High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #90 | Metal Crabs and Tricksy Wizards (Part 1)

Episode Date: November 2, 2020

Starbanes forces have upgraded with lightning immune mecha-crabs in the Temple of H'esper! 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

Pickaxe. this episode is brought to you by mazda when you drive a mazda you'll find out why rsuvs won more 2024 iihs top safety picks than any other brand as of june 2024 find out what makes mazda different at mazda.ca hello welcome back to high rollers the dungeons and dragons podcast in the world of eros we're sponsored by dnd beyond the ultimate digital dungeons and dragons toolkit that takes all the confusing rules of dnd and compresses it into an awesome online package perfect for dnd newcomers and veterans use a link in the podcast description to try out d&D Beyond for free. Welcome back to Aroes. Last time, the party have arrived at the Temple of Hesper, where deep inside something is conjuring the power to create powerful storms

that have ravaged the land of Voxar. Reuniting with Johan, an ally who seems mysteriously connected to Quill and the Valley of Storms itself, they make their way inside and discover that they are not the only visitors to the temple. A group of Valkyrian agents have slain a Sphinx guardian, but before examining any details further, the group came under attack from corpses infused with lightning magic and two powerful stone golems. After dispatching these enemies, the spirit of the Sphinx, calling herself Zuhemi,

appeared and instructed the party that they must gain access to the Winds of Ascension and complete trials to reach the inner sanctum where many answers will be found. The very last thing, and I will cut back to all of you guys, the very last thing was after exploring several parts of the temple, including finding a magic book in a library, you also discovered a chamber which seemed to contain wind pipes or pipes built into the walls of the temple that should have some sort of natural fresh air blowing through them.

Nova, using her ability to see through walls witnessed that a strange young girl dressed very oddly seemed to be commanding something in the room beyond with heavy chains hanging down from the ceiling after a bit of deliberation the party opened the doors and found two large constructs magitek constructs advancing towards them these constructs are uh maybe sort of seven eight feet tall humanoid roughly in shape but also with elements that resemble a crabs they have these large armored carapace backs four arms and eyes on little stalks coming out of helmed head sections. And they

just march into the room and we are beginning fully with initiative. Now, I haven't quite put you exactly where you wanted to be on the map, so if you want to do that now. Okay. Get that burp out. Come on. You can do it.

I've done it. I do not have control over the Johans. Damn it. Uh-oh. I'm fine where I am, so I'm just going to roll some initiative. Thank you. Yep, I'm fine with that. Yeah, if we can grab everybody

initiative whilst I describe. So the room you're currently in, there are four murals set onto the walls. There appears to be a small shrine, but also in each corner, there are these pipes that are shaped almost like giant horns. And they kind of seem to lead up into the walls and ceilings of the temple. The two guardians have just emerged from a set of double doors

and you have a corridor behind you and a corridor to the south. The double doors lead into a room you've not been into, but Sentry did spy it using Echo. Alright, let's go around and do initiatives. Lucius, what did you get total? Eight.

Eight total. Quillock? Nineteen. Nineteen. Nineteen. Ayla? Fifteen. Fifteen. Sentry? One. One. Nova?

Thirteen. Thirteen. And Johan? Seventeen. Seventeen. Perfect. And yeah, if you guys just want to, before we kick things off fully, 13 and Johan. 17. 17, perfect. And yeah, if you guys just wanted, before we kick things off fully, some of you, I believe,

were waiting on the outside of the room and hadn't fully gone in yet. I know Sentry was in there for sure. I believe Johan was in there, but I couldn't remember who else had moved in. So by all means. I think I was hanging back because I was feeling dumb. Yeah. That's it.

Yes, you were. You said that you were, like, going to hang with Lucius and Quill just because you were like, well, I don't know. I can't solve puzzles. Yep. So is everyone roughly

where they want to be? Yeah. I believe so. Yep. I'm fine with that. In that case, these two automatons, they are very clearly Valkyrian

Empire in nature. They have been constructed in a similar way that you've seen other mechanoids and creatures built by the Empire in the past. They bear the Valkyrian symbol of the stars and sword, and they just march their way

in. Their little crab-like eyes seem to scan the room, and detecting several stars and sword and they just march their way in their little kind of crab like eyes seem to scan the room and detecting several targets they split off one goes towards Johan the other goes straight for Sentry bloody cramps the heavy metal boots slam into the ground

and yeah they will basically the first one Sentry reaches for you two of its giant arms uh try and uh kind of claw you kind of these giant pincers uh come down whoops uh i'll throw that into my thing properly uh that is going

to be a 22 to hit just about yep just about hits now this is on century johan i'll get to you don't worry i'll get to you in a minute. And then the second core is a 12, so that doesn't hit. That's a no. So that is going to be 10, 14 points of damage total.

10 normal and then 4 force damage. As the core kind of grabs you you feel like this vibrating magical energy through its arms almost as if the whole gauntlet is powered with some sort of magical energy and then finally for its last action as it's kind of trying to grab sentry

with these giant claws one of its crab like eyes looks over in Nova's direction glows brightly and a purple beam of force fires towards Nova. That is a 23 to hit you, Nova. Might do a little bit of a hitty. Might be a bit of a hitty.

It's going to be 14 points of force damage. Lord. As that strikes into you and then johan the same one tries to basically do the same thing to you it's going to make two claw attacks against you to start with the first one is a 25 that'll do it yeah

the second claw is a cock the second one is a 21 that yep yep ah so both claws hit you claw is a cock. The second one is a 21. Yep. As both claws hit you, Johan, one grabs you from either side. You are considered grappled whilst both claws are

holding you. You're not restrained, you're just grappled. Okay. And then you take a total of 15 points of damage from the first one and 11 points of damage from the second one as these two claws grip you firmly

you then feel and I feel that this is going to be somewhat irrelevant to you do you have lightning immunity or lightning resistance resistance in that case please still make a constitution saving throw for me. As both of these claws grab you and pick you up, you just feel lightning energy course through the methyl arms and body

from the carapace into your body. Yeah, that's 12. That's a 12. 12. Yeah. So you're still going to take half damage because you have resistance. So 16. So you take eight lightning damage as these okay you feel this shock of

energy run through your body um and then that was its third action uh so that is their go uh they just continue their assault uh who is in that room uh nova as the only one who's currently not engaged in combat can you make a perception check for me, please? 13 plus minus one. 12. That's right. The sounds of these machines just draws too much of your attention. Quillik and Kalah.

Can I get into this room without getting into this dude's attack range? So, I mean, like, standing here and then siding around the corner so I'm not within five feet of him. Maybe. These arms, their arms are very, very long. They're kind of extended limbs. He does have reach. He has ten foot of reach. But if you stay there, you are still within his melee range.

Okay, I wanted to get to, like, the back of the room and away from him. If I can see he's got mega long arms, then I'm not going to try and get into the room. In that case, I'll stand in the edge of the room, and I will do a... Oh, actually, no, sorry, Tom. I changed that. They don't have reach anymore. I reduced their size. That was from when they were still large.

These things are only medium size. So you would if you did here you can't really move diagonally um from a corridor into a room because you have to kind of step out of the corridor and then to the side okay fair enough so you would still get the attack of opportunity okay in that case i'll stand in the corridor just outside the room in front of lucius and i'll do a beacon of hope so uh for the duration each target has advantage on wisdom saves and death saves and you will regain the maximum points from any healing so that's my action one action okay nice that's pretty you might be thinking a

prayer of healing i think and i may as well do a bonus action Shalala on my staff as well. Why not? Shalala! Interesting. Okay. Sorry, I'm just making some changes to something here. After Quill, is that your whole turn?

That's my turn? Johan. Johan. Grapple, does that mean my movement is zero grappled I believe that yes whilst it has you grappled your speed is zero but you don't have any like disadvantages or anything like that

alright okay speed is zero yeah so speed is zero can't benefit yeah that's it okay then uh while it's holding me and it's disgusting pincers i'm gonna uh hand to my chest again cast dragon's breath on myself uh second level uh and i'm gonna make it fire this time. Okay. Yeah, fire. Okay.

And I want to try to hit the two of them if I can, but if I can only hit one of them, that's fine. You could... So what is it? A cone? 15-foot cone? You can hit both. A 15-foot cone, yeah. Yeah, I'd say you can hit both. Make a deck save

for a whopping 7 damage. The first one gets a 16 on the saving throw. Make a deck save for 3d6 for a whopping 7 damage. Nice save. The first one gets a 16 on the saving throw. What's my spell? Save 17 so it fails. That fails. The second one, it was a 19 plus 4, so 23.

That'll do it, yeah. Yeah. Okay. So how much damage was it? 7 damage. A whole bunch of 7. Okay. So what happens, Johan, is as you conjure the magic

and you breathe out this flaming breath, having kind of faced a similar creature on the airship before that absorbed your lightning, these upgraded versions of that machine, the very essence of the magic itself, you see their carapaces, these kind of like crab light armored backs glow with a series of runes um so the damage is half so what was it sorry again i'm i'm trying

to keep track of stuff so they take three damage each um and you take the other three from both targets you take six fire damage as it sucks it in and then there's a blast of magic back got it you get to make a deck save against that okay

not good that's for the first one and then for the second one because they're both using the same thing 16 So you only take 3 fire damage, not 6 So the second one, you kind of manage to rigor yourself free enough that as it blasts

this magic back, you manage to avoid it but the first one scorches you back with the magic you've used against it Gotcha Anything else, Johan? it, but the first one scorches you back with the magic you've used against it. Gotcha. Anything else, Johan? I don't think I can break out this grapple, can I?

It's an action. I can't do anything else. That's me. That was action. Bonus action. Ayla. And then Nova and then Lucius. Hello. Can I charge on in?

You absolutely can. Yeah, you can move through friendlies. I would like to come around to the side and hitch you one that is against Johan. Just as a point, Katie, where are you moving from? Because if you move away from the first one, it will get a free

swipe at you. I will just move to here then. That way you're fine, actually. You've not left its threatened range. I will hit the one... I will rage first, bonus action, and then I will

hit the one attacking Johan, please. Sure. 18 plus 12. Oh, yeah. Yeah, these things are wearing, like, metal plates, but they're quite cumbersome. The armor... They're not as heavily armored as you might think.

13 damage with the hammer and I've seen these things absorb lightning so I'm not going to zap them with my lightning I was going to say any lightning discharge is absorbed and then I will hit again please 11 plus 12

hits 15 damage huge solid blows as the hammer kind of dents plates and smashes against the creature they are pretty sturdy though they may be easy to hit but they're definitely sturdy things as they

stand against your assault Nova Vija if you are done Ayla yeah good okay Nova then Lucius can I see that girl from where I am or like knowing you don't see it from where you are I have a hecking suspicion. A heckin' suspicion. But in the meantime, they reflect magic, don't they? What a bunch of bums.

Can I cast... Can I cast Fast Step on myself? It's a bonus action to cast. So I can teleport 60 feet. Hold on, I just misread. I can use my bonus action, so I can't use it this turn yet. Okay. But then, can I 510...

So you cast Fast Step as a bonus action. Yeah. And then I 5, 10... So you've cast Fast Step as a bonus action. Yeah. And then I want to move... Oh, wait, no, because I'll move out of... Yeah. So I'm going to move forward, so I'm in between the two crab people. Machines.

Yeah, crab robots. And I kind of... I want to look into the next room to see what the girl is doing. Cool. You look in the room, you don't see anybody in there. Okay, cool.

And then I will attack the one that's got Johan with Tiangong. Sure, yeah, just normal melee attack. 27 to hit. 13 points of damage.

And given what I just saw with the reflecting magic, I'm not going to green flame it. Sure. That sounds wise. Lucius. All right. It's going to be a lot. So here we go.

You ready? I love it. Lucius is coming in. He's going to step in front of Quill like that. He's going to cast Chromatic Orb at level three and twin it with his Phantom Magic. So hitting both with Acid. What he's also going to do is if they do that reflection thing

of acid, he's going to use this prismatic gauntlet to try and absorb it. After using the prismatic gauntlet on dichromancy to spend some of those charges before that as well. Let's go through this as events.

So as an action, you cast Chromatic Orb Twinned, right, on both targets. Right? So that's your action. Then, is... Dicromancy just happens when you cast a spell, so that would happen immediately. You would then spend the points to do the extra damage. And then if

they reflect it back at you, because you've seen them happen at once, maybe they can't do it multiple times, you don't know, you're going to reaction use the prismatic alternator gauntlet to try and absorb them in. Absorb that acid back in. Sure. Well, let's start with the main thing, which is making two attack rolls, one against each target.

Uh-oh. Sure. Bing God. Boom. That's a 27. It's the first one. Okay. Same damage the first one. Okay. Same damage roll for both.

Yeah, same damage roll, but for two attacks. All right. Next one. So we'll keep the 19 damage. 23. So they both hit. And it's acid damage, you said, yes? Yeah, so it'll be 19 acid from taking the first one.

Okay. So what happens is, and then you want to spend your Dicromancy, Yeah, so it would be 19 acid from taking the first one. Hey. So what happens is, and then do you want to spend your Dicomancy? So you spend how many extra D6 to boost your Dicomancy? So I will spend 2, so that's 2D6. Because you had three charges in it, didn't you, I think? I had four. Or have you got more? Oh, you had four. Nice.

Okay, yeah, so you get an extra 2d6 if you spend two. Seven. Extra on top of seven. So 14. And which one are you doing that to? The one holding Johan? Yeah. 14 points of acid damage.

So as Lucius, you step in, you summon these two orange energy spheres of acid, launch them forwards, you see that the runes on the carapace of these creatures' back is already glowing, and it's cooling down, so the acid orbs just strike them both and just

coat them in acid. Whatever spell reflection ability they had was used up on the spell from Johan. Oh, cool. So they don't reflect it back at you, so unfortunately no alternator gauntlet, but very, very cool. Lots of damage

as the acid kind of begins to see it pit and melt parts of the metallic shell of these creatures. Sentry. Nice. I'm going to channel divinity, and I'm going to channel divinity and I'm going to do nature's wrath

on the one in front of me. Okay. What does that do? So it causes spectral vines to spring up, reach for a creature I can see within 10 feet of me and that creature must exceed on a strength or dex save throw or be restrained. Is it strength or dex?

Strength or dex. Yeah. So it just says strength or decks or like do you get to pick or is it yeah so it just says strength or decks yeah it's choice okay oh it's choice okay in that case that is a total of uh 17 for me oh just succeeded just succeeded was it dc 16 a 15 15 yeah so you watch as the spectral vines try and wrap around the giant crab-like creature trying to hold it in place, but its just immense strength kind of rips through as its giant pincers rip and tear at the spectral vines, pulling itself free away from their force. Anything else, Century? Okay.

Can I cast Shield of Faith as a bonus action? I believe you can, yeah. You didn't cut the spectral vines, it isn't a spell, so yeah, you can cast Shield of Faith. Who bonus action? I believe you can, yeah. You didn't cut the Spectral Blinds, it isn't a spell. So yeah, you can cast Shield of Faith. Who would you like to cast it on yourself? On myself, please, yeah. Okay, nice. So you've got, what, AC 23 now?

23 AC, yeah. Blimey. These things aren't the smartest. Yeah, they would... I think the one in front of you, Sentry, would continue trying to hit you with its two claws. It doesn't understand that you've made yourself harder to hit. That is going to be

21 to hit. So no, with the Shield of Faith, it's rebuffed by the power of your Matrix. The next one, however, is a 24. Oh, okay. It sneaks through. Nice. So that's going to be 12 slashing and then two force,

so 14 damage total as one of its claws still manages to get through even your magical defenses and kind of knock you to the side ever so slightly. Then it will turn its I-beam and shoot towards Nova again. 21 to hit you, Nova. Yee-bee-bee. 14, 15, plus 5... 14 plus 5, 19 force damage as this I-beam strikes you in the side.

All right. The second one, Johan, it still has you gripped. As a bonus action, it's going to do the lightning, so can you make another con save for me please absolutely it's got you in the clamps that's a nine just as a point

I have resistance I just rolled two max damage on two of the dice I have resistance it's fine so it would be 28 lightning damage reduced by half to 14 lightning damage so only only 14 damage it's charlie um then it will basically uh because it has the four arms it's two other arms it kind of twists its torso and its two arms will go for Nova. It's two remaining claws. I should say That is a

23 to hit you Nova And then a 11 23 hits I'm assuming Yeah, the 11 does not. Oh and then lowest I could roll on the damage dice. So six Seven points of damage total there not a lot And then with the I beambeam, it will shoot at Aayla for a 14 to hit.

You'd leap to the side as this beam of light, this kind of purple energy similar to Nova's Eldritch Blasts, just kind of scorches along the ground. I have to make a con check, sorry, concentration for my Dragon the ground. I have to make a concentration for my Dragon's Breath. Sure.

Okay, nice. Go for it. I think the DC would be... Oh yeah, easy. Perfect stuff. Now I have to do a think. I have to do a thinky. Never do a thinky. I don't. I have to. I have to do a thinky. Never do a thinky. I don't. I have to.

I have to do a thinky. I never do. Look where I got me. What you thinking about? What you wearing? How about you? How much? What you thinking or wearing? How about you? How much? What you thinking or wearing?

How much? Yeah. This isn't a concentration spell. Nova! Uh oh. Hello. I guess you just make a deck saving throw. Yep. Um, no. Hang on. guess you just make a deck saving throw yeah um no hang on I'm gonna try and

think of what this person would do they leave yeah I think they'd surrender. They feel like a surrendery kind of person. I got that impression. Okay. Okay. All right. They do. Concentration.

It's concentration. Damn. Concentration spells. I understand what Tom's frustration now with multiple concentration spells. Yep, yep, yep, yep. It's a killer. I think if they think for too long,

they don't do anything on their turn. That's true. I should have made a con save last turn when you hit me. Best shield of faith. Yes. Go go for it I'll do that now that's 11 plus 7, that's 18 18 is more than enough

so I don't think any of you would notice that this happens I do does it help another 17 000 viewers right now is that true is that real yeah that's not true yeah that's true hello sure that does help actually yeah nobody notices anything that happens but something something happens. Quillik. Okay. So mysterious. Yeah.

I don't notice anything. I don't understand. Right, Mark? You're not in the room, though. Well, let me ask you a question. Can you see invisible things? No. And you're right. I'm not in the room where it happened.

You're not in the room where it happened. He wants to be in the room where it happened, so... He wants to be in the room where it happened. I am going to push forward a wave of immense healing with a Mass Cure Wounds at level 6, and because I have cast... Because I did Beacon of Hope, everybody heals with all the 8 plus 5 max. Wow!

How much is that? 1632, 37 healing to everybody. Yummy, yummy, yummy. And we've still got that plus 10 on top, right, that you cast earlier. Yeah, you've got aid. You've got aid.

Have you had that? I haven't. I think I had it. I had it. Yeah, it had that? I have it. I think I had it. Yeah, it should be on your sheet. Anything else? It should be 1, 3, 6. No, that's all. I will stay here and

just wait for death. Sure. Johan. Okay. Does it look like they have their weird anti-magic shell stuff going on again do they it does the runes have fully cooled down yes

okay but they just resisted the damage but okay I'm gonna do it anyway cause I'm grappled I'm gonna have my thunder cloud shoot out to the right hand side to make a nice line and I'm grappled. I'm going to have my Thunder Cloud shoot out to the right-hand side to make a nice lane, and I'm going to cast Lightning Bolt

at 5th level from the Lightning Bolt. Is your Thunder Cloud in your space at the moment? Is that like, if it would be above you or around you? I don't have a token for me, so I guess it would be around me, always. Sure. I mean, it doesn't of, it doesn't really have, like, enough space to warrant a full token.

But when you send a cloud to the side, something partially obstructs it. It does manage to make its way to the side, but it's almost like it has to pass between the bars of a cage as it does so. I'll draw a little cloud for you how about that okay i am still going to attempt to lightning bolt at fifth level and see what and see what happens in a straight line from the cloud through those two guys uh so let's do a little 5th level lightning bolt for free bang 30 damage

oh it's only DC 15 on the cloud oh put the winky face on it very nice I was just reading up on something I'm going to say yeah I'm going to say it does this so okay I'll make them

I'll have them make a save oh no I've just killed your friend or something sorry guys one gets a 22 the other one got a 10 okay so 30 damage to one 15 22 the other one got a 10 okay so 30 damage to one 15 to the other

cool they will yeah they're going to use their reaction so you see in fact it's lightning damage right Johan yes the whole lightning bolt is just absorbed into their bodies as you see

yeah, Katie's making a face because Katie correctly guessed this yeah, you see that these they have these kind of pylon carapaces and you just watch as the whole power is absorbed in the other thing is, as the lightning bolt passes some of the lightning bolt partially

strikes some sort of wall or structure that is on that whole side. And as the lightning bolt hits the other side of the room, you can see it partially illuminates this invisible cage that's been placed. There's like walls on either side at the moment. Are we getting like a hell in the cell with all this? Kind of, yeah.

There's an element of that. Anything else? I can't. That was my action. I can't bonus action anything. That's me. That's me for now. All right.

Ayla. I'm just going to shout out, we may want to move. Can we move? I mean, do you want to move. Uh, can we move? Um, I mean, do you want to try? Can I?

Yes and no. No, I'll, I'll hit the, um, I'll hit the dude. That's got your hand again. hit the I'll hit the dude that's

got Johan again. 20 to hit. 20 hits, yeah. So the hammer comes striking down the large maul crackling with lightning. A large maul hammer. 18 damage on the first one. And then...

28 to hit. 28 hits. For the second one. 18 damage. 18 points of damage. Both hammer blows smash into this armored construct. As it does, you begin to see its joints

underneath where you can see these kind of ley lines of magical power. They begin sort of glowing, like they're building. You kind of hear like a I think this thing's going to blow, guys! Can I try... Can I try... Can I move away to here?

You can move... You can move there, yes. You can move there. What does that mean? So, as you move along, Ayla, I mean, I don't know. Would you try and go further or is that exactly where you want to be? I mean, can I try and go further?

So that's the thing. The second you try, it's you feel yourself pressing up against a very narrow barred cage. The bars are like half an inch. There's half an inch between them. And it feels like you're trapped in like a prison cage. The bars are like half an inch. There's half an inch between them. And it feels like you're trapped in like a prison cage. But you can't... You can feel something there, but you can't see anything.

I will tell Quill that. Quill! Cage! Make it stop! Dude! Not good! Not good! We see her holding nothing but like physically yeah you can see like if you see ayla uh it will also make a um oh no it's used its reaction so yeah you you sprint away yeah those of you can see you can see ayla is is touching something um like and it's i

i can tell you now that yeah there is a cage um cage. The bars are half an inch apart and they're thick. They're about half an inch thick. So every sort of like half inch, there's a bar gap. Yeah. And then there's half an inch bar, half an inch space, half an inch bar, half an inch space. Oh, wow. All right.

Yeah. So the cloud managed to move through it because the cloud is a cloud and can squeeze through the space. But yeah, a physical person can't move through it because the cloud is a cloud and can squeeze through the space um but yeah the physical person can't can't move through it uh as you do so uh nova you are up next um i would like to just check the distance of something that's fine um faster can i attack uh Can I attack this creature that has Johan? I'm going to attack with Green Flame Blade. I don't think Green Flame will hit the second crab, but it will still do damage to Johan's one. It will still do extra damage, yeah.

Yeah, okay. So I'm going to attack with Tiangong. I rolled a 10, plus 11 is 21. Hits. To hit. I rolled 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 points of slashing damage. And then... And you see sparks, you see power beginning to crackle

through underneath the thing's armour. Eight points of green flame damage. Fire damage. And then I would like to use fast step as my bonus action to teleport. I'm going to teleport

into the next room. Sure. And then can I look... Well, I'm'm assuming can i teleport given that there are bars now can you make a charisma saving throw a charisma saving throw interesting charisma saving throw i'm proficient and it's natural 20 plus 9 29 then. Then yes, you may teleport. Nice. Yeah, so can I teleport away into the next room and then start looking around either for this girl or for any switches?

Any fun switches? Yeah, well, I mean, I'll describe the room in a second. Make a perception check for me. 16. 16? You don't see any girl um the room itself uh i will briefly describe you can see that this room there is a staircase at the far end opposite where you came in um that seems to spiral up uh and it goes up quite high this room is very very tall uh maybe sort of like 100 200 feet um up in the air uh The staircase seems to lead all the way at the top,

and you can see that four large chains dangle down into a central space. In the four corners are giant bestial mouths. One is like a giant roaring wyvern, one like a giant roaring griffon, one like a screaming eagle's head, and then the other one appears to be some sort of insects like a large beetle with its jaw open um they all point into the center of the room

where these four chains hang down and there appears to be a wind compass uh inscribed into the ceiling so northeast southwest uh there is an inscription there but in the six seconds of combat you don't manage to get a full reading of what it says just yet. Sure, thank you. And then that's Nova V just go. Lucius, Varian, Elowen, Elinasto. I think what I'll do is

looking at the one that's fighting Johan still. Johan. I'm going to cast Element bane on it fourth level which is a con save of 16 16 is a 15 fails it loses resistance to a type of element. Does it lose immunity or just resistance? Just resistance.

Okay. Oh, the only thing it has resistance to is thunder damage. It's immune to lightning damage. I'll remove that then. Sure. And that will be my thingy. That's your whole turn? Basically, my whole go.

I'll barrier ring as a bonus action. Sure, so you get plus 2 AC. Yeah. Sentry. Okie dokie. Can I move in between the two here? You can. And then can I make an attack against both of them, but aim for that ice

stalks, try and get rid of their yeah i mean this it's it's difficult like things like aimed shots in dnd where it's like i want to aim for his arm and cut his arm off i want to aim for his head and cut his head off it doesn't really work because then i could do the same against you guys um so what i tend to say is if you get a crit i'll definitely give some sort of effect but otherwise it's just going to be a normal attack role um just because otherwise it gets just going to be a normal attack roll. Just because otherwise it gets very, very minutiae complex.

That's why we have the injury rules and stuff. But yeah, if you get a crit, I'll definitely give some sort of extra effect. Awesome. Okay, so I'll go for the one on the left to start with. It's an 11, so that's probably a no. Unfortunately, this thing just manages to deflect you to the side with one of its giant pincers, like... Just knocks you away. Then I'll turn around and try the other guy.

14 plus 9... 13... 23. 13, yeah. Sorry, so total was 14 plus 9, 23. That's easily a hit. Nice. This would be the one holding Johan,

which is heavily damaged already. Cool, all right. I'll do 2d8 plus 5. Oh, my God. Okay, so A plus a d4. Okay, 12 damage. A point of damage. Her Majesty's Rose, your bladed longsword

with its kind of metal thorns, rips through parts of its armor. And again, you can see that now, every point of damage it's taking, you can see this power kind of beginning to build up in this construct's chest um anything else century um as a bonus action can i chug a potion of a greater healing please yes does that maximize on beacon of hope as well tom i so. I think it's 80 healing. Nice.

Yep, any healing. 44 plus 4. So, 16, 20 HP. That's math. That's what math does. That's numbers. That's math. Okay.

The two automatons will continue their assault. Ravs, you are still grappled by this thing, Johan. Can you make a constitution saving throw for me, please? You got it. 14. That's still a failure, but you're still halving it because you have resistance to lightning. It's 25, so halved to 12. Yeah.

Okay. So you take 12 lightning damage um then century you're gonna get uh yeah four probably yeah four attacks on you i think um because it's already got johan grappled so four attacks on century and then i beams-beams at Johan and Ayla. So four claws at Sentry. 19 plus 9, 28. Yeah, that'll do it. That's a hit. Second one's a natural 20.

So that's a hit. I'll do that separately. 19 is the third one, which is a miss. No hit. And then the second one is also a 19 uh which is a miss so let's do normal damage first from the normal hit so it's going to be 11 15 points of damage from the normal hit and then a shield of faith as well yes oh man we should have no no because 19s can't hit your normal armor yeah i think that's probably a fail that's a 10 actually so that's alright I believe that's a success because it's half the damage taken or 10

15 damage from the first attack and then it's going to be 13 19 plus 27 more points of damage from the critical hit as both these claws just rain down on you, trying to smash you apart with these claws.

Ravs, an I-beam in your face. That's going to be a 24 to hit. That'll hurt. Can I protect against I-beams, or is it only the melee attacks? No, you can protect. If you've got a reaction, you can give that disadvantage. Sure. Is that your reaction?

Yeah. So that goes down to a 16 plus 9. This is going to be a 9 plus 9. 18 is the lowest. That hits. So even though Century trying to reach in, it's still not enough to kind of deflect the blast away. It's only 10

force damage. Okay. And then Aayla, that's still not enough to kind of deflect the blast away. It's only 10 force damage. Okay. And then Aayla, that's going to be 20 to hit. Yep. You take 16, 21 points of force damage. In the back, you're struck by one of these blasts from the creature's

eye beams. These crab-like stalk eyes. Hmm. Nova, you're in this room yeah come at me hmm has never taken any damage you have haven't you I did but I got healed back up you did that's very true Oh, you did. That's very true. Would this person perceive that? Yeah, they're pretty smart. Okay.

They're pretty smart. Oh, God. Oh, God. I hate this room. I'm fine. I don't know what I hate more, the room with the invisible mysterious person or the room that has an invisible cage and exploding robots in it I mean, you, Lucius and Nova aren't in the cage so

Nova, can you make a can you make a what is this, a wisdom saving throw you have advantage. Why? Beacon of hope, baby.

Is it against all wisdom saving throws or only against certain types of save, like fear? Has advantage on wisdom saving throws. Okay, nice. Well, that's good because I rolled a three on the first one and a six on the second one, so that is a 19 total. Oh.

19? You have plus 15 to your wisdom saving throw? 13, is it? Or plus 13? I rolled a 16 on the second one. Oh, I thought you said a 6 on the second one. Not a 6. Yeah.

No, no, no. I know I'm bad at math. Not that bad at math. I was like, what? No, it sounded like you said six and we were just like yeah okay that's it three and a sixteen half as much on a successful okay so half damage on this um and this was cast with a fifth level slot so an extra two oh first come at me girl god i'm excited what's gonna going to happen to me?

Beacon of Hope has been not... 21, so you take 10 psychic damage, Nova. 10. Yep. Okay. And you succeeded on the save so no other effects. I need to roll a concentration check for my Far Step,

but I have advantage because I'm a Warcaster. DC 10. Okay. Warcaster, very good. Constitution saving throw. Constitution. 13. Yeah, you succeed.

DC 10. Cool. So yeah, you feel something and you don't see where it comes from. It just seems to come from nowhere. You maybe hear a very kind of faint whispering, but it's hard to pinpoint where from. As something tries to spike into your mind,

like a shard of raw magic tries to impale your brain and you just kind of stumble around, but you managed to resist off most of the effects. Let's move action. She's here. Quillek. Can I see in the roof of the doorway or whatever, can I see any holes for which a cage might come through?

I'm trying to determine if it's an invisible cage or if it's a magical conjured cage. You don't see any holes? No. You can make an investigation check if you want to try and search for hidden traps, I suppose. I think what I'll do is I'll just cast Dispel Magic on it and see if that either removes the cage completely

or makes it visible, I guess. Sure. You cast a spell magic, Tom? Yeah, at fourth level. What level? Fourth level? Seemingly no effect. At all? Does nothing. Has no effect. Does he make a check?

Nope. What the hell is this thing? Basically, it's a shitty thing that Mark's very pleased with himself. Don't worry about it. It's a spell in the player's handbook. It's a shitty spell. You cast the spell and

you try and dispel this effect, but it has seemingly no effect. Okay. Says the one grappled by a robot. I've got a plan. Don't worry about it. It's fine.

Ram's got a plan. Exploding robot, by the way. Yeah. Okay. That's my turn, I think. That's my entire turn. Okay. Your turn.

Yeah, I've got no bonus action, so yeah. Okay. I'm going to have little bits of cloud start to gather around the Quillic Lucius Aayla and Sentry and myself and there's going to be a

flash of lightning and I'm going to cast scatter and I'm going to teleport us into the other room through the cage Oh shit. What sick level spell? Your spell is countered. Oh my god.

I don't have counterspell. Shit. You son of a bitch. You can't counterspell unless you can see the person counterspelling. I don't have counterspell either. I don't have counterspell either. I don't have counterspell either. Shit! You may make a perception check.

Who, sorry? Nova, you can make a perception check. Okay, because would that not drop invisibility? I actually know it doesn't have a verbal component. No. Not this type of invisibility. Not greater invisibility, it doesn't. Oh my god, I rolled a 17. Fuck! Yeah,ibility, it doesn't. Oh my god.

I rolled a 17. Fuck. Yeah, I realized it doesn't have a verbal component. So yeah, you just watch Johanna as you conjure this spell to try and scatter your friends and save them from this, whatever effect is coming. You just feel this spell collapse. Somebody just pulls it apart from your very hands. No, we can worry.

So does that mean that that person can see that he was doing that? It does. I don't know if Ayla would know that, but Katie, that's a very astute observation. No, this isn't an Ayla question. It does mean that the person has to see the person casting the spell, yes. Using my bonus action, I'm going to convert six sorcery

points to get my sick football spell slot back. Sure. Bam. Nice. You can do that. Nice. Ayla? Um... Can I... Can I find out the size of this cave?

Actually, no. I'm going to hit the thing next to Sentry a couple of times. Sure. Because that one's not as... That's not as damaged, is it, that one? No, that one's barely been touched, actually. It's had a little bit of acid damage and a few little errant

effects, but nothing major. That's only a 17 on that one. 17 still hits. Yeah, this thing isn't particularly hard to hit. The next one is higher than that. 13 plus 12, so that's two hits. Both hit. Wham, wham.

So, 13 on the first one. 13 points of damage. 19 on the second one. Both points of damage. 19 on the second one. Both hammer blows strike into the thing. You hear this resounding clanging of metal. Still stands resistant to your effects. You can move around this thing to try and get an idea of where this thing goes. Can I get an idea of where it goes, please?

Let me show you. If I kind of show you, because I won't move you out of threatened range. So you went like this last time, and you felt that basically all around, you move up here, you can still feel the cage. You move to these doors, cage, cage, and you have to stop there, otherwise you're going to get an opportunity attack.

As you've scoped it out... Entire edge of the room, right? I will draw where you have felt the cage's presence. It's all cage. No touching. Oh, no. It's filling it in. I didn't want it to do that.

We're all the cage. The cage is inside us. The cage was the friends we made along the way. So you kind of feel it a bit like this. In fact, actually, it would be... Oh, interesting. Oh, it's not the entire room. It's not the full room, yeah.

Okay. It's a very specific cage. Yes. A cage to be fair. Nova VJ. I don't believe anything else yeah i just want to say to people like these things are gonna blow up if they get too close to death they're gonna blow they've done it before just saying and then i will leave it well nova i really want to find this person and i can't i've got nothing that like reveals invisibility i've got to spell magic but i need to find where

they are i've got to text but that takes 10 minutes and i don't think people really have 10 minutes for me to sit down and start casting um 10 minutes is fine fine what last time right we long guys I sat down for 10 minutes I don't know what to do I don't know what to do however I will oh However, I will... Oh, fuck it. I'm just going to start blasting. Which one... They've made their anti-magic attacks, haven't they?

Have they? Haven't they? No, but then if I kill them, it's going to blow up and everyone's right there. I don't... Mark, you've got me in a right little pickle right now. A right little pickle. I'm frozen with indecision. So can I make a perception check to see if I can figure out where this girl is? Yes, do so with disadvantage,

as they aren't really making much noise or doing anything. I won't. Unfortunately, Nova is not usually the most perceptive so total seven yeah um just scanning the room like there's no it's very there's nothing to give a person's position away like stone floor you can't hear like footsteps you can't hear, like, footsteps. You can't hear, you know, breathing. Who knows? Can I ready an action

so that if she is located before my next turn, I blast her. I blast her her i'll just blast her sure and i'm assuming that let's say for the sake of argument that you're saying when i see a person appear i will blast them or like when i see the invisible person appear uh yeah yeah i'm not gonna bullshit it and be like i sense with the fourth um like when she is revealed but yeah when

you when you can are you looking for the girl you saw before is that who you're looking for yes that's who i'm looking for um and in a very nova way can i just be verbally well not verbal diarrhea that bit about blasting the girl but like saying to everybody i don't know whether or not to attack because i don't want to i don't want them to blow with you in the room. Sure. Lucius. I don't want to blow with anyone in the room. Let's do this.

I'm going to call out as my free I'm not moving so I'm going to speak instead. Sure, sure, sure. Everybody disengage and go south. I will create a barrier in between you two. And me yeah. Everybody disengage and go south. I will create a barrier in between you two.

And me and Quill will continue to fight them. And then I'm going to ready my wall of ice to cast as soon as they are separated from the statues. And I'm going to block them off from it. Okay. Sure. That's my go. That's your go. Century. I am grappled here.

Okay. Johan's grappled. Can I move here and then I'd like to use my last charge to cast enlarge and can I try and help Johan? Try and get Johan out of the grasp of this crab that he's in?

Yeah, you can make the strength check for him. For sure. There we go. I'm large now. So, let me enlarge my sentry. Kind of move... Yeah, you can't occupy another creature space, so you'd have to, like, step back a little bit.

Yeah, down there. Yeah. Yeah, so you move that. Make a strength check for me. I believe that enlarge gives you an extra... It gives you advantage on this, I think. Advantage, yeah. Nice, there you go.

Bam. And... 18 plus 8. Yeah. You just grab this creature's crab claws and pull it free away from Johan, separating the two. You're no longer grabbed, Johan. Yay!

And my Shield of Faith is gone because it's a con spell, so I'm back to 21. AC. Okay, nice. But you're huge. But you are now a hoogey. You've kind of ruined a plan I had as well. End of your turn Sentry oh yep

that does definitely ruin something I was going to do in the meantime let me go with Robot Boys one of them will go for the biggest target, which is now Sentry. This is the fairly undamaged one. It will just make its two claw attacks and then shoot its eyebleam.

18 to hit is a miss. Yeah, that's a miss. 25 will hit. Yep. For a total of seven, twelve, fourteen points of force damage. Can you make a concentration check for enlarge? Will do.

Do you have warcast or I can't remember? Eight plus seven. No, I don't know. Easily enough. The plus seven is more than enough. You succeed on the con save. You took the 14 damage. That one will eye blast Aayla

for... Nope. That's only a 13 to hit. As it turns around, its eye kind of faces backwards, blasts behind. Johan, this one's still coming for you, though. It's going to make two floor attacks against you. Century, do you want to protect against one? Yes, please. Yeah. Okay okay first one will be with disadvantage

so six plus nine fifteen to hit johan ah do you have shield or anything like no spell i do not i do not 11. That's 17 points of damage as one claw grabbed you. Yeah. The second attack is a 20 to hit. Not natural, just a dirty 20. That hits. That hits. So that's going to be nine, 12 more points of damage.

Okay. How are you looking there, bud? How many hit points you got? Actually, you've been healed quite a lot. Okay. I was going to say, you've been here quite a lot you're a big heel uh and then the eye blast will go for ayla uh that's a natural one so the thing turns around and ayla just these blasts of magical force are erupting around you uh but none of them

manage to fully strike you as these two crab creatures uh struggle to do what they're going to do. Humdy humdy hum. Am I grappled again? No. Yes, it hit you with both attacks. You are grappled. No prob. No prob. Don't you worry about me, guys. In fact, actually, because you are grappled,

thank you for reminding me, Ravs. Can you make a constitution as lightning runs through your body? I just love taking damage. I love it. 25. reminding me, Ravs, can you make a constitution as lightning runs through your body? I love it. 25. 25, okay, so you quarter the damage this time. So 21, half to 10, half to 5 lightning damage

as these things send a charge through you as it has you grabbed. I'm running out of non-concentration spells that this person will want to call oh boo hoo poor me that's concentration we're in a glass cage of emotion

use that one that's cast I'm not casting that just yet you're just yet surrender just surrender we're clearly winning tempting I'm gonna move them in fact actually I know yeah I know what they do

can you make a perception check for me in fact actually no Nova you don't need to make a perception check. You're close enough. You hear just in front of the door, not where Ayla is, but the space next to it, you hear somebody mutter some arcane words. The door to which room?

To my room? Yes. So you hear it coming from around here. Okay. Okay. Okay. That cute. But you just hear a muttering, and then there's some sort of effect. Does that then trigger her action?

No, she doesn't appear. I have to see. Yeah, didn't appear. I have to see. Yeah, you said that when you can see them. I have to see. Yeah, didn't appear. I have to see. Yeah, you said that when you can see them. I specifically said see. Yeah. But that's all they really do this turn,

because I don't think they can really do anything else. Oh, they could do this. Who's in that room? Who's being a pest? Oh, actually, no. Nova, I can see you. Nova, I'm going to make an attack against you. That's cute.

It is cute, isn't it? 18. Does not hit! You've got the shield, haven't you? 19 now? You see a very brief ghostly hand just try and grab you,

and you manage to kind of deflect it with Tiangong's shield form as this ghostly hand tries to grab you, and then it vanishes. Quillik. How dare thee? God. Well, now Johanna's grappled again and has just communicated his help. Don't worry about me. Don't worry about me. Don't worry about me.

I've got to do it. I'll be fine. I'm more thinking that Sentry's also taken a truckload of damage too. Yeah, just deal stage. Mask your wounds. I'm going to do that again at fifth level this time. So it's 30 feet from a point that I choose. So if I put it in the middle of that room, which I can see,

it also hits Nova. So I'll do 3d8 plus 5, 16, 24, 29 healing to everybody. No, you don't. Oh, no. He's going to counter it. He's going to counter it. Oh, did you just use your reaction mark, Kims?

I'm going to yell to Johan. That spell got counted! Get out of there! Actually, no. The healing does go off. I can't see Quill from my position. I forgot that he's behind. He's not Lucius.

No, he's behind Lucius, so I don't have the angle to see him. So the healing does go off. Get rid of invisibility. Normal invisibility, yes. There is a spell called Greater Invisibility,

which is a concentration spell, but it doesn't come undone when you cast spells or make attacks and stuff. Well, either way, you've got 16, 24, 29 healing to everybody. 29 healing. Including Nova. Yeah. I was eyeing it up, and then I was just like,

oh, I can't spare, but then actually, yeah, I don't have the line of sight to quill. I almost would have preferred if she did counter that, to be honest. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, yeah, that, to be honest. Yeah. And that's... Yeah, again, no bonus actions. So that's my turn.

I can't think of how to get rid of this dang cage. I mean, you've tried the thing you know, which is Dispel Magic, and it didn't work. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I need to learn more, Hesper. Hesper, teach me.

Okay. It's going to get countered, but I'm going to Dimension Door into Nexanova. I want a Dimension Door. Yeah, fourth level. Sure.

The door. The door. Go for it i can't yeah yeah i know i knew you would yeah i knew you would you little pest they sent you trying to escape the cage they don't want you getting out of the cage man yeah stay in the cage okay that's my reaction on the invisible wizard is that that an invisible wizard or not? Oh, no. Wait, you didn't counter the spell. No, they couldn't. I didn't counter the healing spell.

Gotcha. Are you trying to keep me on his trot? Yep. High-level wizards, man. They can do a lot of annoying shit. That's me again, just chilling in some crab claws. It's pretty cool. Aayla.

Aayla Nova Lucius. Yeah, level four. Hey, use those spell slots, Mark. Yeah. crab claws it's pretty cool Aayla no volucious yeah level 4 hey use those spell slots Mark there's nothing really that I can do I'm just gonna fight robot no they're gonna explode

how can I do that how can I do that I can't get Johanna out it's a page of magic oh no you can get Johanna out of the grapp? I can't get Johanna. It's a page of magic. Oh no, you can get Johanna out of the grapple. I can't get... I'll get Johanna out of the grapple then. I guess that's the only thing I can do.

You're raging to your advantage. Where... I can't move here because Sentry's so huge, right? You can stay in the middle between the two of them. That's not what Lucius wants though, so I'm going to have to take opportunity attacks to get out of this. Fuck's sake.

Can I go to... Can I get Johan out of the grapple and then step into where he is? Can I push Johan? You can't occupy the same space as Johan, no. You can move past him, but you'll get an opportunity. Can I push Johan out? Yes, you could shove Johan, yeah.

You could... Can I willingly be pushed? You can willingly be pushed, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. So... First to break, Johan's the grapple just a strength it's just strength uh yeah athletics athletics uh brain just malfunctioned uh 28 oh yeah brain was just like easily just like grab and free

johan from this crab monsters this crab this crab robot's grip, breaking him free. And then, yeah, you could basically, if you think of it like you get two attacks, your first attack is to break Johan free of the grapple, and then you're just going to shove him backwards. I'm going to shove him back and take the spot that he is, but I can't move him, so you'll need to move him out of the way. Johan, you move yourself backwards. There we go.

Nice. Cool. So that should set off Lucius's... Okay. Johan, you move yourself backwards. Nice. So that should set off Lucius's whatever. Maybe. I don't know if you can conjure it. If there's creatures on either side, I don't know. If it cuts through a creature's space when it appears, the creature within its area is pushed

to one side of the wall and must make a deck saving throw. Which side is it determined determined do you get to pick which side um the creature within its area is pushed to one side it doesn't say doesn't specify what oh interesting just push to one side i guess we'll go all for it maybe i definitely would try and carve it so that it's definitely... It's Nova's go first. We'll do Nova's turn and then we'll come to it. Is it my reaction to

this? Oh, that's true, yeah. Sorry, I forgot you held your action. Yes, in that case, yes it is. It is your thing to go. So... I guess... They can't be pushed south because Aayla and Sentry are in there.

There's no space. Yeah, so I guess it would just push them north, yeah. And then if they fail, they make it... Oh, okay, so if the creature within the area is pushed to one side, it must make a dexterity saving throw. So you're going to cast it on those two trot, right? So it kind of extends along the room and then push them north.

They make their save. That's the plan, yeah? Mm-hmm. Save 16. First one's an eight. Second one is also an eight. Two fours. So they're going to take full damage,

and then they are pushed 10 feet north. Nice. 35. Nice. Damage. Right. Okay. Cool.

Awesome. This is a spell is this no it's a physical bludgeoning damage from a big weapon it's actually cold damage from a spell I think is I think you're lying to me it's a level six very cold a big boy spell. They take half damage. So 15, 17 damage to each. And then Lucius, I need you to make two dexterity saving throws.

Can my decremency go off before that? It does. Your decremency does go off. This is a reaction. 10 on the Johan one then. Grappling Johan. 14 for my first save. go off this is a reaction so ten on the johan one then you want to hit grappling your hand okay nice 14 for my first save okay you take 17 cold damage okay does their reaction require them to be able to see the creature because now there's a wall of ice so you can't see lucius no it's whenever they take damage from a spell

of ice, they can't see Lucius. No. It's whenever they take damage from a spell. You would get my plus three as well. 13 points. Oh, he's in within 10 feet. Yeah, that's true. So you would have passed on both of those because you had the plus three from Sentry.

You didn't take the first one either. Yeah, you didn't take the first damage. Okay. Don't forget Sentry's plus three so it's kind of a big deal because that's the difference between you taking 32 points of damage just then um so as the wall of ice is conjured and this frost fills the room pushing these creatures back uh the ice you see the runes on the backs of these robots does flare up um and they absorb some of the magical ice damage uh Johan, your cloud

is frozen. Oh! It did its purpose. As the wall is forming, the runes kind of launch back the force as your dichromancy. It's like a ping-pong of magic before this ice completely fills the space.

Lucius, but you manage to dodge to the side both times as the cold blasts emanate around you. And yeah, now there is a huge block of ice. You do hear a very loud... Explosion. Oh, God, Nova's that side of the wall? Nova is, but the Force Cage trapped it. Some of it. It's going to restrain some of it.

Nova, you don't have to worry about making any saving throws. The wall of ice, it says here it has an AC of 12 and 30 hit points. It can't make saving throws. Okay, so I'm just going to roll some damage here. This is going to be like a chain reaction. It's going to blow up the other statue. Six. Eight. Ten. action it's gonna blow up the other statue 10 10 20 30 41 44 points of fire

damage so one section of the wall is blown out um so it's kind of like i'll draw another piece in a second okay so a chunk of the ice wall is blown apart um in fact it hit everything around it so yeah both of these parts are destroyed so a huge bit of the ice wall absorbs the blast the ice goes flying everywhere but it prevents any of the damage from hitting any of you guys the force cage itself it kind of wraps some of the damage around but i'm not going to make you guys have saving throws you just manage to kind of throw yourselves away as the force is kind of curved back inwards the other creature will have to make a deck saving throw. It passes, so it takes 22 points, or 20 points

of fire damage. You can see that that one is now kind of half broken and parts of that are beginning to light up and glow as it hums with power. And now it is Nova's go, because that was all in reaction to lucius

summoning the wall of ice as the rest of the dive backwards lucius creates this barricade separating the two destroying one the explosion contained um but does manage to uh save the rest nice I'm gonna do something intensely stupid and summon so the last place I heard a little bit giggling was like whoops it was right behind where one of the golems is now yes right by the door

on your side of the cage the force cage that was very may and Overwatch, Lucius. I... I said it was very May from Overwatch, what you just did. Go on, Kim. I want to summon a wall of light. It's 60 foot.

Similar to Lucius' wall of ice, but it's in terms of dimension. I want it to cover this doorway so that I can try and hit wherever this person is.

Remind me how big the squares are on this grid. These are all 5 foot. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. I'm kind of tempted to wrap it to hit that to hit that last golem as well how wide is the wall?

because these inches in fact there's no way it's going to be half an inch less less than half an inch wide 60 foot long, 10 foot high, 5 foot thick it can't go through the force cage the force cage blocks it from going through yeah in which case I'm going to stack it up Foot thick. It can't go through the force cage. The force cage blocks it from going through. Yeah.

In which case, I'm going to stack it up. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. And I don't know. Let's put another two next to me. So it's a bit of a messy wall. But that's the way I can... It also is, you can't see through it, right? It's opaque. People can't see through it.

So a shimmering wall of light appears at a point I choose in range. The wall blocks line of sight, but creatures and objects can pass through it. It emits light out to 120 feet and dim light for an additional 120 feet when the wall first appears each creature In its area must make a constitution saving throw, please Yeah, so DC. I don't need to make any saving throws. There's no creature in there's no creature in the range

My god, I hate you so much Look at that face. The smoke piece of shit. I just said you heard spells being cast in his face. There's no one there. There's no one there. I want to die. Just kill me now.

What do you want me to do? Yeah. End of ten? I just thought, you know, big enough area, I might catch this little snitch. Yeah, that was a smart play I'll tell you after this after this combat I'll tell you what happened I'll try and get through this round and then we're gonna have to take a Yeah, Lucius. I can't actually see that statue from that thing from here, can I?

Nah. Your wall of ice now blocks the line of sight to it. That wall of ice is relatively useless now in terms of what it is. So if I dismiss wall of ice, this might be a homebrew ruling. Basically, whenever wall of Ice is broken, it leaves frigid air in its space, which if someone occupies that space, it takes damage. Okay, I need to draw that in for the stuff that was blown up then, because this is all frigid air now as well.

If that's frigid air as just the result of ice smashing, if I dismiss the rest of the wall, is that Frigidaire going to stay there? I mean, do you know what? I'm going to say yes for now. We can check this up later, but I think that that's kind of cool that you can cause the ice wall to break apart

and turn into mist. Okay, cool. Boulder's gate now, baby. We Boulder's gate now. In which case, I will cast a second level Chromatic Orb now that I can see after dismissing that wall on the dude. Acid, please. So, ding dong.

Acidy boy. That's a 21. 21 hits, yeah. Whoop. 15 points. I saw that. 21 to hit. That's a big old...

21 hits. Yep. And that's a big old damage. It's going to be 15 acid. Yep. Already applied. The acid splashes against the creature. Yeah, convulsing it. You can see again that

kind of glowing, powering hum is beginning to build inside the creature's chest again. Sentry. You also go off. Oh yeah. Six more points of acid. Anything else, Lucius? That's it thank you

Sentry I'm just trying to think I don't really want to move up against it I think I might stay I think Sentry's going to stay where she is and just be in a defensive position and then get ready to protect if the golem starts walking down towards me

then I'll um use my reaction or a ready action to hit it yeah when it comes down our way sure just remember that if you hold an action to attack you only get one attack you don't get both attacks um with ready actions so you only get the one um but yeah so if it comes close enough for you to hit it you'll hit it right that's the held action yeah yeah okay cool uh so with century uh with that being the top of a brand new round we're going to take a quick five minute break we're just going to give a chance for people to grab drinks um grab bio and stuff um get mad at me uh for playing an annoying as shit wizard uh and being this is just like it makes it super dynamic

i'm so unbelievably pissed off that I'm going to walk away just now and have a break I can't do shit I can't do shit you can find a robot smash robot no because it's going to explode in your hands face and you'll die

just you and sentry tank it just hug the robot and then it's fine.