder for a moment, almost unaffected. Has used his reaction, though. So if I try and do anything else with him before his turn, call me on it. That your whole turn?

Anything else? Nine. Nine. You can hear the sounds of Maximilian fighting down from a corridor. You actually hear this eruption of flame. You just hear like a kind of muttered words and then whoosh and screams of these feral guardians coming from somewhere else. He sounds pretty cool.

Yeah, right? We're joining him. Lucius. A reminder, but I'm sure you probably know that he's got my elemental. Maximilian's got my fire elemental. He does. I forgot about that, but I will keep that in note of that. Lucius. You are within range.

You are within range. Make a wisdom saving throw, please. 18. 18, that's enough. You resist this maddening aura around the Herald. Just barely, I's enough. You resist this maddening aura around the Herald. Just barely I will say. You feel it warming your way into your mind but you've already you're like, no, I've got to focus.

And you snap out of it. What would you like to do? After Lucius, by the way, it's going to be my go. So Tom, you're the next player up so think about what you want to do. That's cool. We're very evenly spread so no matter who I go to she Tom, you're the next player up, so think about what you want to do. That's cool. We're very evenly spread, so no matter who I go to, she's going to pick

the densest population to aura. Possibly. She might not. Depends who's done hurts to her. In which case, I'm going to stay where I am. Okay. I'm just going to move five feet here. Sure. Yeah, I mean, you might as well, because then you're out of range, right? You know she has to move towards you.

I'm going to cast Vitriolic Sphere. Okay. 150 feet, so I think it gets these guys. 20-foot Sphere. 20-foot radius, that will hit loads of them, dude. So that's basically, like, if you target it on this guy, so you'd actually have to target this guy to make sure you don't hit Sentry. I will do that.

Back at Rook. That just misses Rook. It's basically like that. If you target the middle guy, you're going to hit him and Sentry. So you can hit these three guys together. I'm going to target the three. Yeah, absolutely. So it's a ball of emerald acid streaks.

They explode in a 20-foot radius. Each creature makes a dex saving throw against a 15. Okay. Or takes 10d4 acid and then 5d4 acid next turn. So it's like an upgraded acid splash. One of them does succeed, the other two fail.

Have fun rolling 10d4. Yeah, make sure he's not just rolling 2d4. So it's half damage. The other two are going to take the full damage. Oh my lord. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, I got a bunch. To the one, yeah. The other two are going to take the full damage. Oh, my lord. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. One more.

Thanks. Ten whole D4s. But then they take 5D4 at the start of their next turn if they fail to save. Yeah, it's half next turn as well. Oh. Oh, my god. That's a lot of fours. 23. Acid. 23? Yeah. That's a lot of force 23 acid 23

Yep On the first turn Half that for the third one Yep And also All three of these things Nout Okay good

Just Just don't forget how I get HP You get HP from the Hitsplay Curse Okay So they The orb explodes. It coats them in this viscous orange-green acid, and their forms just melt away.

Dicomancy? Dicomancy, please, which is a level 4 spell. Plus 4 is 8. 8, 2? On the Herald. This wonderful guardian. This wonderful guardian. Yeah, so the orb streaks out,

and then you kind of pull orange from your clothing launch it up as a bolt kind of spears through her chest and she kind of clutches down at it

for a moment just like and like looks you know in paint like you've harmed her basically I'm drawing attention sweet

any other actions that's me that's your whole turn yeah okay so well that's my action the next thing that happens Any other actions? That's me. That's your whole turn? Yeah. Okay. So the next thing that happens is you hear the sounds of battle coming from where Maximilian and Dana and Ram are all fighting. But those of you who have a brief moment look beyond

and the wall of flame that Dana conjured and the magic circle that Quill used, you see bodies beginning to pour over the wall of the magic circle that Quill used, you see bodies beginning to pour over the wall of the magic circle and through the wall of the wall. Oh no! That's a lot of bodies! Should I say vitriolic sphere?

They swarm over. Not me! No, in fact, Nova, they basically run and completely engulf her. Not me! No, in fact, Nova, they basically run and completely engulf you. No! Not me! I said not me! These guys, however, basically have to just, they can only move a little bit

because it costs them extra movement to climb over the magic circle. Holy shit. Nova, you are surrounded by metal and steel and wood and vines and just feel ten claws trying to rip you apart. Each of these attacks has advantage against you and deals extra damage whilst you're in the swarm. Good night. And there's ten of them.

Good night. So what's your AC? 17. 17, okay. The first one is a 19 to hit. Yep. The next one is a miss. The third one is a 16 to hit, which is a miss.

So I've only got the one... So can someone count through, like, on your fingers? Okay, so you've got... Oh, so you've done three. So one hit, but I've made three. Okay, I'll count the hits, you count the attacks. The fourth one is a natural 20. Ugh. The next one is a natural 20. Ugh.

The next one is a 23. Yep. The next one is an 18. Yep. So one, I've got, yep, so four more. The next one is a 22. Yep. Oh my god.

The next one is a 17. Exactly. How much are these going to do? And then the next one is... Fucking hell, that was really well rolling. Is a 23. Yep. So that's seven hits, one of which is a nat 20.

And then the next one is, yeah, like a 22. So that's eight hits plus a nat 20. Natural 20. God. Okay. So this is going to be... So seven hits plus the natural 20 you said Yep

So that is going to be 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 35, but with the crit it's 40 40 points of damage All from individual attacks So that matters because against Aayla You'd be halving each individual attack But Nova, I mean they're just ripping your clothing.

You feel like, you know, that your armor is barely holding up against their attacks as they just rip into you. Being in the middle of this is bad news. Yeah, I'm getting that. Yeah. I'm really feeling that. When you moved over there, I was just like, hey! Social anxiety at the best of times.

Yeah, dude. This is my nightmare. I was just like, eh. Now, I will say that as you see them, they've run through this wall of fire. Yeah, dude. This is my nightmare. I was just like... Now, I will say that as you see them, they've run through this wall of fire. They are injured.

You can see that they've taken a ton of damage already running through this flame, basically. Well... And they're feral guardians, right? These are feral guardians, yes. They're very huggy.

They just want some. And I will say that you guys have fought things like swarms of enemies before. Generally, things like area of attacks are extra effective against them. So just use one. Guess what I don't have. Yeah, you did. That's their turn. You can hear the sound of fighting.

My AOE is Blight, which doesn't work against undeads and constructs. Also Blight, I don't think is AOE. I think it's single target. No, it's not. It's single target. Yeah. There's another one, which is AOE. If I cast a spell,

can I still cast a spell as a reaction? Yes, you can, yes. Beautiful. I'm going to use... No, no. If it's a reaction, it's different. Oh, okay, okay. Okay, I'm going to cast...

It's on your turn. You can't cast more than um one spell spot yeah right i'm gonna cast expeditious retreat on myself bonus action and then i'm leaving see ya uh no i'm doing so i can move 60 feet five and you weren't in range so you're not in the aura 15 20 25 30 yep 5 10 15 20 25 30. And then I'm going to use Turn Undead. Cool. For Channel Divinity. Okay.

So anything within 30 feet, which is definitely this pack for Nova. Yes, yep. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 is the edge of that pack there. Yep, we're going to have to count this on an individual basis because of the range, but yeah, sure. And it also would hit the Herald, but yeah. Sure. Okay. It also would hit the Herald, but maybe Undead? It doesn't affect the Herald. Okay.

I figured she wasn't Undead. 20, 25. That's going to hit all of them. Okay. So tell us what Channel Undead does. Turn Undead. I can destroy Undead too. So what challenge rating? CR 12 if they fail.

CR one half5 you mean? 1 slash 2. 1.5. Yeah, call it 12 with the line in the middle. Cool. What's the thing? What are we doing here, Quill? So this is... Where is it? Sorry, I've got different... Yeah, that's fine. I understand. Turn on

dead. I think it's normally a saving throw. I think it's a wisdom saving throw, I think. Man, you know what? I've totally lost where time undead is. I can probably get it on the cleric thing. It's a feature. It's a feature? It's been identified before. They do react to being undead.

Do you want me to look it up? Do you want me to just... I can bring it up on cleric. I can't actually find my turn undead. I've lost it. It's fine. Sorry, boys. Oh, there it is.

So they have to make a wisdom saving throw for DC 15. And if they fail, they are turned for a minute. They are undead, but they're also not undead. Not the feral? Yeah. I thought I identified them as undead last time. They are. It's an interesting one because they're technically...

When guardians, they're not really dead, but they are power... They're beyond life,'re not really dead but they are power they're similar beyond life it's yeah it's an interesting one so I'm gonna make a saving throw

so we'll do this group because only one of them is actually affected on the edge of the pack and the DC is what did you say? 15

okay all right well that's a failure for that one and then I'm gonna make well I'm banishing him he's gone okay that one guy oh wait can I say to make... Well, I'm banishing him and he's gone. Okay, that one guy.

Oh, wait, can I say... We'll find out. You've got turn undead or... Destroy undead is part of turn undead. It's the same thing. When he turns undead under a certain challenge rating, rather than being turned, it's destroyed. I thought it was a certain level. I'm going to have to think about it

whilst I roll ten saving throws for these guys. Okay. Sure, okay. Do I need to count? Shut down their undead matrices. Shit, I shouldn't have said anything. Oh, God. Make a saving throw for me anyway.

No, but yeah. Make a saving throw for me. A wisdom. It's two fingers. Can you count for me? The arm tries to roll four. Roll four. Oh, no!

So have four fingers for me. It's like evil dead. I'm gonna do one. No! My arm is undead! That's what you were saying, right? I thought that's what you were saying. I thought you were just gonna for me. It's like evil dead. No! My arm is undead! That's what you were saying, right? I thought you were just going to do me. No, you're not undead, but your arm is. It's eight, yeah.

It's going to start rolling me. Oh god, that didn't roll. That wasn't a roll. That was a drop. Yeah, okay. I'm going to say this. You watch as Quill... What did you get? 1920, 21. You watch. Whatill... What did you get? 18. 19, 20, 21.

Okay. You watch. What does this look like when Quill does this? So I've got like a staff. Okay. People don't see this often. Where did that come from? Where's he been hiding that this whole time?

On my back or something. It's a winged Hesper sort of symbol on the top of the staff. And I literally just plant it into the ground in an orb of like purple light not purple that's star bainey yeah yours is normally white golden golden light uh emanates from that and then the incoming circle when it pounds back into the staff is when stuff starts tearing to shreds nice nice cool okay that dude's dead how many of these guys go Nice, cool. Okay, that dude's dead. How many of these guys go?

Please tell me all of them. One, two, three. Oh, he's a bit careful. Okay. Four. Doesn't even care. How many are in this pack? Not me. Wait, five?

Five, six, seven. Oh my god, this is awesome. I just killed eight people. And there's three left on Nova. As seven chunks of these feral guardians oh my god this is awesome i just killed eight people and there's three left on nova as seven like chunks of these feral guardians they're not destroyed like blown away like undead like if you use this on a skeleton it would turn into ash and just disintegrate it you just watch as their bodies just shut down and they just just fall flat perfect dead nova dead. Nova, you feel, as that golden energy passes over,

the hand is intense pain, and you have to, like, as you feel the hand wanting to crumble, and you're willing it to stay, like, no, no, no, no, no, and you manage to hold on, like, the willpower just keeps the energy bound to you, but, yeah, this thing would have hurt. Like, he could have just destroyed your arm. Is the arm lower than half CR? I mean, it's an arm.

It's undead. And yeah, one of the other ones is destroyed as well on the other pack, but only just because it just clipped the edge of its pack. Man, I don't know if you guys are counting, but eight. And an arm. Century, you are up hello hello I'm gonna just attack rook divine smite him he's double double black shields yes until the start of it yeah make it tricky queen to a well remember you divine

smite if you hit so you need to spend the spell slots until you hit 16 17 18 19 20 1 22 23 for the first one and 20 for the second one. Nope. So the shield spell kind of moves and encompasses all around him as your axe just passes over him, basically. Divine Smite's on hit, right? Yeah, you don't spend it until you hit.

Anything else? Can I cast Shield of Faith as a bonus action, please? You absolutely can. Gives you plus two to AC. Concentration, remember that. Cool. That's your, remember that. Cool. That's your go, done? Yep.

Rook's turn. He will... What's the range on this? You watch as he raises Her Majesty's Rose, this beautiful, well-created, perfectly preserved sword. He raises it and points it towards the Herald. My queen. You see it glow.

He casts Warding Bond on him and the Herald. What's that? I can't remember what that is. Oh, I read that before. And then he just basically returns to a kind of fighting position. Sounds good, though, doesn't it? With you guys. Oh, shit.

We just see a nice spell effect. Harold. You killed so many of my children. She's right there, Quill. Yeah, that was me. Whoopsie. It was him, not me. Oh, no. Yeah, that was me. Whoopsie. It was him, not me. Oh, no.

Oh, God. It's okay. If I make a melee attack... Rhiannon's face is just permanently... Yeah. I'm scared. I'm feeling very delicate right now, guys. Oh, shit. Where was she before? She was, like, at the top of the tower, yeah.

Why, what's happened? Oh no. What have you done? I'm gonna say, so... No, I'm not gonna say, because you destroy... Okay, I'm gonna change it because you did turn undead on these things. That's gonna be slightly different. Uh, she moves, looks down at Quill. Shield.

I mean, use the reaction if I hit you. Yeah. I mean... I'm absolutely using shield. Okay, well, let's see if I hit you Yeah I mean I'm absolutely using shield Let's see if I hit you first First attack, 19 I'll shield that So what does that bring your AC up to?

To 21 Shield holds against the second attack The scythe, she throws it down Catches back, spins it again. Bounces off the magical shield around you. End of her turn. I'm shitting myself, guys. Me too. Nova,

at the start of your turn, make a wisdom saving throw. Fuck my life! They're trying to. 15. 15. Not enough. Use your attack action to attack an enemy at range. You do have enemies within melee attack with you, so we'll basically weigh it up as 1, 2, 3.

I mean, Eldritch Blast is so far. My melee attack range is 5 foot 3. But you could still affect everyone with Eldritch Blast. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Oh, hang on. Yeah, 7. Yeah. And then 8. Okay, hang on. Yeah, seven. Yeah, and then eight. Okay, I'll roll a d8.

One, two, three, four, five, six. Rook. Eldritch Blast Rook. That'll be a... It's disadvantage you have an enemy next to you. I get much lower than two, except a one. Two plus eight is ten. Bounces off of his armor.

His shield's gone, by the way. Fifteen plus eight. Fifteen plus eight is the second beam. Fifteen plus eight. I mean, he does get his reaction back. I'll shield again. What a little nerd.

He had his turn, so... Max in chest piece, piece of shit. Yeah, he basically sees the bolt come in, and it's almost just like a self-preservation. He's just... And the beam bounces off the shield. So that's my... I can't do an action anymore.

You've got a move and a bonus action. Can I disengage? Is that... That's an action. An action. That's cool. Are bonus action. Can I disengage? Is that an action? That's cool. Herald is the top. Do a spell. Can I bonus action drink a potion of greater

healing? You absolutely can. Do I have that? Yeah, you've all got potions. You should do. Not everybody has a greater. I think some of us. If you've got d4, just roll 4d4 plus 4, because I can't find my d4s. Oh, there's one.

Quick question, Mark, while Kim is rolling. Can I see past this wall of fire? Vaguely, but it's obscured by the fire. Can I notice if there's any other hordes coming? Not as far as you can see immediately. 16. 16 HP. That's what you get back. That's your bonus action.

Can I do a reaction? To what? What are you reacting to? Can I, Mark, please, you're the best DM in the world I've heard. And I know for a fact. Just don't waste my time. Can I use my reaction

to chromatic control and absorb the fire? No, because the reaction is... When I see someone cast a spell. Yes, and this is an in-a-place effect. No, you would have had to have done this when it was cast. It's a really delayed reaction. Just like 10 minutes ago. Yeah.

And also remember that Chromatic Control changes the type of it. The alternator is what you can use to absorb it. It has to be acid or cold. Are you going to change it and then absorb it the next turn? The changing it is only for the round it's cast. I can't dodge or anything, can I? That's an action. That's why her aura is, like, really bad.

Yeah, I'm getting that. Yeah. It didn't specify it. Okay, well, we'll change that then. I'll make some clarifications that's on me But yeah, unfortunately, it's when the spell is cast I'll just be a sponge guys. I'll be a sponge. All right. Well, that's Nova's go Ayla It's a big swarm of her guardians there's rook next to you this old lady is causing problems

Why can I This Herald lady is causing problems. Why? Can I throw the Howling Tempest at the Herald? Are you in range? You can... I was trying to do Thunderstruck. 60 feet? She needs her actions. That's the problem.

That's still a spell. That's the problem with having a low wisdom. She's got all of Nova's insecurities, all of her doubts over Calus and everything that's happened. This Herald is bringing them all to bear, and you just can't control your mind. All the very fresh fuck-ups. Yep.

Can I... Yeah, I am in range. Tell us what it does. So I throw the hammer. Full style. Can I recklessly throw the hammer. Full style. Can I recklessly throw the hammer? Yeah, I think because basically the way it works,

you throw it, it turns into a bolt of lightning for the path, but there's nothing in the path. But then it hits her again. And then it turns back to a hammer and it hits back. So yeah, you make a reckless attack. Oh no, that was a four and a one. That was trash. Dang it. So 12 to hit.

12 is not enough. She's still... It's my 46 lightning, I think, or half lightning. Rihanna's just in a constant state of dread. It's all right, dude. We're fine. Half as much, so it takes 2d6 lightning. 2d6 lightning, sure.

Roll it. On a failed save. Just project and think about us dying. Just so you can prepare for it. Yeah, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 damage. Watch us slowly die in your mind. No, that's... That's not my aura.

It's okay. We're only dying during your storyline. Oh, well. Wow! So, okay. Ayla, you spin the Howling Tempest. No more.

You throw it. It launches in the air. She does deflect, but then it explodes with lightning around and then flies back to your hand. When you throw

the Howling Tempest, it erupts with a thunder, like a thunder boom as well, right? Does it? It's not a thing that it does. It's not a thing

that it doesn't act. So the hammer, like, cracks with lightning. No, it's only whoever's in the direct i'm just saying he would have used the noise as attracting more peeps that's a good thing no no as well i just closed the thunder spell it's the it's only the people in the line you might need it quill all right so you throw that that's your action to use isn't't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Anything else? Move. Not right now. No.

Okay, cool. Lucius, you hear the sounds of Max fighting. You hear kind of grunts and cries. You see a blinding flash come from the alleyway. Lucius, your turn. He's got that. He's fine. I'm going to cast at level four.

Three. Four! Fuck it, four. I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb Acid, level four. I'm going to use my sorcery points, my font of magic, to twin it. I'm going to hit her, and I'm going to hit the rook. Go for it. Let's see. So it's attack roll.

See if you hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So rook still has the shield spell active and she currently has 16. On which one is that again? Her. Miss. He has a spell up. He has shield. 25 AC at the moment. You send the bolts

flying out. Herald deftly in the air. Her wings are made of light so they don't flap and she just pivots and turns in the air as the bolt sails past. Rook just waits and it just bounces off the shield. This shield glowing with the colours of solvent just evaporates. Dicomancy still goes off though.

That was a 4th level spell, so that's 8 damage to Herald. So that's halved. Technically that damage would have been halved as well. Why is it halved? Because of the Warding Bond. So I've got an Elemental Adept that ignores resistances to acid. Then there you go.

Then it ignores that, so she'll still take that 8 from you. Also, I get natural 20s on dice rolls. I don't think you do. I think you're a liar. So the lightning attack, some sort of barrier protected her, but you see Rook take some of the damage when you struck with the lightning. So the bond between them, you can almost see

a faint chain binding them together. But then the acid completely ignores that, and also Rook would take that same eight points of damage as well. Because he takes the same damage that she does while it's active. If only any of them had hit. So bam, another kind of Dicromancy strike launches out.

The remaining Feral's go. Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom. Oh, lads on tour. That's all on me. I'm going to go. I'm going to do the attacks against Nova first. The three remaining little ferals are going to swipe at Nova. Now that they're reduced by half,

their attacks don't seem anywhere near as effective. That's cool. I've still got my shield. They do still have advantage whilst Nova's in there, though. So Nova, 20 to hit. Yep. 17 to hit. Yep.

18 to hit. Yep. So that's going to be So that's going to be That's going to be 3, 6, 9 It's just a masterclass in Rhiannon faces 9 points of slashing damage Do you have any concentration spells up at the moment? I haven't had a chance to do anything Come on!

Quill, 9 attacks All with advantage. Over 21, though. Dealing damage. Over 21. Yeah, we'll see. Do you think they're counting? 17.

No. Yeah, if you can count, that's one. Ching! That's 12. Ching! 24. Oh! Can you count the hits?

Right, we're going to have to do this because now you're going to have to make a concentration. No, shield's not concentration. What am I talking about? There's not many. Oh, but expeditious is. That's another one. Okay, we'll just do a bunch of them

because expeditious isn't going to change what's going to happen. So that's two. That is 23. God, dude. 22. Wait, are you counting hits? I'm counting hits overall. Oh, no, I'm counting attacks. I'm counting hits overall oh no I'm counting attacks

I'm counting attacks okay 22 uh huh right I think that was the fourth one I just did so how many is that? 6

so 3 more like 12 12 last one natural 20 oh oh 5 10 15 20 25 crit 30 30 points of damage 5, 10, 15, 20, 25

crit, 30, 30 points of damage and you need to make 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 concentration checks, at what level it'd be DC 10 for all of these so concentration constitution saving throws, yeah I lost it expeditious retreat joke goes, do I add anything?

like wisdom or anything? it's constitution saving throw, oh constitution save, anything? Like, where's the more I need to go? It's Constitution Saving Throw Oh, Constitution Save Oh, ten One, two, three, four, five Done Ah, that was really good That was really good rolls They were all above 15

I've got plus one Constitution as well I can roll that for healing now Yeah Some more good news. You hear like roars of flame. You hear cries as Dana the Durgar and Rama have been fighting. And then at

the end of their turn, they come running back. Please, help us! You see them glance around. Rama looks at Century and Ruki's like, I'll help them. You deal with that. And he points at the swarm of things. I'm not going near that.

The Rohirrim have arrived. She looks and there's an interesting look on her face. Oh no. Will, your turn. Fuck these guys. Fuck all of them. Oh, I see. I don't know what to do!

So do I have to do a disengage against every single one? Oh no, disengage is the entire turn. It's your whole action to do a disengage. Yeah.

But it's, uh, you know. But you do still have Expeditionist Retreat up so you can dash as a bonus action. So you can move 60 feet. The thing is,

Expeditionist doesn't let me disengage as a bonus. Nope. Because I'm wondering if I just destroy Undead while I'm inside them. Have you got another channel divinity? I do, yeah, I've got two. You've got two per day?

It would get rid of all of them. Potentially, yeah. Am I within her... if I run away, am I within her range? Actually, it's the beginning of your turn. Can you make a wisdom saving throw for me, please? Shit. This will very heavily determine the last one. A wisdom save. Wisdom save.

You're pretty good at these. Do the good one. No! I knew as soon as you said plus seven, natural one, I was like, I know it's going to be a natural one. Quill, you need to make a melee or ranged attack against a ranged enemy. I'll make a melee attack.

Well, what's your maximum range? Like five feet. Well, melee. No, what's your cantrip? Like well, man. I know what's your like your cantrip like 60 feet for sacred flame Yeah, yep, so that's pretty much everyone except Lucius I think It's everyone all right, we'll do right Nova one swarm to

Herald three this swarm forarm 4, Lucius 5, Aayla 6, Rook 7, Century 8. There's a lot more targets in the Swarm. It's still like a threat. I'm hitting like a magic. I'm treating them in their hit points and things like that as one creature. For the chance to hit.

It's still I'm treating it as one creature and so that's what I'm going to roll. Seven, I believe, is Rook. Perfect! This guy's gonna beat it! I was like, no six, no six, no six! Or the fucking worst would be Nova, like, hitting Nova with a Sacred Flame, like... Right now, yeah. Because Sacred Flame gives them advantage on another attack roll, like...

Uh... I think? Oh no, it removes their cover Removes their cover Okay so you just do a dex Definitely no buff Dex saving frame Fail Nice 2d8 damage

2d8 Radiant damage Does that help It does not help Okay 6 6 points But she takes that too right

Because she She doesn't No it only works one way It's when she takes damage He takes damage If he takes damage It doesn't affect her I'm sorry works one way. It's when she takes damage, he takes damage. If he takes damage, it doesn't affect her. I'm sorry. So any damage against her

appears to be halved. Unless it ignores resistance. And then it goes to him. So that's Quill's go. Done? You've got a move and a bonus action. The rest of my turn. Oh god, he took my action!

He did. The aura of madness. Hadar's madness. And if I move now, I'm getting hit by everything. Yeah, no. Oh, damn. Bonus action? You heal yourself or something? Uh, yeah. You know, cleric thing? I mean, yeah, I'll bonus action...

I don't want to do a spiritual weapon, you know? You could. You've only cast a cantrip, so you could bonus action a spiritual weapon. I'll do a level three healing word on... myself. Sure. Yeah.

Okay. All right, I'll let you roll that while I do centuries go. Hello. Hello. Hello. Ah! I'll let you roll that while I do Sentries go Hello Is his shield gone? It's not his go yet It goes at the start of his turn Which is after Sentries Just the fucking Shitty initiative order is really unfortunate

Yeah I'm loving this combat Can I just shove Rook out of the way? You can make a shove attack, actually. Yeah, you can. So to do that, you basically are going to try a shove maneuver, which I believe you make opposed strength checks. Yes. There is a thing.

I think it's just... Let me check, because there is actually a rule for like shove attacks And stuff like that Showing a creature Using the attack action Push it five feet or knock it prone Target must be no larger than you Make a strength athletics check

Opposed by the target's athletics or dexterity check So you make an athletics check I will also make an athletics check I've got 19 19 is that the total with the athletics It's athletics or dexterity check. So you make an athletics check. I also make an athletic 19 is that the total with the athletics? 22 I rolled a 19 plus 3 stop rolling So yeah, you go to shove him use your whole attack action to try and shove him But he just stands firm and the two shields of solving smash into each other you're kind of pressing against each other and there's a moment there's a moment right where you're pushing against it you lean in and the kind of awkward head it's kind of not even really looking at you and then you just

one eye seems to kind of like flicker with a bit of color and you just hear like century kill me Kill me. Oh god! Oh god! You have a move and a bonus action. Oh no. You could just move past him but he'll get an attack of opportunity. Yeah. Ugh, fuck. Another pillar for the shit cake. Yeah. I'm just gonna... Layer, layer, layer. I'm just gonna try and move past

him. Sure. Can I try and assist in some way to help her get to Quill? Because I'm... That would be on your turn, unfortunately, I'd say. You could spend your turn trying to shove him or pull him or grapple him, but that's going to be your turn. Unfortunately, in initiative, it's got to do things in a certain order. So, yeah, you'd have to basically run around him or jump over here, basically. Or jump over the fence.

That's 10 feet to move there. 5, 10, 15. He gets a the fence. That's ten feet to move there. Yeah. Five, ten, fifteen. Yeah. He gets a free attack. Go for it. With Her Majesty's Rose. Natural fucking 20. Oh!

I'm going to put this dice here, and I'm not going to use it anymore. This is my little pony dice! It is my little pony dice. It is! It's fucking glaring! This is quite a lot of damage. As Her Majesty his rose hits you The blade

Mithril thorns Appear on the blade and tear at your flesh As it hits This is going to be 8 Wait wait wait He used shield right He did

So that doesn't Isn't that a reaction That's his reaction He can't make an attack't that a reaction? That's his reaction. Oh, he can't make an attack opportunity. What a broken D player. Yes! I had shield before!

I had shield before! Yeah, no, absolutely, he doesn't get the attack, so that's why he's gone. Oh, thank God.

Fuck. I'm giving my dice back. No, I don't have it anymore. Give it to Rhiannon. You're not having it back. No, you said you're not using it anymore.

You just rolled like three nat 20s. I rolled it twice and got another nat 20. Like, that dice is broken. All right. It's fucked. We're not using it. We're not using it anymore! You just rolled like three nat 20s! I rolled it twice and got another nat 20. Like that dice is broken. It's fucked. We're not using it. We're not using it. I'm confiscating it. It's too good. It's not a DM. Like how I'm gonna confiscate Tom's shit. So you move over, but that's your turn. I was like, shield! There was something about shield!

So no, no, you're right, because now it's his go, the shield goes, but he gets his reaction back. Chat must have been going It meant I feel like that was turns around Ayla, no, you see him point the her Majesty's rose in a direct line between century quill this thing Assistant I'm magic resistance. You have resistance against all spells. You get a grain of the same throws. Quill will get this benefit as well.

Does he make a roll? This is a dexterity saving throw for all of you guys. It's a lightning bolt. I can't pause anything. So Sentry, Quill, Nova, and the two swarms are going to make dexterity saving throws. Can I get advantage of Expeditious Retreat? Nope.

Damn it. But Sentry gives you resistance to all damage from spells while you're within 10 feet of her. Can we redo this session? Yeah. No. Right. The swarm around Nova saves for half.

The other one fails. Quill, dex saving throw. I got a 17 on my roll and my decks. I'm not sure what century it is. You get a plus two from century. 19. 19. Nova.

Eight. Eight. 13. 13. Century and Quill, you're going to take half damage already, so it's going to be halved again because of Century's ward. Oh, wow. She halves all spell damage around her, basically.

Holy shit. Yeah, paladin of the ancients, man. Really strong. Why the swarms? Unfortunately, I think it's only allies, right? Yeah. So the swarm still takes full damage. Nova, you are taking full damage from this. Rip.

8d6. 8d6. Fuck. Okay. I rolled pretty bad. It's okay. That sounds more than it is. I. Okay. 48 potential. 52. I rolled pretty bad. It's okay.

That sounds more than it is. I'm all right. How much health do you have? 20. 33. 33. Well, you take 24 lightning damage as this lightning bolt streaks through. Quill and Sentry, you take six lightning damage each.

Okay. The swarm around Quill takes 24. How many does that boop? 24 would destroy two of them. How about me? Does it destroy any of Nova's dudes? Hang on, I'm just going to work something out. Around Nova's one, they would take 12, which would kill one. Blech.

Okay. This lightning bolt from Rook just barrels through all of you. So there's still two guys on Nova. Like a million on me and Sentry now. And Rook is the end of the turn, and we go to turn four. Which is the Herald. Heralds go. Yes! Yes.

Come. Come. Feed me. Die for me. I need everybody around her within 120 feet actually. That's everyone. That's everyone. To make a wisdom saving throw.

Six. make a wisdom saving throw. Bum, bum, bum, bum. Bum, bum, bum, bum. Six. She's not wise, guys. Remember, if you're around sentry, so coil, you get a plus two to this. Yes, plus two.

Right, Ayla. Six. 21. 19. On that 20, 22. 22. 23. 23. 23.

Everybody but Ayla. What about these two? What about Dana and Jeff? They will need to make a check. Oh, fuck. Ram. Yep. Dana passes.

Ramma passes. Okay. And in fact, she... Yes, Dana's got enough of a bonus to that. Rook is immune. Everybody but Ayla. You succeed against this, and you can't be affected by this ability again.

You can still be affected by her aura, but not this ability. Aayla, you suddenly look up and you see this angelic figure and she is golden and radiant. You see her as this, such a form of captivating,

not beauty, but awe. Your speed is zero and you are charmed by her, which means you cannot target her with any attacks. Can I target anyone else, though? You can target other creatures, but not her. Wild elf, can she be charmed? Oh, yeah, shit. Spells.

I think you have advantage. Oh, I have advantage. See what you get. Sleep you're immune to. You're still affected. So you just look up and you're just so stunned by her, you can't move. You can still attack Rook, but you cannot immune to. You're still affected. So you just look up and you're just so stunned by her you can't move. You can still attack Rook but you cannot attack her.

Obviously very good that you all saved against it. My speed's zero. And you can repeat this saving through at the end of your turn. Okay. If you take damage you can repeat the saving through. Okay. That is Herald's go because that is her action to do.

Nova, at the start of your turn, wisdom saving throw. Seven. God damn it! What's that wisdom saving throw on Nova, by the way? Plus two. Plus two. Man, that's real unlucky. I'm loving life.

One, two, three, four for Quill, five for Century, six for Lucius, seven for Aayla, eight for Rook. And is it 120 on thingy? Nine for Dana, ten for Rama. Okay. Seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven for Dana. You have it. All right.

Oh, my help. Two Eldritch Blasts. Disadvantage as you are in a swarm. Okay, so first one. I'm also going to give Ayla plus 2 cover because there's the fence and the swarm. 11. So 11 to hit.

12, 13, 14. Sorry, 12. 12 plus 8 is 20. Is that hit? Yep. With a plus 2 as well, yeah, because it's 18 to plus 18. My 8 is 20. Does that hit? Yep. With the plus 2 as well, yeah, because it's 18 to plus 18. My AC is 18. So it'd go plus 2, so it still hits, yeah.

Six points of damage. Six points of damage. I'm not proud of it, though. No, you make the same throw. With advantage. Oh, with advantage, yeah. Yeah, because it's a charm effect. So 16 is 17.

17, just enough to get out of it. Woo! Nice! I actually helped. Thank you, Nova! The blast kind of like, brr, stuns you.

You still, because you don't half it because it's force damage. No, I know. And you're just like, brr, and then you see the chaotic mess and you see the herald

for what she really is as you look up. That bitch. No, but you have a move and a bonus action. Move and a bonus. Well, I can't move. You can.

You could disengage, couldn't you? No, because the action is disengage. You guys haven't cast anything that's loud enough yet. Okay. Can I chuck my... The lightning bolt. It doesn't...

It's pretty thunder, yeah. Cool. Can I... Well, I can't move, can I? Because I would incur their wrath. Yeah, you could. I have nine points of health, Mark. Let's not.

And then that's a risk or reward. But I would like to drink my last greater healing potion. You have two greater healing potions? Yes. I thought you only had one. I think we all had more. As long as they're marked off. I don't have one, so.

Because I know that you had a regular, but you used it last time. I don't think you marked it off. I had two this time. Okay. And you're out of potions now, I think. Yeah. All right. And you've got one greater healing?

Yes. I gave a potion to Sentry, but I marked it off. Yeah. So you've got one greater healing? Yes, I gave a potion to Sentry, but I marked it off. You should have one. I think Lucius has one. I gave Sentry my greater healing. I've got one regular. Again, if it's not on Sentry's inventory... No, no, no. I mean, I...

It's a plus four, right? 4d4 plus four. So that's 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Another 16. I think you did. 4d4 plus 4. So that's 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Another 16. I think. Did I? I'm sure I did. Yeah, I think you did.

I remember you doing it. So you sup a potion as you continue to be surrounded. There's only two of them now. They're kind of just flanking you, trying to swipe at you and stuff. What I really wanted to do, Mark, all this time was fire off a dimension door and GTFO down the bottom of the field. I know. I know you do.

Fine. I'm taking all the damage, so you guys don't have to. Ayla. Thank you. I mean... I will attack shit-faced McGee. Yeah, Rook is definitely... You can clearly see that he obviously has some skill in magic and is also pretty good at fighting.

He's clad in armour. He's not... You should take care of him. Yeah, I'm going to attack him recklessly yes yes oh that was shit so 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 for one and you could do it again it's so bullshit but i i think he would would This is what he's designed to do He's a protector He's literally designed to protect himself That's a very rook bullshit move

He cast shield Okay so 6 lightning damage Make your save against that I'm sorry I know that's really annoying 19 plus 1 I can do shit all in this I mean to be fair He's a tanky little nerd

He's designed to take on people like you this. I mean, to be fair, he's a tanky little nerd. And it's also, it's that thing of like, he's designed to take on people like you. Things like spells would be fucking him up a lot more. But, it's just tactics. It's the way things go. It's Tic Tacs. More good news though, at the end of his turn, Max the Dream

Burst! Damn, look at that guy! You can see he has definitely been beaten up a little bit. He's taken significant damage. Kind of similar to Nova. It looks like he's been swarmed. Parts of his armor have been pulled off, deep cuts and scratches.

But he wades through the greatsword over his shoulder, raising a fist. Has he used my little elemental yet? He hasn't, not yet. I just got to cry when I see him. What a beautiful man. But that's at the end of his turn. Lucius.

I'm going to Chromatic Orb at third level on Shitface McGee. Top tier cake. Oh, you're not charmed yet. You can attack, so make an attack. Spell attack. Shall I just leave? Do you have advantage? Why would I?

No. Okay, so what, miss? I'll just keep missing. You have spells that don't require attack rolls, I believe. I know, but I want to kill her. Yeah, no, absolutely. I get it. Cool.

So just a miss on that. She just weaves to the side as the orb flails through the air. Don't use that dice. How about that? I'm going to put this away. It's a nice high roll of gemstone dice. You're supposed to be counting it now, fine. Move or bonus action, Lucius?

You've been kind of left alone at the back of this field. He's exactly where he needs to be. I'm trying to get that far as well. Alright. Nova, two attacks by the swarm against you. Oh, fucking me. Just two. 21. Yep. Okay. They don't have a... Oh, fucking A. Just two. 21. Yep. Okay.

They don't have a... Well, they technically do have advantage. So, 16. No. All right, so one hit. That's going to be three points of slashing damage. Just but a scratch. As they do.

They're just basically these two... They're not particularly strong, but in numbers, they just swarm you, basically. Quill. Here we go. So I believe there is eight of them. Yeah, I'm going to shield. Even before, I might not hit you all of them.

So the first one is a 13 to hit. Nope. The second one is a nine to hit. Nope. The second one is a 9 to hit. That's why I'm saying don't cast shield until it hits you. If I don't hit you, you don't spend the spell slot. Right. 16 to hit.

Yes. Yep. Do you want to shield? This is where the order of these attacks comes in, man. Because it's a reaction to being hit by an attack No, I won't shield that one Okay, so one goes through Next one is 24 Yeah, I'm shielding

Okay, so But does the shield boost your AC to what? 21 So that still hits you Yeah, I'm not shielding then Okay, you don't shield The shield's coming up and down and up and down, but I'm not quite sure yet.

17. Yeah. Do you shield? How many's left? Three more attacks. Yeah. You do shield? Yeah, I'm shielding.

If I want anything beyond this, I'm going to go down. Natural 20. 25. Yeah, dude, I'm down. Well, we'll see. We'll see. 18 plus a 23. Again, that hits. Natural 20. 25. Yeah, dude, I'm down. Well, we'll see. We'll see. 18 plus E, 23. Again, that hits.

Natural 20 again. Oh, I'm absolutely down. Oh my god, that's so bad. So that's 5, 10, 20, 25, 35 points of damage. I'm down. All right. Make a constitution saving throw. Amongst the swarm.

The attack that takes you down is only a 10 damage, so the DC is only 10. I have to ask, Mark. Yeah. Are these individual attacks? They are all individual attacks, yes. Do we need to work out at what point I go down? Yes. Because then the moment after that would be death saves, right?

Yes. When did you do that? Oh, my God. So you would have gone 5, 10, 20. I'm down. And then he takes the other three. Oh, no. So he, that's...

It's a swarm. They're not intelligent enough to hit you while you're down. Yeah, because that's the thing. The attacks I'm going to put on Sentry. Do it. So that's three attacks. These things aren't intelligent. They wouldn't go like, oh, threat. They're just trying to decimate the fear.

Because when we've done it before, it's been intelligent enemies. That would have been six. Death fails even. But as you reach zero, you see the Herald reaches out. Yes, life, give it to me. And a part of something from Quill is pulled from his body and you see her form crackle with red energy as he is reduced to zero next to her.

Every fucking Hadar thing we go against kills me. And yet you tell me that Starbane's okay. Man, he's not. Century, hang on, let me do it. Hadar's not a threat. kill against kills me and yet you tell me that Starbane's okay Can I quickly just do my concentration for my Shield of Faith because I forgot to do it while Rook was doing the lightning so you only took six it's DC 10 okay so it's constitution saving throw seven seven plus constitution saving throw that's con is that's 11. that's a pass it's only a DC 10. So the first attack against you is... These won't have advantage because you're not in the swarm yet. Is a 20 to hit?

22 currently. 22, misses. Oh my god! Are you using this thing? This is a dice Nightjar bought me and it has rolled badly before. Nightjar! Thanks. Sorry, you take 5 points of damage.

Cool. You've rolled so many natural 20s this session I know, I'm sorry I'm sorry You've got to pass I need to do an injury check You do, DC 10 10 what, like 10? I mean DC 10

4, plus constitution 5 So now the next one is now the injury, right? Yeah, well in fact I mean, DC 10. Four. All right, plus constitution. Plus pun, yeah. Five. Okay. So now the next one is now the injury, right? Yeah. In fact, we've got 15 minutes before we take a break, so I'm just going to roll this roll.

Roll a d20. Oh, you're fucking kidding me. A one. Natural one. I'm taking the worst injury. Would you like to portents your injury roll? Yes. You're going to put it to a five, though, right? That's better than a one!

Better than a one, Quill! Yeah, yeah, yeah. If I'm getting my portent back from that city. Well, Google Docs isn't letting me load the injury table right now. But one is the worst you can get, right? Yeah, you can port... I'll let you portents it. Okay, I mean...

I will portent it. As an FYI... He's staying to do it. As an FYI, I'm getting the portent back that shouldn't have failed last time round. Okay. But I mean I'm using it in a better place I think. So Quill is, and the thing is for the rest of you

by the way, this is horrific because you just see Quill dragged beneath the bodies of these guardians. His little feathers, like his arm kind of reaching out and then they just swarm over him towards sentry um so you don't actually see what happens to me 5 10 15 20 25 30 dana this dergal looks towards sentry um and looks over at maximilian and she looks at Maximilian, and she looks at Maximilian, and she's like, I can do something about them,

but it's going to... Your vows, Max. And he's just like, don't harm them. I gave them my word. You will obey me on this, Dana. And she's looking like... And she just says, if they come at me, I'm defending myself. And then she's going to cast a spell at Harold.

Cool. Maximilian, what an MVP. She will she's going to have to use her cantrips at this point because she's pretty bad. You watch as she summons a firebolt and launches it towards Herald. You need to what? Pee?

I need a real nervous wee. Yeah, so do I. That is going to be 18. Man, the firebolt So do I. That is going to be... I'm going to be sick. Shaggy toilets in a bit. 18. Man, the firebolt screams up towards her, but whatever bond is between her and Rook just gives her enough of a deflection that the firebolt bounces off of her.

So it doesn't do anything to him then? No, miss. No, no. She gets plus one AC while this spell's in effect. Quill. Saving throw time, mate, I'm afraid. Yeah. Five. That's one fail. That's one failure.

Sentry. I'm just going to wail at this group of butts. Yeah, the swarms. Yeah. So I'm going to make two attacks. Oh, fucking hell. One on one, nine on the other add it up the swarms aren't

particularly hard to hit so I've got eight for the first one that's going to be a miss unfortunately but the nine will probably hit sixteen on the second one that's a hit

yep do you want a divine smite yeah I'll divine smite that one this does get extra bonus from them being unbid nice nice nice so 3d8 3d8

plus your normal weapon damage cool so that's 3d8 plus another d8 is that applied to the swarm as a whole? It's a 4d8. Yes, basically all of their hit points are pulled,

and then when you do 11 hit points, it knocks off one of them, which means they get reduced attacks and stuff. 20 damage. 20 points of damage, okay. How many does that knock off? Just one dude? 20 points would be only one, but it heavily injures another one as well. I guess every 12 is a person. Yeah, so you turn... So there should actually be only six of them remaining now.

So one, two, three, four, five, six, yeah, that's right. So there's only six of them left. Okay. They're not technically up to me, but... Well, the herald is. So you slam into one, the bright light of your Divine Smite eradicates one of these creatures and the rest begin swarming towards you. Anything else you'd like to do, but... Well, the Herald is. So you slam into one. The bright light of your Divine Smite eradicates one of these creatures and the rest begin swarming towards you. Anything else you'd like to do, Century? Oh, I can't do anything else. Okay. Rook's turn.

Rook will turn towards Aayla. You see him. His sword becomes coated in a booming energy and he is going to use the Booming Blade cantrip against you. What's that? He has advantage because you Reckless. Boom! That was only a

16 to hit. So you clash with the hammer as it bounces off, but he does have his reaction back. Now, top of the round. Herald. She will look down at Sentry. Yes.

Successor, if I kill you, maybe, maybe finally this can end. She's going to throw a scythe at you twice. Cool. She has advantage on these attacks. Do I need to make a concentration save for my shield? You took damage. Yeah.

Yes, you will. Pass. Cool. That is only an 18 to hit you on the first one. That doesn't hit. And that is only an 18 to hit you on the first one. And that is only a 16 to hit you on the second one. The scythe comes bouncing off. Nova. Mark.

Make a saving throw at the beginning of your turn. Do I get a fun coin? I forgot that Century would have had to have made it at the start of her turn. Do I get a fun coin? Because I failed so many of these saving throws. Sure, you can have advantage. Remind me what the fun coin does. Advantage.

It's inspiration. It's basically inspiration. We haven't used this rule in a long time. Because no one's failed this badly. No, yeah, this sucks. This is a lot of failure. I feel like Lucius has probably owed one at this point as well. 18 plus 2, which is a 20!

Yes! Do! Yes! Do some damage! He has an action! Thunderstep? No, I don't have Thunderstep. Oh, Dimension Door. No. No, I'm not going to do what I said I was going to do. Well, I'm going to Dimension Door but this is going to hurt me probably.

I want to go to Quill, grab Quill, and Dimension Door away. So that's going to be one set of opportunity attacks as you leave. So I'm going to leave this. Do you have enough? So two attacks. 18 to

hit on the first one. I'm going to say that the creature can make two. This would have been these guys, so you're not within three feet. And then 20 on the next one so you're going to take their all now so that's 6 points of damage you run in

you don't take more attacks running into the swarm you grab Quall's body and then you can dimension door I want to dimension door I guess like as far without being dangerously away you guys move yourself where you need to. Probably like here.

When you get behind you, Dana looks round the Durgar, this kind of dark-skinned dwarf with long orange flame orange hair. She's like, Good move, Ganassi! Now I've got an opening. And you can see her, and she begins charging a very powerful

looking spell. You can see her and she begins charging a very powerful looking spell you can see her like this kind of swirling prismatic energy coalesces around her hands holy shit um spooky i can't use a cantrip or anything can i you've used your action to cast dimension door so move action you have a bonus action left but i uh the only other other thing, can I do a check on Quill? Or is that an action? Yeah, medicine check is an action. Doesn't matter. I'm in love with you right now.

It's because you said you thought of me as a sister, Quill. Ship it. I'm so happy. Can I see if I can shove Rook out the way so that I can run past him without getting an attack. Yeah, absolutely. So you make an athletics, yeah.

This is your action, though. You can't make any attacks off him. This replaces your attack. Just shove him. Or knock him prone, basically. You can shove him or knock him prone. Does he have his shield up still? He doesn't have his shield up currently,

but he could activate it if you try and hit him because it's a reaction on his turn. And he has his reaction still. Or you could just tank the fucking hit. What? You could just run past him and take an attack of opportunity. You're a fucking barb. You could probably take it.

I mean, you look and there is a big giant knight in black armor coming up behind you as well. I'll run to the side sentry. Alright, so he'll get a free attack, which is only a three plus six,

nine to hit you. So I would like to whip through the air. Also, he's lost his reaction. Yeah, he has, yeah.

Skelly bobs with that's caught. Is this reckless? Oh, that's an at 20. No, no, no,

no. So one's a normal attack. So eight, nine, 10, 14 on the first one. Both hits. And one's an at 20. All right, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. Fourteen on the first one. Both hits. And one's an at twenty. Right, so the crit, let's work out the crit first.

What's your normal damage? Uh, d10 plus five, so that's fifteen. Well, it's seven because you're raging. So it's seventeen. So it's seventeen plus another d10 for the crit. Plus eight. Twenty-five. Dude, that's two of them at least.

Yep, that's two of them at least. Yeah, that's two of them. And then another hit, which is four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11 damage. That's literally another one as well. Bam. Three more remain. So they've got about 40. This is the other swarm there. Two more of them.

So, Ben, you come swinging in these big, wide, sweeping hits. Wham! One feral guardian goes miles. Bam! The other one goes thrown against the building, smashing into the column. As the barbarian comes swinging in, crackling with lightning. Deck save? Oh, yeah.

Fail. Ooh. Not enough to kill, but enough to blast them with a bunch of lightning as well as they stumble back. I'm out of practice Maximilian I love that What a cool name I'm going to use

My eye on him To find out how I can Spend the rest of my life With him Maximilian Taldros Comes in How could I beat Your cream burp

He comes storming up And it's just like If you serve Hadar You are my enemy When he brings The greatsword down in a sweeping blow. I should have known. As a bonus action, he's going to cast Blinding Sunlight on himself as he moves up.

I'm more of a kind of rook guy. Two greatsword attacks. Kill me, kill me. Unfortunately, the first one, rook parries. And then the second one, rook parries again. Just bouncing. What? You're a nerd. Rook parries. Ting! And then the second one, Rook parries again. Just... What? What?

You're a nerd. He's basically sentry. He's the same AC as sentry. They're basically built to do a similar thing, except he's an... Oh, he's so annoying. He's a wizard. He's just all armor. Yeah, he basically is.

He's all armor and then a bit of magic, basically. And a tiny little rose sword. But him and Maximilian are now clashing together, their blades kind of smashing against each other. After Max, Lucius. Okay, so I'm going to sacrifice a third-level spell so I can gain five sorcery points. Okay, so that's your bonus action. And then I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb.

Because I'm in Maxing. Okay. And I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb once again for my final third spell slot. Are you going to twin it or are you just going to... No. Okay. Because I've already used my bonus action. Well, I could twin it.

You could. Separately, but I'm not doing that. Okay. I'm prepping to do something else. Anyway. Chromatic Orb. See if you hit. Use these.

Use anything except your... Woo! Oh, my god! Next roll you can have advantage. 100%. Thank you. I've missed like three or four now. You've missed like five. You haven't asked me for it, man.

But Dicromancy. Yeah, so that would be seven points to her, please. Which then does more damage to him. It does, yeah. He takes the same amount of damage. I forgot that last time. It is when I just cast it.

Yeah, it's when you cast a first level spell or higher. You see that the energy, the red crackling energy around her does begin to fade as you kind of strike into it. It seems to be giving her some sort of temporary hit points. But yeah, the energy smashes in and bounces off that and then Rook also begins to glitch out as he takes more damage

as well. Now that Nova can see me, what injury did I take? I can't load the thing. On the break, I'm going to try and load it. The Wi-Fi hacked Google Docs. I can't remember what 5 is. It's just all bad. At least it wasn't 1. No, that's true.

Feral's surround Aayla and Sentry. They are going to... You didn't Reckless, did you? Nope. They will target probably Aayla because they see Sentry as another guardian, I think. So they're going to target all of the attacks on you. They do get advantage because they're in your space.

17? No. Okay. 20? Yes. Okay. 20? Yes. And they are under half, so 19. Yes. You take six, but it's three each, half to one,

so you take two points of damage. Lol. It's almost like these were designed for Ayla to be really good against. And Nola to be terrible against. Exactly. So they begin staring at you. Sorry, guys. You don't even feel it. I'm out of practice. I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing anymore. No, So they begin staring at you. Sorry, guys. You don't even feel it.

I'm out of practice. I'm like, I don't know what I'm doing anymore. No, no, no. It wasn't anything to do. It was just where people moved to. It was bad luck.

Yeah. Also, Rook is just not... He was scaring me, honestly. We should. That's the thing. I could have done it against Rook. Two more against Dayla.

I couldn't fire any spells off. 17? Nope. 23. Yep. Three more points half to 1 I'm going to merge their hit points now I'm just going to merge their 2 hit points what's sticking them down amazing

ok so that swarm is now 5 little nerds What's sticking them down? Blue tech. Um. Amazing. Okay, so that swarm is now five little nerds. Yeah. Then there's Rook, who's a shield nerd, and then the Herald is actually... Right. However... The biggest nerd. Dana...

Sorry. Sorry, dude. Oh, Dana, what are you doing? They moved on to me! I was at the edge! They moved on to me! What are you doing, Dana? They would have moved on to Sentry anyway, at the edge, they moved on to me! What are you doing, Dana? They would have moved on to Sentry anyway, regardless.

Remember the Viar, Dana. She's not Max. She's not Max. She ain't Max. She's mid. This girl ain't Max. What's she doing? Who's she killing? She turns around. Everyone. Quill!

Don't fucking take me with you, nerd. So many nerds in this fight. Why am I going to do this? Am I really going to do this? Just fucking do it. The herald is there. That's the problem. I mean, yeah. Dude, if it hits the most enemies.

And she's been charging this spell. And you see her. She looks at Sentry, doesn't really care. She looks at Aayla and there's this almost look of like sorry kid as you watch as she brings her hands to bear and a 60 foot cone of

shifting colorful magic holy like the bifrost from thor this kind of swirling storm of different colors i need to get the whole party right it's a dex save.

Holy shit. Prismatic Ray. The party will remember this. Prismatic Ray. I will remember this. She can say sorry. And you see Max like Jana, no! She... I need...

I'm mysterious. Yeah, this might not help it won't help right so it's a dex saving throw you get a plus two to this Aayla and you will half any damage if

damage is involved I do get advantage because of danger sense you do so advantage on the saving throw you make a dex saving throw I'm not going to

fucking roll this one they're dead I will roll for the thingy it's not great for the swarm. They're dead. I will roll for the thingy. It's not great. For the herald. Herald passes. 23.

Pass. 10. 10. With your bonuses? Your plus two and your... Ava? 12. Okay.

Oh, my God. What? Okay. Sentry. I will remember you. As this form swirls past you, Herald. As this swirling storm of magic, you see a ray of blue hits the Herald,

and you see this powerful cold begin to form over her body. Century, you see this green wave passes over you, and your body is filled with toxins and poison as it washes over you. Ayla, you are hit by a ray of indigo. You succeeded on your save, though, didn't you? You passed the thing. Okay. You manage to throw yourself to the side

before this thing fully strikes you. The feral guardians that the indigo ray hits begin turning to stone. And they fall down. Is the ray hitting sentry acidic? It is not. It's cold damage. No, no, no. Sentry. Green. Oh, that's poison.

I can't absorb any of these. Sentry. Yeah, but I don't want to hit the Herald. Oh no, Sentry. How much health do you have, Sentry? You don't have any resistance to poison or anything, do you? 33. She has resistance to all spells.

You're taking half of this. Oh yeah. So you have resistance to all spells. Thanks to Oath of the Ancients. That's a nice oath. 15. Do I get resistance to that one beside her? Did you say that's Quill?

You don't take anything. I don't take anything? No. You've missed it. You're out. You're fine. I thought I'd still take half, though. 32 poison damage, half to 16. Because of your Oath of the Ancients. Now I

roll damage for the Herald. Oh, shit shit and that's going to damage him too. Yeah this is why Dana was like I've got to take the shot man.

Yeah it was a good shot. We got lucky with that resistance. We got lucky with that. We got lucky with this.

We'll not be in here. 35 cold damage halved because she did succeed on a save to 15 17 which completely annihilates the protective layer around her. And you watch as Rook is nearly,

you see like the same frost and cold around her is building up on Rook's body. And he's at nearly breaking point. You can see him shuddering and stuttering on the verge of death. And then Dana kind of stands back as this prismatic spray is erupted. Quill, I need you to make a death saving throw, my friend. Ooh, okay. And I know it's break time,

but I want to kind of get through this round. So it can't be a one. Oh, my God, thanks. It's a pass. Don't say these things. It can't be a one. It was an 11. Remember, you've got to use your portent

before you roll on your stuff. No, I've used all my portent. I'm saying if it's a one, it would be two death saves. Yeah, you'd be dead. All right, so it was a pass. Okay, you've got to use your portent before you roll on your star. No, I've used all my portent. I'm saying if it's a 1, it would be 2 death saves. Yeah, you'd be dead. All right. So it was a pass. Okay, I'm still up. Say true.

Hello. It's your turn. Yeah, that swarm is annihilated. Like, all these different hues and colours hit them. Some turn to stone. Some of them are blasted by ice and fire. One of them just blinks out of existence. Wow.

Nice. Don't want that. It's just teleported. It's our colour, isn't it? It's of existence. Wow. Don't want that, Ray. It's just teleport. It's our colour, isn't it? It's all the different elements. What colour is that? It was a violet ray. As a point, you roll a d8 to see what colour you're hit by. If you roll an 8, you get hit

by two of them. And it's 10d6 for the elemental damage. One of them, basically, you start turning to stone. The other one is you are blinded and then you make another save. If you fail that save, you're teleported to another plane of existence.

It's not like you come back in a minute. No, you're gone. That's a brass spell. Imagine if that had hit and herald. Imagine if you'd fought those two. Right. Thank you. Can I... Herald is flying above you.

She's like, no, no. If I climb up on that pillar, will I be level with her to make melee attacks? Yeah. Can I do that? Yeah. Make an athletics check for me as part of your movement. Six.

Ten. Ten. Can. Ten. Can I cheer her on and go, yeah, Cedric, go! Does that give her any boost? Can you yeet her up? You got it! Can I yeet her up the pillar? How much, what HP are you on?

Uh, 17. 17. You're gonna take four points of damage as you're kind of having to bed yourself in, but I'm gonna let you climb up to the top of the pillar. Can I yeet her? Yeah, you do. You yeet her. She has a heel. Yes!

She smashes against the stone as you do so. Nice. Sorry! You climb up to the top, pull yourself up, and you meet Herald eye to eye now as she's kind of hovering this like 20 feet above you kind of thing. Nice, nice, nice. What do you do? Attack? I'm going to attack her, yeah.

Okay, two attacks. Two attacks. Do it! Nat 20 on one, 17 on the other. There it is! I'm assuming you want to Divine Smite that Nat 20. Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah 17 on the other. There it is. I'm assuming you want to Divine Smite that Nat 20. There it is. She's not undead.

So, right, we're going to work this out. What's your normal damage? My normal damage is 1d8 plus 4. Right, so you're going to do 8 plus 4 is 12. Roll another d8 for your weapon. That's 7 plus 4. 19. So the 2d8 for Divine Smite would do another 16.

So that's 27, 30, 33? 35. Sure, I'm going to take your math on it. 35. Now roll another 2d8. Fuck me. 7 in total. 42. 42 points of damage. Does Rook take that? She's still resistant because of the warding bond So she takes 21 However Rook

Century you kind of feel the power of this attack Flow through you The axe collides in and you channel everything from your matrix Every sense of protective feeling all the all the memories of solvent just flow through into your arm as the axe connects and it breaks whatever barrier was between her and rook and she shrieks howling in pain and for a moment you see the vulnerable guardian this desperate plea that she doesn't want doesn't want this. That she knows

that what she's done is wrong. As the bite blazes through you feel the kind of thing and then you just look over and you see Rook just collapse to one knee he like looks up at you holds the sword salutes

and falls down. Rook down. Rook down. Just one enemy left. It's the Herald. The only person who's near enough to hear what he says is Maximilian. He says something as he falls, but you don't hear it. Rook dies. And I'm too down to hear it.

And with that, we're at the start of a new round and I think we need a break. We need a break. There's one enemy left. You need a break. We're going to take a break. We're going to be back in like five minutes. See you in a bit. Go take a break. Thank you.