High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #90 | Metal Crabs and Tricksy Wizards (Part 2)

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

This Wizard is so tricksy and... wait, are the mecha-crabs exploding now!? 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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because Sentry is big and intimidating. Would you like to use your reaction, Sentry? I would please. Also, my held action is going to go off as well. That's true. Your held action goes off to go off as well that's true your held action goes off uh trot you also want to read up on this frigid uh cloud business is it like when i walk in it is it the start of the turn whilst re makes this attack sure now i'm gonna ask you rian, would you like to Divine Smite?

Oh I've only got one spell slot left! It's the third level one that you've been saving! Don't worry, do it! Do it Rhiannon, do it, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, let's fight. Just do it. Okay, yeah, let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. Okay, yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. All right. With crit rules. With the high rollers crit rules.

You maximize all the dice, add your modifiers, and then roll all the dice again. So how many dice are you rolling on this? Like normal. What's your normal damage? So it'd be 5d8. So 5d8 off the bat, plus your normal modifier Plus 5

and 2d4 from enlarged and her majesty's rose Alright, okay, let me work this out So 5 times 8 is 40 points of damage plus 5 plus 8 from enlarged plus another 4 from her majesty's rose now roll damage. Plus 5. Plus 8 from enlarged. Plus another

4 from Her Majesty's Rose. Now roll 5d8 and 3d4 again. Oh my god. Christ. So that's like at least a frozen damage rate. Wait, is Divine Smite the 5d8? That's and her weapon attack.

That's all of it. Oh, and your attack as well okay Yeah Cause she gets Century gets one extra DA Every hit now For being a high level battle then So is that another 28 points of damage?

That is yes Would you like to know the total? I had to bring up calculator Cause I couldn't be bothered to do it in my head 85 points of damage Oh my god That is sexy. As this thing

strides forward, like, kind of clanking and it's bringing its giant fist down towards Aayla, Sentry, you just plunge forward Her Majesty's Rose and you catch, maybe it was like a weak point along its central armor plate, but you catch and you watch as the metal just breaks apart,

breaks in half as your magic sword connects. The sword plunges into the crab magitek robot's chest, and as you pull it free, it just completely explodes and erupts in power. It does also

ignite in a magical explosion. I need Century, Ayla, and Johan to make dexterity saving throws. You have advantage because of danger sense, Katie. But can I try and protect Johan? Okay, right, let's go around. So Ayla is going to try and, what, you want to

dive on him and try and protect him? I want to try and protect Johan, yeah. Sure, I will say that you can take disadvantage on your saving throw to give Johan advantage on his. How about that? Okay. Don't waste it.

Can I use my reaction to protect Ayla? No, don't do it. So is this like using your shield? No, you can't use your reaction. You just used it to make the opportunity attack. Honestly, Ray, do not worry about me.

The only person. Yeah. Yeah, so you've... 15. Do I get anything extra from Sentry or is that a different aura? It's three. You get plus three.

18. And this is spell damage as well. This counts as magic damage, so Sentry's... I rolled the same thing twice. Lucius, go. Does it count as a spell? It doesn't. It's not a spell being cast, I'm afraid

to say. This isn't something you can chromatic control. This is like an explosion of magical energy. It's not like I'm casting Fireball. It is a eruption of magical energy, which is a limitation on the thing. I only got a 14.

You're going to fail, Ayla, on this. Century? I've got my shield master feat, so if I make a deck saving throw save, if it's an effect that allows half damage on a success, I can use a reaction to take no damage.

You've used your reaction to make the opportunity attack. Ah! No! You don't get it back until the start of your next turn. Alrighty. 14 plus, that's 18. 18, that's still enough. You're still going to take half damage.

And also, you have your spell warding aura, right? I do, yes. That's resistance against spells. And damage from magic. Does it say damage from spells or damage from magical effects? It's an important distinction. Damage from spells. Alright, so this doesn't apply then, because it's the same thing as Lucius's

chromatic control. This isn't a spell, it's an eruption of magical energy. So Aayla's taking full damage, Johan and Sentry are both taking half. That sounds like a lot of dice, Mark. It's 10v6. You know.

So 10, 22, 28, 30. So mad. 34. 37 points of this would be force damage. 34 37 points of this would be force damage so 34 to Ayla and then it would be 17 to Johan and Sentry

how many hit points did you have left Johan? I got healed Mark so I'm on 23 now you haven't killed me yet so you haven't killed me yet no I was just curious so you watch as the crab You haven't killed me yet. Sorry, you haven't killed me yet. No, I was just curious. So you watch, yeah, as the crab construct,

the kind of humanoid machine is decimated and, yeah, just erupts through the cage. A few of the flames, Lucius, do kind of lick the outer edges where the bars are, but nothing really comes through in total. But yeah, just completely envelops that corner. The big wreckage, the magitek wreckage of the creatures remains.

We're going to stay in initiative just for a little bit longer, just as things are going on that you can't see. Right. Damn it. can't see. Right. Damn it. Can't move through there. It's still an invisible enemy fighting us.

He doesn't want to see it, Kim, but your wall is stopping him from doing something. So, you know. Well, it blocks line of sight. So, she can't see you guys. She can't see you guys. yeah well it blocks line of sight so let's check the duration of visibility as well she can't see you guys she can't see me though is that is that what you thought it blocks line of sight any minute the wall of light blocks linus she might not be in that room she's probably not in that room anymore she's in our room. Katie's got it. She's in the cage with you. Save the house.

Yeah, she's in the cage with you, isn't she? She can teleport. So Mark said, Mark said the sound came from near Ayla and there's two signs at that door, right? I fired on one side, so either she moved further into my room or she's in your room with you.

God damn it. Look at that face. The line of sight in your room with you. God damn it. Look at that face. The line of sight. Here we go. She moved there. And then... Oh, no. Let's get the spirit on the same.

E. Yeah, it's E. Where are you? Behind. Behind. Behind. How old are you? Behind. Behind. Behind. How old are you? A 20-foot radius around Century, Ayla, and Johan begins to form,

and ice begins to plunge downwards on top of you guys. Do you have a reaction? I'm going to get us out of this goddamn cage. I... That was a held action for the previous round, right? Are we on the top of a new round? Have you had a round since then? Yes, you have.

So you have your reaction left, yes. Oh my god, they're in the room. The problem is... I can counter spell, but only at 5th level. Does counter spell say that you have to see the creature it says in this specific circumstance tell mark Humes which is weird that's in the description that it that's weird that they wrote that in the

book the process of casting a spell that's it so the creature is cost of spell it says which you take when you see a creature within 16 feet of you casting a spell. Ah, it does say that. Yeah. Sorry, still a killjoy. Why does it say that? No. Oh, yeah. In casting time, one reaction. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can I use my reaction then to try and absorb some of this with my prismatic gauntlet? Yes, because I think for that, you just need to see the spell effect. I don't think you need to see the person casting the spell. It's like I'm seeing the energy come out

and I'm trying to pull that in. Pull that in. Yeah, I'd say you can try and use your pag, your prismatic alternator gauntlet. This is a magic item. Magic item that Lucius' sister made for him. Peg. So what's the process on this?

Because it's been a while. I know you have to make some sort of check. DC of 10 plus the level of the spell. Okay, DC is 14. It's a fourth level spell. All right. Baggers. On save.

Ding dong. 26, natural 20. On save. Ding dong. 26, natural 20. You feel as the ice begins to form above the three of them and begins to kind of come down in these huge chunks.

Yeah, you... And just the blue energy comes in. It should be four charges. It was four. Four charges. It was close to going over there. It was close to going over. So yeah, you feel like you're going like...

And it becomes charged with blue energy now. A little bit of orange still left over from the previous spell absorbed. But now it's kind of powered with cold energy as well. Hmm, interesting. Does that spell have... It does have a somatic component. Johan, Ayla, Sentry, please make perception checks for me.

Ooh! Eleven. So perceptive. Mm-hmm. 19 plus 5, 24. Okay, Sentry and Ayla, you heard magic, Sentry and Aayla, you heard magic words being said in a very strange, high-pitched young voice

coming from this corner just south of Johan. I'm pinging it on roll 20. So in the southeast corner of the room, you heard kind of muttered arcane gestures and spells. Corley can't come. Can I shout that? Maybe. Do I have

time to shout that? Sure. She's in this room. She's below this cage. Below Johan. Near Johan. Below if we're looking top down? Can I say that in my earring? Sure. In my messenger ring.

It's like a free action to speak. You're not trying to say too much. You can give everybody the vague idea. The only person you won't know is Johan. But everybody else, you get the vague idea that she is in the southeast corner of the room Aayla and Sentry and Johan are in. So Nova, you're like... Yeah, I'm not gonna...

I'm not gonna... Yeah, I'm not gonna say it out loud. I'm gonna say it in my messengering to the gang. I know Johanna wouldn't hear that, but at least... No, that's very, very smart. Quillen, you're go. I have no idea what I can do. I can't get into

the room. Can't see her. I have no idea what I can do. I can't get into the room. Can't see her. I guess. Well, you can attack. Like an invisible creature, if you have an idea of where it is, you can make an attack against it. You just have disadvantage to try and hit it because you don't know exactly where they are.

But if Aayla's like that corner of the room, try and hit it. You can make a go. Like a projectile through this now that that is that becomes a different problem yes so what what determines whether a spell is is a projectile like guiding bolt i guess you can assume it is right yeah it says range spell attack if it says range spell attack it will have some sort of mass that needs to be aimed and directed in a line of force. Yeah, because like

sacred flame, on the other hand, it just says like flame descends on them. I'd say sacred flame wouldn't be affected by the force cage. Sure, I'll... Sure. I'll try that. I'll try a sacred flame in that area.

They make a dex save, which I suppose they have quadruple advantage on. I wouldn't say quadruple advantage. I'm just going to check what Invisible says. Invisible. Invisible creature is impossible to see with the outlay of magic. Creature's location can be determined by any noise

it makes. The spell, any dexterity-based effect, has its normal effect. It doesn't get any benefit to. So just a dex save throw, yeah? Yeah. Does have advantage on saving throws against spells and spell-like effects, though, because of magic resistance. Sure.

20 total. Yeah, I do nothing. The flames kind of descend in the area. You can hear, those of you who did hear the verbal arc, you can hear so many moving around as these spectral feathers try descend in the area. You can hear, those of you who did hear the verbal arc, you can hear somebody moving around as these spectral feathers try and fill the area. Yeah, and I'll do a, because I can't reach Johan,

I'll do a bonus action heal on him, healing word. So 2d4 plus 5, so 14 healing for you. Nice. Aayla in the cage. The cage of rage. The rage cage. Rage cage. Literally nothing I can do right now.

Just be angry. Literally nothing. Unfortunately, very much the case. Nova. I'm gonna drop my wall sure and I'm gonna summon a portal one inside the cage between my friends and one outside the cage what level you can't see it let's say... Sixth. Okay. No, you cast it. No, the spell goes off. Okay.

I will cast it... I guess, can I get it in between these guys or should I have it like probably just above them? Okay, so I'm going to cast so a portal will appear within the cage about there and a second one

outside of the cage blocking the doorway south Oh, you're casting them there. Oh. I thought you were going to do it in the room you're in. Smart. Smart. He's thinking about it now.

I don't know. Yeah. One point has to be within 10 feet of you, Gim. One point has to be within 10 feet of you. Oh, yes, you have. I've moved. Uh... Oh, yes, you have. I've moved. It'd be, like, there. Yeah. Yep, if you've done that,

then yes, then that is absolutely fine. You can do that. Alright. Anything else, Nova? Arcane. Nope, that is my arcane gate. Lucius. Controlled. There's not much I can do here either. So, I'm just going to forego my turn, I believe. I am of no use right now.

Okay. Any held actions? any held actions if this person becomes visible and in the range of a spell like chromatic orb then I will cast chromatic orb of acid at this person

okay sentry um I'm all out of spelly slots. All I can do is whack, so I shall go through the portal. Come out of the portal.

Large sentry. Barely fits through the portal. Sentry appears. A large sentry. Stuck halfway. Can I just swing my sword? Just try and catch anything. Start swinging wild.

Are you, like, the square next to you? Where are you swinging? Pick a space for me. Where Aayla pointed. So, yeah, like, in that corner, like, underneath Johan. Just where... Yeah.

Just in there somewhere. Sure, make this advice all righty okie dokie oh my goodness me i mean how there's actually it you swing in that that square you don't hit anything there's nothing in that area you're kind of swinging your sword around but you don't hit anything all right can i can i messenger ring and just say, like, I'm not getting anything, like, in this space. One over! Uh, yeah. That's my turn for now. Okay. no okay appears from portal

nothing personal kid nothing personal watch me miss 5 10 15, 25 seconds. It's going to be a gamble. I like gambles. Ayla, you do hear just behind you, outside of the cage on this side, you just heard the briefest words of a spell and then you just felt something like

as if a gust of wind just caught something and it's gone Quillock The thing is the way that you guys have positioned yourself, they're trapped in here as much as you are trapped in with them they're like I want here as much as you are trapped in with them.

They're like, I want to leave. Let me leave. Okay. Like, unless she wamps through the force thing, the cage, then, like, she's stuck with Sentry, but Sentry can't see her. I've got no idea where she is now because she's not in the corner, I suppose. So I am going to do the same as Lucius. Held action.

If it appears, I will sacred flame it. Okay. Johan. I'm just going to head through the portal. Wabam. I'm just gonna head through the portal uh and I'll

hold a uh just hold a cantrip I'll just hold a lightning lure if I see them bam Hela Nova Nova, Lucius. Yeah.

Sorry, I lost audio for a bit. That's okay. So was there anything after I heard someone just heard a despair? People are just holding actions. Johan's moved through the portal. That's pretty much it. I'll move through the portal. Yep.

Makes sense. And just move Over here I think And yeah, hold an action if I see Her, I'll smash her face Take a neck, move I'm just gonna Duck a little bit behind cover

I'm gonna maintain the portal And I'm gonna say You might wanna consider Talking to us. I don't think you're gonna get out of here without us finding you. Okay. Yep. Lucius?

Right. I'm going to try and cast Hypnotic Pattern. Okay. In a big old space. 30 foot cube. Where are you you do it in the area of 30 foot cube right uh so kind of like 30 foot on one side 30 foot on the other i'm gonna do it on the right hand side over here sure i mean you can if you want to just draw like you can just use the pen tool and draw roughly where you want to

show it, and then I'll describe it. Because I don't know roughly exactly where you want to place it. I need to see the exact dimensions. I feel like she's messy stepped out of the room. So if it's a 30 foot cube... Yeah. Yes, like, draw a cube

like 30 feet on one side, so six squares, and then six squares long, six squares high. Alright. One, two, three, four, five. It's like that. Wait, it's going to be like that, isn't it? In which case I'd either

hit Nova or Aayla and Johan. Who do you want to go for? And Sentry. Shit. I don't know if I want to do that. Go for me. I to go for? And sentry. Shit. I don't know if I want to do that. Go for me. I'll go for Nova. Sure.

Nova, make a saving throw. Do I get any protection from covering? Would I make... I think that the light fills the whole cube. It extends out of the room, so I don't think so. It's not like... If it was an explosion that started in the middle

and went out, but this is like a colourful cube of light that just fills the area. It's a 16 whiz save. And what's the effect? It's a charm effect, I believe. You die. Incapacitated. Oh.

You're basically like... Ah, pretty colours. Charms, incapacacity and speed of zero. Or is it too big? This is too big. Roll 15. What's it, sorry, wisdom saving throw. 30 feet?

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. No, it's not. If it's a cube, is it like... Yeah, that's the right size. That is the right size. It will only hit that area. It could be one bigger, but like... Yeah, I was going to say, it will only hit that area.

It could be one bigger, but like... Yeah, I was gonna say, if it's a 30 foot cube... ...it's in the back of the room. Right. If you're happy with the mark, I'm happy with it. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm fine. The person is not in the cube, so it's only whether Kim succeeds or fails really. Sick! Uh, Wizard of the Sacred Crow, did you say? Yeah. is not in the cube, so it's only whether Kim succeeds or fails. Sick!

What did you say? Yeah. I rolled a 15, 16, 17, 18. Okay, you're fine. Just passes. Century. I'm going to stay where I am, hold an action. If I see her, I'm going to whack her.

I think we're going to be doing this for... Yeah. Well, I'm going to change it up a little bit. I'm going to change it a little bit because Lucius, Johan, Aelin, Sentry, you sense the Force Cage drops. You sense that it's no longer there, like the Force Cage just vanishes. As early as I can communicate that, I will.

Yeah, I mean, you guys can communicate it now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Okay. I'm going to drop out of initiative. So what do you guys want to do? Still, we'll remain in, like, a kind of, like,

you guys have a turn. Like, what's the immediate kind of, like, actions and stuff you take? Now that the wall is gone, in like a kind of like you guys have a turn like like what's the immediate kind of like actions and stuff you take and now that the wall is gone i kind of want to call everyone back so we can go back into the main room where we're all together in one space uh sure like i don't know i i think in my head i'm like well she's invisible she's gonna get some attack on one of us when we're on her own so i like try and call everyone back. Sure.

Yeah, you guys can all make your way back into the temple. Yeah, I mean, do people follow Quill's idea? What do you guys do? I'd follow Quill. I feel like we've got her on the back foot. She's done everything she can, and she's thrown everything at us, and she's on the run. She's not going to

pursue us. We need to pursue her. We can't let her get away and call for reinforcements. I think since you just called out like, where are you? No response. There's no response. There's no response. You don't hear anything. You don hear like any more spells being cast um quill actually you've got super high passive perception i should have i you heard somebody running behind you out into the main temple room

like you would have heard very very light faint footsteps like pat pat pat pat pat and then once they get you know more than 30 feet away it's like well it's hard to hear them it echoes around you can't pinpoint them but they're they definitely got behind you they got behind me well in that case i'll say that's what i'm saying give chase she went this way yeah i forgot 25 passive perception i was like yeah he's gonna hear them yeah in that case yeah yeah, everyone group together to run into the main room. If she's running that way, sweet, perfect.

I'm going to have to get small. You can't fit through the corridor. Essentially, you will have to shrink down. No! Oh! Yeah, I'll drop it. Shrink me down.

Shrink me down shrink me down DM there I go yeah I mean Quill are you still like on the desperately like trying to like radar sonar these footsteps of wherever they are. Make a perception check for me. Perception check. Wonderful.

Let's see, what is this? Plus nine. Boom, 26. Ooh. Crikey. You hear footsteps in the vague direction of the main tunnel leading into You hear footsteps in the vague direction of the main tunnel leading into the temple. In the vague direction.

Would I say I have that within about a 20-foot radius? I mean, a 20-foot radius. From you, a 20-foot radius around you? No? Or is this like a... 20-foot from a point. I mean, how far point a point. I mean, how far point-wise? I mean, yeah. Within 60 foot,

a 20-foot radius is a point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Within 60 feet, you can make a 20-foot radius around that, yeah. I want to cast with my Dusk Willow Ring, I want to cast Fairy Fire, which outlines anything. There it is. I couldn't cast it in a small room this entire time because it also hits allies

you son of a biscuit can sentry messenger ring a riot yeah no Lucius took the sentry messenger ring back oh okay can I counter spell the counter spell can I counter spell the counter spell you can't see the person

casting counterspell so no oh yeah yeah yeah alright she's leaving okay so as you guys start running you guys I guess maybe we have to go back in initiative order for this

because the timing would affect it because you would counter spell that how long is the invisibility for though that's i'm tracking in my head as well like i'm like okay took a turn took a turn took a turn so i know that so you guys once quill

does that would you everybody basically run in that direction like let's take it step by step right so quills just cast that. The Fairy Fire's been counterspelled. You guys take an action. What do you guys do? I dimension door to the front door of the temple

and push it shut. Okay. Very nice. Very nice. Johan does that and you hear this kind of heavy stone being shut. okay uh what about uh lucius ayla century nova i'm gonna start running in the direction i can run to there we'll cast

so you get to then ayla okay i see a fragment of like the fairy far and then it gets dismissed is there any you see it beginning to come out of Quill's ring, but no, you don't have any indication from the spell because it was counterspelled. Can I take a wild swing? Yes. You have eight squares around you. You've got

south, west, and southwest. Can I go for the one just to the diagonally left of Johan? Like, down from me to the left?

So, south of you. Yeah. Not the one south of you. The one over. That one. This one. You may make an attack with disadvantage. that one this one you may make an attack with disadvantage uh i rolled a three so probably not 15 have i just missed the shit no maybe just i use my reaction so i can't cast shield so it just hits roll damage

roll damage roll damage and I'm going to have to make a concentration check after this 15 damage 15 points of damage can I swing again because I get too fast

well no let me see if the invisibility goes because then you won't have disadvantage um so 15 half of the damage is dc 10 uh zero modifier okay the invisibility is still there make another swing disadvantage

you rolled a three and hit damn it one of them was a nat 20 but that was the disadvantage so 13 plus 12 so it'll hit you hit you hit you hear by the way as that first hit

connects you hear and you feel connect the hammer connects, you hear, and you feel the hammer connects with something quite small, and you hear, like, a little girl's, like, as it's slammed back by the hammer. 18 damage. I don't care.

18 points of damage. Yep. Ow. Another concentration check. Succeeds on that one still invisible right at this point we're still like let's let's jump back into initiative here so century you moved up what was century and lucius you guys gonna do because you guys still had some turns i'm just um yeah go on century that's right You go first. I mean, she caused us hell, so I really don't care

about hitting a small child right now. She's not actually a kid, is she? Well, so you're raging. No, I'm not. I wasn't raging, no. No, it would have worn off, yeah. Lucius, if you don't have anything, Sentry... Well, you weren't saying anything.

Sorry, it sounded like you didn't know what to do. No, I just let people speak. I will literally just form a human body blockade. Right, okay. So they can't leave. Arms outstretched. That's what I'm doing. Okay.

Yeah, same with Lucius. Okay. Yeah, and then Nova, you're the last one. Because you're the only one that didn't take the action. I'm going to Eldritch Blast the area. The Aayla hit. Disadvantage. Disadvantage.

Okay, that's fine. So plus 9. So I rolled two 11s, so 19. Hits. 19? 20. It hits. Yeah, whatever.

It hits. Five plus five, 10 points of damage. 10 points. Right. After that first blast, the invisibility fades uh and you see uh being struck by this purple ray of light you see nova it's the same person you saw before um just barely on the periphery of your vision in the kind of darkened temple um yeah you see a young girl she can't be more than sort of like nine or ten. She's wearing like the tattered,

it looks like a grown-up shirt that's been wrapped around the waist with a belt to try and turn it into like a dress. Very oversized bracelets around her wrists. And she looks pissed as hell. Like she looks very angry, but also very injured. And is now holding the side as she's blasted by one of these force rays slammed by the ray

continue with your attacks Nova I've got two more rays, can I pause ask her if she wants to surrender and then act depending on what she says um sure, speaking is a free action I'll say yes you can um depending on what she says. Um... Sure.

Speaking is a free action. I'll say yes, you can. Um... The small child will... God, you've got us so cornered. She, yeah, she holds her hands up. She just sees these little tiny little hands come up, like, yes, yes, I surrender. Don up. She just sees these little tiny little hands come up like,

yes, yes, I surrender. Don't kill me, don't hurt me. And then, like, she starts, like, kind of crying. You can hear, like, sobbing. She just cast the fucking self-level spell killer. I don't know if this would work, but, like, can I hold my two beams that if she makes a move to escape?

You're going to have to either cancel them but you can hold another action on a next turn you can say like, as soon as I've got another chance I'm going to hold an action to blast her but you'll have to dismiss these two blasts as is can I just blast a little bit over her head just as a one

like dust rains down from the stone covering her those of you who are closer johan and ayla uh you can see that there is something which isn't quite right about this this little girl because not only the kind of like very strange circumstances she's not wearing like shoes or anything like that um you see patches of scales like serpent scales up along her arms um and for a second her eye her pupils look like snakes um like snakes eyes um but she just kind of like meekly holds her hands up and like looks around

can i restrain her can i try well restrain her it's technically a new initiative and i'd like everyone to re-roll initiative. Okay. Okay. Because she might still try to do something dumb. I don't know what's happened. I don't know. I rolled a nat 22! Nat 20 birds! Yeah, okay. Yeah, you guys are going first.

Right. Lucius, initiative. I got a nine. Nine. Quillek. Seven. Seven. Ay nine. Nine. Quillek? Seven. Seven. Ayla? 25.

Entry. Six. Six. Nova? 23. Three. Johan? Ten. Ten. Okay. All right. Ayla?

Yeah, you just rush forward and grab her. Yeah, can I... I want to grab her, but also cover her mouth, unless we're asking her to answer a specific question, so she can't be

talking spells. Sure. I mean, you grapple her. She has a strength of 6. My strength is 25. And she's a small person. She's not going to win. So you grapple her. And you can put a hand over her mouth.

She's not restrained, but she is grappled. Looking through all the spells, finding ones that aren't verbal uh anything else ala would i not have her harm her arms like so grappling like you're preventing her from moving like you have her grabbed but like you can't like her hands are still free to like do this like if she was restrained like fully like tied up um you could can i tie her up uh do you have rope on you i have rope yeah i do next turn you can definitely tie her up but

your action is to grab her this turn and then you've got her your hand over her mouth so she's definitely definitely not going anywhere immediately at least um nova um i'd like to move up and ready my reaction that if she uh cast a spell i'm well it's reaction anyway uh i'm gonna cast counter spell um 5 10 15 as i'm before i move up can I take a quick look? There are soldiers in here, right? The Valkyrian soldiers. Also, Kim, just not to be nitpicky, how many spell slots do you have?

Because you've cast Fast Step, Wall of Light, and Arcane Gate today. Oh, Arcane Gate's your Eldritch invocation. Arcane Gate is, yeah, so I've got one spell slot. I was like, one, two, three. No, no, no, no, no, no. I was just checking, because I forgot that that doesn't use spell slots.

Yes, there are Valkyrian bodies that you fought in here. Can you remind me of what they looked like in terms of age? Yeah, it was mixed. Some looked quite young, like nearly sort of like teen level, sort of like, you know, 18, maybe the youngest 16, 15, maybe. And then some of them were middle-aged, kind of 20s, 30s. One of them looks to be maybe in his 50s, nearly

60s. And did they look like they fit their clothes? Yeah, I mean, the teenagers look a bit baggy on them. Okay. So I'm just going to move up some within range to cast Counterspell.

Basically, I rolled a 3 on her initiative, so all of you are going to get a go, by the way. Okay. 5, 10, 15, 20. Okay. Worst initiative I could have possibly rolled. Because I can't do

anything. This kid's at the mercy of you. Yeah, what do you guys want to do? You can see that she's just looking around. Ayla's got her hand over her mouth and she's just scanning everywhere she can. What's your name?

She gestures. She kind of like, like her mouth being covered. I will uncover her mouth so that she can answer questions. But if she sounds like she's saying anything that's not the answer to that question, I will. My name is Vasvarak.

My name is Dimension Door. Make an initiative roll for me. Just roll initiative again, Ayla, to see how quickly you can cover her mouth. I have advantage on initiative, so I can... Can I still use that? Don't roll it for this one. This one's more just a test of reaction speed.

As you let her to speak, she is going to say magic words to a spell, but how quickly you can clamp her shut is gonna i only got an 11 but my initial initiative was 25 yeah no that's that that let you grab her and grab her and before she even got to do anything else like this is you've let her speak she's gonna cast a spell like i'm sure you guys would nova you count a spell, right? Mm-hmm. And it's at sixth level? Fifth level. Fifth level.

Okay, the spell fails. So she goes to cast something. Like, as you lift open her mouth, she speaks like a single word. Quill, anybody who can cast Misty Step recognizes it as Misty Step. And then it's just, the magic fades, and then Aayla's hand clamps over her mouth again. And you just see her just roll her little eyes

like nice are we in kind of like an open initiative sort of thing here well that was yeah that was like Nova said can you answer my question she was like okay I've got an opportunity to speak I'm going to cast a spell so

all right well is the Sphinx still here? The Sphinx? The ghost of the Sphinx is still here. Have you seen this girl before? If you move over to the Sphinx, the Sphinx,

the spirit kind of stirs. My memory of before you all arrived is still disparate I cannot remember anything from perhaps the last few days, the last few weeks I'm unsure

visual trigger would be like oh yeah her yeah she's a bitch I'm afraid that my death was quite brutal my memory of the event is very clouded. The time around it also distinguished. I do not remember seeing any young girl for a long, long time. On my turn, can I tell her to stand down?

Don't make this hard of yourself. We can just simply stop any attempt at escape. Don't make this hard. She raises a very cocky eyebrow. She's like, as if to say like, hmm, really? She's like, as if to say like, hmm, really? She doesn't, she's no longer, she doesn't, you know, Aayla's got her completely gripped.

She can't get away. No. How injured would you say they look? She looks pretty injured. You can see that the two hammer blows have, you know, she maybe dodged some of the force, but it was enough to kind of knock her into the wall. She has like a bit of blood sort of like running down her forehead,

looks very badly bruised. I mean, she's under half her hit points. Could I do a non-lethal shocking grasp to stop her from trying to do any reactions so that i don't you know zap her to death yeah no just um just roll the damage for me because she can't she's currently like she's no way she can avoid being grabbed uh pen okay it's not enough to knock her out but it does like you see her body just... Just to stop. Just to stop the reactions. She cries out, just like... She's like shocked.

But yeah, she's not going to be able to take any reactions. As this is happening, I think Sentry's going to be kind of disturbed by this. Like, this is... She's Petal's age, dude. This is Petal's age as well. It's kind of hard not to see

glimmers of petal in this girl's place as johan reaches out grabs her arm and like lightning just yeah it's not nice it's not nice at all in the shed like i don't think she could really distinguish that this is a full-on disguise so i think she's just gonna like start like she's gonna like hide around the corner and just like she knows something's up but it's not like yeah like she can't watch what's going on interesting okay what are we doing here this is not how we get information off anyone anyone. Why?

What are we doing? She can't have that much power and be a kid. Did you see what she did in there? Does she have any insignias or any, on her bracelets or her tunic, does she have any sort of I'm asking for twin snakes here twin snakes is there any any anything sneaky is that is she yeah i mean if nova if you move up to

like examine her that closely you can see the snake skin like you can see patches of scales and snake skin you can see her eyes are clearly reptile eyes um as she kind of looks up at you um the tunic is just a shirt that's been very hastily transformed into a dress to fit a girl of this age and size. The bracelets look more like magical relics. They look like magic items. They don't necessarily look

like jewelry. They're more you can see like glowing crystals and bands of metal. Does she look like she has some sort of focus or component pouch or something? Yes, there is a very small wand that she's been clutching. Could we nab that? Yeah, you can just rip that out of her hands.

Still doesn't prevent her... Like, there are... Johan and any spellcasters know there are some spells which you can just cast with words. You don't need a focus or components to do. Can I just... Not many, though.

Look at her and say to her, just... Direct eye contact and just go, Sakhira? and see how she reacts she just like laughs at that um and kind of looks in your direction quite curiously can i insight check that sure With my minus one insight, that will be an eleven.

I mean, yeah, just laughed at it. Could mean anything. What are we trying to find out? I can just use the eye. You know this. We can't go zapping children. Not in a temple of Hesper as well. This is not how we find things out.

It was just to try to get her to stop running away. If you've got any other suggestions, she's not... Who is she? She's clearly working for the enemy. Look at those robots. We've seen them before. She's working for someone else enemy. Look at those robots. We've seen them before. She's working for someone else.

There could be reinforcements, and therefore we have to stop her. I don't care who she is. I'm holding on to her until we have a better solution to this. Hold on, but don't injure any further. You don't need to do that. We've got her under our control.

She just kind of goes quiet and is just watching this exchange um quill they're very intelligent eyes the way that she's looking you can tell that like every sentence you're exchanging she's very carefully listening and analyzing everything that's going on like she's seen sentry walk away um and she's listening to like you and lucius looking at johan and ayla sort of calculating use the eye if you must quill if she will i'm gonna walk up to her and say can i can i um talk over the the messenger ring? You can. Just let Tom finish, though, Katie, just a second, and then talk over the messenger ring.

I'll walk over to her. Like, she's smart enough. I am Kilikad Kalar, champion of Hesper. Whatever you're hiding from us, well, we could get it out the way that they're trying to get it out of you, or I can find out myself, and I'll let my eye spark. I mean, I know it means nothing, but like... No, she sees the eye. She looks at the eye and then looks at you.

She gestures like... I know no one knows what the eye is, I mean. She manages to get a finger to point to her mouth and then she kind of does this motion. She kind of goes like... Like... She's trying to communicate. Let me speak. just want to do anything go on now i just

wanted to say over the messenger ring don't tell her shit basically don't give her information on us because she's sizing us up and she's finding out what we've got i don't think that would have changed what quill did but yeah whatever like fuck. She's in the Temple of Hesper. Everyone knows we're here. Can you take her specifics about us? Yeah, you can sort of pull them off. She doesn't resist. She knows that she's overpowered here.

You pull the bracelets off. You'll need to identify them if you want to find out what they do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just want to kind of, you know, disarm her for now. Are you... Are you really a child? She can't speak.

Uncover the mouth. She just looks at you. I'm going to uncover the... I said already I'll uncover the mouth when she wants't speak uncover the mouth she just looks at you you can I'm gonna uncover I said already I'll uncover the mouth when she wants to speak I said that already

like I'll uncover it but I'll come back if she says spells okay so when she when you uncover it she kind of is like she looks around

a lot of questions but no I'm not a child. If my idiot men hadn't killed that sphinx, I would have convinced her to change me back. But unfortunately, it seems that I'm stuck like this, at least until I can return and get the appropriate magic cast on me. As for your question, Champion of Hesper, I know who you are. I've read the dossiers on you. I know who you are. I've read the dossiers on you. I was expecting you to arrive at this temple,

but as you seem to have taken your time, our ambush, we gave up on it. I wanted to explore the temple early. You were supposed to have been here weeks ago. Well, what did you find? Not much. My forces, my research team, were killed by the storm entering. Those that survived were either killed or aged by the Sphinx. I was left only with the two automatons,

which, whilst they are very good for brute force, are not particularly clever. And being in my current form, and she gestures down, I have been limited in how much I can achieve. Whilst my magic has not been diminished, my ability to pull leathers and slide chains around has been somewhat diminished. So there's no one else in this temple?

I do not need to give you my name. You know who I work for. I do not need to give you my name. You know who I work for. If I give you any more information, only death awaits me. There is no one else left in this temple. Well, none of Valkyrian forces, anyway.

You're willing to die for this cause I simply intended to set I simply intended to set those automatons on you and try and escape I know that I'm no match for you physically and even with my magic I was limited in how much I could do I wanted to just get out why would you rather take death is it really worth the course

what do you mean take death what are you implying? To whom? You're not killers. None of you are. I've read your dossier. You're not going to kill me in cold blood. Not if I surrender. I wanted to escape. The person I'm truly

afraid of is not you. The person I'm truly afraid of is the one who sent me here. Hmm. So you're not working for him willingly. Fools. She just rolls her eyes. You clearly don't have an idea of what's going on.

Zarkira. Someone has some intelligence, at least. Yes, Zarkira. Calus. As if Callus could kill me. Even in my original form, he wouldn't have killed someone who was loyal to him. It's too honorable, too noble to do that.

So why do you follow Zarkira? It's less of a follow, more of a opportunity. I'm one of the finest magisters in the Empire. And Zarkira's groups have less, shall we say, bureaucracy when it comes to magical research. If you're quite done electrocuting me and intimidating me, you have a choice to make.

You can either let me go or tie me up and put me in a corner somewhere. Exactly. It's not like I can go anywhere until you resolve whatever's going on in this temple anyway. What was your business here? I'm afraid I can't say.

Not because I don't want to, but because if I give away any of the details of my mission, I will be killed here immediately. Can you find out, Quill? Yes, I can. And I think I will hold on

okay Quill you're sentencing this person to death we don't know what cause will cause her death Zarkira is involved and you find out why she's here she will die

are you willing to have that on your hands are you champion of Hesper depends on the nature of the she will die. Are you willing to have that on your hands? Are you? Champion of Hesper? Depends on the nature of the curse, right? If she says it, then that kills her. If I find out,

does that kill her? But you're the champion of the god of knowledge. Do we care to find out? They're here to desecrate the temple of Hesper. One way or another, we'll find out with or without her. Please, Quill, don't kill her. Please. I don't intend to kill her. She can't leave. The storm will get her.

She can't stay in here because we don't know to kill her. She can't leave. The storm will get her. She can't stay in here. Because we don't know what she can do. We don't trust her. She doesn't trust us. What do we do? I just... Is... Does Sakiro want to overthrow Starbane? Why are you so concerned?

Both of them are your enemy. Because... Or are you Kallus' little favourite? You've read the dossier. I've tried talking. You've read the dossier. You probably know. I've tried to talk You've read the dossier. You probably know. I've tried to talk to Starbane. He won't listen about Hadar.

Hadar is the one I fear. Maybe Zarkira would listen. You don't know Zarkira as well as you think. That's why I'm asking you. I'll put this to you little Ganassi Calus is no more likely to believe you about Zarkira trying to overthrow him

than he is to trust you with anything else The two of them have existed for thousands of years, they've conquered worlds together You're not listening to me I'm not interested in talking to Starbane I'm interested in talking to Zarkira about her dog

I know and Zarkira has very little interest in talking to any of you Zarkira knows what she wants unlike Kallus she's not the type to offer olive branches

if she wants something from you Ganassi she'll come and take it it's as simple as that she wants something from this temple and she's not here again you presume a little too much Simple as that. She wants something from this temple, and she's not here. Again, you presume a little too much. You don't quite have all the facts.

So, educate me. Ah. To do that, I would need some sort of agreement. You let me go. I will assist you in investigating what is happening here. I cannot tell you my mission, but I can point you in some of the right directions. I'm just looking to survive. I'm trying to read Quill's face

pointing us to all the right traps it'll be that easy I know a little what was what was the riddle that the sphinx said for Quill to do again was it kneel before your enemy and say the right thing? Hmm. Involved the wind as well, which is why we went into that room in the first place.

Bless yourselves in the winds of knowledge and kneel before your greatest enemy and tell them what they want to hear. Sphinx does like its little riddles, doesn't it? It also likes de-aging people. I wonder how far it can go. Oh, it can go further. I'm sure you'll find out at some point. There's another one in this temple. Still alive?

I assume so. You are a cleric of Hesper, are you not Quilek? Kelek. Kelek. Ah, the spelling in the dossier gives a otherwise different idea I'm aware, Mark! Finally an RP way to tell you that you've been saying it wrong this entire time.

Are you capable of the spell greater restoration i am a deal then i will tell you everything i know of the temple how to proceed into the inner sanctum and what i can suspect is the dangers ahead i will also tell you as much as I know about what is going on here without giving away the conditions that will trigger my demise.

In exchange, I would like you to cast Greater Restoration and release me. And where would you go? The storms would rip even I apart. I will wait until you conclude your business

and then I will return to hopefully escape my commander's wrath. Failure will see me demoted. It may even see me punished, but it won't kill me. Can you ensure that she is... can i messenger ring quill and say is it worth asking the eye if she's gonna betray us or how she's gonna betray us if we do this deal how is this deal gonna go wrong you just told us that she knows the answer. I can just find out. I don't need to take the deal.

Huh? I'll just use the arm. What's the plan, everyone? I am going to ask, while looking at her, how do you solve the Sphinx's riddle? Quill, your eye becomes foggy for only a brief second and then fails. The gift of Hesper is not going to answer how you solve this,

your greatest challenge. This is something you must solve yourself. If I get no answer, I don't use a charge, right? You don't use a charge. So, in this place... Was that Hesper cancelling it? This is the very nature of the eye. This was a gift from Hesper, the eye,

and this challenge has been set by Hesper. You can't eye your way through this place. Are you kidding me? You've got to watch for it, bud. God of knowledge, man. He's not going to give you all the answers, remember? Quill.

Is there a way in which we can ensure she is being truthful? You'd hope so, wouldn't you? I'd like that. I know what you're referring. Yeah. No. Okay. Does Squill have Zone of Truth prepared?

The answer is no. No. No, I do not. Could anyone else make an insight check? I know it's a stat, you all scroll past. Well, it's also just like, whatever, even if she does know, I don't want to take the deal. I don't want to ask for a resolution on her. Ayla doesn't care to, she doesn't give a shit what she says, she doesn't trust

her either way. If she can find out, we can find out. No, it's not so much that. It's more if and when she's going to betray us. Sentry just sees a sweet child who can do no wrong. She's not a child, Sentry! She looks like one!

She looks like one and that's enough for Sentry. That's all she needs. I can't remember. Sentry's not an actual... Murdery little child. Sentry's a guardian. Murdery little child. I'm dumber than a sword.

You are. You are. With synaptic stack, work on Sentry. It does, just barely. Yeah, just about. You're being very ponderous and careful.

I don't think to get the answers from her. Then we don't get answers from her. Let's just move on. Don't kill her. Are you going to let me go, or are you going to leave me here? Let's restrain her. Fair.

She holds it. Well, actually, no. Ayla's got her. She can't hold her arms out. Ayla's like... Just got in a... Ayla holds her arms out. Full Nelson.

She's like, don't you move, you little shit. I'll kill you. You can take the focus from her. Yes. I've taken the bracelets as well. Let's leave her here. I'm just going to say in the earring, it doesn't matter what you do to her.

If we're not killing her, she's getting away. Restraining her is going to do nothing. Look at the kind of spells she was casting. It will at least give us time while we complete the task that's been set. If she gets away and she goes to her contacts, whatever, we are in jeopardy. While she's here, we're at least somewhat safer.

Zakira has the power to kill her the moment she tells us information. She knows she's here. She'll know when she dies, whatever happens. Restrain this one, how long? Restrain her to another plane of existence? I like it a bit. Restrain her to keep her close. Could Zaheimi... do you have any powers? Could you watch her? My spirit barely lingers in this place as it is.

My power has long since faded. I am but an echo now. Oh, and I wouldn't undo what it is I have done to her. I wouldn't vanish if I were you, Johan. That would just send us straight back to Zarkira. It's a whole extraplanetary thing. It's how it works out here.

Please feel free. It would get me out of your hair, Johan, is it? It would remove me from this area. It would make it difficult for me to gather reinforcements, if that is what you are afeard of. I will go willingly. I trust my friends

in this. Then we drank her kicking and screaming along with us. Curious. Then I demand that the guardian escort me. It's the only one that I trust. This barbarian is clearly too violent. She's already hurt me considerably.

I don't think you're in any position to make commands. Just push it a bit more. We'll see what can happen. Yeah, I kind of think Aayla should be the babysitter in this case. No offense, Sentry. That makes sense. Well, I guess. I don't know. She's looking at you, Sentry.

Like, it's not... I only trust the Guardian. Aayla is just, like, looking at her, but, like, she feels really bad. I thought that you were supposed to be some sort of protector, and yet you let this happen to me

don't listen to her she's manipulating you sentry I'm saying the truth I've said nothing but the truth sure and you've also cast a whole bunch of spells on us that's nearly killed you and yeah sure okay but you still did a lot of damage

and you're a little shit, so shut the hell up. My automatons harmed you. So that's why you put us in a cage with them. Yes, to stop you from entering the room where I was and to give me a chance to escape. Okay. Anyway, we have task to complete.

We don't need to hear any more. In the messenger ring, can I just say... Look, can I just knock her out? we have task to complete we don't need to hear anymore let's restrain her in the messenger ring can I just say look can I just knock her out I'm not going to kill her but can I just knock her out yes tie her up gag her she's the enemy

she's not a kid do it if you want Quill can cast greater restoration and then I'll knock her out I don't give a shit I'll knock her out either way do it if you want quill can cast greater restoration and then i'll knock her out i don't give a shit i'll knock her out either way do it sorry can we have like not i think the printer scene from office space right now what are you guys doing what a reference knocking this kid out sure deal me some damage she's helpless

can't defend herself shut up she's not a child but she can't be trusted why don't you just like one move and go all the way execute order at this point you could just choke hold her

and just put her to sleep knock her out. If you want. I'll put her on one hit point. Sure. Alright. Sentry, you watch. It's horrible. It's actually, this is horrible for Sentry. And I want the rest of you to, like, see this.

No, I want her to, I don't want to, like, prolong it. I just want to simply knock her out. Smack her head against the wall, throw her in a rag. But to knock her out, like, prolong it. I just want to simply knock her out. Smack her head against the wall, throw it around. But to knock her out, like, you literally have to, like, hold her neck and, like, you know, until she passes out. But for Sentry, and this is what the rest of you don't really see, but for Sentry cannot help but see the young girl that she was built,

that she was built entirely to protect. She doesn't understand things in the same way that you do she's a guardian she's not a living sort of like flesh being and to century this is quite a horrible thing to witness as this young girl is is knocked out um and left unconscious on the floor um and yes you have to sit you know that sits with you for a bit go on your hand hey. Hey Sentry! And then I'm just going to start juggling lightning balls. Look over here instead! Sentry's going to... I'm going to tie her.

Just walk away from him. Sure. I'm going to tie her up and gag her. I assume you're going to tie her up and yeet her into the storm. Fucking hell. I'm not going to yeet her into the storm. She's too smart. And the longer she spends with us, the more she're going to tie her up and yeet her into the storm. Fucking hell. I'm not going to yeet her into the storm. She's too smart. And the longer she spends with us, the more she's going to learn

about us and then go walking back to Zakiura and tell her everything. So Saint Dumper here. She knows everything anyway. Who cares? Just throw her in the corner and we'll continue the rest of the race. I just don't trust that if and when we get to the spear that she's not going to go reaching for it first.

Let me take her hands. Tom. Fuck him out. Thomas Hazel. Love it. Is that what you're saying, Nova? In that case, Thomas Hazel.

the young girl, whom you do not know the name of, is left up in this main temple floor as the rest of you are going to continue exploring the Temple of Hesper. Yeah. Yeah. Happy ending. Happy ending.

I feel good about this. She's not a kid. I don't care. This is the thing. Here's the thing. She's a high-level wizard. Nobody's wrong. This is just thing here's the thing she's a high level wizard nobody's wrong it's you know this is just centuries character seeing it one way you guys seen it another way and ultimately a very self-centered evil wizard trying to survive that's what this comes down to and yeah just a reflection of all of this i hate this is the way rp goes smart wizards and I don't think I've really

made you go I think I've only done this a couple of times where I've been like you guys are gonna play somebody who knows how spell casting works yeah and we'll do annoying things like I'm gonna teleport because I've made it a force cage which means that I can see through it and move through it I'm gonna use counter spell yeah it feels like that you can yeah and the thing is is I'm not doing it to be a douche I'm and it matches some knowledge and the thing is is i'm not doing it to be a douche i'm doing it to play a very intelligent like intelligence 20 wizard who's like trying to escape and survive so you know i'm never trying to do it i know i look smug

that's just because i like how things develop it's not yeah we were doing the same thing exactly like yeah like when Trotz counterspelled me, he's been like, yeah, big boy play. And it's the same feeling, you know. Go on, go on, Kim. What did the Wall of Light do? Because you looked particularly constipated. No, it wasn't that. It was actually, it was nothing to do with the Wall of Light.

The Wall of Light didn't affect anything. Where she was, when you heard it, it was her casting Misty Step. She teleported to the other side of the Force Cage, so it wasn't anywhere in that room. What was annoying is Lucius and Quill were in the corridor, and I couldn't Misty Step past them, because it would have meant ending in their space. And I was just like, if Quill or Lucius just moved one space,

I could get away. But they were just in this little block, and I was like, I can't get there, damn it. And the fourth cage just fucked it. And then it was the Wall of Ice play, where you had them all move south. There was a play that she was going to do where suddenly Sentry getting bigger

meant she couldn't put a certain spell in that location, and it meant that that whole thing could go on it was just like yeah it was just like really very well timed without you guys knowing it encounter kind of thing so yeah nice yeah that's cool yeah um trixie that's nice twitch.tv for slash raves underscore thank you and with that take care everyone bye