High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #61 | Hot Under the Collar (Part 2)

Episode Date: February 27, 2020

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the world of Erois, run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes, with me, Tom, playing Kelek Ad Kalad, Cleric Wizard. I am Chris Trott, I'm playing Lucius Vue and Elowen Elinastio. 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,

the official Dungeons and Dragons toolset. Create your free account and speed up your campaigns today. Hello. Hello. Hello. The creatures, these lava worms, are dead at your feet,

leaving you free to basically explore, as far as you know, unaccosted. I guess I've not got any more perception of grinding stone and stuff like that. You certainly don't hear it. And yeah, these definitely seem to be the creatures that were causing it. And we can just walk all over lava right now. Right now, yes, you can. How long has it been since her ritual cast that? How long has it lasted? An hour.

You're fine. It's been like 10 minutes most with the faffing around at the start and then having the combat. The combat lasted like 20 seconds. It was like Lucius went, and these things died. Cool. In that case,

I guess, can I just magic eye all over the place and also just wander around the room? Yeah, sure. And just investigate everything. Make a perception check for me. As you use the magic eye to perceive. Oh my god. For the first time ever. I'll technically be at disadvantage as well because you are at disadvantage.

Wait, why is it disadvantage? Oh, right. You couldn't have gotten worse, really. Eleven. Okay. So I get mental images

through the eye, so whatever it sees, right? So do I need perception for the arc of the eye? Yeah, it's noticing things that are out of place, things that you would actually investigate.

Otherwise, you're just like, I would just describe the rooms to you. Yeah, that's fair enough. You don't sense any more threats. Again, you just find like various kind of like sections that have got books and desks and all sorts of

things loose. Most of it you can access. I think the only thing you would have to go across the lava to access is over here which appears to be, it's not actually a sarcophagus, that's just a miniature I had. It's something, looks like something like of a workbench. Okay It looks like something like a workbench. Can I rifle at the workbench?

So you just hop across the lava with this spell. Describe the spell to me. So it's called Waterwalk and it does for an hour, not concentration, so I can just keep that going. The spell grants the ability

to move across any liquid surface, such as water, acid, mud, acid mud snow quicksand or lava as if it was a harmless solid ground surface as if it was a harmless solid so it doesn't hurt them that's the thing i was checking because there's a big difference between like yes you can walk on the lava you don't sink right it still incinerates your feet however yeah so uh you. You're free to just walk across it as if it's just stone. Yeah. Okay, so Nova's going to go check out the workbench. I like to imagine that because it's Quill who cast it, it's like little feathery pads.

Oh, that's cute. Like when I step across it. That's cute. It's like kind of stepping above it. Little radiant lights that sort of block your feet. Like Doctor Strange. That's very cool. Also, apparently I can cast it when you're under, It's like stepping above it. Little radiant lights that block your feet. Like Doctor Strange. That's very cool.

Also, apparently I can cast it when you're under, when you're submerged in liquid as well, and it would ascend you. Raise you up. Just by your feet. So your head's still awesome and you're drowning. Okay. So Nova, you investigate that. The desk seems to be,

it seems to be something of a half-finished project. You can see that in the middle there is just a thin metal rod, and then scattered around it are various, I guess, weapon components. You can see what appears to be like a blade, like a kind of like sword blade. There appears to be a mace head, a flail, like a piece of chain to create a flail. But it looks like it was abandoned or never finished, basically. It's just a bunch of components. What does this do?

Potion. Potions aren't my thing. I guess I can't detect magic on a potion. Why did you even look at me? You can identify a potion. Do you think that I know what that's going to be? I can drink it. I do not want to drink that. Ignore me.

Potions are my thing. I just need ten minutes. I don't want to drink it, though. Thank you. I guess I'll ritual cast identify. Okay, so while you're doing that, what's everyone else doing? You're just going to basically search the whole place at the bottom? Probably. Anybody who's searching, make an investigation check.

I'm going to lie down on this table Should I make one on the workbench? It's literally just a half You can do it if you think there might be a secret compartment Or something But the bench itself You can see the project that is there If you want to find something hidden

Try and make any sense of it Yeah you could do an arcana check Maybe What did you get on investigation? try and make any sense of it or yeah you could do an arcana check maybe okay all right what'd you get on investigations 11 11 you're not doing anything he's laying on a table he's like i'm done i've done my thing for today i'm very injured i'll probably be like going to like this room and like have a look around sure Just make an investigation check. Okay. What did you get on the arcana check? 11.

6. I'm exhausted. Quill, in your 10 minutes, it is a potion of vitality. So you can write that down, Lucius. Or Quill, whoever's got it. Well, a potion of vitality. When you drink this potion,

it removes any exhaustion you are suffering and cures any diseases or poison affecting you. For the next 24 hours, you will gain the maximum number of hit points for any hit dice you spend during a short rest. So if you spend hit dice during a short rest, you get the maximum amount back.

No! God, no. Do you? You don't have any exhaustion yet. You don't have any exhaustion yet. You don't have any exhaustion yet. No, but he's tight. He's a tight boy. I guess having the potion also makes it easier to recreate it on the ship, right?

No. No? Doesn't make it easier, no. Why would it make it easier? Because we've got the actual thing, right? Yeah, you've got one, yeah. You can't dupe it. It's not like a game glitch where you can be like, got one.

I split the stack. Two. You would still need to go and find the components. But we could use an alchemist. Are you an alchemist? No. Then no, it will not help you. If you took it to an alchemist, maybe it would help them,

but they'd probably just buy it off you. What if it's like when you get to the bottom of hand-washing soap and you just fill it with water and dilute it a bit and you get more? Yeah. No. Potions don't work that way. I don't think hand-washing soap works that way. I know there's a lot of people out there who are like,

DMs should always say yes and well, this is a no but. No, but you could try and see what happens. Wait, is there really a yes and rule for DMs? No, it's like an improv thing. Is Quill a god now? Yes and no.

Yeah, it's kind of a thing of like, it's generally given out as the advice of like, you should always try it as an improv technique. Yeah. Should we say yes and? Well, actually in D&D, sometimes you have to say yes, but, or no, and. I think you're pretty good at that.

You're like, you know what? Try it. Try it. Try it. But yeah, so Potion of Vitality. Okay. Somebody write it down because if you put it in your sheet. It's on my sheet.

Great. The rest of you, it takes some time to thoroughly search it, and Nova, you're kind of spending a lot of time like, what is this? It's like looking at it. She's being distracted. I think because I'm so hot and exhausted, I'm just asking the same question over and over again.

And whilst you're not being burnt by the lava, standing over it is so hot. It's like, oh! It's such a... My brain's just resetting. It's going, I wonder what this does. I wonder what this does. I wonder what this does. So, I will say, it

probably takes you a better part of, like, another sort of 20 minutes. And by this point, in this hot room, I need everyone to make constitution saving throws. Except Lucius, who currently is fine. How? Where did that go? Disadvantage for heavy and medium armor wearers.

I get it on the 18. I get 18 every time I've done it. I've had 18 like six times. That's great then. Wait, what is it? It's disadvantage, so. I don't get it. If you roll another 18.

Isn't that 20? No, it's 20. What is happening? These constitution lessons. What is happening? These constitution lessons What is happening? Birthday rolls Concentration save No, you don't need to

You don't need to take damage No, yeah, you're fine Okay 24 24 I have a con of plus 8 11 11

Con save of plus 8 Technically you're fine What did you get on your You got like a super high Yeah Another level of exhaustion for Quill Shit Level 2 exhaustion

What does that give me? I don't know. Find out. Is it fantastic on the attacks, maybe? It says right at the bottom if you... There you go. ...un-tap that. My speed is halved.

Oh, man. No, in this room, Nova, you're also a second level as well. Okay. Because it's plus one each time. So, yeah, you're feeling the heat now. However, after about 20 minutes, Century, in your section that you're currently searching, you find basically what appears to be like a small metal box, almost like a little jewelry box,

but it's engraved with the sigil of Solvin. It doesn't appear to be locked. It seems like it's opened frequently. There's no latch or anything on it. When you pop it open inside, there are two metal spheres, each bearing a kind of symbol of, yeah, solvent. Okay, cool. These seem to match the thing.

I found them. I've got them here. Well, I think they are anyway, but they're two orbs in a chest. That sounds about right. Oh, cool. The other thing uh who else was searching ayla you were searching you find a scroll in a scroll case and this you actually spending the time you're like pulling the books out it's actually hidden behind several

other books partially hidden in a very beautiful uh it'd probably be made of metal like a metal scroll tube that's been etched with careful symbols and it's cool to the touch like it has no residual heat from being in this room and you can see that there is a scroll wrapped up inside does the scroll okay i mean guess avan's got it don't worry can i look at the scroll... I mean, guess Aiden's got it. Don't worry. Can I look at the scroll? Can I see what it says on the outside? Do I recognise? Runic symbols. It's not a language. It appears to be magic symbols. You put it out, you look at it, a bunch of magic stuff. It's literally like glyphs and sigils.

You can make an arcana check for me. Sure, why not? Fuck it. Ten. Yeah, no. You have no idea. If you got a natural 20, I would have maybe been like, you think you recognize this one and it means this. Hang on.

Hang on. I'm looking for cure wounds. Why? On Lucius. Why are you looking for cure wounds? Because he's like super dead Fuck you buddy You're only half dead Half dead for Lucius is like 10 health That's an in-game conversation

He's at like 10 health Look at him Hey I'm not done This guy's laying on a table And you're rooting around scroll cases He looks more dead than you do What's this? Oh

What What if We make a hole In this place around scroll cases he looks more dead than you do what's this Oh what what if we make a hole in this place a hole and that way we let water in slowly but surely then we'll drown and then we can also look in the water we can we can all go back to this imagine I start swimming on the table. Doing backstroke. Swimming in the water. What level of exhaustion are you at? None. Number two. His head's been whacked around a bit there.

No, he's just Lucius. It's just Danny's boy out again. He's slightly uncomfortable. It's the end of the world. It's not perfect Gustaven temperature. He would rather be injured than be uncomfortable i feel like lucius is deal yeah yeah are you actually yeah three hp resting here thank you do you guys not want to take a short rest in here an hour in here

no really no no i don't think that you would scroll scroll can i look at the scroll is that everything have we found everything from this room that we're going to? You think so. We think so? No, like that 20 minutes, I'm assuming that like Aayla comes and looks up here and Harold's looking over here. You have found everything in this room that you're going to find.

I'm guessing a lone arcana doesn't work that much. Should we walk away? Sorry, yes. On the arcana check, I'll just quickly do this. At best, you think that they were in the early stages of creating some sort of enchanted item, like a magic weapon, that would be able to shift between different types of weapon.

But this was, like, such an early stage, they didn't even start it. I wonder if we're going to see someone with that at the final stage. Some point. Maybe deeper in this dungeon. Maybe, like, the final boss. Don't forget D this dungeon maybe like the final boss don't forget D&D Beyond

you are DM you can lay down the rules Tom can think whatever he likes I can think a lot of things I'm thinking real nasty stuff should we move away

from the is it big? it's like a rod like this and then it's like a bit of a flail and a bit of a sword like

you can take it but it's kind of just like trash no I won't then it's like a bit of a flail and a bit of a sword. Like, you can take it, but it's kind of just like trash. No, I won't then. It's like MMO trash. I'll just sketch it. Yeah, you could definitely take some sketches of it. You can see what they were going through because there's like slots and buttons on the rod that you would think like, okay, probably if you push one it would...

Oh, it's like one of those multicoloured pens. Yeah. You are not entirely wrong. Oh, man. That's so cool. You just press all of them in. Once you've got everything, do you guys want to leave this? Would you go back to the main lobby?

Yeah. This is unbearable. I was just going to start walking towards the door going, and her hair at this point is probably, by the way, like, marred a huge, like, starting to frizz. Yeah. You've got braids, so the braids are keeping it way down

well only parts are braided so the bits that are not braided is probably starting to get really frizzy it's like just so you've got frizzy hair Nova has almost no hair now Lucius is just like I'm sweaty in pants but I'm fine now

let's leave it leave the lava I Leave the lava. Yep. Leave. I'll bring my arcane eye with me. Okay. Painting. Scroll.

Yep. You got a painting. Scroll. When we get outside. Is the scroll case similar to what I have, because the scroll case I have is one I found sentry. Yes, it would be. Ooh.

I got double. It would be. See? You can duplicate stuff. You know that it's a very basic enchantment, but it basically protects the scroll from extreme heat, water, that sort of stuff. Cool.

Well, it's a good way of keeping something like a parchment safe in a... Or a painting. You'd have to take it out of the frame, but yeah. We could roll the painting up and put it in. We'd take it out of the frame, but we can save the painting. Could we? What if it gets hot and then it in? We'd take it as a frame, but we can save the painting. Could we? What if it gets hot and then it gets dry?

No, no, it's safe in the scroll. But we have to take it out first. You would need to take it out. It does mean breaking the frame, yeah. But if we go outside currently with the pet portrait like that, it's just going to get soaked. We can save it this way, though.

Unless we find a chest worth 5,000 gold. You though. Unless we find a chest worth 5,000 gold. You're not going to find a chest worth 5,000 gold. Let me tell you now, Tom Hazel, you're going to have to buy it. What is the scroll inside it? He's trying to ask this three times. I've asked this so many times, I'm very curious. This is,

you can immediately recognize, this is powerful magic. This is actually high-level magic. Your knowledge of Hesper, your training, your understanding of magic, your connection to it helps you identify it. It is a spell called Sequestre. How the hell do you spell Sequestre?

S-E-Q Questre. As you think it sounds. Sequestre. S apostrophe. The essence of the spell is you need to use a powder made of powdered diamond, gemerald, ruby, and emerald. Gemerald, emerald, emerald. 5,000 gold, which you sprinkle over either a target creature or an object.

It then turns that creature or object invisible, hides it from all divination magic, from all scrying, and places the target in a suspended animation that causes time to stand still for it. And then you determine a triggering thing that would release the spell. So it's basically a way to preserve either an object or a creature indefinitely. They cannot be found through scrying, they cannot be found through divination magic.

Only really the power of a wish spell would be able to overcome this and tell you where to find it. What is it, Quill? That? Sequester. What if you put Hadar in that? It must be a willing creature oh but if it's not

it doesn't work okay it takes like 10 minutes to cast as well i think so oh right and we have to get sort of broke the game then i will put starbane in it oh no wait willing again i can Command him to be willing. Calm emotions. Make him willing. Sequestro. See ya. GG game. Done. Maybe. What level spell is that? Seven.

That's a juicy spell. Oh boy. This kind of magic is incredibly rare on Erois. There are very few casters that can conjure this level of power. So this would be very valuable to anybody who is of a particular magical... Is it worth 5,000 gold for a chest? Certainly that kind of cost, it would be worth it. Really?

But it could put Sentry into, if we don't solve Sentry's problem, we could put her into... It freezes them as they are when they are put in the spell. So if you were to put somebody in it and then they slept for a thousand years and then the triggering

event woke them up. Oh! Futurama. Oh! Is this how the Guardians like survived for as long as they did? Like they were all just sequestered away? Well there was a part of their magic perhaps their ability to shut down might have been derived from this kind of magic.

That's certainly a theory that could come to mind. No it's not a theory. It's a fact. No Quill said it. He's got the eye. Obviously we can't put those in the pedestals So I guess we keep looking No we can Since you found the keys

Oh well done Thank you Oh that's right, Harold wouldn't have known either I forgot that they did that on the ring Okay well we got I thought that was just Chris Trott not listening Let's get out of this room It's like a 50-50 chance

Which one it is if it's RP Or if it's he's actually just forgotten Yeah let's Please let's get out of this room I'm already out of the room Yeah I'm assuming you've been having this conversation as you left I imagine that you're in the main lobby area Of these two huge steel doors

The heat Warping the air around them The pedestals waiting with the power I imagine that you're in the main lobby area of these two huge steel doors. The heat warping the air around them, the pedestals waiting with the power. This very slow droning hum still kind of echoes around you from the generator. There's the lava in the one corner. I guess while we're preparing to unlock the door, can I re-up Waterwalk? Sure. For another ten minutes of thingy stuff. So is it a ritual spell? Yeah. Cool.

So I could just cast it, I suppose, but... Well, if we've got a little bit of time, are we taking any short rests or anything? Keep in mind, it is still very hot in this lobby room, so if you take a short rest, that's another con save. I'd like to point out that if we get to level six of exhaustion, that's death.

Is it? Mm-hmm. You didn't read all the way down to the bottom of the page, did you? No, I just read up to the exhaustion level that I'm at. I don't know what's going to happen to me when I get more exhausted. You could guess. You could take an educated guess as a bird folk. I don't think I've ever been so exhausted I thought I was going to die.

Speed reduced to zero. Hit point maximum halved. Yeah, let's get out of this hellhole. Okay. So you're going to take 10 minutes to cast Water Walk? I mean, yeah, I feel like that's important, right?

Right? Water Walk. While everyone's getting their keys prepped. To unlock the door. Just do it, yeah. I'm doing it. Walk, walk. Can I cast Warding Bond on Quill? How long does it last?

An hour. Sure. Do you want to cast that now? Yeah. Okay. So you're going to use Her Majesty's Rose. So the way that the weapon works is you basically knight him, and that creates the bond. You kind of place the tip of the blade on each shoulder, and that creates a bond, and you can feel that connection mean like if if he takes damage you take damage he has

resistance to all damage but any damage quill takes century takes the same amount doesn't increase my AC as well plus one to AC stand still I haven't done this before sir Quill okay thank you okay. So just remember you have that. I should be. That's not concentration. No, that's just touch. You're going to kill the sentry. What if I Warding Bond sentry?

You can't do it. Wait, can you? I think I've got Warding Bond. Infinite loop. A black hole appears. That's true. Hadar. Hadar's critical.

You've just broken the game. I'm actually Warding Bond. Yeah, can we Warding Bond Hadar? Oh, wait. Warding Brune. Wardar's critical. Have you just broken the game? Warding bond. Yeah, can we warding bond Hadar? Warding burn. So if I take damage, then Sentry takes damage, which means I then take the damage again, which means Sentry takes damage. We're just constantly back and forth.

It would have just kept halving until there's nothing. Yeah, possibly. It's probably a bad idea, right? Yeah. It also ends if the spell is cast again on either of the connected pieces. Oh, they got it. However, also keep in mind, Century doesn't have to pay this cost because she's using Her Majesty's Rose. For you, it costs 50 gold to cast.

Do you think I haven't made them money? So, you stand in the great lobby, taking 10 minutes as Quill prepares the spell. We try and start the process of opening the door. You can take the keys up there, yeah? Sentry, if you and Harold want to take them up, Harold will basically offer a hand to take one of the keys. You make your way to these pedestals on either side of the great door.

I think, looking at the heat that's on this door, we shouldn't stand in front of it when it opens. Good idea. What about the two that are opening it? The pedestal is to the side. Just stand by the wall, I guess. If lava's going to pour out, then just be wary of that.

Walk on it. Walk on it. So you finish casting water. Can we move more towards wherever we came into the facility, I guess? If we move towards the tunnel. Where you came in is the opposite end of the room to where the double doors are. Okay. So imagine you have a large square room. You have corridors leading left and right.

And then the door and the pedestals are at the far end. Yeah, I guess the overlook is going to stand back. You stand back, yeah. So you all stand back. Century and Herald place these two keystones in either point. And you hear that low, droning harmony. Watch as blue energy trickles down into the crystal ley lines and then filters up into the door,

and you actually see a bit of electricity lightning crackle up and down. You hear them creak, like the stress of metal that's kind of been almost melded together is being broken as like bits of metal and almost like molten substance kind of brittle and snaps and breaks as these doors begin to slowly

open and you have a feeling that perhaps the facility's low power they would have opened faster than before but they begin to slowly open. No lava comes immediately trickling out but hot air rushes forward. You feel a great heat, very much similar

to like you did before. If we want to move this one down. I will also post all of these maps onto the Patreon if you want to get some sort of context. I should have said that earlier.

But if you want to see this new room It'll be on Patreon. Is this what was hiding underneath the material last time? Because you didn't know that there was going to be a lot of lava stuff. I'm going to move it down a little bit. Yeah, I will do.

Cool. Awesome. Cool. Awesome. Nice. So. Nice. You will be entering from here when you do enter. This is very much, you can see, what would have once been some sort of foundry or processing facility.

Look at this. or processing facility. Broken floors and collapsed platforms litter this room, and the heat of the lava is even stronger than before. Great holes have been bored into the walls, the ceiling, the floor, and lava has poured in into many places. There is some sort of upper curved network of tubes, glass tubes that have been broken,

that were once connected to some sort of stone platform that's now half collapsed. Some of them still lead and filter into the wall, leading into some other hidden part of the facility. On the far end of this new room, you can see another pair of metal doors that seem to lead in. Herald kind of gestures. Beyond that door is the Prime's chamber. It is not far from here, but we must cross across the foundry to reach it.

This is in a very bad state to when I was last here. What is this room? What's it for? It was once used as a processing facility. Power from the Prime was filtered through here and would have been filtered down into Guardians to replenish their life energy. Um, okay. It was also where we did many manual repairs. Guardians that were badly damaged, lost limbs or had their armor broken would have been repaired

here. But sadly much of that has now been lost. You can even still see there's a couple of like work benches on the very corners. They almost look like beds, kind of these raised stone beds set with, like, little tools and arms, like kind of these, like, metallic arms on levers and winches that hang over them that would have housed devices of some sort, some sort of magitek device. Well, we need to find a way across, and quickly. There appear to be several pathways, although narrow and dangerous.

There are some of these jumps we may need to cross as well. How low down, how long is the fall? It's not very far, it's about five feet. Oh, OK. And with waterwalking, you may really need to worry about jumping across. You can literally just walk across it at this point. Let's be wary of more worm thingies in the lava. Can we hear any?

Send the eye forward. You can make a perception check for me if you want. I'll just send the eye forward to get a surveillance of the room. Ten. Ten. You don't hear anything. You can't sense anything. You just see this bubbling, constant flow of lava underneath the floor

and like before this room is unbearably hot. Spending too long in here will definitely again cause more exhaustion. Stop looking at me Stop looking at me Anything with the eye? Do I just go forwards some more?

It doesn't seem to scan anything. You see like discarded ladders that would have once led up to this large platform, this curved platform, but nothing else. Okay. The doors are basically here. Is it worth looking up on that? Yeah, I can send the eye up.

Yeah, send the eye up. Nothing up there. There's, like, several, like several shards of glass all along it, and you can even see down in the far corner where it would have once been set into the wall, glass tubes half protruding, but then they just break and shatter away. So the eye can go through a space of one inch.

Could I send the eye down one of the tubes? Sure. Ooh. It sees in the dark, right? It's got dark vision. 30 feet, yeah. 30 feet. So it goes black and white.

And, I mean, how long do you continue receiving messages? Because it's going through these tubes that just seem to wind up and down for a while. I think it's any distance. It doesn't matter as long as it doesn't go to another plane of existence. So a minute, two minutes, still weaving its way through pipes three minutes what's everyone else doing i'll just keep sending it through but as we're going because it only cost me an action to do that so i can still move um can i start moving around this way I start moving around this way.

Mm-hmm. Wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink. Yeah, you kind of balance on the edges. The crumbling stone, as you get near the edges, like, your foot almost kind of gives away as parts of it break off. I'm like, ooh, and you kind of catch yourself. This place is... Like, any kind of major vibration or earthquake could potentially start causing this place to cave in.

You're not sure how much longer this place will even be able to be travelled through. Whatever you need to do here. Is it crumbling as we're here? It's not crumbling as you're here, but any kind of seismic activity, any kind of loud vibrations could definitely... any kind of seismic activity, any kind of loud vibrations

could definitely cause problems. Maybe. I was going to use that to get a close. Or things like if there was an earthquake in this area, this place is toast. Why do you keep saying earthquake? Just saying. So we have the...

So Ayla's moved all the way down here What's everyone else doing? So we can walk on the lava right? I went over this bit to here and I'm making our way forward So Ayla's taken like what? That's like two moves you've done so Everyone else can move twice basically I've got half movement with my exhaustion

We're all taking different split paths Along this lava Stone lava. Hera can't fly, can she? No, she will. Stick with Century. So Aayla is just powering ahead as the rest of you, especially Quill and Nova

are slowly your exhaustion just sapping your strength as you're kind of trudging your way over there. Lucius, you're kind of weaving your way through the stone cases and as you reach these doors these metal doors at the end you can see that the intense heat in this place has again kind of half fused them shut you're gonna somebody's gonna really need to force these things open to do that um you can see that there was probably once like a big wheel that would have opened it like a turning wheel that has have opened it, like a turning wheel.

That has like slagged. It's like kind of almost half melted into like a kind of drooping mismatched shape. No longer really usable. But as you kind of make that final kind of step up to the door, that's when the rest of you feel it emerge. Here we go. Like the worms before, this is bigger and its stone

carapace covers its entire body. Great spines or spikes of glistening obsidian-like stone jut from its body. Its plates seem to be able to move independently through some sort of musculature, and

its great gaping maw is almost like a squid's beak with these kind of sharp obsidian fangs as it erupts out of the lava, completely hidden. I rolled very, very high on its stealth

as it erupts in a merge. It merges, and that is initiative for everybody. Oh, no. A disadvantage. Woo! Oh, God, yeah. You are. Man, look at this thing.

Big flamey boy. It looks like Ganondorf. If Ganondorf was a worm. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming for the wild. If Ganondorf was a worm. It's coming. It's coming. Right, Aayla. 21. Oh, very good. 21 for Aayla. Quill. 10.

10 for Quill. Nova. 11. Lucius. 5. Ooh, Sentry. 17. And then Herald is at 8. Aayla. You are the first to react as this thing erupts, this deafening 17. 17. And then Herald is at eight. Ayla. Night. You are the first to react as this thing erupts, this deafening like...

As lava comes spilling out over its body. You can see these like rippling stone plates covered in these obsidian thorns as it begins looking around. And it's enormous. This is a huge creature. I didn't quite have a mini big enough, but I put it on the correct size base. Okay. Oh, God, it's like...

So it's even bigger. This is like, you can see it has more of its body below the lava. There's like a 15-foot wide... Yeah, this is like 15-foot tall. This fills like floor to ceiling, basically. Oh, Cannadorph, it's Volparga. I'm going to take two shots. So you pull out your longbow.

Oh no, they were both shit. 16 and 15. 16 and 15. Both of those bounce off its stone plates. As these arrows just... Wait, 17? Oh my god. Did you get 17, did you say? Wait, what did you say? 16. You said 15 and 16, Wait, 17? Oh my god. Did you get 17, did you say?

Wait, what did you say? 16. You said 15 and 16, didn't you? Oh, right. Yeah, so yeah, both missed. Okay, its AC is high. Its AC is 17. I'll just tell you now because it will speed up the combat. Damn it! Still super high. So, Ayla, any movement? Oh, wait, no, I would have had plus two extra to hit on those because it was the... The arrows? The arrows. So it would have been 17 and

18. Yep, so both hit. Ah, okay. Good job I remembered that. Bam. In which case... When is this guy going to pull out his multicoloured pen of weapons? One will be five points of damage and one

will be eight. So 13 total. Bam, bam. Both of these arrows just find these narrow joints between the stone plates from Aayla's longbow, but it does not seem to care whatsoever. Turns out Aayla, pretty good archer. Sentry.

I just realised I need to edit this very quickly. Double HP. Oh, I edited it earlier today, but it's not updated. Oh. Wait, where are we all in this room? Oh, we're all pretty close to it. Yeah.

Except Aayla. Aayla the melee... Queen! Queen. Is the word you're looking melee queen I was going to say princess that's very Allura yeah what would you like to do? I'm going to cast bless which means that Lucius'

thing's going to go but I'm going to cast bless on Nova Quill and Herald so they get a D4. So it's saving throws, attack rolls. Yeah. Okay. Nice.

All of them or just one? One, I think. For a limited time. No, no, it's all of it for as long as the spell's up. Oh, really? All attack rolls, all saving throws, all ability checks, you get an extra D4 on. Oh, okay.

I feel like I should have that one. But no more fire resistance. Yeah. You should. Yeah, I don't know why I didn't take that. Right, so that's your action. That's my action. Any movement? No, I'm just kind of ready in action. You can certainly ready in action. So if it tries to strike any of the three guys, I'll hit it

with a lady's rose. Okay. Alright, after sentry, it's go. Uh-oh. It will. It kind of pulls itself up and it will go around here. So Sentry, you will get an attack of opportunity against it if you'd like. Yes, please. Six plus nine. Six plus nine is a 15.

That is not enough, I'm afraid. It reaches round behind Harold, kind of lightning quick, surprisingly. It kind of slithers out of the lava, leaving this molten trail behind it. It rears its giant head up, and you kind of see it like... Oh!

As a line of lava just is spewn out in a direct line. Can I? Holy shit. Which is going to basically hit a spell attack. Is this a spell attack? It is not a spell. This is like a natural breath. Yeah, unfortunately

mate. And that's going to hit Lucius as well. So Herald, Sentry and Nova, I need you guys all to make dexterity. Yeah, and Lucius. And remember you've got a D4. Yeah, and you've got plus two.

And Lucius as well. Who else did you put it on? It was Lucius, Nova, Quill. It was Nova, Quill, and Herald. Nova, Quill, and Herald. I rolled two fours. Deck save. Disadvantage.

Got a nat 20. Not at disadvantage. No? Nope. Okay. Exhaustion doesn't affect that. Nice, okay. I'm just lucky I've got a high con save so I don't have to use that. 21. Oh yeah. I've only got plus one. Got plus eight. Two, three, four, five, six. Right, so who was I hitting? Herald. Herald. Five, six. Right. So, who was I hitting?

Herald. Herald. Everybody except me and Quill. Pretty much, yeah. Yep. So, Herald fails. Nova? Twelve.

Twelve. Fail. Twenty. Twenty. Success. Half damage. Twenty-three. Twenty-three.

Success. Half damage. You don't have fire resistance anymore, So it's half this, not quarter Sounds like a lot of dice How many dice was it? Oh my god, this is such like a mixed bag It's a mix of ones and twos Perfect

35 45 so far 41 He's rolling more He's rolling more Perfect. 35. 45 so far. 41. He's rolling more. He's rolling more. 58 points. I'm down for me.

You're both down. Do you want to trigger too? Yeah. Sentry's out. I'm down. Herald is not. 58. But Herald is very weakened.

29. So, yeah. I is very weak in... 29. So, yeah. I'm two a minute. Five HP. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, my God. That's three. Almost basically dead.

Holy shit. This is how we go down. That is... Yeah, that's a big hit. Shit arrested. Yeah. The fire resistance as well would have been very useful. Right, so...

So, sentry goes down. My painting. We put it in the scroll. No, I'm holding it. Did you not put it in the scroll? No. Why did you not put it in the scroll? Why do we keep talking about things and not doing them?

I will roll. I don't want to take it out of the frame. Because technically it kind of moved behind you and you had it close to your chest. I'll roll a percentile dice to see if you kind of basically put your back so that basically the lava hit you and not it. I'd say 50-50. Yeah.

43. It's fine. But you are on top of it yeah and I'm down so sentry is down Nova do you tomb yep

so use your reaction and what does that mean so I've got 32 tomb points left so I'm still in it so you're still in the book of ice and what you're at one hit point otherwise

how does it work it just says once for short rest as a reaction when you take damage you entomb yourself in ice which melts away at the end of your next turn.

You gain 90 temporary hit points. Right, okay. So it just takes the damage instead of you. So you're fine, you're at max hit points, but you've just taken time to your tomb. I don't have a turn, basically. Yeah, next turn, then at the end of the turn, your thing goes away. So you see me just throw up like that, like throw my hands up.

Just covered in ice as she's, like, protected. I feel like it's more like Tiangong just sends up a force field. Yeah, just like a barrier. It's like a space as well because you can't do anything. Yeah, she's frozen. Century, you see, just collapsed to the ground. Her armor kind of being bubbled and melted underneath the lava. Lucius, how are you looking?

Can I take a reaction on this to absorb elements, please? You absolutely can. That's absolutely your right to do. That's my right. So what, do you cast it at level one? I'm going to cast it at level... I think it doesn't matter if you cast it at a high level. It only adds damage to melee attacks.

It's probably not worth you doing. It becomes... Yeah, that's a good point. The spell captures some of the incoming energy, a resistance to the triggering damage time until the start the next time also the first time yeah I get an extra d6 damage so I'll cost it as your reaction so you've used your reaction for this until your next turn mm-hmm so but you gain resistance which means you would have half the damage again so it was um 58 right 58 goes to 20 29 29 so half 29 is 10 yeah 15 15 so i need to add

15 14 sorry 14 back on for me um but yeah so you watch as lucius like with his his magic just kind of creates a shield and absorbs some of the lava, but it's still singed. So that's basically my action, right? Yeah. Well, that's your reaction. That's a good point. So your reaction comes back at the start of your next turn. Okay.

Yeah, and you watch this thing just kind of, like, reach up, it spews its lava, and then it kind of just begins looking around for its next target. Is its entire body out now? No, it's still got a lot of its body underneath the lava. So that's what I mean. Is it like... Is it on the stilt or under the stilt? It's kind of like slooped up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's still got the tail from... Nova, you'll go. You don't do anything. At the end of the turn, the ice melts away. And that's gone now. Quill. I'm going to move 5, 10, 15 through the lava. Don't forget, Bless has now gone because Sentry went down Can you also make a constitution saving throw for me for injury check?

Yep Tom missed it I missed it And you took what, 58 points of damage? 16 Yeah, I don't think you physically can avoid an injury at this rate Oh yeah Yep

So One eye's gone What can we do? Oh, yeah, you're gone. Roll a d20. You lost your head. It's a six. Oh, that's not good. Right, Tom, you do your turn while I'm figuring this out.

I'm going to do a beacon of hope on everyone, and they will pass... They restore max vitality oh oh what from if I heal them or if anyone heals oh it does like max healing and also you have advantage on wisdom saving throws I like these and death saving throws I'm using my updated table as are nice using my updated table as well. Oh, nice. I'm using my updated table. And then I'll bonus action healing work.

Oh, no, I can't. Shit. So, sorry, you've got advantage on wisdom and death saving throws. Because a beacon of hope is a spell. It's a spell.

You can't cast two spells on the road. So, you cast beacon of hope and you've moved. So, you're done? Yeah, yeah, I guess. So, you watch as with sentry,

this lava that's coating your back, that armor plating So you watch as with Sentry, this lava that's coating your back, that armor plating that you got, the plate armor, begins breaking off in chunks. You have a minus five to AC. Minus five? Oh, hang on. She's still got Helios.

Yeah, you've got Helios, right? You've got Helios. Extra one. Yeah, Helios one. I've got a 16. Does Helios give you anything to protect against? No. The injury check. The injury check.

The injury check is destroyed armor. So we get adventure and wizardry. I've added it so that certain attacks can destroy weapons and armor now. And if they're magical, they basically get a saving throw. On that, I was like, it's not magical, but it's like guardian, so I rolled it. Failed. Cool.

Nice. Nice. I like it. It's cool. So that was Quill's turn. Herald on her turn. Herald will, seeing Sentry down and a bunch of people took damage,

will cast Mass Healing Word. Oh! It's not much. It's not much. You can only do a small amount. Everyone heals Max. They heal Max. Oh, Max.

Well, it's only 1d4 plus her normal amount. So 1d4 plus 5, so 9. Am I in that radius? You you are oh oh you're in my radius anyway i'm not in her up to six creatures within 60 feet so yeah pretty much everybody gains nine hit points does that mean everyone that's down is no i did the wrong thing he's down yep so century is now up but obviously only on nine hit points oh dude me and herald are gonna might still be worth she kind of she lifts the scythe where

it once had this like jagged scythe area she kind of snaps that piece off lifts the staff up and you see the the wings kind of glimmer with light briefly and she sends out this healing pulse and then she kind of collapses like feeling injured and weakened.

After that, Lucius. Okay, I'm going to go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Mm-hmm. We'll fall in the lava. Let's hope you don't do that. I'm going to cast Land on Anyone. Fifth level. You've still got it.

Cone of Cold. Ooh. Ooh. And you're going to get it so it only hits. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. Going all the way along. Okay, well, tell me what I've got to do.

It just... Constitution saving throw, please. Okay. Constitution saving throw. It's quite high because this thing is pretty good at that. That's a 24. Yeah. So it's 8d8.

So it is, as you watch, where you've seen these things, the smaller ones, the cold kind of hit them and seemed to affect their body. So it is, as you watch, where you've seen these things, the smaller ones, the cold kind of hit them and seem to affect their body. This one's sensing the cold in the air building up. You watch as it kind of withdraws in and all these armored plates kind of lock around itself and it kind of hunkers down and waiting for the cold to hit it. Roll for the damage. It gains resistance to cold for this turn. Bitch.

Roll for the damage It gains resistance to cold For this turn Bitch But that's It's reaction gone And it doesn't look like It can move For at least one turn

It like Locks itself in place It is currently restrained Which means attacks Have advantage against it God damn So Give me that damage son

Does that mean it can't take Attacks of opportunity then? I can't remember Let me check I've halved it already. It's 15 points. So that's already halved, yeah? Yeah. Is that halved again?

No, it's halved once. It's saved, so it halved it once, and then it's resistant to cold. Once it uses this ability. It takes like seven. It takes like seven. That was like, you must have rolled pretty low on that for the damage. Wow. Yeah.

How many? It's you. How many does it do? 8d8. 30 on 8d8. It's average, I guess. Admirable. Dicromancy. Dicromancy. And it can't use that ability again.

Oh, it still has the resistance, actually. 8. So half of 4. So you watch as it kind of locks itself in. You see its armoured form kind of like hunker around it as this cold hits it, and you can still hear that it's like... Yeah, but it kind of...

The cold warps around it, and it's now locked in place. It can still move slightly, but only to really attack anything around it. Does it steam up? It doesn't, no. The plates kind of keep the heat locked inside. So it looks harder to hit it now. It looks like it's AC might have got it, yeah.

Ayla. But it currently has its restraints, so attacks against it have advantage. Okay. I would like to move up to here and throw the Howling Tempest at it with a punch. Sure. If it hits, it does 46 extra damage.

Please. Natural 20! Not lying! Not lying! Bro critical on a hammer throw. How do we do this? So it's the same as it normally is So you do max damage with the weapon

Oh my god So roll the weapons damage normally So The weapon damage normally is a d10 So it's like 17 So it's 17 Plus 2 d10s Plus

For critical and brutal critical 5 So 22 Plus 1 24 23 So critical and brutal critical. Five. So 22. Plus one. 24. 23. Now 46. No, well, 46 maxed is 12, 24.

Oh, got you maxing that as well. Now roll 46. Oh, my God. So six, seven, eight. Nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. What were you at before? 67. Bloody Nora.

She's the true high roller. Is that the most damage you have done? You have rolled so many natural 20s today. I never want to hear you complain about dying by dice rolling ever again. And then I'm just going to... You watch as Ayla just kind of comes up, seeing Century go go down just... It spins through the air, hits

the center of this armored locked-in worm, and you see the stone just break and shatter. It's almost like thrown backwards. It's like... Damn. Holy shit. And then lightning. Yeah, I... Your aura's not gonna hit it. No, that's fine. And then lightning. Yeah. Your aura's not going to hit it.

No, that's fine. So, cool. Oh, my God. 67 must be the highest for the sun, right? That's right. I forgot to rage, but I was meaning to rage before I did that. Bonus action, yeah, that's fine. It's a bonus action, so I've marked it off anyway.

After sentry, it is the worm. Okay. You've got like five health, haven't you? Like nine, yeah. Oh yeah, nine, yeah. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to move back. God, the question is now what is this like?

It hates things that use cold, but you just hit it so fucking hard. It wasn't cold! It wasn't cold! It was hard. Let me see. 120, yeah. I'm going gonna move back to about here. I think if something hit me that hard I wouldn't hate cold anymore, I'd hate lightning. I'm gonna cast Moonbeam on it.

At level 3. So it needs a con 14 save. 23. Okay, half damage. 9... that's 13 halved. 13 halved. That's 13 halved. 13 halved. 13's already halved? No, no, 13 halved six.

Okay. You watch as this column of radiant light strikes down on it from the ceiling, burning it, but the plates, it just kind of ripples in its already angered state, furious at the hateful blow it's just

been dealt. How much did I lose? 67? Yeah, something like that. Pretty crazy. I'm done. Especially against the boss. It's the boss, right? Uh-oh. It just swims through the lava towards

Ayla and Quill. Right. It's gonna hurt. You look pretty weak, though. I do. So it will multi-attack. It will bite. Oh, I need to see if its lava spew recharges.

Roll a d6 for me, Tom. Okey-dokey. No, I don't give it his responsibility. Just roll it. Just roll it. Three. You're okay. It doesn't recharge.

You're welcome, everybody't recharge you're welcome everybody so it will attempt to bite Ayla and then it's going to try and wrap its body around Quill oh my god I pray natural one against Ayla

oh hang on, can I portent three it so three against you, thirteen Natural 1 against Ayla Oh hang on Can I portent 3 it So 3 against you 13 Seriously what AC No it wouldn't hit his AC is 16 And you're okay You're alright then

Yep So we'll take one with its bite one with its thing That's it that's its go After the worm we go to Nova. Such a good mood now. I was terrified. I was like, this is it.

Death has come. What's your port then? Death has come. I've got a 12 left. Oh. So, can't really use it on him. You could.

My wife's like, try it. Screw it. I would like to cast Blight. Why not? Why not? Actually, um screw it i would like to cast blight why not why not um actually i'm gonna do several things one i'm gonna hex curse it which isn't gonna help with this but i just want to get it on anyway so bonus action hex curse um and then yeah i'm gonna cast blight and then i'm gonna move away um so can you make a con save of 17 it's's probably going to pass, but... Yes. 18. It's still...

That was... It has plus 10 to its cost. It was a risk, but... It's still a good spell, though. Yeah, it's still a ton of damage. Yeah, hopefully. Oh my god. Although... We need to get you, like, an online dice rollable or something.

For Blake. 37. Half 37 is Yeah? Yeah. 37. So half 37 is 15 plus another three. 18.5. 18. So 18. Still. That's still good.

So you watch as again you reach out with a necrotic gauze and you feel these black tendrils pulling at its life force. Kind of rides around in rage. This kind of... But it is still fighting strong. And then you move away, Novage. Do you just want to move yourself while I do Quill? Someone move me 15.

Which way? This way? 15? Yep, Quill. I'm going to cast... Is it... Fuck. Expeditious Retreat is the one that doesn't proc.

Oh, no, it doesn't. It still does. It just lets you dash. It's still going to have a little fight at me, isn't it? Fuck. Expeditious Retreat is the one that doesn't proc. Oh no, it doesn't. It still does, it just lets you dash. So it's still gonna have a little bite at me, isn't it? Yeah. And I can't do Expeditious because I've got Beacon of Hope anyway. Beacon of Hope is an important one. I want to get away from it. Get away from it then.

Oh, is it? What is it to do with disengaging? You can disengage, but it's your action. So it's your whole action. Sure, I'll do that. Action. One, um, what is it to do with disengage? You can disengage, but it's your action. So it's your whole action. Uh, sure, I'll do that action. One, two, three. And then, at fifth level, I will do, uh, a mass healing word. Okay. And that will hit, that will hit everyone.

Oh, cool. He's already worked this out. It's a bonus action, yeah. He's healing! So 3d4 plus four maximum because of Beacon of Hope. So 3d4 is 12 plus 4, 16. So 16 to everybody. Nice! I love this, Tom.

What's the range on Beacon of Hope? 60 feet. Oh, Beacon of Hope is 30, but I've already cast it on everyone. Yeah, he got everyone with it already. Gotcha. We are touched. Oh, right, so once we move, as long as you cast it. It's not a passive thing, yeah, you've currently just got it on.

Is it concentration, or is it? I think it is. I think it is a concentration, yeah. Herald will attempt to, she will actually cast Guiding Bolt. Nice. Man, I love this. The Herald. When she's not killing us. She's like an extension of me. She's got my other wing.

Makes sense. Which hits, so the Guning bolt hits against the creature, so the next attack has advantage against it. This is four, nine. Ooh, bad. Eleven. Wait, if she uses one wing and we hold on and I use my other wing, can we watch?

26 points of radiant damage. Oh, nice one. Holy shit. She hit. And advantage on the next hit against it too yeah so you watch as this kind of like golden bolt she kind of shoots out of her hands it strikes it in the chest and then she will actually put herself between quill and as well standing atop it I'm the only one against her Man Harold you're so cool

And also very nice Lucius I'm going to Keep rolling Fall over Do I have line of sight here on Big bad He's pretty huge

Yes Even with the columns and stuff I'm going to throw a chromatic orbit in then With advantage Oh thank goodness With advantage That's a nat 1 right there With advantage though Oh, thank goodness. With advantage. That's a nat one right there. With advantage, though, because of...

14 plus 8. Nice. That's 22. Yes. Thank you. Cold damage? 68. Cold.

It will use its reaction to lock its plates in again. In this case, I will use elemental control to change my element as it's travelling

to acid oh damn because it's your reaction you'd be using your reaction again

so you wouldn't be able to absorb elements potentially but yeah you can do that

so you basically you launch this orb you see it kind of begin to lock itself,

and then midway, with the gauntlet and your own controls, you're like, and you watch as this orb changes from icy blue into this golden, like, blob of orangey acid. That's the coolest thing I've ever seen. There's three sorcery points to do. In my imagination. Can you do that a second? He's like the fastest spellcaster in the West.

And then it's going to hit, so roll your damage. And it's going to take all of the normal damage I'm also an elemental Adept at acid which means all Ones are twos Holy mother of god Who is this Trot? What happened to you? When he does things like this When I threaten you with death you're all like

Bring the A game, bring the A game Trot's suddenly an amazing spellcaster i'm suddenly healing people can suddenly roll some dice you're suddenly getting that for 20s all the time i have a painting and i fall down don't worry don't worry 29 points

i'll pay for this next week which is a 6 so that's 35 total it was a 6 on the dichromancy yes you watch as this acid just begins melting away huge parts of its body

it's already used its thing so it's restrained it's currently locked in its place yeah so at the top of the round Lucius, that goes from Lucius to Aayla so I have advantage on it because it's hunkered down oh no that wasn't a good roll

eight nine seventeen not enough because it's armour is there because it's locked it's blades so you strike it with a hammer when you strike it with a hammer because this is the first time you've hit it in melee, you take...

That is 12 points of fire damage. So no halving that. It looks like that boss inflates fire. So the second hit was 15 plus 9. That's a hit. You take another 10 points of fire damage. Ow. Slamming, even with its big rocky plate,

the air pressure of this heat still emanating from it. She'll take the damage even if she doesn't hit it. It's every time you make a melee attack against it. Because you've got to get close enough to swing the hammer, and that's when this heat is basically gone. Does it automatically fail a dex saver that's all hunkered down?

I think it has disadvantage on them. Yep, it has disadvantage on deck saves. I rolled a two on the first one. It fails. Perfect. So 12 damage on the hammer plus six lightning damage. Oh my god.

Okay, so you watch as the hammer strikes in and then is blasted with lightning. It kind of squirms around again desperately trying to kind of realize what's going on trying to find some sort of way to defend itself sentry trying to realize what's going on well yeah because it's being hit by like different things um oh fuck maybe bad idea yeah i know sid i'm gonna try we'll might have to go all the way up until the end so we might not have time for the donos go a little bit longer because I want to try

and finish this fight if we can but I know Becky's got feature stream after us as it boots today 15 20

yeah 25 30 there we go okay oh Sentry's all up in its face going to whack it twice

divine smite okay how much health have you got? Oh, you got healed. I got healed. So I roll both. So 9 plus 9, 18 for the first one. Not enough.

Not enough. It's armor plating up. And 16 plus 9 for the second one. That will hit. Cool. So Divine Smite. Now I leveled up. So I need to just double check how many dice I do.

What spell slot are you using for Divine Smite? Oh, that's a good point, isn't it? Because that's what determines the damage. So it's a D8. It's your normal weapon damage. Yeah. Depending on the spell slot. Well, I've only got a level one spell slot left.

So it's just two D8. So just two D8. And then that one on top. Normal weapon damage. So it's three. Seven, eight, sixteen. Sixteen points. 16 points. Plus 5.

21. Add the d4. 3. So that's 27. You strike into it and you kind of wedge Her Majesty's Rose in, pulling it free. It kind of slumps to the side, staggering, swaying on its feet. It lets out this mournful, like,

but it's just barely alive. Still. End of your turn? End of my turn. Ruh-roh. Can you roll a d6 for me? Oh. Oh, no! Roll a three. No, roll a five.

I know. Two? It's a five or six to recharge. Oh, okay. I know this from doing wild shapes with the Laura. Sentry, it's coming for you. Oh no! I'm right there! It will try and constrict Sentry.

That is a 28 to hit. I'm right there now! All right. And then it will bite. I did damage to it, baby. I'm right there now! All right. And then it will bite. I did damage to it, though. You did do damage to it, but it can't... It doesn't want to do that. I'm standing there with a hammer going,

come on, you shit! It's going to attack Quill, because it's got a reach. Wait, did it move away from me, though? Oh, yeah, did it move away from me? Has it moved? It has moved, like, over here. It just turned around. Damn it.

And so what's it going to do to me? It's going to bite you as well. Has it got a range for that? Yep, it's got reach. 12. Oh! No, no! Right, so...

I ported it. I ported it to 12. You are taking 15. 21 bludgeoning damage. Oh, shit. And then 18 slashing damage As it's obsidian things that I described

It wraps around you And begins crushing you on it's side Was there a moonbeam at some point? Ah there was I don't know if She has to move it You have to move it So you go down

Constitution saving throw for me please Wait wait She has to move it. You have to move it. So you go down. Another injury. Constitution saving throw for me, please. Wait, wait. You can still do it. Because you were going, wait, wait, wait. I'll portent your injury save to 12. I got 13.

Too late. He has to use it before it rolls. Okay, so 12 plus what's your 5 5 17 17 um wait it's only 22

do we need we got time we got time so you watch as yeah century you're fine you don't take an entry but you are now

in its grasp you are grappled and restrained and unconscious um and you can see it it tries to bite quill

he kind of dodges the side and then as it's got Sentry, it opens its mouth and it looks like it's going to try and bite down. Spaghetti-os! Actually, no. It's got Sentry grappled and it hasn't moved yet. Oh, is it going to...

It drags Sentry down into the lava. Whee! What about Water Walk? So this is... Water Walk would launch up 63. So I think it has to make a strength check to pull it under. And technically she's not going to take damage while it's under, but it's going to try and... My painting!

So what's your spell save? Oh, God, how do I say that? Also, as he drags... What about you? The painting! All of Sentry as well. secret yeah she's dropped the painting right and then I'll say hi is good hi is good 50 on the dot. Interesting. So my spell save is 16. 16. Wait, the 0-0 is a...

This thing, even though it's got the buoyancy of the spell, it's like dragging Sentry. It's like having somebody in floaties and just pulling them under the water. You will get an attack opportunity, as will Herald. Okay, so Sentry is under them. But she doesn't get damaged because it's harmless. She doesn't get damage Because the spell is

Making it harmless This weird fucking thing Where I think she's protected From walking But not When she goes under Stop finding some

Can I do an attack In that case When she goes under She's gonna take damage Can I choose to do A reckless attack On an attack of opportunity No

It has to be on your turn Okay, okay Just wanted to check Herald misses Oh no That was shit That was only a 3 plus 9 Holy shit

Sentry is dragged under You're going to basically take a death saving throw Automatically, because you are burning Under the water The rest of you all see When she was grabbed The painting fell onto the floor Oh, thank god But she's dragged under I know the symbolism of this painting When she was grabbed, the painting fell onto the floor.

Thank God. But she's dragged under. I know the symbolism of this painting. I love how she's about to die and she's like, thank God, the painting. So we would go to, after the worm, it is Nova's go. So can I see it? It's lava. It's kind of opaque. I will say that you can see the shape of the worm.

You can't see centrally. Oh, its tail is under as well. Yeah. Like, it's totally under. Yeah. But I'd say that it's big enough that you can see the disturbance. You'll have disadvantage to attack it, because it's now obscured, basically, under the lava. What if I jump into the lava?

If you jump into the lava, sure. Again, walking on it, fine. Submerged, no good. You'll take damage. But if I go under? again walking on it fine submerged no good you'll take damage but if I go under if you go under I won't give you you'll have normal attack roll as long as it's a spell how barony could it be

find out you gotta make a decision in the next five minutes five minutes? you've got plenty of time I'd like everyone to Can I jump in and then climb out

at the end of my turn? Or is that like what's the So the wall walk thing will launch you up probably faster than you So you purposely dive under

so you like leap off I want to come out at the end of this. Sure. Okay. So you dive in. But you will because the spell will

do that. Yeah because it will buff me up. I hear Jeff in the lava. I think just because it's sentry, I wouldn't even think about it. Nova wouldn't even think about it because it's sentry. You take 28 fire damage. Okay.

Oh. I mean, it's still 28 like every turn. Yeah. As long as you're submerged, you're going to take 6d10 fire damage. Yeah, but I'm specifically coming out at the end of this. So you dive under. What do you do? Eldritch Blast. So you kind of... and you feel it just

burning your face, your flesh, your skin, your clothes. But you reach out. Natural 20! Yes! Holy shit! This thing has four hit points left.

The blasts just kind of pierce through it. Whatever grip it has on Sentry lets go. And the two of you begin floating up. Oh, no, yeah, the spell would still on, so they're going to pop up. But, remember, initiative

order, because after Nova, Quill, they would... But Sentry's like, it's... Like, on Sentry's turn, she's going to pop up. Do you know what I mean? Because she can drag down further. Nova pops up immediately, because you're also swimming back up to the surface. So Nova pops up.

You can see covered in burns, like, drags, pulls herself up onto the stone. But Sentry's going to come up on her turn. So does that mean she can take damage on her turn? Death saving throws because of Beacon of Hope. I'll just levitate her up. Okay, so you kind of reach through. Oh shit! Obscured, but not

completely. I'm guessing you need line of sight to the target. This thing just died, right? Yeah. I heal. One creature or loose object I can see within range. So again, you could do the same thing of like, if you want to see sentry, Quill's got to get under, he's got to get a better view on her.

Because right now she's like, she's about 40 feet under. But she's going to pop up on her turn because of that spell. Yeah. Well, yeah, she's 30 feet. So I'll say she'll come up to the surface on her turn. But that spell. Yeah. Well, yeah, she's 30 feet, so I'll say she'll come up to the surface on her turn, but that's still another death saving throw

and she's going to have to roll one on her turn. With advantage, though. You get advantage. Yep. But I mean, I'm trying to, I feel like levitate,

that's the way to get her out, right? Then do it. Can you wait? Can you hold action? Harold can heal. You could hold action to do it when she pops up. First thing,

let Harold go in the lava. She's going to take... Tom, what are you doing? No more deliberating with the team. This is an in the

moment, you've got to make a decision now. What do you do? I think about casting levitate and don't. Okay. That's basically it. So you're not

casting it? No. Are you holding an action or anything? I mean, yeah, I'll hold an action. If she comes out, I'll levitate her up

Okay, Herald dives in Cool Herald will absolutely do this You see Herald dive in and try and swim in Against this thick, viscous lava Parts of her begin melting away She grabs Sentry and pulls her up to the surface And throws her to the side

Did you say you were going to ready an action to heal? I said levitate I'll do it here next time okay all right so she levitates up to the surface that's herald's go lucius you're the next one like herald is like dragging like sentry basically up onto the the stone edge you can see that like she herself is like covered in melts like 60 10 damage isn't gonna kill herald so i'm not gonna worry about it i'll take it in a minute 30 i don't really do much from here nope that helps okay um but i will dash there okay so you dash so then we go straight to ayla can i go over and pull sentry out so you i'm right i'm still raging so i mean herald can i try and pull them both out yeah yeah sure sure, yeah. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

So you pull them both out. I mean, she was pretty much already out anyway. Yeah, you like pull them out. Does that count as my whole action? No, they were already climbing out. Can I put a potion in Sentry's mouth? If you have one. I do.

Okay, go for it. So she'd received max healing from the potion as well. Do I also make another injury? Chicken of both technically no you don't it's kind of a weird way to injury yes what I'm slightly mel I think you can definitely take like a flavorful thing what's the regular healing potion regular him poached 2d 4 plus 2 so 8 like 10 10 10 HP. And with that, Sentry, just out of interest because you would have been next. Roll the d20 for me. I get advantage. You do?

Eight and a seven. Eight and a seven. That would have been one fail. But without being in the lava, she would have had one more round. That's the thing, I was trying to figure out

how to get her out of the lava. Because if Herald didn't get her out of the lava, Sentry would have died then. Yep. Oh my god. You watch as the lava, Sentry would have died then. Yep. Oh my god. You watch as Aayla pulls Sentry out, Nova kind of climbing out herself,

having dived in. Sentry and Herald are still kind of covered in like this bubbling lava that they're kind of throwing off. Aayla downs this potion down on her and you see Sentry's eyes flicker back into power. Stop it. As you are left.

We're not done yet. You can't die yet, okay? Where's my painting? Actually, it's right here. It's fine. I'm just going to hold it and, like, just cry. No, you're covered in lava. No, I'm holding it.

The cloak is beginning to, like, burn from the heat. I'm just, like, holding it really tight and just, like... And then the other side of the room, you just hear, I am so hot! I'm just like holding it really tight and just like... And then the other side of the room, you just hear, I am so hot! Well, we will make the next round of constitution saving throws after this battle next time. Based on these amazing player tactics, don't forget to use D&D Beyond

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