High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #67 | One Guardian Army (Part 1)

Episode Date: April 13, 2020

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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to High Rollers, a Dungeons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois, run by Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock-Humes, with me, Tom, playing Keelak Adkalad, Cleric Wizard. I am Chris Trott. I'm playing Lucius Viren, Elowin Elanastio. And I am a High Elf Sorcerer. Hi, I'm Rhiannon. I'm playing Sentry.

I am a Guardian Paladin. Hi, I'm Katie. I'm playing Ayla, a Wild Elf Barbarian. And I'm Kim. I'm playing Nova, who is an Air Ganassi. And she is a Hexblade Warlock. Thanks to our regular sponsor, D&D Beyond, the official Dungeons & Dragons toolset.

Create your free account and speed up your campaigns today Hello and welcome back to Erois. Last time, our heroes have been spending some time in the free city of Porta Sovrano in the Hawk's Dawn Archipelago, a series of islands not far from the continent of Voxar. While spending some much-needed time to recover, the party were asked to help clear out A group of gnolls on behalf of The Vintare Solorenze A sisterhood of the vine A small monastery of winemaking nuns On arriving at the monastery

However, it was clear that things Had escalated before the party's arrival The gnolls had completely overrun The vineyards and now wield Strange magic Magic that the party have encountered before and those touched by Hadar, the Crimson Star. And we begin in the middle of a combat

in a fresh, brand new round. In a fresh hell. So welcome, everyone. I hope everyone remembers how to play Dungeons & Dragons. As we begin with Ayla, let me set the scene. So you are currently mainly around a dirt path that leads through the thick, grassy, thick vines and vineyards of this monastery. The vines are very thick and tall enough that you can't really see through them.

Ayla has dashed off down one of these kind of corridors uh of the the vineyards itself chasing after one of the knolls um several of the others have then started began begun to swarm around the rest of the party one used some sort of strange magic uh to create some sort of dense sphere of blackness that tried to suck you all in and was then obliterated by Quillicad Calar with a very intense guiding bolt. But there are still enough of them

Yes, there are still enough of them around to cause some harm. Nova also has her hologram, which is a specter, effectively using one of her things, Morn, who is currently engaging one. effectively using one of her things, Morn, who is currently engaging one. There's a little bit of cover.

The vines themselves, if people duck behind them, they do block line of sight and provide cover as well and things like that. And we begin with Ayla, who is, yeah, darting down in amongst between these two rows of grape-laden vines and trellises. So, I will... You can see one of them is running away from you. Yeah, he's not going to get far.

I'm going to go after that boy. Probably not. I thought you were. No. No escaping! So you go charging after him. He's not. He's like 15 feet He's 15 feet away from you So you reaped him in a few steps

I think for Ayla A few bound Yeah Sorry I'm just loaded up My character sheet After my computer Issues What's the initiative order

Just so we can Get our brains ready Initiative order is So it's Ayla Then it's one of the gnolls will go. So in terms of player order, the next one of you to act is Lucius, then it will be Nova, then Sentry,

and then a bunch of gnolls, and then Quill is basically the end of the initiative. Yeah, I rolled that. It's being plus nine. That will hit. It's being plus nine. So with Mourn, by the way, Kim, while Katie, yeah, just roll up your damage, Katie,

because that definitely hit. 19 plus nine as well. Those will both hit. So if you just roll up the damage for those two attacks. Kim, for Mourn, to make it easier on me, if you don't mind, can Mourn just go after you? So take your turn,

and then Mourn just goes immediately after you finish your turn. Yeah, boy. Because that's... If I have to add another creature into the initiative, it's going to be a pain. I don't want to blow your brain. No, I don't think that's probably how I'm going to rule it for the future. Twelve damage on the

first. You cave his head in. Oh my god! Nice. Squelch. Yeah. You run up behind him as he desperately tries to flee and with one fell

swoop of the hammer it comes crashing down on his back of his spine and you just hear something snap oh tasty so can I have I heard have I heard

some of the other gnolls that are in the row below me? Well, you don't know if there's necessarily any in the row below you. Enough to go to the end of this row and peak round. You can definitely do that, yeah, for sure. You haven't heard anything. You've heard like the... And then screaming from back where your friends were. Well, I can see Lucius. Sure.

From where I am. So I can see if he's been doing stuff. So I took two, so five, ten. 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45. So I will move around into the end of this row here. Okay, so you kind of round the row. Yeah, you can see at the end of the row, you can see another one that appears to be pulling out various little hatchets

to throw, and is kind of using the Viner's cover, kind of darting and throwing at something you can't see around the other side. Sweet. Perfect. After Aayla, one of the gnolls looks to be more in control of the situation than the others

and kind of hisses, looking back at the ripped apart body of the mage that was accompanying them. And it just kind of crawls out in this kind of yappy dog-like voice like, ah, hurry up, kill them, quickly! And it will make a few attacks of its own. And then it will also incite a rampage, a few attacks of its own, and then it will also incite a rampage, causing the one that is fighting

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Yes. It will, in fact, actually what he'll do is he'll move here and then he'll do it. And he'll command the one fighting Quill to make a swing with his axe.

Oh, shit. Luckily, that's only an 11 to hit. It doesn't hit. Yep, didn't hit, but reused the reaction, so he swings twice, but Century kind of gets her arms and shield

in the way, avoiding the blow. And then the actual leader, the pack lord, will take two shots with his longbow. At Lucius, one of them will be for a 16 to hit, Lucius.

Yeah. E. Six points of damage as an arrow kind of streaks past you. You got the shield. You activated the shield last time. You did you activated your barrier ring. My trap card. Because I remember Quill went. It's only 14 but it still hits him.

Ah. Ah. I mean. I forgot your AC is so garbage. It's almost like he's a sorcerer. He can't wear armour, unlike you, Birdman. It's too heavy for me! For your cheek, Birdman.

He'll take another shot at Quill as well. This one will be a 17 to hit. Shit. That hit? Yeah, that hits. It takes six points of piercing damage. As the arrow comes flying out. That hit? Yeah, that hit. It takes six points of piercing damage. Okay. The arrow comes flying out.

I said I had piercing damage for a second. Sorry! I heard piercing damage. Did piercing damage. That's how it was streamed. It's like Rampage. It's a strong flow. Yep.

Lucius. Lucius is going to... I moved. Lucius is going to do what he was going to do anyway. Okay. Which is a... I wait with bated breath. I'm going to cast

a vitriolic sphere, which is 150 range and 20 foot radius. 20 foot radius, you say? Hold on. Uh-oh. Maybe not about there. That's great, though. Can you move that down until

I'm not hitting myself? Crikey. Yes, so I'll get those three with the vitriolic sphere, please. Dex saving throw, I believe. Nice. Each creature in the area must make a dex saving throw of

16. 16. So I'll do the gnoll packlord first. You're alright there, Tom. Yeah, I'm fine. 16. Gnoll failed. The packlord failed, and then the two regular gnolls... This is acid, by the way.

Okay. Is it DC 16, did you say? Oui, oui. Okay, so the one on the far right who's kind of hiding half behind one of the vineyards does manage to kind of successfully jump back and avoid some of the damage. The other two will take the full amount.

Right. What is the full amount? Oh, my God, 10d4. Oh, wow. And then 10d4. Oh wow. And then 5d4, so half that for... Oh wait, no, it is... Creature takes 10d4... I think it takes some more on its next round, doesn't it?

Yes. So 19 to 2 of the gnolls, and then what, half of 19? 9. 9. 9 to this one. So next round those that hit will get half again and the one that missed

gets nothing. And die commencing please. That's pretty good. Who would you like to affect? What target does your... What do you do? 9 points to Who would you like to affect? What target does your... What do you do? Nine points to this one, please.

The one fighting sentry. Yes, please. The one fighting sentry. I got you. Nine points to the fifth level spell. Oui, oui. Oh my god. So you cast the Vitriolic sphere at 5th level yeah so like a streak

as the acid kind of this ball of acid erupts near the ground and just showers these three gnolls with globules of this orange coloured viscous material you can see them patting at their fur and it burns and sizzles away leaving these bald patches

and then a streak of orange comes flying out of Lucius' hand to hit the one in the back that's currently fighting Sentry as well. Would you like to move or anything else? Nova. Can I move over

to this boy here? So I'm going to go to the gnoll that's closest to Quilek. And I would like to attack with Tiangong and Green Flame Blade it. Nice. I can't say that one. You have to say it slowly. You can't say it quick.

Green Flame Blade. So I need to one of these. So I need to...one of these. So I need to roll a d20 plus 9. That's 21 to hit! Yeah, that hits the gnoll, yes. And then I roll... The green flame of the sword carves through his shitty leather armour. So my first attack...so the Tiangong attack does 11 points of damage. Yes.

And... And then... You get some bonus damage. Green frame does 3 points of damage. Green frame braid. Green frame braid. And then there's not another target. You would be able to get another target with it, but you don't.

The second with 1d8 plus five but there's no one here the original target takes the bonus cool um so you've moved a little bit you've done an action anything else um no i can't do anything else um century yeah oh can i um do mourn stuff please um oh yes so mour Oh, yeah. Morn needs to do things. So I'm sorry, Sentry. So I would like to order Morn to stay where he is, but he's going to attack the gnoll that's nearest to him using... Yep, there's one right in front of him.

He looks very confused that he's fighting, like, a blue version of himself that doesn't seem to really be there. So I need to roll with disadvantage, though, because it's sunshine and he's not a very sunny boy. So my first roll is a 16 and my second roll is a 25 to hit. So 16 to hit. That will hit. So that is now 3d6.

Oh, God. Damage. No action. That's my thing. It's like non-ull on null action. That's my thing. Which is... It's like null on hologram action. Seven points of damage. And can the target make a DC 10 constitution saving throw, please? Failed.

So its maximum, hit point maximum is reduced by that amount. The same amount, yep. By seven points yeah yeah i mean these guys and he dies if it gets reduced to zero so yeah which yeah it's more useful against players than it is against monsters yeah monsters don't tend to really worry when they're at zero hit points they're dead sentry uh you currently have one of these creatures in front of you um they wield a pair of hand axes. And they're very reckless in the way that they attack.

They're kind of just constantly swinging. Yeah. Alrighty. I'm going to go for a Whack-a-Whack-a, please, with my Lady's Rose. Okay. So you just swing... Yep. Swing Lady's Rose.

That's a hit. 25 to hit. And I'm going to Divine Smite it as well. So I'll just do the 1. Level 1 Divine Smite, please. 2d8 plus 5. And the d4. And don't forget the weapon damage as well.

Yep, so that is... And another d8 as well. And a d8. And a d8. I'll chuck him over here. Cool. Is that right? Yes, because it's a d8 for the base weapon

and then 2d8 for the Divine Smite plus 5 because of your strength and then a d4 for Her Majesty's Rose. So that's 23 points of damage. Damn. Nice. You watch as this gnaw staggers back barely on his feet, clutching at this

gaping wound across his chest that the thorns of Her Majesty's Rose has torn through its flesh and it's swaying. You can see that a stiff wind is going to knock this guy over at this point. That's me. Wow. Gust. see that a stiff wind is going to knock this guy over at this point. That's me. Just go, wow.

Gust. Just blow on him. I recommend you do, but yes. Yep. Would you like to, anything else? You got your second attack? Got my second attack. Yeah, why not? Let's do another attack then. Let's do it. Okay.

If this hits, it'll just finish him off basically eight plus nine yeah that's still gonna hit that's what 17 cool 17 yeah and then i'll just do the standard don't worry about don't roll don't worry damage don't worry about rolling damage he had one hit yes you just kind of plunge the sword through and just finish off this gnoll, tearing at his throat as the lifeless body just slumps to the ground. And you can hear all the other

hyenas begin to kind of howl, almost. It's more of a kind of screeching, howl-like scream as they're beginning to get cut down. Is that all you've done, Century? I'm going to move in here. Just a little bit out of the way.

Duck into one of the rows of the vineyard itself. Yeah. Okay, yeah. You lose sight of... You can see your companions fighting, but you lose sight of the other gnolls for the time being. Okay. And they begin their assault.

Rip me. Let's move some. I believe. Goodbye everybody. I believe it's at the start of their turn they take damage, Lucius. Double check that. The end of its next turn. The end of its next turn the end of its next time okay so they take nine damage they will yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna make that fourth

level one because I did 10 d4 you were here they weren't you? Or were you in here? I was in there, but I was doing the lighting thing. Okay, okay, okay. Right. I think that's everybody. So they all begin moving up and then they basically begin coordinating their attacks in a more controlled manner.

Quill, they are going to attack you. Two of them are going to attack you for sure. I see you annihilate their mage. Bye-bye. So... We'll see.

Each one makes two attacks. The first one hacks at you with its first hatchet for a seven to hit. The next one is at a eight to hit. Alright, that's the first one. The next one is at a 8 to hit. Alright, that's the first one. The next one who comes rushing up from behind

also swings at you. For a 6 to hit. That was a natural one. So far I've rolled a 2, a 3 and a 1 for podcast listeners. And then the last one. Oh, a 13 to hit. It doesn't hit!

Oh my god! All of these hatchets come swinging in, these violent blows. Oh shit. I actually forgot that you will get to move. I moved him. I've got three. I was so lucky.

All of these attacks come swinging in but none of them hit none of them actually impact on you unbelievable Jesus one fight in Mourn we'll try and swing at Mourn twice for a

14 to hit and a 11 to hit and a 11 to hit. 14 is? That's 6 points of slashing damage to Morn, so half to 3. He dissipates into the ether. No! He took a while though.

He took a fair amount of damage. That was not bad. So what I'll do then is, what I did is I rolled 2 attacks at once. I'll move this guy. He'll just move to here, but he won't make his second attack. Well, he does, but it's like 11 to here or something like that. Yeah, Morn had

DC 12, so. Okay, nice. So Morn is now gone. Delete. Bye, Morn. And then Lucius, one of them comes rushing up after hacking apart the hologram, but then one also leaps from the side in front of you and will take two swings at you as well. See, now I can hit.

21 to hit. Yeah. And then an 18 to hit. Yeah. Oh, no. I actually have to roll damage on some of these now. So you've got 4 HP. Yeah.

You've got 4 HP? roll damage on some of these now. So you've got 4 HP? You've got 4 HP? That's a shame because you just took 12 points plus 3 15 points of damage. And then the second attack hits you when you're down.

These gnolls show no mercy. These gnolls absolutely show no mercy. As soon as you drop, the axe impacts into your side and you fall to the ground tucked between these two vineyards. It just lets out

a like, and it slams its hatchet down again. Sensing that it's probably weakened you, it's going to use its rampage ability, which is when it reduces a creature to zero, it can use a bonus action to move up to half its speed and make a bite attack, and it will do so by going

one, two, three. Damn it. Zach, how many failures does that count as when I'm hit on the floor? Two. Two. Because it's a crit. Because it was within five feet of you, it's technically a crit, which is two death saving throws. Yay.

Well, I've got some good news for you, though. It's Quillicad Kalaz's turn next. That's not good news. Yeah, but I've got two dudes next to me. I've got three HP. I don't have Expeditious Retreat. That's a shame. Yeah, I can...

I can action... If I action dodge, I can avoid all of their attacks, right? Action dodge, basically, well, you take your action to disengage, and then... Disengage. Yeah, disengage, yeah, that would allow you to move, but that does take up your action. That's okay,

because I can bonus action heal. Healing word. You can. I mean, at this point, yeah, like, you don't see Lucius go down, but you hear a kind of, you know, wet noise, and then this gnoll comes rushing out from where Lucius was. I mean, my perception's

so high, I know that wet noise is Lucius. I'm not saying that you don't. Okay, so I disagree. When you round the corner, you see Lucius on the ground bleeding badly. I also just realised

Trot, I need you to roll a constitution saving throw please. Is this your first one? 16. Nah, he's had them before. I managed to get out of all of them.

True. And then finally I do a... I'll do fourth level actually. Fourth level healing word. Boom. You heal for 14. Thank you. 14 hit points.

And your death saving three count is reset. That's your whole turn, isn't basically Quill because you action disengage action moved everything goes at the top Ayla the thing that you were going to fight runs off but you see other things

come running around corners and all sorts of goody in between these vines no I'm talking about the things that you're already fighting things that you're already fighting. Things that are already there. So, I can... Yeah, I will... Can't reach him! You can reach him, 45.

I think she can just reach the leader one. Perfect. You can see the names, yeah. This is 45. I've just moved 45. Okay, I thought you could reach him. Oh, you can't reach him.

That's a shame. I will... I have a bow, sir. I will pull out my bow. You do. So as you're running, you kind of put the Howling Tempest away and pull out the longbow. Yeah. I'll pull out the longbow instead, which is with the magical arrows. Was it a plus one to hit with the magic arrows?

It's plus two for the magic arrows. You only had 20 of them. I don't know how many you've got left. I've been marking them down, but I think I still have double digits. I think you have enough. Yeah, I think you still have double digits I think you have enough kill kill destroy that will hit 17 plus 10

to hit so 1d8 plus 4 no 5 6 actually plus 6 because of magic so So 1d8 plus 4. No, 5, 6 actually. 6 because of magic. So 6 plus 6 is 12 damage on the first hit.

Yep. One arrow comes flying out. Kind of impacts into his back. So 20 to hit. And then... That will also hit. 7 then... That will also hit. Seven damage. Another seven points. Enough to both arrows

kind of thud into the pack leader's back, and you see it kind of... Another one! It kind of twists in an awkward, painful way. Quick! Kill them all! Take them to Baraz! He must be fed!

Uh, is that your turn? That's me. I'm done. Okay. Ah, shee! I misread their rampage ability. Technically, all of the gnolls that could see Lucius went down should have been able to move and make a blind attack. Oh well.

Oh well. Oh my god. The leader will turn and basically move to here, and he'll attack Will. Jesus. What? And also, Tom, roll the d6 for me roll a d66 I've got 18 on my portent yeah that's for his insight rampage ability doesn't come back that's okay

he'll make my acid go off the second part? Oh, no, it didn't. So was it 5d4? 9 damage to those two. I'm going to roll again, 5d4. Oh, I thought it was half of what you previously did. No. It says 5d4 instead of 10. You roll 5d4, yeah.

You roll a new 5d4. So that's a 14. Alright, okay. This guy... With Aayla's long shot and our attacks, he died. so that's a 14 alright this guy this guy with Aayla's long shot he died you would have killed him with the acid oh he doesn't attack me

I live again I don't get cocky about it the only one that got hit was F because C didn't get hit by that so what was that 14? 14 please he also dies because C didn't get hit by that. So what was that, 14? 14, please. He also dies.

Oh, yeah. He melted. Yeah. Which I believe, if you had remembered, would have retroactively meant that you didn't get knocked down. He wouldn't have been there to do those attacks against you. So you need to try and remember that at the end of the turn.

Wasted a healing word. So that's fine. Yes, that's fine. You need to remind me at the end of their turn, they take more damage. To be fair, you would have got it. That's true, yes. But yeah, that's true. He wouldn't have moved. So very true.

Very, very true. Well, because that guy died Lucius it's your go is it I didn't get to go I might go again yeah

I'm confused okay you're thinning out their numbers very quickly that's why thin out their numbers yes yes

the move would be there is one next to me which is E null E I'm going to cast armor of Agathys you can run if you want the move would be bad. There is one next to you, which is E. Null E. I'm going to cast Armor of Agathys. You could run if you want. Or you could disengage and then move.

Yeah. Not gonna. I'm gonna cast Armor of Agathys on myself at level 1. Yep. Gives me 5 temp HP. And if anything hits you, they take 5 cold damage. Indeed. And then anything hits you, they take 5 cold damage. Indeed.

And then that's it. That's kind of it, really. Yes. Sacrifice? In terms of what? Cold? Does that count for that? I guess it will.

Yeah, okay. I will do it on this gnoll. Okay. So, level 1. 5. 5 points of cold damage So as you conjure the armour A piece of blue ice kind of rockets forward With your dichromancy, your blue eye glowing

As it impales this remaining gnoll Who kind of like takes it It's just like, you're killed back, I kill you Please Don't Nova Just screams at you. I'm going to move

in between the two lololololols. You technically can't move through a creature's space like that, unless you were like shoulder barging them out of the way. Then I go here. I will go next to them in a slightly different route.

I would like to cast Hexblade Curse on Null A. Let's call him Adam. And then I'm going to attack with... What about Charlie? No, he's A, so he's Adam. Charlie can just hang out. Okay. And then I'm gonna attack with Tiangong and green flame

blade it. Okay. So, I'm gonna attack A. Green flambe. That's a hit. That is a 26 to hit. That is a hit. Which then is

1 d10 to hit. What does it hit? Which then is 1 D10 plus 9. So... Wait, no, sorry. Was that the D10? Yes. Okay, so 12 points of Tiangong Slashu damage. Slashu.

Yeah. I'm assuming you're using Tiangong 2 handy, that's why it's a DK. Yes. And then, so Green Flame Blade on Adam is 1d8 plus my Hexblade Curse, which is 4. Hold on. 1, 2, 3, 4.

You all right there, Mark? So that's 5. That's 5 points. Kim's saying a lot of things i'm just saying okay yep so the green flame royals on tiangong yep um and 10 points of green flame on charlie charlie i'll stay uh uh well hang on why is it plus 9 because you don't have your hex blade on that one oh yeah sorry so yeah take off 4 points for that so sorry

yeah you know my B I'm so happy about that trying to break the rules are you trying to break the rules I see sounding like a Minecraft villager when you did that 6 points on Charlie the green flame washes over one of these gnolls and then as you sounded like a Minecraft villager when you did that. Six points on Charlie.

The green flame washes over one of these gnolls, and then as you kind of pull Tiangong free, an arc of it reaches over and begins igniting one of the other ones as well. And you can see that they're very much in a panicked frenzy. You don't think that they're attacking you out of a kind of like rage. They're just kind of attacking you because if they don't, they think they're going to die. They're just like, they're kind of looking all around, seeing their numbers dwindle and they're just

trying to kill whatever they can. A very accurate observation, Knowles. I'm going to move up to this boy and then I'm going to attack him. One of the ones fighting Nova.

Let us see. Yeah. So I'm going to go for him. Sure. 28 to hit. First one. And then I'm going to roll my attack damage. So we'll do that one and I'll divine

smite at level 2 on this one as well. So that's 11 standard damage. So we'll do that one and I'll Divine Smite at level 2 on this one as well. So that's 11 standard damage. Another 2d8. It's probably a good idea to roll the Smite damage separately because it's Radiant as well. Yeah. So there's that one. Ooh, 5. So as you strike at this one,, the two now fighting Nova and Sentry both look heavily, heavily wounded, but they're on their feet. And very much like cornered animals now,

they're just lashing out with weapons as much as they can in a kind of desperate need to survive as you lash out at them. So that was your first attack. Yep, and I'll do it again. Okay. Number two.

Thirteen to hit number two. That does not hit. This one is kind of death of panic, manages to duck the blow as the sword kind of sweeps over its head where you were kind of aiming for almost decapitation. This thing just manages to duck more through luck than anything else

as the blade swings overhead. Anything else? No, that's me. Good. Thank you very much. Okay. Lots of attacks on Nova now as these things are desperate to slay the one that is burning them with the green fire.

So each gets two attacks. So that's going to be a 23 to hit. Yes. The next attack will be a 11 to hit. No.

Next attack will be a 18 to hit. 17, sorry. 17, yeah, exactly. Okay, so it's still a hit. And then the last one's a natural 20! Oh, piss. Right. So, three hits. Each one

is a sneak attack as well. The first one is a sneak attack and then the next attack won't be. So this is 3d6 plus three for the first one. So that is 11 points of damage. Followed by 7 points of damage. And then the next one, because...

Oh, right, hang on. Okay, so the way this would have gone is the first one that hit you would have been a sneak attack, which was the correct amount of damage. the next one is on the new target but i'm just going to add uh was from the new target but i'm just going to add 2d6 for their sneak attacks this was their first hit so i had another nine on top of the seven yes okay it's the order of the attacks matters here because it can only sneak attack once per turn. So the crit isn't a sneak attack. Yep.

And then the last one, which is the crit, is six plus one plus three. Ten. That was my fault because I should have rolled, then done the damage, rolled, then done the damage. Because the sneak attack can only happen once per turn. So basically I saved you from a crit sneak attack is what i'm doing now okay so you've got that all so it was yeah yes like nine there's eleven nine seven nine and then the last one

ten yeah ten yeah yeah oh sorry yeah said that. I think it got missed. You're still standing. I'm still standing. Still standing. I'm still standing. And then the last one just chases after... Actually, no, it wouldn't go after Lucius because you just surrounded yourself in ice. It goes after Quill.

What? It would. It's another couple of times armor of ice i'm technically here by the way thank you okay yeah oh even better there's even more reason for another double dodge here we go uh 13 no 13 to hit 21 no damn it damn it it! No sneak attacks. It doesn't have any allies within the area. Four points of damage. I'm down. I'm done, Zoe.

Did you dodge? No, you didn't dodge. He disengaged, which isn't the same thing. When he reduces a creature to zero hit points, this gnoll goes on a rampage, and he goes after Lucius. Where were you, Lucius? Just move yourself to where you actually were.

I am there. You are where you are. Okay, so he will make a bite attack against you. He's going to take damage, but he's in a kind of rampage. So 11 to hit. Nope, but he's in a kind of rampage so 11 to hit nope but it's 5 damage I think that only applies if it hits you

oh yeah if it hits sorry so he just tries to bite you but you leap backwards as the hyenas the gnolls jaws just kind of clamp shut um quill make a death save and also a constitution saving throw constitution saving

throw 11, that's a pass you succeed, no injury now a death save oh a death save, I just automatically marked it as a failure well we'll see you got ahead of yourself.

Yeah. All right. Ayla. Hello. Hello. You can see that this battle has gone very south for these gnolls. However, in their desperate attempt to just try and survive, they are inflicting some pretty nasty wounds on those around them.

Pretty gnolly wounds., gnarly wounds. Some gnarly wounds. I will run over to Quill. Okay. I mean, he's got two more rounds. I'm good. The thing is, I know he has his portent so I know he's at least got one success if he needs it. I could roll a one mark. Can you portent on a death

save? I guess you can, it's a saving throw. I think I can portent any roll apparently. So on my screen this gnoll is in a different square than your map. Oh. Yeah. He's there. Yeah. Can I... I want to attack but I also want to save! I will...

Protect or attack? I will attack. Smash. I will get my hammer out and I will attack. Smash. I will get my hammer out, and I will attack this gnoll that's attacking Lucius. Okay. You can do that. You're attacking Eric. That's fine.

Eric deserves it. Sure, he does. That's an it plus 9 hits. So, 17. Still hits. And then a... Hammer comes smashing into his side. 5 plus 9.

That's not going to hit. 14 is a miss. So, the first blow connects, but then it manages to kind of throw itself to the side, avoiding the second follow-up attack. Eleven damage with the hammer. Can you make a saving throw? Oh, yes. That's lightning. Are you raging?

I think you are raging. I am. Yeah, I raged at the very start of the battle. Fail! Yep. Six points of lightning damage, please. Blasted. Six points of lightning damage.

Blasted. You can see, yeah, like the others, it's been reduced to kind of swaying in the wind, very clearly heavily injured, but is now just frothing at the mouth in a kind of desperate need to attack like a cornered animal. Anything else? No, I think I'm just going to make sure that I'm standing protectively over Phil's

dead pod. Not dead yet. Dying. So he's not been stabilized just yet. Not yet. I used my attack. And there is a gnoll in your way.

Oh, bugger. Well, we have to deal with this gnoll. So... So... Hmm, how can I do this without... Disadvantage. Well, I was going to say, yeah, don't forget if you cast any sort of ranged spell,

because it's right next to you, you will have disadvantage. You know what, just carry a weapon. Sadly, that does not do damage. Have the trident. So, I'm going to attack with that. I think. Sure.

So let's give that a go. Why not? Oh, that's a two. That's a nat one is what that is. That's a nat one is what that is. That's a natural one, actually. So you thrust with the trident, but this is a weapon you are not used to wielding in the slightest. Get away from me! I also think technically you would have been disadvantaged with the trident

because I don't know if you're proficient with it. You want to see if I can get it worked for off? No. I mean, no. But I'm just saying, technically. Yeah, you try and swing with this trident, but weakened as you are, low on hit points, and also not being very well trained in the martial arts,

this blow goes wide, and the gnoll simply leaps to the side. I'm going to shout over the vineyard grape walls. Quill is down! Someone needs to get to him fast. Excellent. Perfect. They know that.

Icecorp loud. That's the death squawk. What was that? I think I'm going to attack boys again. I'm good. You're going to attack these two? Yeah, so I'm gonna attack my boys again. I'm good. You're gonna attack these two? Yeah, so I'm gonna swing to

and gong at Adam. See where all my good luck's gone today. Um, so that's a d10. Don't even roll the roll damage, Kim. Don't roll damage.

In which case, I heal myself. Yeah, green flame bladed, so I need to roll for... Charlie's down too. No, you don't need to roll because it automatically hits the other one, right? It just does d8 plus charisma mod damage. No, they both had two hit points.

Okay. I heal for 14 from my Hexblade Curse. Nice. Wonderful. You still have your movement. Would you like to move? I will have a little stroll. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Go for a little stroll. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Yes. Yes. Right next to you. So I run over next to Quill's squishy body. You're reaching out as it goes to Sentry's turn.

No, I know. I can just look at you. They're just going to watch me die. They're just going to stand around you in a circle. It's like a nice little show. Hello. How's it going? Just looking watch me Okay, yeah don't nice I love it There's so many people like it's fine. Oh wait. You got another death save next that with me Yeah, oh, I should pretty stabilize you though, haven't you? Yeah. Oh, I should probably stabilise you though, shouldn't I? Yeah, let's stabilise the bird. No, no, no, Reed, you do what you want to do.

Nah, because he's got to make saves next go. He does have to make saves. I mean, if you stabilise me, he'll hit me again, right? I'm dead, I don't know why I'm interrupting. Make your move. No, because I'm between him and you. I'll be fine. Yeah, I'll stabilize the boy. All right.

How are you going to stabilize the boy? So I'm going to use my Leon Handy Hands, and I'm going to give him some stuff. I'll give you 20 points. Oh, my God. 20 hit points. Jeez. Wow.

20. Yeah, Leon Handy Hands is good. 20. I think Century's actually on you. I've 20. I think Sentry's actually on you. I've got 45. Yeah. I think Sentry's actually on you. I brought you back, Lucius.

I mean, you were on three hit points at the same time. You were on three hit points for like two goes, and I was like, can you heal yourself? But then Lucius went down. I was going to heal myself, but then Lucius went down. I want to do damage. I was going to heal myself, but then Lucius went down. I want to do damage! I destroyed the mage! I wanted to have the necessary powerful spell to annihilate one target.

Yeah, but that guy... That was last week, Tom. That was last week. Anyway, the last remaining gnoll. The only one left. What will he do? I'm gonna roll a wisdom saving throw for him.

I'm gonna make a saving throw for him. Peace, Elf. Oh, wow. There we go. Alright, 15, yeah. So he becomes a foot. He, kind of frothing at the mouth still, you can see his axe is kind of slick with blood and things like that,

just kind of looks around and is very clearly surrounded, drops its weapons and just lays on the ground. It just drops itself to the ground in a very kind of placated position, kind of put its hands out and it's like, please, please. We were told to kill. Not my fault. Not my fault.

Surrender. Don't go anywhere. Stay there. And I'm going to kick his weapon if he had one to the side. Yeah, he had two axes basically. I'm going to kick him away from his boot. Yeah, I'll put my boot on his back

and press him down into the ground. Please, no more. No more kill. No more kill. Peace, peace. He could be useful. Maybe we shouldn't do anything right now. But just so you know, you, that we have the ability to squish you at any moment.

Yes, very strong. Strong, strong, strong ones. No trouble. No trouble. Let live. Let live. Who is Baraz? Baraz is leader,

but was runt. Came back strong after leaving. Brought packs together. Gave us, told us to find food. Gave some of us powers. I tell everything. He has taken the house of red liquids. He has taken it. The red water. The house of red liquids. He has taken it.

The red water. The house of red liquids. The wine. The red water, yes. Oh, the wine. That makes sense. Yes. I'm with you. With you. Can you lead us? Nah. He just kind of like shuffles around on the floor like, they will kill me.

I can show you. Show you where no no no no no let live if you were to pay barriers yeah yes how many more of many many packs we could if we were to meet this barris what would we find what is what is he like he is he only wishes to feed

he craves food he consumes food like none other no matter how much we give him he wants more always more he those who bring him the largest food are blessed with gifts How many of you are defending him right now? And they are protecting the house of the red berries. I do not know how many he has, but he has guards and they are protecting

the house of the red water. And then others have gone back to the caves. Now looky here, you. And I'm going to kneel down and just try and be intimidating as much as I can. Okay, it's... When you get down to its level, I mean, in the heat of battle, this

probably wouldn't have noticed. I mean, this thing stinks. Its fur is matted and soiled, its breath is rancid, like rancid meat. It looks quite starved, as if it's not eaten food in a while, and it has this wild look in its eyes. And it has, like, the, yeah, like a face

of a hyena, kind of like the striped pattern of a hyena, but it's bipedal, like a humanoid, like it walks on two legs and has hands and arms. Its leathers that it's wearing seems to be like some sort of tattered animal hide that it's made itself. How did you listen to me?

Just, I've got something to tell you that you're going to hold on! I'm going to turn around and start gagging elsewhere I need someone else to do it thoroughly unpleasant can someone tell him to cause a distraction

for all the guards outside of this person he's not going to do that why would he do that I have an idea. We could... Hold on. I'm going to use the messenger ring.

We could get some food and poison it and get this gnoll to take it as tribute to this Baras Baras. So if he eats the tribute and he poisons and... That could work. But we need to convince... How much poison do we need? Probably a lot. It might also

not be like us, you know, who could be otherworldly. We don't know what it is. Could be undead. Small concern. You all look like shit. you know who could be otherworldly we don't know what it is could be undead small concern you all look like shit not being in an offensive way you don't look very well

you've been a bit beaten up haven't you yes are we in the best position right now well we're in a good position to start poisoning food not to raid this guy's cave or wherever he is. Red house. Red liquid house.

And attack him. Should we find some way to get a storage of food? I'm sure we can do that. The nuns probably have stuff. I think that we shouldn't let this guy get near any of the other ones right now.

New party member? Absolutely not. He needs a wash. I'm assuming you're all talking messenger ring still. Still messenger ring. I'm not bathing this just for your benefit. Can one of the stronger people of this party I'm not bathing. Still messenger ring. I'm not bathing this. Just for your benefit.

Can one of the stronger people of this party hold him, make sure he doesn't go anywhere? I will. His smell doesn't bother me. Perfect. It's kind of like wriggling under Aayla's boot. I can't smell him anymore. Please, please let me live. I will go to the hills.

I will not trouble. No more trouble. You have one more task that we need of you before we release you. We will give you a fair chance to live, okay? This is your only shot. It's to stay with us and do as we ask. What do you want? What do you want?

That, first of all, you need a bath of some kind, because honestly, if you're going to be around us... What is bath? You know, washing. Washing yourself? You've done that. What is this? What? You go into a body of water, and you cleanse your

fur. Swim. Fur? What? Why would swim? What? There is no river or lake here. We'll show you. Don't worry. What do you speak of? Don't worry. We'll figure it out. And then we'll set you on a task and then you will live. Okay?

This bath is not task. It's part of it. It's a multi-step procedure. After this, you will survive. I look very confused. You're saying things it doesn't understand If you do what we say It's common is broken at best If you do what we say, you live

If you try and escape You die Prisoner? Yes It kind of looks like it is droop a little bit You did try to eat me alive. Just so you know. It doesn't say anything more.

But it looks like it's not going to give you any trouble immediately. Good. I go to Pat and then remember how disgusting he is and then don't. Where's the closest body of water so we can clean him up? We're doing that first, right?

No, no. It's absolutely revolting. Okay, Lucius, let me ask you this. Do you want to go all the way back down the steps where we came from in the first place? You know the ones that you struggled to get up in the first place? Yeah. And then come all the way back down the steps where we came from in the first place. You know the ones that you struggled to get up in the first place? Yeah. Well, this is a vineyard, right? And then come all the way back up the hill.

All the way. If this is a vineyard, there'll be this. You've not seen any rivers or anything. You've not seen any rivers or anything. There'll be a way to clean these grapes for preparation for wine. Probably in the winery. What's the second part of this plan?

Again, like Nova says, some form of... for preparation for wine. What's the second part of this plan? Again, like Nova says, some form of... We just kill him, right? We just kill him. But we need a way to get to the Baraz, right? Is the plan to poison a bunch of food and hope that he picks it up? I say either the poison method, or we use him, this little

gnoll here, to say that there are intruders, everyone should go to a different place and then we sneak in. You know, he calls a ruckus. If he's clean, then that's going to cause a problem. Okay, fine. Maybe we won't clean him.

All the other ones, they're dirty. I have an idea. So so what if we again with the food plan what if we present him with food but i put echo in the food and then when he eats echo i then transform it into elko inside him oh wow would that not kill Echo as a point this is an awesome idea but when you don't transform Echo into Elko you have to summon Elko which comes from the matrix

oh it comes from me exactly it's Echo's spirit but bound in a new form it's not polyp what if he eats me you're way too big for a meat. You've never managed. We don't know how big this creature is.

He might chew. If he chews, then everything is ruined. What if he just crunches your feet off? Then you have no feet. Yeah. What if he crunches your head off? Then you have no head. That's also a good point.

I appreciate the blue sky thinking here. I think we need to be more creative. It's very good. I'm trying something new. Perfect. So what are our options? Quill, you're the most intelligent. No offense to everybody else.

But you do lead us in these times when we are you know at a impasse we have great ideas from Nova this guy said that Baraz was looking for the berries right and we're in a vineyard there must be some place they haven't touched yet we must be able to gather a huge

stash of food maybe if we can find a way to poison it, can we poison it? How would we do that? There was a whole kitchen that we talked to the nuns in back when we first...

The big kitchen. Remember when we talked to the Abbotess? Big kitchen. And the Abbotess might know as well. I think we should just go there. Yes. Should we go there as a first point? And we can recuperate.

I'm sorry, I'm just not intelligent enough clearly to know this. Quill, you make the decision. You're clearly more intelligent. I have an idea. I think we should go back to the Abbotess. Now that's why we have Quill as our leader. He comes up with such great things.

I know. I'm gonna pick up Nullboy and... I think I have Roup on me. Bard should not be leader. Metal Woman should be leader. Or Flamehaired Woman should be leader. Strongest. Yes! Yes! Bard is weak off she's going back down the path to where the monastery was

clearly is the superior one yes I'm joking this is so dumb can we take him back now can we just can we just go and then you can have a nap let's go you'll feel better after a nap I've done a tutor I'm out

we'll go back there you guys make your way back moving some stuff around here you guys travel back up the way you came you head up the pathways leading between the vineyards Aayla and Sentry cajoling your prisoner as you go.

Yeah. And you manage to make your way back. I think as you arrive, you can see that in the main chapel the abbotess and the nuns have started trying to reform the

barricades as best as they can but they're kind of limited on supplies they only have like wooden pews and beds and things like that um and they're kind of reinforcing the door re remaking the the you know the bar that sits behind the doors and keeps it shut and things like that um as you approach they see you coming coming and the Abates herself will kind of rush out along with Sister Meredith like, ah, you've returned. Did you find the other girls? You have come back very quickly.

We found a lot of gnolls. Yes. Some with interesting new powers that gnolls normally don't have however like I mentioned yes well there's a big one called Baraz

who everyone is sending food towards no she doesn't actually say it that way but this is all stuff that she told you before she knows all this well basically we had to told you basically we had to come back because um there was a bit of a beating taken here so we want

to heal up get our strength back of course yes that they are this normally a knowledge is not a problem for us and the guards. You can see now why we were so quickly overrun. They are not normal. Some of them are rather mundane, but some of them are strange. This is magic. I've never seen it before. Ah, please do not bring that thing inside here. They've caused so much death and destruction already. Why? If you intend to keep it as a prisoner, I worry that... side here they've caused so much death and destruction already why if you

intend to keep it as a prisoner I worry that well say Anna would not want you to kill it if it's surrendered but this is a holy place we keep it in the outhouse or something or what is your God teach well certainly not that we should be killing it if it's surrendered Sayana is ultimately about bringing light and joy but also these things have the other sisters

it will terrify them this thing killed these creatures have killed our gods they tried to kill us, tried to eat us. I'd rather that it wasn't brought into this... This is a sanctuary. This is our safety. I don't mind keeping it for a sense.

The outhouse, we could lock it from the outside, keep it in there if need be. But I'd rather that it wasn't brought inside. I'm sure you can understand. That's fine. I don't have a problem with that. Let's put it in the outhouse. Thank you.

Thank you. It won't get out, right? You're quite strong. Well, if we tie it up. We have some rope and things like that. I'm sure we can bind it and tie its hands behind its back. That sort of thing. That sounds good. Let's like that. I'm sure we can bind it and tie its hands behind its back. That sort of thing. That sounds good. Let's do that.

And yes, if you need to recover, of course, come in. I'm assuming that you did manage to kill all of the gnolls that you found. None of them got away or anything. Yes? This is the only survivor, yes. Thank goodness. And she just kind of like nods her head.

And yeah, you guys can take a... What do you want to do? Do you want to take a long rest or a short rest? Or do you want to formulate your plan? What's the plan here? I would like to ask the Abbotess if she has any poison. Poison. Right.

Okay, you ask the nuns if they have any poison. The Abbot Right. Okay, you ask the nuns if they have any poison. The abbotess is like, why on earth would we have poison, Eganasi? This is a monastery of Sayana. I mean, no. Well, first of all,

we would like not ideally poison any rats. We would catch them or we have a few cats that normally take care of the problem, but no. I'm sorry, my dear, we don't have poison here. Perhaps, if anything, any rat poison that we did have would have been stored in the

winery, but we don't have any here. We have an idea. I'm not sure it's the sort of thing that people would just have on them. Well, you might have a little bit of ingredients that i could use like maybe a bit of uh i guess i don't know soap powder or cleaning product or things like right

keep in mind fancy universe kim they don't have like dettol or bleach i mean like cleaning products i mean like lye or something like that you know that you make right yeah they don't they don't have lye they have soap they have soap they have bars of soap and like that Right yeah they don't have lye They have soap They have bars of soap and things like that But they don't have harder chemicals Like lye and stuff like that here Could I do like I don't know some sort of check

That maybe I could MacGyver something The M&E is going to say Yes But I'm going to say this would be very difficult you are trying to engineer a poison out of ordinary things even if you do succeed in making

something it's not going to be lethal it's going to be uncomfortable at it's best she's using Mr. Sheen right okay yeah of course yeah the famous comfortable at its best. It will... She's using Mr. Sheen. Right, okay, yeah, of course, yeah. The famous adventurer Mr. Sheen and his magic cleaning product.

The adventurer Mr. Muscle. I appreciate the idea, but yes, you are going to need, if you don't have any poison on you, making poison here is very difficult. What if I just use a gone-off healing potion?

Am I tracking potions going off now? Is that something you'd like me to start doing? Dangerous game we're playing. I didn't think so. I'm just having a look through my equipment seeing if there's anything I could, I don't know, grind down or something like that like that

No sequester scroll Yeah, let's grind down the sequester scroll and feed that to him So you guys need a long rest short rest I'm good What sort of time with a long rest get us to? Yeah. It's eight hours, isn't it? Well, it's eight hours for a long rest. Yeah.

But, you guys, it's probably about one, two o'clock now, so you'd be looking at, yeah, like eight, sorry, at like nine, ten p.m. So you'd be looking at, it'd be late in the evening. Evening's good for sneaking. That's good sneak time. Ask Century. Sneak time for them, too.

Queen of sneak. What's a gnoll sense of smell like? Wait, what? What was that, sorry? What's a gnoll scent and smell like I mean you don't know how would a scent you know that

you tell me in gnoll juice I was going to say if they can smell really well then sneaking won't I don't know like we'd have a hard time trying to sneak around if they could smell us. Yeah. For sure. Yeah, you absolutely would.

I don't know if... I mean, unless you guys can tell me why you guys would know how well a gnoll smells, if any of you have encountered gnolls much before. It's got a big nose. Would it be, like, more of an animal kind of huntry assumption? Yeah, you could make a nature check, for sure. You could make a nature check for me. Oh, I'm good at those.

Are you? Plus six. I think I'm good. Nice. I'm not as good. I'm doing something on another tab, so tell me what you get. Like result-wise. I have an idea, but it's kind of really nasty,

and I kind of don't even know if I want to say it. So my first one, so it was a 12. 12? You know that gnolls are very pack-orientated creatures. They tend to be very nomadic. They don't stick around much. Most of the time, I imagine that you'd know... What knowledge you have of them comes from when you're in the clan

Knowles do tend to kind of raid Wild-elf settlements and things like that for meat and for supplies and weapons But they are normally skirmishes. They normally try and run in grab stuff and then they try and get out They don't normally stick around for any sort of length of time. Certainly things like tactics and magic Normally very beyond them. This whole thing is very unnatural the Knowles stick around for any sort of length of time certainly things like tactics and magic normally vary beyond them this whole thing is very unnatural for gnolls i would say you don't know how well their sense of smell and things is um they they they have you don't you i'd say that you don't know that they have any supernatural senses to detect people but yeah like a skilled

gnoll scout will be just as good at tracking somebody as you are or another kind of woods person would be and stuff like that. So, do we want to take a long or a short rest? I think that short rest would probably be best

in terms of rescuing nuns. We haven't used any hit dice or anything, right? So short rest makes sense. Short rest? Sure. He's got a few spells, but I've got enough to... A few bits and pieces.

That's alright. It's better than 10pm. Short rest. Short rest. Done. Short to rescue Short rest. Done. Yeah, short rest. Okay. Yeah, I mean, you guys complete short rest. You guys can do your hit points

and hit dice and stuff like that as you need to. The amethyst will probably help you put your gnoll prisoner up in the outhouse, securing his hands, tying him up, and then, yeah then they kind of nail a big board to the front of the outhouse to stop him getting out basically

we're all just rolling hit dice yeah I'm trying to do some other stuff so I kind of need you guys to do things while I'm doing this I think this might just be an old fashioned raid I'm doing this. Rolling all the hit dice. I think this might just be an old-fashioned raid. I don't know how we're going to poison just a bunch of food. We need to find the food first as well.

I could... I've got invisibility for up to three people. Or I could turn into a gassy form and just gas my way in there. Yeah. Options. Gas the food. myself yeah and then you turn into a giant century inside him like yeah I get inhaled by him as a gas and then turn back into myself and stab him from the inside out great idea Let's do that. Perfect. You just explode his lung when you turn into Nova.

I don't like that plan at all. Oh, I do have expedition to treat. I am rolling garbage hit dice. I rolled really well. While you guys are getting prepared, the nuns take their time. You can see they're still treating each other's wounds and desperately trying to just reinforce as best they can.

Most of them, like I mentioned this before, but only two of them really seem to be any sort of level of fighter. The Abates and then one of the other sisters seem to be the other sisters, seem to be the main fighters, but both of them are nursing pretty serious injuries. The Abates' leg looks like it's probably

broken, and then the other sister has several badly damaged ribs. Something that will take significant time to heal, or magic, in the form of the heal injury stuff. Yeah, and if you guys spend an hour, like you wait for an hour,

your prisoner is locked up waiting his task that you've told him that you'll do. And then, yeah. What do you guys want to do after you've finished your short rest? I have two ideas. One, I can make myself and two of you

invisible and we sneak and then I guess we stab the other one is in the absence of poison I feel really bad for saying this we could do something like maybe

get the food and put some things in it that's a sharp like um i don't know broken broken glass um oh god i feel really bad saying this like maybe snap up a dagger or something and hope it gets stuck in his throat like a toothpick that happened to me once it was really bad are. Are you okay, Nova? Do you need more rest? I think yeah, I hit my head real bad back there. We also don't know

how big this guy is. True. And some shards of glass. I don't know how gluttonous this creature is, this person. But he might catch on quite quickly that it is, you know, compromised food and will just stop eating it. Also, he eats

everything that stands for it. Yeah. Invisibility it is? I think that's the best plan. I think that sounds like a good idea. We could use the gnoll to cause a ruckus slash distraction for the guards at the front.

Maybe lure them at least out of the way for those that aren't invisible to get in. And then the invisible people could maybe find a separate route in as well. Or go in the same way. Something like that. I just don't think we can rely on this random gnoll to do anything in our favor. He just needs to cause a noise, I think. All he needs to do is turn up,

and then the guards will see it as suspicious. The fact that he's alive and heavily wounded, and all of his friends are dead. But I mean... But maybe he could get them to go away. He could be like hey over there and then they go with him and bye

I struggle to communicate to him so relying on him to do a task might be difficult I say we just use him to throw him Ayla could throw him in front of the guards into a bush the guards go and investigate what's going on there

invisible people go in. He doesn't even need to... I'm kind of strong-ish, but I don't think throwing a gnoll is in my usual wheelhouse of things that I'm good at. But Aayla is right, though. If we send him in as a distraction,

what's stopping him from just saying, oh, there's people coming in, they're invisible right now? There's people right there. That's a great question. And I'm going to let you guys think about that on the break, because it's time for a break. You guys can have a think about what you want to do. We're so close to a complete plan.

No, we're not. So close. I think I can actually turn four people invisible. It's me plus three. Damn. Very cool. Yeah, if you're casting it, it's like a fifth level spell. I'm sure it's quite hard.

So that's two, three, four, five. Yep. Sorry, I missed it. Perfect. All right. Well, let's have a little quick break, and then we'll finish formulating the plan.