High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #89 | Domain of the Arcane (Part 1)

Episode Date: October 26, 2020

The team explore the Temple of H'esper with an old and extremely patient friend! Today we're joined by Ravs playing Johan! Go show him some love here: https://www.twitch.tv/ravs_ Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes (and more) on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Thanks to our sponsors D&D Beyond! D&D Beyond is the official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Create your FREE account now and start digitising your campaigns here: www.dndbeyond.com/ Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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free. Welcome back to Aroes. Last time, after dreams and visions plague their sleep, the party make their way towards Voxar, a continent they have visited once before, though not by choice. Here, they will find the Valley of the Storms, a place that has called Quillik Ad Kalar since his journey began. A man named Johan waits for them there, as does a mission sent by Hesper, the god of sky and magic.

But as their airship, the Storm Chaser, approaches Voxar, they see the continent is engulfed in an epic storm like none that they have seen before. The only solace in the face of such an event comes from Nova Vija, who has diligently crafted a new prosthetic wing for Quill. Though hesitant, he tries it on and once again feels the freedom and joy of flight. The storm beckons, however, and as the storm chaser plunges in, the crew battle against fierce winds and storm-thick fog, a tornado, and eventually, on their last desperate stretch before the temple,

a rampaging storm that is almost alive with fury. Aayla takes her place after a vision from Quill guides her to channel the lightning that strikes the ship into her own body. The pain is intense, her body scarred, but with each strike, she is taken to another place. A being speaks with her, a divine, a true god from a time before Eros. The party struggles to keep the storm chaser flying as each bolt sends Aayla to speak with this divine force. Eventually, he reveals himself as a divine who fought Hadar. He offers advice and gives Aayla a gift before imparting his name, Thor.

The storm chaser lands at the temple and the party make their way into the entrance, where a lonely fisherman appears to be waiting for them. And that is where we begin today's episode. You guys have made your way to the front of the temple and to describe

it again, the temple is built into the stormwall mountains very minas tirith style it's set deep into it a giant statue of hesper this winged humanoid rises hundreds of feet into the air over the temple entrance itself one of hesper's wings is broken and one of his eyes has been scarred by lightning and the staff that he normally holds aloft. The tip has been broken to form into a spear. The storm still rages on around the valley. The thick gray fog crackles with dark purple lightning.

But here around the temple, it seems that there is at least momentarily peace. seems that there is at least momentarily peace standing at a long hallway that seems to stretch into the mountain a figure emerged from the darkness a fisherman do you want to describe johan again for us uh rams for those who don't remember what he looks like absolutely um he has got like kind of long brownish hair the artwork's on the screen there and like a kind of nice beard going on uh he's wearing these nice bluish greys and stuff he's got a bit of a neckerchief on the go as well he's still got his burnt

jagged fishing rod that's been struck by lightning he's got a little bit more grey in his hair now since you've last seen him but that's pretty much him but a bit wet, a bit dirty been waiting for you guys for a while here. Yeah.

Yeah. How pissed off does he look? Like, what kind of vibe is he given? Very calm. Looks very calm. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Very, very good. And yeah, the temple seems to stretch on, but yeah, you see Johan. What do you guys want to do? I hand it over to you now. I think Lucius will take a moment of just distinguishing the silhouette, and then so the features come into view,

and then his eyes just sort of widen into a happy grin. It's like... It's Johan, everyone. It's Johan. Hello. Hello. And I'm going to walk towards them. You're okay. And you're not out of your mind

this time. I'm not. That's right. Last time I was in a bit of a different way. It was berries. You ate some mushrooms. Oh, berries. That's what it was. I wasn't there. I was dead.

Carry on. It's true. There was a bit after that where everyone was of sound mind and physicality. There was also a bit on the ship. That was peery. You know, last time you saw us...

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You haven't actually... Have you met Sentry? Yeah, you have. You met her on the ship. Yeah, because we were on the ship. We were on the storm chaser. Yeah, that's correct.

When you rode off on Nimbus. Yeah. And you see in the hallway behind Johan there is a small little white cloud that just kind of Oh wait, is this my first time on the show? Yeah, I was there.

Very cool. The first time was carrying the dead bodies around. Yeah. Really bothering Aayla, I remember. Aayla's just lying on the ground still. Just from after going through

being hit by lightning so many times and she just like raises an arm like, what's up? That's it. I see you all made it through the storm without my aid. And I can't look at Ayla. At a great cost, it would seem.

Well, we can definitely say that your prophecy came true. Ayla conducted the storm. So thanks for that vision. Yeah, thanks for that, buddy. Thanks for that, buddy. Thanks for that, buddy. Really, really appreciated you giving us that vision so that I could get struck by lightning several times. Yeah, real good times. Had you met me when you said you would,

it might not have been so bad. The storms have really gotten worse, a lot worse. Well aware, well aware. Johan, a kind of funny story. Funny story, yeah. You go, you fill that one in. It involves kind of this extra planet, kind of out of Erois kind of adventure.

We left, we were taken, and we had to kind of make our way back. And that kind of took a lot of our time, actually. We made some friends in some flying ships in the Astral Sea. It was a thing. We made some enemies. Powerful enemies. Demons.

A lot of enemies. Has he been on the berries, too? No. This is all very true. I have a question, just quickly, Rhiannon. I can't remember if... The last time Johan met you was before Sentry found the Prime, right?

Yes. It was before, yeah. So to Johan's mind, as a point, Sentry looks different. Sentry looks taller, more armoured. There is a physical... There's definitely a big physical change to the way Sentry looks different sentry looks taller more armored there is a physical there's definitely a big physical change to the way sentry looks um her the previously she had like a purple orb in like her chest that glowed it's now golden it's like a golden color and her armor is slightly

different and she seems larger and she has a big golden cape made of light uh that's around her shoulders um so yeah that is one thing that Johan would probably notice is quite different about the team. And Quill has a mechanical arm. And a messed up face as well. That's true. Quill's face is all

mixed up. Okay, I'll look up at Sentry and see. Bit of an upgrade then. And I see you have your wing back. I do, I do. Thanks to Nova. I can fly now. Which is perfect. It's the best.

A lot's changed. There's also one more thing, well, at least for me. Tiangong, this is Johan. What do I see? Tiangong. Hang is Johan. What do I see? Tiangong. Hang on, I need to think of something here. Oh. Okay.

So yeah, it doesn't really look any different to your eyes, Johan. It's the same sword Nova's had before. Tiangong takes a moment. There's a moment where he doesn't say anything, or they don't say anything, and then there is a... Greetings.

Johan. From in my head? Or, like, from the sword? Yeah, it would be in your head, yes. That's how you would perceive it, yes. It would be in your brain. I'm gonna, like, look around, like, what magic is this?

Have you met another friend? It's... Uh, well, no. Tiangong was here with us the whole time, but Tiangong was weak. I had to find more shards of the sword to

pull Tiangong back together, but they're in a state where they can speak now. I am an Eterna. Pleased to meet you. And I'm going to hold out my hand to the sword. That is unnecessary. I am still unable of taking a more corporeal form.

All right. Well, as you can see much has changed here since you guys were late. Yes, tell us about you Johan, we're so sorry we took so long. You're well, you're okay? Nothing's hurt you? I sat on the top of a mountain for about a month or so awaiting you as the storms worsened. More of those purple armoured men

made their way through the storm and eventually it got too bad. I had to make my way in and I just only hoped that you would find your way here, but you're here at last. We're going to have to get in there before things get too bad. Right.

We do. I don't suppose you saw any snake ladies leading the charge? Did I see any snake ladies? You would have seen no snake ladies. You would have seen... No snake ladies. You kind of lost track of the purple, the remnant soldiers. I think that Johan would call them all the Valkyrian soldiers. You would have lost track of them two weeks ago when they came into the storm. You waited and then you traveled through the fog itself.

Yeah. Nothing to your knowledge. I've not really seen anyone for weeks. I'm glad the first faces I saw are yours, I suppose. That's good. A good thing.

Just full disclosure, I had a vision before we came in here of this snake lady, Zarkira, she's called. We might meet some resistance from her in there. And she's quite a high-ranking officer in the Starbane forces, but it's not a thing to worry about. Not a thing to worry about. Don't worry about it. It's fine. I am afraid I don't... Johan, you've been

eating well and keeping exercised and strong and on your own here for so long in these storms. You've not been struck by any lightning, have you? Several times, but that does not really bother me.

I feel stronger than I ever have. Okay, I'll take your word for it. I would say Lucius. Lucius and Aayla, most of all. Lucius, because of your innate sorcery magic, relating very much to Johan's sorcery magic, but Aayla, the connection to the storm here. Johan definitely

is exuding an aura of considerable power. He's much more magically powerful than he was before when you met him outside of the valley of the storms i think it may be proximity to this storm i i'm uncertain your connection to it is is very strong. Do you sense the unease in the air, the fact that it's not natural? My, pardon my pun, but I'm afraid that my memory is quite clouded about anything that's really gone on here these past couple of weeks. As things have become more intense, I find myself in a haze of sorts well but wait I feel like it's something I feel something in in this temple but I'm not sure what it is we're here to clear things up okay and it's it's really good to see you again.

And together we can finally cleanse this place. So what say everybody? We make the most of Aayla's sacrifice getting us through here and do some good. Totally cool. I got a belt.

That's fun. You did. You got a very cool belt. I got a cool belt. You see the entrance leads deep into the mountain, maybe about 15 foot wide, carved from stone. There are no doors, it's just like an open pathway that leads

itself in. It's a bit longer than what the map may suggest to you. I've just put you at an entry point, but it goes in quite a distance. You'll need to start making your way down there. It is pitch black. Those of you who don't have darkvision, you will need a light source. There is the grey clouds

overhead mean that within 10-15 feet of stepping inside it becomes very, very dark. I'll just wave my hands and have a couple of dancing lights pop up around me. Sure. Yeah, that gives you enough dim light to see by.

Yeah. Yeah, just let me know when you guys start making your way down. And preferably what order you start walking down in. Yeah, as a temple of Hesper, what's the sort of decoration around here? Is there like wall art? Or is this like a library like the last one? Right now you're still stood outside. of decoration around here? Is there like wall art? Or is this like a library like the last one? Right now you're still stood outside.

You're kind of stood outside the entrance out in like the actual valley itself. There's just this long stone corridor ahead of you. Okay, well I will be behind Sentry.

Okay. No matter what. I think Sentry will go quite far ahead. I think maybe like first, I suppose. Yeah, just to keep everybody safe.

Yeah, so you're leading the way? Sure. Leading the way? Yeah yeah just put yourself in an order on the map and then i'll describe it kind of thing um because like i said this the map isn't an exact representation of where you are right now um so lucius and johan uh okay so we've got century nova uh and ala all at the front and then uh quill johan, and Lucius moving your way behind. The dim light cast by Johan's dancing lights and those of you who have dark vision, the passageway extends. A few minutes pass as you walk down it.

It's been abandoned. Pieces of the ceiling of the crumbled stone of the mountain have become loose, dislodged, and fallen to the ground but as you get closer to what you perceive to be the end of this corridor the walls do begin to change they take on a more decorative format and you begin to see murals carved into the stone walls themselves each of the murals is of hesper the first Each of the murals is of Hesper. The first depicts Hesper protecting himself from arrows with some sort of barrier. The second shows Hesper summoning birds and other winged creatures around him. The third is of Hesper gazing into an orb and seeing a far-off forest.

The third is of Hesper calming an angry crowd. That was the fourth, sorry. The fifth is Hesper shooting fire and ice into the air from his outstretched palms. The sixth is of Hesper creating multiple copies of himself. The seventh is of Hesper bringing a

dead person back to life and the eighth is hesper turning a pile of rock into a pile of gold there is an inscription below each one it is repeated in common oran and elven and it reads i give you the winds and the skies to inspire your sense of wonder and curiosity. I give you magic to make your dreams reality. The passageway eventually opens up into a large temple chamber. It's in ruins you can see that many of the pews and stone benches and pillars that would have once kind of decorated this place have fallen to ruin or collapsed eight pillars still remain large almost two or three people wide each of the pillars is carved with robed figures and arcane symbols.

You can see that further in, just beyond the range of Johan's dancing lights, there is a kind of shallow stone basin carved into the ground, a kind of dipping bowl full of tiny holes. Beyond that, there appears to be at the very far edge of the temple a large statue of Hesper himself. A winged humanoid with a pair of angelic wings, a very serene calm face, a staff in one hand and an open book

in the other. A golden disc of metal is embedded into the floor just in front of the statue. And if those of you who look up will notice that a similar golden disc is embedded into the ceiling opposing the one embedded into the ground. So a golden disc set into the floor and then a golden disc set into the ceiling of the temple room itself.

It's a very large chamber. There are a few passageways leading off to the side. But yeah, it seems to be empty. You can begin to see scattered around the stone basin. You do begin to see what look to be bodies on the floor. Oh, can I see what kind of bodies they are? Valkyrian or... Well, you'll need to move a bit closer.

You'll need to move a bit closer to determine more detail. The darkvision range will only extend so far. Those of you who have it and those who don't, the dim light is only about 30 feet. So, yeah. Okay. Johan, how far have you come into this place already? I waited by the door.

Okay. I figured there may be trouble in here and it'd be best to wait for you. I'd be foolish to try it on my own. Well, body's up ahead. Something came in here and something

met some foe. One thing I will say is in the shadows of the darkness, just beyond dark vision and dim light, there are humanoid bodies, but there's a body of some other creature as well. A larger

quadruped, wings, maybe fur. It's hard to tell. Okay. Can I cast Divine Sense? As you wish. You can, absolutely. What's the range on Divine Sense and what's the effect? 60 feet. So it just detects any celestial fiends or undead within 60 feet.

And the range is up to the center of the stone circle. That's 60 feet up to there, I think. Oh, no, 70, sorry. Yeah, you can move forward a little bit and then just... I'll move forward a little bit and cast it. Yeah, I'll do that. Sure. So up to about this middle of the stone center.

Yeah. Hmm. I would say there are no... In that range, you don't detect any Celestial Fiends, Fae or Undead. The only thing is, I mean, those are pretty fresh bodies. Now that Sentry moves up closer, you can maybe see the outline of valkyrian armor

the same kind of like very sharp clean modern edges to their armor the weapons are all fairly mundane swords bows that sort of thing there's also a few metal plates magitek equipment has been broken in here but you don't see any signs of any constructs or anything like that. Okay. Right. I guess I'll relay that back and say, yeah, Valkyrian up ahead. Freshly dead by the looks. They were here recently. We have to figure out how they were killed. If it's, I mean, knowing Hesper, it's some kind of magical traps.

My money is on the giant creature that's at the end there i don't know what type of foes we'll face in here but um it's imperative that you all look to the end of this temple. I look out for you too, Johan. Well, this is my purpose, to do this. And, you know, you are going to do so much more, so just look

out for each other in here. Johan, I thought I had a very singular purpose, too. The path continues. It always does. Is anybody moving further in, or are you just lingering back here for the time being? can i step forward to like where sentry is and have my dancing lights like fall over to like the bodies yeah yeah you can absolutely do that uh i'm just gonna bring up another little map here for myself um so yeah imagine you place your let's see if i've got a little token we can use uh yeah i'll use this little cat um so where do you want to put them you want to put the

near the bodies the little dancing lights range or anything uh yeah 60 feet 60 feet 120 feet sorry yeah you could you could put it in the center and it illuminates up the space yeah significantly more okay so as the light floats over leaving some of you in darkness, but illuminating up the area ahead, you do see some more creatures. At first, they would have blended in with the stone, but in the corners, just before two hallways, you can see badly damaged stone creatures, made to resemble angelic figures,

but with more avian faces kind of like a statue of horus that you might see in ancient egypt kind of a big hawk face but then big folded up wings clutching staffs they're set into the wall but you can see parts of their body have gashes through it like they've been cut with weapons or pieces of them have been attacked by spells um they seem to be set into the walls the creature that you can now see the bodies the bodies of the humanoids they are definitely valkyrian soldiers mixture of quite young and quite old um figures of various different races humans dwarves um maybe an eladrin in there as well uh but the striking creature is kind of spread amongst the bodies,

blood splashed across the ground, blood covering their giant leonine paws. There is a giant creature with the body of a lion and then a more cat-like regal face. They wear ceremonial armor around their shoulders and around a headdress, all decorated in emblems of Hesper. A giant pair of wings are folded out and they have been killed by multiple

wounds and various other blows. Quill, can you discern what happened here? I can use the eye I was thinking of just detecting the magic so we can avoid it ourselves

Hopefully they only target Valkyrian but we can't be sure I don't know how protected I would be here These pictures of Hesper You know Hesper better than us Is he likely to have set some traps like this? What's that gold

glowy circle thing? That's transmutation. It's the schools of magic. Look at everyone. There's schools of magic. Yeah, Aayla's like, what? Go on, Nova. Quill, what was

the purpose of this temple? Why was it built? What is it here for? That's a great question, Quill. Tom Hazel. Hello, Tom. What's the purpose of any temple? Well, some temples are a rite of passage,

some require sacrifice, some are for ceremonial purposes, I guess all are for worship, but I feel like if we knew what this temple, the purpose was for this temple, we'd know perhaps some of the defenses, some of the reasons things may be attacked. If I had a temple, yeah.

If I had a temple, it would be a temple of knowledge. And I'd attack people who didn't put their books back on the shelves in the correct categorical order. That's quite an aggressive... Surely you'd find them. Look, you must put them back alphabetically. If anyone came into my temple and they were a bit of a dick, then I'd hit them.

Exactly. So why would Hesper... I mean, she's practically a lightning god anyway, so, you know, who knows in the future. These are things we have to take into consideration. Why is there a big Leonine creature in ceremonial robes?

Would it be passive to most worshipers i mean i wouldn't be impressed if if i wouldn't i wouldn't be the most dedicated worshiper of hespa if as soon as i enter his temple i get mauled to death by a giant lion if you see what i mean i just want to kind of i mean if yours is answer these questions it's oh a temple... I feel like if yours is a temple of literary knowledge, then Hesper's would be one of arcane knowledge. Maybe these creatures are here to display his prowess with spells. Maybe they're just to showcase all the different schools. That's what all these pictures are, the eight schools.

But if anyone is a master of all of them, well, it's Hesper. But in terms of the defences, he has to be protecting the spear, I suppose, or some kind of repository of all of his knowledge, all his arcane knowledge. It may be

that these men came in and attacked the creature looking for what they want. Hard to tell exactly. You guys are still looking at this from very, very far away. You know, like 60, 70 feet ahead of you is where the action took place. But there's definitely blood on the ground. The dancing lights is illuminating kind of streaks and splashes of blood.

The weapons are scattered all over the place. Some of the soldiers look really young, like they're teenagers, and some of them look to be more like in their 40s, maybe 50s. It's a very weird mix. Could just be Valkyrian vandals up to no good, just desecrating a holy place.

Wouldn't put it past Valkyrian to do something like that. I feel like Valkyrian always have orders. They're not. Valkyrian look for technology. Valkyrian forces look for technology and power. So if there's an artifact or a spell or something here that could benefit the Valkyrian Empire, that's why they're here.

Wow. or something here that could benefit the Valkyrian Empire, that's why they're here. Well, Quill is here to claim it too. I guess we're not going to get anywhere without going in. I mean... I'm not going to say it. I'm going to be sure. I'm going to detect magic. I'm not going to waste 10 minutes casting it I'm just going to spell slot it

And then what are you looking at in particular? I'll take a look at the golden plates You're going to need to move up to that golden disc, it's right in front of the statue up ahead It's beyond the stone basin Okay, so I mean detect magic has a range of 30 feet.

30 feet, so we need to get pretty close. Is there anything I can see, like traps or...? You don't see any arcane sigils? I think that when you look at the pillars, as you're moving past the pillars, each of the pillars is enchanted with a glyph that glows in the colour of the magic of the school of magic and each one is clearly a you know represents a school of magic as you summarized um each of

these pillars and the murals behind is a representation of each of the schools of magic abjuration conjuration uh i'm gonna remember all of their names now you know them so it's well the other thing to note quill is you would notice it is in a particular order it's abjuration conjuration um divination your own school of magic um enchantment evocation illusion necromancy transmutation um and it's set in an order as you go down the pillars basically uh when you guys start making your way closer to the center yeah you can now see that a battle took place here uh there are five valkyrian soldiers bodies there are blood trails you do get the sense that there were more creatures than this there were more valkyrians here there are footsteps the lead off to the uh east um but you also now notice yeah yeah, this Leonine creature. I would like everyone to make a history. No, history or arcana.

I'll let you choose. Okay. Okay. Oh, dear. That's a good old minus one to anything. Woo! Anybody 21 for Nova? Go on.

Anybody get over 15 apart from Nova? Because know never got 21 lucius 16 anybody else i didn't nope nope okay nova nova and lucius you you identify this creature you both know that it is a type of sphinx now sphinxes come in different types nova you would know that this is um a version of a sphinx called a gynosphinx. There is another, a more powerful form of sphinx, but this is the slightly lesser powerful one. Lucius, you've probably been told stories, like Nanny No Fear probably told you stories about sphinxes and clever heroes who would solve their riddles

and get precious treasures and those sorts of things and place curses on people that couldn't answer them and stuff like that. That's your kind of knowledge that this is a sphinx and that they're quite magical. They have magical abilities. They normally are guardians of sacred places. They provide tests. Nova, you know a bit more.

You know that this is a gynosphinx. They are normally placed here, created by powerful beings to serve as protectors and guardians, especially related to the gods. So it would make sense that they are here. They are also seers and oracles. They have a great power over magic and knowledge. So seeing them in a temple of Hesper actually, yeah,

makes a lot of sense that these creatures would be servants of Hesper's really. They have the ability to know the past of objects and items they can you know do all sorts of magic uh especially divination magic but this one is dead um very dead okay very very very dead this is nanny norfid uh she gave me a book about this. She looks different. It's a sink. A sink? What? Yes. Very powerful beings. Incredible.

I mean, tragic as well. We need to be careful. Nova's like... Yeah, as you guys look around around are you looking at anything else yes lucius it's called a sphinx uh that's very insightful of you um it makes sense that it would be here um a seer and an oracle it is pretty sad that it's been killed they're very powerful knowledgeable beings quill when you look around

with your detect magic 30 feet, what are you looking at? Are you moving anywhere else? Right now you can only really see this stone basin and the pillars that's within range. If I can't see any traps on the floor or anything then I'll move up to the stone basin and see if there's anything

special there. There's no magic but looking at it closer, it is a kind of recessed stone bowl, but there are dozens of tiny holes, and they seem to go quite deep, and you can almost feel like a

very faint breeze, like very, very faint, though, coming from these holes into the basin. As you are stood there looking at this you hear a kind of rumble and you see that you didn't see them because they are inward of the doors the doors you came in slam shut uh connecting with stone and then lightning surges throughout the walls, the floors, the doors of the entire temple. I would like

everyone to make a dexterity saving throw, please. Sentry, sentry, sentry, sentry, sentry, sentry, sentry, sentry. Oh, I rolled a negative. Quill and Nova do not get the plus three. They don't know. They're too far away. They're too far away.

So I need to know who gets a lower than a 17. I got 15. 15 for Johan. 14 for moi. 14 for Sentry, so two fails. No, 18, sorry. I've got to add this thing.

18. Is that it? 20 for Nova. 20 for Nova? 25. Johan's the only one who failed? Yeah, I passed. All right.

So five lightning damage. Do you have resistance to lightning, Johan? I do. I do, yeah. So two lightning damage. The energy arcs through the room. Those of you who are quick enough manage to jump up into the air as the lightning passes over the floor or bursts from the pillars.

But you see the bodies that were laying on the ground and the two giant stone statues as the lightning touches them. You see the bodies begin to twitch and lurch. And a disembodied voice kind of echoes out just like no too late you must and it just goes kind of it's cut off the giant stone creatures and you can see that their bodies are um just covered in sort of lightning, their eyes begin to flash and glow blue. The bodies, as they open their mouths, just this dark blue glow inside their throats

and in their eyes kind of gives rise. And you just hear them kind of hiss, hate, fear, rage. And it's going to be initiative, everybody. Oh, that's how they're activated that's a rude bold of you to assume it's hespa hespa wouldn't hurt me i am his champion lucius is that six total yeah Yeah. Johan, seven total?

Yeah. Whoa. So fast. Quill. 21. 21. Ayla. 20.

20. Sentry. 13. 13. And Nova. 22. 22. Gotta go one higher. 13 13 and Nova 22 gotta go one higher well Nova you are the first to react

as yeah these five Valkyrian bodies are alive alive is a strong word they have become animated by the lightning that passed through them as have the two stone statues okay I think i'm just gonna straight up two of them are right next to you okay so my shield is activated um

is it bonus action i'm still learning how to use Tiangong's shield form. But yeah, my shield will activate. It's a physical shield, so yep. Yeah. I'm going to attack with Tiangong and Green Flame Blade. I said it right. Look at me. I'm a hero. So hit one on the one nearest to me is 23 to hit.

That hits. Roll your damage. Four, seven, eight, 9, 10, 11 points of slashing damage. Sorry, normally I write all my attacks out because I'm never first, but I'm first this time. That's fine.

When you strike it, Nova, roll the extra flame damage. Once you finish the damage on this one, I'm going to need you to make a deck save. Okay. So the one that I've hit with my sword takes 5, 6, 7 points

of flame damage. And the other one, the one next to it gets 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 points of flame damage. next to it gets eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen points of flame damage you see that both of these bodies the lightning coursing through them seems to disperse some of the fire um they are resistant to fire um and i need you to now to make two deck saving throws actually for me please um as you strike the first one as it cuts

through the creature lightning erupts from its wounds and arcs straight into you and then as the fire torches the one next to you the same thing happens as soon as its body is burnt lightning arcs out of it towards you god first saving throw 15 and a 13. Right, 15 is a success. You take half damage. You take four lightning damage. However, the other one is a failure.

That's 11 points of lightning damage. So these two blasts as you strike the creatures launch into you. You can see that their internal bodies are being channeled with lightning that reacts as they are struck. Holten, you don't want to move? I can't really without them attacking me, so I will stay where I am for now and probably regret it

when the stone statues do something. I'll be fair to you. That was their reaction to use that kind of arc of lightning that struck you, so they couldn't make attacks of opportunity against you if you move. Oh, damn. Okay. They've used their reaction. I'm going to hop behind a pillar. 5, 10... Sure.

Well, while you do that, Quillek, add Kalah. It is your turn. Um, question. My flight says that a flying speed of 50 feet while not wearing medium or heavy armour. And I am wearing medium armour. Oh, well.

Guess you can't fly right now. I just can't fly. Oh, shit. You just need to wear light armour. Then you can fly. Just strip. Oh, okay. It's almost like there's a payoff for high AC or flying.

That's weird. Okay, I got it. Okay, I want to check something. So I'm going to move 5, 10, 15, 20. I want to move down behind Sentry and with my 30 feet of vision, can I see the pillar that has necromancy on it? The pillars don't have the the pillars actually well they do have the symbols on them yeah you can see the pillar that has necromancy it would be the seventh one it'd be this one i think um is anything different with

it is what i mean is it no no okay okay cool all right um i just wanted to see if if these pillars were the things powering these individual things but no that's cool um in that case i would like to cast aid uh so three people i'll go with Ayla, Lucia, and Sentra. You all get plus ten. Ayla, you're next, by the way. Ten. Ten maximum hit points. Increase to your maximum hit points.

Oh, sweet. Thank you. It's different to temporary hit points. This increases your maximum, so you can be healed up to it as well. Oh. And that's me cool uh ayla um hello i will rage first

of all um and then i'm gonna go up and hit the doody What's It on the right hand side. The one Bobbly. That was the one that the flames hit. Cool.

I'll give him a shmeck. Sure. 18 plus 12. That will hit. Yay! So that is going to be... New damage. New damage. Yes, because you have your highest rank now.

Oh. 16, 17, 18... 9... Wait. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. 19 damage from the hammer. 19 damage.

Okay. So you strike this thing and it rips through parts of its body. I'm going to make a check here. DC5 plus damage taken. 1924. yeah I can't physically save against that you smash the hammer into this creature and you rip part of its body open part of its torso goes flying and yeah it just flies

back dead excellent nice and then you step up And hit the next one This one was the one that Nova's heavily damaged As well, so this one's very badly damaged Same one, so 18 plus 12 again Yeah 30 is enough to hit these Shambling lightning corpses And that one was one less

Damage, so 18 damage With the hammer 18 damage, so I can't physically make the save. So, yep. Again, you kind of bring the hammer down, crushing its brain, just

demolishing its skull, and it just collapses to the ground. Anything else on your turn, Ava? I'm just going to move next to the group so that people are within my aura, which will give them lightning resistance. Ah, very good.

That's around you, right? So that anybody within 10 feet. If they're within 10 feet of me, they take half damage from lightning. So that's everybody but Quill right now. Soz boo. Actually, can I move here and then I'll get everyone, right? Then you'll get everyone. I i move here and then i'll get everyone right then you'll get everyone yeah okay perfect the shambling bodies rush forward um they're going to rush several different targets one goes for johan one goes for lucius and then one is going to come

around here and go for sentry um they don't seem particularly tactical they just rush towards either the closest target they can or the one that they think presents the most easiest opportunity. So against Johan, that is a nine to hit. That's a miss. Lucius, 15 to hit. Yeah, that'll hit. I hit Lucius.

So that's going to be six points of bludgeoning damage. Lucius. So that's going to be six points of bludgeoning damage. Lucius. And then six points of lightning damage. Well, I've got resistance on that. So that'd be three points of lightning damage. And then sentry eight to hit you.

So just clank to hit your shield. And they just move with this kind of screeching, disembodied movement. They just hiss these same words. Rage. Fear. Hate. They just slam their bodies up against you, coursing with lightning. Sentry.

Um. Hmm. Dude's right there. Okay, I'm going to move. Do I move? Do I move? Sentry. Um. Hmm. Dude's right there. Okay, I'm gonna move. Do I move? Do I move? Yeah, I'm gonna move up to here and then 5, 10, 15, 20, 20, yeah. And then can I cast enlarge?

Mm-hmm. And become large in charge, please. So, Johan, you see Sentry's form. This kind of visor encloses over her mouth like a helmet, and then her body seems to shift and warp as it grows to a large size. She becomes like 10 feet tall. I'm just going to look up and all like... Yeah, and then can I attack the two in front of your hand is enlarge an action to cast or

bonus oh yeah it is it's an action to cast sorry yeah that's right do you have any bonus actions uh that's all good i'll just get ready i'm gonna hit them okay well as you enlarge, the large stone statue embedded into the wall pulls itself free and begins... Here we go. Oh, goody. Towards the nearest threat, which, to be fair, is sentry. Here we go. Ever since you learned enlarge,

every battle has been like a Power Rangers fight. I know. Yes. I mean, Tom, if you knew in large, face it, we'd all be doing it. We'd all be droiding up every single fight. Titans fighting and then all the tiny

little humans below. Even smaller Hollywood bird. This one will make two slam attacks against Sentry. Alrighty. 23 to hit. That one hits. And 18 to hit. So the first one, I believe, hits,

and the second one misses. Okay. So concentration, once you know the damage. Yeah, once you know the damage, though. So that's going to be 10, 16 points of bludgeoning damage. So DC is 10 on the con save, on the concentration save. righty that's in that

one i'm tiny century oh my god um and then i guess they go and we'll use the movement just to step in um as yeah it flams you once just kind of clocking you on the jaw and it stumbles you your concentration is lost on the spell and you just kind of clocking you on the jaw, and it stumbles you. Your concentration's lost on the spell, and you just kind of collapse down into a smaller size, looking up at this giant thing now looming above you. But that's its go. Johan. Okay, I'm going to...

Oh, God. Oh, God, so much happening. Okay, I'm going to bonus... I'm going to take out a little water skin and let out a little scoosh of water and I'm going to cast Tidal Wave.

It's 30 feet long and 10 feet wide, but I'm just going to use it to blast this big statue right here next to Sentry. So, if you want to do that, I'm assuming it has to start at you, right? Oh, does it? Well, here's a question I have. I have Tempestrous Magic as a bonus action that when I cast a spell, I can fly up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity

attacks, so I was wondering if I could like, flow over here and like, slam him I, absolutely, I will let you do that so you fly over sentry, and then you this water surge just erupts out from you, perfect what's the, what do I have to do for the spell?

let me cast that for you you it is uh bam it's a dc 17 deck save oh okay uh well that is a dc 17 you say yeah i rolled a 17 but it's dex is minus one so it's's a 16. So a surge of water spreads into the creature. And it also knocks it prone. Ah. What type of damage is this? This is bludgeoning damage.

It is from... I would say this is a magical attack. It's a magical spell. Yes. I was saying that. These things... Do you know what i'm gonna be i'm gonna say that it takes some of the damage um i'm gonna give a resistance against this normally it's immune to this type of damage but because it is from a spell i'm gonna give it resistance instead because otherwise it's gonna waste your cool spell um also uh roll damage for me uh roll damage it does there's 13 bludgeoning damage.

Oh, sorry, it did it automatically, didn't it? Yeah, it did it automatically, yeah. Six instead. And also, these two zombie boys and the big statue also take six lightning damage from Heart of the Storm. Ah, the two zombie boys take no lightning damage. However, the stone golem definitely does.

It kind of gets blasted by the lightning. And you said it knocks it prone as well? It knocks it prone, yeah. Okay, cool. So just remember, if somebody can help remind me that this one is not prone. Okay. Yeah, the water slams into it and knocks it prone. Lucius?

I'm going to use my font of magic, the twin level two chromatic orbs of acid at the two zombos that are further away from me. So that one and that one. That one and that one. Yup. Just to point out, you do still have an enemy within five feet, so you'll be at disadvantage still. It doesn't matter which one you target if still have an enemy within five feet so you'll be at disadvantage still it's not it doesn't matter which one you target if you have an enemy within

five feet i believe which case i'll target the one in front of me i could be wrong about that but well you'll still have disadvantage because you're still within five feet of an enemy so as long as you're within five feet of the hostile creature you have disadvantage on range attack spells okay Okay. 17. 17 is still enough. 17 is still enough to hit one of them. And then the other one. 16 acid on that one.

Takes a little while with the old. You do beyond? So 11 is going to be my lowest. Yeah. Second one probably doesn't hit. The second one doesn't hit, unfortunately. The one creature next to you is hassling you too much and throws off your aim. You start to feel

as well, Lucius, like your chest really hurts. It's kind of getting hard to breathe. The noise of the fight and everything going on around you you're kind of like, your chest is hurting as you're starting to fight. But yeah, the acid splashes against one coats the creature in acid, and you can

see it writhing, but it doesn't scream out in pain or anything like that as you do so. So it takes six points of necromancy as well. The same one? Same one, please. Six points. That one, well, I have to make a check. PC 11?

So you see the acid washes over this thing, and parts of its body is, like, breaking apart. You think that that should have killed it, but the creature is just barely hanging on. I'm going to... Its undead nature is keeping it alive. It seems to have been animated. Okay.

I'll not do anything. Carry on. I mean, that's in reaction to your spell hitting it. So... Yeah. Hmm. One of the stone creatures steps on another one of these creatures.

It just literally steps on it and kicks it out of the way as it pushes past just literally steps on it and kicks out of the way as it pushes past it just knocks it to the side um pushing it aside uh when it arrives it is going to i need everybody that's all of you guys in fact to make wisdom saving throws please oh oh oh that's fine for me but oh oh okay i didn't roll that well. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Way! Nice.

Who got row 17? Me. Me. Oh, godly. So pretty much everybody got sentry. Yeah. So all of you are affected by the slow spell. On a failed save, a target can't use reactions, its speed is halved,

and it can't make more than one attack on its turn. In addition, you can take either an action or a bonus action. That's it. So you feel your body slowing down. We can make wisdom saving throws at the end of our turns. You can, yes. At the end of your turn. I'll never get out of this.

Well, you can also potentially try and knock this thing unconscious and then that would end the spell as well. But that's it. That's its turn. Don't worry. Nova, Quilek, Aayla. In that order. Okay.

So from where I am uh man there's can i eldritch blast so from where i am i've got you know all the kind of three zombies on my right and the stone boy can i eldritch blast given that lucius and ayla are in my line of fire i probably can't the golem is easy to hit because it's taller than lucius andla, so you could easily try and hit that without problem. I would say that maybe the third

Valkyrian soldier zombie, which is quite far away next to Johan, that's definitely going to get at least some bit of cover because it's a tricky shot. The other two,

I'm not going to give any particular bonuses to. Like, you can still see them. You can always just shout out, like, Lucius, move! Bam! Aayla, move! Blam!

Yeah. Duck! In which case... You can still see them. You can always just shout out Lucius, move! Ayla, move! Duck! In which case, can I... I would like to Eldritch Blast. Yeah, I'm going to go for the Stone Golems. I'm going to just go all three beams. All three on the same one? Yeah, the one to the right

that isn't prone. So that is... Okay. That is an 18 on my first hit. 18 hits. And then I rolled an 8 plus 5. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 13 blast damage.

Force damage. On the first beam. Slams into it. Yep. Second one is a 16 plus 9. So 25. And I rolled a 3 plus 8. No, wait, no, sorry.

5, 6, 7, 8. 8 on the second beam. Total. 3 plus 5. yep yep slams into it again oh last one i rolled a four plus uh nine so 13 to hit that's not enough even though this thing doesn't dodge out of the way the the stone form it's heavy stone body, the beam just deflects off of it. And then Wisdom saving throw. Five on my Wisdom saving throw.

You are still slowed. Quillek, add Kalan. I would like to cast Mask Your Wounds, please. And I have the feature Spellbreaker. So everyone I heal is slower than... Spellbreaker. It probably doesn't. When you restore So everyone I heal is slower than... Is that what it says? Spell Breaker.

It probably doesn't. When you restore HP to an ally with a spell of first level or higher, I can also end one spell, equal to or lower of my choice. I wasn't sure if it had one creature. You may end a spell on one creature or something like that. But if it affects everyone, it affects everyone. Everyone, maybe. What level is the spell under? In that case, the slow effect

ends on everybody. And everybody heals for 3d8 plus 5, so 17 HP healed to everyone. 17 HP to everybody. Nice. Man!

Healing's pretty fucking good now, huh? You should do that. Bonus actions? Bonus action would only be a cantrip, so nah. Okay. Ayla? Cool, I can hit twice. Yeah.

I want to hit the Zumbobly that's next to Lucius, please. First. I'm going to try and take out the smaller threats. That's a natural 20! Yay! Wait, let me... So... That's going to be... Brutal critical, you see.

So... I want to calculate it for the sake of it, Mark. Because this is fun. You do that. It's going to be 21 for the base, then plus another seven, so 28, 29, 30, 31, 32. 32 points of damage. Oh, you, I mean, it's mush.

You just slam the hammer down. Just the head comes off. Ravs, for your benefit, we do slam the hammer down. The head comes off. Ravs, for your benefit, we do crits differently in high rollers. So I do it. You maximize all the dice, and then you roll the dice again. So that way you're always getting higher than you could have possibly gotten on a normal roll. Oh, okay.

That's cool. You guys as well. It goes against us too. Yeah, I see. Got to keep it fair, yeah. Yeah, the one that you hit was the one that Lucius had kind of sprayed with acid and it was somehow

still alive and the crit just demolishes it. It just rips it apart, falling apart. Can I turn around and hit the one that's sort of behind me as well? Yeah. There's one next to Quill.

21 to hit. These things aren't particularly hard toill, yeah. There's one next to Quill. 21 to hit. Yeah. These things aren't particularly hard to hit, yeah, easy. They're ACs 13, by the way, on the zombies. Cool. Oh, I rolled a 10 on my dice, so that is... 21 on the hit.

I mean, this thing, if you had dealt one more point of damage, the blow just collides into its chest. It kind of can caves in. You can hear the creature, the lightning just crackling out of it. This one, however, I forgot to do their lightning. Can you make a deck save for me, Ayla? Not that it's particularly useful against you, but.

24. 24. uh 24 24 so you take 11 half to five lightning damage half again to two lightning damage as this thing a blast of lightning erupts from it as it does strike you i'm guessing it doesn't take my lightning damage at all uh no it doesn't take anything yeah it's fine uh to it all okay right uh the zombie creatures go. There is one which is barely standing and then the one next to Johan. They're just going to make normal attacks. One against you, Ayla, for a 17.

I think that misses. And then Johan, it's a seven to hit you. Both miss. Yeah, that's a miss. Okay. It's a treat. Cool. I would like to attack the one next to Johan, please.

Sure, go for it. 16 plus 9, 15 to hit. No, 25 to hit, sorry. Oh, you have advantage because it's prone. Oh, nice. If you get crit? No, no crit. No crit.

The first hit will hit, though. The first number hits. So, d8 plus 5. I'm going to use a level 1 Divine Smite, and then, because it's undead, so that'll be 4d8. Are you hitting the zombie guy? Sorry. The zombie guy, yeah, yeah.

Sorry, I thought you were hitting the go-to. This now counts as undead, so when you used your thing before, they hadn't been animated yet, but now it is undead, yes. So you get the extra dice. So that is 25, total plus a d4. 26 damage. Yeah, I mean, this thing, you lob its head off

just with one of Her Majesty's Rose. Prevent the creature from keeping its necromantic body still going. Just cut its head off and it dies. However, before you do, you need to make a dex save for me. It will use its reaction before it fully collapses. No problemo. That is a 22 total. So it's 11.5 to 5

lightning damage as it blasts you as you strike it. Sweet. Nice. And then I'll swing around and make a second attack against the prone golem. So this is the one you had advantage against. I thought you were attacking the golem before, so never mind. That's all good.

Well, that one on the first one. Not much better on the second one. That is... 14 to hit. 14's not enough. Even though it's on the ground, you strike down with the magic sword, and it just cleaves...

The stone creature is literally made of stone. The golem just shrugs off the blow as you do strike down. Anything else on your turn, Century? Let's see. Position's pretty good. Yeah, I think I'll stay... Do I stay here for now? There's two of the guys. Oh, scary times.

No, I'm going to... No, I'll stay. I'll stay. I'll stay. I'll take it. You're going to stay? Okay, cool. The big stone golem next to you will stand up. When it does say... I can't see... Not pro no more.

Everybody but Nova, make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. Or no. Free. So once again, anybody who got lower than the... Oh god. It's a plus area.

Oh, it doesn't matter. I rolled a two, so I'm down. It's not plus ten saving throws, is it? Not plus ten, I mean the area is ten feet, sorry. Oh yeah, it's ten feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. I was just like, I don't think it's busted so i think everybody but johan passes this save uh johan i don't pass uh i don't

oh what did you roll later sorry uh no quillick because you get the bonus oh you don't get the bonus from century or two i'm far away from century all right well in that case anybody who failed uh you were affected by the slow spell um your second golem pulses out a wave of magic uh fort nova just tucked behind the pillar it couldn't see to project the wave on but everybody else it did so yeah you were affected by slow uh johan that's its whole action though so a fucking asshole okay half speed can't use reactions yeah uh okay i'm going to just uh okay um i'm gonna do tidal wave again i'm gonna do tidal wave again uh i don't need to do it from in front

of me i can actually cast it um from a point anywhere 120 feet oh yeah my apologies sure yeah it's no hassle um can i angle it in a way that I just hit these two? Like, without hitting Aayla? Yes, you could angle it. You could do it sort of like this. So, like, down here. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll aim for those two then. Okay, sure. Tidal Wave.

Oh, crap damage. But DC 17 for the two of them, please. Well, the first stone golem, it's a natural 20 minus one is 19. So it does actually manage to kind of keep its feet implanted. And then the zombie is a 15. So that one does fail. Okay, so

eight damage and not thrown. Well, that one actually was on one hit point from Aayla anyway. But yeah. So half damage on the giant. one hit point from Aayla anyway but and it fails on saving throw half damage on the giant

and 6 damage 6 lightning damage on each of the giants for Heart of the Storm sure the two golems take the lightning damage no problem and then the last remaining Valkyrian soldier is

blasted down the end of the temple by this surge of wave of water no problem and then the last remaining Valkyrian soldier is like blasted down the end of the temple by this surge of wave of water that just watches him down past the pillars eliminating him entirely. You can make a wisdom saving throw, Johan, at the end of your turn. Oh.

Eleven. You are still safe. Lucius Vir Vivian, Eluin, Elinasto. I think Lucius is going to start backing away. Do you want to disengage? Because the golem is next to you.

Yes. So action disengage and then move. I've got a weird map situation going on here. So could you move me down there? And he's essentially going to put his arm up against the pillar for support and just rip hold of his chest with his other hand. Try and breathe. Hyperventilating right now.

I'm trying to catch his breath. Yeah, I think that disengaging, you kind of manage to make your way back there, and you're just trying to control that breathing and get it under control. I'll have you make a save at the start of my next turn. As a bonus action, he's going to protect himself with Barrier Ring, so he's going to activate that.

Sweet. Perfect. What's he doing? Okay, I'll see if this one slow recharges it does not so it will make two slam attacks against ayla probably uh this last golem uh that's

19 to hit ayla um go on yes somebody's gonna say something uh wisdom saving throw on lucius uh yeah did lucius fail? Lucius succeeded. He's not affected.

Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, 19 to hit Aayla. And then... Is that a hit? Yeah. I can't remember your AC. Yeah, that is.

And then the next one's 13, so that one misses. And you take... 714. 20 bludgeoning damage. So half to 10 because you're raging. And then the second fist comes slamming into the stone ground, kicking up dust and debris, but the first one slams into you quite powerfully.

Nova Vigia, top of the round. roughly. Nova Vigia. Top of the round. Will I have seen Lucius kind of looking a bit funny as he walked past? Yeah, I think you saw him like clutching his chest and moving behind you, yeah. Into the pillars behind you, yeah.

Okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna back up and join him and just stand actually stand in front of him and kind of I'm just gonna back up shoot a glance at him and go are you okay? and then as I wait I'm just gonna take a stance where I've got the shield

in front of me so that this is more in terms of RP but if anything comes my way it's almost like I'm blocking him with the shield and my body it would be very hard for a creature to strike at Lucius with you stood there for sure If anything comes my way, it's almost like I'm blocking him with the shield and my body. It would be very hard for a creature to strike at Lucius with you stood there, for sure. Yeah.

And then I would like to three-beam Eldritch Blast the stone golem in front of Aayla. Right, okay. Yeah, sure. Just while waiting, see, You know, vibe check. First beam is a 10 plus 9, 19. Hits. 10 points of Eldritch Blast damage, force damage. Slammed into it. Second is an 11 plus 9, 20.

Hits. I rolled another 5, so that's another 10 points of force damage. 15. I rolled a 15, so 24. Hits. 24, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 points of damage. All three beams collide into

the creature, making it stumble and pieces of it are being blown off as each one strikes. But yeah, it just shows no sign of stopping or slowing. It just continues acting in its way. You can see that its eyes are crackling with this, yeah, almost such a deep blue, it's almost purple lightning as it does so. Quillik Adkalar.

Cool. Can I do a bonus Oh god I've got slow, I figured this out wrong I'll do a bonus action heal on myself which Oh no it'll be first level

Oh I fucked this I'll do a guiding bolt and just a guiding bolt on the right-hand golem. Sure. Yep, the one next to Aayla. Yeah, so plus nine to hit. Here we go.

24 and 16 radiant damage. Slams into the golden light, spills over the golem, highlighting its body, making it easier to strike next time. Yeah, slams into it. Pieces of it break off. I feel like any time anything happens with Lucius,

like in a panicky sense, is also the exact same time when a tidal wave wipes away a zombie, and I'm too focused on that. Sure, sure. Aayla, wisdom saving throw at the end of your turn, Quill, because you are slowed. I will hit...

Yeah, you take your go. Yeah, you pass. You're out of the slow, Quill. Oh, perfect. I will hit the one in front of me once, but with advantage from Guiding Bolt. Yep. I will hit the one in front of me once,

but with advantage from Guiding Bolt. Yep. Almost a crit. That was a 19 plus 12 to hit. Bums. Still? Yeah, it's a hit. 19 damage and a dex save.

A dex save. That's a 10. That'sx save. That's a 10. That's a 10. Nine lightning damage. Nine points of lightning damage? Yeah. This one, it actually causes the creature to buckle to the knee for a moment as you slam the hammer,

even though slowed as you are, just your immense strength bears it to one knee and lightning arcs up through its body. You kind of see it almost react for the first time in pain um and I rolled a 21 with sentry's aura on my saving throw you don't get sent

uh yes you do actually you're in 10 feet yeah so yeah you uh succeed well without it I'm an 18 no no you you yeah so either way you still but you are still in the range I I thought you were further away. Yeah, so the slow effect wears off. She did it. You feel your body kind of swing back up.

She was wise. Century. So wise. Okay, I'm going to attack the one that Ayla just hit. Sure. And go for that. Yeah, it's right behind you, so. 18 plus 9 to hit.

That's a hit. So that's 27 total. So let's do, I'm going to do a level 1 Divine Smite again, a hit. So that's 27 total. So let's do, I'm going to do a level 1 Divine Smite again, so that'll be 3d8 total. Sure. So 13 damage, plus 5, 18,

plus a d4. 59, 21 damage. 21 points of damage. Very good. This one, as Her Majesty's Road sinks into the creature, you actually tear at some of the stone, the magic blade carving through it. And yeah, you see another big chunk of the creature fall off.

It kind of staggers to one arm, just manages to right itself again. But it's, yeah, definitely taking a beating. And I'll do it again. See if you play. See if you play. 19 plus 9. So that's cool beans.

I'll do the same again with the level 1 Divine divine smite go for it so 3d8 17 plus 5 18 19 20 22 plus a d4 26 damage second strike carves through almost tearing one of its arms off but it still leaves this you know enough there that it can still move it but yeah this thing is nearly on its way out you can see that it's falling apart pieces of it are breaking off it's barely able to keep standing um anything else century uh i'm just gonna stay there i think she would have cast an eye to see lucius move because he was right next to her but seeing like nova going to sit going to see how he's doing sure she's She's all good, so yeah. Okay. The one on your other side, Sentry,

on your left side next to you and Johan, is going to make two attacks, one against Johan, one against you, Sentry. I might protect Johan on the first one. You can. You have your reaction. The lowest I got there is a 22, Johan. That helps.

That'll do it. Yeah. And then Sentry, that's a natural 20 for a 30 total. Oh, shit. Beautiful. I'll do the damage against Johan first. That is going to be 8, 10, 16 bludgeoning damage, Johan. Okay.

24, 30. 46 bludgeoning damage, Sentry as this thing's fist as you reach over to protect Johan its second fist just comes up uppercuts you, slams you against the pillar and you're just like you break against it as you slam back down to the ground

Crikey, nice Johan Your turn It's the one on the right that looks a lot messier, doesn't it? Yes, the one next to Aayla on your right hand side, yes. That thing looks like it's about to fall apart.

You've seen them take a lot of damage at this point. Just in case you're worried about resistances, they haven't had resistance for a long time. Okay. Rhys' face. just in case you're worried about resistances they haven't had resistances yeah okay Reese face that was a lot of damage it's those crits when they go back on you guys

yeah oh god how the turntables I'm just going to lightning bolt Yeah. Okay. Street powder turntables. Turn. Give it to me, Ramps. I'm just gonna lightning bolt this one right next to me then, the one that slowed me. Just a third level lightning bolt. It's the one that just hit you in sentry, you mean? The one on your left side?

Yeah, yeah, the one on my left hand side. I'll just shoot a lightning bolt just a third level down the corridor. I mean, it fails. these are not very quick creatures 26 damage and 6 damage to the two of them from heart of the storm yeah so the lightning bolt strikes against the golem sends lightning arcing up and down its body this one looks you know almost pristine

compared to the other one the other one the lightning strikes into it causes a few more pieces of stone to fall off, but it's still just about standing. Anything else in your hand? When you cast a spell, you get to do your movement? I can't. That's a bonus action to do tempestuous magic

to fall away. And you must explode. Well, wisdom save throw at the end of your turn. Nope. Yeah. Lucius. I'll look up at Nova, kind of take a deep breath

and be like, I'm okay. Let's focus. And I'll spin around. Yeah, you feel like that pain. Still there, but it's not as bad. Like it subsides for a moment. I want to go to this corner. I don't know, it it's not as bad. Like, it subsides for a moment. I want to go...

Why does it let you do that? I don't know. It's moving the whole map. Can I cast Hypnotic Pattern? It's a 30-foot cube over the range of 120 feet. They have to make a wisdom saving throw. As you cast the spell, neither creature is affected

because they are immune to being charmed. It's a charm effect, right, if I remember. I'm not fully aware, so that was completely intentional. No, but I'm just checking because the wording on the spell matters. Like, does the spell say that they become charmed? Yes.

Yeah, so it has no effect. watch as this colorful pattern kind of like illuminates around them yeah yeah no it's fine look you you did what you thought was the right thing to do and that's you role playing your character um that was all yeah you conjure the and they just the golems seem unaffected by it they don't even seem to notice the colors and things in the air um as they do so. Alright, I'm going to make this last golem's attacks and then we're going to take a short break. It can't really

get anywhere. Aayla's been hitting it a lot as well. It's going to make a long-stitch effort to try and hit Aayla with two attacks. A three and a one. Woof, woof, as Aayla just dodges to the side. It slams one fist into a pillar

as Aayla rolls under it, and then the hammer comes swinging up, misses both attacks. And we are going to take a short break right there, and we'll finish off this battle after the break. Nice! Very good. Nice!