High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #63 | Arise (Part 1)

Episode Date: March 9, 2020

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Pickaxe. now at joe fresh get 20 off children's activewear only until wednesday august 14th shop smart with one cart and check everything off your back to school list all in one place now that's some smart shopping conditions apply see in store or joefresh.com for details hello everyone welcome back to high rollers a dungeons and dragons podcast in the world of eroes run by dungeon master mark shollock humes with me tom playing, playing Kelek 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 Aayla, a Wild Elf Barbarian. And I'm Kim. I'm playing Nova, who is an Air Ganassi and she is a Hexblade Warlock. Thanks to our regular sponsor, D&D Beyond, the official Dungeons & Dragons toolset. Create your free account and speed up your campaigns today.

Hello, welcome back to High Rollers Erois. After overcoming the intense heat and creatures within Volcanos and the research facility, our party have finally reached their destination, the Chamber of the Prime. With many questions and the Prime's energy fading, the party learned much about the world of Erois and the universe beyond, learning of the first divines, the first gods, and their war with Hadar, one of their own. They learned of Erois's origins, a barren and lifeless planet made into a utopia by Siasca, using a device called the World Engine, a Genesis relic. And they learned the origins of the Guardians and their tragic fate. Root Prime explained that another Guardian would need to take up the Primer Matrix,

another Genesis relic that allowed Guardians to be reborn and find peace. And Sentry had been chosen as a potential successor. Sending Sentry and the companions' minds into the Prime Matrix to face a challenge to prove her worthiness, the trial took them back to Solvin, an invasion of the city. Sentry was forced to make difficult decisions, sending her friends to die and to turn her back on the family she had sworn to protect. When all seemed lost, the Prime spoke once more, and the final challenge began. A nightmarish avatar of Hadar and Calas Starbane fused together, descended and began to attack. attack. It robbed Aela of her immense strength and toughness, blinded Lucius and haunted him

with spirits of his dead family, and seemed near unharmed despite immense amounts of damage. And that is where we begin! God, that was a lot last time, wasn't it? It was so much! We jump straight back into combat.

We actually have a map. We have a map this time. I actually got a map together for this time. I have taken a picture I will post on the Patreon if you're listening on the podcast. Perfect. Yeah, we have a map this time

and it's really cool. And we jump at the top of the round. Dice would be useful, Chris, drop one. Yeah. Had them all along. For me.

At least you brought them. Before we begin with Quill who will be the first up, followed by Nova. So think about what you want to do. Sentry, in your mind, you begin to hear the voice of Root Prime. Oh, a message has been passed.

That is a dead body, it looks like. Looks like one of the Solvin soldiers with Magitek and things like that. You seem to be standing on what was once a street of Solvin soldiers with Magitek and things like that, yeah. You seem to be standing on what was once a street of Solvin, and there are ruins and remnants of the environment around. But it's, like, all cracked around the edges, like it's space and material around the edges. Yes, you are floating in a red nebula. Cool.

Do we recognise the street from the last bit with the boat? Not from the last bit, it just seems to be a generic street from Solve. Are there like chunks of Solve in like flying around as well? Just this platform and then just endless red nebula. So cool. Damn. The giant looming form of the avatar

stands at one end, kind of looming down. The wall of light is the blue walls you can see there that Nova created. And Quill, it is your turn. Okay, I'm going to fly down because I'm 60 feet up, aren't I? You are 60 feet up currently, yes.

So can I land on this piece here? You can land wherever you wish. Awesome. Okay, I'll land so I'm outside of Nova's radiant box. You heard. You only take damage if you finish your turn in it. You go through it, but it will fuck up your line of sight. I will bonus action with a spiritual weapon.

I can only move it 20 feet up, and it's 60 feet high at the moment, so I'll bonus action and just raise it up 20. So it's a little closer to it. Sure. And then... He's 60. He's 60 feet in the air right now. Thank you, Katie.

He's got a bit of blue tackle. Who's looking mega damage? Not me. Not me. I think so far, not a lot of damage has been taken. You can see Lucius stumbling around, his eyes completely black and smoking. You can see Aayla, her form withered and shrunken,

struggling to get to her feet, desperately trying to use her bow. I'll try a Cure Wounds on Lucius. Are you undamaged? No. Okay. I'll do a Cure Wounds on Lucius? Are you undamaged? No. Okay. I'll do a Cure Wounds on Lucius. And I've got something called Spellbreaker with my heal. I'm healing at second level.

Would that break the spell that Lucius is under? Let's find out when you cast the spell. Second level, doing Cure Wounds, so 2d8. Name, Spellbreaker. I think that's what it's called. Eight plus four, so you heal for 12. It's Arcana Domain. It does not break the effect

Okay fine well that's my turn Thanks for the heal You reach out with your magic And you try to kind of conjure Hesper's influence and there is A connection there you are manifesting magic Whatever effect is around Lucius

Is partially connected to his Own cognition It's not necessarily a purely magical effect This is actually is around Lucius is partially connected to his own cognition. It's not necessarily a purely magical effect. This is actually kind of reality is being made manifest for him specifically. So it's not something that can be...

It's not just like an illusion or like a fear effect. This is something which is... Oh, so it's like Sentry seeing us as our best selves. Seems to be a similar element to that here, yes. But also, yeah, you're not aware of the details, but you get that vibe from it. Sure.

Okay, end of your turn. That's my turn. Nova. So I'm going to use my Wall of Light to launch another Radiant Beam at... The Avatar. Hardarbane. Mm-hmm.

So ranged spell attack, so... 12 plus 9 is 21? Yeah. 5, 6, 7, wait, say 10, 13. 13 damage? Yeah, 13. Yeah, 13. And then it's radiant, so it's doubled to 26. Nice. And then plus 4 regular damage so it's doubled to 26. Nice.

And then plus four regular damage from my hexblade curse. Okay. But I don't know what... Yep, no, that just does normal damage. Yeah. Cool. So you watch as the beam of light, and that reduces the wall by 10 feet. Yeah, so it's now down to 40 feet.

Which portion do you want to remove, basically? I guess, can I just make it smaller like that? Well, that's removing more than 10 I've already taken that off. So it's 40 foot now 10 20 30 40 feet. Yeah, so no that's right. Okay, cool Afternoon anything else. Do you want to move? Anything else? Do you want to move? No.

Okay. After you're turned over, the avatar turns, like, kind of still smoldering. You can see, when you've struck it with this radiant energy, parts of it have, like, blackened, parts of it seem to have, like, been burnt off, but it's still composed entirely in its form. It seems enraged, it seems

furious as it kind of turns down. You think that you have anything special about you? The only thing that makes you special, little Ganassi, is this. And you see its blade that it's been holding changes into Tiangong. It holds it up and Tiangong in your hand shatters. You lose all of your Warlock spells. What? Yep. It completely breaks. You feel like

this desperate cry of death as Tiangong just breaks apart in your hands. What are you now? Nothing. Yeah, this is a fun fight, isn't it? Do we see Tiangong shatter? Yep. Oh my god. I think to all of fight, isn't it? Do we see Tiangong Shatter? Oh, my God.

I think to all of you, Nova drops it. Right. But, yeah. Okay. I think you'd probably hear me just, like, cry out, like, in, like, just terrified. That's at the end of your... Yeah. Yeah. And I'm probably, yeah, panicking.

I'm just panicking. And you feel that that connection to magic. The Wall of light is still there because you're maintaining the concentration, but even that you can feel the power of it's fading, but there's no more energy to draw on for your spells. I just feel like a part of me has been cut out. I think, yeah.

After that, Century. God. Hello. Doki doki doki doki. This is fun, hey? Listening to you. So yeah, you see this thing and it reaches out. And I think, Century, you see these effects happening to them

rather than, you know, you can always sense what's happening to them, but you also see the reality of the situation. Is there a condition ring for totally fucked? I was looking for disarmed, but... I've already got that one, sorry. I'll remind you about these effects. for totally fucked. I was looking for disarmed. I've already got that one, sorry. I'll remind you about these effects. I can't do anything that... Anything that comes from your warlock class.

You can just uncheck that, I think. So like wall of light. It's still active for now. I guess I probably can't control it. You'll find out on your turn. You can still make attacks with weapons. You don't have... you don't have got it

I don't have a weapon you just destroyed it so you can see three members of your team are now freaking out Will is the only one still unaffected

yeah so listening to for now I'm coming I know you are what's Will's biggest fear no fuck off.

No. I have no fear. Everything. I cannot be afraid of anything. It would just replay all these episodes of Aroah. It's like, that's my biggest fear. I don't know how you smoke monsters. I can make little smoke monsters out of it.

Oh, yeah. So listening to what Root Primer said, I'm going to... You have Ayla next to you. Yeah, I'm going to speak to Ayla. Okay. I'm just going to get down to her and be like, Ayla, we need your courage and strength. Don't listen to the voices.

They're not real. You're so strong. You're so fearless. I can't pick up my hammer, Sandry. I can't do it. Don't listen to them. You can do it. Trust me, Ayla.

We need your strength right now. I can't pick up my hammer. How can I do anything? You can, Ayla. You can do anything. You're so strong. Make a persuasion check. Fuck!

I shouldn't have used that dice. Was that your birthday? That was your new one. Six. No. Eight. Eight. There is something there,

but the voices are drowning Sentry out. Like, you can hear vaguely some of what she's saying, but it's not enough to break through and give you any kind of boost of courage against these things. You can feel the spirits closing around you, and Sentry, you see these kind of voices almost trying to block you out, kind of drowning you out with their droning.

Unwanted. Nobody wants you. Not even the air clan You are weak Nothing without your strength Can I try and attack the spirits? Can I see them to attack the spirits? You know that they are illusory

They're just drowning you out So that's just I would say that that is just That's a free action for you to speak to Aayla You still have an action Can I try and What do you want to try and do? You could try again, but

that would probably be your action if you want to spend more time doing it. I want to try again. So you get down. You're trying to push through these illusions. Get to Ayla. You can do this. Don't listen to them. 18 plus 6.

What do you say this time? So you can feel your words falling on deaf ears and the spirits are drowning you out. What does Century do? Ayla, you're stronger than this. You can do it. We need you now. Don't listen to them.

Please. We need Ayla. What if I can't? You can do it. I know you can. I've seen you do so many amazing things. We can do this. We're together.

And our sentry puts a hand on you. The words kind of hit and you feel the strength regain into your hands and your arms. Your form begins to swell, the lightning crackling up and down your body, and with one hand you grip the hammer and lift it free as the spirits just burst away.

You are now immune to that legendary action. That was your action, Century. Sweet. Let me just put that back up to 18. I will remove the fevered ring. Nice. Okay. Century, that is the end of your

go, yes? Yes. Would you like to move or bonus action? Ooh, let me move to Lucius, and then I will end my turn there. Okay. Ayla. Oh, hello. Your turn. Okay.

You are still on the ground, so you'll have to stand up, and he's 60 feet in the air. I'll stand up. Okay. He's 60 feet in the air. I'll stand up. Okay. And I will probably just, like, grab Sentry's shoulder and look at her. And then I will...

He's so far away from me, so I will use the bow again. But I will shout at him. Now you can draw it fully with your full strength, kind of putting all of your power in. But I will shout at him. Come on, come down here! Let me fight you properly! And I'll take two shots. Okay.

Both 14s, so... Both will hit. I can tell you now, it's AC is seven. If you roll above a seven, you hit. It's huge. It's huge, and he doesn't seem to be moving or dodging It's just standing there taking these blows There's almost no grace to it

It's just power So 1 is 8 damage And 1 is 13 damage But they are magic arrows aren't they Did you add the plus 2 for the magic arrows as well So 8 and then 14, did you say? Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.

So 21. Okay, so the arrows fly into its armoured form, kind of sends it backwards. It's like, ah! Do you think that saving one of them will help? After Aayla, his go. Fuck you, buddy. He will fly down. Oh, that's kind of him.

Not next to Aayla. Oh, shit, he's next to me. He's next to Sentry and Lucius. And you can see him hovering off the edge. He floats next to Sentry and Lucius, and he looks directly at Sentry this time.

And you cannot save them. He floats next to Sentry and Lucius, and he looks directly at Sentry this time. Okay. And, uh... You cannot save them. You are weak. You've already let one country die. Now I will kill everyone else. And he's going to bring this blade of black energy towards you. Okay. Actually, no, he won't.

He'll do that as a legendary action In a second What he will do is he reaches up with one hand And you can see it Clench and kind of forming out of Mist and this red nebula This kind of This

Spectral shape appears Another one? Okie dokie You can see it kind of resembles the vague outline of a Starbane soldier, but it has these

tendrils coming off of its shoulders and out of its back like a twisted angel as it kind of, and it's spectral like a ghost and it begins floating

towards you all. I love this so much. This is like as horror, like this is, yeah. That's the end, that's all it does on its turn. Lucius, you are still blinded. I love this so much. This is like as horror. This is amazing. That's all it does on its turn. Lucius, you are still blinded.

Your mother is looming over you, kind of rushes up to you, but there is nowhere left for you to run. You're now on the edges of this platform. There is just cold, endless, expansive space, and then these horrid specters. You can see the avatar is now looming over as well. I'll spend my whole turn Actually no, you don't see the avatar, you're blinded. I'll spend my whole turn just backed

into a corner, just saying, why have you come back to haunt me? I've let you all down. You have. You have let us down. What can I do? Nothing. You're going to be alone forever nobody's coming

for you you are alone you'll always be alone at the end of your turn now the avatar will swing its blade

with its last remaining legendary action he does get to make a saving throw you do get to make a saving throw you You do get to make a saving throw. You do get plus two. I'm going to protect on that one as well. This is the attack is coming for you.

So this is an attack, this is a saving throw. What save? Wisdom? Yep. 13, 15, not enough. The effect continues in place. Don't worry, carry on. Go on. No, carry on. Are you portenting me? I mean, his attack's going to be super high,

so this isn't going to stop it. Would you like to use it? Nah. No? Nah. Important. Sentry. 25 to hit.

He just stole your joke. Yep. So his dark blade of crackling energy comes down on Sentry. Four, six. Eleven. Eleven points of ne Four, six. Eleven. Eleven points of necrotic damage. Okay. As the black blade crackles through your armor.

Okie dokie. Quillik and Kolar. It's back to me, holy crap. And a nobler afterwards. Just happy to be here, Mark. I mean, I guess I'll slowly move the spiritual weapon into my bonus action. There it is.

That's only... Oh, no, yeah, that's... It can only move 20 feet at a time. You could get it, like, closer to this thing if you wanted to strike this thing. Oh, the mini phantom. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll whack with that.

Force damage, not radiant damage. Force damage. That's why you're clarifying that. I've always got it right. Just like Chromatic Orb can do Radiant damage, right, Chris Strong? We're never wrong. So that's 16 plus... I was going to put this over here.

16 plus 8. I think it's 2d8, because I think I cast it at that level. 9 plus 4. 13 damage. 13 damage 13 damage I do love the D&D Encounter Builder but it counts HP down and for all my life I've counted damage up

oh right so it breaks my brain trying to do it so that was your bonus action move it and then attack with it yeah I'm gonna fly around to behind the wall and in front of Nova. Okay.

But on the ground. You're on ground level. I've just flown over that gap to get around it. Can I pick up Tiangong and try and talk to Nova? I think that when you go to pick Tiangong up, it just passes through your hands. It's not real for you. Right.

Okay. Simulation. I think that when you go to pick Tiangong up, it just passes through your hands. It's not real for you. Right, okay. Stimulation. I mean, I'm behind this thing. I'll heal myself. Okay, sure. Is that what you want to do? Don't forget you drank that vitality potion, which means your heals go max or something. Did I make that up? I think you made that up.

My hit dice are full. When he does a short rest, yeah. Oh, yeah, may have pulled that. I think you made that up. My hit dice are full. When he does a short rest, yeah. So I'll do a Cure Wounds on myself. Sure. Because I'm super low. Yeah, are you low on hit points? Yeah. Oh.

But when we get out... So I heal for... for 11. 11 hit points. So as you watch, well, those of you who still are conscious Aayla I think is the only one In fact actually no Aayla you don't even see this

Because the wall blocks vision Quill you finish healing And you begin flapping your wings Taking up into the air again ready to engage in the fight And then you hear The peal of thunder It's a legendary action You see the creature kind of turn its gaze.

It points in the sky and then down, and a bolt of lightning slams into your body. It tears your wing free. Again? Again. But as the lightning hits you, it rips one wing free, and then the lightning seems to scatter and cascade over your body as

chains made of lightning grip your remaining arm and legs and slam you into the ground, completely unable to move. They are just binding you to the very ground itself. You are prone and restrained. Oh, what?

Prone and restrained? Just do restrained and then knock your leg out. Yeah, prone and restrained. Oh, what? Prone and restrained? Just do restrained and then knock your money down. That's everything. Yeah, I'll do it. Oh, crap. I'm behind the radiant wall, at least. You are. Hopefully that lasts long enough. Yeah. Nova Major. Make a concentration check for me.

So, just constitution saving three. 21. You can feel the energy of the spell fading, but you're desperately clinging to whatever you can, like the fragments, the dust of Tiangong you're holding in your hands. The spell is in effect. You can still control the wall of light,

but it's probably going to go in the next six seconds. But you've got like one turn left of this spell. Okay. Can I fire it off then? Sure. Nineteen. Hits. So that eight one then? Yeah. Seven. Just one section, yes.

She had to remove two last time. Eighteen. Eighteen? Eighteen radiant damage and four hex, but then I don't know if... Hex doesn't double. The 18 doubles to... 40 total. But also hex is... Oh, with the extra damage.

Hex is technically a hexblade. Oh, yeah, you don't get hex then. So it's just the 18 doubled. 36. 36. Okay. So I guess, yeah, with the kind of the raw pain I'd feel in my chest of Tiangong seemingly being destroyed,

I'd just almost channel that. Like, just throw it out in an arc of rage and grief and just, like, yeah, it would reflect in the wall. And then as you do, in that kind of, like, rage, you grip your hands, and as the wall fires this beam, the rest of the wall crumbles into nothing, and the dust in your hand... flies out into the endless nebula.

I'd be empty. I'd be lost. I wouldn't even be crying because there's just there's nothing left inside me. A spectre comes for Ayla as Nova is reduced to tears. No, no. Not even tears. I have nothing left in me.

17 plus 6. 23 to hit Ayla. Yep. You're going to take some necrotic damage, and I need you to make a constitution saving throw. 17. 14 necrotic damage, and you've succeeded on the saving throw. As you feel this creature grip you and try and suck the life out of you. Nope, nope, nope.

Nope, nope, nope. Fuck off. That's all it does. Do I get a saving throw? Oh, you do. Make a saving throw at the end of your turn. What's your lowest stat? Wisdom? Strength. Minus two. No. What's your lowest mental stat? Oh, sorry. Mental stat.

Intelligence, wisdom, or charisma. Saving throws or just like flat? Saving throw. Intelligence is plus two. Wisdom is plus three. Yeah, so intelligence. Yeah, intelligence then. And Sentry. That was so close.

It was so close. And then it rolled over onto a four, so that's six. It's a fail. Sentry is root prime in a mind once again. I should have given it to you at the top of the round, but it's now your turn. You're all bad, huh? I'm going to get down to business here.

I'm going to speak to Lucius. I'm going to say, Lucius, you're so wise and brave. What you've been through is unimaginable, but you've guided us brilliantly and fearlessly despite of everything i'm so proud of you and your family would be so proud of you too this crew would be nothing without you we need you lucius don't listen to them make a persuasion check with advantage with advantage because you did a really good job that was a really nice little speech he's better better. 16 plus 6, 22. 22. Your mother comes closer

and you recall for a moment until part of it breaks away and underneath the face you can see Sentry's eyes kind of gleaming at you and you hear Sentry's voice reach you. And you begin to realise as the words of what hit her,

you realise what's happening to you and how much you mean to her and you see Lucius's the black smoke in his eyes begins burning away as bright orange and blue light kind of bursts from his eyes and engulfs the area in this

kind of blast of colorful magic. The effect is removed on Lucius. You are now unblinded and you are returned to normal. You are now immune to the effect The first colour he sees, green Everyone's favourite colour now You still have an action and a bonus action this time

Because you nailed that first one I'm going to turn around and I'm going to divine smite this dude Smacking twice So you kind of reach down And as you do it it's like, your words are nothing. They're endless ash upon a barren wind. You cannot win.

With my family, we will win! And then I'm just gonna blap, blap! Might have a 19 now. 19 plus 9 for the first one. Yeah, that's gonna hit. And then... Oh! 11 for the second one. That's still a hit. It's going to hit.

It's going to hit. 7 AC, boy. Okey-dokey. So, let me just... So, 1d8 plus 5 for the first one, and then Divine Smite at level 3. Oh, you've also got the thorns, right? So, add a d4.

Add a d4. Ba-ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba. So, Divine Smite at level 3. Yes, please. So, that's... Hang on. That's a target. 2d8, yeah, because I've got to work this out.

2d8 for first level, 3d8 to work this out 2d8 for first level 3d8 for second level 4d8 for third level plus it's undead so it's an extra 5d8 on top of this hang on what so it's 1d8 plus 5

plus a d4 and then 5 extra d8 so you're rolling 6d8 do the first attack normally because then we're doubling the radiant damage that's true so just do the normal weapon damage. Okay, so normal weapon damage, 1d8, 8. That's the full

damage. Plus 5, 16. Plus the thorns which is a d4. And a d4, 16. That's a 1 plus 4. So 13, 14. 14. And now do the radiant damage. So 6d8. Do you need more? 1, 2, 3, 4. We'll count this. Just 5d8.

Just roll 5d8 because you've already done the base weapon yeah don't worry about the 14 oh let's see one 11 12 21 21 double 42 the first hammer the first thrust of her majesty's Rose strikes into the creature's chest. You watch as its dark red, almost like solid-like form turns black and begins to crack and break apart as the blade hits it. Second attack. Second attack. D8 plus 5.

7 plus 8. 16, 15. Plus 4 again. It's 1d8 plus 5, so 7 plus 5 is 12. d4. d4, 12. Are you Divine Smite? 15.

And I will Divine Smite. Can you? Yeah, she can do it on every single attack if she hits. Really? Yeah, as long as she's got spell slots. I'll do it at level 2. So this would be 4d8. Oh my god.

It's almost like Paladins are really good against undead stuff it's almost like this is the trial for century the trial of the century 13 14 14 double 28 oh hang on i gotta do maths it's a 28 plus uh whatever the base weapon was 16 17 18 You watch as the second strike comes in. Parts of its chest breaks away. The first part of it you've seen actually break away from the main form. And as it does, a piece of its chest just disintegrates into light as it vanishes into the aether. Yeah, bitch.

At the end of your turn, it's going to make an attack against you with its last remaining legendary action. Bring it, bring it, bring it. 21. 21, yeah, bring it. 21. 21, yeah, that hits. That's another 46 necrotic damage for six. Only 10 necrotic damage. Okay, do it.

Rolled really bad. Ayla. Oh, hello. Can I see what Sentry's been doing with Lucius and with me, do I get the sense that I could do the same to help? You can try. Okay. I'm going to... There is a race next to you.

Yep. I know. I'm going to... No, I'm going to hit him. I'm going to hit him. I'm going to whack him'm gonna hit I'm gonna hit him gonna him yeah get whacking gonna whack him a couple times that's kind of cocked yeah AC is 13 okay so fine both it I like to think it was like an Aayla words whacking leave the words to other people. So both hit.

Sure. My lowest was... 13. No. Can you roll a d6 for me, Trot? I just need to see if something recharges. No, it's 9 plus... 6. It does.

14. 14 points? Is my lowest. Sorry, no. That was a hit. Oh, yeah, they both hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 13.

13 is Stacy. So 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 13 13 so 9 10 12 13 14 15 16

damage on 1 and 10 11 12 oh wait 13 13

but then I get one more because my rage damage has gone up hasn't it yes it has gone up to 3 so that would have been an extra two. And then deck save. I am raging.

That is a 16. Half damage. One halved. Oh, it's also halved again because it's resistance to lightning. So it's taking nothing. And it takes one. It takes one as a minimum. What's a quarter of one?

Quarter of one is still one. Cool. All right. The avatar's turn. Your friends are weak and are fading. Now I just need to kill you. And he will... I feel pretty good.

Well, he will summon another wraith, actually, because that ability regenerated. But he will send this one in front of Sentry. Okie dokie. Oh god, this is a mess over there. Spiritual weapon 2, wraith, alien, lucian, and sentry.

It's almost like he's trying to stop you getting to your friend. And just us two just rolling around on the edge. Being sad. Yeah, you watch as he raises another fist and you see another one of these kind of warped, star-bane soldiers. This one seems to have giant pincers for hands, but its legs just

trail away into nothing, into air. It's like a warped mutation of a soldier. Lucius? I'll assume that Sentry gonna help me to my feet. You know it was Sentry. Oh, like standing up wise. Yeah, you weren't prone. You were kind of crouching, I guess.

And I'll say back to Sentry, I never truly lost my family. It was here all along. And then I'll turn back to Sentry, I never truly lost my family. It was here all along. And then I'll turn to Quill and Kona called it. I'll turn to Shitface McGee and Kona called him with spending my font of magic for seven to regain a fifth level spell slot so that I can cast it. Thank you. Thank you. So that is can cast it. Thank you. So that is a con saving throw, please.

He's looking in his cool box of effects. Just because I want to do it. Yes, you hit! Your new cone of cold marker. So was this, what save? It's a con save. He's really good at these. Yeah, he is. What do you need? That's a con save. Oh! He's really good at these. Yeah, he is. Yeah, well, it'd be half.

What do you need? Ooh, is it cold damage? What the heck? It's kind of cold. Like the cold infinites of space. I don't need to roll. No? The cold, it just seems to almost feed upon it. Doesn't it heal, but it is immune to cold, I'm afraid.

The depths of space made it immune to cold. He might dice back. As a reaction, would you like to do anything? Like, um... Well, can I do that? I don't know, can you? I use my punch of magic as a bonus.

Bonus? But what is chromatic control? Is it a bonus or a reaction? If it's a reaction, then you can use it. You get one per turn. I'll change it to acid then. Therefore, I do need to make a save. I rage the dice away. And I rolled a natural one on the save, and it doesn't

have resistance, so even with its bonus, that's still only a 12 on its saving throw. Oh wait, 8d8. I need more! A cone of acid. 8d8, cone, 6, 8d8. I need more. A cone of acid. 8d8. 3, 2, 1. 7, 8.

I really fucking helped him out on that one. I was like, would you like to do anything else, Chris Trott? Four sixes. Don't your ones turn into twos? Yeah. Uh-oh. I reset my count. Yeah, 24.

Don't move them! I'm just turning it into a two. Don't move them! There we go, that's a two. And that's a two. 34. Don't move them! I'm just turning it into a 2. There we go, that's a 2. And that's a 2. 34. 34 points. Of cold. Of acid.

My dichromancy plays which is 5th level with my charisma of 4. 9? Do you want to do it to him or do you want to do it to the wraith? I'll do it to the wraith in front of Century so that she can get to other people. That's a second wraith.

Wraith two, electric bugle. All right, I'm just going to have to remember it because actually I can put it on the back or something like that. Can I borrow one of these? That's still a good ton of damage. I guess it was a fifth level spell though, right? Okay. That was Lucius's turn. An excellent turn.

Quillik. Thank you. I mean, so I'm restrained. Can I still do semantic spells? No. You are bound. You are paralyzed. Actually,ik. Thank you. I mean, so I'm restrained. Can I still do semantic spells? No. You are bound. You are... Actually, you're basically paralyzed.

You are bound to the ground. You can't move. You can try and break free, but that's about it. He wants to break free. Break free. Strength saving. Strength save. Now I'll do a healing word, which is just verbal.

Okay. On sentry. Okay. Half the result of this spell. Oh my god. Really? Yeah. The lightning saps your strength. It's hard to gain a connection to Hesper while you have these bounds. Nine, so

Sentry you heal for five. Four. Four? Rounds down. You son of a bitch. Everything rounds down in D&D. But I'm healing now. You can't make my heals weaker. Yes, I just did. Oh, god.

Yeah, just replace Restraint with Paralyze for me. Oh. But you can make a save at the end of your turn. Yeah, you can make a Strength save at the end of your turn. Oh, so now. Strength save? Hmm. 11. No. Oh. Okay. Thanks. the end of your turn strength save hmm 11 no oh thanks

no my god after Nova is the Wraith and then century so am I like am i so I've lost all my abilities essentially but am i am I like I don't know crippled by the fact that like am I mentally like just of like, I can't do anything? It's up to you. You have... Tiangong's gone. It's broken, shattered into pieces. Completely gone, never to be returned.

Cool, thanks. What do you want? So how does Nova deal with that? She can't. Then that's it. That's your turn. Oh, by the way... You can make an intelligence save at the end of your turn.

I can't actually talk if I'm paralyzed. Oh, there you go. Also, I automatically fail strength saves. There you go. Well, this isn't like paralyzed paralyzed. Right, okay. This is like you've basically been bound to the earth. You're technically restrained.

Right. But I'm going to say you can't cast some ag components. You can't gesture. I mean, my hand's on the ground, right? It's like you're literally bound to the earth. Yeah, okay, fair enough. This is a very unique condition. Yeah. can't cast some add components. You can't gesture. I mean, my hand's on the ground, right? You're like, literally, it's like bound to the earth. Yeah, okay, fair enough. This is a very unique condition.

Yeah. So, I kind of have... I don't know how evil this is, though. What? I have this idea that she'd maybe be furious at the Avatar for killing Tiangong. Sure. And she'd want to touch it with her

bad hand. Sure, go for it. It's too far away. You don't have to start moving. No, I don't think she's probably still... You also don't have your bad hand. Don't forget this is all happening in six seconds. I don't have my bad hand, do I? Because I'm in... Yeah, okay. Natural 20!

What's the total? 22 on my saving throw. My saving throw. I'm doing a saving? 22 on my saving throw. What are you doing? My saving throw. I'm doing a saving throw. Intelligent saving throw. Nice. Because I can't do anything else

because I don't have Necrohand and Tiangong's gone. Tiangong is gone and you realize in a kind of moment of clarity Tiangong is gone. And you look to the side and you see that there is a fallen Solvin soldier there who has Magitek. Magitek, you know

that you can make work. That your mind, that Tiangong may have been a weapon, but Nova's gift is her mind. And you think maybe if you take bits of this and take bits of that, you might be able to make something. And if you do so, you can replicate any of your Warlock abilities with Magitek. Damn. Okay.

And you break free of the despair. Qian Gong doesn't come back, but you can now use your abilities by ransacking Magitek. Okay, so I'm guessing that would take a turn? No, from now on. This was at the end of your turn. Well, that was the end of my turn, so yeah. At the end of Nova's turn, the avatar will make an attack against Sentry for a 22, 21. Yeah, it hits.

Five. Nine points of necrotic. Did you heal for 10, by the way? 10. Or 4. 4, sorry. Yes, you did that, yeah. So that's 10 necrotic.

God damn it. Right. The wraiths. This one is going to try and phase through sentry because it can move through sentries and it's going to go for Lucius and then one's going to attack A phase through Sentry Because it can move through And it's going to go for Lucius And then one's going to attack Aayla Aayla? The one going for Lucius I'm going to Portent as well

Okay, well the one fighting Aayla gets something like a 25 And then What's the Portent roll? 5 Yeah, it's going to miss, so it misses Lucius Still got something Aayla takes What's the portent roll? Five. Five? Yeah, it's going to miss. So it misses Lucius. Still got something. Ayla takes 11.

13 points of necrotic damage. Constitution saving throw, please, Ayla. Natural one. Oh, that's not good. So your maximum hit points are reduced by the amount of damage you took. 13. Yeah, 13. So your max HP goes down. How do I... It's normally a damage you took. 13. Yeah, 13. So your max HP goes down.

How do I... It's normally a thing if you tap HP. Yeah, you can override it. You can override it. Sentry. Eight minus... You can see Nova kind of picks herself up and you can see her like pulling weapons. There's like things like weapons,

but you also find like elemental grenades and stuff. Like basically it's up to you how you justify how you replicate. Eldritch Blast could be like you build a gun and you shoot that, or your other spells could be you build something else. But yeah, you probably just see me furiously scrabbling on the ground, just grabbing components and pulling tools out. The quill is still bound. Okay.

So what do you do? So... Oh my god! Okay. okay well your spiritual weapon pretty much goes as well oh shit oh by the way just well nothing oh my god we're so I probably just like Satan over like no but you're amazing you're brilliant mind like you don't need Tiangong to fight you can make something, that's incredible

and I'll just say, just hit it with everything we've got, whatever you can use Nova let's do it you've got this, and then I'll just I'll just divine smite the guy again I guess, I think. What, double attack?

Yeah. Just leave Quill. He's fine. Well... No, no, no, no. That was me being a little... That was me just making a joke. Don't worry. Carry on.

That was just me wanting to wind Tom up. You do what you want to do. Okay. That was just me being a joke. Can I still speak? I can still try with Quill, I guess. I'd say he's quite far away to really get through to him. So I'd have to get through them first.

Yeah, I think you need to be next to him. If you want to really impact it, you need to be next to him. All right, so then I'll smack the demon guy. There's a big difference between somebody being like, you've got this, you can do this. You've got this, you can do it! What? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!

Yeah, so I'll hit that guy. Sure, go for it. AC 7. AC 7. 17 plus 6 for the first one. Bam. And then 10 for the... It still hits.

Cool beans. Flak is meant to be hit. Born to be beaten. Wow. Oh, he's a 7. Oh, he's actually got... meant to be hit. He's born to be beaten. Wow. Oh, he's a second level Divine Smite on the first. He's still got two legendary actions left. My Hex Curse is totally gone, isn't it?

You and him. Oh yeah, your Hex Curse is gone. Yep, Hex Curse is gone. Shut up! You're not gone! I'm not coming back. I'm not coming back ever. Six plus eight. You knowangong. Not coming back. Not coming back ever. Six. Nope.

Dead. Plus eight. D, D. You know who else ain't coming back? Fourteen. Fourteen damage. And then plus six. And then plus...

Okay, Vong goes out the rest. But 20 for the first one. That's standard damage. Okay. And then I'm going to do level two Divine Smite. Wait, 20 standard? Oh my god. Uh...

D8 plus five plus D4. Is that right? That's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. smite. Wait, 20 standard? Oh my god. D8 plus 5 plus D4. Is that right? That's pretty good. Yeah. Now do your divine smite, level 2. Sure. So that's 3. That would be 3. No, it would be 4. 48. If it's level 2, did you say? Yeah. Yeah, 48. Because it's

undead, you get an extra one. 4, 8, 12, 13, 14. 28. 28. And then I'll just do a standard attack for the second one. I'm going to tell you guys how much total damage you did when you finished this fight. It's a lot.

I like the damage I did right at the beginning with my crit hit wall of light. That was nice. That was nice. For people at home, I took some of the damage away because we found out that you can't radiant a chromatic orb, and spiritual weapon isn't radiant. So I took some damage away.

I still did some damage. Nine for the second one. Nine more points? Yeah. Okay. So you strike twice, seeing the avatar, parts of it now breaking and disintegrating away. In its rage, at the end of your turn, it's going to make an attack against Lucius. Okay.

With a legendary action, because it can no longer use its nightmare effect. In its rage at the end of your turn, it's going to make an attack against Lucius. Okay. With a legendary action, because it can no longer use its nightmare effect. That's a natural one. Still technically an 11 to hit you. Close, but no. Close, but no. There you go. No dice.

So you kind of throw yourself to the ground as this blade of entropy swipes overhead. Ayla. Um. I'm gonna I'm gonna shout at Sentry. Okay. Um. Sentry, get to Quill. Get to him. We can hold this off.

Okay? We got this. Teamwork! We got it! Okay. And I will hit the duty. The wraith or the big guy? The wraith. Okay, sure. AC 13. Yeah, but trot roll another d6 for me.

Sure, bud, thanks. Here comes another six. Eight, take it. Eight plus nine and 18 plus nine. One. So both. So damn it, sorry. Yep, both hit.

Cool, damage. Dex save. Yes, hit. Dammit. Sorry. Cool. Damage. Dex save. Yes, I'll do that. Stop! Every time I roll it he's like, he wants to die. 20 on the dex save. What? Sorry? 20 on the dex save. Okay.

Well, the lighting is half again. You're on your own! Half of three. Half and a half of three. Okay. So one. So 18 damage on one of the hits. And 13 damage on the other. That's a noise. That made a great noise.

No, you swing the hammer, the crackling lighting, as it connects with a hammer, you hear this kind of horrible, like, sucking air vacuum noise, like... And then it just vanishes in front of you. As it evaporates. At the end of your turn, unless you would like to do anything else...

No? Just to face Sentry. Turn around and face this guy. The avatar will make an attack against you for a 15 to hit. Nope. You kind of block the blade with the Howling Tempest and send it flying off in a different direction. You, you little wretches.

You cannot stop me. It will take to the air. Sentry will get an attack opportunity. Oh, 60 feet up. I'll take it. He flies 60 feet up basically And slightly at an angle 17 plus 9

That's a hit You can see it raises its hand And a beam of cold energy Begins charging Charging Hyperbeam Oh my brain 5 energy begins charging. Charging? Hyper beam. Oh, my brain.

Five. And four. Eight plus four, twelve. Eight plus four is twelve. My brain is like... Could you do the thorns damage as well? Yeah, it's the thorns damage. Okay, who would he go for? Century's been hurting him.

So he fires this ray of cold towards Century for a 22. Yep. You take seven. Uh-oh, 15. Is this the top of the round again? No, you're about to go after this. 21 points of cold damage. Just coat Century in Rime and Frost.

Lucius. I'm going to attack. Actually, I'm going to cast Armor of Agathys on myself at 4th level. Okay. And just kind of get in the way of the Spectre to protect. Check Sentry. Yeah. Okay, great stuff.

So Armor of Agathys. Anything else? Movement bonus action? No, I'll just be in the way being annoying okay top of the round you hear roots prime in your head once more quill uh i can still talk right so i guess i'll also you can feel like your strength like being drained out of you you can barely move you can barely speak your wing just causes searing pain through your body uh guess i'll yeah the only verbal thing i have is healing words i'm just gonna do that again level one this time on century okay half again yep okay you just feel like you can feel hespa pulling away from you almost you can feel feel this distance growing and growing between you

as you hear that kind of soft voice in your mind, this older, angelic being. You failed me, Gwil. You failed. You didn't ask the right questions. I have so many questions. I'm all questions. is novacy you you see him bound on the ground like you can see him laying on the ground unable to move but you don't see like the lightning and stuff like that you just see quill kind of muttering maybe

to himself i don't know if quill would be saying anything or if like you can weekly he's trying to reach out like speaking like magic but it seems to be half its strength. If I was to try and help him, like, would that be an action? What do you want to do? I want to use my new not-a-laser rifle to Eldritch Blast Shoot Hadarbane, because... Sure.

He killed Tiangong. He killed Tiangong. Sure. But... So you kind of get the salvaged tank together. I mean, no, if you wanted to try and free him, it'd be full action. So I bring up this rifle, this salvaged

rifle. You've got it connected into crystals, energy things that you've found, and you've scavenged together from this body. Go for it. Eldritch Blast. Eldritch Blast. Eldritch Blast. Yeah, I mean, it's seven, right? Fourteen on... I mean, I'm just saying,

they're both hitting. Fourteen on one. And seventeen on the other. They hit, but this is four damage. He's got seven AC, just say four hits, bam. Four points of damage. Four points. Every little helps. You kind of fire off with two blasts. You can see it's getting helps. You kind of fire off with two blasts. You can see it's getting furious now. Kind of like looking around

enraged like you will all die here. The one remaining wraith, Lucius, will attack you and immediately take how much cold damage? A bajillion. Oh, can I move Can you move me just a little bit forward to be more next to Quill?

It's 20. It does take half because it is resistant to cold. But you can still see as it strikes the shield or the armor around you, the shards blast into its face. That is like a 24 to hit you.

Ooh. Yes. So I've got 20 temp hit. four to hit you. Yes. Okay. So I've got 20 temp hit from the... You do, of which you take 12... 12... 15 necrotic damage and, well,

it goes into the temporary hit point, so I won't make you make a con save, because it won't affect your hit points. You're like World of Warcraft pauldrons. Okay, big, shiny, frozen pauldrons. Very Arthas. At the end of the wraith's turn, Hadar Bane will attempt to strike Aayla with a ray of colds.

It charges this beam using a legendary action. The only one that gets this turn. That is a 17. You dodge to the side as this beam of cold rakes the ground, covering it in rime and frost as you kind of come up on your knees, ice all kind of blown behind you. Stay still!

It's like looking around to strike you. Sentry. Okay, I'm going to start making my way over to Quill. I'm going to dash as well. You can get there. Nice. You have a bonus action and speaking left, basically. Cool.

So I'm going to do the old hunker down on Quill's level. To the floor at the moment. Hello! I'm going to do the old hunker down on Quill's level. Yep. To the floor at the moment. Hello. I'm going to say, Quill, you're brilliant. A chosen of Hesper. If the God can see how amazing you are, then that makes you unbelievably special.

Your kind soul is a wonderful gift. Without it, we would all be lost. You lift us, Quill. Your wisdom lets us reach heights that no pair of wings could ever get to we need you now Quill stand up, let's take this down oh my god with advantage

nice and it's on the words are there you want to believe in them but nothing can shake that feeling that plummeting fall

the searing pain and those haunting words from Hesper as you hear his breathy voice kind of immediately after Sentry's beautiful words you're not special Gw, you're not special, Quill. You're not the only chosen.

You failed me. You failed everyone. Sorry, it doesn't go through. Yeah. Ayla. Oh my god. That's so good, though. Can I go over

and literally pick up Quill? You can try. Can I? Try. Can I literally try and pick him up and be like, Listen to Sentry! Listen to her! She's right! But literally... You make a...

You make a strength check for me. With advantage, because you're raging. Oh, they're both Shit Just a straight Straight strength Athletics 14 I rolled pretty low on both

Century make another persuasion check No advantage just a flat roll You're basically aiding century by giving her another chance 14 plus 6 is 20 on both. Century, make another persuasion check. No advances, just a flat roll. As you're kind of trying, you're basically aiding Century by giving her another chance. 14 plus 6 is 20. You kind of feel the bonds,

the lightning. As Aayla lifts you, it tightens and sends searing pain through your body. But as she lifts you, you feel whatever presence

was Hesper is kind of ripped away and you look and you see Century's eyes both fixed pristine that glowing swirling gold silver of the new of the prime matrix and her words echo in your mind and you feel the chains release lightly as the power and strength surges back into your body, and you are now immune from the effect. I'm sorry, Sentry.

I'm definitely stronger than this thing, and stronger than Hesper was. We've got this. You can do it. All of you look up to see the figure. You watch as these kind of blades of red light spring from its back. Four of them, Four of them. Six of them.

It takes the blade in both hands. Enough! You are all weak. Don't believe this guardian's lies. None of you will survive here. None of you will survive me. None of you will live as it charges for you. But the matrix in Sentry glows. Thrive me. None of you will live as it charges for you.

But the matrix in Sentry glows. You see light builds and builds, and Sentry, your form, swells until it is as large as this other avatar. Your armor repairs and kind of forms in a new basis, a new armored structure around you, a new face, a new armoured structure around you, a new faceplate, just like Root Primes, and you just grab it in one hand.

Oh, God. Straight into the chest. As the avatar erupts into light. There is still just a moment before you feel yourselves all rushing back, being pulled through time and space. You all emerge back in the cavern of the prime. All of you return to your bodies.

We'll come to the state of those bodies in a minute, but you turn to see century floating in the air the matrix in root prime is now gone it's vanished leaving an empty chassis and as you see this light just like in the vision this kind of glowing sphere in century's chest begins to pulsate as her own body shifts and changes as well. And a voice echoes through the chamber. Arise, Sentinel Prime.

And she collapses down to the ground, reforged, rebuilt. The Prime Matrix in Sentry. You can add the Prime Matrix. Oh my god. Sentinel Prime! Oh my god! Sentinel Prime! Oh my god, that's amazing.

Oh my god. We'll get to that in a second. Sentry, in your mind, you hear Root once more. I have found peace within the Prime Matrix. But should you need my wisdom I am here

and you feel this sense of peace and serenity in your chest as you can feel hundreds of thousands of guardians minds at peace in a blissful life and you feel root join them as part of a unified whole i'm gonna place my hands on the matrix and just say i will do my best root prime for for you for all guardians to honor what you've given me. I will do my best, I swear on you. I feel

like somebody grasping your hand till all are one. Till all are one. Those of you who are in the prime chamber, mechanically, any spell slots or hit points

you lost are gone. The maximum HP doesn't remain. slots or hit points you lost are gone. The maximum HP doesn't remain. Your maximum hit points return to normal. Spell slots you used, hit points spent, that's all still the same. Nova, I'm sad to say, your three levels of exhaustion return. And Sentry, your two levels return. Good, the vitality was worthwhile. Thank you! Oh, good. Not, the vitality was worthwhile. Thank you!

Oh, good. Not a total waste there, then. Any items you used in the trial regain their use. So, I think you used your hammer. Apart from Tiangong. Tiangong is there. Yeah, Tiangong's fine. But your hammer charge is returned, as if you'd never used it.

Same if you spent any... I don't think you guys used potions in the dream or anything like that but if you had they would have returned as well. Cool. Have you found it? Yeah. I'm just reading it. I used my wing. Just remember to attune to it as well. Can I have that back? Sadly not.

And you have this stunned moment of silence. What does Sentry look like? You sent some vague design ideas but I don't know if you settled on a new default form. Yeah. I imagine her kind of being, like, Hulkbuster Iron Man looking, like, just, like, chunky. Much more armoured.

Heavy. Real, like, heavy armour. Like, she's got giant, like, pauldrons, like... So is it, like, max level armour on Sentry? Yeah, it's, like, it's huge. Like, she was tall before, but now she's like like seven feet Oh my god. She's just huge like she's got a full face plate now. So it's not like just like her face It's like an actual like a helm that like can

She looks like a like a knight like a giant. Oh, so we can lift up. Yeah, what's underneath just like her normal face It's like a built-in like kind of like lift up? Yeah. What's underneath? Just like her normal face. Her normal face, yeah. Oh, cool. It's like a built-in, like, kind of, like, armour plate, basically. Oh my god, what colour? So you've got a golden matrix, right? So, golden matrix, I think, like, green, but, yeah, like, mostly green, but, like, with, like,

bits of, like, silver, like, polished silver, like, with golden accents around, like... So the armour looks brand new as well, right? And you can add full plate armor again as well. Plate armor! You're going to be such a noisy boy walking around. Chomp, chomp, chomp.

No stealth. And you still technically, now you're outside of the chamber, you still have this golden furred mantle and golden cape of Helios as well, stretching behind you. How has Helios been in all this? Is he just like, what the fuck is going on? You've got to ask him stuff.

Like, if you talk to him, he'll engage, but when he's in cloak form, he generally doesn't talk unless you ask him stuff. Do you think he was in that just like, what the... What's his biggest fear? He wasn't in there with you. Oh, yeah. He wasn't in there with you.

He's a separate being. Becoming a fur rug. I think because I kneeled for Root Prime, I would then do the same for Sentinel Prime. Well, Harold joins you and is kneeled down as well, and you see Lucius kneel before you. I would say true royalty deserves respect. Oh, no, there's no need for that, don't you?

I kneel. I'm kneeling. We're kneeling. Oh, goodness me. Okay. You can stand up it's okay it's fine it's fine there's a lot there's a lot to take in there's a lot going on i mean you're the prime now sentinel prime that's yeah everything you were looking for. But everything we were looking for was more time for you. Have you got that? So

your lifespan is now limitless. Oh my god. Technically, as long as you have the Prime Matrix, you cannot age. Or you can't die of age. You are, nothing will ever change. You are ageless. Sentinel Prime the Eternal.

That is the nature of the Prime, like the Prime Matrix will sustain you as long as you have the Prime Matrix. You can still die, you can still be destroyed and Century knows this having read the thing, but the Matrix will take time to adjust to her. She has a visual

change, but not all the powers of the Prime are going to be hers for a while. She needs to level up. Okay. There's an element of that. But yeah, as long as you have that and reading through it,

you can now help Guardians regenerate and refresh their lifespans as well. That's the purpose of the Prime Matrix. Anti-Breeze. Yeah. Breeze is going to be so pissed. Anti-Breeze. For Breeze.

I get it. I get it. Well, not to ruin this very charming moment, but as you all look up at Sentry, you see the body of the Prime, this kind of empty now metal husk, and then you hear... Uh-oh.

No, where are we going? Cracks beginning to form in the sides of the chamber and a deep, heavy rumbling. Sentinel, try it. Is there a way out? We should go quick. Yeah, the way you came. Go. Let's go as fast as you can.

You hear cracks in the wall as pressure begins. Lava begins seeping in. Parts of it start breaking as giant pools of lava begin flowing through. We ran. I'm going to cast Expeditious Retreat on Nova. Oh, thank you, friend. Can you cast it on other people? No.

No, thank you, friend. I'll cast it on myself. Can I? I thought it was nice. Can you back Nova? Okay, so here's how it's going to work. Yes, you you, friend. I'll cast that on myself. Can I? Okay. I thought it was nice. Can you back Nova? Okay, so here's how it's going to work. Yes, you may carry anybody. Normally when you carry somebody...

I don't have exhaustion. You don't? Normally when you carry someone, your movement is halved. You can carry somebody with half movement as you need to. If you want to move at full speed, that becomes tiring very quickly. If I cast Levitate on myself, will that help? Because I'm technically weightless.

That would, yeah. And then she just has to drag me. And then basically, yeah, she just has to make sure you don't float away from her, basically. Oh, I'm digging in. I'm like... No, we're out, out.

Okay, so in that case, yeah, it's just going to be a straight run. Century, you have some exhaustion. Level two, yeah. So your half movement as well. What else? How's Herald? Herald can run.

She's fine. She doesn't have any exhaustion. Lucius doesn't have any exhaustion. Quill doesn't have any exhaustion. What? Go on. What are people's flight speed if I cast Fly on them? Same as when you cast fly the spell

So 60 feet I think So you could cast that on sentry and then she'd be Not slowed because right now sentry's moving At like 15 feet around It would halve her flight speed wouldn't it? Oh okay I'll cast fly on I would say that the purposes of exhaustion is like You physically can't run

But casting fly on somebody They're just like mentally like somebody, they're just mentally like, they're just mentally controlled. That means you don't have Expeditious Retreat on you, because their concentration spells. They are. But you don't have, you can still move at your full speed. Yes. Yeah, I'm fine. So in that case, I'll Fly.

So we have a Flying Sentinel Prime. Pretty cool. You guys charge forward. As you rush up into the tunnel that led down into the Prime Chamber, you hear the explosions That's pretty cool. run ahead of the oncoming lava. Everybody who is running, which is pretty much everybody except Nova and Sentry, constitution saving throws, please. Oh, God. We'll get plus two. You do? Oh, we'll get plus two from you.

18. 18? 16? Plus I move at 45 feet around, so I'm just like, oh, yeah! Yeah, except Sentry, 20. All of you are fine. Harold seems to be, like, struggling and gains a level of exhaustion, but it's not enough to slow her movement yet.

She's only got one level. But you can see she's, like, running ragged. The three of you, like, charge forward, and you are running for something like 20 minutes because this tunnel, like, led down. So you're running, if you half that, it's like 10 minutes, five minutes to run up this hill. Go on over. Levitate lasts ten minutes.

Okay, great. So after that, Aayla, you're going to need to make another constitution saving throw for me. Can I expend a rage or something to fuel myself and keep going? I'll give you advantage for this one check. Or you can save it for

the future, if, I don't know, what you want to do. How many Rages you got left? I got a couple. Okay, sure. I'd say you can expend a Rage to get through this run. You're just like, ah! But I might make Nova take some lightning damage. Three points of lightning damage to Nova.

As you are holding her, and as you Rage, the storm cracklesles over you and you're like, ow, ow, ow. Fair, yes, sir. 25. 25, yeah. You let this rage just channel you through as all of you charge up this tunnel. You emerge at the doorway that leads into the foundry where you fought the lava worm.

And you can now see you're blasted by waves of hot air as you throw the doors open and emerge. You can now see the're blasted by waves of hot air as you throw the doors open and emerge. You can now see the lava in this room has risen and many of the platforms and the gangways have been completely engulfed. There are enough platforms that you might be able to maybe jump or climb your way across, but you're going to need to reach the other side of this 90-foot room.

How are you guys doing it? Century can fly, so you're kind of covered. How long does fly last? Oh, that's a good question. An hour? Give me a sec while I find that out. Can I gust people over while I'm just finding that out? Gust only pushes them five feet.

This is a 90-foot long corridor. So he means if you jump over the platforms. I will give people advantage, but you'll be stuck behind. I have gust with my hammer. Okay. So I can expend some charges of gust with the howler. Gust will only give advantage to anybody jumping across. Oh, flies only 10 minutes.

10 minutes. Okay, Sentry. How long would it take to get to this room? To get to this room, 10 minutes. Those spells that last 10 minutes, you've basically gotten to that. So you run up the tunnel. Your levitate ends as you reach this other room.

You can see Ayla kind of heaving as she was running. Sentry, your fly spell, you land in this foundry room. You now have a 90 foot space to try and cross. You each can take a turn as if it was a turn in combat. Oh god. You can see there are enough platforms, but you've got to make 90 foot

of space. And climbing and jumping is basically half your movement. What do you guys want to do? I'm just going to start jumping across the platform. So you want to jump. So do you want to try and... There are, like... You remember before there was, like,

a kind of, like, overhead platform with pipes? You could try and, like, monkey climb over that, and that would be acrobatics, whichever you both prefer. I will do that. Yep, so acrobatics. So acrobatics check from Lucius. Acrobatics as well.

Acrobatics from Nova. Remember, Nova, you are at disadvantage. Wow. 15. 15. Lucius begins climbing over. You get about halfway, make your way halfway across the room using your dash. Actually, about two-thirds, actually, with 60 feet of movement.

Nice. I'm going to try and jump across. Okay, athletics. 11 plus 8. That's enough. One bounding leap. Sentinel Prime. You smash onto the platform.

Again, you take another running leap, smash into the next platform. You and Lucius are about halfway. Cool. I'm going to jump as well. Okay, athletics check. 19 plus 8. Easily.

You see, as you guys are jumping across, the lava, the walls are smashing through. More and more lava is pooling in. It's slowly beginning to rise up. Nova, what are you doing? Monkey bars? Yeah. Okay, acrobatics. Disadvantage.

You're so tired, it's hard to keep your grip. One was a natural 20. The other one was a 4. That's a shame. So, 7. Okay. Nova is struggling. You don't make any progress.

You're not falling in lava, but you're standing on a platform that you're slowly losing as lava begins flowing over it. And you're desperately trying, but you're so tired, you just don't have the strength in your arms to get you across. Can I notice that? Yeah, well, at the moment, Quill's the only one who hasn't acted. Do we still have water walk? I don't know. How long does it last? Forever. It does not last forever, Thomas.

You already left out one piece of information the last time I asked you about this. Yeah, that's true. It's probably gone. Oh, it lasts an hour. An hour. No no i've got no spell slots like at all well i've got some can i cast wow i haven't got any spell slots well i've got three level one spell slots okay so with the ring can i cast levitate on myself and push off a

wall and sort of glide across the entire 90 foot gap i'd say you could do say you could do that. You can basically use your strength to pull yourself across. You're not going to have to make any checks to do it. While I'm going past Nova, can I, like, swim through the air? Wow. Oh, my God. I'm not doing that. He is dicking you so hard. You could have helped Nova.

She's got disadvantage on everything. I've got one wing. I'm not going to go across the monkey bar. That's everybody's round. You know that wing I'm making you? Go on. No, go on. At the start of this next round,

Kimmy, you're going to take some damage as the heat is beginning to rise so much. You're going to take five points of fire damage. As the heat from this magma is the noxious fumes, like your lungs are burning, what do you guys do? Most of you are now halfway across, except Nova, who's still on the other side. Would Mage Hand help me in any way? It can lift like five Most of you are now halfway across, except Nova, who's still on the other side. Would Mage Hand help me

in any... It can lift like five pounds, dude. It just holds. I have no spell slots. Warlocks have two spell slots. They need a short rest. I'm going to notice Nova and then turn around and try and help her out. We'll say, just climb on me. I'll

take us both across. Can I cast Bless on Lucius while I notice him doing that? Sure, yeah, absolutely. How close am I to her? You're all about heart. Well, you're a little bit further because you can move fast. I'm probably lagging behind because I've got speed habits. Well, Lucius is doing it first, so Lucius, make a...

This would have to be strength, so it would be athletics, but you get a D4 from the Bless. So you're basically trying to carry Nova across. Hashtag bleh. Hashtag bleh. Hashtag bleh. 15. 15, I will say is enough, but can you make a constitution saving throw for me?

So Lucius, like you basically say, like Nova climbs on and then you monkey bar your way across, but this time it's now raw strength as you're just trying to drag her across your hands, like become pot. 23. 23. All of that training for sky jousting is paying off because you kind of breathe through your nose out through the mouth breathe through the nose out through the mouth and you're you're managing to keep yourself physically capable nova's kind of clinging onto

you she doesn't weigh a lot but it's weight weighing you down you get about halfway um across everybody else so action you can still move if you want. So, do you want to keep going or do you want to wait? I think I'll wait. I'll make sure Lucius and Nova get ahead of me. What about the rest of you guys? You can just continue going on. You can just be like, whoop, next half.

Can I just brush someone's face and put guidance on them as a cantrip? You could do it, but not to Lucius or Nova. Is Quill okay I think he's lost it I mean I'm floating through the air he's just like

floating around brushing faces I need to I need to I've got his his touch swimming I have to touch someone

but I don't want to lose momentum don't take that out of context I have to Nova, Quill and Aayla what are you guys doing I don't really know what I can do can I help I have to. Nova, Quill, and Aayla, what are you guys doing?

I don't really know what I can do. Can I help Lucius in some way? How would you like to do that? I have a climber's kit. Yeah, you could try and do that. I don't know what that... Have things like ropes and handholds. It means that he's not holding these hot pipes. Or have things like pitons that he can use.

So I guess if I'm trying to like guide him with like the I'll give him an advantage on the next check yeah alright it will probably use the climbers kit it's gone

you have to leave it behind as you're running but you have advantage on your next athletics check sweet Ayla and Quill do you just want to finish on getting to the end of the room

I'll guidance Ayla okay with cantrip athletics what's that oh this is Aegis 5 all over again. Don't do that.

I have another hand to give. I really like dramatic escapes. I know you do. 19. 19. You easily make it to the other end of the room, and Quill, I'm assuming you just levitate yourself or basically push off.

Like, next one. Boop. Whee. As you fly across. Okay. So Sentry and Lucius and Nova is the only ones. Lucius, you need to make an Athletics. With advantage.

Yeah, with advantage. Sentry, you need to do the same if you want to keep up with it. With advantage. You still have Bless active, so you still get a D4. You still get a D4. 14. 14 is just enough to make it. But you need to make another con save.

And you get blessed on this as well. 23. 25. You don't even need to bless. Okay, so Lucius, leaving the climbing tools behind as you make your way, you get to the other side of this chamber. What did you get on your affix? 22.

Yeah. Century just leaps and bounds. Smashes them to the other side. You guys make it to the other end of the foundry and through the doors, leading into the large open area with the two corridors that led to the power generator in the lamps. The secret entrance that leads back up to the ocean. But the shaking grows even more intense. And as you emerge into the room, huge chunks of rock fall down,

filling the tunnel entrance that leads back up to the ocean. Lava begins bursting in and spewing, filling the corridor. What would you guys like to do? The entrance corridor is blocked by heavy stones and rubble for about 30 feet. Oh my god. Man, levitate would have been really good right now.

It looks like you can probably crawl through the rocks, but you need to make strength checks to try and pull yourself through. You're going to have to force your way through it. I'm going to start throwing all my spells at it. Okay. Just to try and disrupt them. What kind of damage are you doing?

I'm going to use... Hit as many of them and break them apart as I can. Okay. Sure, just make a damage roll. So your normal damage roll. I know it's Aayla smashing rocks. I'm going to throw a cold chromatic orb on the rocks to kind of make them more fragile.

Okay. Roll the damage for whatever the chromatic orb damage would be. Okay. Just one hit? Yeah, yeah. Just one hit, basically. 68. 7.

3, 4, 5. I'm not ready. I've got that one. 6. 7, 2, 3, 4, 5. I'm not ready. I've got that one. 6. 7, 8. 68. I know what I'm doing. Wait.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Yeah. Go on, Mark. That's pretty good. 30. 30, and then a 7 from you. That's enough. You watch as Lucius'

cold orb strikes against it it freezes huge chunks of the rocks and then Aayla comes in, several big blows smashing them apart, you've widened you've made a big enough gap that you crawl through you're still going to have to make strings, but it's easier now cool so that's what you guys were doing for this

Quill, Nova, Sentry, what do you guys want to do? do you want to try and squeeze through? You also look like you may be able to use things like perception or investigation to try and find areas that you can easily maneuver through. Hey, that's me. In that case, I'll try and look for a good room. Cool. Perception check.

Nova and Sentry, think about what you guys want to do. Perception, 16. 17, yeah. You think you can find it. You kind of start directing Aayla and Lucius, like, hit here and stuff like that, and you begin making it far easier. You're almost carving like a tunnel

by you striking weak points where it's not going to collapse in on itself and actually creating a crawl space. Can I make sure I go last? Yeah, at this point, yeah, sure. Cool. Century and Nova, any actions you guys want to take? I want to make sure I go last? Yeah, at this point, yeah, sure. Cool. Right. Century and Nova, any actions you guys want to take? I'm going to make sure I go first so that I can try and push and pull.

Okay, that'll be your second. Just if these guys have any actions they want to do, this happens while you're doing the smash. Can I try and use my body to hold up rocks that might be above to try and stop anything? So you start almost crawling in to start with and then try and hold it up. You're trying to push it up. Okay, yeah.

Make a strength check for me. Athletics. 18 plus 8. Yeah. So Sentry kind of wedges herself into the entrance and more rocks are falling down and she's kind of holding them up with her shield. So it prevents this thing from being filled up even more,

making it even easier. Nice. Nova, anything? I guess just start moving because i'm half speed so okay so you start want to make it i would just start right you make a athletics check with disadvantage for me okay not too bad six six total okay you get there and you just stick to that minus. And minus two strength. She's minus two strength and disadvantage. You are desperately trying to, like, force your way through, but even this widened hole, like, you just can't pull yourself through.

So many parts of it are quite narrow. You don't even, yeah. I'm not going to say you block it for anybody else at this point. If you had properly got in, you would have blocked it. I'm a dumbass. Can I use Eldritch Blast to blast it out? No, no, no. That was your action for this point. You're not in right now, so you're currently not blocking it. You're fine. I guess my idea is, like, because I know I'm a dumbass. Can I use Eldritch Blast to blast it out? No, no, no. That was your action for this point.

You're not in right now, so you're currently not blocking it. You're fine. I guess my idea is, like, because I know I'm slow, I'm just start moving, like... Sure. I do need, at the start of the second round,

everybody needs to make a Constitution saving throw. Oh, yeah. As the heat is building and building and building, and now these rocks are falling down. I rolled an 18 and a natural 1. That is another level of exhaustion, I'm afraid. 30. Natural 20.

Plus 6. Oh, wait, 28. You do not have plus 10 to con saves. I'll do it with plus 6. Plus 2 is plus 8. Oh, my God. So who wants to know what level four of exhaustion has? Tell us, Kim.

What does it do? Hit point maximum halved. Yeah. Do you want to know what level five is? Speed reduced to zero. Do you want to know what six is? Dead. Yeah.

Everybody also takes eight points of fire damage as the heat is building in this room. Oh my god. Eight points. Yep, eight points. I also gain exhaustion. Oh, you also gain exhaustion? Yeah, I roll 20. Century, what did you get in your console?

I rolled a 20. I'm back to 20. Yep, Herald is also fine. How do I do the hit point is halved thing? For now, just... Temp. Kim, don't worry about the hit points too much because your maximum is halved.

So any hit points you have is like... So it's not that it's already taken me down to half. No. If I drop below half, I can only heal up to half. Yes. So what hit point? Are you under half now? No.

43 of 72. So your half 72 would be 35, 36. You go down to 36. You take damages if you were 36. And then you can only go up to 36. You can override your maximum. Your hit point maximum is half the 36. If you have over 36 hit points, it goes down to 36. No, override your maximum. Your hit point maximum is half to 36. If you have over 36 hit points, it goes

down to 36. We're at the door. What else is going to happen? Tom, do you really want to do that? You deserve to be left in this cave. What have I done to you today? I thought we had a really nice chat. Okay, so I want to

go first so that I can try and carve the best path. But can I also pull Nova along? You can do that. You will be at disadvantage. Okay, but I'll do it anyway. Okay, sure. So you're at disadvantage for an athletics check. I'd like to think that the RP of of this is like I get hit by a rock

nah nah and I'm just like yeah it's also just like you just you can't think I'm exhausted I'm done

you can barely see nat 1 nat 1 so Ayla is trying to drag what in athletics athletics so that'd be 9 9

okay so you can see Ayla is trying to drag like Nova with her but is just not making progress she probably would be able to make it if she wasn't trying to pull Nova behind her as well, but she just can't make it. So that's your action.

Action's around. I will guide you. I'm going last. Century, so she keeps the tunnel open, I suppose. Okay. And then can I try and also push through? Or is it blocked? You will be at disadvantage

because Aayla and Nova are blocking the space. Hi. I'll just clamber over. It's fine. Just push me down further, Tom. Just are blocking the space. Hi. I'll just clamber over. It's fine. Just push me down further, Tom. Just push my head down. Yeah, I don't. I'm not.

I'm just really. So the three of them are now trying to wedge their way through the tunnel. You're making like, it's not that you'll like stop dead, but you're going like inches at a time. Like Aayla's like shoving her way through and then dragging Nova, but it's taking so much longer to move. You're, like, moving, like, five feet around at this point. Lucius, Sentry, and Nova, any actions?

I'll wait for the end. Okay. Have I technically not done mine? You've not technically done yours. Ayla is dragging you, but you're still conscious. Like, you can still take your own actions. Can I Eldritch Blast a rock? Sure, you can try to.

Disadvantaged. Make an attack roll disadvantage because you're exhausted. AC for rocks. 19 you luckily you're in such close proximity you just point your hands and go like ahhh roll damage one you do break some away but probably not enough to make a huge difference that's one beam beam, though. Should I do another beam? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get two beams. Yeah. 15. Hits. Actually, no, it doesn't.

Stone is an AC of 17. So you're striking the rocks, but it's just not doing enough damage to really have any significant impact. Hitting a strong bit. Yeah. Century. So I'm still holding up the thing. Can I tell Harold to just try and help, see what Harold can do?

Harold is like, yes, I will try, Sentry. She looks around. I think she's got basic healing that she can do. She's quite strong, actually, from what I remember. So she will try and rather than trying to go into the tunnel, she's going to try and clamber up and kind of lift some of the heavier pieces to allow Century Nova to kind of make more space.

That is going to be... How is it AC 17? Stone's AC is 17, man. That's the DMG. Hadarbane, 7. So Herald gets on top and kind of like lifts up and you can feel an immense pressure lifted off you as Herald is like lifting it,

but she's in an awkward position now where she's going to have to hold this until everybody can kind of like get through and under it. She's just like, I have it for now, Sentinel, but please hurry, please hurry, Prime. And she's like holding it up. Okay. All right.

You've still got your action as well. Do you want to try and like follow after them? I can try, yeah, and try and just keep making room as I go. Athletics with disadvantage. This is a bad time for bad rolls. Really? We're getting terrible rolls. Three plus eight.

Still not enough. No, you're kind of like, again, you're facing the same problem in that because they're blocked up ahead, you just can't get the leverage on any of these stones. It's like a collapsed-in tunnel now, and you're desperately you can feel like the shaking all around you it's not just like this is there's more rocks constantly being piled on top of it as well the whole facility is shaking apart like an earthquake around you lucius what do you do um seeing herald is holding up the rock i will go in behind everybody else okay and cast absorb elements fire on myself okay that's a

reaction when you take fire damage. So if you're going to crawl in behind everybody else, Athletics check with disadvantage. Okie dokie. And then when you take fire damage, you can absorb elements. So basically what I'm going to basically do is use my body. If the worst comes to worst, I've got to absorb elements of fire. So if the lava begins flowing up behind you,

you're going to try and just absorb, soak the lava up like a sponge. A lava sponge. What was the athletics? Athletics with disadvantage, please. 10. So 12. 12. You don't make it any worse,

but you're not going to unfortunately help make any progress. Again, being at the back of the line, if you were maybe at the front, this would help, but you're just not making enough progress. That was the third nat 20 with disadvantage. Before we go on break, I need everybody to make a constitution saving throw. And Lucius,

you are going to take some fire damage. Natural 20! Same, same, same! I don't want to make this roll. I'm taking fire damage now, huh? You take six points of fire damage, and Lucius, you look up. As you can see, the lava has filled this room and is now literally on your boots. You're kind of like the last one in. Harold, her legs are buried in some of the lava, and she's still holding.

I don't want to make this roll. You have to. Constitution, what did you get? Nat 20. Nat 20? I got 20. get? Nat 20. Nat 20? I got 20. 20? Nat 20.

Nat 20? 13. Oh, Kim. Is that with centuries plus two? 15. Oh, that's lucky. Man, not complaining about rules. It's on now.

14. You're just keeping conscious. You do not gain a level of exhaustion. But we are going to take a break. Oh, God, we need to get out of this. Genuinely, I'm really sick then.