High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #87 | Ancient Enemies Underfoot (Part 2)
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Ready? What happened?
Ready to go. I have no idea
what happened. I think you were there
for the most important thing, which was the dragon turtle breathed steam on everybody. Qu have no idea what happened. I think you were there for the most important thing,
which was the dragon turtle breathed steam on everybody.
Quill's face got melted and he's dying.
That's where I left.
That's where you left.
Century used her flame lance to propel herself away
from the creature about 30 feet away.
And then Nova has landed in the water,
canceled levitation,
and is basically waiting for Quill's body
to dimension door him up to the airship.
And then Quill failed his death saving throw.
Yeah.
And we go to Lucius Virion Elanasto.
So you are just about to hit the water
you can see Nova's waiting for Quill
you can see the shape of this giant
turtle beneath the water
I'm falling kind of
adjacent to Quill
right
you're on Aayla's back
yeah
we're floating quite gently
including Quill
I think I might just try and reach out
get off
Aayla's back if necessary
to reach for Quill to try and stabilize him
and
ensure his
doesn't go underwater
anything like that
Yes So if you want to do a medicine check? It doesn't go underwater, anything like that.
Yes.
So if you want to try a medicine check to stabilize him,
with your current situation, it would probably be a disadvantage.
You're trying to stabilize him whilst Aayla's holding him.
You're on Aayla's back.
You can't quite get to his wounds, but you can still try.
It's just going to be a disadvantage.
Second.
First one.
Seven. So, yeah. Sadly sadly because of the angles like you just can't reach quill's
injuries to to bandage them or to like stop any uh further damage to him um yeah just in your
current position it's just going to be too difficult to do unfortunately i can't get to him
someone needs to stop his head going underwater.
Blah, blah, blah.
You hear another whistling sound from above as the ballista,
actually, it's not a disadvantage,
splashes another great gout of water,
splashes all over you, but you don't see it.
It seems to just impact into the dragon turtle's shell,
and then now a large spear is protruding from a mossy clump on its back.
Aayla, you now reach the ground as the featherful token reaches its limit so you kind of hit the
water it's not hard for you to just lift quill's body up and keep him above water um and nova you
can just hand him to nova who is waiting uh for the spell um nova your dimension door goes off with qiangong you
carve like a tear in space um just kind of cut a doorway and then managed to swim or pull yourself
through with quill water splashes onto the deck of the storm chaser pulled in with you through
the dimension door um as you can see the wolf pack all with bows leaning over the side
uh ariah sees you uh calling out just like nova and quill are on board is he what's wrong uh as
you can see get the doctor medic and they're calling out gray lano is like yeah you can hear
the sounds and yeah gray Liner will be called for
as quickly as possible.
But yeah, so your action, that was your
reaction, technically.
So that's the end of it.
So Ayla, what about the rest of your turn?
There's a big
angry turtle
under your feet.
Ah!
I'm going to swim away from
the turtle.
I think
Lucius is probably still
on my back.
He can let go.
I think I'll just say
to Lucius
to stick with me
and swim away from the turtle.
Okay. You will be at
half movement because you're carrying him. It's not like
fly, so. Or
I will drop him so that I can swim
and then he can just swim and follow me.
Okay, sure.
Because I think he can
swim on top of the water right yeah
sure yeah
swim away from turtle
but can I like dip
my head below and keep an eye on it
yeah sure sure sure
I want to keep an eye on the turtle
how far away are you moving
uh I don't know where
the
like 30 feet underneath you so you can you can swim to
the sides like you're just open ocean at this point it's just this open ocean you've got your
head above the waves um if you want to swim down that's going closer to the turtle if you swim sort
of on the surface away horizontally or you you know, I'll swim horizontally away in the direction that is closer to the airship.
Oh, I don't know where Sentry is.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
No, Sentry's about 30.
No, it's okay.
So Sentry, imagine you've got the giant turtle underneath you.
Sentry moved about 30 feet to the side.
You have landed on top and the airship is coming down.
So you want to go
towards sentry.
Okay.
As you swim away,
technically it would get an
attack opportunity against you.
It will turn.
Technically it does.
However, that is only a 15 to hit.
No.
Like the water is displaced as these huge snapping jaws
snap around you, but you manage to pull yourself away.
But after you finish its go,
the turtle turns on the only target that is still within by
that it doesn't have to swim with, which is Lucius,
who is just in the water,
kind of doggy paddling to keep himself above the water.
who is just in the water,
kind of doggy paddling to keep himself above the water.
And yeah, it will swipe at you with,
it will swipe you with its claws and try and bite you, Lucius.
Well, I've got a huge AC, so probably not.
Did you draw a fucking nat 20?
No, it's not a nat 20, but I want to work out what this total is.
32. I know that's know that i'm not gonna ask
17 yeah yeah 25 i miss ayla i miss the one who can actually take these hits but poor paper lucius
i've got 16 HP. Do you really?
You're out of shit, though.
I'll work these attacks out in order, then.
Bite. Bite.
34 points of piercing damage.
As jump. 34 points of piercing damage as jump
just you feel your like body crushed
in its jaws
and it just as soon as you go
lifeless it kind of just throws your body out of
its mouth and then it will swim towards
sentry and ayla and so i will make the
attacks against uh sentry and ayla
as it wouldn't it wouldn't keep attacking you
it's just like oh oh, that's dead.
Swim, swim, swim.
Sentry.
Oh, good.
Hello.
I bet you I can't hit... Well, Sentry, 19.
Nope, I'm a 20.
Claw pings against your shield
as it desperately tries to swipe at you.
Aayla, that's going to be 18.
No.
You manage to swim, kind of dodging to the side of these giant claws as you see Lucius's body
just floating
you do
that would
be a DC of
15 16 16
8
con save
yeah I guess even with even with your bonus you're not going to be able to get enough
right d20 please lucius okay oh what kind of injury are you getting
two oh it's a two that's really bad boy that's a that's an, I think. It's like one of the... It's like awful.
It's low.
Is this a missing leg?
Oh, my God.
Some people, like, if people are basing it on old sessions,
people are like, oh, it's an eye.
It's not.
I've adjusted the thing.
Lucius, you don't know what's happening.
You're unconscious.
But we see, the audience is we,
we see that the bite that kind of crushed your chest,
one of the teeth pierced into your chest
and one of your lungs is pierced
and just the blood and air sucking out of it.
One of the creature's lungs or similar organ
has been pierced or badly damaged.
The creature finds it difficult to breathe if it needs air
and at the start of the turn, they begin to choke.
To heal this injury requires the fluids to be drained,
which requires a medicine check,
or they heal greater injury.
Spell.
You do have that, but you can only cast it as a ritual, right?
I mean, he's also underwater.
He is also underwater.
Where there's loads of fluids.
It's all the fluids.
The airship is now 200 feet.
In 12 more seconds, it will be on you
as it continues to sail down.
Grey Lano appears from below decks
and rushes over to Quill.
She will make a medicine check with advantage
and stabilizes him successfully.
And because she has the healer's ability,
she restores eight hit points to Quillek.
I'm actually back as well.
Holy shit, that's awesome.
Grey Llano is like, I can't do anything about his face,
but I can get him conscious.
And she uses these healing herbs,
kind of like stuffs them into the wounds,
smelling salts to bring you out of unconsciousness.
I can't do anything
about the pain right now, Quillick.
You are in agony, Quillick, as your face is
just in pure agony.
Oh god. You're alive.
Nova.
I can't start
crying looking at Quill's fucked up
little face.
Also crying, looking at Quill's fucked up little face. Also
throw up a little bit in my mouth because it's disgusting.
200 feet.
Can I see anything
in the water that I can
cast a portal onto?
I will say that I'm not going to be an asshole.
You can cast the portal on the surface of the
water. It will count as like you wouldn't be able to anchor it to a moving vehicle but
anchoring it to a fixed location above the water that's fine like i'm not gonna make you like oh
i've got to cast it on a certain thing um well the the other option i was gonna do was throw a crate
out and cast it on that um i mean yeah that's that's a pretty smart idea but yeah just the portal can't move if it's
fixed in the location it's fixed in that location um okay you can't put it under the water either
it's on the surface no i would like to cast arcane gate as close as i can i don't know i can't quite
pinpoint where everyone is but let me give you let me give you a mental map right uh dragon
turtle under under the water lucius's body uh sorry uh lucius's body um let's put him in the
center let's focus everything around lucius ayla century and the dragon turtle are about 30 40 feet
to the side of lucius's body so lucius is about 30 40 feet away from everybody else right now
could i angle the portal so that's next to lucius in the direction that the waves are bobbing so his
body bobs through the portal i will i'm gonna be this is where i the the the dm take giveth and the
dm taketh away lucius's body won't go through the portal on its own. Somebody will need to either go through the portal
your end and grab him, or
somebody in the water
will put... Because it's a two-way portal, Kim.
You can just drag him through. Yeah, it's a two-way portal, isn't it?
It's a portal with poles.
I'm going to create it next to Lucius.
I'm going to create it next to Lucius
so that it's angled, so that
Centurion Aayla
can swim towards it and go through it. But also so that it's angled so that um so uh centurion ayla can swim towards it and go through it
um but also so that someone can reach through and grab him and i'm gonna shout at the crew
grab lucius's body now like just yeah that's that's the play so that's what you do
camara camara who's on deck with her crew looks over sees through the portal
here's what you've said ah the rest of you keep firing in that turtle i've got the captain
runs through dives like half her body through the portal wraps her furry arms and then pulls him
back the water kind of splashes over as she pulls lucius's body onto the ship uh but
kimara's experienced enough she's just like uh this isn't something's wrong his chest this injury
is really bad um as she calls out for everybody else the rest of the crew will take their shots
at the dragon turtle uh and they hit uh this is going to be
5d6 piercing damage
as the whole crew unloads a volley
and I just rolled crazy well
2 sixes, 2 fives
22
26 points of damage
the arrows thud
into the fleshy parts of the dragon turtle
wherever they can as the archers
all
as these arrows fly down into the fleshy parts of the dragon turtle wherever they can as the archers all as these arrows
fly down into the creature but it is
seemingly unaffected
it does not seem to care about these arrows
struck into it
sentry
um okay
I guess I'm going to start making my
way to the portal so is it 30 feet
uh yes it was about 30-40 feet the portal. So is it 30 feet?
Yes, it was about 30, 40 feet away from you.
I'll say 30 feet.
Okay, so I'm going to... With a dash, you can make it.
It will get an attack of opportunity.
That's...
Okay, that's kind of changed everything.
Well, you could...
You could action disengage. you could action disengage.
You could action disengage and
swim to the portal, but you won't have enough movement
to go through the portal.
But you'd be
next to it.
But I would.
Can you see through the portal? You can't,
can you? It's opaque, isn't it?
Um, so...
Um, yeah, you can't. It's mist opaque isn't it um so um yeah you can't it's misty it's filled with
mist so no you wouldn't be able to misty step because you can't you can't see through it you
can't see it but you could misty step to the portal and then swim through it yeah you could
do that yeah i'll do that then please yes okay so you misty step, appear 30 feet behind where you were
and pull yourself through the portal
landing next to Lucius
and everyone else
as you do so. That's the end of your turn.
I just only step on my chest as you
come through.
Like a snail show.
Quillick.
Quillick and Kalah.
So, sorry, what was the thing to potentially fix Lucius's rusty chest?
So, well, there's two problems.
One, he's still dying normally, like D&D.
He still has zero hit points and he'll make death-saving throws.
But also, one of his lungs has been pierced
and the fluid is basically in his system.
He's choking on his own blood and fluids.
You will need to make a medicine check
to try and patch him up, like surgery patch him up.
I will call Grey Larner over to do that.
Do I want to bring him back from unconsciousness to this horror?
I mean, make it sound nice.
I know, you tell me, Quill.
Quill, your choice.
I guess it's better than dying.
I will, yeah, I will heal him
with a second level Cure Wounds.
Okay.
So 2d8 plus 5
you get healed for
11.
This is
no better than dying.
You can barely
Lucius, you can barely speak.
You have no oxygen in your system.
You are
choking, like suffocating to death.
I'm just trying to get
the rules for suffocation up as well
so I can remind myself how it works.
I can never remember where it is.
It's the only problem. I can never remember where
certain things are. Suffocation.
Wildness. No breathing.
See suffocation rules. I would
if I knew where they were.
Got a two point difference number. See suffocation rules. I would if I knew where they were. Got a tooth.
Heart's not beating.
All right, I'll look that up in a second.
So you healed him for hit points.
So yeah, you regain the hit points as normal, Lucius.
Is suffocating due to a tooth through his lung a spell effect?
No.
It is not.
It is not. Oh my f***.
It is not.
I counterspell suffocation.
Tooth in the lung? Hurts like a tooth in the lung.
This is all so funny while he's
just choking and bleeding on his own
I'm still in the goddamn seat.
It's fine, you're fine.
You're the funniest fine of fine.
Maybe.
That even takes a swipe at me.
So this is why I need to look it up,
because it is Lucius's turn now.
And I want to...
Where is it?
So you survive for a number of rounds
equal to your constitution modifier.
What's your con modifier, Lucius?
It is
one.
Okay, so you have one round.
You're like...
Where was that, by the way?
You go to zero.
Oh, I just said suffocating, and then
D&D was like the top link.
But yeah, then at the start of your turn,
at the start of next turn, you're at 0 HP again.
Just pain and death.
Then pain and death.
Welcome to my life.
Wait, is that another Grave Entry as I go under?
Well, no. Here's the thing.
If you go to 0 again from the suffocation,
you can't regain hit points or be stabilized
until you can breathe again.
What?
I've put it in the Roll20 chat.
I've taken it from the player's handbook.
Yeah, I've just grabbed it as well. Thank you.
Okay, so back on the deck of the ship.
Lucius, yeah, you are conscious but you reach the whatever
breath you still had left that you managed to suck in it's already gone um and you are you can
feel your vision turning black you can see the cradle above you beginning to glow brighter
you can almost feel your kind of like your life fading flashing before your very eyes
you guys is there
anything you want to say or do i can't say i'm just uh you can see the panic in my eyes
trying to lock on to whoever's looking over at me
it'll be me nova yeah i look at nova but my eyes are kind of looking past you, almost.
Aayla, you're the only one who would really have enough time to notice this.
You see up above the water,
you see the turret on the bottom of the storm chaser
fire a jagged javelin into the side of the dragon turtle
with a great thunk.
And this time the dragon does kind of...
as it rolls to the side,
this giant jagged spear wedged underneath its shell
as Penny takes a shot from the ballista.
Aria lowers it like,
Aria calls out actually,
Nova, do I need to keep the ship going lower
with that portal?
Can I take the ship up?
Get us away from that thing. Yes!
Yes, or at least until
Aayla gets back up.
Don't go beyond 500 feet!
Alright, not beyond 500.
She begins pulling the ship up and you see
its nose now turns as the
ship begins pushing
upwards up into the air,
trying to desperately get away from this thing nova
oh gray lano sorry goes on that turn as well gray lano rushes to lucius and will basically examine
with a quick glance um she just looks it's just like his lung i i need to quill hold she's like
is like grabbing things from like her pouches you can see that she's gonna try and
basically drain the fluid out of his body uh to give him like a way to breathe at least temporarily
uh she has to make a medicine check um she does not have advantage on this this is complex surgery
that is gonna be so you see that she's like struggling to make this function she's just like
there's too much the blood and she's just struggling to to make this function. She's just like, there's too much of the blood,
and she's just struggling to get this kind of system in place,
as she does so.
The crew...
No, sorry, Nova, now it's your turn.
Can...
Can I...
Can I start making preparations to ritual cast heal greater injury?
Like... Yes, you can.
I don't know how that would work.
It's ten minutes.
You can just start casting the spell.
I won't make you spend the material components.
It's just you can start getting ready.
Arcane Gate is a concentration spell.
I can't do it until Aayla's through.
You can't.
There you go.
This is amazing. Can I ready
my action?
I want to ready my action
so that as soon as Aayla is through
the gate, I start ritual
casting. I don't care anyone else is helping.
I'm going to start casting it as fast as I can.
And the whole time, I'm just
holding
Lucius's hand and just like
stay with me Lucius, stay with me buddy
like just, you know, you're not going yet
Can I say
Sentry, go on
because I wasn't doing much
apart from looking around
Can I reach my hand out
to Nova's
staff that she's got stowed away
Nova's staff or she's got stowed away.
Nova's staff? Or the spear?
The sphere. The Tiangong.
The Tiangong charge, yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're like weakly trying to reach for it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm going to try and cast Mending on that
while I'm dying.
Oh, fuck off you are!
Cast it on your own fucking lung, you prick!
Your fingers,cius you just barely managed to get a finger on the staff on the spear uh halfed and just with that last just before your vision goes completely black that That last ounce, the colours of the sky,
the blue sky above,
seem to just get brighter
and brighter.
And you just fill that crack
with a sky blue magic
that fuses in place,
leaving this very visible
different coloured blue
through the hearth.
Century. Century. different colored blue through the half century help in any way century responding to this is I was after I didn't know sorry like I'm getting up in
it yeah no sorry Ayla yeah it would be your go because you're actually before Nova
Which makes
So I can start broadcasting
You can but it's 10 minutes
I don't care
Can I disengage
And swim I've got 45 movement
Through this portal
Thank you
I'm on the ship
So Ayla uh the thing you you are so adept at swimming through the the turtle tries to swipe it yeah
you disengage means you easily get past it and emerge onto the portal the portal seals shut
and know that you begin the mental preparations you pull out your book of shadows and you begin analyzing the heel greater greater injury ritual um century now it's interesting can i oh since i is there i wanted to
do something else on my turn if that's okay sorry was action and then movement do you know i just
wanted to say i yeah i wanted to ask grillano or nova what can we do to help can we assist him to
breathe can we help yes i one of i assist him to breathe? Can we help?
Yes, I need someone with hands.
I need someone with hands. You need to hold this and she's just, like, she's got
part of his organ, like his lung
and you need to put pressure
onto it. That's what she can ask you
to do it. She needs someone with two hands.
Quill. I'll do it.
Okay. So yeah, you'll basically give
Grelano advantage. you're taking the help action
on your next turn um but that yeah you need to wait for the next turn go on mark i just want to
check the wording of heal greater injury because it says casting time is one action and 10 minutes
yes but then you have a duration okay yeah yeah so don't forget that for you it's you're not casting
it normally your book of
shadows you can only cast it as a ritual spell the duration as long as the as long as the spell
is active the injury is being healed so as once you can start casting it lucius won't have to
make any more checks as long as you don't get like attacked and interrupted whilst you're casting it
and then it would revert back um but yeah so but for you
because it's a book of shadows thing it's not an instant cast yeah like it would be for other
characters right century anything on your turn um i guess you'd just be asking like like quill
is there anything i can help you with are you okay um i don't know i don't know how i'd be of use
help ailer and gray lano i don't know what i can do okay okay. Help Aayla and Grey Larno. I don't know what I can do.
Okay.
Quill.
So I'll try and help those.
So, yeah, I mean, if Aayla is pushing me back
and Grey Larno is literally saying that I can't do anything to help,
I will say,
Esper, give me your wings.
I need your knowledge.
Give me a way to help Lucius.
Bring him back to us
and I want to cast divine intervention
go for it buddy
so what's this you need a
I have a 10% chance
I need to roll lower than a 10
on a d100
I guess 10 or lower
10 or lower on a d100
I mean
please please, please.
My god.
It's a gamble.
This is a Rhiannon roll if ever there was one.
Lewis Paul.
Okay, you ready?
And d100.
Oh, 24.
Oh!
As the prayer leaves you,
and you're already racked with pain from your own face uh quill the pain is almost put out of your mind as you focus and you you feel this prayer
and you can feel hesper wants to help you can feel that there is this desire to send you the power to fix
this
but his power is so weak
his power is so divided
that
it just isn't enough
as much as he would want
to give you that power to do it
something else is
preventing
yeah worth a try something else is preventing. Yeah.
Worth a try.
Worth a try.
Lucius Varian Elohim Lasno.
You pass out.
You are dropped to zero hit points
as you no longer have any breath in your body.
And the rest of you watch as his eyes roll back
and yeah, he is on the verge of dying
and there is still a chance to save him.
But the ship pulls up.
You hear the sounds of the ballista being fired
back down into the surface,
but the airship continues to sound as the air.
Ayla, you are going to use the help action, correct?
Yeah.
I don't know if there's any way that we can like,
I don't know if we're assisting him to breathe. if we were giving him like mouth to mouth or something would that keep him going or can i can
i try that as well sure you're gonna need to make uh i mean i don't know if ayla knows how to do it
at best it's gonna be a medicine check no she doesn't know very well but she could ask no but you can try hopefully well yeah gray line i can kind of like instruct you but it to be a medicine check. No, she doesn't know very well, but she could ask Grey Lino, hopefully.
Well, yeah, Grey Lino can kind of, like,
instruct you, but it's still a medicine check.
Oh, no, that's only a nine.
You're, like, putting, like,
there's, people are yelling,
you can hear Oriah, Kamara,
the wolf pack, Faeth,
is screaming somewhere in the background.
Howard,
trying to push through, and everyone's trying to see what's going on you kind of reach down you kind of just try and breathe
you know air into lucius's mouth doesn't match you can feel his skin beginning to go a bit clammy
and cold from the water but just whatever you're doing it's not right um gray lano is trying to
instruct you but she's also trying to do her own thing,
as you will desperately try and surround Lucius.
Nova.
I just got to keep going.
I got to keep ritual casting.
Is there anything I can do to speed it up?
Can I pray to Tiangong and just...
This isn't as much will and effort as you want.
You know that this is that magic is a science.
If you don't complete these ritual formulas,
if you don't draw the right runes,
the spell won't work.
You can't rush this.
If you rush this, it would risk the whole spell.
This is the time it takes to cast.
Even Tiangong's given you all the power that they can
to cast the spell, but it's just uh to cast the spell but it's just
going to take the time that it takes i'll just carry on casting but i think in nova's head
every all sound would just be muffling and there would be a high pitched whine just rising in the
back of her head as she's trying not to look at lucius you know and just like she's just trying to focus
as hard as she can okay gray lana will make her medicine check uh to try and at least give him
some time okay so gray lana manages to you don't know what she's doing but she's like
i've managed to i've managed to seal it but he i i can give him
some air and she like it's like ayla move and then she's like press presses her mouth against
lucius's and breathes in uh lucius i mean you have another round of breathing but somebody needs to
restore hit points to you um so she'll say quillick if you can stabilize him but then if he can't
breathe he's just going to keep doing this.
So Quillek, you need to keep healing him as much as you can.
And I need to keep doing this.
It's going to take us...
If Nova...
We need to keep him breathing for 10 minutes.
We need to keep doing this.
He may slip in and out of consciousness,
but this is what we need to keep doing.
So Sentry and Quillek. both century first i guess minutes yeah um can i so i guess i'll go kneel down to lucius on the other side of ayla and gray lano um i'll just use my lay on hands
i'll just try and channel as much energy as I can into him. Okay.
Yeah.
So I'll give him
the full... I'll give him 30.
I'll give him the rest of my hand.
You get 30 hit points.
You feel a flicker of life. Your eyes
open, a breath that's been forced
into your lungs, but it's only enough for
another round because of your con mod.
You've got an air. You've got've got around you can just about barely speak um as you do so quillek what about you on your
turn man if there was ever an rp moment to create that spell i was talking about with you a long
time ago i think this is the moment but uh i guess i will do just a level one. Wouldn't that have been a fun divine intervention
I would have pulled off?
What?
Gave you a new spell?
You asked for the power to save him?
I mean, hey, I'll tell you one thing you've got
right there in that pocket.
You've got a spell that puts someone in suspended animation.
Yeah, you've got...
Does that not separate people
from... I thought it put them in like a cage
or something, in like a separate... Why don't you read
it and find out?
What on god's green earth does Sequestr
even do? I can tell you that
right now... Oh my god, you didn't even...
It was from ages ago.
You could have sold it for 8,000.
All I knew that Sequestr did is that
it was worth 8,000 gold
after a certain point.
It sounds like Quill is pulling out the scroll
to try and realize what this spell does.
So I'm going to move on.
I think, I mean, it's just I've forgotten what it is.
But it's a winning creature.
An object can be hidden away,
safe from detection for the duration.
When the spell touches the target,
it becomes invisible and can't be targeted by divination as well to see through scrying censures so it's kind of shit is that all it says i wouldn't it's um to heal them it also
says that they fall into a state of suspended animation time ceases to flow and it doesn't
grow older so i mean that's. They're invisible and hidden away from
all divination. That's bad.
Getting a back here.
What are you doing, Quill?
You need to just heal him very little
and often, right?
I mean...
Can you cast it for 10 minutes
until the ritual is ready
and then... No, once the spell is cast
it takes... No. Well, you could do, but once you cast the spell, it's then once the spell is cast it takes no well you could do
but like once you cast the spell it's used
the spell is cast
I suppose yeah that's one way of doing it
but I mean for the time being just in case
like sentry just brought it back
I'm gonna go with a like a held action I suppose
the moment he falls again
I'll bring him back and then I'll just keep
burning spell slots turn by turn by turn
to bring him back to this living hell that he is currently living in.
He doesn't need much.
So if we just give him small jolts until Nova's good, then we should be good.
I've got...
So what this is going to come down to, we're going to drop out of initiative
because it's going to basically all go in the same order.
Lucia starts his turn, which means he doesn't make a death saving throw.
The round ends and then he drops back to zero because he runs out of air.
Basically, at the start of his next turn, he'll go to zero hit points
because it's not like damage.
It's just he immediately drops.
He's like gasping awake.
He's like...
But it's like, yeah, he's like gasping awake. He's like... No, but it's like
he's slipping in and out of consciousness.
Grey Lano will have to make a medicine check
every single round to
prevent, like give him air back.
Otherwise this doesn't work.
So it depends on Grey Lano. If Grey Lano
fucks this up too many times,
he's gonna die.
With the lay on hands from Rianne
from Sentry and the
breath
from Kryllana, I will say
it's okay.
It's okay. Thank you.
That's all I'll say.
Okay.
It's not okay.
It's not okay.
It's not cool.
It's not cool.
You hear... It's not okay. It's not okay. It's not cool. It's not cool. Not okay.
You hear...
I think from Lucius's perspective,
you would see all of these,
like in those brief moments of consciousness,
it's, you know, you are literally looking up
at all of these friends' faces looking down at you
and like, you know, you can hear people calling out like lucius captain blah blah
i think you would see those little flickers of like your mother and father amongst them
as the uh as you slip in and out of consciousness gray lana manages to keep you going for another round. Quillek, do you have another spell slot to use
for healing? Yep.
Okay. Yes, indeed.
This is 12 seconds have gone by.
Grey Lano fails on that one, even with
advantage. So this time,
Lucius,
you're going to need to make a death saving throw, and no amount
of healing will help here
okay
oh
oh
it's a failure
Grey Lime attempts a second one
she fails again
can you make another death saving throw for me please Lucius
yes
two that was so close what about what about the
the water breathing skull scroll you've got would that help because he wouldn't he's
is he he's drowning right he's it's not just drowning he has no oxygen in his body he's
suffocating it's not just water breathing why are no oxygen in his body. He's suffocating. It's not just water breathing.
Why are there so many rolls going on?
What's happening?
Well, it's Grey Lano. Grey Lano's trying to do the medicine.
Grey Lano manages to succeed.
So Grey Lano succeeds on the next check.
Quill, do you have a spell slot to heal? I'm sequestering him.
Until the moment Nova can cast the spell, I have to.
It's a spell that we were saving for Vala, right?
For something like this, for something extremely important.
And I can't think of anything more important right now
than bringing back Lucius.
It's a scroll, it doesn't
require the thing. Okay, so Quill,
you unfurl the scroll as
Greolano is struggling. You can see
like, she's like, I'm losing,
I don't know how long I can keep this up.
I don't know if I can keep this going for as long as we need.
You pull out the scroll i'm yeah i i
have to it time will cease to flow for him he'll go invisible i'll explain that to everyone like
there is there is a material component cost but because it's a scroll you don't have to pay it
the scroll covers the cost you that when the scroll was, it covered the cost because it is 5,000 gold of ruby, diamond, emerald, and sapphire dust.
But the spell scroll covers it.
You read the scroll, Quill, and you watch as Lucius,
Lucius's body just becomes still.
And you see it slowly fade from sight,
just becoming invisible to the world
you can quill like specify a condition for the spell to end early
uh i guess i mean that condition would be when nova is ready to immediately cast greater
restoration right like not great restoration uh heal greater
injury heal great injury yep so i don't know if i need a time or whatever or just no so everybody
kind of stands back in awe as yeah this kind of shimmery pearlescent energy washes over lucius
quillick when you finish the scroll if i remember correctly you found this scroll
where did you find the scroll do you
remember i bet i know nova remembers uh oh god where did we if i remember i i believe this is
you found this somewhere connected to valkyrian right this was either from ages five or
was it ages five? I think it was, wasn't it?
Oh, okay.
So, when you finish reading the scroll, it
begins to disintegrate,
turning into tiny
motes of
purple energy.
And
as it does, you hear... Ah volcanos i'm being corrected it was in volcanos
which means solving uh creation lots of people lots and lots of people correcting it
in that case uh century but. But for Sentry,
it is just as important because you recognize
the sigils
as Quill is speaking,
the sigils that appear around Lucius's
body. Spectral...
I can't read it, Kim.
Prime Facility.
Prime Facility.
Prime Facility.
Oh my god god that was close
23rd of February
the sigils that appear
around Lucius' body
and the spectral flowers that are conjured
almost putting him on a bed
of flowers
reminds you of Queen Astoria's
magic
the same effects would happen
whenever she would conjure spells this scroll
you think she penned it you think this was her scroll saved for something for a reason
but yeah lucius's body goes still the blood stops pumping gray lana is just kind of holds her hands back looks at quill
and everybody waits in stunned silence and after 10 minutes nova you feel the power of tiangong
kind of form through your body and you can feel a kind of different type of magic, not magic to cause harm, but instead a magic to to repair, to fix, to make whole again.
As you reach out, Quill, without even waiting, as Nova begins to reach her hands towards the invisible where Lucius's body was, his body reappears.
The flowers begin to wilt and blow away as if on a gentle breeze.
Lucius, you see his skin kind of, not his, his heart beats once,
but then you can see the effects of the spell already now worn off.
His body is deteriorating, dying as Nova grabs him, touches him.
And this blue magic washes through his body,
surging through his veins as you see the chest begin to fill back up as if regenerating skin and bone.
The hole in his lung knits back together
until leaving a very heavy, dense scar all over Lucius' chest
around his ribcage.
But he is made whole,
and Lucius, you feel your eyes flutter open
and air finally fill all of your lungs.
I think I just fall to the floor from that happening.
You're already on the floor, but yeah.
Yeah, I'd fall further into the
floor
I think it'll take a moment for me
to
shake off what the hell is happening
a big cheer erupts
from the crew everyone
just
is still flying the ship
as fast as she can but yeah Lucius is still flying the ship as way as fast as she can um but yeah lucius is saved
at the cost of a scroll that you kept good job you didn't god we kept it we i mean i was i was
talking about selling it for the longest time uh good thing i learned iesus oh yeah that too that too oh kim's setting me off
sorry i just oh yeah sorry it just kind of touched a bit of a nerve with me
yeah with the um with the crack through the spear it still is there by the way the light blue
kind of fill um i can't remember what the by the way, the light blue kind of fill.
I can't remember what the name of it is.
The Japanese technique of when they use
gold to repair broken porcelain.
It's that effect.
On the spear.
Yeah.
But Lucius, yeah, you
suck in a breath. Fresh
open air. Reminds you
of home. Air from above in the sky. For, open air. Reminds you of home.
Air from above in the sky.
For a moment, I think I've moved on past into the cradle.
Because it's just an overwhelming feeling of suddenly everything's fine again.
All good.
But then I see that I'm still on the airship. I kind of wipe my eyes a little bit.
What happened?
Are you all safe?
Nova and Quill
did an amazing job and
you're here.
Jeez.
It was very, very close.
But you're back.
You're on the airship.
We're getting away.
We're safe. You're safe. I look at the scar on the airship we're getting away we're safe, you're safe
that's all that matters
scar on the chest
how did you do this
we used the
sequester scroll
which
we, well you guys always told me
it would serve a good purpose
and that was as good as any
so hey your life's worth more
than 8k
you're welcome
I think like a few people
kind of glare in Ayla's direction of like
what
she doesn't know what to say
I know she doesn't yeah exactly
but yeah the airship soars through the air She doesn't know what to say I know she doesn't yeah exactly But yeah
The airship soars through the air
And yeah you guys are in no danger
You have plenty of time to rest
And get away
I think
Go on Nova
Nova would just be kneeling by Lucius
With her hands kind of just bloodied
Like blood all over her hands kind of just bloodied, like blood all over her, you know, from kind of touching the puncture wound
to try and heal it.
And she's just speechless and shaking.
Like, just, yeah, now that it's done and she doesn't have to focus and control,
she's just wracked with shakes and just staring at Lucius,
just not knowing what to say.
Well, you hear a voice kind of echo from
the weapon at your side.
You just hear a
relax,
safe,
fixed.
Lucius will put his hand on
Nova's to stop the shaking
and he'll say
in a different tone, calmer tone
it's okay
thank you so much
I think like
when
Lucius wakes up I think
Sentry would gently sort of
place a hand on his shoulder
give him a gentle tap and then sort of
turn and watch as the petals
are blowing off the ship.
She just watched those
just gently blowing away.
Yeah.
They were petals as well.
Yeah.
Aww.
Yeah.
I guess the crew, they're cheering, right?
They're all just like...
The wolf pack all just like yeah
yeah the wolf pack is just like yeah like everyone's cheering howard's just like oh
thank goodness i'm so glad the captain's all right oh are you okay captain graylana is trying
to be professional she's like wiping her eyes like obviously in tears and kind of wiping her
hands on a few cloths and she's just like now now, I know that we have used magic to fix the captain,
but we should still give him a chance to rest and recover.
I don't know how this ritual spell will have any wider effects.
We should let him get his rest.
Nobody crowd him.
Faeith kind of pushes through the crowd
and wraps a little kind of wolfy face and kind of
buries it into Lucius's shoulders.
Hello.
Oh,
you're okay.
And she's just kind of like crying.
You can see Kamara is kind of,
Kamara is like stood a little bit behind everybody with our arms folded.
And then she kind of turns away and Quill with your perception,
you see her like wiping her eyes and
sniffling and yeah
you got her but she's just like
well of course he better be alright
we need someone to pay us
yes I'll get on that sorry
it's delayed
can someone I suppose I can
give you a bit of time I suppose I should let you rest
thank you can someone please I suppose I can give you a bit of time I suppose I should let you rest thank you
can someone help Quill
and the rest of you who haven't seen him
his face is
very much badly burnt
I mean I feel like in
watching Lucius like
for all that time
there was searing pain but but it was just like,
it was long lost.
The physical pain of that was nothing compared
to the emotional pain of losing his best friend.
Well, yeah, and it's also adrenaline and everything else.
Yeah, 100%.
And the ship sails on. The ship sails on you do you are starting to feel it
the ship now i'm starting to feel it okay yeah yeah uh yeah gray lano will look over and say
quill come with me both you and the captain should come down to the the medic uh the med bay
i can give you a little something for the pain to help, but I'm afraid that that scarring
not even
Miss Nova's magic will be able to repair
it.
It hurts for now, but... But I can give you something for the pain.
That would
be appreciated. I'm very used to
scars at this point.
Aayla, can you...
If you can help Captain Lucius down into the
medbay and sentry, if you can bring Quillek,
I don't think I have the strength to carry either of them.
Yeah, I'll
pick up Lucius and carry
him down.
I'll help Quill.
Yeah. Grey Larn will look over and be like,
Nova, if you want to come, you should come.
Yeah, she's just going to nod her head
and just, yeah, just... i think at this point i think uh
nova's just actually holding on to lucius just like she can't even let go she only just registered
like his arm or like his hand and just can't let go yeah that's fine i think ayla would walk
with you so you can keep doing that uh but yeah you guys make your way
down and i'm not gonna make any checks but yeah quill you are kind of given a sedative and something
for the pain um she bandages bandages up the face as best as she can um but yeah it's gonna you know
it's gonna take a little while for the pain to go away um some sedatives just put some ice on it yeah this is a really big
uh lucius considering that the the heal greater injury ritual will basically repair the injury
things like low hit points you are still on one hit point um you have still got
you are still tired you feel exhausted but you are alive at least and you can breathe but gray
lana will have rest and will keep a close eye on you and i think that i believe all of you
should take a very well deserved long rest oh yes please i can't i can't believe that i only one just learned
heal greater injury i know and then two have to use it immediately so i'm immediately out of all
the materials that i need materials for materials for one and i was like hey it'll be good for like
the storm valley like blah blah blah and it's like, no, Dragon Turtle, frogs.
Dude, just that two on the injury check,
that was, I wasn't expecting.
When you rolled that two, I was like,
oh, that's bad.
Hey, Mark, if that scroll was from Aegis V,
what are... You're not going to tell us, are you?
Yeah, what would have happened? Of course I'm not going to tell you.
Of course I'm not going to tell you. Come on.
Okay, alright.
Purple magic, innit?
Stuff would have happened.
Calus Starbate knows your location.
That was like
five different people just in
multiple levels of trouble
at different times. I don't think that
ever stopped that episode.
But look, you guys got through it.
You got through it okay.
Even when things went bad with bad rolls
and bad saves, you still did good.
We did it.
I would have died.
I rolled my third death save.
Really?
You would have done.
Did we buy stuff to cast Revivify?
Did we do that?
I've got Revivify.
I'm sure we did that.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, we did.
However, Revivify wouldn't have healed the injury.
So Revivify will restore somebody who has lost hit points.
If you have an injury like that or other similar injuries,
like your arms being cut off or anything like that,
Revivify doesn't bring them back. So in that case,
if Lucius had died, Revivify
wouldn't have helped him. Neither would Ray's dead.
Not until the actual injury can
be healed. So that's the kind of thing where
Revivify won't save you from that
stuff.
I've got the materials for a Ray's
dead, but yeah.
Wouldn't have fixed
yeah
that's where you would need to do like regenerate
then raised dead or raised dead
immediately cast regenerate you know
basically you would have cast revivify
and Lucius would have been in the exact same situation
he was in before where he's just like
I can't breathe choking down air
oh but we got the shard
right we got the shard right we got the shard
you did
I need
to go in and make some adjustments
but I'm assuming over the long rest
you will attune to it Nova
two things happen
one it will become a
plus two weapon now
so he will gain an additional plus one plus one.
Um,
but also,
uh,
Tiang's gold intelligence will be raised to 10,
which means that Tiangong can now talk.
He's smarter than Sentry.
What?
Is he?
My intelligence is eight.
Mine is nine
so the last thing that happens
is as you are
resting in your cabin and you are focusing
on the spear
it merges with the sword but the blue
the blue line
the crack that was mended
by Lucius remains
now through the blade
itself a kind of
scar
if you will of the Eternas
and when it is
finished you hear
again a kind of chorus
of voices but it does blend
together to form one
audible voice
hello Nova
thank you
i think given everything nova's been through today she's just gonna she's got no answers
she's just gonna no answers you don't need every emotion into tiangong sure tiangong knows this it
can feel this they can feel this uh you just hear them say i am grateful for everything
my intellect is still limited my memories mostly erased but all you have done, I know. Thank you.
And that is where we will end
today's episode
of High Rollers.
All you have done, I know.
That's powerful shit.
Yeah. That's cool.
Dang.
What an episode.
Holy crap.
Oh, that was exhausting as well.
Good job.
Yeah.
Frogs, eh?
Yeah, Kim.
Frogs. I hope it's all okay, obviously.
We'll chat afterwards.
I didn't know it was going to happen, but yeah.
I just want to explain really quickly.
I just want people to know I'm fine.
I'm absolutely fine. It's just that i lost a friend recently and it was cancer related and um i went to her funeral
on wednesday and um one of the last things that happened to her was her she had fluid in her lungs
and so um it just got a bit real for me for a second there.
No, of course you wouldn't know.
That's not your fault.
That is not your fault.
It's just one of those really dorky things that like sometimes D&D, right?
Like it just, it makes you feel the things
that you've kind of been putting off for a long time
and I've kind of not been thinking about this for a long time.
So this is good.
This is healthy.
This is fine.
I'm okay. I just want to explain to everyone. I'm okay. This is good this is healthy this is fine um and i'm okay i just want to explain to everyone i'm okay this is good this is therapy um and i'm glad lucius isn't dead
yeah and i want i would like to say as well you know that um you guys don't need to apologize
and um just that i want to say that these guys, High Rollers,
they've had my back all week and they've been fucking amazing
and especially doing all the virus of racism stuff this week.
I just realized I've done like five end virus streams on it this week.
So I just want to say a huge thank you.
One to you guys for supporting me both through the funeral
and the loss of my friend and through fighting racism
and dealing with this.
Sorry I just kind of fell apart a little bit
today. You've done amazing.
It's been a very tiring week.
You've done amazingly.
So thank you everybody and thank you to all
the love and chat as well. Sorry I fell apart
a bit. It just got a bit like
it just made me feel things.
It was one of those ones where
as soon as it was going
and I obviously could see what was happening,
I was like, yeah, I get it.
I hope that you know that it wasn't obviously,
it was nothing, it was just the way that, you know.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
A hundred percent.
Like, you know, it's not your fault.
Absolutely not.
I think this is just, you know, Dungeons & Dragons, right?
You know, sometimes it does just hit you right where you need it
and, like, it helps you process things that happen in real life like it helps you process
things that happening so yeah and it's a game where we can fix these things that we can't always
fix in real life as well where we can cast magic spells and make things okay so yeah sure would be
nice wouldn't it would be nice sure would sure would
I'm fine
please carry on
will we have
ravs next week
probably not next week
but the week after
we'll probably try
and get ravs in
as Johan
to finish off this
Valley of the Storm stuff
because I think that
we're getting close
in on that as well
we're gonna light
Maela up
no
yep
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