High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #83 | Tyrant in the Dark (Part 2)

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

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Click the banner or visit bmo.com slash rise to learn more. In the heart of a crashed Valkyrian ship in astral space, out in the plains of the D&D universe, or in this case, the Eros universe, on the back of a creature called the Frost Watcher, this giant, colossal, celestial being is this crashed ship. And inside, our party have gone to track down a missing piece of Nova's magical sword, Tiangong, but also to put a stop to the corruption of a creature called Hadar. Hadar, this evil entity that's kind of been a long-standing antagonist for the party.

There's some sort of influence which is corrupting the Frostwatch. Our party have headed inside, and with some preparations, they have encountered a giant floating skull with 11 points of red light. They've engaged it in combat, and as things currently stand, Aayla, our barbarian, is currently affected, being frightened by frightened condition. We have quite a few people are down on hit points. The skull itself

is flying about 20 feet off the ground. But I don't think there are any other conditions. I think everybody else is saved out of their other conditions, right? I'm slow, I think. Oh, and Sentry is slowed. Yes, Sentry is also slowed. Lucius, the last thing that happened was Lucius, our sorcerer,

just took 52 points of necrotic damage as one of the eye rays struck him. And it is indeed, it is now Aayla's turn. Oh, damn. Do it. Kill him. One shot. Sorry, I was just tagging the chunky seal plushie for comfort. I can't move near him. I'm frightened. You cannot move closer to him as you are frightened. I was just hugging the chunky seal plushie for comfort. We're all hugging something. I can't move near him. I'm frightened.

You cannot move closer to him as you are frightened. I'm going to pull out the bow and shoot him with some magic arrows instead. You have disadvantage, but you can do that. But disadvantage, I'm afraid. The presence of your fear is within sight. Can I recklessly do a thing? No, I can't recklessly. I believe reckless is only for weapon attacks.

Let's check. Bow is a weapon. I think it specifically says melee. Barbarian class feature. Melee weapon. Yeah. Melee weapon attack. Bums. It's at the end of the turn. Frightened. uh class feature melee weapon melee weapon attack it's at the end of the turn frightened save is at the end of the turn and so yes

disadvantage on the bow on the range attacks uh so 12 was my lowest which is uh but i have a plus 11 to hit no i haven't added i rolled a 12 so that's a hit yeah 12 plus 11. Oh, isn't it? No, I haven't added. I rolled a 12. So... That's a hit.

Yeah. 12 plus 11 is 23. Mm-hmm. Because I've got magic arrows. It's got plus 2 arrows. Yeah, I've got plus 2 arrows. Yeah, the first one hits. Not as much damage, unfortunately, but... 13 damage with the first shot. I mean, that's still pretty damn But, uh... Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve...

Thirteen damage with the first shot. I mean, that's still pretty damn good. The arrow thuds into the skull, cracking pieces of bone chip away. Ten plus eleven, which is a twenty-one on my lowest. That hits. Awesome. So even though you feel this fear coursing through your body,

your aim is still true enough to strike this thing. 14 on the second one. Yeah. I mean, yeah, these two arrows, you see them sink in, and these cracks that are beginning to form get wider as they go. I'm good.

Oh, save. Wisdom, right? The fear effect is indeed a wisdom saving throw. DC is 17. Yeah, I rolled an 8. No. Plus 1.

So you remain. Oh, I'm next to 17. Still fail. It's plus 3. Yeah, still going to So you remain. Oh, I'm next to central. Oh, still fail. It's plus three. Yeah, it's still going to be a fail. Okay. For its lair action. Let's see.

It's used all three, so it can reuse its beginning ones again. It's time. It makes a noise. Beneath Sentry and Aayla, the writhing mass of tentacles reforms, creating difficult terrain.

Difficult terrain doesn't mean nothing to me and my little stone thing. Yeah, that's true. Oh yeah, that's true. What up? It's the ring, yeah, that's true. Lord of. It's the ring, I believe. It's the ring of free action that means that you can't be affected. But yeah, but you

are still frightened of the creature. That is the lair action sentry. Your speed is halved. So your speed is halved and it costs you 10 foot of movement to move one square. It's like your body's struggling to move.

If you dash, which is an action, you could go there, but that's it. You can pretty much move one square at the moment with your normal movement speed. Five. Because you're slowed and you're in difficult terrain. So if I go

next to Aayla there, does that work? That's move and action, but yes, you can do it. Fifteen, twenty. Okay, I'll stay there then. Right. That's cool. So that's everything. On its go,

it's going to move over to this pool of darkness. And as you see, it lowers itself now to ground level. It actually lowers itself to the inky void. And you watch as the inky void begins pulling up into the creature's gaps, the cracks of the skulls. And some of them begin sealing up. And then it's going to fire its... Yep, it heals ever so slightly

from the void. And you just hear that voice kind of... I'm not going to put the voice thing on because I can't stop the music. But you just hear it just like, You do not understand. The Frost Watcher will belong to the Master. Your deaths

are inevitable. And then Sentry, then century Ayla and Nova it's gonna target you guys with God the fear ray again which means it has no effect because you're currently affected by fear century can you make a constitution saving throw for me please century and, can you make a constitution saving throw for me, please, Sentry? And Nova, can you make a wisdom saving throw for me, please? Yes! Yes! Finally rolled.

Oh, Sentry. I got one! Sentry, you also need to make a saving throw at the end of your turn for the slow as well. Okay, yeah, you both resist these to effect do that now century you do feel this thing try to paralyze you and you shrug that off but the slow that that slow down time around you is still in effect.

You can't write this. You can't write it. Quillik Adkilar, it is your turn. Right, I want to move 5, 10, 15, 20 to the edge of this tentacle pit and then going to cast, although this does mean that Sentry loses her glowy sword, although this does mean that Sentry loses her glowy sword, but I want to cast Bless on Nova, Aayla, and Sentry. Can you get all of those in range?

Is it like within 30 feet? Yeah, everyone's in 30 feet from there. Okay. I need to click the right buttons here, and I'm clicking everything wrong. That's fine. But we know you're casting Bless, so Aayla, Sentry, and Nova get an extra D4 to attack rolls and saving throws.

Yes. Oh, God. The sword is gonzo. Unfortunately, the magic sword is gonzo. But holy sword goes away. Holy weapon. Safe throws, though. Okay, at the end of your turn, Quilek,

and Iray, in your direction. Oh, yeah? end of your turn, Quilek, an eye ray in your direction. Can you make a strength saving throw for me, please? Oh, fuck. Oh, goody. I'm famously very strong. Seven. There it is. The first loss.

So, you feel a telekinetic force pick you up. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. It can in fact bring you up to here. And it throws you. It yanks you forward up into the air and then slams you down into the ground.

You're going to take 3d6 of damage as it slams you in. 13 points of damage as this telekinetic force picks you up, and then like a whip, it kind of smashes you down on the ground closer towards this thing. You got yoked. Lucius.

You are no longer frightened, Lucius. I'm not a frightened boy. So I'm very far away. What I'm going to do is, tapping into my font of magic, I'm going to quicken my spells with two points, allowing me to use an action which is going to dash me through this inkiness. So five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55. One second.

I just want to get within range. Five more feet. Do you want me to go five feet closer? There you go. I Still 65. How did I do that? Well, I guess it's gonna not move I did one. Yeah, you might very much to the right You can move an extra five feet I think you could get an extra five feet of movement in With some diagonal movements. Yeah yeah you can definitely do it yeah

is it what are you doing there you go you're hugging the corner of this crystal. I didn't know if I could go in that, but okay, thank you. So what I'm going to do... Jesus H. Christ. I'm going to cast... I hope this is worth it. ...at fifth level. Right.

So I'm just going to roll for that now. And you're doing it as a bonus action because you used your action to dash and you quickened it. Mark, you're the best DM, honestly. No, just don't try it. Just tell me what you want to do. Can I twin it and target the same guy? No, you can't because you've quickened it. You can't use the two different metamagics.

Unless it's empowered, I think, is the only one that lets you do it. Then I might need to use Empower then. I will throw one Chromatic Orb of 5th level at your boy. Are you empowering it? Do you have to spend those sorcery points now if you are? I don't have to do that. Mark.

When I roll damage for a spell, I can choose to spend a sorcery point and reroll up to four of the dice. Oh, okay. Nice. Alright. I thought you had to do it before. Sure. Okay, here comes the attack that's going to miss anyway. Ding dong!

Uh, short acid. That's 14 to hit. Sweet. I miss. Oh my god. Flies through and sails exploding on the gangway above the creature above the

death planar classic Lucius turn it's all flair at the end of Lucius's turn unless there is anything else Lucius can do no I'm pretty sure I maximized my go there. Okay.

NovaVeja, one eye ray towards you. Can you make a wisdom saving throw, please? Oh... Wisdom plus three. Um... Oh, I get plus four, a 1d4 from Quilek, don't I? Well, I was gonna say... Oh, I get plus 4, a 1d4 from Quillek, don't I? Well, I was going to say... 9. Tom, what were you going to say?

I took damage, so I think I need to roll concentration, don't I? You do, make it concentration. It was 13, so the DC would be 10. DC's 10. Is it comm save? It is a constitution saving throw, so no more bless for anybody. No blesses.

So, yeah, Nova, that's a failure. Yep. You are charmed, which means you cannot attack this thing. You are just in awe of it. The charmed condition, you may not attack the charm, the charm-y. Yep. The charmer. You are just in awe of this thing you're just mesmerized by it you cannot bring yourself to harm it you can still act in any other way you just cannot attack it i hate it so no not right now no you think it's

majestic right now it's incredible and it's your turn. Who likes skulls? Skulls suck. Your turn. I don't think there's anything. No, he's not! I don't think there's anything I can... I can disguise myself. Why don't I do that? Yeah.

Disguise myself. You try. That's Hadar. So just nothing? You're just going to stand there? Like a big old lemon i'm just gonna stand there like okay all right ayla do i can i make a roll can i make a save can i make any save can i do anything um nope for what you are charmed for one hour or until you are harmed by this creature.

Oh my Christ. I hate this. Can I cast a spell magic on myself? Or somebody uses a spell to remove the charmed condition. That is a thing that some spells can do. Cough cough. That's it. Ayla.

Hello. I'm going to do the same again. You are still frightened. Sure. Go for it. I've rolled a nat 20 and I have disadvantage. I was going to do a big spell as well. 19.

Yeah, me too. 19 hits. 19 still hits. Because my nat 20 didn't work. And the second shot is a nat 1. So it doesn't hit. That's going to be a miss. So first bow. 14

points of damage. 14 points of damage. Ow. And I am going to have to make a saving throw, which is a fail. By far.

You are still frightened. At the end of your turn, Ayla, he's got a lot of targets now, so I'm going to D6 this. One for Quill, two for Nova, three for Lucius, four for Sentry,

five for Ayla, and then six is... I don't know. I'll roll again., Nova Veeja which is kind of annoying because I just hit you, well that's a deck saving throw please Nova I do need you to make the save

10 the ray strikes your leg as you are trying to move And on one hand, you kind of want to do need you to make the same. Ten. Ten. The ray strikes your leg as you are trying to move and the same purple crystallization begins to crawl up. That's worse. That's worse. Which does not damage you, therefore does not break the charm. Repeat that same throw at the end of your turn. Layer action.

The walls once again come to life. repeat that same throw at the end of your turn lair action the walls once again come to life the big pool of tentacles beneath the sentry and ailer vanishes and the walls instead become this writhing mass of tentacles and ice stalks but nobody is nearby for them to be grabbed

sentry okay your speed is still half them to be grabbed. Sentry. Okay. Your speed is still half. Five, ten, fifteen. Is that enough? Use the ruler tool.

God damn it! It's not enough. I'm going to have to dash. Dash number fifteen. Five, ten, fifteen. That's not enough. I'm going to have to dash. I have to dash number 15. 5, 10, 15. That's your action. And I end my turn Yu-Gi-Oh style. Okay.

Make a saving throw. Make a saving throw. Was it a deck save? For the slow Ray, it is indeed a deck saving throw. I knew he was going to move. Plus he's going to move. 12 is not enough.

You are still slowed. Floats over, now hovering again about 20 feet. You can move there, 5, 10, 20. He's actually sort of... I'm just going to chase this thing down. I'm just going to chase it. He's actually there.

He's now hovering again 20 feet in the air, but he is near the staircase and the gangways are about 20 feet high, so he's in level with them. On his turn, he fires three rays.

One at Quill, one at Sentry, one at Nova, the three closest targets quillick can you make a constitution saving throw for me please century con saving throw and nova you're already affected by the charm so no effect oh thank god oh right century so century you're going to take half damage Quillic you are taking full damage

Oh shit 30 points of necrotic damage to Quill 15 points of necrotic damage to Sentry as these two rays of black energy strike you both Quillic, add Kalah, your turn. Oh! Ah!

Ah! Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa! I mean... Ah! I kind of want to just get into a place where I can aid everyone again. Not aid, you know, the other one. Um... Bless.

Bless. Bless this mess. Yeah, i think if i go like can i go through the wall of light uh yeah you tell me kim yeah it'll only hurt you to stay there uh cool i can't move my boy but can you just put me like uh here and that is within 30 feet of unfortunately not Nova but Century, Ayla and Lucius I will bless them why is the wall moving?

you should be able to move your guy now I don't know where you want to go because I need to move out of the way so Tom can move yeah there you go nice thank you for the bless do you move behind it? Tom can move. Yeah, there you go. I'm back. Nice. Thank you for the bless. Do you move behind it?

Yep. Yep. And Century, Ayla, and Lucius have bless now. So a default on... Oh, no, it's not 20 feet high. It was reduced, so he can still see over it. All right. So bless on who? Sorry?

Century, Ayla, and Lucius. Yeah. 20 feet up. That side wall is... I'll give you some cover. I'll give you some cover, for sure. Yeah. 20 feet up. That side wall is... I'll give you some cover. I'll give you some cover. For sure. Yeah, that side wall is...

Half cover. Yeah. No, you've reduced it. Remember? You fired a beam. I shot a 10-foot beam, and it can be from any part of it, so I'm going to reduce it from that one.

Oh, that's true. Yeah. This one? Behind cover. That's fine. So, um... Right, in that case, yeah, you've got some... All right, it can't shoot through then, so...

At Quill, anyway. Uh, Lucius. Right. This is gonna do it. This one. It's gonna be a level five Chromatic Orb. Okay. And it's gonna hit... Go level 5 chromatic orb okay go on boy you have a d4 on attack rolls as well by the way

oh oh roll the 2 that is very unfortunate. Even with the d4, the orb flies past, smashing against the crystalline walls,

covering them in frost. The battle rages on. Why? Why do you resist the inevitable? Why do you not surrender to oblivion? I have known life. Now there is only death. At the end of your turn, Lucius,

it is going to fire a beam at you. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw. I'm just going to do D4, remember? 13. As it strikes you, Lucius. Plus a D4. Plus a D4. Please roll a 4.

Okay. You need a 4. Okay. You need a 4 to 1! The hand that you reach out that summons the orb it's struck by the beam and your fingers begin turning to purple crystal once more.

God damn. Nova. Nova. At the end of your turn you need to repeat that saving throw you are restrained you can't move it was a whizzy one right um i mean you still have your action so oh you're charmed you can attack him can you i'm charmed can i end that is there anything else like can is there any other action that you can do you are restrained so you can't move.

Well, your speed is zero, I should say. Is there nothing else? You want to tele? You can teleport. What's the point? Okay. So you just make your saving throw at the end of your turn. And it's a deck saving throw. I'm going to...

Shall I dimension door next to quill it's your turn we will say nothing i'm gonna teleport next to quill i mean you place yourself where you want but i'll put you right behind the wall um yeah so as an action you kind of managed to your leg can't move but you summon tiangong and you fall through a rift in space next to quill peering beside him at the end of your turn deck saving throw please okay this is gonna be I should really know this by now. Plus three. Eight.

I hate this. Even with five. Nova is transformed into a crystal statue. And I'm reaching out towards Quill. Yeah. Just like looking up, hopefully. Ayla, your turn. I'm'm just gonna do the same again i'm frightened i can't move any closer to it so i'm just gonna continue to try and damage it um because the wall is so high ayla you might just

want to move like ever like five feet literally to the side so you can see it through the wall of light. Okay. I've already moved you, so... On the map. Okay. But you're not moving close, so you're just sidestepping. So 19 plus 11, uh, then... That's 30 to hit, so yes.

That was caught. 12 or... 12 plus 11. 12 plus 11, those still hit plus eleven, those still hit. Yep, those still hit. Oh, thank god. Damage. Unbelievable.

Ten damage from the first one. And I rolled a one on the second. This arrow cracks. You see the jawbone now falling completely limp to one side. A huge crack now opened along its forehead. There's only a nine on the second one. Only a nine.

The other arrow threatens to shatter the whole skull apart, but you can see that whatever dark energy, this red light is keeping it together. As it's lair action. Yes. Move back behind the wall yeah so you can take a five foot step uh this is oh no the difficult train's gone so yes you can um i don't know you're currently moving closer to it you can't move there you'd be moving closer i can't move closer so i can move but i can move sideways yeah so i've just moved you five feet back to where you were yeah okay and then i failed my save again i can't literally still frightened seeing everything

fall apart uh for the lair action quill on the floor beside you one of these red eyes opens and a beam fires up at you uh Can you make a strength saving throw? I'm good at those. Really good at those. Eight. The telekinetic force picks you up once again. You take nine damage as it throws you. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty. No!

It lifts you up. Oh, no. Yeah, you 20. No! It lifts you up. Yeah, you were. And it flings you up over directly in front of this thing as it looks down. Yes, servant of false gods, you shall know despair.

Sentry. I would like to get closer. Five, ten. So about there. Yep. Do we have any distant other things? And then I would like to

channel my divinity, please, and use my turn the faithless. Please. Tell me what it does. Just give please. Tell me what it does. Just give me a reminder of what it does. So you have to make a whiz saving throw, DC 15, and then each faith or fiend within 30 feet is turned for a minute

or until it takes damage. It is not a fey or a fiend. It's an undead. It's undead. No! Oh. It is not a Fae or a Fiend, it's an Undead. Yes used the flame lance outside. Yeah. Oh, yeah. She used the flame lance.

What about that? I could try... Hmm. Oh, let me try this. Okay. Can I cast command on it? Sure. Try and get it to flee?

Sure. It's a whiz 15 save throw. Let's have a look. me just read i don't know you speak a one word command the target must succeed a wisdom saving throw follow the command okay it's not actually doesn't say it's a charm thing it's just it follows the command okay right wisdom saving throw dc 15 yes please dc 15 22 speak this command. I do not listen to trivial life. I answer

only to the great Hadar! And at the end of your turn, Sentry, it fires one of its beams at you. It's the last legendary action. You do need to make another saving throw at the end of your turn for the slow. A success. Okay, don't care. I'll just do a... You do need to make another saving throw

at the end of your turn for the slow. A success. You are no longer slowed. Can you make a wisdom saving throw for me? Can you make a wisdom saving throw? 12 plus 19. No, not plus 9. Brain, 21.

You feel the eye trying to shut your system down again, putting you to sleep, but the Matrix, knowing that your friends are in danger, sees you struggle through unaffected. But it is its turn after yours. It will do the old shimmy. Stop moving! Leave me alone!

Go away! Go away! leave me alone go away you're not slowed anymore god damn I'm not where's my turny thing I think it's a good thing it passed it's command by the way because otherwise it would just go up

that's true yeah quill sentry That's true Quill Sentry Who else can I see? Lucius Oh I need to do the concentration Array each Please do DC 10 you succeed

Nice Quill Quill I need you to make a dexterity saving throw for me, please. Sentry, I need you to make a con save for me, please. Lucius, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw for me, please.

Oh, for God's sake! No! Can we not use roll 20? People are using what they want to use. Right, Lucius, I'll go in reverse order. Lucius, like Nova, you are thoroughly charmed by this

thing and you feel you are in awe of its majesty as you slowly turn to stone. Sentry, you take some necrotic damage. I need to use the advanced dice roller for this. You take 28 damage actual dice next time feel free to roll the actual dice 28 across the country as

you were struck by a black beam and then quill that'll be 31 damage. Are you on zero? No, I'm quite close. Okay. So any kind of like parts of your armor, parts of your gear dusted as it strikes you and feathers burn away, but you are still standing.

I'm feeling really 18 right now. Quillick and Kalar. Just give give me one hit i just want one hit i mean i mean close right it has to be it's falling apart in front of you you can see it literally breaking up if you wanted to go full damage cleric, Tom, I'm going to say, I know it's not good as a DM, but now's the fucking time, man. I know. You've got a big guiding bolt or something. What's the worst that can happen? Something that's not an attack roll.

I mean, it is an attack roll, but I'm going to have to do a guiding bolt at level three, which makes it 66 if it hits it just needs to hit so this is plus 9 oh my christ no

do you have bless on yourself he didn't bless himself so what's that plus 9 14 the arc flies out and this thing just manages to So what's that? Plus nine, fourteen? Fourteen. The arc flies out and this thing just manages to lift itself up into the air as the blast

hits behind it. Erupting behind. I'm trying to see if I have something special. At the end of your turn. Quillek. Legendary action. Sorry, I also was going to run into behind here this is exactly 30 to do that

is that inside the wall there no you're fine it's technically in a space next to it roll 20 is weird it's in the middle Sentry you are the easiest target for it to hit and it's biggest threat right now sorry Sentry can you make a

dexterity saving throw for me please also I'm really curious as to what your hit points are why did you roll on roll 20 stop rolling on roll 20 this is 6 total 6 total you see this crackling black ray That's a 6 total. Okay. 6 total.

You see this crackling black ray emerges from its central eye. You take 57 points of necrotic damage. As you feel it trying to drive the very life force out of you. You kind of strain against it. Your shield pulsing, breaking, buckling around you as you try and resist. Lucius, you are charmed and slowly petrifying.

Century is still alive. Charmed? Not high, but alive. Elves can't be charmed. I think you can't be put to sleep. I think you have advantage on being charmed. So you can make your saving throw again. Yeah, we have advantage on being charmed.

You're right. Make the saving throw. Make the saving throw again. It was a wizard saving throw. So that's alright. So you're still charmed. You can't attack it directly. Is there anything you would like to do?

I guess I can't attack it directly. Is there anything you would like to do? I guess I can't fudge it by saying I'm going to attack the area around it and accidentally hit it. Yeah, I mean, no, not really. No. Yeah, or target the charmer with harmful abilities or magical effects. It specifically says that, so no.

I'm going to cast Armor of Agathys on myself. Sure. So, you summon this ice. Are you in range for Dicromancy? Oh, you're just out. Yeah, you're just... Yeah, it's like 65

feet away. That's frustrating. Okay, so you summon the Armor of Agathys, and at the end of your turn, you need to make a deck saving throw. All right. No more bless. No more bless.

All right, deck saving throw. I like how you're all still using roll 20, even though you hate it. It's not enough. DC 17. Cool, we have two stats. still using roll 20 even though you hate it it's not enough dc 17 also transformed you do excellent at the end of lucius's turn it's gonna take a legendary action he's gotta run out of these fucking it has three a turn it's used this this will be its second one it keeps getting them back um century that is can you make a deck saving throw please i'm using real dice guys thank you right yeah sure sure i'll make i'm doing it makes it no it doesn't it doesn't it feels

that's all that matters. Come on. 16. No. 17's the DC. It's been 17 the whole time. Your body slows down. You feel that same warping of time. Oh, okay.

Nova is petrified. So petrified. Hold on. Give me a second. It says a petrified creature is transformed along with any non-magical object it is wearing. So Tiangong is still technically alright. Is there anything Tiangong

can do? It's a symbiotic relationship. He cannot act without your actions. Tiangong or they cannot act without your actions. Tiangong can literally answer yes or no mental questions right now on their own.

I'm afraid. Without you, Tiangong cannot own, on their own. I'm afraid. Without you, Tiangong cannot do anything on its own. I'm sorry. Can it call for help? It can. I mean, it can, but in fact, you can... You're unaware of anything going on around you,

so it calls out, but it doesn't have your will to pull it to it. So I'm afraid it is Ayla. It's your go. I'm going to shoot it again. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you keep hitting it, and these arrows have been doing work. They have.

Come on, Ayla. Ayla, save us. Save us, Ayla. Please, please, please. 11 plus 11. 11 plus 11. 22 is a hit. It's a hit. 10 plus 11

is a hit. You watch. Everything seems to slow down as Aayla takes a breath. The arrow is pulled back. It flies through just as Lucius is turned to crystal. Just as the time around

sentry warps and then this arrow strikes the creature in its central eye socket and it just erupts into bone shards. Oh my god! Inevitable! Jesus! Son of a bitch! Oh, my God! Inevitable. Jesus.

Son of a bitch. The light fades. Oh, my God. Century, you feel time come back to normal. Ayla, the fear disappears as you see it broken. However, Nova and Lucius still remain as crystal balls. If you were in the office right now, Katie, I would be jumping across the table giving you a big kiss.

Oh, my God. You did so much damage in that one. Oh, my God. I know, but I could reckless attack it. Yeah, but you still hit it. I could still shoot it, at least. I mean, you went for it. I didn't have that barbarian.

Boo, you did it. Just... Take the compliment. Have this compliment. least you're still a statue you're still a statue i'm gonna run over to nova uh yeah she's a statue still yeah um no you're not initiative um but, you see the bodies kind of go slack and just seem to just dissolve. The void on the floor disappears. It begins burning away as you feel that presence of being watched vanish. Now, in the dim light caused by these glowing, you know, magitek devices,

you are just left injured badly many of you with deep burns and scars where the the skin and muscle has been destroyed yeah i fucking didn't hit ayla at all um but nova lucius completely statue yeah yeah i mean i'm looking at at Lucius or Nova and like, I mean, escape plan, Lucius. We need Nova. A greater restoration at 6th level Nova. Okay. Nova, you are no longer petrified. Can we do anything to help Lucius?

We can't do anything, can we? Just now. I think I'll just collapse onto Quill. It's dead. It's dead. It's gone. It's dead. We just need to get the shield and get out of here. But Lucius is still... I think I can't see him anymore.

She's just wibbling. She's just wibbling. Just make me a nice figurehead on the front of the starship. Yeah. You'll look great there. It's where he belongs. What can we do? Quill, you can cast it again, right?

You can cast it again. I've got no more. Nothing left. I need either a long rest. I mean, can we stay in this place for... We can't. Valia's running from the serpent thing

I don't know I don't know what we can do we just have to get him onto the ship I'm also I will make a point I have been extremely lenient on the hundred gold of diamond dust by saying you've had a bunch of it already this is something in the future.

You are pre-buying it. I'm going to let you do it on your Lucius. I'm going to say you've got 100 gold of diamond dust left. You can do it one more time. After this, I expect you to specifically buy diamond dust. Okay, yeah. I've been spending gold for it.

I don't have any spell slots. It's something you need to pre-buy. I don't have any spell slots. It's something you need to pre-buy. He doesn't have spell slots. He can't do it. No, no, no. Have you spent the gold for Nova? Yes. Oh, actually, that's a point. No. I will spend it.

I took some stone gold and then used that. Okay. Yeah, you're left with this kind of remaining remnants of the ship. You can see a few of these storage units. You can see the Magitek workshops, the Tiangong Shard, the shield in the middle.

But yeah, you still now have a sort of like 800 pound Lucius that you need to transport. Because he weighs 10 times what he probably did before. What? No, no Tathalia... So neither Alo or Sentry are going to be able to carry him out on their own.

Like, you need some way of transporting him. Can we... If, in theory, Nova was to cast the gate, could we, in theory, Sentry and... Oh, Levitate. Levitate would be the best option. Could I levitate the statue?

The only thing is it's a con. You need to be a living creature. It's a con spell. And the arcane gate is a con spell. No, I can levitate. Or loose object. Levitate it.

Because we did it on a cart before. If we can do it on a cart, we can do it on a loose object. Either that or we've got the light thing over there. Or we could open the gate and... I don't know, me and Sentry together pull them through quickly. I can levitate.

It's not as reliable. Yeah, Tom can levitate, I can also levitate. Okay. We need to... Before we go, we need to figure out the ship. We've got the ship now. We need to do that. Yes, we need to we need to before we go we need to figure out the ship we've got the ship now we need to we need to do that um yes we need to get it out we need to can i um can i contact um thalia and just say to her we've killed we've killed the thing does the thing look any less angry does he look less angry th Talia? There is a brief

moment, and you hear a message back of light. I can't see any of that black and red stuff coming out of the ship that you're in, but this thing doesn't look any less angry. It still seems extremely protective. And quite honestly, I

don't think I'm the one that should be talking to it. One of perhaps you, if you want to try and communicate with this thing, I think it should be one of you. But it certainly doesn't look like it's calmed down. Do you think you can keep hidden for another eight hours? No. Okay.

Perhaps eight more minutes. Perhaps, you know, double that, maybe? Okay. You've already taken an hour. You've been in there for, like, nearly two hours. I'm hiding as best as I can, but this thing knows I'm here somewhere. We had to fight!

Okay, okay. Valley of Lucius is currently a statue. We've got issues. Yeah, and also... Well, I suggest you figure them out as quickly as you can also he's too heavy for levitate bad news oh because he's uh too chonk okay yeah as yeah he i'm i'm putting it as roughly 800 he probably weighs more than that i'm sure that lucius probably weighs more than 80 pounds but up to 500 pounds so um yeah he's way too heavy for levitate then

focus we need to do things in order we need to find the way and then we get off so we need to find the con we need to or we can talk she's talk to the should we talk to it quill can you talk to it i can try it i can try to talk to it century your matrix is probably the best shape you've got an aura around you that is of protection, and you're the one that's going to be able to talk to it. It might listen to you. It's worth a shot. I can give it a go.

You will probably have to head out of this ship as the crystal kind of like armor would dampen any sort of magical effect, and outside is very cold. Okay, first things first first things first everybody look for a console everybody look for a console that looks like we can control the engines uh i am happy to tell you nova as you begin searching around there are consoles and there are power um none of them really control the navigation but it becomes very quickly apparent you know you knowitek, you've studied engines.

This thing is a wreck. There's no thrusters left. There's nothing that is going to be able to fly this battlecruiser. There's nothing that's going to be able to forcibly move it under its own power. It's also partially frozen into the creature. It wouldn't have been the ship that was angering it. It was Hadar, and we got rid of that

um but is there a way we can heal it and calm it while they're talking can i have a look at these other chests that are because we found platinum in one of them can i have a look and see what else there is um you've got you've got the platinum haven't you uh alo so you took all 10 bars yeah that's it but that's like nearly a thousand pounds of weight you're like like you know carrying around in your bag um it's very heavy probably not that it's probably about sort of 100 pounds actually um yeah you look around um and there's you you i mean if you spend the time while nova's looking for a console um you've got like five minutes to kind of do a quick running around, checking boxes and things like that.

There's quite a few things that you find. One of them, one of the storage crates contains 15 Magitek crystals. You've seen these things powering stuff in astral space. So you've seen them powering devices. You've seen them powering parts of thalia's ship um they look quite valuable um so you have 15 arcanite crystals um and i will tell you that they're worth about five they'll probably be worth about 500 gold each but they can also be used to power magitek so if you find any magic magitek equipment they can be used to power that uh you also find in a in another box you find a

two things two of two physical items you find a long elegant staff which has bands of crystalline magitek on either end that hums with power and it looks like a kind of like a battle staff more than a wizard staff um it looks like the kind of staff that you could fight with and you can feel that there's intense magical energy in um you also find a suit of powered uh valkyrian armor that is also magical um it's full plate basically it's made from metal and crystal but it is the same as the equivalent of a full plate suit of armor um and it is the equivalent of a full-plate suit of armor, and it is clearly Magitek as well. It is, however, Valkyrian. Well, there's no insignias on it. It's Valkyrian in design, in that it's black and ominous,

but there's no, like, logos slapped on it. It just looks like plain black armor. You can spray paint it. Anyway. Yeah, we can paint it. Yeah? The Magitek statues, the mechs that you described before yeah like the semi-power loaders they're yeah well it's all it's a mixture of vehicles some of them more look more like kind of jet packs or like um some of them look like little lifts and

things like that but almost all of them are broken um all of them are in completely shattered disarray um long power down the only one one, Nova, as you look around, there is one in the corner that appears to be a two-wheeled single-person vehicle, like a cyber bike. It looks like Akira's bike, but made from black and crystal and metal. And it looks very sleek. It's large. It's a large size. But, yeah, two powered wheels wheels slots for magitek crystals i was wondering if there was like a mech that we could lift lucius up with as i described earlier

okay so if we if we so we can't move the ship so so there's no physical engines to even power like there's nothing we can power like that i guess the ship is 100 stuck into this so i think that's the impression you get okay i think this is a dead end. We need to go. So I propose... I almost wonder if you guys go outside and return... Oh, I don't know. I'm just so worried that if I take the shield out, it's going to power down the life support and everything, and you're all going to be in a ship. So I wonder if you should all go outside the ship.

I'll take the shield. Maybe I can ride the bike and join you. Or I can teleport the shield. Maybe I can ride the bike and join you Or I can teleport or something And then we have to figure out a way to get Lucius out But I can't cast the arcane gate from in here because I need to be able to see where it goes So I can't We'll go Well, the bike can only hold one person yeah i i carry that i mean lucius is what lucius weighs

a hell of a ton you could certainly try something like that lucius's form like yeah you could try and balance him precariously on this magitek bike you need to power it the magitek bike has no power so you'll need to power it with the. The crystals. It does look like the crystals are specifically designed for these types of vehicles, yes. It will cost you one of these crystals to power the bike. So we'll use one of the crystals

to power the bike. So as Ayla, you kind of connect this... Sorry. I was going to say, you connect the crystal to the bike and you watch as all these different swirls and lines fill up with a purple energy it kind of and you hear it hum to life um and yeah you can see that there's a very simple control um i don't think any of you from naturally from eros would understand how the fuck this kind of thing works i think centry lucius and nova

would i if you have proficiency in land vehicles from being from the whole ship recognizing me would i have some kind of memory why don't you roll a d100 for me ayla roll a d100 for me let's see turns out she was a biker girl. But yeah, actually, I'd say whilst you're doing that, Quill, I mean, looking at this thing, 58, I'm gonna say you can't

forcibly, like, conjure these memories. It might come to you in time, but right now you're just like, some weird magitek thing. You don't know what it is. But when Quill looks at it, I think you'd be like, weird magitek thing you don't know what it is um but when curl looks at it i think you'd be like i i okay there's some similarities here that like okay this moves that and that bits this you think you could maybe ride this thing proficiently like it would be difficult with only one arm but you you know how it make go um or you can teach somebody else you

could easily just teach somebody how to make go um they wouldn could teach somebody else. You could easily just teach somebody how to make go. They wouldn't have any fine control over it. Just literally just put Lucius on it and then almost like use it as a cart to just wheel it along and maybe give it some engines just so it goes along at the same speed as I'm walking. Go on.

I could turn Lucius into a gaseous cloud. Do you have to target a creature? You have to be a living person, right? Well, it's a willing creature, yeah. He cannot be a willing creature. He has no concept of what's going on. I was going to turn you into a little cloud.

A little cloud. A little guff cloud. Just do the bike. What would you do with that cloud? Put it in a bottle and then cut you out. With Nova checking out the systems, Ayla checking all the boxes for loot and everything else, you've been here about five minutes.

Thalia is just like, I don't mean to rush you, but this is getting a bit dicey out here. If you're going to calm this thing down, the sooner you can do it, the better, please. Lucius on the bike. Consentry and I put Lucius on the bike and kind of support while we go out.

Yeah, as long as you walk alongside it and Quill is kind of holding the handles and wheeling it, the group of you can do it. It's slow. You are quite slow going because you're having to make sure that Lucius isn't going to fall. You could go faster, but there'd be a risk that Lucius would fall and break.

How does this bike hold a fucking heavy-ass statue? Yeah, well, I mean, it's Magitek, so there's no weight. It can't burst the tyres or I mean, it's Magitek, so there's no, like, weight. Yeah, it's no, like, it can't burst the tires or anything. But it's definitely, it can't go very fast with Lucius on it. It's so heavy, the wheels and the chassis are, like, grinding along the floor. But it does go, but it's definitely not going very fast.

But he's better than the infantry carrying Lucius and having to stop every time. Yeah, might lose a foot. Okay, so you guys begin making your way down it's going to take you a good bit of time to get to the other end it took you some time to get here so getting to the the entrance will take some time as well um what are you doing over i'm gonna stay behind and wait for word that they are in the clear and then i will i guess summon the shield or try and get recover the shield recover the shield um century did you want to do something so when you get to the the main entrance bit where you guys first came in where you were holding off the elementals did you want to try and do something to contact with the the creature or um i'd like to let it know that we're here and that we've helped

it um okay so how would you like to go about this could i so as we're walking sort of out of where we came in from where the ship goes inside the the creature? Is there like an injured part of the creature that's been hurt by the ship? So you remember, there's like this big jagged scar that you ran down when you were being swarmed by all these creatures. And then there's the door.

It's almost like a canyon, right? And then it leads to this black metal ship door. And if you step out of that, you'll be on the creature's back, effectively. You'll be on this enormous creature's back in this deep, jagged scar, and you can see the light pulsing by. But as soon as you step outside, you know that you're going to be assailed by these freezing cold winds.

I should probably heal first. So I'm going to give myself, real quick, like 30 lay-on-hands points, and then can I use the other half on the creature's scar and just give it like a comforting So you step out and essentially you're blasted by this freezing cold. You're going to take

five cold damage and then you kind of kneel down and it's not like snow. You're kind of leaning on hard ice but it's not slippery and you can see of leaning on hard ice but it's not slippery and you can see all these constellations and stars weaving beneath its skin and you place your hands and this scar is enormous i mean it's in big enough for this whole ship to have crashed and gouged out but you lay your hands on it and you channel that healing energy in and as you do your matrix and your mind connects with the creature here.

And you just hear this old, ancient voice, older than perhaps even Root Prime. Who are you? And that is where we will end today's episode, because we've got to

read stuff out, and we've got people to cover us. We've got ten minutes left. And I want to make sure we wrap up in time. That's where we're going to end. That was so tough. You did it though. You fucking guys did it. There's some good luck.

Some clever spell usage. And some good maneuvers. Good luck. Some bad luck. I regret not blighting it. luck I regret not blighting it I really regret not blighting it I don't know, I feel like I should have just gone for it Do you know what's really funny?

Necrotic Well, do you know what, that's the funny thing is I checked it because I was really surprised by this No resistance or anything to necrotic It would have affected it Really? What, an undead Hadar? Yeah This is the base death tyrant

it doesn't have any resistance or immunity to necrotic which is super weird i agree it's very that was the stats very very but yeah kim's now extra salty uh i'm not salty i mean that was myself for having no as a point as a point so lu Lucius had something like 20, 30 hit points left. Quill had 18. Century was down to 37. I was on 28. The Disintegrate Ray, yeah, if the Disintegrate Ray or the Death Ray, 9 and 10

on the random table, if they put you to 0, they both kill you instantly. Disintegrate, you're dead. Death Ray, you're dead, and you come back as a zombie. Did you roll a Dis's a great fucking close uh yeah oh yeah tom saved three of them tom was just like that's crazy got hit by one quill got hit by one i think century got hit by the death ray right at the end um yeah yeah it was bad uh very very scary but very lucky it was but it was also you guys fucking did it right like you guys no no scams no help

from npcs all you guys fucking nailed it and you've got loads of loot you've got a cool fucking magitek bike and you're gonna get a new tiangong shard so also i only threw one attack spell that time around huh guys and there was well timed it was a well-timed one very great support um as a point tom when you went to heal a normal beholder it has a cone of anti-magic so you can't cast spells at all like and magic items don't work the death tyrant is in that cone you can't regain hit points nobody can regain hit points in its cone and it's 150 foot it's like oh it's nuts yeah so i was just why i was just like you're like right on its sides yeah you have to be out of its central cone to get healed. But yeah, you guys wouldn't have known that. So we'll get some sleep, get some rest, recover from this epic ordeal.

And we'll be back soon. Bye. Bye.