High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #66 | Rock and Gnoll (Part 2)

Episode Date: April 9, 2020

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make a stealth check for me. This corner is... Oh, no, Sentry. Oh, no. Yeah, Lucius and Quill, you're okay. You don't need to make a check. Oh, not too many. Disadvantage, because you wear heavy armor.

Oh, yeah. What? Oh, what? Oh, my God. disadvantage because you wear heavy armor oh yeah oh my god yep that's how it goes sometimes um oh my god amazing wow literally the worst you guys yeah you guys begin making your way around, but Sentry, I mean, your new armored form as you step on the ground, there are kind of small twigs and branches and things like that and there is a very audible, very loud crunch that just happens to

fall in that silence between the blows of this creature hitting the door where it all goes quiet and then they just hear a very clear crunch squeak of metal like, metal and grinding of metal against wood, and all of these creatures, just their eyes snap round. You can see they have these

hideous yellow flaxen eyes, and their fur is ragged. Several of them look quite scrawny, and then this just huge, gluttonous-looking one, this fat gnoll with these rippling muscles. The one that seems to be

giving the orders snaps around and as it looks around, it can see half of this metal woman's body kind of poking out from the bushes. And it's just like, ah! The least subtle thing. Yeah. Sorry, guys! And that's gonna be

initiative from Quill. Got eight for his initiative. Nova got Sorry guys! And that's gonna be Initiative! Okay! Quill got 8 for his Initiative. Nova got 22 for Initiative. Century 13. And I got 21. 21. What did Ada get? Sorry, I don't know if I missed it. There we go. 23 for Ayla. 23. Nice.

Okay. Startu kombatu. Ayla, you're the first to react. Start to combate. Ayla, you're the first to react. Start to combate. You see all of these creatures. Their attention is absolutely drawn. The element of surprise

momentarily lost. High on alert. Full rage, first of all. Okay, that sounds advisable. Advisable, yes. And then I will, if I can get rid of this

on my page, I will go for the uh 5, 10, 15, 20, 23, I can go after this dude So you just come charging out of the bushes And you take him somewhat by surprise I mean he's alerted but he doesn't expect you

To come rushing out he's like looking in sentry's direction So he like draws his His broken looking sword What does he have actually Oh no he has a glaive So he has like a large two handed his broken-looking sword. What does he have, actually? Oh, no, he has a glaive, so he has a large two-handed polearm with this wicked-looking blade on the left. Okay.

I don't know if this will work because it's the Beyond 20 thing, so we'll try it. You can just roll the d20 and then add your modifier as normal. Okay. Oh, no.. Oh no. First attack.

16. 16 will still hit. He tries to bring the glaive down but the force of the blow carries through. Connects it. Okay. Okay. So that will be

a 9 plus go away. So that will be a nine plus. Go away. Go away. Sorry, I'm having issues with my sheet. Nine plus five plus three. 17. 17 because you're raging.

17 plus make a death save. Struck in the chest with a mighty blow he desperately tries to get out the way of the lightning but this as the hammer swings in the air current gathers around the hammer and blasts with lightning for another four lightning damage yeah he's still on his feet but that blow like sends him flying and he staggers back. He's like, they brought reinforcements! You fat one! Kill them! So 16 plus 9 to hit on my second. Then

that's going to be... Again! 17 damage. Yep. Still on his feet but barely. These two heavy blows kind of, like, cripple him, and you can see parts of a kind of rusted chain shirt underneath trying to absorb the blow, but you're pretty sure a few ribs break,

and it kind of, like, squeals as it gets hit in the chest. It's like, ah! Kill, kill! That's the end of your go. NovaVegia. Can I cast Slow on as many of them as possible? You tell me. What's the spell look?

It's a 40-foot cube. Please. Does it say a spot within range? Read the spell out. It's 120 feet. And I cast a 40-foot cube. Six creatures of your choice within a 40-foot cube. Up to six creatures of your choice within a 40-foot cube within range.

Yeah, that's what I said. So where are you placing it? You need to make a wisdom saving throw. Where do you want to place it? So... Where can you see that you want to place it? Kind of center it on the middle guy, the big fat dude.

The large guy? Yeah. Okay. So a 40-foot cube. I've counted pretty much within 40 foot. Like, they're all in 30-ish. So it's everyone, right? Okay.

Yeah, if it's a 40-foot cube. Yeah, it seemed like everyone. But you don't want to catch... Do you want to catch Ayla in it, though? Please, please no. Because if you... You can't hit one of the gnoll. Not really.

If you want to catch it, you don't want to catch Aayla. Just make a wisdom saving throw. It's fine. No, I'll angle it. I don't have wisdom. Okay, so you're going to catch the leader who Aayla is fighting, the large one, and there are a few more behind him, but there's one which is just going to not be in range.

Yeah, I can see. Yeah. I'll miss that close, dude. All right. So what is it? Wisdom saving throw? Yeah, 17 can see, yeah. I'll miss that close, dude. All right. So what is it? Wisdom saving three? Yeah, 17. 17.

The pack lord leader fails. The large big boy fails. Natural one. Wow. Null B. I believe that is a fail. Yes. Null D. Fail. Null C. Passes. Aw. believe that is a fail yes no D failed no see passes ah cool um so their speed

is halved they take minus two to AC and dex saving throws and they can't use reactions they can only do an action or a bonus action. And there's a couple of things to do with abilities and magic items, but yeah. Yeah, they don't really need to worry about that. Yeah, you can you can't make more than one melee or ranged attack during its turn.

I'm marking them all with a snail. Aww. They are slow. You are a slow boy. And slow is concentration, yes? Yes it is. In that case, you can have... Ummm... What's a good concentrating one?

Is there like a brain? Ummm... I can choose that while you carry on. Memory is a good one. I was just going to use this. I'll choose one if you carry on. Memory is a good one. I'll choose one if you carry on. All right, well, I put one for now, but you can change it.

Okay. Okay, so that's Nova's go. You don't move or anything like that, Nova? No. I'm going to stay where I am. Lucius. I will stay where I am and cast a 30-foot cube, which is 120 feet distance I can cast this on these two

the big boy. So what is it? A 30 foot cube of hypnotic pattern. Please. So I'm going to get the two, one that Aayla's fighting and the big boy behind him. Please. So you'll catch those three. Oh cool. There's three. Nice. Seemingly so.

What saving throw am I making? Wisdom. 16. Alright. N's three. Nice. Seemingly so. What saving throw am I making? Wisdom. Sixteen. Alright. Null leader. Fails. Big boy. Passes. Little guy fails. So they're charged. Remind us what that does.

Spell incapacitated and speed of zero. The spell ends for an effective creature. They take any damage or if someone else uses an action to shake the creature out of its stupor. So any damage breaks them out of it. But they're incapacitated which means that they do nothing, basically. They do nothing until someone

hits them or they can shake it off. They may save at the end of their turn. No, they have to use an action. Somebody have to use an action. Somebody has to use an action to wake them up. Yep. The one in front of me has that on it. Yes, he does.

So you watch as Lucius summons the code swirling. I don't know that you've done that though. Well, it's going to stop him acting, at least for a round. So you summon this swirling coalescence of color and magic and you just watch as two of them their eyes kind of glaze over as they just begin looking around at

these colors like and they like kind of laugh to themselves but the big one kind of like closes its eyes is like and doesn't seem to be uh bothered. Is there anyone that's not affected by anything right now? Yeah, there's a bunch. There's a guy in the top corner. Oh, right. And speaking of which, on their turn, a bunch of these creatures then react. This one is going to go five, ten, fifteen.

He runs round. Wait, he's gone past. The hypnotic pattern doesn't continue does it once it's in effect yeah it's a flash did he manage to dodge out of my way yeah he didn't move within your threatened area half speed for any slow boys

yep well the two slow boys at the moment well only one of the slow boys can actually do anything so three four Well, the two slow boys at the moment, well, only one of the slow boys can actually do anything. Three, four. Yeah. So they're all just running around, ignoring Aayla from the looks of things.

Yeah, oh, yeah. Like, absolutely. They see Aayla come in and nearly destroy their, like, the person who's been giving them orders, and they've all got bows. You can see that they do have some melee weapons, but their bows in their hands, they take shots towards

the two people that are casting scary magic spells at them. Yeah. Well, two of them are going to anyway. Two, so they will make a few attacks. So each one is going to make two attacks with their bow. So Nova, two will be at you and then two will make a few attacks. So each one is going to make two attacks with their bow. So Nova, two will be at you, and then two will be at Lucius.

So we'll do Null C first at Nova. That is a 23 to hit. Oh, Jesus. And an 18 to hit. Yeah. Both hit. So each one does six points of damage, so 12 points of damage total. Both hit. So each one does 6 points of damage.

So 12 points of damage total. And they seem to aim for your legs. And then another 6. So it's 6 first attack, 6 on the second attack. And each should make 2 concentration checks. So 2 constitution saving throws. Constitution saving throws. You get a plus 3 on those, Nova,

because you're 10 feet from me. Yes. Plus 3, you know. Extra plus 3 on those, Nova, because you're 10 feet from me. Yes. Plus 3, you know. The extra plus 3. If I click that, did that do something? Yes, it did. Add another 3, so that's 16 on 1. That's a pass. DC's only 10.

So even with the plus 3 that's a 9. The slow goes. God damn it! Yep. So even with the plus three percent, that's a nine for slow goes. Okay. Dang. God damn it. Yeah. It's the problem with multi-attack. I wrote it down on.

So these two arrows, by the way, they strike your legs. And the arrows kind of impale near your feet and scratch across your legs. Your speed is reduced by ten feet until the end of your next turn. So you've got 10 less speed. And then the regular gnoll A. Regular gnoll, regular gnoll. It's going to take two shots at that. Amazing.

So this is at you, Lucius, for a 13. Yep. And a 14. Yep. So six points of damage, followed by six more points of damage. Is hypnotic pattern concentration? No, it's just a flash. Okay, so just your speed is reduced by 10 and you take 12 points of damage overall.

I would have been fine with those hits. The last one at the very back, whose slowness, you see his body kind of begin speeding up. And he looks around and he's like, he'll take two shots at Ayla. As the arrow comes flying in. Nine, I know, is a miss. of begins speeding up and he looks around and he's like he'll take two shots at Ayla. Bitch. As the arrow comes flying in. Nine I know is a miss. Ten is a miss. I can hit the two squishies easy.

I'm not squishy. You're pretty squishy. You know that's squishy. You're pretty squishy. You're made of air. You're made of air. Not compared to Quill and Lucius. Yeah. The other

Null appears to just be, yeah, completely unfazed. Nulling around. I'm just going to make a perception check for some other guys. Nope. They don't know what's fucking going on. Cool. Okay.

So that is A, B, C, D, E, F, Sentry. Cool. I'm going to move up on this guy and give him the old one-two smack-a-roo. He just kind of cackles at you, but does look somewhat alarmed

as you go for him. That is regular gnoll A. He's got a whole alphabet of gnolls. So that was so many alphabets. This is, yeah, one of the archers, yeah. Where am I? Attack bonus.

Where's my attack bonus? Where's he gone? I've lost it. Plus 40? Plus, yeah. There it is. Plus 9. There we go. So yeah uh there is plus nine there we go so yeah 16 plus nine 16 nice just appear to be wearing like rough leather armor as well they don't seem to be too heavily armored so then i'll give him a smack with that one damage and then i'll do it again.

Where are you? There he is. Just as a note, Rhiannon, as well, the auto damage from Beyond 20 doesn't seem to be including the extra D4 for Her Majesty's Rose as well. Okay, no worries. I'm going to do my Howling Tempest manually because it's just not going to work. Okay.

So just do another d4. Do a d4. And then this attack will also hit afterwards. So the thorns of as the sword strikes, the metal kind of warps and shifts and creates these thorns along the blade, tearing into the

gnoll's fur and flesh. And then the second attack definitely hit as well. So roll damage for that one. And then a d44 that was with your dagger by the way oh oh my goodness you're better off just rolling the dice in roll 20

yeah I think I'll just do that from now on yeah it does work it's just if you click the wrong thing and stuff like that and you have to manually yeah it's just very very click the wrong thing and stuff like that, and you have to manually get the other damage. And it's just very, very slow. Yep, and with that, you watch as this gnoll is obliterated.

The sentry just runs up and tears into him. Nice. Wonderful. That was one of the archers gone then straight away. Yes, that's the one that shot at Lucius. So you run up and then Her Majesty's Road just tears into its flesh Ripping it apart, these deep wounds As it just kind of collapses to the ground

You can see the other gnolls kind of look around at each other Look at their leader like, what should we do? And then he's just staring into space Which is all he does on his turn. Quillek. I'd like to do a hold action to basically level one guiding bolt the first person,

like any of the melee people hit next. So if Ayla hits someone, then I'll guiding bolt that before she hits it. Can I do that? Yeah, so your thing is before one of my companions attacks a creature, I will Guiding Bolt it. Yeah, just to give them advantage on the hit as well. Sure, sure, sure.

Although, actually, I might just destroy them. And I'm not going to move, and that's my turn. Okay, all right. So you're holding your action. Okay. So you're holding your action. After your turn, the big boy goes. And he does not seem very happy. He doesn't like this bright light.

He doesn't like this angry lady who's beating up his friend. He's just going to come stomping past. He's going to shove this guy out the way. In fact, he's going to move around to this side. way He kind of wheels around you ailer as you'll find the first guy this big troll kind of this huge Gluttonous fat knoll kind of squeezes past you can see it's got this large flail It's spinning around in its head its legs don't look particularly stable on the ground

And it just kind of like... But its movements are all sluggish from the slow... Oh, the slow spell went, didn't it? Yeah. Yeah, its movements aren't sluggish at all, and in fact it swings this flail viciously

towards you. Me. Yep, 18 to hit. I think that just gets me just yet. Okay, 18 to hit. I think that just gets me just yet. Okay, next attack is 16 to hit. So that does not hit. What kind of damage is he doing? 16 bludgeoning, so half that to 8.

Okay. Bam, it hits you once, and you kind of shrug off the blow as this big flail slams into you, and you sidestep to the next one, and he kind of looks confused, like, You are small. Don't move fast. No. I don't understand you, dude're just weird no you're just gross and it's your go

oh he's lost in the festive I'll say to him just one second and I'll turn around and smack this other guy does Quill's action go off to

yes it does yeah which one are you hitting the one that I was already hitting the small one. The teeny boy. Okay. The teeny boy. So 15 plus guiding bolt plus 8, 23.

That's a hit. 4d6 of the Magios. 12. The ray of light obliterates him. Oh. Oh, never mind. Crikey. As these various quill,

like feather-like bolts fly out of your hands. Already weakened by the blows Aayla had dealt earlier, it just shreds his armor and sends him flying to the ground. Just continue your swing, but spin it around.

Nice work, Quill. Just turn around a bit and I'm back. This is where, like, a very rules-lawyery GM will be like, no, you said you're attacking a guy, he's not there, you waste that attack, but I'm not going to do that. That would be so dumb. He lifted a hammer, and he exploded.

Yeah. 11 plus 9, so 20 to hit. This is on the big boy. That's a hit. And I'll just roll the next hit. 9 plus 9, so 18 to hit. It's also a hit. Okay, so first shot.

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 10 damage with the hammer and the next one will be 17 damage with the hammer plus dex throw 3 failure, 1 lightning damage big hits here the hammer slams in,

and you can see that the enormous layers of extra flesh and tissue absorb some of the blow. Not quite sure how much impact they've had on the creature, but it definitely shudders back from the blows, and it's like, No! I'm going to eat you I would advise against

that you're already quite fat more I want more no hungry Nova oh my god um

eat flesh things. I think they've been cursed. I'm going to cast Eldritch Blast on the big boy. Both beans. Let's do it. So if I click that, what happens? So that's a 26 on the first beam. Yep.

And eight points of damage. And I guess... He's dead. 18 on the second. Hits. Six points of damage. Boop. Yep.

Bam, bam. Both beams slam into the creature and it goes... And the impact of the force seems to shatter through its body. Anything else? No. Okay, Lucius. No, I'm good. I'm going to fling an acid

chromatic orb at the big boy, please. Okay. What was that? Me clicking 27 Well it hits Yep

And that's 23 points of acid And Dicomancy At that third level is 7 Do you want the Dicomancy to hit the same target Or do you want to hit like the little gnoll behind it? I'm going to ping the other one that's to the southeast of him. Yeah.

And that was, how much is the Dicomancy damage on that one? Seven, please. Seven? Yep. So you watch as this huge glob of acid splashes across this huge, furry, fat creature, and the acid burns away, and you just watch as the skin and the flesh begins to bubble and melt, and this horrible

scent of, like, burning flesh wafts through the air as the acid just coats it, and it's like, No! It begins, like, kind of squirming in pain as the acid melts its way through it. Anything else, Lucius?

Bonus action barrier ring. Shield. So, positive to AC. He remembers! Look at that little smile. I did a thing! I did a thing, I did. I did it.

Okay. So, and then, I guess that on this turn, the incapacitated one I did it okay um okay so and then I guess that on this turn the incapacitated one is still just stood staring at nothing um

la la la la la has he got no check to make to get out of that or only if his body wakes him up um

which I'm trying to decide if his body would do I think my I don't think his hypnotic thing was concentration. How was it? I think so.

Is it too far now? So I roll. I mean, tell me for definite, is it concentration? Yes, it is. It is. Cool. Roll two constitution saving throw checks. Passed, first one.

Passed on the second one. So his buddies don't seem to care and abandon him. They're just like, no, fuck this. All right. And they begin backing off. So this one's going to go back about here. And then this one, I think, can go... Where's here? I can't really see much well if you can't see it that's because you need to move forward quillic and calar you know the podcast in that case they are moving away from

the battle they are moving away from the front line of the battle they seem to be making their way to the far side of the monastery. But they still have enough time to fire off a couple of shots each, which they are going to aim all at Ayla. Don't draw on the map! I'm doing it for the benefit. Oh, benefit. But it doesn't help the podcast drop. The stream can see!

So this is four arrow shots at Ayla. That's a miss. That is a 17. I don't remember if that hits you or not. No. 17 doesn't hit. 18 AC. 18.

Yep. Miss. That one is a miss. It's actually only plus four. So 16 and then 17. So yeah, these arrows just come flying in and you're just kind of ducking to the side of them. They're bouncing off your leather armor and things

like that as you're fighting this larger gnoll. But they're just kind of keeping their bows trained as they slowly back away. The other ones are all dead. That guy was incapacitated. Sentry. I think I would there we go

you're laughing at Chris Trott just Trott Trott looks so pleased with himself when he does like a little thing like so he's he's just made it obvious

who's go it is and stuff like that so okay here simple pleasures yeah I'll go there um and then I will for the purpose and then i will lose my fucking mind next to the large

the gluttonous troll the gluttonous cool so i'm moving up on the big boy and then i'm gonna bonus action cast raffle smite on my sword and then i'm going to wait and then hold an action and if he swings at Ayla, I'll give him a whack. Okay, so you clearly prime yourself waiting for an opportunity where if he swings for Ayla, then he'll...

Prime! Okay. The prime is primed. Quillek. Okay, I guess if people are doing that prime stuff, then I'll do the same thing I did last time, except this time I'll try not to blow the thing away. I'll do another thing.

I mean, you can blow the thing away if you want. Yeah, just blow it. I'm just guiding bolt it now. Away. Oh, actually, there's two running away. No, instead, can I do an entangle on the furthest archer? What's the range? 90 feet.

So it will hit. And they need to do a strength save. 16. He's actually so happy with himself every time he does a little ping on the map. Oh, it's actually both things. 20 feet radius.

Yep, you can hit both. So what's that? Saving through? For both, yeah. Strength. Strength saving through? Yes. DC? 16. One passes, one fails. And I rolled that in order, so the one on the far edge succeeds, but the

closest one fails. Okay, so that was with Lady Dustwillow's ring, so the one on the far edge succeeds, but the closest one fails. Okay, so that was with Lady Dust Willow's ring. So do I have a spell slots fair or no? What do you mean? So it's one action to do that. Can I use a bonus action as a spell, or is that... No. No. Okay.

Fair enough. You're casting it from an item, but it still follows all the normal rules for casting spells. Okay. Fair enough. You're casting it from an item, but it still follows all the normal rules for casting spells. Okay, fair enough. You're still casting a spell. You're just using an item to do it. Yeah. And also, I'll go around the corner

so I get a better sight of these things as well. Okay. Cool. And that's my turn. Okay. In that case, the large gnoll will turn. It was already kind of facing Aayla, but it kind of points itself

in the middle of Aayla and Sentry. And you see that all the wounds that it sustained, all of the damage, its skin begins to ripple, and you see it kind of regurgitate as a pile of just acid and vomit spews out from its mouth

coating the two of you. Can you both make dex saving throws, please? Cool. You get a plus three on that one. Ew! I did not expect it to just throw up on him.

That was delicious. That wouldn't have been with advantage. don't know why it'll be the first roll i think if you're using if you're using d if you're using that beyond 20 then it will automatically roll twice for advantage and disadvantage um to save time because i yeah we're gonna i thought the main thing was we weren't going to use that as much so it's saving a ton of time. It does save time, Tom. It does save time, but if not everybody's using it, it won't. If everybody uses it, it does.

So Aayla, that's a fail, and then Sentry, that's a pass. 3d10, 5. So that's 24. So that's 24 acid damage to Aayla and then 12 acid damage to Sentry as this hideous bile just emerges from its gutter. Spraying across the two of you as it just coats them both, really. It's not a spell.

It's not a spell, no. This is like some sort of natural natural acid or vomit like a dragon's breath kind of thing and in sentry you get to make your attacks nice all righty popping off time d20 going now okay so yeah even with your modifier that's definitely going to hit okay so then the d8 that's 7 plus oh my god 5 so that's 12

and then plus d4 so that's 12, 13 and then the d6 from wrath of smite that's just so 13, and then a d6 from Rathal Smite. God, there's so many. 15 for the first one. Yes.

That sword is crazy. And then I'll do the second attack, d20. So Rathal Smite's already gone, so that's spent. Yep. So that's d20, and then d8 plus 5. Well, what's the total attack roll, just so we know? So the attack is 18. Yep, so that hits20 and then d8 plus 5. Well, what's the total attack roll? Just so we know. So that hits and then... Okay.

And then 2 plus 5. So that is a 7. Plus the d4. Yep. 10. 10 more points. You watch as Sentry just tears into it. Her Majesty's Rose just tearing at the creature's flesh.

It's still standing, but you can see just blood is pouring out of the various wounds that cuts all across this creature, just completely covering it now in blood. Its fur is soaked crimson as it sways on its two large, kind of flabby legs. It kind of looks around with one lazy eye. Begins swinging its flail.

And we go to Ayla at the top of the round. Hello. Hello. I would like to recklessly attack him, please. Okay. Yep. With advantage. Oh, sorry.

No, I did that wrong. You can just add the modifier. So it's 17. You got a 17 and a 17 for the rolls. So 17 plus 9. That'll hit. And for the next one... I'll just do my other attack.

An 18 plus 9. So that will hit. Yes. Yep, both hit. That will happen. 10 for the first hit 13 for the second hit

as the second hammer comes down the lightning doesn't need to happen because as the second hammer comes down the skull of the creature is just caved in by the hammer and it kind of wobbles for a moment and then one leg buckles and then its next leg buckles

and it falls onto the ground as blood just begins pooling and staining the grass beneath it as its large forms blindness on the nun doesn't need to see this it's for the best. Yeah, so after

Ayla, anything else? Nova, you want to blast those little shits that are running away? Blast them. Rub my hands together. I will move...

I will move towards them. Get all up in their face. No be honest. Yeah. 30. Yeah, I'm gonna... It's three gnolls, isn't it?

There is. One of them is just staring into space like completely incapacitated uh that is the one with the oh yeah i've given them the same symbol um it's the one closest to the bushes uh i will put a different thing right in fact i'll use this net that's fine so the So the one Aayla's next to is... That's the entangled one. Yeah, the one, no, the one that Aayla's next to is the entangled one. The one above it. And then the one which is near the bushes to the side of the monastery is the one that is staring into space.

And then there is one which is unaffected by anything. Further behind, it seems to be making a run for the other side of the monastery. So the one by the bushes has been hit by entangled yep uh it would have been as well i mean it's incapacitated like it literally can't do anything okay okay i'm gonna

blast the one that's running i'll put it as entangled because you'll get against it but it's oh nice nice oh my god which one was that entangled one i have the one that's running the one that's running away okay the furthest away i'm ignoring entangled i'm ignoring hypnotic pat and i'm going for the one that's running i rolled a 29 to hit you rolled a crit that's a crit yeah and the crits already works out the way that we do it so it's 18 damage to that

one oh nice um That's one blast. It might be easier for everyone to use the Beyond 20 thing and then just add any modifiers that it's missing, like for the Rage and the Her Majesty's Rose and stuff. Because it does make stuff like this a lot quicker. Yeah. And then the next one is just four points of damage. Yes.

Which is actually, ironically... Both on the runny boy. Yep, and the four damage is exactly how much healthy had left Just disintegrate him. Yep. Can I do something with my bonus action, please? Yeah, can I? Once I see it go down I'm gonna point tiangong in its direction, and I guess a blue beam is going to shoot out and recreate a digital outline of the gnoll,

and then it's just going to flicker into light. It kind of copies the body. A faded digital hologram, like a pale blue hologram of the null rises up I need to roll initiative for it I'll do that wait it enters combat what the I'll just do it wait she killed it plus two I've got those spectra stats up so oh you've got the specs that's I see oh yeah because it uses expected stats there's not enough i just mean it joins us that's crazy um yeah i'll just try and remember the first time i managed to do this it's no very right specters at the end of the round so okay um okay uh lucius uh i will move with my 20 speed to there.

And I will once again Chromatic Orb, but at second level because I'm running low, on the closest one in a straight line to me. the closest one in a straight line to me. So the one that is entangled and incapacitated by the hypnotic pattern. I pinged it. And I will... I'm describing it for the podcast. Yeah. Acid.

Cheers, then. Sure. Well, you have advantage. Woo! It's melted. Like, you literally melt it alive. It's just in one blow, you reduce it to

a steaming pile of nothing. That's a 19. Damage. Nice. Damn. No, it's 29. It's 10 plus 19. This is the way the crit works.

Oh, I see. Nice. Yeah. And in fact, actually, no, that's because it's not using the full rule from that it's dead it's fucking dead um you just it's just incinerated it's it's it's reduced to a viscous puddle oh it's thrown up again and it couldn't scream in pain because it was incapacitated and like it was just like one minute it was staring into a blissful light

and then the next minute it was nothing. Oh my god. Can I also dichromancy that to the other one? The other guy? Six points of damage to the one in front of Ayla, please. Irregular Null C. Six points. Badly injured.

Has been blasted by various spells. Has now got globs of acid burning through one of its arms. It looks terrified. And I'm just standing next to it like... Yeah. On its go. Is it an action to break free of the Entangle, Tom?

I think they have to save against it. Yeah, action to make strength save. Yep. Strength 16. It will try and do that. It breaks free and then desperately tries to run for it. Okay, I get an attack of opportunity. You get an attack of opportunity, and if this hits, it's dead.

Nice. Can I reckless an attack of opportunity. You get an attack of opportunity, and if this hits, it's dead. Nice. Can I reckless an attack of opportunity? I don't know if I can. No, well, did you reckless on your turn? Yes. Oh, no, in fact, I think this was clarified, so I think it's any attacks during your turn are, but no, you don't get it.

I'll check that. I could be wrong on that. Yeah, it's dead. As it breaks free of these vines, it kind of rips and bites at the vines and tears itself free. And it turns, desperately going for a sprint towards the far side of the monastery when Aayla swings once

and rips its head free from its body, spending this hyena's head spiralling through the air, blood spraying out of its lifeless corpse as it falls to the ground. And it's very dead. Very, very, very dead. Nice. Okay, wait, everyone, quiet,

and can I do a perception check to see if there were any more that heard that or are rushing towards us? Sure, you can make a perception check. Make a perception check for me. I will also make some perception checks. Yeah, exactly. So 15 plus my perception.

23. 23? You, yeah, you hear some things. You can definitely hear the faint sound of voices coming from within the monastery. Maybe the sound of, like, footsteps.

And that's all you can hear for now. Was the door smashed open? Part of it is definitely. Like, there's... Some of it has definitely been broken. I will remove the door. Meanwhile, I'm just kind of like I'm silently

dancing around, just kind of mouthing, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Looking at my specter like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it just stands there. It just kind of stands there. How long does it last? Until my next long rest. Okay, so it just stands there.

So it's just here. And it follows my command. Okay. I might nip back to the sister and update her that perhaps you... We've dealt with the gnolls on the outside of the monastery. However, there may be more danger inside. Please do not go around the corner right now. It's not very pretty,

should I say. I know you're paralyzed by fear right now. It's terrifying. You're very paralyzed by fear. We're going to get through this, okay? Stay with me. So you've gone back to her, right, Lucius? Yes. As you make your way back

and you're talking to her she's like looking at you kind of like semi-stunned she you don't think she's been watching the fight but she's looking at the monastery itself um and you can see she's her hands have gone bone white from where she's clutching her holy symbol of cyana desperately close to her chest and she's looking like probably, actually, she's probably looking in the windows, like trying to see if she can see inside. But as you are talking to her, from the north,

past the outhouse and around the corner towards the back of the monastery, you hear what sounds like a wooden door creak and some sort of like kind of like kind of whispering. Messengering. There's some horrible things to the north.

Maybe we should go back here and investigate. Okay, everyone back around. Okay. I'm back around. Okay. Yeah, back around. Come on, Spectre boy. Here they come.

I will put that under your command if you give me a second, Kim. Controlled by Kim. Show name plate. Her to come out. As well. There you go. That's under your command now.

Yeah, do you guys all, like, everyone who's going to move, move. Yeah, so I'll go back around the corner. I mean, are we still using maps enough to... Yeah, yeah, yeah. If there's another fight happening, absolutely. Well,

I think that... So... I'm just trying to think about like so they would hear it move down maybe we should try to lure them yeah yeah

so by the time everybody it doesn't speak back it just kind of follows you and just like looks around it's movements are kind of janky like just kind of follows you and just like looks around um its movements are kind of janky like a kind of glitchy graphic it kind of like walks but its walk cycle isn't quite right so it's like legs bounce in a weird way um it's cool yeah as you all gather around um and you you start looking towards it meredith like kind of blinks a few times looking at you um but you

don't nothing comes around the corner. There was some chattering, I swear, up to the north from a window. Did it sound like nuns? No. If they were, they were very unusual. Well, let's do the same we did this time, but this time lure them round to us. Yeah.

Okay. I'll stay here. I won't move. I promise. Sure. But you're way at the back. Where's here? Well,

I go up to here and peek around the corner. So you move up to the far edge of the corner past up near the outhouse and start peering

around the stone wall of the monastery itself. Yeah. Make a stealth check. Sentry is stood at the very, like, by the sister, I'm assuming. You're kind of all gathered around this little tree that she's

huddling behind. Natural 20! Trying to be quiet. Ayla, quiet as anything, stalking through the woods. You make your way up and you peer around the corner. You can see that there is a wooden door open that leads into a kitchen. Oh.

Move that. So if you actually put yourself around the corner, Katie, and then you'll see what's around the corner. Yeah, and Lucius can as well. The kitchen inside looks completely trashed. There's food and debris and wood and all sorts of things have been ripped from it. You might just hear the faint

sounds of running coming from the far, like, beyond the far side of the monastery. On the opposite side to the current side you're at. Sounds like a couple of creatures running very, very quickly away. Oh.

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and the now open kitchen door. You can hear a kind of like... Are they gone? I do not know, sister. I need to be cautious. I will then try and take a look. Move towards the door.

I'm assuming it's clear, Randa. I'll just tell... I'll say to them in the ring, just two seconds. There might be people here. I just want to make sure. Null people?

No, like other normal, regular people. Nuns and stuff. Okay, that's good. Um. Yeah. And I'll whisper into the door, It's okay. I'm not a threat.

I'm not one of them. Are you okay? Okay. So when you say that, you hear somebody move closer towards the door, and you can see probably, like, this door has been partly broken down as well, but not severely so. It looks like a very half-assed job, and you can see crates and barrels have been piled up in front of it.

They look quite heavy. They look like they're stuffed with, you know with probably wine and supplies and things like that. But you see a figure somewhat hidden behind them move up and kind of peer through. And you basically see at first you see an eye patch

and then a kind of weathered looking woman's face. The hair is ragged and sweat covered. There are a few marks of blood and dirt on her face as she kind of looks through. Who are you? What are you doing here?

Are the gnolls gone? Sister Meredith brought us here. Oh, thanks, Sayana. Oh, thank the songheart. Yes. Guys, it's okayana. Oh, thank the songheart. Yes. Guys, it's okay. The nuns were good.

Sister Meredith, come around. Have you got the ones at the front? There's a very large, vicious one at the front, along with several of its pack. She turned and she's like, it's all right, sisters, it's okay. Sister Meredith has brought

the mercenaries. And you can hear, oh, thank god. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'll start moving forward too. Yeah, at this point, we don't need to worry too much about them. So yeah, you guys make your way around and you can see huddled into a

small courtyard behind a barricade of things. You have to move into the kitchen. So the kitchen door is open that leads in. Yeah, I'm assuming you guys will kind of just step up. The kitchen has been wrecked and the barricade takes your moment to shift. But with the others on the other side helping, it doesn't take long to shift out of the way. And you see an older looking woman dressed in a very similar outfit to what sister meredith

wears but she has a breastplate over the top of it and you she has like a pauldron um she has what appears to be a crossbow in her in her hands um and it has a small knife on her belt as well um there is also a sister who has wrapped what appear to be like chains around her fists um and she's got these very broad alt shoulders and arms one of but she's holding her side quite badly um the other two sisters the other two nuns are younger humans um and they are kind of just looking around nervously um as you make your way in and yes sister mered Meredith comes in. She basically, as soon as she knows the coast is clear and she finds the others, she

kind of runs in, wraps her arms around the Abbotess. It was just like, Oh, Meredith, you have not, you have saved us all. Thank you for bringing these people here. I fear that my only hope was that you would survive by being in the mainland. This has taken a very dark turn since you left us.

Thank you, all of you, for coming to our aid. I am Abates Regina. I run the monastery and the vineyards here. This is Sister Bailey, and she points to the one with the chains wrapped around her fists. And you can see, like, anybody any sort of like fighting ability so sentry and and ayla this the woman with the chains around her fists and the abbotess absolutely look like they have they know how to fight and they have definitely not been nuns all of their lives they they look like they have they have lived pretty rough lives the other two younger girls look like they probably like sister meredith they don't look like they've ever left this monastery they they look pretty um innocent and naive to to everything

kind of going on um they busy themselves checking each other you can see that abatess regina has um her leg she's limping on one leg really badly she can't really put any pressure on it and is struggling to walk um and sister uh bailey has is clutching her side you can see that they've both clearly been quite badly injured um they have various cuts and bruises and scrapes all over their body uh as they kind of look to you i'm thankful you are all safe is there anyone else missing in the monastery? Not in the monastery, but yes, a couple of our sisters are missing. They were still inside the winery when the larger force attacked, and I couldn't get back to them.

I had to bring who we had here, and it took everything to just barricade this place and keep it safe for a time. I think it is only that the one leading this group have issued orders to gather food that stop them from killing us immediately. Right. Yes.

I need a moment just to compose myself. And she's like, please, come. Let us sit down somewhere. My leg is quite painful. Is anyone else injured? She looks around. Just myself and Bailey.

The other two do not fight. Okay. One of them hits... The large one hit my leg. I think it's broken. And Bailey took a nasty blow to the ribs. I'm not sure if either of us are in any condition to be able to do much. I can heal you, but not sure about the leg, unfortunately,

but it will at least get you in a better fighting condition than you are now. Perhaps let us wait a moment. I must ask something of you, and I want you to have all of the resources available to you. Okay. And she kind of leads you back through a very pretty courtyard like a garden filled with um bushes and flowers um and into the study room that was barricaded up that you saw before i know she'd probably lead you into the front actually where

the door's been broken down but there are several pews and an altar and you can see a statue to sayana this little halfling with a liar like a heart-shaped liar um who appears to be singing um is a large statue behind the altar she leads you in and it's like please sit down uh i am so sorry uh the job that i sent meredith to hire people for we thought that it was we've had trouble with these creatures before. They come into the vineyards, they steal fruit and grapes, but we see them off. We have guards on our walls. They are not normally a problem. When they attacked recently, well, they injured a few of our guards,

and I thought perhaps we could hire some sellswords just to see them off, clear them off as normal. But things have escalated. They have far greater numbers than before and one of them wields magic that I've never seen these creatures use before I've seen them use some shamanistic abilities but now several of them

have strange magics have you witnessed any of this magic? yes I saw one of them as we were trying to flee they cast a spell that made the air heavy made it hard

to move things like that and the large one the one that is I'm assuming still in the winery it was something was wrong with it its eyes were glowing red

and its fur was laced with red lightning it just all it wanted was to eat and feed it was drinking the wine and eating the grapes oh dear where have I heard that before

yep you seem to know all of this you have encountered creatures like this before we have ideas of what it could be but we don't want to jump to any conclusions yet but it's something we can deal with definitely

hopefully maybe my concern is that from here they will head south and there are villages, settlements, and I don't think that they will be prepared to deal with this sort of, these numbers and this magic that these creatures have. And two of my sisters are still somewhere.

I think that they are in the winery itself, but I cannot go and help them. We have gold. I have things that I can provide you as payment, but please drive these creatures from our monastery and from our vineyards. Rescue my people, please. I have prayed to Sayana for saviors, and here you are. I have prayed to Sayana for saviors and here you are

well you also have a defensible location and plenty of food if hunger is what's driving them then we can lure them here I doubt that they will abandon the winery all of our grapes the wine we have years gallons

of it stored there the poultry supplies we have here, I doubt they are after. They wanted us. They wanted to eat us. Okay, well, we can get the people out of the winery, definitely, and deal with whatever's trapped in there. I just mean for the rest of them. Or,

well, I guess we might need to take it to the source and find out if we can break the nest, I guess. A gnoll nest, is that what it is? I don't know. They normally just rove in packs around the mountainside. I've never heard of them being this coordinated or gathered in such large numbers before. How long ago did this gathering and the lightning... It was the night after we sent Meredith.

They stormed in the night, they overran the walls, slaughtered our guards, and then they descended on the winery. I had just enough time to grab the others and begin fleeing here through the vineyards. Okay. I only glimpsed it for a moment. It was leading the rest of them. Just

I remember its terrible voice bellowing to be fed. Okay, well while all the smaller ones are on the run, I think now is the best time to attempt to get that thing out of the winery and deal with that. And then we'll get more answers ourselves.

Yep. I know that this is a lot to ask. You are putting your lives at risk, but I will make sure you are rewarded. I can assure you of this. The fact that we've seen this affliction before, it has purpose for us as well to deal with this there's a great entourage

truly say an assentio to us yes we hope that we can do all we can thank you would heal minor injury help her leg it will costs money to cast. Oh, I thought it was a major injury. Broken leg, I think, is a major

injury. The ribs are a minor injury, but it all costs money. So when I cast it as a ritual, I need to pay. Okay. Yeah, of course. Absolutely, you have to spend money. That's the point of it. Comes out with a little ATM machine.

You spend the gold on the resources like ritual casting it just means you don't spend a slot to cast it ritual casting just means you can spend an hour and ten minutes rather than the hour that it normally costs and you don't spend a spell slot but you have to assemble the material components

like the rare incenses the rare oils the like you know holy soaked bandages that are all part of the spell basically okay yeah it's a material component cost you don't get to ignore that because don't because when i cast other rituals like not all rituals have not all rituals have a component cost but if if they do, you have to pay it. But I thought as a warlock, I don't have to. No, absolutely you do. Yep, absolutely you do. Clerics, anybody who casts a spell, if a spell has a material component, you have to pay the cost.

Unless there is a unique thing about it, like certain creatures have innate spells that don't need to cast them. But that's not how your spellcasting works. Okay, so I guess especially the way we're doing injuries and stuff like that. Well, that's also just the nature of spellcasting. That's also just how spells work with material components. It's like casting Ray's death. You still have to spend the gold. So levitate, I wouldn't need to because that's a racial thing.

Well, no, it depends on the spell. Certain spells have a gold cost as part of the material components. Okay. Yeah, let magic serve. Only certain spells have it, like Raise Dead, the Hillminer Injury, things like Lucius, like his

Chromatic Orb, technically he has to have a 50 GP diamond, but it doesn't consume it when he casts it. He just, like, holds it and it casts a spell out of it, and I just factored that into Trotsky. Yeah, it's the same with, like, No, so, sorry, I'm getting it confused with, like, I'm getting it confused with things like,

so, like, Gentle Repose says a pinch of salt and one copper piece. Yeah. Or, like, levitate. If it doesn't have a cost, hand wave it and I just say like you're just casting it for a change that's what I'm getting confused about if it has a cost you still have to pay the cost also I've got a focus

so that's what replaces a lot of the components you're using your spellcasting focus but if it has a material cost then you can't carry on it's microtransactions. Spellcast. Basically.

It's a way to get gold out of the economy, basically. That's literally kind of its purpose. Cool, cool. So, yeah. The winery. The big boy in there. Yeah, like, do you just want to start

making your way down there? Like, what do you want to do? I don't know. What's everyone think? I guess that's our purpose. The winery has dangers in it, and that's the best thing for all what we know best.

To defeat the big bad. How long have they been holed up in the winery it's been two days like i said they attacked a couple of days ago um they sent these the ones that you killed here they came arrived in the very early hours yesterday morning but they didn't immediately start trying to take down the barricades. They seemed content to just wait. Okay. They were waiting

on something. Well, especially sort this out before what they're waiting on arrives, I guess. Yes, I don't know their purpose apart from just seeking to consume everything that they can get their hands on they have been after the the grapes the wine any foodstuffs they can get they take back to the winery have you it's a lot of damage are there any other access points

to this winery the The winery itself? There's a front and back entrance past the walls. But the actual building itself, it has the main entrance. But I suppose you could go in above the wagon. There's a section where we load the barrels onto the wagon

from the first floor. You can climb up there, I suppose. More secretive, yes. Would be a good vantage point for us. That would possibly be where you could enter. There's a small stable out the front where we bring the wagon in and out of, but then if

above there is a hole where we lower the barrels in. Have you been there in the last day? No, no, no. we fled here and have locked ourselves up hoping that meredith would would bring someone back to to help very well i think you should remain stationed here while we go and if i i wish i could come with you to help i want to fight but with my leg i feel like i will only slow you down i think you've done enough uh save yourselves and

keep yourselves safe she kind of like looks at you very stern he puts a hand on your shoulder and just it's like we will we will pray to sayana and to whatever whoever whichever gods will listen to to assist you i i fear what those things will do if they they descend upon the other villages or the other settlements here. They are simple people with simple farms. There's no way that they will be able to survive this kind of onslaught. This must be contained and we will do what we can.

But time is of the most importance right now and I think we should get going. Yes. We will try and barricade the doors again as best as we can and take defensive positions just in case if you don't

Meredith you will stay with us I suggest you start your exit strategy now with or without us we could begin making our way down towards the docks towards the boat but we'll there's only one and I don't know

where else for us to go. We're not here. By nightfall, go without us. Alright, okay. I'll see what we can do. And she kind of just nods. And they look around at the other sisters and the other nuns who kind of nod their heads.

And then they all gather in front of the altar. And she starts taking her armor off and stuff like that. They all join hands and seem to bow their heads towards the statue of Sianna itself. They begin muttering low prayers to each other. Right then. Time for another frolic?

Let's go. Let's finish this. That's not a word. Meredith comes up to you before before you guys begin heading off before you guys set off she's just like you'll need to head down through the vineyard down the hill towards

the towards the winery itself there's a couple of paths that you can take just head down and you'll see it. Okay. Okay. You guys make your way out of the monastery and you begin following the path as

recommended by Meredith. And you see it doesn't take long before you come across these rows and rows of fields of long tre trellised vined bushes and and yeah it is a vineyard as you can imagine the soft green soil and the dirt um beneath your feet um the time it's probably not been too much longer it's still quite early afternoon um the sun probably now just beginning to descend blue skies otherwise

a very pleasant day there is a scent um and it's kind of mixed in amongst the citrus and the the fruit and the the leaves the leaves of the vineyard there is this smell of emptiness is the only way to describe it. A smell that you recall from only a couple of moments in your lives. Once in the forests near Rosehall where a goliath fought you

and the other inside the night eye fortress of death. What about heralds? That's some good omens. And, well, the smell of the City of Glass was more spread out. There was, you know,

there was different. Herald herself definitely would have had the similar smell or this sensation. It's not even really a scent. It's like your senses all know that something should be there and there is not.

City of Glass was diluted emptiness. Kind of. There is a sense of that. Okay. So I'm just going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. It's Adar. Adar is here. Well, yes. Red lightning, hunger. I mean going to say it. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. It's Adar. Adar is here. Well, yes.

Red lightning, hunger. I mean, that's a giveaway. But how did it get here? Why did it get here? Why the gnolls? Well, it's cults, isn't it? Cult... Why anything? Why a goliath?

Why in the cut keep of the night eyes? Why anything? Why? This is scary though It can crop up anywhere Even the remote vineyards of a monastery How do we face that? We must stop it from plucking up one of our crew Well thanks for that nightmare fuel

Well it's true If it's infecting just If it's infecting Herald It's infecting just... If it's infecting Herald, it's infecting Gnolls, it's infecting everything everywhere. I mean... Well, I mean, it's not affecting everything everywhere. There are... You've... It's... Herald even

kind of mentioned, and I think the Prime even mentioned the... There is a linking factor to all of this. Yeah. Yeah. Ignore that. Okay. You don't ignore that.

You guys are smart. You guys have had this information. There is... Hadar crops up when there is this... Something that consumes or something that becomes thoroughly consumed by consumption. That seems to be what is causing this. consumes or something that becomes in in thoroughly consumed by consumption like that

it seems to be what is you know causing this uh yeah you know it was the same for herald herald was consuming the lives of other guardians um the priestess you don't know what the priestess in the night i was consuming but there was very similar kind of like entropy there. The Goliath spoke of a dark hunger and hungering and a thirst and things like that. There is definitely a connecting factor here. We need to close down every bakery. That's the carbs.

Yeah. Okay. So where is this building? Well, you are currently down in the... Yeah, you are traveling down a large slope amongst the vineyards towards a building, which you can see just beyond the vineyards itself.

It's a small two-story building down at the base. It has a stone wall around it with two large gates, both of which have been torn open. But to get there, you'll have to pass through the vineyard. Okay. And you can see as you enter the vineyard, these are very tall, very thick bushes. You are not sure what could be hiding amongst these here. Can I do like an investigation check and see if there's any like footprints or any signs that

there could be people around you can yeah that's more of a survival check rather than you can absolutely make awesome absolutely nice i will get that going The ground here is It's very hard to read There is dirt and soil But it's quite It's so loose and like the paths Themselves have got gravel It's just very hard to read where anything could be

Or could have come and gone It looks like creatures have been running Or like individuals have been running and moving All over the place, and it's hard to get a bead on exactly what is where and when. I'm gonna ruin your roll 20 fog of war. I'm gonna cast arcane eye and just fly it up.

Okay. I mean, it's not gonna ruin it, because, I mean, it's still not necessarily, I mean, how high are you gonna send it up? Uh, I mean, I can put it 30 feet to begin with and then just infinitely from there. So I want to just keep going up

until eventually I reach Siaska. Okay, and what's its sight range? Oh, I don't... It's an eye. Oh, it has normal vision out to 30 feet. Oh, okay. There you go. So you put it 30 feet up

and then it looks down and it can see you and that's it can it not see like around the rest of the oh i guess it's a 30 foot like sphere isn't it yeah you can you can make a little map you can basically i'm going to give you control of this um okay and then i'll just run it around over the top of the things. The bushes. It has sight. What's its sight? 30 feet. Yeah. And I'll put it so that every player can see what it can see.

Cool. So at the moment, you're all kind of still on this path. You're kind of all huddled together. Quill summons the eye. Does that have somatic components, by the way, that spell? Yes. Let me just make some perception checks.

But I sort of like fucking eye really quietly. Sure. Sure. Okay. I will roll it around over to our

And the eye is invisible, right? Yes, I believe so It says that the arcane eye is invisible So I'll just have a little look down this little bush and this one and this one When you get to that one you can see you can see a null creature is

moving towards, kind of looking over the things and is kind of trying to sneak its way around. Okay. Can I... I'll say, okay, there is one that way to the right. You need to watch out for that one.

I think it's sneaking around. If anyone wants to sneak up, get position on it. Yes. My hologram. Oh yeah, I'll give you my hologram boys. Yeah, I'll get you one.

Okay, anyone want to get that? Cool. Alright, I'll keep moving then. Oh, that's one right guess keep keep scaling it around i am i also said something i just give me one second just because like other things are going to move as you're doing this and i've got to do this thing for kim so give me a second okay well the uh the eye can move 30 feet a turn so i've taken like two turns to do this cool okay okay I think my vision is too much For it so I can't see what it sees By the way

Okay that's fine You can't see what it sees It has all players has sight on it I'm telling you anyway it's fine All players see light Okay yeah so you won't see what it can see And to be honest this is what Tom Tom should describe what he can see anyway. Yeah, there's a guy to the right.

He's coming around. I said that. Maybe we should get some heavy hitters at the front to take him on. Sneak up. I mean, sure, but as soon as we do this, anything else is going to come at us, so. I could send Morn here. I could send Morn here forward as a distraction and see what attacks him.

My hologram. I've called him Morn. Is it a good idea to name your holograms? Anyway. Well, what's wrong with naming your hologram? I mean, it doesn't last forever. Okay, I'm fine with that. Okay. Would you like Morn to go forward? Yes.

Oh my god. Wow. Neither do I else. That's a lot longer. Is everyone okay with this? I'm going to send Morn out pretty obviously and then I guess just see what happens.

Okay, Morn out pretty obviously, and then I guess just see what happens. Okay. Morn, forward! So Morn's just going to move. Okay, so is that his whole move, Mia? So that's his whole move. 50 feet. Yeah, hang on. Because when he gets to here,

three arrows from all around the vineyards and things like that from behind these hedgerows, these three arrows come flying towards him as readied actions. His armor class is 12. Whoops. Is his armor class 12? Is it Lucius?

Yeah. So the first one hits. Oh, he's resistant to... Second one hits. Oh, he's resistant to lodging, piercing and slashing. Yeah. Third one hits. And he takes... I'm going to tell you now, Mark,

if it's five, he's dead. Five hit points. Yes. The text on it says like um the specter so we've obviously re-skinned it as a hologram but um it says uh you cause its spirit to rise as a specter that gains plus four temporary hit points so i presume that's like it's Spectre's hit points plus 4. Okay, in which case he's got 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. No, sorry. He takes, from the first attack, he will take 15 halved, 7.

So that's already halved because of the damage. The next one he takes 13 halved is 6. Mm-hmm. And then the third one he takes 18 halved is 9. As these arrows, all from unseen, just into the hologram. And they do sink in. It has some substance. It's not a full hologram.

It's like a digital construct as it's like, as it And they do sink in. It has some substance. It's not a full hologram. It's like a digital construct as it's like... as it kind of like shudders in. And then he continues moving forward as you told him to here. But it's just like... And then when he finishes his turn, I think that is when

we would probably roll initiative. Oh, yeah. That makes sense. They know it. Okie dokie. Yeah, because they know something is here. They don't know you guys are here. Let's get to combat! With that, Ayla...

I'll just steamroll through. Hello. No, it's good. So, Ayla, it's your go. You see the... You see Morn... What is his name? Mort?

I don't know. Morn! Morn gets shot three times by arrows. They seem to come from various different directions. Probably some to the southwest and then some to the east. But it's hard to tell exactly which rows they came from. Where did he get...

When I saw him get hit by the first arrow, where did he... Where was he? He's down by all three. He was here. When he got shot by all three. He was here. When he got shot by all three, he was here. And then he continued on to here after being shot. Okay, so I'm gonna

move to here. I mean, I told you they were to the right. To the right. Yeah. So, on this map, it's to the left. Our right. That's not where any arrows came from well south south southwest i guess they did oh right okay so yeah when you move there you can see there's definitely one null looking directly at you um from a side vineyard like a between two rows of grapes, and then to the southwest there are a pair more as well, also aiming bows in your vague direction.

So if I move in the right way, I can get to she. That's 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, you've moved. Yep, 45, so you're right in front of this guy. So you watch as Ayla just dips to the side and begins running down one of these corridors, all these grapes

on either side of her. Now, can I as my action... My move and my action. You've moved. Right. Can I, because I'm not quite close enough to him, can I just fucking barrel into him and try and knock him down with movement? What you're saying is you want

to take your action as a dash, but you want to try and shove him down. Barge him down. It's not normal, but sure. You can make a... Can I rage as a bonus action? Now you're just asking me for all the things. Now you want your cake and you want to eat it. Make a...

You can, of course, rage. Of course you can rage. It's your bonus action. Just make a... Yeah. With the 28 28 and then i got like a 23 23 um so yeah you slam into him you see this knoll stands it's ground it's like it begins pulling the bow back and it doesn't quite expect you to get to it when it does, because you just shoulder barge into it, and it seems quite sturdy on its feet,

but you kind of lift upwards, and it's just enough to knock it off of its kind of bite, like the digigrade legs to send it flying. Yeah, you knock it free. No attack, though. Okay, that's fine. But you do knock it down.

Do I do any damage to it in the process? No. You had to dash. You couldn't make the attack action so I'm not going to give you any free damage. But yeah, you send it flying and you knock it prone to the ground as you slam into its shoulders and you hear it kind of yelp like a wounded dog

as it lands. Hologram. That was very satisfying. So I would like to send Morn towards the can you telepathically communicate with it verbal commands so I guess I would have to shout

so I'm going to move him towards the null over here on the left on the map top down but towards the right in between two of the columns a gnoll over here on the... I'm confused. It's left, right, left on the map, top down, but towards the right. In between two of the columns, yeah. The southwest.

Yeah. Columns to the southwest. So I imagine he starts drifting over towards this gnoll, and then he's going to cast Life Drain. So that is Melee Spell Attack, D20. Okay, so here's a roll. The roll is a six. Not enough. The other creature leaps back, kind of confused,

and it kind of barks something to its companion as they look at this strange blue-tinted version of themselves. Looking back at it. It has sunlight sensitivity as well, so I need to roll on disadvantage, but I feel like... Yeah. Shall I just roll again?

I mean, no. In the future. Yeah, the sunlight. And I guess that we flavor that as like the light is reflecting the creature rather than it being like, no, the sun, I don't like it.

Well, that's a shame. After his go, you hear, I don't like it. Well, that's a shame. After his go, you hear, I think nobody can see this at the point, but there is something barks in order. It's just like, ah! Kill them! 10, 15, 20...

I don't see what that is with my arcane, can I? I don't know, can you? You see a creature, you see another gnoll it looks to be wearing um slightly better armor rusted chain shirt with a long bow on its back um uh it basically kind of pulls itself up and it barks towards the ones fighting the hologram it's like deal with that thing and then it's gonna fire twice towards um centuries heavilyoured so it will shoot towards Quill probably.

Aww. They're not stupid. Oh dear. Can I use protection against this on the Yep, so you give it disadvantage. Yep, absolutely. Well, 15 was my lowest so that's a 19 on my lowest.

Ouch. Yep. 6 points of damage 15 was my lowest, so that's a 19 on my lowest. Six points of damage to you, Quillek. And then a second attack. Disadvantage. Fucking hell, an 18 and a 20. That's another six points of damage, Quillek. As two arrows come flying in. And then his Barked Order

at the other gnoll allows it to make a melee attack against the hologram. It has like a little hatchet in its hands. Yeah, it fails. It swings at the thing. It's like, I don't understand. It's not made of stuff. As it barks back.

Just sort of doesn't. Flails ineffectually against it. That's my boy. I'm so proud. And you can see that the this gnoll leader actually is taking cover behind like a fallen log across the road, so he's kind of got a little

bit of cover as he ducks down with his bow in his hands. Lucius! Okay, I'll move forward. I just fucked off down one of the rows. I'm like, ahhh! Charge! And from here, I'm going to cast Melt Acid Arrow.

Okay, you have a number of targets. At level three. And I'm going to twin it with my sorcerer points. So I get to cast two. Okay. So I will attack Bippity Boppity and Flippity Floppity there. Please. Flippity Floppity and Bippity Boppity.

The one behind the log will have a... And one to his left. We'll have plus 2 to his AC. Fair enough. I already cast 1. There it is. 25 to hit. That will hit.

We'll say that's against this guy. Then the next one. You still have to roll for a second attack. I know, yeah. 18 hits as well and like romancy yeah so on the mel sassadaro by the way it's the first number is the initial damage and then the second number is the damage they take um next around after i believe yes i believe so okay so i've got to do some maths here so 10 initial acid damage to the one behind the log and then who's this this is ambusher a takes nine points of damage and then who are you dicromancing i will dicromancy

the one would engage with ayla for funsies. Okay, and how much damage is that? Seven points. Seven points of damage. So you watch as these three blasts of acid come rocketing out of Lucius's kind of, you spray your hands out in a fan and these three darts of acid fly out. Can I pretend to fire a bow?

Yeah, sure, sure, you can do what you want. It fires an acid arrow that then splits into two. Splits into three. Very Diablo I like it. With the dichromancy it makes sense that you make it part of the spell. So this one acid arrow splits into three in three different directions. Very very cool

splatting off. And you can see the creature's kind of like Sorcerer! Kill them! Bonus action. Actually I can't barrier ring again so never mind Nova can I cast eldritch blast on the

the gnoll that is nearest to morn so two blasts yes first one is a 23 to hit and it does 2 damage So two blasts. Yes. First one is a 23 to hit, and it does two damage. Okay. And the second one is...

Yeah, and there's a little bit of cover in the way. 11 is not going to hit. The Hedgerow, Lucius, and then Morn himself. Morn kind of throws your aim off, and you can't quite get the leverage against him. I can't move through these trees, can I? Can't move through them, no. They're too thick. Okay. I'm gonna just

like move here. Try and jump. Sorry, I'm gonna move Yeah. No, I'm gonna move slightly into one of the rows, in between the rows of the trees just so I can get a little bit of cover. Yeah, absolutely. Sentry.

I'm going to move 5, 10, 15, 20 up to here. And then I'm going to flamelance the Commander Gnoll behind the log. Oh, very cool. That's a DC 13 deck save, yeah. Yep, failed. You know what logs don't like? Fire. Crikey, so that's 3D10.

3D10, roll it. Yeah. Is that all of it? I can't be all of it. Yes, that is. 17 points of fire damage. That's a good roll. That's a good roll?

Oh, yeah. In my head, I had it as like D20 for some reason. The log itself is annihilated. It just kind of bursts into flames. The flamelance carves a huge chunk through it. The creature tries to throw himself to the side, but the flame licks up one side, and you hear him, like,

screaming pain as he dives. Still alive, but definitely badly injured. End of your turn? Okey- badly injured. End of your turn? Okie dokie. End of my turn. Okay. From the back. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

You see... No, you see a gnoll that appears to be wearing, like, a torn up... One of the nuns torn up black robes and it has painted a single red dot on its chest like a symbol

like a single red dot and its eyes are flickering with a red power lifts up its hand and you just hear it just like yes the red star calls.

And you watch as centered kind of near Lucius and Sentry a tiny point of black light appears in the air and this

crushing force sucks all the creatures within a 20-foot radius in. Just create a black spot. Oh no! Oh! No! Even Ivy sort of jumped it before that. Oh dear.

Let's do this and then it's 20 foot radius so we're talking about... My rock and I know! Oh that's bad. Yeah. Oh dear. radius, so we're talking about... Oh, that's bad. Yeah. Oh, dear. That's completely covered. I'm going to move it. I'm going to move it. Hang on.

No, because there's a third person he wants to catch with this. Ideally, I want to catch all of you. There we go. So everyone but Ayla is now in this black hole. Cool. I need all of you to make

a constitution saving throw. Hang on, before you do that, I know who has the lowest constitution, right? Oh, in that case, don't worry. Rock rolled. Nova... Everyone's rolling. Fine.

Six plus five. Century, no! Nova Everyone's rolling Fine 6 plus 5 Century no Why did mine roll twice It rolls as if it assumes you have advantage Or disadvantage because it speeds it up So you just take the first roll So 26 and 23 for Nova and Trot You guys pass you're going to take half damage And you are not moved.

Yep. Sentry and Quill, you are pulled into the center of this point. You're just sucked in, basically. Yep. And you're going to take some damage. I imagine so.

39 points of force damage to Sentry and coil as you are. And you feel like it's crushing, like the space around you is crushing your bodies. Lucius and Nova, that would be 19 points of force damage. And you see this creature holding out its claw like, Yes, the void like the red star showed us.

Wait, so we can see out of this void? Yeah, it's not a void. It's like this tiny pinprick of black light is in the middle and it sucks you and crushes you towards it and then it blinks out of existence. Crikey. God damn. So are we still stuck?

It doesn't stay there. No, it doesn't stay there Oh right It's gone now I'm going to move it That's really scary So And then all of the other gnolls

Are going to basically go All the gnolls So many gnolls Come by They all move hand in hand all the gnolls so many gnolls come by they all move hand in hand hand in hand hand in hand gnoll life

gnoll life yeah gnoll life rock and gnoll 3, 4, 5, 6 7 rock and gnoll I only just heard that Four, five, six. Seven. Oh, Rock and Noel.

I only just heard that. Is that the name of the episode? That's the name of the episode. Rock and Noel. I thought you said... Yeah, it's got to be. It's got to be. That's what I thought you said. Okay.

So a bunch of them move up into melee range with you. And some of them are going to rain behind. Lucius, this one pulls out a small hatchet and is going to attempt to make an attack against you. That's a natural 20 for 25 to hit. I'm down. Well, no, that's not 25 damage. That's to beat your AC.

You're going to take 6, 9, 12 points of slashing damage as this hatchet slams into you. I'm okay. Yeah. And then I think this one will

use his bonus action to disengage and move round Lucius up next to Quill. He doesn't want to do that really though. Gnoll

ambush a bee, which is facing Aayla, desperately takes a swing at her. He's on the floor. He needs to stand up. Okay, he spends half his movement. He stands up and then he swings at you for a 19 to hit. Damn it! Yes! You take all

five points of damage, halved to two. Crikey. Then he will use his bonus action to disengage and remove his remaining 15 foot of movement this way. Cool.

And then C will take a shot at Sentry with his longbow. That is a 23 to hit. They roll so well. with his longbow. That is a 23 to hit. They roll so well. Old Marky Humes. This one, this

strikes you in a vital point century as you're currently facing the one in front of you and it uses the opportunity to sneak attack. You take 16 points of damage. As Ares lands into you. That was C. Null D is dead? Ares lands into you. That was C. He's back. Noel D is dead?

Where is Noel D? Dead. Where have you gone, D? He's probably dead. I can't find him, so. Is it the one fighting Morn? No, that's E. E will take a swing at Morn

for 16 to hit. No, that's E. E will take a swing at Morn for 16 to hit. Yeah, that hits. He takes four points of damage, half to two. Exactly lethal! Oh wait, not half? It's fine.

Is it half? Well, no, he took two. That was already half. He took two. He's fine. He's fine! He has two left

is what you're saying. He's done! And then Ambush at F will take a shot at Quill for a 18. I'll protect Quill for that. Okay. Oh, good job you did, because that's only a 7 to hit. Because that would have killed me.

So you swing out with a shield and you send the arrow flying before it reaches Quill, like intercepting it mid-flight. It flies up into the air. Cool. Quillek Adkalar, you are done. Look for my missing gnoll. Hey, don't worry about him.

The summoner, I'm going to use a 5th level guiding bolt. I'm going to use portent. I've got a natural 20. Nice. Okay, good to hit. Nice. I'm hitting the black hole boy. When did you roll your portents, by the way?

A while back. It did happen. But one of them was a natural 20. So what is that? 8d6. So who are you hitting, sorry? Summoner guy. The black hole summoner guy. Oh, that guy. Sorry.

So what would your total be? 8d6 max. Sure. It's 8d6 max, so... Hmm so what's your total be? 86 86 max so that's what it's 12 off 60 so 48 plus another 86 Plus 36 so 7082 84 70, 82 Jesus Yeah, he's dead 84 Wow 84 damage You summon like

In a mist like This tiny bit of like You kind of Feel yourself pulled into it And then you just Explode with light And yeah What does it look like?

I mean I The pinprick Just out of that That just explodes outwards And then bursts into him And this like light just decimates him um and he looks at it as as you kind of like in a very anime-esque way as the light's about to hit it just kind of is like

oh it's apart oh creepy i love it he's all for it yep I don't have any bonus actions I can really use so I'm just gonna uh I don't want to risk running away either okay don't then

so I'm gonna stay I know but I can't I can't do anything now like I haven't got any bonus actions to stop it

deal damage that's the quill way uh Ayla and this will be in fact actually no this is the top of a new round We're going to end it there

We've got 10 ads Deal damage the quill way I melted the guy that did a black hole I think that's more than That was definitely worthwhile Ow, balls I'm not going to retcon it I'm not going to retcon it

Legendary actions or something No, no, guess what spell he had That I just looked at I'm not going to retcon it I'm not going to retcon it no no guess what spell he had that I just looked at dead in my eyes fucking counterspell nope doesn't matter like 5th level I could still roll for it in fact just out of curiosity

d20 plus what this would be plus 3 so mine is at fifth level. So there you go. So he spent the counterspell, but you overcame the counterspell. There you go. Bam. Bam. He's dead anyway. I win.

Yeah, so we are all mega low on HP after that black hole as well. We're not mega low, but not good. I am. That's a shame. Ayla's fine. And there's like, what, six, seven little gnolls just running around? Yeah. These guys are like little babbies, you kill them in like two hits most of the time. I've only got nine HP! They can't possibly be that bad, can they? No! They've only got six to four.

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