High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #75 | Mines of Madness (Part 2)

Episode Date: June 18, 2020

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Ayla is like, ow. Looks down. Several wounds. I know Lucius is also... I didn't mean to do that. I didn't see you there. I mean, I did see you, but I just wasn't thinking. What happened to you?

You all disappeared in the dark and then you were here and then you were gone and I started weirdly. That crystal thing, it grappled us and pulled us in multiple times. It felt like 20 times it happened.

Eight of which were very accurate. Very accurate tentacle monster. Anyway, we must... Are we... Well... Ayla looks at you, Lucius. Are you sure about that?

I could really... I need a... I need a... I... Shh. I just... I guess a I need a I just Well I've got a potion Oh he's doing something Healing word Nice Well pretty much everybody

Level 5 Boom everybody heals What the fuck 10 311 plus 5 Level 5. Boom. Everybody heals. What the fuck? 10. 3-1-1 plus 5. Wow. Everyone heals 10.

Wow, Quill. Thank you. Does everyone feel better? No, I feel like shit still. Right, I have a question. I need the group to make this decision because I don the group to make this decision because I don't want to make it for Katie.

Should Ayla drink her potion of healing? Because she is still basically she's only just gone over half her hit points. I think as Nova, I would push for a short rest. I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to wait up.

An hour? I mean, we're also rushing, right, to catch this dude. Yeah, we are rushing, aren't we? So... Yeah, okay. I can give her 20 lay on hands points. Quoth. Okay. What do you want to do? Do you want to have a sentry lay on hands? Yeah. Lay on hands.

I'll lay on hands. I'll lay on hands. Yes. I think it's the best time to use it outside of combat. Okay, yeah. She's like, yeah, that feels much better. You're going to take another potion? I'll let on Hansa so she can get the potion. Yes. I think it's the best time to use it outside of combat. Yeah. Okay, yeah. She's like, yeah, that feels much better. You're going to take another potion?

20 points. Yeah. It feels double as good as what I did. It's not much better. I can't decide whether or not... I can't decide whether or not to go for a boring healing potion or a greater. Well, you must... I think you've only got one greater left, haven't you? decide whether or not to go for a boring healing potion or a greater.

Well, you must... I think you've only got one greater left, haven't you? I've got one greater and I've got two regulars. I'll use the greater one. Screw it. So can I get another greater? I'll use one greater. 44 plus 4. 9. 9 hit points.

If we blue whale it and shut down half our brains so that half the brain is resting and the other half is moving towards the objective. Can someone just carry me? Just carry me while we go. And I'll sleep. Power naps on Sentry. Mass healing word.

This time at level 4 are you actually? yeah sure yeah 8 that was one lower spell slot it's still 8 on everyone 8 on everybody

back up to half health nice Ayla actually looks pretty good. She's nearly not quite full, but certainly not far off. Let's go. All right. Yeah, where'd you guys move?

You can see that there are a few different tunnels, but there is one larger one that seems to lead you towards. Do you just want to head down that way? Stop it. Is it still 10 minutes since I cast locate object? Can I still see that?

Yeah, you can. Is there a particular direction? It appears to be coming from... Can you see this where I'm pinging? Coming in this direction. This way. If you were looking at the map on the table it'd be to the uh

the left hand side but yeah there's a large rock formation you can see it's quite narrow there's metal scaffolding from here and there um but if you follow that tunnel along uh it doesn't take you long to realize that yeah this will lead you out basically it looks like you could have gone another way perhaps avoiding the crystal creature if you'd gone on the other side oh i'll show you here quill let me just move you there's these little there's these little tunnels over here you see you could have oh yeah you're right actually oh right yeah i could have you know bypassed it how many little boys were down there there's a few little boys

a bunch of them came running out behind Nova but there was a few little boys I'm a man of ambitionist I think we would

have gone after the roadway anyway do you guys want to go down there to see if there's anything you missed like do you want to video game it

and be like oh we might have missed some loot just get Ayla to dash down there she's got like 45 feet of movement. I'm not going down there on my own. No, I don't. I don't want to go down there.

You follow this tunnel, which stretches on a little bit longer, leading you closer and closer. And you can see the glowing image of the... You didn't cast any concentration spells, did you? No, I don't think you did. You can see the glowing... That was Lucius.

Yeah, it was for the locate object. You see the glowing image of the Tiangong Shard growing larger and brighter as you get closer. Eventually, the large open tunnel emerges into a large cavern, part of which appears to have, it seems to stretch out into astral space.

But you can see the very faint afterimage of a rocky surface almost projected out the front of the ship, kind of camouflaging it from the outside. And you might need to zoom around a little bit Trot, if you go I can't see anything on my map I can't either I've not done it properly Oh you ding dong

I did, I thought I did I like this voice It's adorable voice it's adorable it's so cute oh whoops oh it's gone yeah I don't know why it's not showing up

it's really annoying that's what you had to sacrifice for those D20s. I wanted to see it briefly, but... No, that was where you were. I'm just trying to reset it. Oh, I see. Oh, silly. Has it appeared?

Can you guys see anything if you scroll around? No. Can any of you guys see anything? No. No. God dang it. I obviously see the darkness of infinity. Yeah.

Oh. Oh. And roll 20. I can see the entire map now. Quick, memorize it. Memorize it. Kind of looks like those things in Isle Delfino. No, so you see a large, very round

looking astral ship. You've seen a few of these at Elysium and you obviously know the Twin Star. This one appears to be rather rounded. There are more of these strange red crystals, some of which appear to have been mined and placed into metal crates.

There are also pools of some sort of liquid that seem to have been spilt or left to form from something. There is a short metal gangway that leads up into a round circular door

on two sides at the rear of this ship. You can see it's just a smooth metallic surface. Very 60s UFO silvery metal but in a perfect round shape. Like two ellipses merged

together. Here's the... Okay. Sandy Thalia is not with you. Yeah. That is all you see for now. Is it... Locate object still going? Yes, and you can see that the thing you are looking for,

in fact, I will reveal where Zaxxarabas is because we'll be able to tell. He appears, or they appear to be at the front of the ship with the shard. Okay. Okay. Okay, he's up there. He's in there. Is it expelling any energy from... It's hard to tell.

There's definitely some sort of magic running through the ship, but there's no, like, you can't see where the engines are you don't see how it flies um but there is definitely you can sense that there is some magic within the vessel uh enough that would enable it to perhaps fly but you don't see any of the similar things that you've seen on other ships and the ramps are down yeah they are they're kind of not ramps they're more like um you know like in an airport when they bring up the little stairs that connect to the plane it's like a

manufactured metal gangplank that leads up to yeah like yeah but not something that can move on its own it's like fixed in place this must be his ship that he's going to escape with or how he got here in the first place right

looks like we should jump on there he's going to escape with or how he got here in the first place. Right? Looks like we should jump on there. But by the way, I think they might be the old telepathic because I think I screwed up earlier with the ring because remember I messaged you and then they seem to know that we knew

that they knew that we knew that they knew that there was bad. So don't say stuff on the messenger ring. Right. Are we saying stuff or are we fighting stuff? I was just going to say stuff. We might be able to be diplomatic. I don't know. Could we appeal to a raider's sense of

dishonor and bargain? I'm not going to try to turn us into starving. I'm not going to try that. They did say that they would... They went to the hired bidder, though, so if we made a really good offer, we could just take the thing and the thing

and then not kill. We tried that just before they set Blorg and Bliggle on us. But they'd already made a deal, right? Also, why should we give them stuff when we could just take it? We could just beat this guy up and take his stuff

that's the spirit yeah let's just take his stuff he's got tiangong he shouldn't have it let's just beat him up and take his stuff I hope I can summon it wild elf let's get on the ship

before he gets away. True. We're past diplomacy now, I think. Who's going first? Says plant mum as well. Yeah, Jesus. Well, you did try to...

You did try and... You did try and hurt us. Yeah, exactly. Are you... I don't really want to make Ayla go first because obviously I'm not playing her.

So does anybody else want to go first? I'll go first I think yeah and I'll go up front as well because I think Nova would be emboldened by being here in Tiangong that presence in Tiangong they want to

they're very eager for you to recover this shard, you can sense that yeah sure okay well you guys should be able to move yourselves so I can't move myself I cannot move myself damn it damn it

every week I think I'm like I've set all this up so I don't need to do anything and then every time I forget... Oh yeah, I'm good. Presents Nova... Do you know what? I did it to like

two of you, and then not the rest. And one of them was Ayla. Cool, yeah. We're basically following Sentry up, I up i think cool ayla will take the rear for now uh or lucius can go to the back and then it'll go in the middle uh cool yeah so century you get up and as you approach the metallic surface this kind of silvery quicksilver like substance um It kind of ripples like a stone dropped in a pond and a doorway opens. Kind of like

liquid. Almost organic. It's like water. And then it just creates something. Mario 64. Jump in the pan. This is very unusual. I say here we go before you jump in.

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go! Century, do you step through the door into the place or are you just hovering? I will go in. I'll step in. There we go.

And then Nova, you follow Quill as yeah you as the as century and nova basically move through um there is a trilling sound like a that seems to echo through the air around you um you can see this long metallic, but very opulent, decorated main area of the ship. You can see that, you know, bright, colorful tapestries have been hung. There is a large, polished kind of like stone-like floor in here. There is a metal grate at the back, but there is also what appears to be, you know, faint pulsing lights throughout the whole region. It's very opulent, almost like a palace.

And you see at the far end, two more of the animated armors, the constructs seem to come to attention and they kind of stand up and they just become alert and ready themselves for a fight but they don't take any immediate action as the trilling stops

So is everyone through now? Well I mean you guys you tell me at the moment moment, Nova and Century. So you start moving up. So you start moving your way up. You can see that on either side there are little storerooms. There are corridors with doors, kind of metallic silvery doors like the

outside that appear to be leading to other sections of the ship. But it doesn't take long before a voice starts coming through into your mind um ah unpleasant unexpected must we really bother with this tiresome routine you could have escaped with your lives unlikely With your lives.

Unlikely. We... We came to make a deal, Zax Ravos. You know what we want. If I give you... If Zax Ravos gives you the schematics that you seek, will you leave Zax Ravis alone? Well, there's something else we want to, unfortunately.

Ah. Well, depending on what that is, there could be a problem. Zax Ravis is not so willing to part with many of his accumulated treasures. They are useful additions to my collection. Give us the schematics first. And that's fair because you set Starbane on us.

I have done no such thing. My intent, the intent of Zax Ravus was to collect the bounties upon your heads. I do not intend to be anywhere near the Empire when they come calling. Well, you got

paid, so you give us the Tassadar schematics and... I have not been paid. I have not been paid at all. I have not received payment. My intent was to knock you unconscious, take your bodies, imprison them, leave them desolated somewhere,

then transmit the coordinates to the Valkyrian Empire. Wonderful. It is simply business. You must understand that you are worth considerable amounts of funds that would enable me to continue my lifestyle. It is too tempting an offer. Zach Travis must keep up appearances. That temptation is going to get you killed one day.

Hopefully not today. Well, we will have to see. You see one of the animated armor's kind of steps to the side. And the figure that you saw before this green green skinned elongated head absolutely no kind of body shape or like personality to it just almost like purely just androgynous and nothing you know wears um very loose fitting silken clothes a long golden cape spilling behind them um and you see at the at the the side attached to a a very fancy belt this long slender sheath from which a rapier's hilt can be seen and matching in similar style black crystal and blue light uh to tiangong and nova

you feel that intense pressure that desire to be reunited build and build and build within your chest as the uh as it comes closer uh zax ravis emerges with his hands held out wide, you know, showing that he is not hostile. Schematics. Zaxxaravis can provide. But, once I provide, you must leave. If you require something else,

state what you wish. And Zaxxaravis will consider your negotiation. You have entered my vessel. I have you at an advantage, I assure you. You do not wish to meddle with me. Many have tried. Many now lie dead.

Zagravis is no fool. Well, any ideas friends I might I'm gonna say this quietly rather than like um messenger ring I might be able to remember in the night eyes I might be able

to do the same thing again get the schematics. What thing would that be, dear Ganassi? Get more schematics. Hmm. Suspicious.

What is this other requirement? What do you seek from Zax Ravis? Information? A relic? A relic, yes. Which one? I have many in my collection.

Not here, of course. My collection is dispersed throughout my holdings Zaxoravus is cautious with his treasures can I take a look at everyone and see what their reaction is to what Novish said quickly

sure you look around Aayla is blank-faced. I'm going wild. How could you say a relic? Yeah, no, I mean, we know what you want. Pretty indifferent, yeah.

I guess it's just, yeah, Nova's trying to... I look kind of concerned, like, cautious, I guess. Nova's trying to weigh up how to play this. You are hesitant Clearly the Ganassi Desires something Something important Something most important

Precious even Most desperate to collect Make a wisdom saving throw for me Nova Now where we fucking go Plus three. That big brain is doing some stuff. Did you get a plus three? Fucking piss on that.

Pissing. Can I have some roll 20, love? No, I rolled a five. Plus three, eight. And that's a plus three. So that's not even a five, it's a two. It's a two, plus three, plus three. It's an eight.

I hate this game. Carry oh my god you feel you feel this presence dive into your mind in a flash of an instant your memories your very thoughts are laid bare as you feel this pulsing alien presence drifting sifting through your memories like looking through a book ah an eternal collector zax ravas is most pleased you certainly have an eye for the exceptional ganassi. You have collected many pieces of the one called Tiangong. Very powerful. Tricky.

Now, prison, now we enter a difficult negotiation for you now have something I desire too. How to proceed? How to proceed? Can I instantly, as soon as that happens, try to summon the shard?

You can. How do you do that? Do you just focus your will? You describe to me what Nova does. I guess it's similar to when we were in the night eyes. I would grip Tiangong and just channel as much of my, I guess just

willpower and energy and everything it's just that absolute, every fibre of my being, everything that I can, I would channel it to almost try and pull the sword towards me and I don't know, just like well, when you do this

you focus your will so intently and you know that there is there is a dramatic difference between now and the night eye there is something blocking and you can tell it's the same alien mind that probed your thoughts in the night eye the shard of tian gong hadn't been attuned by anybody. This one has been. This is one that Zax Ravis has himself, that they themselves have attuned to, and you feel

this kind of contest of minds. Make a, you're gonna roll Charisma for me. So just d20 plus Charisma, and I'm gonna do the same thing. Now, do you want me to roll on d20 plus charisma, and I'm going to do the same thing. Now, do you want me to roll on d20, or do you want me to roll physical? Physical. Yeah, physical.

Do you get a bonus from 10 to 3 for charisma? No, this isn't a saving throw. This is just a contest of their will and personality. Mine was a 17 plus four. So you feel like you try and reach out, but this fortress of energy and magic kind of slams down. I suggest you all lay down your weapons and surrender to me. I need everybody to make a wisdom saving throw.

Shit. Plus three. He suggested. These are not the droids he's looking for. Lucius does not get the plus three as he is just outside of your range, Sentry. Yep. Bam.

Oh no. I accidentally rolled on roll 20 and what is it? What is it? It's another natural 20. I rolled 20 on roll 20. And what is it? What is it? You rolled a 20 for Ayla. It's another natural 20. I rolled a 20 for Ayla.

Jesus. I got a nat 1. Oh, my God. Oh, sorry. My apologies, Lucius. Technically, you've already made the save, but you do have advantage. This is a charm effect, as does Ayla.

There it is! 21. So yeah, you had the higher one anyway. Right. I think everybody but Sentry got higher than a 17. You feel this compulsion to listen to what he is saying. Go through your mind. And you know that it's Ayla.

You know this isn't your own thought um but century you you just suddenly realize like yes why i should absolutely surrender i don't want to cause any harm for my friends i need to surrender and throw my weapon down and surrender myself to this this being um you are under the effect of the suggestion spell you must comply with their suggestion until it is broken oh yeah you must comply with the suggestion until it's broken

creatures that can't be charmed I believe you still can be I don't know check if there's a power of anything that prevents you from being charmed yep it's a reasonable suggestion yeah so you still can be. On a failed saving throw, it pursues the course of the action

you described to the best of its ability. The suggested course of action can continue for the entire duration, which is 24 hours. Wow! Holy moly! That doesn't mean there aren't ways around it. So you have to put down your weapon and surrender

to him, is the wording of the suggestion. Okay. And I believe that's... I'm going to guess you guys are going to want to roll initiative at that point, as he has just tried to... I think so, yeah. Yeah, I figured. So, yeah, that's awesome.

So, a four for Lucius. A four for me. Oh, my God. And a four for Lucius. A 4 for me. Oh my god. And a 4 for Century as well. 13 for Nova. 13 for Nova. I want to burn this episode. I want to set fire to it.

Can you roll 20 for Ayla? Yeah, I will do. That is a 14 total because she gets plus 5. Luckily, you guys, I rolled really bad for the... Well, the auto-roller was really bad for the monsters. So, Ayla just snatches up the hammer. He tried to get in my head.

I'm going to kill him. And just charges forward. Do it. Do it. 5, 10, 15. Now, this is quite a big space. Huge, yeah. 25, 30, 35, 40. Total speed now quite a big space. Huge. 35, 40.

What's her tilt speed now? 45. She just ends a little bit too short. So she will use something that Katie has never used, but I know is on her person. She will hold out the lightning cable launcher

and try and fire it at oh yeah that's basically a lightning lure right uh kind of is yeah it's it's yeah it basically is it's uh this is a plus nine to hit oh between 20 we could all lightning lure one dude and just tear him apart bounce Bounce him around. The lightning cable, you see Zax Ravast moves incredibly quickly, like throws itself to the side, but it's not enough as the lightning cable latches onto his arm and yanks him.

So this is, as an action, a creature can fire the weapon to a range of 15 feet. On the hit, the target is grappled and the target is pulled 15 feet straight towards the user until this grapple ends the target takes 1d10 of lightning damage at the start of their turn so Zax Ravis is pulled

like pulls pulls Zax Ravis in but that is her full action and that takes does multi attack not work on that? No, because it's an action to activate an item. It's not an attack action. Oh, I see. Okay.

But that is the end of Ayla's turn. Oh, and she will bonus action, of course, Rage as well. Nova Veeja. Does that mean Lightning as well? She can't do it on the same turn. It's bonus action to activate the aura. It's bonus action to activate the aura. It's bonus action to rage. Nova.

I know what you're going to say, but would Dispel Magic help Sentry? Maybe. It's my only spell slot, isn't it? It's either that or Blight. Well, what do you want to do? Yeah. What are you guys doing? well what do you want to do yeah what are you guys doing

nothing nothing just silently just sat here not making any suggestions so I've got one boy shaking his head and I've got one boy nodding his head what are you doing Kim don't listen to them don't look at twitch chat I don't know

I don't know Magic would work. Oh, you're gonna make a call you gotta make a decision Magical effect do you know what Nova's pretty pissed off? She's gonna blight. She's gonna blight it. Yeah Go for it. Pretty angry gonna blight it So, can you make a con save uh dc 17 please i can magic thrown towards zax ravis there is a there is a ben he has advantage on saving throws as he is resistant to magic oh i forgot to do it i'll do do it manually. Could do with sentry, could we? He rolled an actual 20. He has advantage. I'll take the seven

on roll 20, but you'll never guess why I actually physically rolled. Oh, my God. You did not. He rolled a fucking 20. I did.

I quit. I really did. I'm out. Jesus Christ. You're nice. I'm off. Bye. What's that now?

13, 13. You still feel half damage. Kim, it's half damage Jesus so 98 yeah 98 halved as you see this kind of shield the shimmering

aura around him around them distorts the magic that's 21 points of damage dude 21 points of damage I'm salty I know That's 21 points of damage, dude. 21 points of damage. I'm salty! You see Zax Ravass manages to kind of pull himself back as this black magic pulls out of

Tiangong, kind of trying to tear at their skin and their flesh, and they manage to pull themselves away, and in your mind you hear, how dare you attack Zax Rravas in this way? You will pay for this impertinence. And movement.

Yeah, I'm going to 5, 10. How many, what are these squares? Are they 5s or 10s? Okay, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. Yeah, I'm going to start moving away. I just want to be away. I just want to be away. Okay.

One of the animated armors moves up to try and help Zaxxaravis. The other one is going to basically come back towards Nova. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty. And then he will just dash for the rest of his movement. The animated armor comes storming up to Unova. But that's its whole turn. The other one will attempt to shove Aayla to try and break the grapple. So it has plus two.

It's probably not going to succeed because Aayla is very strong. So it gets a 14. Aayla gets very strong. So he gets a 14. Aayla gets a much higher. So he tries to shove Aayla off of Zaxxaravis, but Aayla doesn't budge. Perfect. Zaxxaravis's turn, first of all, he takes 1d10 lightning damage at the start

of his turn. Awesome. From the lightning lure. He will then look around, look at this kind of rope around his arm. He kind of looks at it and shrugs. It's like, ugh, an annoyance. And he will cast

Dimension Door. Oh! Guess where he's coming! Oh, he's behind Lucius. Hello. Yeah, he's going to appear over here, actually. Yeah, and he just tele to appear over here, actually. Yeah, he just teleports across the map, basically.

And yeah, that's his turn, actually. In fact, actually, he doesn't even need to cast Dimension Door. He can just teleport as it is. That's cool. Yeah, he doesn't cast Dimension Door. He just teleports. So that's what he does. But that's his yeah thanks yeah he doesn't cast dimension he just teleports um so that's what he

does but that's his whole action unfortunately uh to do that and he doesn't need to use a movement does he have any bonus actions no i don't believe he does i think you are right i don't believe he does uh help you out mark yeah uh lucius uh i'm trying to help you out Mark Lucius I'm going to What's the range on this boy Is teleport that long His teleport is 60 feet So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30

35, 40, 45, 50, 50, 60 He could go here Basically This isn't an obstacle, right? A visual obstacle here. No, it's just a thing in the floor. It's like set. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Oh, it's just a thing on the floor. I'm going to cast Elemental Bane on him for ice. So this is a DC 16 con save, please. As before, the magic he does seem to have some sort of advantage against i will remember to physically roll so uh first one is a four second one is a one so that is only gonna be uh cons have you said yeah that's only five uh eight is highest uh So he is no longer resistant to cold damage, and he takes an extra d6.

Okay, yeah, you see that there was some sort of... You see that there was definitely some... There was some protection against cold, like their fiendish nature definitely protected them against some cold spells. Can I slight retcon?

Can I quicken that one? No, you can't retcon that dude, that's going to be a set up. To be fair, I couldn't have done the other spell anyway because it's not a cantrip, so don't worry about it. That's what I'm going to do then. In which case, that's mine.

Action, any movement? No. I might separate from Quill a little bit just in case there I move down a little bit okay come here quillick and kill all then century right I want to go up to century and use a you know the touch healing thing cure wounds

at level four spell breaker doesn't even know what it's called he doesn't even know what the heal spell is called right well what does how does spell breaker work Tom Hazel whenever I heal anyone yeah an ally with a spell of first

level or higher I can also end one spell equal to or lower than the level of the healing spell oh tasty what level of healing spell are you using Tom Hazel fourth level okay it doesn't break the spell mother oh

yeah what level were you going to cast that break spell thing, Kim? I automatically go at five. Damn it, that might have worked. Well, you know what? You're about to get mega healed for like nothing.

Mark's face looks like a level six face. Does the spell breaker thing have it like where if it's higher, you make a check? Or is it just, if it's not higher, then it doesn't work? It just says equal to or lower, and that's the end of it. So I guess,

yeah, it's not like dispel magic. It's not like dispel magic. Okay. Still powerful as hell, but... 23 hit points back to Century. And Century, your go. Bakasul. You are. It, your go... Bag of Thal. You are. It's your go, I'm afraid. So do I have to make a save against this?

No. The suggestion is just... It is what it is. You are compelled to fulfill the suggestion. Lay down your weapons and surrender. Bloop. I guess I'll... I'll do that. I'll lay down my weapons, I guess. Now, I will tell you because otherwise I think it's unfair.

Surrendering doesn't mean you can't do things like you could still, in theory, try and cast spells on your friends. Like, you are surrendering, but you could still, like, cast Shield of Faith or something like that. But my interpretation of surrender is you wouldn't attack the people trying to take no prisoner um you just be like i am i'm surrendering and then

put your weapons down but you could still like heal quill or something like that because you'd be like no i'm willing to save him kind of thing um that's my can i still like use reactions and stuff as well so like i still use the protect reaction i would say yes yes you can yes and your aura is obviously just always on as well so uh you were just asked to lay down your weapons that's all and surrender lay down your weapons and surrender that's that's exactly what it's a suggestion it doesn't have to be like it's not command it's not a one word thing the suggestion is to lay down your weapons and surrender that is a a reasonable suggestion powerful spell I wonder

how high level that is how high level is that quite high Aayla annoyed we'll try and take a century anything else I think I think I'll bonus action shield of faith on quill and give them an extra plus two AC.

Plus two AC. That's a concentration. Wonderful. Ayla will take two Reckless Swings at this armor just to try and make sure that there's not a lot of things on the field. First attack is pretty high. That's going to hit. 1d10 plus eight.

18 points of damage to this thing with the first hit uh second attack is another hit for another 80 see look now it's great damn two hits she turns this thing into a crumpled pile of steel. Two big heavy hammer twings. Just crunch, crunch. And then she's like, ah! And comes charging back. Oh my god, that was quick. 25, 30, 35, 40, 45. Wow.

Jesus. Teleport again. I think I'm going to disengage which is an action yep 5, 10 15, 20 30 and just move away okay

yeah yeah 5, 10 that's it so action and then you move any bonus actions Away. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Five, ten. That's it? So action, and then you move. Yep. Any bonus actions?

Do you know what? Screw it. I'm going to... Am I going to drink my other potion? Screw it. Nah. Nah. Lure it. Nah.

Okay. So nothing. Lure it. Five, ten, it. Nah. Okay. So nothing. Blue it. 5, 10, 15, 20. The animated armor comes chasing after you. Yep, yep. He's following you. He makes two punches.

First one is an 18 to hit. Four points of damage. Second one is an actual one. Misses. I keep forgetting to... One roll physically. Hits to... Hits himself? Hits himself? No, doesn't hit himself,

but he kind of just clips you with like a small front punch and then tries to grab you and like hit you again, but you manage to leap back. Zax Ravis on his turn. Fuck, I keep forgetting about the fucking lair actions.

Oh, there's lair action. Awesome. Ooh, cool. However, Zax Ravis is just like, I tire of these games. Burn. Burn. Burn for eternity. And he wants

as a storm of fire envelops the interior of this ship. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Hello. How are you doing?

Copy. Copy. Oh, that's a lot of fire. This looks fun. Firestorm, innit? This is a a firestorm. This is a lot of fire. Who buys a ship that can do this?

This isn't the ship. He is casting this spell. It's pretty powerful, isn't it? Resistance. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Technically, he's got a few more. 10, 10. Oh, 10 for 5, 6 technically he's got a few more 10, 10 oh, 10 for cubes

no, that's not, alright, never mind this is way too much, hang on I mean, it's hitting everyone, right? oh, nicely well, it's kind of a funny thing, so go on could I use my temporal shunt? it's an action is it a reaction or is it a thing?

What is it? You target the triggering creature. I'm just trying to find. It's the thing that I got. Yeah, I know what it is, but just is it like... It doesn't... I can't find where it says. Oh, one reaction.

Taken when a creature you can see makes an attack roll or starts to cast a spell. Right, okay. What does it do? Can you make a wisdom saving throw DC 17? Yep, this does count as magic so he gets his advantage on it. I keep forgetting to roll that.

Does it? Yep. What happens? He's failed. You target the triggering creature which must succeed in a wisdom saving throw Does it? Yep. What happens? I mean, he's failed. What he... You target the triggering creature, which must succeed in a wisdom saving throw or vanish, being thrown to another point in time and causing the attack to miss or the spell to be wasted.

At the start of its next turn, the target reappears where it was or in the closest unoccupied space. It does not remember you be casting the spell or being affected by it. What? Thank you. Hedda. Sorry, what? Oh, that was a time sign. it does not remember you be casting the spell or being affected by it that uses knock off those charges because this doesn't come back once you spend those charges they're gone forever basically holy so what what happens is you see nova you see zaxrava summoning

this huge storm of fire that's going to rip through the hull, probably hit every one of you as this fire begins emerging. Nova, you focus and you feel that sense of time extending out from you. A magic that is as alien but also comfortable. Something that has always been in the universe but has never been tapped before it exists within the very folds of space itself as you reach out and you can see the timeline and you shove with everything you can you can sense the impending danger to you and your friends you shove and the rest of you watch as Zax Ravus

just blinks. He just vanishes, just like Sentry did when you were in the rift, sealing the rifts of Hadar. And just vanishes. There is a... You see the space around Nova almost

folding in on itself behind her, and then it stops immediately. That was amazing! That's his turn. Lucius. So he's disappeared right now. He vanishes. Just completely goes. I'm starting to prepare a very

powerful spell. So I'm going to hold action until I see him again in which case if he's in range i will cast cone of cold on him okay so you hold your action that when you see him you cast cone of cold okay level five okay uh quillick and kalon i mean as far as i'm aware he just teleported away right uh but yeah i'm also ready for him to reappear but then again there is also this armor next to nova so nerva i've got no idea what nova just did like no none of you i guess it's magic yeah um yeah i mean actually i think quill when you were dealing with the rift you recognize that It's magic you have not seen before. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, actually, I think, Quill, when you were dealing with the Rift, you recognized that there was time magic. You recognized that there was temporal magic at work. That was temporal magic. What Nova just did was temporal magic. But would I know that it's going to be coming back? You don't know the effects of the spell, no. But you know that Nova has just used a type of magic

she has never been able to use before. Yeah, fair enough. In that case, I will bonus action heal Nova at... Thank you. ...this level. Because I am running out of spell slots, my dudes. Where is this? This is a long- range shooty heal.

Healing word, that's the one. One, two, three, four, five. You heal for 17. Oh, nice. Thanks. And then after that, I will sacred flame this armored dude. So deck save from him. He's got high decks, right?

Okay. That is a... He does not have a high dex that animates an armor again he nine total bam

I do oh yeah let's hit a million eleven damage sweet seven points of damage the radiant energy scorches parts of its

metal body kind of burning up part of its chest plate and pauldron but it is still standing Perfect Alright, Sentry and then Aayla and then Nova

Because the cool's going up that way I see I'm going to move 5, 10 or will I? yeah I'll move there 5 10

5, 10 and then can I use one of my charges and cast enlarge please? I don't think that casting enlarge falls within the realms of I am surrendering I don't think that casting in Lodge falls within the realms of I am surrendering Okay

Yeah it's kind of like I am resisting being I am resisting surrendering I don't know What was the intent You can arrest me The intent was just i'm coming peacefully with the temporal shunt screw that over on no it does not no it does not nope because it lasts for

24 hours and she continues to fulfill the suggestion even if he's there or not yeah because he didn't say surrender as long as i'm in, because he didn't say surrender as long as I'm in the room. He didn't say surrender as long as I'm here. It was surrender. Yeah. My intent was to make myself bigger so I could put less space

between myself and the other guys. So I could like... I think that that's... I think it's a good idea, but I think it falls too much in the not surrendering category. Do you know what I mean? Like, is that okay? Yeah, yeah, I get it. a good idea, but I think it falls too much in the not surrendering category. Do you know what I mean? Is that okay? Yeah, I get it. That's cool. That's just the way I

interpret it. No worries. You can move and you still have the Shield of Faith up and stuff like that. Yeah. Aayla looks very confused and will come and help Nova as well. Hooray! She will come up and do some big old swingage

with a reckless attack. Wow. It's not going to hit. 16, so the armor of the back of the creature just deflects the first hit. The second one is also a miss. There we go. There's the Curse of Aayla back again.

Clang, clang. She annoyed the first one. The first one she demolished in two hits, but this one just, the swing is in it, basically. At the top of the round, because I keep forgetting these, at the top of the round, the ship

activates something. Oh, hello. Red alert. Red alert. Intruder alert. Intruder alert. Just activates air conditioning. Yeah, it will target... It targets Ayla who has to make a

strength saving throw. A small green beam fires out from the silvery surface of the ship and strikes Ayla just to make a strength saving throw. I figure I'll make it easy for Ayayla. This thing targets her. The rope always targets her.

You watch as Aayla is not frozen in place, but you see her hammer and her limbs get dragged to the ground and she is restrained until the end of the next turn. It's invisible. Not invisible, the ship itself seemed to just be like...

And then these kind of green lights kind of slam her hands down to the ground. It's like some sort of restraining ray or some such. Some sort of restraining beam. Nova Vida. Oh, right. I'm thinking about something. Hold on a minute.

I was really sure on what I was going to do, and then I had a thought just as you said my name, and I hate it. So at the start of its next turn, the target reappears where it was or the closest unoccupied space. So I have this idea, Mark, but I think I can't do it

because I need to disengage from this guy and that's an action basically i want to hold an action and move to where zack's ravels was yeah and prepare to take the sword from him when he reappears but i feel like that's not enough like yeah i also like you kind of know where he's going to be but you don't you know where he's going to be but that doesn't freeze him in place like he's still going to be able to react like i'd probably make a roll for it like some sort of like you could make a five hand versus his strength or something but he'd still have an opportunity to stop you also you need to know exactly where his sword was. Yeah, I'd have to remember that.

Yeah, okay. In which case, I'm going... Yeah, you wouldn't be able to do it because you need an action to disengage unless you want to risk the attack. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to weck. I weck. I'll take advantage of him not being here.

Them not being here. Sorry, I keep saying that. Oh, that's a 13 to hit. Yeah, I do the same. I do the same. 13 to hit this thing is not enough. The Tiangong just bounces off its thick armor plating. Very much like Aayla, it just reverberates the blow.

Anything else? That's all I got, boo. All right. In that case, it will try and probably... It won't really hurt you that much. It's going to try and grapple you. So it reaches out and tries to grab your arms and pin you against its chest.

You need to make an athletics or an acrobatics check versus its athletics or acrobatics. Athletics or acrobatics. You're probably going to succeed. It's going to be an acrobatics, I think. Yes. D20 plus three, that's a 13. Fucking... Oh, that's a 13! For fucking... You just...

Oh, it's fine. It goes to grab you and you throw yourself backwards as it just grabs the air in front of you, basically. Missing completely. At the start of his turn... Sorry for the swears. Just sorry for swearing.

Zax Ravis returns. He looks, expecting a giant firestorm. What did you do? And instead, he will attempt to... He doesn't know, though. He doesn't know. It says he doesn't know. He doesn't know.

He's like, there should be a giant firestorm right now. Why is there not a giant firestorm? What did you do? Lucius, your held action goes off. Yay! Alright, so cone of cold. That is a cone saving throw. Draw me where you are putting this cone.

No. Oh, sentry. That's fine, I'm full health, don't worry. Do what you gotta do, man. Yeah. Yeah? Doesn't really work that way can i just angle it until it clips him surely that's how you show me how you show me yeah you show me how you're doing that so go like this boom yeah yeah there you go. You can do it then. Thank you. Man, I'm actually kind of glad I didn't move now.

Just remembering that. Yeah. Twice in one day! Yep, so Kona Cold, I need to make a saving throw, I guess. Con, please. Con, he has advantage as it is a magic spell.

So far, eight. What? I gave him elemental bane. Yeah. Yes, magic resistance is just advantage on spells. You removed his cold resistance, but it doesn't remove his magic resistance. It's a different ability.

It affects all spells, not just cold spells. What? That is an 18 plus 4, 22. No, this is on the saving throw, not just cold spells. What? That is an 18 plus 4, 22. No, this is on the saving throw, not against the damage. Stripping away his cold resistance means he doesn't have resistance against the damage.

It does nothing against the magic resistance ability. Trust me. Magic resistance is a thing monsters have, which is they have a resistance to the damage it's specifically says resistance to damage so uh it's half so he succeeded so he's taking half yes he's taking half damage and he would have been taking a quarter damage but you removed his resistance uh so 14 points cold damage um and you get an extra D6 I believe don't you

Correct thank you and also my Dichromancy will hit him as well It will D6 That's a 4 She takes the full amount because he no longer has resistance And Dichromancy is a 9

9 points Yeah this cone And Diachromancy is a nine. Nine points. Yeah, this cone blasts him, and you see he throws his hands up, and he manages to ward himself from some of the ice, but the green skin coats the forearms. They're dripping with rime. As Zaxxaravus kind of looks, he's just like, Ah, you will be a problem.

I should deal with you quickly as you do so. On his turn, which is now, because you did that as a held action, he will, he can't do that, he can't do that. He can do this. He will conjure a wall of fire. So. Oh.

I don't like that. Wall of fire. 60 feet long, feet long 20 feet high oh here we go hates this ship do it hates us i think within 10 feet inside the thing so you can do this 5, 10, 15, 20 25, 30, 35 40 45, 50, 55 60 That is Yeah, and you see that the side

facing towards you guys erupts with these burning flames that kind of roil over your body as the wall appears and it's difficult to body as the wall appears. And it's difficult to see behind the wall as well. It's opaque. Pretty much totally separated himself in his own little corner of the ship. That's cute. Yeah.

And selected by you when you cast the spell, it deals 5d8 of damage to each creature that ends its turn within 10 feet. Okay, so it's when you end your turn that you take the damage. Lucius, in fact, actually, he's going to

double turn. Yeah, he's going to just back up. In fact, actually, you guys don't know where he is because this wall is currently opaque. It's a bit fiery. Fiery. Okay, that's cool. cool cool so this I assume goes right to the wall here no it doesn't know it starts

where it starts can I get past it? Ah, yes, I believe so. As long as you don't end your turn within 10 feet of the side that was facing you guys, you don't take damage. I don't see him. He's gone! He's hiding behind this little corner. You can just see their little green head sticking out. He's just snickering.

I think I could... It looks like they've pressed themselves up against the wall and they're trying to get cover. Like, they're trying to protect themselves. I think I can still clip him with Kona Cold. They would get a... It's a con save throw, isn't it? So they wouldn't get a bonus to their saving throw.

So yeah, you can. Yeah, you absolutely can hit them with another kind of cold. Cold save. 16, please. Thank you. With advantage, that is a success again, I'm afraid. That was a 15 plus 4. 19.

Alright. 8d8. Halved. 12 plus a d6 plus dichromancy yep 2 and dichromancy of 9 so that's 11 more

yep all of this damage just pummels in as this thick rime and frost encapsulates this section of the ship and you see Zax Ravis, their limbs now blue and numb, shivering in their little tiny gold cloak

as these two pearlescent eyes look towards you. That is quite enough, I assure you. Quilek. So, just real quick, because I had to check, because the Wall of Fire seemed really weak. When it spawns, we do take damage. We have to make a dex save.

Oh, thank you very much, Quilek Adkalar. So, everybody make a dex save. Is it the same as a Wall of Light? This would have been when you started your turn. No, it's different. But it's within its area area though, isn't it? It's within 10 feet of the side. 10 feet within a side

each they choose, which is the side facing all of you guys. Read the description of the spell. Would Lucius get plus 3 at the time he was next to me? Lucius would have, yes, he would have because he was within 10 feet of you at the time of the spell. Oh, for God's sake.

Holy shit. 19. What's happening? Me and Brie are the Chaos Twins. I get 20, he gets 1. Who got below 17? Yes. Oh, my goodness, yeah.

If you got below 17, you take 15 fire damage. Lucius, you do take half because you're within 10 feet of century um also i still got technically my armor of agathys yeah it's an hour long yeah sure wouldn't do any damage to him but you can have the damage yeah with my aura of warding what do you have resistance to damage yes yeah yeah so yeah you take half so pretty much everybody is taking half because the two people that failed were century and lucius and they were within 10 feet of you like so they get the aura so you'll take what's that uh seven points of fire damage that's not too bad uh i

rolled a 19 so is that seven for me that was a success yeah so you took seven as well. Aayla I didn't roll for. I will roll for Aayla. That is a failure. So she will take 15. And I also need to do for the animated armor as well. See? This is how I'm trying to help, guys. Yeah, I like it. Thanks, Tom. I burn everyone down so the armor dies.

The armor does look very heavily melted by this wall of fire. It does not look to be in a good shape. Right, Quillik, your turn. And then we'll get to the end of this round, and then we'll have to end it this week. Do well. Kill him.

Where was I? One, two, three, four, five. Twenty-five. I can't get there. I can end there. That's out of range of the wall isn't it here yeah it's only on the side that you were originally

on so like I'll do all little lines it's on this side I have two oh um yeah in that case I'll do a level two guiding bolt on him and I know he has advantage so wait does that mean I have disadvantage?

If it's an attack roll, you're fine. You just make the attack roll normally. Ah. So in saving throws he gets advantage. Not they get advantage. 23 to hit. 23 to hit. Do I have anything like shield? I do not, so hits 24 damage and advantage on the next hit, please 23 was to hit

and then 24 damage, I see What level was that supposed to be? Level 2 26466 26466 Very good It's just my level 5 Kona Cole did like 4 more points 26466. 26466. Oh my god. Very good. Hey, what's up? It's just my level 5 cone of cold did like four more points than that.

Yeah, cone of cold is going to get lots of things though. Yeah, I know. That's what you've got to remember. This is that Guiding Bolt hits one thing. Very well. Yeah, it's also a ranged spell attack generally has a higher chance of failing because the cone of cold will deal damage on a miss. If Guiding Bolt misses, it does no damage. It's just whiff.

It's like Chromatic Orb. It's no different to Chromatic Orb, really. It's a Klyrax Chromatic Orb. Alright, Kralik. Sentry. Would you like to move? I feel bad. I feel bad for Kortrian, who's like, surrender. That's all good.

I'll move hang on where am I you just move up next to Lucius you can easily just move up what triggers this suggestion to end being dispelled being the guy being dead holy shit

really it's just on for for 12 24 hours 12 hours 24 hours it's just on 24 hours and because this is the end of the episode to answer your question mass mass suggestion is a seventh level spell yeah oh my god okay so there's no chance of me getting rid of that yeah hell no yeah yep um it's not a concentration either. Oh, actually. Ah, if you or any of your companions damage a creature affected by the spell, the spell ends for that creature. So, Sentry, you took damage from the Wall of Fire.

You are no longer affected by it. Oh, the Cone of Ice would have done it. No, no, the Wall of Fire did it. Cool. She took damage from the Wall of Fire. So... Yeah. You're back in.

Oh, I need to roll a d20 for um goes shield of faith yeah pass cool easy um so yeah if you want to just basically take your turn like i don't think you can get to him from where you were uh get to them from where you were but you just act as if yeah move because we're gonna end it here anyway so cool oh you would have been yeah i think i've used my full movement anyway so I'm good. Alright. Well, we will leave it there for this week, friends,

as this very exciting battle which has had Trials and Tribulations. Let me tell you something. Y'all need to thank Kim because, oh boy, I was about to hit you with a very nasty spell.

A lot of fire. What did I do? Firestorm, the seventh level spell Firestorm. A storm made of sheets of roaring flame. You create 10 10-foot cubes, which you arrange as you wish. Each cube must at least have one face adjacent to the other. 7d10 fire damage on a failed saving throw, and it hits everything.

Jesus. And it was just going to be a line hitting all of you. Oh, my God. Oh, that really... Thanks, Nova. Jesus It was just going to be a line hitting all of you Oh my god That's crazy Thanks Nova Good job Nova Thanks Hedda I'm just amazed they failed

I'm amazed they failed I would have thought wisdom would have been right up there It's high but When I roll like a 3 and a 2 it doesn't matter It's going to fail Thank you all so much We love you, take care so yeah it's high but when I roll like a three and a two it doesn't matter like it's gonna fail so thank you all so much we love you

take care we will see you all for the next RPG session you got Chaos Twins on Tuesday Curse of Strahd on Thursday we'll hopefully be back on Sunday

we'll see you then take care goodbye kiss kiss bye bye bye bye

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