High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #92 | The Battle Through Time (Part 1)

Episode Date: November 17, 2020

A meeting in the past, a puzzle in the present and a battle in the future! 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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They are accompanied by mysterious fisherman, Johan, who has a strange connection to the storm, and together the group have managed to gain access to a pair of special trials that will grant them access to the inner sanctum of the temple, where the source of these terrible storms, the Tempest Dragon, slumbers. The first of these trials is the Trial of Aeons, and it's been set by Arcanist Phaedrus Celador. Using two portals, one that leads to the past and one that leads to the future, the party must force Phaedrus' future self to surrender and grant them the blessing of ages. Sentry and Aayla are

sent through the future portal and discover that Phaedrus turns themselves into a lich and is protected by incredibly powerful wards generated by one of the many arcane pillars around the room. Unable to destroy it, they both suffer under the lich's magic. In the present, Lucius and Johan fight off waves of magic-draining wormlings that phase into the material plane to feed off the portals. If they get too close, the portals close and trap their friends in the past or the future. In the past, Quill and Nova meet a younger Phaedrus who is studying powerful protective magic. Unable to destroy the pillars of the past nova deduces that instead it may be possible to create a bypass that will deactivate

the wards in the future and now the battle continues as the party attempt to best the trial of aeons and that is where we go today that's where we're going to start. We are in initiative order. I will do a quick rundown of where everybody is and the descriptions of the rooms. If anybody has any questions, now is a good time to ask. So in the present, which is the chamber that you first entered,

is a large round chamber with eight pillars, each with a crystal embedded into them. which is the chamber that you first entered, is a large round chamber with eight pillars, each with a crystal embedded into them. Phaedrus is a elegant, slightly feminine figure, but with a kind of brown beard and long brown curly hair. They are elven, a high elf, and they are floating above their throne. They have three motes of light above their head, and they have warned that once all three motes of light vanish

the trial will be over and people will be stuck wherever they are there are two portals set one into the north end of the room one into the south end of the room and in the middle we currently have Lucius and Johan and one manor wormling which has appeared these manor wormlings as they get close to the portals they drain magical effects um causing the portals to shut down in the past we have uh we have quill and nova as well as a young phaedrus and a young and a uh woman called arcanist ellenasto who is

a high elf that bears a strong resemblance to lucius uh they have spoken with phaedrus who has informed them uh who asked them to recover a book with knowledge of runes and symbols but now they need to um make adjustments and study the pillar although apparently that is not permitted by arcanist ellen asto and then in the future the most dangerous of the three chambers um the same round chamber has fallen into ruin with cobwebs and broken columns, skeletal figures kind of dotted around the room. One of the pillars has a differently colored crystal and is projecting a magical shield

around a lich version of Phaedrus, who has been assaulting Sentry and Aayla with magic. And at the very top of the round, I would like Mr. Ravs, our special guest, to roll a d4 for me, please. Oh, god. As more mana

Wyrmlings begin to phase into existence. Four? Four. Yikes. Okay, then. First one is going to appear. One, two, three, four, five, 5, 6. Whoops. The next one is going to appear

at number 7. The next one at number 3. It's like the world's worst game show. I know! Don't I rule high? game show. I know! Don't I rule high? Four more mana Wyrmlings

begin to materialize. Those mana Wyrmlings which aren't close to a portal, that are more than 10 feet away from a portal, they are almost translucent as if they're not quite fully real just yet. Luciuscius and johan found out last time that this means they are resistant to all forms of damage whilst they are phasing

between the planes yeah i messed up they begin to materialize um i've just realized i need to actually i can just have two of them go on the same initiative um so that is at the very top of the round um oh goodness me my pc is breaking as well as we go uh meanwhile in the future uh at the top of the round uh the lich phaedrus is going to finally start using some of its lair actions. Nice of him. Finally. Yeah. Sentry, I would like you to make a constitution saving throw for me. As Phaedrus, the skeletal version of the kindly elf

that you had met in the present chamber extends their hand. What's the total? 14 plus 7. 14 plus 7. 21. 21. You see as a crackling cord of black and purple energy springs from Phaedrus' hand.

It connects to you and you can feel it trying to bond your own life energy to his or to theirs um and you manage to kind of shrug it off and with the power of the matrix kind of break this cord free as their lair action fails meanwhile the remaining man o'worm uh the one of the man o'worms the one from previous will phase towards lucius and will make an attack roll against you uh it will just try and bite you lucius that is gonna be a 22 to hit yeah yeah that'll do it you are going to take oh a whopping four points of force damage as its uh little uh mouth kind of passes through it is still partially translucent but its bite hits with this kind of passes through. It is still partially translucent,

but its bite hits with this kind of magical force as it does so. Damn. Aayla. Aayla, you are currently in the future chamber. This chamber is dimly lit. You only have the barest glowing light from these magical pillars. As you see this skeletal mage figure uh trying to assail sentry um you've tried hitting the pillar with a different colored crystal some sort of strange object trapped inside it but

your hammer had absolutely no effect you didn't even you caused zero damage when you tried to strike this pillar um the same shielded magic bubble projects around the lich, what would you like to do? Can I go back towards the blue portal? Yep. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. You can actually

pass through the portal if you wish to. You have enough movement speed. Yes. portal if you wish to. You have enough movement speed. Yes? I want to make sure that I shout out to Sentry though before I do that that's what I'm doing. And that she should... Can I say it through my messenger ring and not out loud? Can I just be like portal back blue one? Yes. Yep. You can. And in fact you do i don't uh and then as you as you step through the portal uh you i'm just trying to remember yeah you would come through here um you feel like a sense of rushing sense of passing between worlds or times and you find yourself back in the original chamber that you had been in before, this present

chamber. Where Lucius and Johanna are. Yes. You can see a number of these small, translucent magic dragons beginning to phase into existence. Okay, and do I appear next to the blue

portal there? You appear exactly where you are, so yes, at the top. You actually appear near the green portal as it is on the present map. Oh, okay. Oh, that's okay. Never mind that. I was going to take an action to hurt the one that was next to the blue thing, but I am not near it.

You appear from a different one because it's the way that the portals connect. If you come through to the future, you come out of the future. And if you go through the past, you come out the... It's a weird one. Okay. No, you would come out the bottom one. No, no, no, no. Sorry. You would, because you've come from the future to the present,

which means you come out the blue portal. Yes, you do. Can I smack the little thing next to it, then? That's, like, right beside it. I smack the little thing next to it then? That's like right beside it. I don't think that's how it worked before. I don't think anybody's come back through a portal yet, Tom. So this is the first time. Yeah.

So yeah, because you've come from the future to the present, you would appear from... No, yeah, you would be in the future portal. I'm confusing myself. It's all a bit timey why me bit timey somewhere i'll go there that's fine you only you only have about five unless you want to dash katie you've only got about five feet of movement left anyway uh i will just i will just... I will just move down a little bit and start to... Yeah, I'll make my way actually towards Lucius.

That's what I'll do. So you want to dash? So I'll just dash towards Lucius and this little thing. Okay. You just begin careening your way out of this portal, rushing towards Lucius and the remaining creature. And I'll just say to him,

Lich, really powerful, lots of spells. Don't like it. No, no, no, can't do it okay, at the end of your go yeah, at the end of your go, Ayla Lich Phaedrus is going to take a legendary action to cast a cantrip

on Sentry sorry Sentry, that's all good legendary action cantrip, a pro play pro play. Yeah. Pro play. Luckily, it is only a 15 to hit.

No. The same skeletal hand tries to swipe at you through the air sentry as this kind of translucent ghostly hand tries to swipe at you and drain you of life force, but it fails to connect. Right. After that legendary action, the rest of the mana worldlings go one of them will 5 10 15 20 25 flies up to the future portal uh disabling it century you watch as the portal leading back to the present is shut off oh shit um okay okay it's fine it's fine it's fine

it's fine it's fine Ayla's there now oh my god this is smack and smack no I'm so I'm sorry

I'm so confused with all of this no it's I mean you were following the plan you've done exactly what Tom was gonna do

if you weren't here so don't worry it's just the way the initiative order goes. Johan, one of these man and wormlings is just within range as it breathes out a cone of magical force. You've seen this before.

Can you make a dexterity saving throw for me, please? 17. 17, you're going to take half damage. 13 halved. Six points of force damage. As again, as it sees you, it kind of hisses. Blasts out this cone of magical force. And then it turns its attention to the portal.

And you watch as they begin sucking away. As both portals are now disabled. Three Wyrmlings around the portal to the past. Stranding Quill and Nova. There. That one can't attack anything. That one's already gone. So that is the mana Wyrmling's done.

Lich Phaedrus. It would seem that your friends have abandoned you, Guardian. Perhaps I should now show you the cost of meddling in my affairs and yeah yeah I this is a dexterity saving throw, please, Sentry. QQ. Let's do it. 16 plus 4, that is a 20.

20. Do I succeed? Just. You watch. Okay, so you watch as the as Lich Phaedrus lifts a bony finger and points it towards you a thin

green ray passes you manage to like knock the ray aside kind of throwing it aside with the magic of your shield and as it hits a part of the wall and the column behind you sentry this gigantic hole just emerges

and dust fills the area as it is disintegrated um oh shit okay you are beginning you are beginning to irritate me

Lucius alright quick question for the glorious You are beginning to irritate me. Lucius. All right. Quick question for the glorious and probably best DM I've ever had. You know it can't work. You know it doesn't work. If I quicken a spell, can I cast another spell? Bonus action. So the way it works is, yeah,

as long as the spell you cast after the quickened one is a cantrip, yes, you can. So you can quicken a normal spell, and then you can cast a cantrip. Obviously, as the best DM, you would allow a normal spell. Raw rule of D&D, I'm not going to bend it. I've tried it already, Troy. It's not worth it. All right. In which case, I'm going to cast...

Cantrips, yes. I'm going to cast Armor of Agathys on myself at level... Okay. Break it up. Second level. Okay. That would give me 10 hit points and then create this spectral armor. I'm then going to move away on purpose

towards this other manor, Wormling, causing it to attack me. The creature's not smart enough to not try and make the opportunity attack, so it will. It gets a 23 to hit. Yeah, and then it takes 10. It takes 10 points of cold damage.

It halves it as it is still phased. I'm an elemental adept at ice and acid. I forgot this last time. So if it has resistance, it doesn't have resistance. Very nice. So you take nine points of force damage. And then even though it's phased between these two worlds, I think that this would probably be represented by Lucius.

Your power, your magic, your kind of control over these colors, over blue. It's strong enough that you can will it to go beyond just this realm. You know that this thing is kind of attacking you from another kind of, you know, from another existence. You kind of will it and the damage manages to spill over into whatever realm it is also occupying. And you hear it just kind of... as its wings are coated in ice as the armor explodes around you.

Can I dichromancy for seven points the one on the portal to the future, please? Yes. So seven more points of cold damage to that one, which is corporeal as well. And you watch as, yeah, that one takes 7 points. Both of them, however, still

functioning. You just see them sucking down the magic. Feeding off of it. I'm just going to shout to both Ayla and Johan. We need to get rid of the ones on the portals immediately. They're stuck there.

Excellent. That's what I'm doing. Kelek. So, could I hear, even though Aayla was in the future at the time, could I hear the messenger ring? No. Messenger rings only work on your plane of existence. But I could see,

because we can see the visages of everyone in the different times, I can see Aayla and Sentry fleeing, right? You would see it as, I mean, I think Quill's smart enough to know that, yeah, Sentry fled towards the portal, but to your eyes, she would just run to the portal and then be stood,

she would just appear on the other side of the room. She would vanish from one side to the other, basically. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, it's enough that you can figure out that she's probably gone through. Nova, we have to be much, much quicker. Also, this portal's shut down. We can't go to the present anymore. What can I do? What can I do?

What do you need me to do? Nova, what do I do? Phaedrus is looking at you very confused. Actually, yeah, can, am I allowed to reply on this if it's not my turn? Yeah, imagine you've got a few seconds to have a conversation. Our turns are kind of compounded anyway. We need to do things at the pillar, but Arcanist Alanasto won't let us touch it,

so we need to figure out how to deal with that. I don't know why you're rushing, but yes. You see Phaedrus looks very confused. She's kind of glancing behind you, trying to see what you're talking about. So yeah, what do you want to do, Cor? I mean, I'm going to head over to the tower thing and just see what happens.

Sure, which one? The bad one. You move to which pillar you want to move to? Where's the path? This one over here, bottom, kind of, 5 o'clock. Yeah, you move over towards it. You can see that these

pillars, as Phaedrus mentioned, they're incomplete. The scribings, the inscriptions of the runes, the crystals themselves haven't quite fully been formed, or there's no power through any of them. You can see that these are, yeah, they don't seem to have been completed. The work is being done

but it has not been fully finished. Plenty of room for runes to be added, taken away, manipulated, changed, all of that kind of stuff. But as you get closer you see this high elven woman with this long blonde hair kind of turns around.

What do you think you're doing? You shouldn't be near those. They're for true arcanists only. That's me. True arcanist. Here to evaluate the runes, make sure things don't go south.

You know? I'm not familiar with you, new arcanist's promotion. You can attempt a deception check if you would like with disadvantage. Disadvantage, yeah. Yeah, sure, why not? Deception, plus one. Oh, goody. Does it get lower than a five?

It doesn't. No. I don't know what you're trying to pull, Does it get lower than a five? It doesn't. Five. No. I don't know what you're trying to pull, but I know that you're not an arcanist of this institute. Quill, anything else on your turn? Otherwise, that's it. I mean, I really don't know what to do in the past. I just tell this, don't put shield on this thing.

It's bad. Okay. Johan, in the present. Okay. I'm going to move to here.

These guys have got the easy job. Present team have got easy job. Kill worms. Kill dragons. Gonna move 20 feet to here and i'm gonna uh blow a bit of wind over till about here and spawn a storm sphere at fourth level uh with my action um okay okay let me just draw you a little sphere. What's the radius on the sphere? Yes, please. The radius on the sphere is a 20 foot radius. Okay. So, ideally

I'm casting it in a range to hit all of the worms. But still within 60 feet of the top worm. Yeah. So, a 20 foot radius, you'd be able to go 5, 10, 15, 20,

15, 20. Yes, you'd basically able to go 5, 10, 15, 20 15, 20, yes it'd basically be like this, it's massive yeah yeah so just absolutely does it stay? it's concentration wow, okay then

let me move to map layer cool, so this crackling sphere of Storm energy Erupts through the room I have a strength save from every single one of those worms Ravs out of interest This storm sphere would overlap one of the pillars

Oh Uh Uh I pillars? Oh! Uh... Can a pillar make a strength check? I bet they've got a lot of strength, you know, they're sturdy, they're pillars, they make that mongrel and stuff. I'm gonna make one, but I'm gonna make a check for it, yeah, I am. Uh-huh. So strength check from the Wyrmlings. Uh-huh.

So strength saving for it, yeah. Pillars gotta have like a... Yeah, yeah, yeah. First Wyrmling fails, second one fails, third one fails, fourth one succeeds. DC 18 or 17? 17.

The fourth Wyrmling... 17? The Pillar also will take damage, yes? Okay, well it's just 2d6 bludgeoning for these bad boys. So there you go, 8. Do you want me to roll for pillar also will take damage yes okay well it's just 2d sex budgeting for these bad boys so they go a drop in a row for every worm or just do it across the board no no it's it's eight to all of them yet it's all eight so the one

that is next to a la is gonna take half damage from this only bludgeoning damage interesting using my bonus action i'm gonna cause a bolt of lightning to leap to the worm up top on the future portal and do an attack on that what is the so the leap the lightning yeah as a bonus action uh i can target one creature yeah so i want to hit the northern worm. As the storm sphere erupts, by the way, and engulfs one of these pillars, the whole chamber shudders once again. Can everybody make a...

What would this be? This would be a charisma saving throw. God damn it, Mark Hughes. Everybody, in every... No, no. Oh! Oh, God. god damn it mark you everybody in every uh no no uh no oh god uh that's a 10 i rolled a one ouch ayla what did you get total charisma save two two excellent and then luci's got 25 amazing yeah nice do your attack on the other one while I figure this out perhaps okay so range spell attack well

they got plus nine on that BAM did that work I did 15 and that hits it hits okay so that's 46 on the worm up top uh for why did that not work uh i'll just roll 40 12 oh it hit for 12 oh sick 12 damage to the worm up top do you do extra damage when you cast a lightning spell by the way because this thing has three hit points left uh i do but only if i'm in 10 feet of it uh but i was gonna keep moving um well i i have a i have a did you move before or after you cast the storms i moved 20 feet i've got another 10 feet of movement so that would be to here and when i cast a storm spell, I have Tempestuous Magic, which lets me fly up to 10 feet without provoking

opportunity attacks, so I could technically fly 10 feet further, which would put it within range! Okay, yeah, sure. How much damage does it do? It deals... It deals... Oh god, what is it

hold on sorry I'm bleeding no never mind I can't do that because that's a bonus action so never mind so you fly all this way but here's what happens let me explain it because Ravsters you do fly you fly the 10 feet because let's go if you were trying to so as the

storm fear erupts and you see this pillar kind of shake the chamber yeah what magic just begins to pulse an arc of all of these columns it strikes all of you none of the worms all of you um ayla you and johan kind of take the brunt of it and you feel this magic just rip through your bodies lucius you manage to however you however this works for lucius you tell me but lucius you managed to however you however this works for lucius you tell me but lucius manages to somehow prevent this surge of magic affecting him so whether that's you conjure some sort of like barrier or it's just a force of personality whatever it is is up to you it would be a residual prismatic gauntlet uh shielded

deflects it away. Two things happen. As the wild magic surges through Aayla, your lightning that you're conducting off of yourself from your rage, it begins to billow out like a thick fog, like a sea, you know, a soup of

fog that you would get on the ocean, right? Like during a storm, this thick rolling fog cloud erupts around you, obsc pretty much everything around you um as this uh fog cloud emerges out from you johan um those of you who see johan he flies forward through the air and then there is a flash lucius a potted plant lands net lands wild manatic yo plant lands next. Wild Manatic, yo! What a nice plant.

What kind of plant? It's like a grey clay pot and it's a Monstera plant, so it's got these big big leaves. Awesome! Can a potted plant concentrate on Storm S storms fear because I would argue it can't damn it But you are still and we're actually sorry no you're incapacitated to know you do lose concentration on it, okay? Oh

geez Yeah, can't take actions or reactions. So it's an extra potted plant. Or is it? No, no. It's where Johan should have been. There is a potted plant. Oh my god.

That's awesome. I guess that ends my turn. I photosynthesize. Don't knock it over. Now I can't get rid of the fucking storm sphere. Never mind. I'll do that later. That is Johan's very complicated go.

Nova Vija. So because it's been a week, can you just give me a quick remindy of... So I know the rune that i need to inscribe into this pillar right and then you have the book how do i just has helped you identify it and how do i inscribe it into the pillar uh so uh i have to find my section in this um it's it's not too difficult um you can do it really uh there's no action or like skill it's an action i would say actually to do it but there's no skill check required it just requires like um subtly engraving it because the thing is is that the

real trick is going to be powering it which you won't be able to do with the pillar in its current state. The pillar has not got power. It's not been completed. You're kind of doing the step before this. The difficulty is, well, you don't know. Like, yeah, Arcanist Elinasto has told you not to mess with the pillars, but you could just walk up there and start, you know, carving in and, you know and using your various arcane tools

or a small blade to kind of begin making the inscriptions and carving the correct shapes and sequence in if you wished. But if you wish to do it stealthy, then it would require some sort of check. Can I messenger ring Quill and say, distract her away from this pillar make her look elsewhere and then can i sort of walk behind uh so walk towards the pillar but go behind the adjacent pillar to it and as i go behind cast invisibility on myself so it looks like kind of i go behind the pillar cast invisibility you're examining the bookcase, and then you vanish. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm just lost in the books. Oh, books. So cool, books. And then just, yeah. Make your, use the rest of your movement to get to the pillar. Yeah, you won't be able to inscribe anything on this turn, but you are invisible.

You don't think you've been noticed. And yeah, you messenger ring Quill. Yeah, good turn as you manage to succeed. Phaedrus kind of follows you for a moment behind the pillar and then sees you disappear and kind of excitedly looks in the direction of the second pillar. And you can see she's kind of like peering over and is kind of going to make their way to just sort of awkwardly stand nearby,

almost to kind of be like, oh, she's like that. Yeah. Can I give Phaedrus a cheeky little wink? And a kind of shh before i oh before you turn no before i before i yeah just like a yeah uh her eyes kind of like go wide um and then it's just like oh yeah yes i suppose um well it would be fascinating to know if this works uh i suppose the arcanist can fix it if it's not correct anyway and then they're just like you see them sort of quite excitedly like the idea of seeing their research actually get used

uh you can see touches through and they kind of get a little that excitement that as a scholar you've seen nova of somebody who's like oh oh maybe we can do this thing i want to do for a long time uh at the end of your turn, I have some bad news for Century, as Lich Phaedrus is going to take their second legendary action. I'm just trying to decide which one I would like to do.

Go big or go home, right? I think I can. It's the legendary action that they're actually doing. I'm ready they look at you and they're just I imagine that whatever that device you carry makes you difficult to make afraid

death will have to suffice they're going to cast another cantrip on you. This one is a 25 to hit. Yeah, that'll do it. That'll do it. This is 48. Is it a magic? Magic, magic.

This is going to be a spell, so it will be half damage from your aura. Cool beans. 24 points of necrotic damage, so 12 necrotic damage. And you cannot regain hit points until the start of your next turn. Cool. That's all good. This ghostly hand just passes through you. You almost feel the matrix beginning to freeze in your chest

as the life energy of all the guardians is kind of being not stolen but kind of frozen in time and place um as this creature desperately tries to harm you century your turn all righty um i'm going to move 30 feet this way that's 30 there um and then i'm going to cast shield of faith on myself and give myself plus two ac um and then but can i like get low so i've got like a little bit of cover behind like sort of the debris of like this broken pillar in front of me sure yeah as long as they as long as the the lich stays on the ground level um yeah you'll have cover against them and and can i can i ready an action um should a faith is bonus action yes yes then yes you can awesome so um if the lich casts a spell at me can i make an action to

roll towards the pillar on my left and roll for cover that way tactical roll uh you could so rather than like ready in an action there's no real readying actions to like do dodges what you can do is you can take the dodge action which is an actual action and it basically gives disadvantage on any attack rolls against you um but things like a fireball you still you won't get any benefits because it's such a wide area that you won't be able to roll completely out the way basically and you can't dark souls it because it hits such a wide area that you won't be able to roll completely out of the way, basically. You can't Dark Souls it, sadly. But you can take the dodge action, so any attacks

directly against you, like spell attacks or ranged attacks, they'll have disadvantage to hit you. Yeah, that'll be good. Okay, sounds good to me. Can I just say to him real quick, like, can I just say, my friends are all here, and your time here is coming to an end.

You will soon leave this place. You do not fully understand, do you? Look around, Guardian. Do you not recognize these skeletal figures on the ground? Do you not recognize these skeletal figures on the ground? An arachocra. Elves. A human.

A ganassi. A potted plant. You would be amongst them, guardian. But I disintegrated you long ago. Try again. Oh, I shall. I shall. Lucius. Oh my god.

Balls on sentry. Lucius. Can you roll a d4 for me, please? Yeah. Why? Why re- Why? Why, Rhi? Why? Why are they giving me this?

I'm going down swinging. I love it. I love it. That's what a paladin should do. One, two, three, four, five. Okay. One more dragon phases in two more dragons phase in one two three four five six seven okay um the dragons phase in but you can

see now all of them become corporeal um as they begin to kind of fill the room and swarm the room they they all become fully formed um and you can see them gleefully heading towards the portals to feed themselves to suck themselves dry um another thing happens and that is phaedrus gets a lair action uh oh i'm gonna roll a d8 and i get a third level spell slot back um tom's face the man of wormlings uh two of them will go one next to ayla uh and then the two that have just appeared one of them is going to ignore the potted plant begins flying over towards lucius two of, one goes towards the portal. Ayla, one attempts to make an attack against you.

15 to hit. No. Tries to bite down on you with this little beak or this jaw of force, but doesn't quite manage to get through to you. Your turn, Ayla. Johanna's turned into a plant, and these dragons are swarming these portals

Dodge Action gives you advantage on deck save century that's something I was not aware of so there you go thank you can I please go I know I'm going to get an attack of opportunity if I do this

but can I just go up to the one by the portal, the future portal? And I want to hit these weapons. One next to you, snap at you. 11 to hit you on the opportunity attack, so it misses. And then, yeah, you rush up towards these next two and begin swinging the hammer.

Oh, I rolled really trash, so it might not hit. Wait, I don't trash That might not hit 15 Just barely misses This thing flaps its wings at the last second As the hammer Swipes past, 16 AC That one will hit then 12 plus 9

That hits Yeah I am rusty. It's fine. This thing had three hit points left. So the first one goes down. If you want a lightning bolt, the next one.

Yeah. Can I use my aura on the other one then? Yes. Deck save. That is a 11. Fails. It takes six lightning damage. Six lightning damage as the blast from the aura

slams into the creature's chest. Only one of them now remains at the future portal as Ayla strikes it with a storm aura. Anything else, Ayla, on that turn? I don't know what's happened to Tom and Trot at all here. Nothing, there's nothing. Carry on. No. Don't worry about it. Make me dumb.

She's just shouting, I've got to get Sentry out of there. She's not safe. And yeah. Continue to just be in that portal area. Okay. Most of the mana worms are either engaged with the consuming the magic of the portal.

Two of them that can attack Lucius and Ayla. Can you make dexterity saving throws, please? Twelve. Twelve just succeeds. 24. That is very much a success. 13. 24. That is very much a success. 13 reduced to half is

6 force damage each as they breathe this blast of force damage over both of you, kind of stunning you both for just a brief second as these man-of-whelming try and defend themselves as they feed off the magic of the portal. Phaedrus. Phaedrus, Phaedrus, Paedrus phaedrus phaedrus phaedrus

in the future lich phaedrus um simply hovers up into the air century the kind of the the protection of the broken pillar no longer really beneficial as they just kind of levitate softly up into the air. How badly injured are you looking? Are you pretty rusted and broken? I'm not too, too bad. Okay, you're not too bad? No, I'm not. Actually, no, I'm awful. I'm terrible.

Use a really weak spell. Don't waste your strong one. No, no, no. You're great. No, no, no. That's're great say you're great no no that's the opposite that's the opposite that you need to tell him don't tell him what is it it's a hundred percent it really is i think again fade a lich is very smart and it can see that you've tensed your body up ready to to try and avoid some sort of, like, explosive or, like, ranged attack. So instead, Phaedrus lifts up the skeletal hand,

and necrotic energy washes over you. Can you make a constitution saving throw for me, please? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm going to say you portent that for 16. Tom, can you use portent on somebody you can't see? I can see the visage of her, right? You cannot affect

her with any spells or abilities while they are in a different time. Portent, Portent, Portent, Portent. Portent, Portent, Portent. We're like pre-sundering, dude. I can replace any attack rolls saving you three. No! Okay, carry on.

Constitution saving three, please. Three in him. It's 12! I'm going to have to do this in thingy. That's cool. It's cool. Do it. That's 38 necrotic damage from a blight spell

as Phaedrus You feel all the light The vines, the bodies Is that half? Does that affect her Because she's a construct? She's not a construct, she's still a humanoid creature She's never been a full construct

I'm grasping, I'm grasping at straws here If you half it because of your spell aura So that is 15, 19. Yes, 19 necrotic damage. Nice. So yeah, you watch as like, again, you begin to be kind of like absorbed. You're the worst person for him to,

or for Phaedrus to be facing. You've got this like anti-magic aura. And he's just like, yeah. Just shrugging it off. You're weak against me. You can see Phaedrus getting very annoyed. If a skeleton man could look annoyed, he would.

Rhi, could you say the thing? I could do this all day. Do it. I could do this all day. I could. Lucius. Varian, Elwin, Elinaste.

Um... Lucius! Varian, Elin, Elinaste. Lucius is going to... Oh, they've all moved. I'm going to look at the plant. Johan! What happened? How can I save you? I'm going to use my plantly mate to levitate, blow in the wind towards the future portal.

I'm afraid that you cannot do anything, Aaron. You are incapacitated. You cannot even blow in the direction, I'm afraid. Dang it. So good. I'm going to Chromatic Orb second level at the portal Wyrmling. Or

Acid. Sure. Ding dong, 21. 21 on that one. You watch as the Orb of Acid strikes the one that Aayla's next to. The acid sprays over its body, kind of burning through its corporeal form. Just weakly, it's barely holding on its little wings like... 21 acid?

Had 24 HP left. Well, I can take my Dicromancy as well then. Nice. There we go. So with that, the acid, the kind of shard of orange light that you conjure from your Dicromancy strikes into the remaining Wyrmling

as it vaporizes, gone from the material plane. And you watch as the green light of the portal comes back on right anything else Lucius I'm going to turn around and look menacingly at the worm that's on me

right now I encourage it to hit me okay nice okay thanks at the end of your turn Lucius like Phaedrus is going to take a legendary action oh actually real quick con save throw that's fine cool

alright oh for shield of faith yes well remembered as a legendary action I need you to make another constitution That's fine. Cool. Oh, for Shield of Faith. Well remembered. As a legendary action, I need you to make another constitution saving throw, please. That's 21 again. 21. Okay, it's half damage.

You watch as just this explosion of necrotic energy erupts from Phaedrus this is not a spell so you don't get your resistance against it but you did pass the save so it's half damage anyway awesome so 21 to 10 points of necrotic damage

as this explosion of black energy erupts from Phaedrus I will destroy you even if you flee back to your companions changes nothing your deaths are inevitable you will fail this trial your champion will fail you will all

fail quill so Nova is trying to inscribe this in stealth. Is there any other, like... I guess all of the pillars are unfinished, right? Yes. Could I just make my way to one across the room? Just...

Magister Elinasto. Arcanist Elinasto, sorry. Yes, what is it? And you see her kind of like Peering from around the pillar And yeah, you've got her suitably distracted If that's what you want to do She will start making her way over towards you

Like, what are you doing over there? I was just wondering what you plan on inscribing into this pillar Well, it is a complicated matter of magic They are all being designed for different purposes The idea is that they are able Well, it is a complicated matter of magic. They are all being designed for different purposes. The idea is that they are able, and then she goes on a long rambling thing of how they can channel. Well, that's very interesting.

Tell me for another 12 seconds, please. That's exactly it. Anything else, Quill, on your turn? Any other spells you want to cast? No. I do have something I could do on the Dilla if Nova doesn't do it. But until then, I got nothing.

Okay. All right. Johan, you are a potted plant. You are incapacitated and you have vulnerability to all damage. If you drop to zero hit points, your pot breaks and your form reverts. Oh.

Can I think of like some really traumatic times in my life the fish that got away that time that I lady bolted the pillar thinking is about all you can be so yeah that's it

that's the world map cast solar beam nothing no not enough pee pee I'm afraid razor reef Cast... Cast Solar Beam. Nothing. No. No. Fair enough. Not enough PP, I'm afraid. Razor Leaf?

No. No PP for that either. PP's zero across the board. I get these. I do plant stuff. Do plant stuff. Nice. Nova Beetle.

R.P., please. R.P. plant stuff. Sunflower. There you go. I'm going to stare at this potted plant through time that's just apparently photosynthesizing and I'll start inscribing this rune on this pillar you would still be able to see the plant can they see a ghostly potted plant?

Where you were, they sneer, potted plant. It still registers as you. So, yeah. Yes, okay, Nova. So to do this, like I said, it doesn't require a specific check unless you're trying to do it secretly. So, yeah, with Phaedrus' help, you managed to adjust several of the runes.

Now you get to decide basically what you're doing here is you're inscribing a command word that you'll need to energize. When the pillar is complete, you'll need to energize this with actual arcane magic. But when you speak the command word, it will deactivate any active protective ward.

But you will need to be at the pillar that is being protected and speak the command word to do it. So you get to decide the command word. In the present, I'm guessing? Or actually, no, even in the future. Whenever the shield is active is when you would be able to disable it.

Okay. I would like to set the command word as Brookstoned. Yay! Phaedra's kind of a strange word command word as Brookstoned. Yay! Phaedrus, kind of a strange word to pick, but yes, I suppose that would work. It would be fascinating to

know. I'll make a note of this, and Phaedrus begins making a note of, yes, I met a strange woman who they see she begins to make some notes and stuff. I don't know. No, you're just some sort of strange human, are you not? It just doesn't seem to quite understand what you are.

Don't worry. You'll figure it out soon. Yes. But yeah, you managed to inscribe that. Yeah, you'll need to, when this pillar is finished, energize it. Okay, but I'm guessing I can't do anything else right now. It's your action. You spend your whole action to inscribe the command phrase.

Yeah. Okay. Sentry. You took a word from the present of a family that aren't alive yet to the past to inscribe it into a pillar that's then going to be brought back to the present and maybe the future. I mean, I didn't want to make it a word like hesper or anything that someone can just whisper it accidentally near the pillar you know just pop the last blood

vessel in my brain lucius can't talk to you right now no don't worry about it you can't talk to you and you don't know what i'm doing as far as all you know lucius i'm just fondling a pillar okay okay chris drop i'm just admiring the time you buy me. I'm going to go on the portal, please. So you rush through the portal. So you have to drop down here. Come on through. And then... I don't know, that's the wrong one.

You're here. So yeah, you hear just the kind of like lamenting sort of like, you will fail as you vanish through the portal and appear uh where your friends are well one most of your friends johan doesn't seem to be around and there's a plant here instead um nice plant unusual place for a plant um okay so let's see we got two dudes on that portal what have i got in my spell so let's see We've got two dudes on that portal What have I got in my spell list? Let's see, I think I will cast a

Yeah, I'll do a moonbeam Over towards the dudes at the far end of the room Okay, so what's the radius on moonbeam? Is it five feet? Five feet radius, yeah So I'll go for You can catch two of them at most Yeah? I'll go for you can catch 2 of them at most yeah

I'll go for the 2 that I can catch yeah if you put it here you can catch 2 of them so saving throws I need to roll con 15 save throw and I'm doing this at a level 3 ok 1 passes 1 fails awesome so 2d10 radiant damage and half for the fail

da da da wow ok fails awesome so 2d 10 radiant damage and half for the fail wow okay oh dear well you've had a lot of good saving throws so let's you know count our blessings uh as the moon being kind of comes down you can see the energy is barely dissipating the uhyrmlings around the portal who have Engorged themselves on its magic Um Right A couple of things as we hit a brand new round Century, oh sorry did you have anything Else you wanted to do Century? My apologies

I forgot that you still have movement and bonus action I have like five How much movement, like 25 feet 20 feet I think you were about here 5, 10 yeah you've got 20 feet of movement left cool I will move into

the room a bit more then 5, 10 15 20 I'll move like here okay next to Lucius yeah

nice that is me good now I'm good for that one thank you perfect can you roll a d4 for me then, please, Sentry? Will do.

A two. So we've got one, two, three, four, five, yeah, two more. Two more mana whirlings. Where are they going to be? they appear in the top half of the room as two more begin to phase through but for the first time those of you who are in the present you see

one of the motes of light above Phaedrus in the present winks out of existence shits phaedrus in the present winks out of existence she hits babby manor one links go what happens it so a couple of them are now grouped up the Lich into the present you could try You could try. You can try.

That one regains. Put them all in the same place. Break. Breaks time. Create a paradox wormhole. So a bunch of these creatures swarm around you and all of them breathe cones of force. Lucius, Sentry, Aayla, Johan.

You automatically fail Johan, by the way. You take double damage from this. Fuck yes! So Sentry, Lucius, Aayla, can you make dex saving throws, please? Nice, nice, nice. 17. 17. I'll do your one at first, Aayla. So you take three points of force damage, A, nice. Uh, 17. 17. I'll do your one at first, Ayla.

Um, so you take three points of force damage, Ayla. Century and Lucius, a 13 from Lucius. Yep. Century got my... Got 21. Yep. So that's going to be 13, six points of force damage to you both. And then Johan, the potted plant, you will take 8, 7, 15, 16, 32 points of force damage to you both and then johan the potted plant you will take eight seven fifteen

sixteen thirty two points of force damage as a pot how much hp is a plotted plant got uh it's your hit points oh i knew you'd say that that's the wild magic effect dude it says zero oh i've got to die oh i was celebrating too early That's the wild magic effect, dude. It says when you are HP zero. Oh, I've got to die? I was celebrating too early. It says you turn into a potted plant until the start of your next turn. Oh, okay, the start of your next turn. So actually, you appear back as a potted plant.

I missed you a turn there. I'm sorry. How much damage was that, sorry? You took six there, Sentry So Johan, you don't take any damage We will say that you pop back this turn I won't cheat you out of damage So I get 32 health back?

Yeah You just don't take the damage Just don't take the damage Alright What a tank I was reading the bit where it's like While a plant, you're incapacitated and I was like oh it doesn't say about when it ends

Jesus and then it's like right at the start until the start of your next turn but yeah you return I will you will get your turn this as normal I'm sorry okay Ayla hello

can I go up to this little burger here? And can I recklessly hit it a couple of times, please? Yes, you absolutely can. You don't have any spells on you at the moment, do you, Ayla? Well, the thought. Oh, so that disappears. I don't know what that does. It was basically created like mist around you. As soon as you're within 10 feet

of one of these dragons, the spell ends. Sentry, your shield of faith ends. Yeah, okay. And Lucius, at the start of their turn, your armor of Agathys... No, that's gone, hasn't it? I lost it anyway because of that attack, yeah. of Agathys. No, that's gone, hasn't it? I lost it anyway because of that attack. So it's already gone.

Okay, so yeah, make attacks. First one is 23 to hit. The second one is 27 to hit. Both hit. Very easily. Ooh! 10 plus 8, so...

21 on the first hit. Okay, yep. I rolled a 10, so I rolled full damage on my hit, plus I'm ready. M. And then, oh, I rolled a nine on my second one. So what was that? Did I say 21 point less than that? It's gone.

These two swings obliterate this little baby dragon wormling and the green portal, the future portal, comes back to life as this dragon is obliterated from existence. Okay. Can I... So Sentry has Moonbeam down on the bottom, doesn't she? Yeah. Hitting two of the ones on the bottom. The bottom two, like on the right-hand side.

So this one, so yes. The one on the portal and then one on the right hand side. Yes. Okay. Can I, I'm just aware that they're also closing off portal. So just. Oh, I think one of mine lost. Sorry. Hello.

That's all right. That's terrible. Can I use the hammer to long jump? So jump 60 feet? Yes. Can you use the charge? Yeah, yeah. Go for it. And I don't know...

Are these squares... Well... Are these little squares each five feet? Yes, they are, yes. Or is it like the two? It will be whatever the roll 20 says, yeah. So you can get next to it. Okay, so I can get to there. So I'm probably going to go like

here. So I'm not in Fengy's movie yet, but I'm... Yeah, I just want to launch myself. Bam! Slamming down the stone cracks, leaving this impact as you land, and you see these three Wyrmlings turn towards you as they do so.

End of your turn? Yeah. Okay, one of these Wyrmlings, the other two are too busy eating. In fact, no, this one would move up as well. These two are actually going to try and bite you both. First one's a miss. Second one is an 18. I think that still misses.

They bite around you as you dodge their blows. Lucius. I'm wondering if I can cast Vitriolic Sphere to not hit Aayla. You should be able to if you target it right on the edge of the room, I think. Let's do that.

You might not be able to hit the one directly in front of her, I think. You can hit the other two, though. But that would include a pillar, if you do hit it. Can I not do it? Oh, I guess I would. Yeah, if you think of a sphere...

Did everything just move yeah I just moved it slightly because the map was off so a 20 foot radius sphere is like you could sort of hit this but you would hit a pillar you would actually be able to hit all three of them I do it further down and slot it in until I don't hit a pillar

the only way you don't hit a pillar. The only way you can not hit a pillar is if you only hit two of them. I will hit that. Place it, yes. You're going to miss one, but you can hit the other two. Yes, please.

Sure, go for it. Ding dong. 16, please. One, go for it. So, deck saving through. DC 16, please. One passes, one fails. Alright, so it's 27 acid halved for the successful one. Sorry,

how much was that? 26 halved? 27 halved. So, 13. Yeah. And then 26 to the other one. And then it'll be 12 next turn. 27. 6 for the other one.

Well, the one that takes the full damage is just melted by the acid. Right. Nice. So one next to Aayla kind of gets engulfed by this vitriolic sphere and is transported back to whatever plane these things come from the range here

that's out of my dichromancy range so i'm just going to hit the one in front of me for eight points eight points of acid i'll be ignoring resistance if it had any yeah none of these have resistance now they're too There's too many of them. The more of them that congregate, the more power they seem to exude. But yeah, the acid washes over it and you watch as it begins to limply float. You can see it's now being drawn towards the portal,

desperate to feed as it is injured. Keeluk, add Kalar if you are done, Lucius. And then Johan. So, back in the past, where things feel very different to everywhere else, I'm trying to remember exactly what's happened now. So the rune, Brookstone,

the cancelling rune, is now on the pillar. Mm-hmm. What else is there to do? You tell me. I have to get this kid on side, like... Nova, what's next? Go back to... I guess messenger ring.

Go back to the present. All's closed. The present is currently open. The present portal is currently open. Yeah, because there's no wormlings within 10 feet of the future portal. Oh. Oh, my God.

Okay. Remember, you have to go through the right one to come back to the yep oh god my brain

um okay well thank you Phaedrus it's been lovely meeting you call on us whenever you need us

uh yes of course um good luck with whatever it is you're doing I hope that my research was useful uh I hope our assistance Yes, of course. Good luck with whatever it is you're doing.

I hope that my research was useful. I hope our research was useful. Bye! That portal is off, Quill. Not that one. The blue portal is disabled. You've got to go to the future. You want to go further to the past? Bye! Yes.

Other way. Can you... Yeah, if you dash, you can just make the whole trip. the way uh can you yeah if you dash you can just make your make the whole trip yeah i want to dash all the way through to uh wherever i'd end up in here like this one yeah um when you pop out the uh yes you would well no you've come out of this one this one's active, you'd come out of this one because this one's active No, no, you'd come out of this one because it's the current active one Okay

And I want to cast Beacon of Hope on myself as well as a action Okay That's me, I can't do much else. That's me. Johan, you have a turn.

I'm sorry for missing out your previous turn. That's all good. You're no longer a pilot. Johan. Okay. I'm gonna... Would my code be with me right now? Oh, that's right.

You dashed, so no action, Tom. If you wanted to get to the top wall. Oh, okay. I fly through. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Yeah, you would have had to dash, so no beacon of hope just yet. I'll fly. Would my code be with me?

Oh, you're flying 50 feet. That's right. I keep thinking that your fly speed is only 30 feet. I'm a speedy boy. Speedy boy, yeah. Okay, so flying through... Sorry, Raps. Is my cloud with me at the minute?

It's always with you, yeah. It doesn't really take up space, so it's kind of always with you, yeah. Okay, could I maneuver it around here and have it fifth level lightning bolt the uh this one and this one without hitting either so you put it on like a diagonal and then you have it go yes in that case yes you can because it's five, so yes, you can hit the one next to you and the one next to Ayla. Okay. DC? Oh, the cloud.

DC 15 for the cloud. Alright, one passes, one fails. We'll say the one next to you passes, and then the one next to Ayla fails. 36. 36? Yeah. Right then then the one next to you is another one next to you

succeeded so it doesn't take it takes 18 but the one next to Ayla yeah Ayla this this dragon wormling in front of you is just annihilated as this lightning bolt streaks from Johan's direction

obliterating it completely using my movement I'm gonna run into the future okay you appear in the

disheveled shabby sanctum and you see the skeletal lich turn in your direction ah unexpected I would have thought you would have known

better than to have come here. Took me a long time to realize what you truly are. Did I get a chance to say something to him? Yeah, you can say something back then. And yeah, then we'll end your turn. What has become of you, old friend? You know of my failure. I gave up on serving Hesper a long time ago.

My failure to protect the Tempest Dragon. It opened my eyes. Nova. to protect the Tempest Dragon. It opened my eyes. Nova. You can't do that. What? You can't do that. I just did. I just did.

We just did. For fuck's sake. Good. Nice one, Rans. Thanks, friend. That was good. Glad you did that. You know when I set the command word?

Yes. Do I have to say it out loud? Or is it something that I've carved? No, you would need to speak it. It's like activating a magic item. You would need to speak the command word out loud. Because you've done it. You made the check and you did the research.

You need to energize it first. The command it can't be used until it's energized when the pillar is complete and then when the shield is active you can speak the command word to disable the shield now because kim's dumb um sure but no more go on would would nova know that she has to active she has to power it like in the present or the future? Not now because the pillars are half broken, are not complete, but she needs to go... It sounds to me like you've made that assumption, yes. It sounds to me that that's your idea. If you're asking me to confirm whether that's true or not,

I will say, Nova, that is a correct assumption, that you would either need to energize the the pillar in the present or the future probably the present if you know the future is dangerous um but the command word to deactivate the shield would probably need to be done when the shield is active which is not in the present okay and can i say that phaedrus has written this down in their journal in whatever they're writing down yeah you you watch them as like they were kind of making notes they were like oh very interesting okay phaedrus you have to keep this to yourself you cannot keep any records of this

oh i i will it's just obviously if these pillars are used in the event to protect someone, yes, of course. That's why I want to create this effect. I want to use it in case we ever come under attack or people are in need of help. You cannot

keep a physical record of this. I'm sorry, but you cannot write this down. You need to keep it in your head and your heart. Look at me. You're smart. You can probably figure it out. You've never seen me before in your life. You've never seen a person like me before in your life.

I can't give you the answer to everything, but I know you'll figure it out. You're smart. You're smarter than anyone I've ever met. And I really wish I had more time to talk to you right now, but I cannot let you write this down. And can I just try and take like the notes that she's written, particularly about like strange woman, blue and all of that.

And just like, yeah, I don't think she's necessarily written. I don't think she's written that stuff down, but more like has made notes of like, I discussed an interesting theory about a potential bypass to the security defensive wards and stuff like that um yeah if you want to try and grab it make a just make a i'd say probably dex like sleight of hand to try and grab it grab it just like try and like because they can always write more notes right but i just want to kind of gently well okay so let me ask you this let me

yeah if you're trying to persuade rather than like you know snatch the book or something like that then yeah make a persuasion check if you're trying to do that i i misunderstood i thought you wanted to like grab the notes and yeah no no i'm a gentle soul okay um especially with a fellow uh 17 plus 5 um 18 19 20 21 22 okay phaedrus looks at you and I... You're right. You can't give me all the answers. That's Hesper's teachings. You have to ask the right questions

and I think I've asked myself the right one about you and your strange companion. I won't keep a record of this and she tears the page like she's made the notes about the research and you watch as she just ignites it with a cantrip in her hand.

I don't know what you're doing here. I have a feeling that this is important. Whatever it is, Hesper be with you. Thank you. And thank you for listening to me. And Phaedrus, you are so smart and I wish I could talk more with you. you are exactly the kind of person that i want to talk for hours but also i just want

you to know just don't ever be afraid of yourself okay don't ever be afraid of yourself and use those smarts okay and stay away from jasavir although maybe you could sort out jasavir i don't know forget i said that i've got to go but just yes bye that's the end of it yeah as you're running towards the portal you call out those last words yeah uh you dash it yes so with the last dash nova appears back in the present uh yeah and you see the scene as you see it before you. As you return, several Wyrmlings still engaged in the portal, around the portals. Lucius and Johan is not to be seen,

but you can see all the others as we go. And then we're going to go to Sentry at the end of the round. Cool. So the Wyrmling and the Moonbeam at the bottom, does that need to make a con save throw? Two. Cool, so 2d10 damage for that dude.

Oh my god, five damage for that guy? One. That was only 1d10, wasn't it? Oh yeah, it was. Soz. So as the moonbeam radiates light down onto this remaining

wormling you can see it is still just about uh managing to stay together its form is still semi-corporeal feeding off the magic of the portal um but that's just on its turn while you concentrate i believe yeah and then i'm going to

attack the uh guy in front of me the wyrmling standing right there oh did you cost it at third level is that extra damage third level um it should be 2d10 should be i think it's what it's telling me if it's saying 2d10 then it's 2d10 we'll's what it's telling me. 3d10 levels? No. If it's saying 2d10, then it's 2d10. We'll check it later. We'll check it on break, which is what we're going to do after we finish this turn.

That's cool. Then I'm going to attack the... I'll attack the whelming in front of me. Nice. Two attacks. 13 plus 9. So that's a hit. So...

Hit. Cool. And then I'm just going to do a standard... Standard attack. No divine smite for this guy. That's a hit. Hit, cool. And then I'm just going to do a standard attack, no divine smite for this guy. So that is 8, 9, 10. No, wait. Maths, 7 plus 5, 12, and a D4.

16 damage for the first one. 16 is enough. This one was already injured. As you watch as this one in front of you is vaporized, sent back to whatever realm it is from. Nice. The sword spares through. You can step up and make an attack against the one next to Lucius if you wish. Sure, yeah.

I'll do that. Cool. I rolled a 15 for the other one before. 15 total. Should I roll again? 15 plus 9. Oh no, you can keep that one. Yeah, that's still a hit. Yep. Cool. And I'll. So roll again. Fifteen plus nine. Oh no, you can keep that one. Yeah, that's still a hit. Yep. Cool. And I'll do the same again.

D8 plus five. So, blah-da-da, three eight plus a D4. Nine damage for the second one. And then that one is also already heavily weakened. This one is sent back to whatever realm it is from,

as only two Wyrmlings now remain. And we are going to take a quick break, just so people can get a drink and go take little breaks. We're going to come back and finish off the Trial of the Aeons. Oh, it's getting there. It's getting there. I like it. It's intense. It's there. It's getting there. I like it. It's intense. It's complicated.

You're doing it. Slowly. I like it. Surely. I have a mild paranoid Go on. Is this guy doing? What are you doing?

What are you doing? You're paranoid, Ben. What are you up to, Johan? What's going on? Well, I know that you don't know. Ha ha ha ha ho ho ho. Remember, none of you can hear what is being discussed.

You can see Johan, but not... We saw him disappear to the future. You saw him run right past me into the future. Yeah, you saw him run into the future. Why would you do that? Thank you.