High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #74 | Criminal Negotiations (Part 2)

Episode Date: June 11, 2020

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scattered and distended. But they have since been become just lifeless floating rocks. You have been meeting with Zax Ravis a criminal figure who Thalia knows who potentially has the opportunity to

provide you with schematics for the Tassadars to help you rescue Valor at a later date and you are making your way across into a large building that he is leading you all towards. Nova has recognized that he carries

a piece of Tiangong, but not where it should be. There seems to be some strangeness as to where the actual shard is as everyone is making their way there. Thalia and Big Cat begin making their way just more towards the door

as Zax is leading them inside into a building itself. Yeah. So are you guys just following at this point? Pretty much. I mean, so they've got armored knights flanking the door now, but sure. He already had, but he had two animated armors

with him as bodyguards, with them bodyguards he's he's not a man or a woman he's they are just a alien being they are a fiend creature they have no uh role per se so yeah so they they are just making their way inside um the two armored figures are now sort of on either side of this doorway, and he has just stepped further into this building that you can see ahead of you. Okay. I'm going to look at Thalia and just gauge her expression. Just put yourself where you're going to be, Trot.

Don't worry too much about the camera and stuff. Just put yourself where you want to be. yourself where you're going to be, Trot. Don't worry too much about the camera and stuff. Just put yourself where you want to be. How's Thalia looking? Is she spooked? No. She's just like... She's following after Zax. She probably turns around

and says something like... If you don't mind, Zax, we're in a bit of a hurry. Please do try and get to the point of it all. And yeah, he just sort of gestures everyone forward. Damn it, she's too cool. Yeah. As we're moving, does the pulse, does the feeling of Tiangong get any stronger

as we're going into this building? Is it building a ship? It's a building. No, it's a building. It appears to be a building that connects further back. And a little bit, but not massively. You get the sense that that shard is on the other side of the asteroid. It's further in to whatever facility this once used to be. But as you kind of step inside, you see that at the back of the room,

there are several more figures waiting. As the alien creature, Zaxxaravis, turns around, as you all kind of gather near the entrance, he turns around and is just like, gather near the entrance um he turns around it's just like you must be to be forgiving of this one you have i mentioned you met you asked is this one an ally of the Valkyrian Empire? The answer is no. But that does not mean that the Valkyrian Empire does not offer good business opportunities.

I'm afraid that your companions, Thalia, have a most considerable bounty upon their head if returned to the Empire alive. Goddamn. empire alive uh god damn he he the the zack saravis just says as a professional courtesy i offer you the chance to walk away and leave your companions uh i still do owe you a favor after all negotiation negotiation oh oh they have and you see that the figure that was Zax Ravis disappears it just fades away

you still hear the voice in your head though and you just hear a an order of capture them but alive as a number of figures begin moving towards you. Hey, who voted for option A in the break?

Because you were correct. I voted for A. And we are going to roll initiative. No! I'm stressed. I was going to cast a spell magic alright well too slow

three of us are 11 Quill 11 Nova 11 yep Century was 11 as well 11 yep Aayla total 16

Lucius 7 very good I will auto roll everything else so I think I've got the highest dex what's your dex Nova it's already done it for me so I'm just going to

go in the order that the D&D Beyond Encounter Builder has provided thanks D&D Beyond Encounter Builder has provided. Thanks, D&D Beyond Encounter Builder. Nova's more dexterous than me. Yeah, I have Nova, Quill, and Sentry. So I'm guessing it's using dex based on that. Farlia is the first one to react.

And you see her just kind of roll her eyes. She's just like, divine sake, Zax really she turns and just you see her beginning to pull out one of her arcane pistols just like he's somewhere on this asteroid

and trust me he's got those schematics if nothing else for saving his for blackmail let's let's deal with these things and find him quickly. And she just pulls out her pistol and she's going to fire twice at one of the animated creatures. So cool!

She's pretty cool. So, her first shot will be a only a 12 to hit which is not enough. It bounces off the arcane blast, bounces off one of the animated creatures' torsos.

Her second shot, however, is an absolute blast to the face. Natural 20 from an NPC. Our favourite. What a classic, eh? It's a Mark Humes classic. With a max damage damage 24 points of damage oh my god he's bought the VIP dice from roll 20 yeah take it I'll take

it it still is good direction it's fine she pulls out one pistol in a smooth motion blam blam against the most We'll put it on this one, say, here. And yeah, you see it get annihilated as this blast of energy smashes into the one just next to Aayla. Then Thalia will just basically spend her turn moving back a little bit, putting some distance between her and the other creatures. Then...

5, 10, 15, 20, 21, 22... Uh-oh. What's coming in? You see, teleporting out of the shadows of the room and appearing between you and the ship is a creature that I can describe as a seven foot tall insect-like creature with two sets of arms. One set of arms built into its shoulders at the top of its,

above its head, and then a second set of arms built into its shoulders at the top of its above its head and then a second set of arms uh below its body uh this one appears to be holding a large an exceedingly large crossbow but rather than normal string and bolts it has an energy like a beam of energy uh and it's charging one of them up and in its lower arms it's holding this crossbow and then its upper arms it just has these two wicked knives and it speaks in this

telepathically to all of you once again and you just hear this like, ah, sorry everybody got the orders from the boss, gotta take you in oh no oh I love it no, not Korg it's not Korg gotta take you in oh no oh I love it yes no

not Korg it's not Korg isn't it this one's name is Glorp this is Glorp and you see Thalia is just like

for goodness sakes Glorp what are you doing here and yeah and in fact he's not gonna attack he is going to

generate a sphere of darkness. Why would he do a thing like that? Because he's cool. Piss off, guys. He is. He is cool. Piss off, guys.

So this is... And it pretty much hits everyone right who did who did you bless um three out of the three

yeah that bless did go off so yeah but who who did everyone everybody minus big cat okay

I think I get oh wait I get five so one one two three four actually no I can do everyone but myself, so everybody gets a bless.

Cool. So a d4 on attack rolls for saving throws. D4 saving throws on attack rolls, yes. However, you are all plunged into magical darkness as a giant sphere of darkness completely surrounds you. Is that where I want it? Sweet. Great. Damn it, roll 20. Yeah, you

are just engulfed in a giant sphere of darkness that surrounds you entirely. Darkvision does not help. This is magical darkness, so anybody who cannot see magical darkness is effectively blind whilst inside it. Ayla, it is your turn.

Sweet. Can I step forward? You kind of stumble out and you find yourself inside a building and you can see one of these creatures next to you and a giant sphere of black behind you. I will rage and give him a little smack

in the face, please. Here I go, kill him again. 16. Against the animated armor next to you, no. This thing's armor is clearly built to withstand such blows. You wail down two heavy hammer blows,

but it just seems to shudder as its shoulders and body are stunned for but a moment. I see how it's going to be, roll 20. Nova Vitae. One of those days. So how many

people are there, aliens? Apart from Glorp Boy. Right now, you can't see any of them. You can see nothing but blackness right now. But before the blackness went down, like... You saw several animated armored creatures. And then the one with the energy crossbow that put you in the darkness is what you've seen.

Stupid Glorp. the darkness is what you've seen um can i cast wall of light do you need to be able to see where you're placing it no hold on i've got slow up um bloody hell uh a wall a shimmering wall of bright light appears at a point you can choose within range so my range is 120 foot um and then it casts bright light um so would that negate uh darkness uh i will tell you it does not no okay i don't believe so actually i don't know i think the daylight spell does but i don't think just bright light does. I think it has to have a very specific thing. I'm pretty sure it has to be a very specific thing. Yes.

Non-magic lights can't... Any of the spell's area overlaps with an area created by a spell of second level or lower, the spell that created the light spell. So no, it would, because wall of light is a high level spell, it would it would evaporate yeah it's the fifth level so um can i can i essentially create a wall i'm trying to think what's most effective um a wall that's around you should be able to have the free hand or the

draw shape tool you can choose i just tried to draw it on vmix yeah don't do that um so was it 120 feet so you've got five five sixty foot long so 60 foot 60 foot long uh where is the drawing tool 60 foot long uh where is the drawing tool 5 10 15 oh now i'll catch 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. I don't know if that's... There we go. Okay. Ignore the bit that's under Ayla.

That's one square too many. Ignore the bit that's under Ayla. I overdrew it. Ashley. Still in the pit can I adapt it by one yes and if I erase the bit that's by

big cat can I have that five foot on the armoured suit that Aayla's fighting you draw it where you want to put it you delete the previous one and then you draw it this is going to destroy the dark. There's no erase function.

You select it. Just do the select tool and then you can delete it. So what you're trying to do is basically create a line from one of the armoured guardians that Aayla was fighting. One of the armoured guardians that loops around towards the back where Big Cat is. Just ignore around towards back where Big Cat is.

Just ignore that last bit where Big Cat is. Armored Guardian Aayla is fighting all the way around everybody. For my benefit, I kind of want to be able to see it. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40,

45, 50, 55, 60. So as I've drawn it there, just ignore the tail that's to the right of Big Cat. Ignore that bit. I'm trying to figure out how to erase it now, and I can't. Like that. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, ignore that.

You just select it and delete it, Kim. You just literally select the blue line and then delete it. For some reason, I can't select it. There we go. Okay, so you've created a wedge between you guys and the building itself um yeah yeah okay um so yeah by creating this kind of wedge you've separated yourselves from the uh creature that teleported outside uhorp. And the darkness,

the amount of light that this thing shed obliterates the darkness. You turned to nothing, Mark. You slowly just went on the walker. Your mic went weird. Is it better now? Hello? So you obliterate the darkness, the spell completely

annihilates that, and you now have a wall of light basically spreading out from one end of the building and then behind you guys to separate you from Glorp, the one who had created the darkness, this insect-like creature called a Mezglorp. Can the suit of armor that it

landed on make a constitution saving throw, please? DC 17. It passed. Natural 20. Natural 20. Natural 20. Good lord. It loves me. What can I look?

I want to get back to the table, guys. I want to get back to the table. Even though roll 20 loves me, I don't know why it loves me, but it loves me. I can't help it. It loves me. It just does.

It still takes half damage. Hold on a minute. It takes half as much damage. So, 4D8 is coming your way. 23 divided is Tom, divide that for me, would you, darling?

11. It's rounded down, right? Which is enough that the suit of armor is incinerated by the light. Like, whatever radiant energy powers this thing... Well, this is the one that Thalia blasted. This is the one that Thalia...

Yeah. The crit. In the head, yeah. And then the wall of radiant light just evaporates the rest of it. Just turns it to slag as the armor just crumples to the ground. Cool.

Okay. Nova, anything else? If not Quill, then Sentry. Alright, Quill, then Sentry. Oh. Could I shout out you don't need our bodies to claim the bounty. Um.

And then... Everyone else is confused, right? Like, everyone else is confused by what Quilter's saying. I'm still in negotiation mode! They just need, like, a feather, right? A feather and maybe, like, I don't know, a fingernail from Nova. Just take that to...

They said to take us alive. Does he understand what a bounty is? Does he understand what amount he is did you not listen they said to take us there alive yeah but worst case i don't think starbane will care if he thinks we're dead

if we go back to that spaceship create a clone of ourselves right quill what are you doing i'm doing uh aid on everyone um well it's I'll choose three creatures

um so yeah I'll do myself Lucius and Nova um and give 10 HP. 10 additional HP.

Oh, nice. 10 on top. Sweet. Thank you, Shan. Okay, thanks. Anything else, Corl? That's me. I will go a little bit further back so I'm more surrounded by this wall.

Okay, Sentry. I will move up next to Lucius so I'm in a nice defensive position and then I'd like to bonus action cast Divine

Favor on myself. Okay, sure. and then i'll just i'll hold out for a scissor de sec and see what happens okay all right so you empower your weapon with divine favor and take a defensive position next to lucius uh one more of these insectoid like things uh appears to be at the back of the room um It doesn't teleport or anything like that, but it will. You see its little tiny claw hands built into its shoulders begin moving up

and down as if casting a spell. And it's going to try and cast a spell magic on the wall of light. Poop you. Which it fails to do. Hooray! It fails to do it because it's a fourth level spell, right? Fifth. I have fifth level spells now.

So yeah, it fails to do so. And you just hear this kind of chittering of annoyance coming from its direction. Lucius, Varian, Elowin, Elanast. Thanks for the full title. Appreciate it. I'm going to move forward a smidge Actually I've got fucking 120 range on this thing

So what I'm going to do is cast Hypnotic Pattern At a 30 foot cube Which I assume would catch those three Does the cube need to origin from you Or do you choose a point and then it's a cube I create a twisting param colour That weaves through in a 30 foot cube within range oh that's it okay uh so those three at the top will be cubed up

hardcore and i like to think i'm using my new glamour weave magical fabric to create the pattern on my body first almost like led t-shirts, and then it appears mimicked in space. Like I'm pulling that pattern from my glamour weave first. That's just flavour, that's all. And that is a wisdom saving throw

of 16, please. 16. So that is a fail, even with advantage the two animated armors are unaffected by it they cannot be charmed they cannot be you know dazzled and confused they are just constructs but the

insect void creature yeah is affected by the spell I think it incapacitates them or something if they're affected by it as long as they're staring at it charmed and incapacitated yes I donitated yes the spell ends for an affected creature if it takes any damage or if someone else uses an action to shake them out of their stupor and i'll call out okay the one at the back don't hit it the good thing because you see big cat eyeing it up, who is next. But Big Cat will instead strike at the animated creature in front of it,

the animated piece of armour. It will attempt to claw it. Ow! And it just bats it to the side with its big paw. For a total of six points of damage. Oh, good job, Big Cat. The bless as well. Not to the damage i don't think you add bless to damage i think bless is just to attack oh yeah i get them two modeled up

um and he hit anyways so i didn't worry about it the attack roll um yeah big cat just swipes at one of these animated suits of armor uh you see it kind of like thud to the side, and then the three of them all activate simultaneously. One of them will move to engage Aayla, one of them will go fine, and basically make towards Lucius by creating the hypnotic pattern, and then the other one will hit Big Cat back. So, Aayla, this is against you.

It tries to strike you twice with these kind of clunky armored fists uh the first one misses very easily uh the second one is only a 14 so they kind of swing at you with these two metallic fists but you dodge to the side no problem uh the next one will attack big cat who doesn't have a very high AC. The first one, however, misses. Big Cat. Okay, so that's disadvantage. I'll do the disadvantage on its second attack.

Basically, yeah, with Sentry's help and Big Cat just kind of backing up and using his strength, this thing is just missed completely as the animated armor fails to hit. And then the last one will make two attacks against Lucius. That's an 18 to hit and then the last one will make two attacks against lucius um that's an 18 to hit lucius yeah since she's like oh sorry and then the second one is a 22 lucius yeah yeah that's that's a hit and uh that's eight points of bludgeoning damage from the first attack. And is hypnotic pattern concentration?

Yeah. Can you make a con saving throw? DC 10, please. Plus your bless. Plus bless. And another D4. The bless isn't going to help. Well, I don't know, maybe. i'll do it anyway it's uh six

and even with centuries aura that's like nine i think so that's a fail uh so the hypnotic pattern fades as you conjure it and then this armored suit just walks up and punches you in the face and you're like i was was mesmerized by my own glamour weave. The second one does another eight points of bludgeoning damage as well. Both attacks do max damage. Max damage, yeah.

Yeah, I did. Only on Lucius. I want to point out, yeah, only on Lucius. Against Big Cat, I rolled a four, a five, and a three. So, it's a hit. It only is Lucius. It's just Roll20 hates Lucius, against Big Cat, I rolled a 4, a 5, and a 3. So, it's a hit. It only is Lucius. It just rolls when he hates Lucius. As it does so.

That is all of the animated suits of armor. Thalia will go next. You see her look around. She will call out and say, We should try and... He's probably on his ship somewhere. Once we deal with these ones, I think there must be a way through

to the rest of the mine in here. And she pulls out one of her spell shots, loads it into one of her pistols, snaps the chamber back, and then she is going to fire it at... So I guess your concentration effect has ended now. In fact, actually, she'll aim it at the one hitting Lucius. She'll step

forward, careful not to hit the Wall of Light, and then she'll hit the one fighting Lucius, and you can see it's infused with a thunderous power. Has to make a dexterity saving throw. It fails. And it takes 3d 12 thunder damage

and is pushed away 30 feet 5 10 15 so she sends this uh the one that just hit lucius thalia dodges to the side, fires a blast, and the thunderous energy sends it flying through the room, smashing against a far wall as it tumbles away from you, Lucius. And she just kind of gives you a little wink. She's like, do try and focus on your spells, my dear boy. I'll try my best. Blood's just coming out your nose, like, I'll try my best blood's just coming out your nose like my schnoz

uh god this guy's annoyed you've you've made a stupid wall of light he's really annoyed about it it's beautiful it's a beautiful wall of light is it though pretty perfect will you hear him chittering and muttering arcane words and he is going to summon a cloud kill spell where you guys are yeah no

no radius nice i got one of these oh my god oh my god yeah so that's gonna hit everybody one of these. Oh my god. Oh my god. So that's going to hit everybody. Warding, help with this. It will,

well, it will do, so everybody basically needs to make a con saving throw. So anybody who's within 10 feet of sentry, which is, I think, is it 10 feet sentry? It is, isn't it? 10 feet, yeah. So everybody gets plus 3 to the saving throw. 16.

What does danger sense say? Ugh, god. I need you to tell me what the ability does. Advantage on deck saving throw. Sorry, never mind. Yeah, there you go so yeah all the two does does that three stack on top of bless yes it does yes century century 21. Alright. You get above an 11. 11, 12, 13,

14, 15, 16. Yeah, I'm Gucci. I'm well up in the... Yeah. Even Quill. 4, 3. Yeah, you can't make it even with Bless and Century's Aura.

So, yeah, you can't. So pretty much everybody, I will roll for Thalia and Big Cat. yeah you can't make it even with bless and centuries aura so yeah you can't so pretty much everybody i will roll for thalia and big cat oh thalia no no bueno that's going to be fail on thalia and maybe on big cat big cat it's three nine no big cat's gonna save um so thalia and quill fail the rest of you will pass which I believe is going to take a hard time. So this thick, cloying, yellow-green fog just begins to spill out around you, trapping, kind of like caught between the wall of light and the building. And the fog is thick. You feel yourselves coughing.

It burns your throat and your eyes. And the area is also heavily obscured. Uh, you guys are going to take half damage. Um, who has... This is poison damage, and it is a spell. So, Sentry, your aura of thingy goes off. So, you... Everyone's going to take half damage again.

Um... Nice. So, cool. All right. So, 5d8.8 so it'd be 27 halved for those who saved it and then half again 13 7 so 6 13 6 so if those of you who succeeded take 6 those who failed take 13 poison nice sweet good save being around sentry when magic clears off is a good thing

thank you sentry these things don't seem to really understand that and then he is just gonna go does that thing linger there yes it does yeah it seems to remain in place Does that thing linger there? Yes, it does, yeah.

It seems to remain in place. And as this is an asteroid with no sort of wind or anything else, it is not moving. It's just staying in the area. You can try. Ayla. I believe it's at

end of your turn huh when it poisons you five okay we'll start to turn that I need you to make another con save Ayla oh

it's at the start of your turn if you start there 18 plus 8 plus 3 yep so you're gonna take half and then half again so 21 so half 10 5 more poison I'm going to surrounding you

boop boop yeah get the fuck out of there get the fuck out and give. Get the fuck out and give this dude next to me another whack. Hopefully. 15 plus 9 and 3. Plus a 9.

12. 16, even with blast, so I won't hit on the second one but the first one I'll hit first one hit fuck 9 points of damage because I rolled a freaking 1 I hate life

and do I need to make a dex saving throw 9 points of damage. And do I need to make a dex? Saving through. Yeah. A tailing mark has been written here. Not 20. Okay, so take 3 points of damage then. For lightning. And this incredibly nimble suit of armor magically manages to leap out of the way.

Fuck my life. Fuck my life. He does a dark souls roll game like a dick no it's really loud at the start of your turn make a con save no vija can't save shall? God, what the hell is my con save anymore? It's... Okay, do 20 plus 3. I don't know why I did the first one wrong. So it's a 7, but then I've got Bless, so

add a d4. That's a 1, so that's 7, 8, and then... Did I get anything else? I'm stood next to Century, so that's another 3. 9, 10, 11. Just managed to succeed. Yeah so that's another three, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. Just managed to succeed, yeah. Even rolling a four, you managed to succeed. So you'd take half, which was five,

and then halved again, two more poison damage. God, Sentry, and it's just the light of the Matrix is just warding away some of this poison, like it's just pulsing it away as Sentry's aura is protecting you against the harmful magic.

Oath of Ancient's Guardian very strong. Very strong. So is Cloudkill though so balance is out. True. Can I please hexblade cuss Glorb? Glorb? Korg?

Do you need to be able to see him? Because he's on the other side of the wall of light. Very good question. Let me just... Yeah, you can see within 30 feet. Fair play, mate. He's currently behind your own wall of light, so you cannot see him.

In which case... I'm just... Sorry, I just need to... I could move out of it. I could move out of it. I mean, you're going to take damage on your turn. If you don't. So I'm going to move...

Oh, God, I've got the wrong freaking thing selected. Okay, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Pop out. Are you walking through the wall of light? Because that looked like you just walked through the wall of light. You can walk through it. It's only if you end your turn on it that you take damage. You can walk through it.

Yeah. Okay. But yeah, so can I Hexblade Cuss him? Yes. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. Turns around. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Yeah, he's within range.

Oh, there you are. I was worried I'd have to come in there and get you. Turns his big energy crossbow towards you. Staying there. So one D20 plus. So I'm going to make a melee. I'm going to use Wall of Light to shoot a beam at him. So melee spell attack plus my Hexblade Curse plus another D4 from Bless.

That is a 19 to hit. Hang on. Plus 13 to your attack roll. Yes, so it's nine from my spell range. So it's nine from my spell range. And then it's another four for Hexblade Curse. And then it's a D4 from Bless. No, that's to the damage the Hexblade Curse. I don't think you get that to attack rolls.

No, it's... You're right. That's right, Mark. That is very right. So that is a... 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, so it's 15 to hit. 15 does not hit. Is that right?

Less is to... No, it's to any attack rolls or saving throws. So any attack rolls or saving throws. But sadly, the 16 or the 15 is not enough. It just bounces off his armored carapace. Come on. Don't do that. That could have hurt.

Could have taken me off. No, don't do... Yeah, I think that's all I can do. Alright, collect and send. Yeah, can you reduce the wall by ten foot, please? I think just that little tail end

on the right. I don't think I can. I'd have to do the whole thing. I'll figure it out you carry on why don't you just put a line through the base let's just remember 10 below yeah yeah yeah we'll just do that alright Quillock

can I do a healing word the ranged one whichever the ranged one is on Lucius and where the hell has it gone? That's a level four. Before you do that con saving spray please at the start of your turn.

Oh yeah. Oh. Should I have taken one for the poison damn Arceos? I should have, shouldn't I? Yeah. Oh did you not not no you did one didn't you kim no um yeah you did because you it was four plus three seven plus the d4 plus interesting you did save against the poison thing you did but is that no no no for a concentration check on wall of light technically yes you should have done yeah actually yeah okay um shall i roll that

ec10 concept that okay um plus three you would have been in centuries aura so yeah 20 yeah you're fine all right so, then half again. So it goes to ten, nine, half of nine, four. Four points of poison damage. Owie. And, okay, so yeah, it's a level four healing word on

Lucius. So with aid, by the way, it's not temp HP, it's max HP. So you've got ten added to your HP. So with aid, by the way, it's not temp HP, it's max HP. So you've got 10 added to your HP. So... Whoa. Oh, I think Rita Rihanna's dying. Yeah.

Okay. Just restart Rih if you can. She's become full sentry. Uh... So you heal for 15. Just restart re if you can. She's become full sentry. So you heal for 15, Lucius. Thank you. And that's a bonus action. I would like... My max is 70 instead of 60.

It's 70? And how long does it stay like that? 10 higher. Until I lose, right? No, just forever. The rest of time it says here. Aid is eight hours. Yep.

I've still got it, even though I lost it. Yes. It's your max HP goes up, not temporary points. It brings back your max. Can I go to the inside of the wall of light at the very, very edge of the explosion

the poison fog gas thing. And I want to use a lightning lure on this Korg Skorg skeleton boy. Whatever he is. So you bonus action to healing word. You move and now you're going to use your action to cast lightning lure. Sure? Yes. Yeah. So strength saved from him.

For him is... That's only a nine. Cool. I pull him towards me, so he is now inside both the fog and the wall. Yep. Cool. And I also

do 2d8 plus five of damage. So I do do 2d8 plus 5 of damage. So I do 14 damage to him. Do you get the plus 5? Yeah, I get bonuses to cantrip, so it's an arcane cleric thing. Yeah, you get potent spellcasting. Yeah. So that's 14 lightning.

The lightning he seems to be somewhat resistant to, so it's only 7 points of lightning. That lightning he seems to be somewhat resistant to. So it's only seven points of light. That's fine. And he's got two swords as well, right? Like on the top of his body. He's got like little daggers. Yeah, he's got like little daggers in two hands and then he's got a heavy energy bow in his lower arms.

Can I see anything while I'm inside the wall of light, actually? Think about it. Are you ending your turn in the wall of light? Yeah, don't.. Are you ending your turn in the Wall of Light? Yeah, don't. No, that's the thing. I kind of want to move away from him a little and sort of go there. So he'd probably get...

If you've got the movement to do that. I do have extra movement, so I just... I guess he would get an attack opportunity against you. He does. That's fine. That's fine. Okay. He rolled a three anyway, so...

No, he didn't. You said you were using a portent there my child yeah he rolled a three he rolled a three there you go okay that's one portent gone um i saw that just he rolled before yeah no that's fine uh he rolled a three so he misses you and you step out of the wall of light. And now you can see. But yeah, you can see him half in and out of it, but anything beyond the wall of light, you don't have vision.

You don't have line of sight. Yeah, so the lightning lure would have worked if I was sort of inside-outside that sort of wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool, done. Sentry, if we've got a Rhiannon back. No, we don't have a Rhiannon back can you hear me?

we can hear you awesome, cool well you can take your turn ok I call the maps reset, hang on give me a second it's like being in a cloud

I can't see! I'm in the sky. What colour is it, Mark? The cloud? It's like greenish-yellow. Greeny-purple. Yellow-ness. Perfect. I can just do it on my end. Ah, there we go.

You do. You all need to make a con save. Thank you. Thanks for the reminder. Good job. I've got poison resistance as well oh god yeah so this is so you half half half it and pass yeah plus it eight nine ten eleven twelve eight forty sixteen seventeen total right so you pass you take half which is eight then you half it again does your water does your aura affect you i think it does doesn't it let me have a quick you? I think it does, doesn't it? Let me have a quick read. I think it does. I'm going to say for now it does.

It's you and friendly creatures. So you half it to 8, then you half it again to 4, and then you're also resistant to poison damage, so you take 2 poison damage. 2 damage. God damn. Awesome. Just stay there.

I'm going to move up to the person here. And then I'm going to attack him old school style. Okay. So I'll do my first attack roll. Then I'll do

Divine Smite on him too. So that one plus that's 14 plus 9 to hit and then I'll do 1d8 plus 5 and I'll Divine Smite it at level 2

okay that's 3d8 i believe so so it's 16 plus 5 21 and then i've got 1d4 from uh divine favor her majesty's rose and divine favor dude don't worry this this thing is annihilated you walk up to it in the fog, and even through the heavy clouds and not being able to fully see it, you just plunge the sword forward and you hear metal being ripped and torn and shredded.

That squeal of... Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang. As you just see pieces of this thing fall to the ground. Awesome. As, yeah, you just annihilate it basically nice anything else I guess I can move up and take on this guy with my second attack right I've still got one more left you could yeah if you've got the movement yeah

yeah yeah yeah that'll use up all my movement let's do it you're right Thomas rock and roll divine favor is concentration so it's either that or bless. Ah, so then no more bless. I just blessed on myself. No, it's the spell is

concentration. You can have it one or the other active. Okay. Well, we'll just count that no more bless. No more bless. No bless. You've got a free couple of rounds of bless how about that and makes up for all my 20s that will do three plus that's a 12 to hit

that is not enough this thing's armor is much tougher than you expected and the sword fails to find purchase I'm good okay I'll let my turn there sword fails to find purchase. Okie dokie. Any bonus actions? I'm good. Okay, I'll end my turn there then. Okay, you end your turn there. After you, the other creature, no longer stunned by Lucius' pattern,

moves forward and you kind of hear another voice I don't know where Glorp is, but I'm going to deal with you two first, and then I'm going to go find him. And he wields a three-pronged trident in his lower arms and then his two upper arms

have the same little knives and he's going to attack one attack against Sentry. In fact, actually no, he's just going to attack Ayla with both, I think. For now. I love that Trot always has to go the extra distance. 19. Look at this. In fact, actually, no, you're just going to attack Ayla with both, I think, for now. So Ayla, that is a... I love that Trot always has to go the extra distance.

19. Look at this. That's a hit against Ayla, 19. So, D8 plus 4, that's 9 points of piercing damage. Halved? Yeah, so you can half it, yeah. Oh, his weapons, they're magical, but I think... I don't know if that... piercing damage. Halved? Yeah, so you can half it, yeah. It's not... Oh, his weapons, they're magical,

but I think... I don't know if that... I think your thing still... It's the type of damage. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yep, yep. So you half that. So nine, so...

What's that half? That's four. And then the claws come down and they hit you. The two little daggers, sorry. For ten points, so five more damage. As he just starts jamming you with all of these different weapons. Don't worry, I won't actually kill you.

I'm just softening you up first. Then I'll knock you out. I apologize for any bleeding wounds and any scarring. Lucius, at the start of your turn, a constitution saving please you do not have bless and you no longer have centuries protection so this is just a straight con save thanks for the hard reality bro okay bro oh well yep that is 19 poison damage owie okay century is too far away for her aura to protect you. As you feel this cloying, poisonous fog that is not going anywhere. It's just sitting where it is.

I'm moving 5, 10, 15, 20 to there. Okay. Yep. So you're out of the cloud of fog. to there. Okay. Yep. So you're out of the cloud of fog.

I'm going to Melt's Acid Arrow and use my sorcerer points to twin it onto these two at the top here that Aelod and Sentry

are attacking. Yeah, the animated armor and then the Mezaloth that they are currently fighting. That's right. And I'll do it at level three.

So here's the first one. So they still against the Mezaloth. 16 against him is not enough. Just narrowly manages to glance off of the carapace of this insectoid fiend. Right. And then I'll do it again. I just want to roll it.

I'll just cast it. Screw it. 13. No. No, both do not fully hit does it do any damage on a miss? I believe not let me double check though on a miss the arrow splashes the target with acid

for half as much the initial damage and no damage at the end of its next turn so yeah so it would be 44 and a half for half as much the initial damage and no damage at the end of its next turn. So, yeah. So it would be 44.5. Well, against the... So it will be. Roll it against the animated armor. The insectoid creature,

when you coat it with acid, it shows absolutely no sign of any harm. It is immune to acid when you strike the insect-like creature. Six. Yep, against the suit of armor. Yes. And then can I Diachromancy it as well for seven?

So six points of acid damage, and then seven points of acid damage. Yeah, and you see the armor surrounding it becomes pitted and worn, begins rusting in places where the acid splashes all against it, but does not seem to... It affects it as you would expect it to. However, the insectoid creature completely

shrugs off the attack. Big Cat. Big Cat makes his saving throw. He is still within 10 feet of sentry. Yeah, 10 feet. 5, 10. Save.

He passes, which means he's going to half it and then half it again. So 25 is 12 and then 6. Poison damage to Big Cat. Big Cat, you hear just like, as it begins hacking out. Wow. He will take the most immediate course out, which is here. Then he moves around

and he will pounce upon this other creature here and bite him. But his teeth can't sink deep enough into, yeah, the one against the one in the wall of light. Thank you, Tom. Just the big cat, however teeth can't sink deep enough into... Yeah, the one against the one in the wall of light. Thank you, Tom. Just the big cat, however, can't pierce

through its insectoid-like carapace as it fails to gain any purchase. The two suits of animated armor that are left, the one fighting Sentry and Aayla, one will just try and hit Sentry twice for 21. Are there two?

There are two. One was pushed back into the far corner. You can't see it. So Sentry, the first one, the first attack hits you, but the second attack misses. You're going to take three points of bludgeoning damage. Five. Lucius, the one that Thalia had knocked back into the corner of the room,

comes storming up towards you, attempting to repeat its attacks against you. 15 to hit. Yeah. And 17 to hit. Yeah. That's going to be six points of bludgeoning damage and then another eight points of bludgeoning damage

as these big armoured fists just pummel into you. Oh, Lord. Oh, dear. That fists just pummel into you. Oh lord. Oh dear. That's a pummeling. That's a pummeling. Alright. Couple more things. Thalia on her turn will make a saving throw against the poison. She also fails and is out of

range for any super nice bonuses. She takes 22 poison damage. This isn't very good for my skin. Oh, it's no time to be glib and then she is going to run and get out of this as well and she will find two shots at the armor facing Lucius the first one is a miss as it bounces off its armor second one is a hit for another 12 points

a hit for another 12 points of damage. Radiant energy blasts out of her pistol, striking into the creature. Ayla. Oh no, sorry. Gloop. It's Glorp's go. Glorp steps out of the Wall of Light. He started his turn in it.

Does that do anything? It's when he ends his turn. Yeah, unfortunately it's stepped out a bit before it has time to burn him. Also, doesn't seem to be affected by the poison. Doesn't seem to care about the poison around him. He looks at the new bird man. He's like,

hey, man, that lightning hurt. And he shoots you in the chest with his big energy crossbow. Aww. For a 20 to hit. Oh, yeah. Aww. For a 20 to hit. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. For 8 points of radiant damage. And then he will step in, and he stabs you with his little knives. For a 25. Okay. For 12 points. Okay. For 12 points of damage.

As his little tiny top hands come barreling down shoving knives into your shoulders. You're trying to knock me out. Use the other ends. I will do when you look hurt enough. But I understand.

Sorry, I'm just following orders, mate. I get you. We've now got this large insect thing in front of you as well as another one of these animated armours. I will hit the insect, please. No, I won't. No, I won't. I won't hit it at all.

What's the total? I'm going to guess that's a no. 15. Highest is a 15. Next one. Oh, you rolled a 1 on the first one. No, I rolled a 1

and a 5, so I'm out. I didn't see the first attack. Dex saving 3. What? Oh, yes. Do I make a dex saving 3? That is a failure. A 7. 6 points of lightning damage. They are resistant to lightning damage, so it takes... Of damage they are resistant to lightning

damage so it takes of course they are I said that earlier Nova are these like little crates next to us or something they're just like little metal crates they look like

okay I'm gonna kind of nip behind one and then can I um five ten can i uh shoot out another wall of light beam block but at um score corb dorb warp um that is a 14 to hit bounces off his carapace again. I hate this. You're going to have to try harder than that. I hate this so much. This is all I can do.

Is that it? That's your action? Yeah, that's it. That's my whole... Nope. Will I get a lot? Then sentry afterwards. So how much of the wall was gone there? Ten foot? Yeah, I'm drawing it. Yeah, ignore it. i'm scribbling on it

now don't worry okay uh what are these like pallets next to me can i stand on are they just ground things i mean kim like you you see this right you see this i did just say are these next to us are these metal crates said, yes, they're little metal crates. And I said, I'm going to go high behind you. What do I do, Thomas? What do I do with it? You know? I mean, short answer, yes. Yes.

Yeah, but it's just, listen. I spend the time in between turns looking up my turn so I can do it quickly. It's not going really quick right now, is it, though? No! If it wasn't a yes, it would be quick! Yes, they are metal crates, Tom. They are, you know, little square metal crates. Come join me behind one. I know, I heard when you said it through Kim's turn.

Fuck you. Wow. Jesus! Um, right... and fuck you. Wow. Jesus. Oh my god, now my mouse is disconnected. What is this stream? That's karma. That's what that is. How does your mouse disconnect? I don't know.

Rhiannon's entire computer disconnected everything. So, I mean, you've dropped a couple of times. This is just a mess at this point. Gust. He needs to make a strength save. Okay. That is a 10. Cool.

He goes back five feet, so towards Big Cat. You knock him back. Yeah, and then after that... What is this to do this? As the gust of wind generates the first kind of breeze it causes the cloud to slowly drift about five feet oh cool

antelusius awesome I guess it would go more like this it would kind of go back in a more diagonal yeah and then I want to shield of faith myself and kind of over messenger ring say i can hear your anger from here maybe try attacking a little bit more recklessly ala

oh wow fuck yourself quill you've missed every attack this entire time and you've got a reckless attack. I'm not the only one who's missing though. I'm choosing not to because I've got two things next to me which will then get advantage on multiple attacks against me. You got the point. It's a choice not to. But it's a choice not to.

It is a choice. Alright, Quill, you moving? Yeah, I'm going to dip back a little bit so 5, 10, 15. Like, to kind of around by the edge of this weird metal thing on the floor. What is that, by the way?

It's a metal crate, Tom. Sentry. I'm going to move back towards Lucius. Okay. Lucius started your turn in the cold cloud, so can you make a concept for me, please? Concept, yes. No problemo. 21. I also started your turn in the whole cloud so can you make a con save for me please con save yes

no problemo 21 plus 24 yeah dude you've succeeded half of 31 is 15 half that again is 7 half that again is 3 you take 3 poison damage

thank you okie dokie. This cloud just does nothing. You're just sort of like... I'm going to use 30 points of lay on hands on Lucius. That's your action.

That's my action. Then bonus action, I'm going to cast Shield of Faith on him as well. So my divine favor is going to go. He gets a plus 2 to 80. That's 2 AC. Then bonus action, I'm going to cast Shield of Faith on him as well, so my divine favor is going to go. He gets a plus 2 to 80. That's 2 AC. Perfect. Good round. Thanks. Nice bit of support. Proper support entry. Proper.

The insectoid creature in front of Ayla, I would say, looks like your big metal friend has left you all alone. I'm sorry. And he will attack you with his trident and his little stabby knives. So his trident is a one. It's a miss as

it goes too wide. And then he will stab you with his little knives for a... that's going to be a miss. That's a 16. Ayla dodges to the side, missing completely. Doesn't do anything else. Happy to stay where he is.

Lucius. I will... I don't really want to move from here, I guess, because I'm in opportunity attack from this guy, but I assume attacking would be a disadvantage. It's threatened space, yeah. Range spell attacks will be, yes. So if you have like uh melee spells then they're fine but range even if i attack someone else no if you attack someone

else you're fine all right i'm gonna fling a chromatic orb of ice at this boy over here. Which one? The four-armed insectoid creature fighting Aayla. I'll cast that at fourth level. Ding dong! That's a 25. That's a hit. That's a big hit. Smashes him in the back as he's

distracted fighting Aayla. Right, and that's 68. So I'm because because is not as effective as you would like to be good beans man beans they have resistance be you things beans not beans beans 22 half to 11 11 points of cold damage I'm going to dichromancy the animated armor next to him how much for?

so that's 8 just enough to send it collapsing into a pile of frozen shards as it shatters apart as the ice slams into its back created from a scrap of blue cloth that you can see.

I'm also going to add my bonus action Shield of Faith barrier ring. Not Shield of Faith, barrier ring on top, stacking the AC. Which I should have done earlier. There you go. Should have done earlier.

Big Cat will attempt to bite the big insectoid creature for 19, which is a hit. Sadly, he didn't get his pounce, but he will chomp down for another 7 points of damage. Half is 3. As he tries to bite onto this large insect-like demon, seven points of damage halved is three

uh as he tries to bite onto this large insect-like demon and is just struggling to bite through its armored carapace uh it kind of growls pushes him down uh and then the only remaining animated suit of armor will continue its attacks against lucius

um as it's only viable yep so disadvantage uh continue its attacks against Lucius as it's only viable. Protection, please. So disadvantage. So that's going to be 3 plus 7 is a miss. Lucius, the first attack. And then the second attack is... Protection, please. Protection, please.

That's going to be a 12, Lucius, the second attack. No! That won't hit combined strength centuries spell and the barrier ring as it bounces against it harmlessly um and that is probably going to make the most sense to stop because it's the start of a fresh new round um we're just going to have to continue this uh next week as uh what's the last uh big fall so basically uh one animated suit of armor the big poison cloud the the cloud kill is still active the wall of light is still there and then these two mesoloth insect demons basically um but they seem quite tough

they've they've they have a very hard to penetrate uh carapace uh they seem to have um many resistances uh and just kind of very casually going about their business of um fighting you guys um and yeah that's where we'll pick up next week. Just casually. Tom, I don't know if you know this, but next to Quill there's a few metal crates. Just a little bit of detail. Just around the lake. No, I moved a little bit further away from them.

I did that. There's another one there. There's another one there. Sorry, I couldn't tell because this map is just really fucking ugly, Mark. Oh! I was going to talk about the asset use, actually. I quite like the background. Shut up.

I like it. Fired! It's a good map. I like it. You can't backtrack now. One day, I'll play with a bunch of people. The map worked really well today, actually. Sweet.

Well, that is us for this week's episode of High Rollers a good mix of RP and then yeah some combat stuff with more combat stuff to come will Tom Hazel listen to me next week find out on the next episode of Arrows will Tom Hazel

learn to play the game he's so salty I'm not the problem dude I take the turns quickly. He's so salty. I'm not the problem, dude. I take the turns quickly and efficiently. Like, oh, I'm doing this attack. It does this much damage. Boom. Done. You do. That's the end. I love it. I love that. I do love that. Yeah, that's great. I do love that.

It's just, I think what made the crate thing so funny was literally Nova was the turn before you and Kim was like, Mark, are these things next to me? Are they crates? And I was like, yeah, yeah, they're like metal crates. And then the next question out of your mouth, the next thing you said was, what are these

things next to me? Are they like metal pallets? And it was just the best. Have you know I disconnected, Mark? I didn't disconnect. Oh, did you? That explains it. No, that's just a lie thanks very much um take care we love you uh look after yourselves be safe um and we'll see you next time bye everyone bye bye everybody