High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #61 | Hot Under the Collar (Part 1)

Episode Date: February 24, 2020

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Shop everything you need for back to school at IKEA today. Hello everyone, welcome back to High Rollers, a Dungeons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois, run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes, with me, Tom, playing Keelak Adkalad, Cleric Wizard. I am Chris Trott. I'm playing Lucius Viren, Elowin Elanastro. And I am a High Elf Sorcerer. Hi, I'm Rhiannon. I'm playing Sentry. I am a Guardian Paladin. Hi, I'm Katie. I'm playing Ayla, a Wild Elf Barbarian.

And I'm Kim. I'm playing Nova, who is an Air Ganassi, and she is a Hexblade Warlock. Thanks to our regular sponsor, D&D Beyond, 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 High Rollers, the Erois campaign. A little recap for those of you at home who are just joining us or haven't been able to watch live for the last couple of weeks. Over the last several weeks, the party have been looking to help Sentry, our guardian paladin, as she faces her last few months of life and the

magic that keeps her sentience begins to fade. Called by a mysterious power, ever since you began your journey, you've been seeking the prime, a guardian being that is connected to the lifespan and may hold the key to keeping Sentry alive. You first traveled to the ruins of Kamina City, known as the City of Glass, the site of a terrible magic weapon used in the war between Erois and Kallus Starbane., you found that hundreds of guardians had been called by a figure called Herald, a guardian whose duty it was to await the Prime's successor, and led them, all of these guardians, to it in the City of Glass.

Herald, in a desperate bid to keep herself alive, had begun feeding off the magical energy of these guardians, turning them into feral monstrosities under her control. This process has caused her to become corrupted by the being known as Hadar, the Crimson Star. However, the party, along with some unlikely allies, managed to defeat Herald, and with the help of Lucius and Sentry,

restored her memories and the last vestiges of good that had been locked away in her companion Echo. Harold was committed to ending her own life in guilt of what she had done, but Century convinced her otherwise and to help her instead. With Harold leading the way, the party have arrived at the edge of the Hawksdawn Archipelago, a series of volcanic islands near the continent of Voxar. Deep below the waves, at the base of an ancient volcano, the party have found an entrance into a magical research base

for the long-lost exalted domain of Solvin, the place where the Guardians were created and where the Prime still remains. Heading inside, the party have found the crumbling, hot, lava-filled facility has no power, and that the foundry that they must pass through is locked by magical wards. And that is where we begin today's episode. I believe that we had left off with you all in some sort of steam generator you had you had basically worked out that the facility was powered by a great steam engine that was uh controlled by channeling lava and then cooling water from the ocean into a generator several of these pipes seem to have broken and

the generator is no longer working but thanks to a cold spell from lucius you managed to realize that this was the general process used to generate power short-lived um with just the one bit of spell magic used but enough to open a door which seems to lead into some sort of office um but also to give you a clue as to how you can perhaps open the main doors once you figure a few other things out. There was also two sort of stones or orbs that were used to open the large metallic doors back in the main room that you, I think you had worked out needed some sort of key for. The other, the last thing is that it is incredibly hot. You are basically near or in the sort of region of these lava pockets that, you know, form in the base, in the kind of core of the volcano. And much of the facility is broken down to the point where

lava has pooled in or flowed in from cracks or, you know, parts of the facility that have been damaged. The generator room is incredibly hot. and if you continue remaining here over time you're going to need to potentially make some checks to try and avoid that um becoming exhausted to avoid becoming exhausted um as the the air is oppressively hot even just the few sort of 20 20 25 minutes you've been in here those of you who can sweat are sweating deeply. Those of you who are wearing armor especially, the armor itself is like baking hot. The metal is beginning to kind of almost sting a little at how hot it's becoming. Any kind of like loose parchments or any kind of material that's left out on your person is drying and kind of becoming brittle quite quickly.

It is oppressively hot. It hurts to breathe. It's got that so hot when you suck air in, it kind of hurts your throat vibe to it. It is, I cannot understate. How bad it is. How bad? It's pretty bad.

Sounds dreamy to me. Okay. Me, the player. Not me, Nova. And yeah, and I believe that you'd left, you were all currently on this like gangway, this like metallic gangway surrounding the steam generator in this ancient Magitek facility of Solvin.

What would you like to do? So where were we with this generator puzzle thing? So we need to fix the pipes. Yeah. Which were outside. Oh yeah, okay. Unclog it. Yeah. Yeah, well you Unclog it. Yeah.

Well, you can fix the pipes which will provide a constant stream of water which will cool the magma and generate steam. You realise that any kind of cooling

process will generate steam that provides whatever power is in this facility. Right, okay. The other option is if someone could constantly cool it,

but then that would, you know, we'd need... That'd suck. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you also have Herald with you. Her broken form, she still has only one set of wings, the others having been melted off,

and is just very silently and quietly following behind Sentry. She doesn't seem to have a lot of memories of this place. It was quite a long time ago she was here. But if you do have any questions, you can always try and ask her as you need to. Hmm. So, what is the plan? So, how do we get outside again to unblock the pipes,

if that's what we're doing? I think we need someone to push open the door, because it's really heavy. So I think we need someone to... Come on, Nova, let's do this. Okay. Team Strong Arms! Let's watch Ayla and Sentry do it. We can do it.

We can do it. Yeah. I can help. Yeah. I mean, are you definitely able to get back in? Sentry and... Well, I can go and unblock the pipes anyway. There's two people here that can open the door.

One of them is Sentry. Harold's here. And the other one is Harold. Okay. As long as you both come back, then sure, unblock. Is it worth us all going? Flex, flex, flex. Together.

What, in case something happens here? Yes, in case you don't know what's back on the outside. I feel like someone should stay here just to check that everything works and doesn't... Or, I don't know. How are you feeling? Do you need to come out and cool down a bit? I could be okay. I'm fine.

Okay. For now. is I'm fine okay for now in that case if Nova wants to check everything's safe and not blowy upy and then

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If anything happens, I can Dimension Doras closer to you guys. Yes. Sure. Okay. In that case, everyone else outside and help unblock. Okay. Let's do it. All right.

So Quill, Sentry, Ayla, and Herald are going to go and try and unblock these pipes that you saw on the outside of the facility, on the volcano, underwater, basically. Yeah. Underwater. Your water breathing lasts eight hours doesn't it 24 hours perfect not even a no need to worry about these guys aren't going outside maybe just just you two okay and i don't need to breathe underwater so fine neither the center 24 hours perfect so you guys begin making your way back leaving lucius and nova in this generator room um lucius you're probably gonna have a better time of it than Nova does

because you currently don't have armor on. I don't think you have any clothes on. I think I tried to put on armor of Agathys to... Cool yourself down a bit. A little bit. And it does. It definitely helps. One of the bigger factors is also going to be dehydration, obviously. It's not just cooling down.

Can I lick my armor of Agathys? You can definitely try, yeah. Oh, God. Magical ice, occasionally. Nova, lick my armor of Agatha? You can definitely try, yeah. Oh god. Magical ice, occasionally. No, but lick my armor. Oh, um... Can you just not look at me while I...

While this is going on, are the two of you doing anything, or are you just monitoring the engine? There is the, um, you have like a gangway, like a metal gangway. The way you came in, and then opposite you some sort of door opened into what looks to be some sort of office. And then the rest is basically just not even really machines. It's more just like pipes and maybe gauges on the pipes really to monitor what's going on.

This isn't like high level technology. This is quite rudimentary in some ways. Oh. Compared to some of the stuff you've seen. Well, let's not waste our time while we're here. We can sort of investigate, right? Yeah. Do the Nova thing.

Okay. Figure it all out. Do the Nova thing. Figure it out. Figure what out. I already figured it out. It's steam. Yes, but maybe something else.

Some leaves and things to maybe improve the temperature in here. Okay. Okay. Is there anything with, like, language that I can't read? Like, is there any? I mean, there's, it read? I mean, I think any signs that were here, the only ones that you'd still be able to read would be anything that was written in stone, like chiseled. Anything that was written, the heat's so oppressive,

it's probably melted the ink and stuff like that away from any signage. Even a lot of these gauges, you can see that the years and years of pressure and heat, you're not even sure how many of them are still working. You definitely can determine, with your intelligence and spending an hour here, that what you guessed is correct, that the main central metal sphere

has some sort of lava crucible inside, and when that is cooled, it generates steam, which is then funneled up through another pipe into some sort of turbine or something that's going to help generate power, like lightning, effectively, which is probably what's being used to control the more magical elements around the facility.

There's no way to really cool this room down. First of all, you just have the amount of lava being pumped into the crucible. The magical glass that's around that it's kind of contained in is doing something to alleviate the heat. But it's just being so close to such like, I mean, you're deep below the earth near magma pockets. It's just hot down here, unfortunately. This reminds me of Starbane in here. What?

Depressively hot. Wow. No comment. The other thing is if you do check out the door that opened up that does appear to lead into an office, inside of which, yeah, Nova, you would recognise this. It's almost like an engineer's office or like a workshop. Oh, so it's open.

The door opened once and then it didn't close again, basically. Oh, okay. And this just is, it's like a small side room. Inside, there are a couple of different things, like a desk. The papers on it have basically long since become incredibly dry and crisp. All the ink has seemingly bled and kind of streaked across the pages and puddled onto the wood itself, staining it. But there's enough there that you can kind of make out. There was probably

once schematics in here, but they're long since basically gone. No longer readable. There are a couple of other things of note. There is a very beautiful, it's not even framed necessarily, it appears to be a small portrait of a very regal looking elegant queen dressed in kind of a white gown with armor plates carrying a rod like a magical wand or rod with a crown you can see that there is a young girl sat by her side in a kind of green dress um some sort of like princess or something like that this looks like a queen um and she has emblems of Solvin, which you recognize from Century Sealed. You assume this to be...

Nova, you're kind of a student of history, aren't you? Well, we also saw, like, in the city we just came from, Kamina, we saw the statue of Queen Astoria. And I asked Century, like, is that your queen? Yes, this is Queen Astoria of Solvin. And this portrait is slightly illusory. So she kind of seems to kind of like smile and nod her head. There is like a gentle breeze that kind of blows in these beautiful stained glass windows behind her.

It's just like it's created with magic. Is it small or is it big? It's probably about the size, you know, it's portable but not easy. It's not something you can put in a bag or something like that, but it's not heavy. But it's probably worth a lot of money. It's probably worth a good amount of money to a collector or somebody who would be interested in this sort of thing. I want to take this and give it to Century. Yes, absolutely. It's so beautiful.

Is it a good idea, do you think? Do you think it would make her sad? I think she fondly remembers her time in Solvay. I think this would be nice. Yeah. Okay, well, let's make sure. Let's keep it in here for now. And when they come back, we can be like, hey, look. Yes.

Great idea. Inside the office, there is also what appears to be a kind of glass display case on the wall, which contains medals of what might be archery or like some sort of skill in archery as well as a very beautiful composite longbow and 20 arrows in a kind of quiver. What do you make of this, Nova? It almost seems

like this place is a place where they live and celebrate their lives here as well. But they're not just created here have you never stayed up late in the lab that you work for no no stay up wait this uh late listening to stories oh from nanny norfair well it kind of makes sense to me like i guess this facility it would have needed people or guardians working it

all hours of the day and at night and like if they have production like guardians don't need sleep as well so maybe they work through the night too so but the question to me is where are they now um like did they all die in the or it's a good point why is this place abandoned? Interesting. But what do we do about this bow? Do we take it? Is it ours now? Finders keepers? Maybe.

I don't know. I feel always a bit queasy about handling a person's weapon. Well, that's century. Adventurers don't want to loot. But maybe Ayla. Have I seen Ayla shoot things? You've not seen her, but she certainly... She throws a hammer at things at distance.

What about Kul? No, he can't. Kul! He doesn't have two arms. He only has one. Maybe it's designed for a sentry union. He had a pistol. I don't remember what happened.

So you want to give sentry more weapons. I don't think she can have enough weapons. Okay, so you want... And shall I attach that gun to her as well, so that she also has the gun and the bow and the sword and the everything? I'm being facetious. Oh, okay. You should put the bow on her back, so that when she leans forward, it fires out.

Okay, at the same time as the Gatling gun? You should have that option, for sure. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'll work on it. Yeah, I'm just making a note. Century is gone. Look, I'm making a note of it right now. Century is gone, guys.

Okay. So you open up the case and take the bow and... Because it's in, like, a wall-mounted glass case. I guess I'll wait until everyone comes back and then I'll point it out. You should let Quill look over there. Well, with all of these kind of investigations and checking out the generator and stuff like that, if you're not doing anything else

You'll basically have an hour and then an hour back So I need you both to make Two constitution saving throws And Nova you wear breastplate yes You wear like medium armour Is this your dog Etherford brush Okay so you're going to make these with disadvantage

Lucius because you're armour of Agathys For the first one you have advantage. Excellent. Constitution. Constitution saving throw. 16. Okay, that was for the first one. Cool, seven.

For the first one, all right, and now the second one, no advantage on this one because your armor of Agathys would probably go. Sorry, I just broke Rialin. Yeah, you do. 13. 13, 12. All right, you're both fine for now. Yeah, you do. 13. 13, 12. Fine. You're both fine for now. Like, you are sweating.

It's dripping off you. Your hair is, like, slick and flat against your body. I'm really sorry, Nova. I'm going to have to go down to the panties again. Fine. And especially for you, Nova, in your armor, like, it's just keeping it all locked in. There's just no...

She spent ages doing her makeup as well katie those first two hours you're fine for now but it's getting harder like you've kind of probably drunk through like a lot of your water skins and things like that no um is there a chance that your hair's gonna to, you know? It's fine. Don't look at it. How would cloud hair go in here? I don't know.

I feel like it would almost disappear a little bit. Like, it would be so humid and arid that it would just almost disappear. I just got a vision of the hair. It's kind of like this side of my head. Yeah, okay. It's like really thin. It's the shaved side of my head. It's just like a little bit of white fluff.

Yeah. So it's gone really, like, almost like a crew cut. Crew cut? shaved side of my head. It's just like a little bit of white fluff. Yeah. So it's gone really like almost like a crew cut. Crew cut? Is that it? Yeah. So while that's going on. Quick question. Sure. Can somebody give me a potion of fire resistance? Yes. I don't know if you gave it to me. You talked about giving it to me. She didn't

take it but I think you gave it to her. Let's see if it's in Quill's inventory. It's not in mine. Okay. Is it in your inventory Kim? No. I think you should have added it. I just held it and then dropped inventory. It's not in mine. Okay. Is it in your inventory, Kim? No. I think you should have added it. I just held it and then dropped it. That's pretty bad, isn't it? I mean, I feel like if I don't have it, it's in that room. Go pick it up.

I just don't know whether or not now is the time to take it, especially if we're fine. Well, make sure you add it to your inventory. It's just a regular fire. It's a potion of fire resistance. And I do, I was keeping track of where it was, so it's fine. Okay.

Normally I'm like, not on your sheets, you don't have it. I mean, where we are. Yeah. Cutting to the other squad, you guys make your way through. Because you are making your way back out to the surface, the heat isn't as unbearable for you guys. Like, it actually cools down as you get closer to the ocean. It's still warm, but it's not oppressively hot like it is for the others.

You reach the secret entrance that you use to access the facility. And it's not hard to get out. That's the thing of hidden exits. Getting out is the easy part. hidden exits is getting out is the easy part so you actually find that there is a kind of like a hard lock lever that will basically release the door and then you basically just have to it work it has like a system to help you open it even though it's underwater the pressure it kind of helps um open it still going to require somebody of significant strength but you've got a strength of 18 right ayla and so the century so I think either of you two can open this fine.

Sure. The difficulty will be coming back in. As soon as you get out into the water, as soon as this exit opens, water just begins pouring through Quill. You're soaked. You're literally fighting against it as Aayla and Sentry both swim out.

And as soon as they're kind of free of the door, within a few moments, it just locks back behind them and Kual you are left with Herald who just awkwardly looks at you. The door is way too thick for a message right? What blocks it? It's like a foot of stone or something right? Yeah it's blocked

Yeah okay. So Aayla and Sentry you swim out. Sentry not needing to breathe. Aayla being of a storm barbarian you don't need to breathe and have a swim speed. No long squad The two of you you swim out um century not needing to breathe ayla being of a storm barbarian you don't need to breathe and have a swim speed no long squad the two of you can swim out um and easily find your way back to where you encountered these two pipes basically sticking out one of them is mangled it looks like maybe it was broken or damaged in some sort of like you know accident maybe crushed partly like it's literally been all like bent up and like squished together. And then the other pipe is just covered in this gross,

funky and coral and algae material that seems to have just completely engulfed it. So what would you guys like to do? We need to be careful because I think one of these is the outlet pipe. So whatever we unblock, we need to be ready in case something comes out, whether that's heat or... Good point. Very good point. So I guess, do you want to do them both together or one at a time, like one between us?

How do you want to... Let's try one at a time. One at a time? Then we'll know which one is which. Nice. Okay. I think it'll be easy to get the stuff off of that one. It's the mangled one that's the issue. Well, if you want to have a look, you can make intelligence checks for me.

I'm very intelligent. Oh, I rolled a 19, so that's an 18. That's a six. Century, I mean, yeah, engineering is definitely not your kind of strong suit and you're kind of looking at this the algae one is it seems obvious enough if you just clear them um it should be fine you just need to like break off all of this coral and slime basically and like wipe it clean probably gonna have to like stick your arm down it and pull you know material out the mangled one though you're just not even sure how you would go about fixing it.

Ayla, as is, I think, the way that Ayla's brain works, there is a simple solution to it. Hit it real hard. You just break the bit that's mangled. If you snap that part off, you just probably need to, like, either cut through or weaken a joint around it so that it can snap off cleanly because you don't want to mangle it again. But if you just break off the broken end, that would be easy enough to do.

And you think both of them are actually pipes to take water into the generator. They must be. There isn't an outlet. There isn't an outlet. Okie dokie. Or if there is, it's not here. Okay, cool. You could, if you couldn't like, you've got a sword.

Can you use Her Majesty's Rose to like like, weaken a point, like, cut a point, and then I can hit it and hopefully knock it off, you know? Yeah, give it a try. So you keep in mind you're underwater, so this is like, Hey, can you use your sword? We've got messenger rings. Oh, you do have your messenger rings. Yeah.

You didn't do this. I didn't know that it was telepathic. All right, sure. If I'm underwater't know that it was telepathic. If I'm underwater, assume that this is always the thing. All right. So the plan is for Sentry, you're going to kind of cut around it as best you can or at least kind of weaken it in a structural point so that Ayla can break it cleanly with a hammer. Yeah.

Okay. So I think for this, for that pipe, just give me, if you make a, this would be more about precision than it would be about raw strength. So I think do a, make a roll with a D20 and your dex mod and then proficiency as well. So whatever both of those are. Awesome, that one. Okay whatever both of those are. What's in that one? Okay. You do your best.

You kind of go around trying to weaken it. It's basically just going to make Ayla's job harder. Cool. So you kind of go around trying to do this underwater. And also Her Majesty's Rose is a sword. Yeah. But it's not a saw, right? So you're kind of like...

Trying to cut through. But you've done as best you can, which is unfortunately not going to be a lot. So Aayla, if you just give me a straight-up athletics. Oh, athletics? Mm-hmm. Okay. Nat 20!

Plus eight! Oh, my God. So Century's performance matters not because as Sentry backs off, you just see Ayla swim up and just wham! And it just snaps. It's more just the raw force rather than anything else, but it just kind of, it does bend the pipe a little bit,

but it just snaps this mangled piece off and just a huge chunk of it tears away. And then this bend pipe now the water flows in and you can see like bubbles kind of this sucking motion pulling water into it um as it does so um but yeah with a very almighty blow you just kind of swim up and knock it to pieces and one of them is now working that's one it's working um and then so the only other one is just this One covered in this sea goo basically Sea goo? Can I knock off the little bits of coral

You're doing like the outside of it Yeah the outside doesn't seem to be too much of a problem It's all grown inside the pipe And to do that you're not going to be able to really use weapons You're going to have to like get hands And just start pulling it away I will do it Okay so sentry reaches inside.

There's going to be an eel in there or something. Or a shrimp. Well, it's okay because Sentry being... In fact, I'll give it advantage because technically you're somewhat restrained. It doesn't matter. You reach your arm in and you begin breaking and pulling

coral and this kind of thick yellowish slime which you kind of realise and this kind of thick yellowish slime which you kind of realise this is kind of tingling a little bit as you kind of like thing it and then this tentacle kind of whips out of the tube and tries to grab you. You kind of pull your arm

free as this yellow almost an okra kind of colour slime pulls itself free. I need you both to roll initiative. Oh, sweet. Slime. Okra viscous slime.

Getting all the good phrases in there now. Is it a gelatinous cube? 11 for me. 18. It's similar to a gelatinous cube, but it's not a gelatinous cube. 18. 18. 11. 11.

You're both going before this thing. So what do you like to do? You can see this kind of, yeah, this is it. Underwater, it would be like a jellyfish or like a cloud of just goop. Just, boop, boop, boop. Kind of like begins ailing through. And it's scented enough that you can see these little tendrils and pseudopods kind of, like, waving its arms towards you.

Trying to reach for sentry. It doesn't seem to have noticed you. It's certainly not reaching towards you. Does that mean I get surprised on it? If you want to. You're the first to act, Ayla. I'm going to hit it. Okay.

Do I have advantage then? Because I don't know I'm here. Yes, absolutely you do. Oh my god, I rolled terribly on both of those. That makes sense for that natural 20 you just got. Well, you only have to be an arm class of eight. Oh, okay. Then I'm fine i hit

because i got a four on the dice plus nine yep um okay so yeah you hit it easily enough with the hammer bringing it down on this kind of like and it's kind of floating in mid-water right so it's just kind of like hitting a plastic bag under underwater like it kind of goes with the hammer like wraps around it like it Sounds so unsatisfying Seven damage and then hit it again Seven damage and then you hit it again That's a natural 20 Oh my god

Oh my god You do have brutal critical now Okay so 17 No no no 15 Plus 5 so 20. Plus 7, 27. 27 points of damage.

Anybody who's new, by the way, we have our own homebrew rules on criticals. So we just maximize the damage and then roll the weapon damage die again. What is brutal? 27 points of damage. Brutal critical, I get to add another weapon dice. Oh, okay. So it makes her crits even bigger. Makes my crits even bigger makes my damn it doesn't

quite explode but it is you see it just kind of crumples around the hammer so you did seven damage than 27 damage that's 34 points of damage it just kind of crumples around the hammer and bits of it kind of get broken off and kind of like float free it does kind of get off the hammer a little of it kind of get broken off and kind of like float free um it does kind of get off the hammer a little bit but you can see this thing is now just kind of like weakly kind of slapping around all around itself but it's still trying to reach for something that it can feel threatening um and it is now very much aware of you century i guess i'll just i'll use my dagger yeah okay so you don't have a disadvantage because you're using

a dagger 18 plus 9 18 plus 9 1d4 plus 5 all that didn't go in the trade but it's fine that's uh six six points of damage you kind of just cut a line in this thing um and it just kind of like yeah it almost splits in two but now it's just got this flapping hole as it's just underwater do you want to make your second attack? Yeah, let's do it. Okay. Can I just say that like you guys are rolling really well against

this little slime. We're probably going to face a boss later and just be back to the natural ones then. As is the way. That's why I put this in.

Get your roll back now. Got 16. 16 hits. This thing can't really move. Seven. Seven points of damage. Yep. With that, Sentry just rips it? Seven. Seven points of damage? Yep. With that,

Sentry just rips it in half like a sail in a pirate movie. Just... And it just... As it just... And it begins floating up. Teamwork! We did it!

Fuck yeah! Yeah. And the coral, like... Yeah, and it seems that this thing was the thing that was blocking it up and it was living inside this pipe and just eating stuff that came in. Aww.

Just living his life. Living. Okra jelly defeated. Not anymore. Man, we are the scourge of the ocean. So whilst you guys do that, I'm assuming you're going to make your way back and then re-enter through the secret entrance, right?

I'm not going to make you roll for that. You have plenty of time. There's no threat of you drowning, so by the time you get up to it it the two of you can pull open the secret door we could also like knock on it and then they can pull the lever for us technically well they can't hear you so you could messenger yeah messenger ring is like five miles so so messenger ring and then quill can open it you open it and then the two of them you're covered in water again um but i mean it's a welcome refreshing refreshment i

suppose yeah um whilst you do that as soon as that second pipe is unclogged nova and lucius back in the generator you notice the difference first of all one of these pipes you begin to see water pouring down and begin feeding into this large metal sphere at the bottom of this kind of generator room this kind of cylindrical chamber um and as it does you can hear like a kind of groaning creaking metal kind of being put under stress but then you see faint kind of like not a huge amount but steam begins rising up through the clear glass tube um the needle doesn't really seem to move but when the second one then begins funneling more water just enough of it flickers up into a sort of amber range that you notice these uh glowing spheres on the wall where it had previously been nearly dark except for this lava orange glow now these bright white lanterns

are beginning to flicker in inside the walls and the whole place is beginning to light up you can hear this low droning hum um echo throughout the chamber and along the metal railings and things like that as steam is is being blasted into some other system you can't find or can't see um and the power returns to the facility hey they did that pretty fast oh this is so cool wow cool cool oh i'm just looking um so apparently chat was saying that i drank my fire resistance This is so cool Wow So apparently chat was saying that I drank my fire resistance potion already time Oh, I have no recollection of this whatsoever. I trust chat. Yeah recollection could explain why I don't have it and they lost an hour Yeah, I think it's because you were planning on being in that room for like hours So yeah, I think that's why you drank to be fair. You probably

on being in that room for, like, hours, so I think that's why you drank it. To be fair, you probably... It only lasts an hour, though. By the time we went out, though... That's an hour. That's an hour. Yeah, so... So the fire resistance has gone.

It's gone. So, but it does... Yeah, it means that you wouldn't have needed to have made those saves. For exhaustion, yeah. For exhaustion. Well, good one, chat. Thanks.

So Lucius is currently in the worst state for exhaustion, then, because, like, we've all just been up as well. Yes, so... And the way it works is that the longer you spend down here, the harder the DC becomes. However, Lucius is also lucky in that he doesn't wear armour or have heavy clothing, so he's not a disadvantage on his save.

And he's naked. And he's got cold spells. Now, that only lasts an hour, though, Armour of Agathys, doesn't it? I don't think it lasts even that. Yeah, I think it's like 10 minutes, so that's gone as well. Okay, fair enough. But after another hour, so that's gone as well. Oh, okay. Fair enough. But after another hour, which is why I already rolled for the checks, all of you

reconvene back in the facility. Do you guys head back to the generator, or do you meet them in the main lobby area with the huge metal doors? I think we'll meet them back in the generator room. Well, now I think you're saying I didn't drink it. No, okay. I know what to do. Alright. Well, how about... I have zero recollection. I haven't written it down or anything, so I didn't drink it no okay I know what to do alright well how about

I have zero recollection I haven't written it down or anything so I don't know somebody go to the VOD you didn't add it to the battery yeah Kim's usually really

weirded out by this like so I don't know I don't know I don't know what you want to do nightjar nightjar I trust nightjar nightjar if you're in the chat

please go to the VOD verify this and message one of us. Sorry, guys. I don't know. Love you. It doesn't matter.

So I don't know what you want to do. Eventually, you will reconvene back in the generator room. What would you like to do? You can see that the power has returned to city. Maybe not all of it, but enough that some basic thing seems to be working. Doors, lighting seems to be back on. I miss ice cream. Yeah, Lucius is drenched in sweat.

You guys did it! Nova might also be drenched in sweat, we don't know. Yeah, I'm probably just lying on the floor at this point. Now my hair exists. Let's just say, yes, he's drenched in sweat. Yeah, because, holy crap, wherever this potion is, whatever. Oh, it's sorenched in sweat. Yeah. Because, holy crap, wherever this potion is, whatever. Oh, it's so cold. It's cold?

What is cold? He's using psychology, picturing things, and then we can be the things we picture cold. Imagine a snow swarm. Snow-lock, swirling snow storm. Imagine that. It just turns to lava every time. Oh, I mean... And then bathes

over me and burns me alive. Okay, I mean, okay, we could... Is there any kind of temperature control in this place? We could just leave this room. Let's go somewhere a bit cooler. It's not just this room. As soon as you

come into this main facility, this heat is everywhere you go back out into that main room with the double doors and there is literally a pool of lava in one corner like flowing from the wall and it's just everywhere is oppressively hot like you can't escape it in this place century doesn't like guardians did they not wear conditioning we don't really need it, I suppose, but also... Precious being. I don't have enough memory to really know. Gus! Gus!

That doesn't, unfortunately, down here, doesn't really help your body. I'm hotter than ever before! You're not generating cooling, you know, air. How about we just keep going so we can get out quicker? Yeah, let's go. I should also point out that this facility was not always in this state. Previously before, it was treated with magic so that the stone was more heat resistant. And she gestures to this kind of break in the wall where the lava's flowing through.

It appears that the facility has deteriorated and is no longer protected against the heat of the volcano. Essentially, I found a thing. What did you find? Hold on, watch it. Nova! Yeah, it is definitely Queen Astoria. And its petal is in there as well, the princess as well. I'll hug it really tight.

Yep. Really, really tight. Well, you can put it up in your room on the ship. I need to keep it really safe. Where can we keep this safe? Oh, if we find a chest, I can make a secret chest. Do that now.

What about a display cabinet? Some kind of thing. Ayla, you shoot bows, right? There's a bow in there if you want a bow. I mean, sure. Would a display cabinet work for secret chest? I don't know secret chest

there's a spell you're going to have to read it out to me it says I need a three feet by two feet by two feet constructed from rare materials worth at least 5000 gp and a tiny replica made from the same materials worth 50 gp you're going to need to order that custom okay

that is a custom job look at this display, Cameron, it's entirely... Isn't it basically, Lehman's Secret Chest is you basically, you could have the chest on the airship

and then it's like an ender chest in Minecraft where you can just put stuff. Oh no, I think I just put the chest, I hide it in the ethereal plane and I just cast the spell to bring it back.

Oh right, I see, okay. There you go. Well yeah, you'll have to make that. Uh, fine.

Well for now, unfortunately Century, you're going to have to basically, like, carry it around, and it is flammable. If this thing, like, falls in lava, it's going to get destroyed. Can I wrap it in my green cloak? Yeah. I'm still wearing Helios, but I've got my green cloak. Wrap it in that.

You can wrap it in that, yeah. But it is still susceptible to damage. But, yes, it will be for the part... As long as you don't fall in any lava, you might be all right. Okay. Thank you, Nova. Thank you so much for finding this. I mean, it's just in the room.

Take the bow, I guess. Sure. So it's in like a glass cabinet on the wall. You open it and unlock it. And it's a very beautiful longbow, like a competition longbow. And with it is a quiver, which bears the mark of Solvin as well, with a beautiful leather, kind of like treated leather harness. And it has 20 arrows in it

and the arrows look exceptionally well made as well do you want this sentry it looks kind of like solvent oh no you take it it'll be it'll be an honor to have to have for you to have it honestly i will try my best to not fuck up. I imagine you won't. You will be amazing. Okay. If you want to add it, so it's a longbow. It's a normal longbow, but they are plus two arrows. There's 20 plus two arrows with it. So those you will need to track because they are obviously magical.

If I cast protection from energy on someone, will that help with the situation? If you give them fire resistance, fire resistance basically makes them immune to extreme temperature. So fire or cold resistance will basically negate the effects of extreme heat or extreme cold. Okay, that lasts an hour. Yeah, so I was about to say so Severin

Sand Gaming in chat says, check the VOD Nova said she would take the potion right before the first hour was done and she would have to make the first uh make a con check so you happy with that i took it during the first yeah so it's got the effect is now gone but you still need to make those two con checks cool all right so you are now left in facility so i'm hot you have um you are beginning to get warm for certain um and that potion's done the you are in the generator room this kind of large tall tall, long cylindrical room on this metal gangway.

That connects to a main lobby room, we'll call it, which has these two huge metal double doors, which you can see are like the heat warping around the air. They are clearly blisteringly hot. And there are two pedestals on either side of it with these metal spheres, or like these, not spheres, what's the verse? Indentations, like spherical indentations, on these platforms, like these little pedestals. These appear to be connected to the door by a series of kind of

methyl and crystal ley lines that kind of connect up to the doorway. It seemed to be some sort of locking system. There is another corridor that you haven't explored on the opposite side of the room. Do the ley lines go down that way? No, they literally go from the pedestals to the door. Oh, okay, fair enough. Are they glowing now?

Yeah, there's power there, but the doors haven't moved. Still haven't moved. We still need the key. Where are we? I believe we need two keys, yes. Two keys. Okay, let's... Yes, there's another place we didn't moved. Still need a key. Where are we? I believe we need two keys, yes. Two keys. Keystones. Let's, uh, we'll... Yes, there's the other place we didn't check.

The other side. Keep looking. I suppose you saw any keys in the office. No. No, there was not. Just the portrait and the arrows and the notes. Okay. And the fire potion I left for you. I already drank it at that point. Yeah, well. So if you begin making your way down the other corridors,

we're going to need a couple of things. One, I'm going to need a marching order. So who is at the front, who's at the back, who's in the middle? Who's going to get attacked in what order? I'm going to probably be the slowest shuffling forward with sweat in my eyes. Blinky. Et cetera. I think, like, yeah, there is that, like, when you get so hot and you're, like, in a sauna

and you're, like, constantly, like, rubbing your eyes and stuff. It's so great. Is there lava on the ground? In certain parts. Like, in that main lobby room, it's kind of condensed into one corner where it's, like, a small amount that's just pooled out and poured out onto, like, a melted-through part of the stone.

Okay. Going, as you begin to head towards this corridor, you can see that orange glow coming from these sets of corridors that there's probably more in there. And the heat is even stronger. Okay, ten minutes. What?

I need to ritual cast Water Walk, which works on lava. Okay. As if it's a solid ground. Is this spell you have prepared? I prepared it. Yeah, I prepared it as part of my level up. Okay. As if it's a solid ground. Is this spell you have prepared? I prepared it as part of my level up. Okay. So ten minutes. Ritual cast. Everyone.

You take ten minutes as Quill conducts a ritual on himself. And it works on ten people. Up to ten creatures. Oh wow. Cool. And is it concentration? No. Works for an hour. Works for one hour. Perfect.

Nice. While he's doing that, I'll cast Protection from Fire Energy on Lucius. So you're going to cast that using the spell slot? Yeah. Okay, cool. So, Lucius, for one hour, you have fire resistance, and that means that you do not feel the effects of this hot temperature at all. It is a blessed relief.

That's a concentration. That is concentration. For an hour. I feel so much better. It works. You just got to think of ice and think of snow. Think of the snow.

Hopefully it'll... Mind over matter, everybody. Gust. Gust. Everyone else is like, Can you please not? I don't know why it doesn't help. So I had that Lucius was at the back,

but marching order. Who's at the front after all this ritual casting? I'll go front. Front. I guess with Herald, right? Front. Herald behind Sentry. Nova next to Herald.

And then Quill and Lucius at the back. Sure. Okay. You begin making your way down a series of narrow corridors that leads into, at best, a couple of different chambers, like different workshops or research stations, you can best describe. Some of them appear to have been caved in, which means that you can't make any progress into them. Some of them are just rooms, like a couple of walls and then just

a pit of lava. And that's all that remains of whatever was once there. However, if we cut to Matt. Kim, we've got a map. We've got donuts. We've got donuts in the way. We've got a map. Giant enemy donuts. Mmm.

Favorite kind of enemy. Oh god, Herald, why do you have to be so big big Herald has giant reaper wings oh yeah it's the mini yeah cool look at all that lava by the way real lava yeah that's actual lava I got

very good very good very good well done good. Very good. Well done. Good job, Rhiannon. Well done. Uh-oh, careful. Uh-oh, stinky.

Right. So, as you begin making your way down, this area is even hotter. Being closer to this amount of lava, I need everybody except whoever has fire resistance to make a constitution saving throw. Constitution.

You'll get plus two. We get plus two. Good. Everyone gets plus two. Quill, you have disadvantage because you are also wearing medium armor. I'm not wearing it. You are not wearing,

so you don't have any disadvantage. Nova, you'll still have disadvantage as well. She's fucked. So you'll also have disadvantage because you wear heavy. Okay, dog hair. Nine. Quill, eight. Eight.

Nine. Nine. Nine. Nine. Okay. The temperature here is so much more than where it was previously. Quill, Nova, and Sentry gain one level of exhaustion. Shit.

That's an hour. You'll make another check in an hour if you remain in this kind of, well, where it's hotter, it might come quicker as well. Because it's obviously like you're going to dehydrate quicker. You can feel yourself getting a bit lightheaded. It's so oppressively warm. it's hotter, it might come quicker as well, because it's obviously, like, you're going to dehydrate quicker, you can feel yourself getting a bit light-headed, it's so oppressively warm in this particular space. So we've got disadvantage on ability checks.

So things like, yeah, if it's like a dexterity check or skill checks, basically. Yeah. Cool. Or another con save. Yeah. No, it doesn't affect con saves. It's not saving throws. Billiard checks aren't saving throws. You can put them in your conditions, by the way.

D&D Beyond. Because I'm D&D. You can hear the kind of bubble of lava from these various pits around you. You can feel this oppressive heat washing over you, and you can see this orange glow completely filling. But you can see this orange glow completely filling but

you can also see vague remnants of what this place used to be bookshelves tables covered in dried burnt remnants of parchment and papers leather books that have long since cracked and warped under the constant heat and pressure glass cabinets that seem to contain various vials or glass cabinets that seem to contain various vials or things long since dried up but there is an echo of what this place once was here. You see a corridor

extending before you as you see it on the map what would you like to do? Hmm could I guess I've already spent like 20 minutes now if I do another ritual cast right I kind of want to start preparing a I guess I've already spent like 20 minutes now if I do another ritual cast, right? I kind of want to start preparing a detect

magic. Okay, that's 10 minutes though, so you're going to be, are you just going to stay in the same spot or like... Yeah, I can't walk with it, can I? Yeah, I'll... If everyone wants to wait, I can detect magic, or I could just actually cast it,

like a normal spellcaster. Quill, you can hear as you're having this conversation, you can hear what you can only really describe as, like, rocks moving around, something like grinding against rocks coming from further ahead and deeper into wherever this area of the facility is. Especially as

you started speaking. Okay. Messenger ring, everyone. I think something heard me. Not sure. Might have been a machine. Could have just been rocks. Are we going to wait here or what are we doing? Let's, let's, I mean, Sentry,

do you know these? Messenger ring. Oh wait, he doesn't have one. Very good, Chris Trough. I'll cast message on Lucius. We're messenger ringing. There's something

that heard us, we think. Stop shouting my name. Can I messenger ring and message at the same time? You can say that you've messaged, though, she is. Dual messaging. Messaging ring is telepathic, so it's just thought. It's free action. Damn, I'm like Wi-Fi. I'm just connecting to everything. You're texting and calling at the same time.

Oh, my God. MSN messengering. Yeah. RIP. Booping. I mean, we're probably going to come across this thing either way, right? So we need to find these keys, otherwise we're going nowhere. Good. Okay.

Sentry, do you know if these sorts of places would have, like, magical traps or would they all be mechanical, physical traps? I'll just wait here. My memory of this place isn't particularly strong. Harold, what do you think? She doesn't have a messenger, so you have to ask her out loud. Harold, I'm whispering. Yes.

Do you remember much about this place? It has been several centuries since I was last here. As in, the layout is unfamiliar to me, and I'm not sure where these keystones will be located. Okay. Yes, I'm afraid I'm not sure if I have any more useful information. That's okay, thank you. She kind of whispers back.

Yeah, we're both the same on that, I'm afraid. Let's just progress forwards and see what happens. Hopefully just lava, because we're protected from that now. Just gripping the painting very tightly. So what, the sentry starts making her way forward? I mean, we know that we need to go back through that door, right? So leave the painting here so it doesn't fall in lava. What if it gets burnt?

What if there's lava? I mean, there's lava and fire that way. It's safe here. We're going back this way, almost definitely. We should creep forward slowly. Maybe you should leave the portrait here as well I'm so hot brain melting

let's just creep forward leave the portrait okay just gonna start creeping forward are you going to try and stealth or are you like just gonna move normally can I try and say to stop to people and then go sort of here-ish and have a bit of a scout? Are you stealthing?

Yes. Stealth check, please. Oh, no. Oh, natural 20! What the fuck? Natural 24! You are a beast today. It's fine, I'm wasting time.

You creep your way forward and look down the corridor. You reach, would you want to go up to here, like the corner, or do you want to just get to where you're going? I want to get to where I can sort of see a bit around both, but not super. You can move through about there. The corridor continues. You don't see, what's your passive perception?

Like 15. 15, that's pretty good. You don't see... What's your passive perception? Like, 15. 15? That's pretty good. You don't see any traps. You don't see any signs of any kind of, like, tripwires or turrets or things that you've encountered previously. The only thing you can really see is, you think,

catching the corner out of your eye, something over here. It's like you saw something in the lava in the lava and then but you're not quite sure if it was just like a bubble or a shadow maybe something um looking around there's definitely plenty of things that these keystones could be hidden in pretty much any of these um like bookcases or desks or tables they're covered in stuff you're gonna going to need to actually go up and search and rummage them and that's...

You're going to have to spend an action to do that, basically. Everyone else, what are you doing? Are you just letting Ayla move forward or are you going to huddle at the back of this corridor? I'm going to walk forward to be like oh, I'm moving forward now. Can I cast Arcane Eye?

Well, I'll let you guys move yourselves as you was arcane eye so I basically make it invisible like I try if you just want me you make an invisible echo and it's same thing if you're still thing give me a stealth check okay I know stuff I put my place doing a leg job mm-hmm maybe you're a disadvantage for stealth check off so arcane eye is I create an invisible magical eye that hovers in the air and I can just look through it. Okay.

It has normal and dark vision. Cool. You don't need to worry about light. There's enough lava in here. Century, what did you get on yourself? Century. Three. Three?

Nine. Nine. So Lucius not having the telepathic communication just begins following Ayla. The stone here is actually quite cool. Like there's no, even though it's so hot, it's not like you're burning your feet or, like, your boots on the ground. But there's still a lot of loose rocks and things around

as you begin making your way, and, like, I don't know how you guys want to, you know, for Sensory, it's probably just her armor. She can't help it kind of clanking as she makes the way. But I don't know if, like, there's something in particular that Lucius might do to, a bit of noise. My body is slick with sweat from previous so I just kind of slip

and like rocks kind of scatter across the ground. He was just like, I told you to stay away! But yeah, you guys begin making your way up and you're just looking around. Nothing immediate. Okay. Harold will just

move up my sky so while Lucius's spell is on him can I cast another spell or do I have to wait if you pass another concentration spell the spell on Lucius will go away concentration you're fine okay cool well you summon a magical eye yeah the arcane eye I can as an action move it 30 feet So Yeah, I just kind of want to I was going to use It doesn't actually say if it's If it's detectable, it just says It's invisible, then it's invisible

Oh, invisible magical eye So I guess I can detect it with magic detection, right? Or invisible magical eye So detect magic or see invisibility You can use echo for it I've got my own little echo. Yeah. Except it's my storm eye.

Oh, cool. So I kind of just want to move it 30 feet down the hallway. Just put him where you need to. Okay. Dead. I don't need to use an action to look through it. I just mentally receive information. Okay.

Yeah, the eye reports back, kind of like a little video game scanner. It kind of scans around. You can see that, yeah, same thing as described before. There is lava pockets. There are various, like, desks, bookcases, all sorts of things that could be where these keys, and you suspect there are

two of them, are hidden. In terms of movement, you see the same thing as Aayla did, basically. Do I have any idea of what direction the grinding stone was? Or is it just down the end of the hallway from where I currently am? It almost sounded like it was below you, like somewhere elsewhere in the facility. Oh, okay.

Move forward slowly. Stealth check, I guess. Yeah, if you're moving forward. So Nova's the only one who's still where she was, just like... I'm just leaning against the wall, just kind of... 14, and I'm going like... Just think of cultings as much as I can. Okay.

Just behind everyone so far. You guys just continue proceeding as you wish. Kind of oppressive heat causing those distortions in the air. Those of you who've got exhaustion can just feel your mind reeling a little bit, but you can manage to snap back into focus as the rest of you who have got exhaustion can just feel your mind reeling a little bit but you can manage to snap back into focus as the rest of you push forward the occasional like

if you've played Minecraft you know what lava sounds like can I go to the case over there so Aelin makes her way over here and then what you want to search for just like makes her way over here. And start looking at the... Not making any noise on it, but looking at it.

That's called an investigation check. Aayla's really good at these. I'll go forward. Sure. This one. Natural 20! Not even kidding! This dice is bent.

You've rolled five. That's a 19 Just you wait We're going to boss fight it I know It was a five roll She's done So you search that bookcase there

Should I search a different bookcase? Shut the fuck up Ayla seems to have a grip on this one If you want to go elsewhere I'll go over here Okay What's the rest of her rendezvous? Ayla, you're scanning through.

It takes you like a few seconds, but you're kind of scanning through. This bookcase appears to mainly be kind of like cracked leather tomes, rolled up parchment, but it's so brittle and dry. You kind of touch a bit of it and it just crumbles. And then you're like, there's occasional kind of like glass vials, whatever liquid it was inside, long since dried up. But you don't find this key you're looking for. You kind of push a few things around.

No, you can't find it. Do an investigation on this bookcase here? Yes, you can. And while you do that, is anybody else moving or are you staying where you are? I've nudged the eye, the opposite side. So basically take a turn of movement, two turns of movement. Can you, like, schlep me 30 feet forward, please? Schlep?

No, you do it. That's right. You need to stealth check. Whoops. Although I don't think it'll matter at this point in the century. You've got a three anyway. Like here, by the barrel? Yeah.

I don't know. We might know where we were. I rolled a 16 on stealth. 16? Okay. I'm probably going to go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, like here, maybe, and just try and be somewhat defensive. And I'll just nudge off as well as much I can.

You can get to a base. Stealth check. Bam. That's a two. Bam. Oh my god. I'm here! Yeah, not two.

You're the last one, you have exhaustion. Is that true? Yeah. It's me. If you've got exhaustion, it's disadvantage. One. Okay. Natural one. So, Lucius, what did you get on your investigation?

Nine. Nine. Okay. Roll a d4 for me. Two. Two. You begin searching through this cabinet. You see similar thoughts to what Ayla did, these kind of cracked leather tomes, stacks of parchment that's, like, burnt

away and crumbled away, a couple of, of like ink pots where the ink has dried up um you don't find one of the keys what you do find though is a sealed bottle like a potion bottle and the liquid is still inside um it's like a clear crystal blue look uh as lucius holds it up um things happen uh so next to lucius kind of erupting from the lava itself sending splatters of molten goo everywhere these giant stony worms almost like these burrowing earthworms with these huge kind of stony moors. And you can see the insides are all like a bright crimson red, almost pulsating with like orange bloats. And yeah, they're just dripping with lava. They're stony plates that they kind of have around their body.

These ones, they seem to have stony plates on certain parts, and other parts are like a smooth, like, eel skin. Right, okay. That's the same color as lava. And the lava just doesn't even affect them. It just kind of sloughs off of them. One of them erupts. Emerging up as Lucius is like, look what I found!

As it kind of, like, emerges on, as if it has been sensing where you'd be moving another one emerges of a corridor I saw it come around the corner and that my friends is going to be

initiative more like initiative am I right? Is initiative an ability check? I don't suppose it is. It is, actually. Oh, shit. So we have disadvantage. You do.

One. I got two fives. I got a two and a three. I got seven. These things are only a six. Same. Worms. Six. Ayla.

No, I mean I got seven on my roll. Twelve. Quill. Nine. Nine. Nova. Five. Five. Lucius. Nine. six Aayla no I mean I've got seven on my roll twelve Quill nine nine Nova five five Lucius

nine nine sentry seven Herald is at uh ooh not great

Herald I mean she's probably seen now welcome to the jungle so Aayla as is always the case,

you hear this erupt around you as these lava worms emerge. Okay. Yeah, completely. And as they emerge, they almost kind of like borrow through parts of the stone, like crumbling it in there, these toothy maws that are just rings of stony teeth

down into a kind of like circular tube of mouth. Cool. Oh, that wasn't nice. That was just a lot of slapping. Can I... I want to test this longbow. I'm going to take a shot.

Okay, so you kind of put the hammer on the back. Do I get two shots with this? Yeah, you're making as many a shot. Okay, so you kind of put the hammer on the back. Do I get two shots with this? Yeah, you're making normal attacks as you can. Sweet. Have you added the plus two arrows? I have. They don't show up on here, but I know it's a plus two to hit and damage.

Oh, no, that was only a three. See, there we go. Scissor in combat. Stick with a hammer. Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve hammer 13 to hit 13 not enough This magical arrow kind of just Glances off of the stone

Scales on this creature It's kind of like stony hide Try again You get multi attack with a bug Crossbows We found this out with Raynard you still get it 24 to hit That will definitely hit.

You're kind of playing like a weak point where the stony kind of armor or carapace doesn't quite cover the whole thing and one of these arrows thuds in. That's cool. Sick. How much damage did you do? Oh, I did rage before I did this, by the way.

I forgot to mention. I think you only get rage damage on melee weapons. Do I? I think. I think. Okay, that's fine. Well, I did rage before I did this, by the way. I think you only get rage damage on melee weapons, I think. I think. Okay, that's fine. Well, I raged. Add it for now. We'll check it in the break. So add your rage damage for this one.

Rage it up. Nine. Nine points? Okay. As the arrow strikes in, you can see where it hits into the creature. It almost like this kind of like sizzle, like noise kind of pops as the arrow, the metal touches it. Intense kind of like heat flares. But yeah, it kind of thuds into its body, the wooden shaft burning up quickly around the arrowhead itself.

Not bad, not bad. Bad blood. I just kind of wanted to do something different. Anything? I'm good just now. Which one would you like to shoot at? This one? This one, Nienova, and that? Okay. Okay.

After Ayla, we go to Lucius or Quill. You probably have a high dex, right? 15. Yeah. That was fun. Using a bit of a bow. Trying something new. Yeah, sure.

Quill, just you go. Okay. I'm a 14, so you new. Yeah, sure, Quill, just you go. Okay. Yeah, I'm a 14, so you go. Man, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. So Lucius will be next to think about what you want to do. Well, if you don't know what to do, then Lucius go first and then Quill. Lucius go first. I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb at third level on the closest one to me

and also move behind this table. Okay. So. Sweet. I roll to hit. 24. Nice. 24 to hit this one, yeah?

25, sorry, yeah. 25 to hit, and what kind of damage are you doing? It's cold damage. Cold damage. So you conjure this icy ball from the chromatic orb and launch at the creature. It hits, roll damage. Okay, nice. 5d8.

5d8. Do you need more d8? It hits. Roll damage. Okay, nice. 5d8. Do you need more d8? I need more d8. No, wait. Just one more. There we go. Thanks. Ah, nice. How much damage? 24. 24. Double that to 48. Woo!

As the cold damage hits the creature, you see it writhe and kind of pull into itself. This kind of horrid shriek echoes out from it as the cold encapsulates it. As it does, though, this intense cloud of steam erupts around the creature. I need... Technically, it's there, so far. 48 damage though.

Century, Herald and Lucius, can you all make constitution saving throws please? I've got fire resistance. Don't worry about it. Also dichromancy. Yep, so that'll do damage as well. Seven more. Cold. That is a lot of damage.

So 48 and then well that's double. Are you doing cold seven more cold that is a lot so 48 plus seven and then well that's double are you doing cold I'm assuming yeah so 14 so 48

so 58 62 holy 62 points of damage wow nice work just from just doing a step not even a crit or anything that was just

you watch as this ice just annihilates this thing it just completely coats it and it cold stuff works what did you get on your constitution statement 10 You watch as this ice just annihilates this thing. It just completely coats it and it... Cold stuff works!

What did you get on your constitution saving throw? Ten. Ten. Herald also got like a six. So you both take... Herald and Sentry are going to take some damage here. Mine is hard. There are two of these.

That's yours, yeah. Wait. One is... Ten points of fire damage. I need you to make a constitution saving throw on concentration for fire resistance. So just constitution saving throw. Nat 20.

You're fine. Yes. You can control it. However, this entire area is covered in a thick cloud of steam that's obscuring everything in that region. Thick fog. It's most likely like bad, bad. Would it be bad, bad?

It's even worse. You can barely see a few inches in front of you. Basically, while you're in this area, anything that isn't next to you, you're blind basically. So you have disadvantage on attack rolls, etc. Would that affect movement

or anything? You can still move, but I guess like I think sentry is enough that if you got close to the edge you'd be like fuck that's lava so you don't need to worry about walking into lava and you can walk on lava anyway for another hour cool well Lucius anything else?

You moved away. I got a bonus action for barrier ring okay technically do you mind if I make an attack of opportunity against you as well? Because I realized that you were here. Yeah, I love that. I'm just checking in because you did move away. You do it, and I take

the brunt. So that's only an 11 to hit. No. Oh my god, it doesn't hit. Is that before you activated the barrier ring? It's a 14 base. It doesn't hit you. As you dart away conjuring the ice thing, it tries to bite you with these toothy maw and you just leap away as it slams shut in front of you.

Do you still have Armour of Agathys as well? No, that would have gone. It was only 10 minutes. Cool. Quill, you're up. I will just do a Sacred Flame on... Sorry, did Lucius kill the other one? No, it's the life. Also, you can't see it. Yeah, in that case, I'll just Sacred a sacred flame on the... Sorry, did Lucius kill the other one? No, no, it's the life.

Also, you can't see it. Yeah, in that case, I'll just sacred flame the other one. What do I need to do, dex save? Yes. That is a nine. Perfect. That's two d8 of damage, radiant damage, so it's not halved or anything.

11. 11 points. Damage, and then I'm going to just back up. 5, 10, 15, 20. I'll just go into the hallway a little bit. Okay. So you back up into the hallway as you kind of conjure the sacred flame. It does strike against the creature kind of like hitting part of its armor plate. It obviously

hurts it, but not in the same degree that the cold did as Lucius did it. The thing is, I locked my chromatic orb to lightning, so I can't use ice in it. Century. Because I'm a dum dumb i'm gonna bonus yeah that's not a thing but that's yeah you're being rp just because people at home are gonna be like you can choose yeah not me not quill he draws it from inside himself he ain't got no cold

in him i'm gonna cast a magic weapon on my uh her majesty's rose okay it already is a magic weapon oh is it yeah oh cool okay you don't need to do that. Nice. All right. It's already a plus one weapon. I see. Cool. That's already factored in.

Nice. All right. Then I'm just going to move up on this boy very carefully. And I'm going to give him the old one, two slapperoo with Her Majesty's Rose. One, two slapperoo. Nice. So I do that twice. So first one.

So because you're next to it, you can see it. You don't have to advance it. First one's 11. 11 to hit, not enough. It kind of clangs against its stone hide. Second one, 16 plus 9. That will hit. Nice, nice. As you hit it, as the

Her Majesty's Rose in melee, as it strikes, the heat is so intense from striking its body, you take 6 points of fire damage. You need to make a concentration saving throw. Is it kind of like that? It's so hot as you hit it like that. Kind of like the spray of lava is hitting it. 18 plus 5. You're fine. You keep

fire resistance up. Okie dokie. So now deal your damage. 8 plus 5. That's a 6. 6 points of damage. Yeah. And then I'll divine smite it. Okay. Funsies. What level? I'll do 2. Level 2? Yeah. So it's 2d8 base and then another d8. Okay. Funsies. What level? I'll do two. Level two? Yeah.

So it's 2d8 base and then another d8. Damn. 2d8, 3d8. 3d8. Divine Smite adds so much damage. Paladins hit so fucking hard. Is Divine Smite just on your next attack or is it on weapons? It's when you hit.

It's even better. Jeez, okay. Six, seven, eight, nine. Another nine points. Another nine, yeah. This thing, that is, eight, nine. Another nine points. Another nine, yeah. To this thing, that is... Yep, okay. So you strike into it with that second attack.

Actually, would that have been... Yeah, on that second one, you would have taken another seven points of fire damage, by the way. That's another con save. But yeah, as you strike into it this time, you plunge Her Majesty's Road in. Another 18. Did you roll the d4 for Her Majesty's Road as well?

Oh, yeah, I haven't done that yet. Roll me that as well. That's a four. That's a four points. So as you strike into this, you cut a huge gouge, kind of tearing at it with the thorns of Her Majesty's Road, these kind of metal thorns out of the blade. And you can see it kind of sprays you some of this, like, hot liquid,

this kind of ooze, like sort of digestible fluid, steaming hot. But you can see it's now kind of like limping, it's coiling itself up defensively, kind of hissing at you with this giant toothy maw. It's going to be like another creature that just runs from us the moment we maim it, is it? Like everything we've faced so far, it's just like, no, you win.

Harold will step up as well. Step up towards the creature, and she's going to attack it with her scythe. She is in the fog as well, right? She is in the fog, but when you're next to something, you're fine. You don't have disadvantage. But for example, for you, you don't have line of sight to any of these guys in terms of healing and stuff. Unfortunately,

as I always do when I roll with Herald, just misses as she sweeps the scythe too wide and it recoils backwards on their go they're going to slither towards Sentry's painting just to fuck that one thing in particular no no no no no no no

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no now that's one I know. Finally, some good fucking memes. So, you can see these creatures. One of them kind of, it almost half-ferries into the ground to kind of maneuver around Nova.

You're kind of like, not thrown to the side, but you kind of have to react as it kind of weaves up through the ground in amongst between you and Aayla. It does the same thing, Sentry, with you and Herald. It kind of still keeps in your threat and range, so you don't get opportunity attacks. But it kind of half-buries into the stone, churning it all

up, and then it kind of emerges in the middle and it's turned on Lucius. Like, this cold, hateful, like, biting energy. It's this. This is the thing I need to kill. Mine doesn't matter. It's not here. These things, I think it will probably just go for... Its instinct

would be, you don't have armor, so it's going to go for you. Aayla doesn't have armor. She doesn't wear armor. She's a barbarian. Bam. One against Lucius. It tries to bite you

For a 24 Yep Okay My base is 12 By the way I forgot the barrier Room was already Well it still didn't hit you

So that was okay Yeah You've still got the Fire resistance Yeah Okay Is it doing the fire Base damage

Some of it will be In fact you should have Taken half from the steam But it's fine So you're going to take 15 points of piercing damage as this thing bites against your arm, scraping all the flesh

with its mooth... And then you would take 7 points of fire, half, 2, 3. I want to go on a moothy tour. Tour of the moothy. So, 18 points of damage total as this thing kind of bites down hard on you With it's gaping fiery mouth

Ayla it's going to come for you as well For a 17 You kind of dodge out the way Even though you've got the longbow out You kind of leap to the side As this thing just slams it's jaws shut in front of you And then we go to Nova Last in the round Is this thing just slams its jaws shut in front of you um and then we go to nova last in

the round is this thing not attacking me no i attacked ayla oh okay um you've got metal doesn't like that can you please make a constitution serving throw of 17 for the one that's nearest to me why because i'm going to cast Blight on you. Okay. Blight on Mark. Just tell me what you're doing. On you, specifically. Specifically on me. 13. That's a fail. Okay. How much D8? Oh, you've got more friends. That's a lot of D8s. That is 98.

I love it. Blight is such a good spell. It's really not a single target. It's so fun. It's fun, but it's not OP. Oh, help. I take your life. Seven. These are six.

It's pretty satisfying, though, when you roll well in it. You're like, oh. It feels fun. It might be 44. She kept moving the dice around. Sorry. Okay, so there's two eights there, so that's 16. See, the 45 or 44.

It's got the 45. 16, so that's 26. Stop moving 45 or 44? 16, so that's 26. Stop moving the dice. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37. Wait, no, what? Wait, no. Tom, you do it. You're good. I got 46 this time.

Okay. Can somebody tell me how much damage this spell has? 45. 45? Okay. 44. I got 44 this time. I'm going to take 44. Yeah, okay. You know?

What? He's done it a couple of times now. I did it a couple of times and I got 44 and 46. That makes it 45. All right, fine. 45. Yeah! I got 80 and 44.

I don't care. I don't care. You, yeah, Nova, you reach out and this kind of tendril of darkness jabs into the worm itself and you begin pulling out moisture and life essence. I like to think it comes from my gauntlet necro hand so rather than Tiangong

I just reach out with my gauntlet dead hand. These tendrils. You hear this thing kind of shriek and hiss and now it doesn't really have eyes. You're not quite sure how it's seeing, but it's more from Aayla directly turns on you. GG, no re.

Aayla. Let's see if we can smash through this. It's a ton of damage. I'm going to hit it. What with? Hammer. Okay, so you're going to basically put the longbow away and pull the hammer out. Fuck it.

Just, yeah. I'm going to reckless. Okay. Oh, so close to a credit for the 19. Oh, fuck it. Just, yeah. I'm going to practice. Okay. Oh, so close to a credit for the 19. Oh, God. You're also going to take 11 fire damage as soon as you hit it. As the hammer comes down, this kind of intense heat. God, yeah, that steam is pretty brutal.

This isn't even the steam. It's just like being close to this thing, like trying to strike it in melee. Oh, right. It's like blood effectively is burning you. 28. To hit, yes, that will hit. 11 damage on the first hit. Dex save.

Fail. Two lightning damage. Okay, as the lightning blasts out. So I'm assuming you're bonus action raging. I did last time. I raged last time. I've already marked it off. Okay.

And I attack. You attack again. You take another six points of fire damage. Okay. Oh, God. It's brutal. Six, did you say? Yeah, six points.

Because, again, the the hammer comes swinging in, connects with it, but it's just this intense heat. 21 to hit. Hits. Same again. 11 damage with the hammer. Perfect. So again, the hammer comes striking down,

kind of breaking several of these stony, carapace-like armor pieces on it, shattering it to pieces, and it kind of recoils and hisses, but still reacts. Still fighting fit. Lucius. Fighting fit? I'm going to...

They're heavily injured, but they are still... They don't seem... You get the sense that these are not maybe beasts, but they're not super intelligent creatures. They seem to be fighting on instinct. Yeah. Predatory behavior. 16 for a Chromatic Orb.

That will hit. Which one? The same one you're fighting? I'm going to twin it. It would be... Oh, you're going to twin it. So the one against the one next to you is technically at disadvantage because you're next to it. Okay, I'll do that.

The other one will be normal. That's a 19. Yeah, so it still hits. And then the other one. Roll to hit the other one. We'll just do the same damage roll for both. 13 plus 8. Yeah, so it still hits. And then the other one, roll to hit the other one. We'll just do the same damage roll for both. 13 plus 8. Yeah, it's going to hit both of them.

Oh, nice. 4d8. No. No way. However, I need everybody to make constitution saving throws. Oh, they all emit half from me. As soon as the... No, you still take half.

This is why I cocked up last time. So as Lucius, these two spinning orbs of ice come flying out of his hands. They pierce through these creatures that just erupt in steam around you. 27. Anyone next to Sentry as well has a... You're going to take half? 28, 29. Yeah, anyone next to Sentry gets two.

You're not next. Oh, I know it's 21. 20, sorry. You're taking half. How much do you get? I got... Well, con save. Yep. 18. 18, I'm next to anyone. You're taking half. How much do you get? I got a con save. Yep. 18.

18. You're going to take half. 10. Taking full. 8. Taking half. Just half. Just taking half.

7. 7. You're taking the full amount. I need to do a concentration save too. You will. It'll depend in a minute. You're on another 18 for concentration. 18 every time on concentration.

You're fine. Those who took full, 14 points of fire damage. Those who took half, 7. Okay, cool. What would be the save? Technically, I should have rolled it twice, but I had to deal the same damage. What's the...

I'll do a concentration save as well. If you've got concentration spell up. So what is it? It's 10 or half the damage. On constitution? Yeah, constitution saving throw. Oh, ten. And remember you have disadvantage because you are exhausted.

Oh no, that's not saving throw. So I've still got my little magic eye up. Okay, perfect. Yeah, these two worms, their bodies just go limp and lifeless. Still resonating with heat, still quite you know, you can feel the intense heat of whatever their organs

or however their body, whatever magic keeps them alive but they just fall lifeless at your feet and I think that's where we're going to take a break. Cooks ready to pee real fast We're going to take a break I'm going to read some donations. We will be back in a bit for some more High Roller!