High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #95 | Zarkira's Invitation (Part 1)

Episode Date: December 21, 2020

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Pickaxe. June 2024. Find out what makes Mazda different at Mazda.ca. Now at Joe Fresh, get 20% off children's activewear only until Wednesday, August 14th. Shop smart with one cart and check everything off your back to school list all in one place. Now that's some smart shopping. Conditions apply. See in store or joefresh.com for details. Hello and welcome back to Eroes Hyrolis. The party have traveled to the ancient temple of Hesper, within the Valley of the Storms on the continent of Voxar, in pursuit of resolving the terrible storms that plagued the land there, and acquiring a powerful tool in their battle against Calus Starbane and Hadar.

Accompanied by the mysterious Johan, a figure who had appeared to be connected to the party's quest and had assisted them several times before, they made their way through a magical storm and managed to reach the temple in one piece, learning that the cause of the storms was a powerful tempest dragon, a primordial being that had been attacked centuries ago and driven into a mad, nightmarish coma. Overcoming obstacles and intense trials, the party prepared to enter the Inner Sanctum, but were approached by a female figure,

a projection of Zarkira, commander of the Valkyrian Empire and cause of the Tempest Dragon's suffering. Zarkira offered a way to kill the Tempest Dragon, as well as a way to complete her control spell, threatening the party if they didn't do as she had requested. The party refused, and told Zarkira if she wanted the dragon, she would have to come and deal with it herself. Inside the Inner Sanctum, the party found the mighty Tempest Dragon near to breaking free of the chains that bound it, and quickly began to cleanse the corrupting magic that plagued its mind johan able to enter the dragon's dream along with ayla nova and lucius

slew nightmare creatures while sentry and quill healed the corrupted magic and removed zarkira's devices free of the nightmares and the corruption their friend johan bid them farewell and vanished his essence becoming one with the dragons as it revealed it was called Johandrius and presented Quill with a powerful spear, the Spear of Oracles, and a promise to aid the party when called. When will you fucking mute yourselves when you are laughing and I'm trying to do the recap?

Like, just mute. Just mute yourself. The whole time. Oh my god. Just mute. It! Just mute Gazelle! The whole time! Oh my god! Just mute. It was a sneeze. Trot's laughing, he's kept it under control. It was so aggressive!

Sneeze, by the way. It was Trot. It was Trot. It was Trot. You know, the best thing about that was, in the days of like, fuck I'm gonna sneeze, I was fumbling for the mute button I just couldn't do it I couldn't do it and I sneezed and slipped

that's fine like sneezing you don't have any control over that's fine if you know you're laughing mute I was debilitated okay I couldn't see couldn't think couldn't breathe

he couldn't do anything today normally it was such a long intro because we've had a break as well me one of these days we're gonna have an intro well i haven't cry laughed my eye makeup off within the first 10 minutes. I've given up just wearing eye makeup on the reg. I know, there's no point. I can't do it anymore. I made such an effort and every week I just cry laugh it off within the first 10, 15 minutes. There's no point.

Exactly. Anyway, something about your hand, Rius? Yeah, there you go something something dragon something something Zarkira something something spear Quill's awesome job done there you go yeah that's how I remember it

yeah with that I believe that with the last before the Christmas special we left things off literally with the dragon disappearing in Quill picking up the spear. And so you guys are still within the inner sanctum. This large, open

chamber, almost like a large cylinder, like an open tower that just stretches up for miles. And you guys were left in there with just yourselves for company. No sign of Johan or Johandrius both having vanished. And the spear firmly in Quill's clutches. We did it! We completed Hesper's trial!

Finally! Oh, he really pulled out all the stops. Well, Zarkira did, I suppose. But we saved the dragon! Zarkira is going to hate us, by the stops. Well, Zarkira did, I suppose. But we saved the dragon! Zarkira is going to hate us, by the way. So what do we do? I think we need to get out of here pretty much ASAP. Right?

Yeah, we need to make a plan. We need to figure out where to go next, what to do next. There's a lot. When's the meeting? Is that soon, isn't it? If I could not be a lightning rod again, because now the dragon is saying horrific news, because

honestly, I have been mentally trying to prepare myself to become a human lightning rod again for a while. Elvin. Elvin lightning rod, thank you, Nova. For a while. I don't want to do it again. It was sore Lightning Rod, thank you. Nova, for a while.

I don't want to do it again. It was sore. It hurt real bad. Miskir should be cleansed of lightning, so that's that. We should have actually saved an entire continent from vicious storms, if there's anything left saving, that is. So it should be clear.

But that does mean that horses are able to come in and get us straight away they don't have a storm to get through anymore that's very true we should probably probably get a move on right yeah to answer your question from earlier century uh based on the the times that when you sort of of left to make your way to the Valley of Storms and the meeting and things like that, there's probably about ten days before the leaders of Eroes meet in the Sky City of Horizon.

Okie dokie. Why didn't you tell us? What? That he was a dragon? That he was comatose that he was trapped by Zarkira I mean I don't think he remembered yeah I mean if he remembered

surely he would have told us because that would have made things ten times easier to not be questioning him in any way so it's just a shame you know not be questioning him in any way. It's just a shame, you know?

That's kind of badass. He's a dragon. He is a dragon. That's pretty damn cool. Well, more to the point, he's a spear now. This spear. Yes. What? So is that

yours now? It seems yeah, I mean it's a gift from him for saving him, I suppose. I mean, I don't know what sort of powers that encompasses, but either way

the Temple of Hesper is saved and Myrskir is saved. Well, we need to go outside and see it first, of course. But if there's just ten days before this meeting, our plan was to get Valda back before then, right? We're running out of time. So what do we do? We have a huge list of things to do, but perhaps it would be best to discuss this on the Stormchaser.

I'd feel safer there, yes. Even though this is a place of worship in Hesper, it's got a lot of eyes on it. Well, let's go. Let's go back. Okay. Make your way back through the corridors uh through back through the ruined temple of hespa where there is now just a kind of before there was always this rumbling thunder from outside kind of filling the chamber with this ambient noise that is no longer present your footsteps crunch on ancient stone and echo through these

empty barren hallways you pass by the statues of the previous uh important figures in the temple's history including lucius's ancestor and phaedrus who you had encountered during your trial. Their stony visages looking at you almost with a sense of, you can almost feel a sense of pride, but also there is a sense of time and passing and of a place that has now fallen into ruin, into a kind of quiet ending of its purpose and life as you make your way back through the temple. What little light there is streaming in from the occasional kind of shaft that's been cut

to allow sunlight in is clear and bright, no longer clouded by the thick grey fogs that had once filled Voxar. by the thick grey fogs that had once filled Voxar. And as you reach the large doors that extend outside, stepping out into the light for probably the first time in a couple of days, you can see that there appear to be blue skies, white clouds, all signs of the terrible storms that had not just filled the valley, but had grown to dominate Voxar itself.

Kelek, especially, this is the first time you've ever seen the valley without storms. You would have been raised from a hatchling. This is a place of storms and power. a hatchling uh that this is a place of of you know storms and power uh this was always part of the arakokra training to to reach here and fly back uh hmm could i um fly up to the statue that's above the temple and retrieve the ring again sure yeah yeah with your new artificial wing you fly away up there you can see that most of the other rings that had been placed here had been blasted and fused together probably by lightning itself um but the ring that you had brought the kind of uh scrap of metal and cloth um yeah you uh every time he like takes off lucius is always like nudging the person closest to him and be like look

he's I'll never get used to that yeah I was gonna say as well Nova as well every time will takes off kind of summer but also with a quill and a bit of parchment just kind of like if he just like making modifications like how's he using it like this? Is there anything I can tweak? What about a third wing? I could do that. A third wing. I think that would be maybe one down his back.

Yes. Down the center like a fin. Yeah. Maybe if I adjust this he could dive faster. That's a great idea, Lucius. dive faster um that's a great idea lucius as that conversation echoes through uh you can see that the valley itself stretches out before you the temple was kind of built into the narrowing point of the valley that connects to the

mountains behind it um so you have these kind of long uh these tall kind of steep mountains on either side and then you can see uh just very worn stony very little grass very little foliage valley kind of stretches out mainly filled with like a kind of rubble and slate that's fallen down from the mountains a small stream kind of trickles through it uh leading far off nestled onto a plateau near the temple's entrance but it's still a good sort of hundred couple of hundred feet away um is the storm chaser uh kind of perched with its uh bridge down its anchors down um waiting for your return it seems to no damage or any harm seems to have come to it um in the calm of the storm around the the eye itself.

Okay. I mean, I'm assuming... Otherwise, if you say nothing, I will assume that you begin making your way back to the chip. You just start traveling towards it, I assume. Pretty much. I was just giving anyone else some space if they wanted a moment. Yeah.

I guess for Quill, it's the most important one. Yeah, this temple of your god, or the being that gives you power at least, kind of begins to fall you know into the background behind you as you begin making your way along yeah i mean i'm thinking i that i know i need to most likely come back here again for when we need to collect hesper's key so i know he was the first on the list of people to ask um so i mean i i think as we're leaving the entire place like i'm trying to shut down the winds so they can't get up to the higher tiers closing the doors behind us like not barring it up or anything but just leaving it closing it empty and untouched

in a way okay yeah it doesn't take much. The techniques you've seen, the ways to shut things off, the wind chutes and the doors all get closed behind you and leave a kind of sense of finality about the place. When you do make your way up to the storm chaser, the bridges are locked down and everybody starts loading their way up. Quill is probably the last one onto the ship itself, kind of spent some time making sure everything was closed behind them quill as you are boarding the storm chaser and it is only because of your exceedingly high

perception you really notice this as they're about maybe 300 feet away from the storm chaser uh you see a flash of magic and nine figures appear at the front of the temple um eight of them are wearing black uh metal armor with purple glows uh carrying strange looking crystalline weapons that resemble the rifles you've seen these kind of blasting arcane blasting rifles that the valkyrian empire carries but at the head of them is a woman that you recognize a humanoid ish woman with a pair of bladed metal wings long dark hair seems to be carrying some sort of bladed staff and yeah they teleport into the the entrance to the like outside the doorways leading into the temple um where the there was a valkyrian camp then when you first entered this place it was like a discarded disused camp that i described and they teleport there uh they seem to

notice the airship uh calls are made and you see the humanoid women just turn around and just kind of grin. You know, you can only barely make out her expression. But you do with your very high, because you have the observant feet, right? So you can read lips as well. Oh, yeah. Even at this distance, you can see that she basically mouths the words, well, you did invite me. What do you do?

She's here. It's our Kira. We need to get out of here. Pretty much now is good. Okay. Lucius will run on board and start shouting at the crew and Uriah to be like, we need to go immediately.

Everyone ready? Man the guns! The crew does so. The crew begins making preparations. Quill, who can just about see Zarkira and these eight soldiers, the soldiers begin levying rifles towards the ship and we are going to roll initiative.

Alright. Zarkira and eight boys versus an entire dang airship. I mean, at this stage initiative. Alright. Zarkira and eight boys versus an entire dang airship. I mean, at this stage, you're about 300 feet away from each other at this point. Because the ship was off to the side

of where the temple entrance was, they are at the temple entrance. It looks like Zarkira most likely has teleported them to the place that she could access which was right in front of the temple um so there's a good bit of distance there um so you may be able to escape uh as quickly as necessary uh i'm not gonna do this in uh dnd beyond encounter because it's mainly gonna be a ship thing so i'm just gonna do people's initiative. Century. 20.

Be dead on? Yep. Now 20. Nice. 21. 21. Nova. 18. 18.

Lucius. 12. 12. Quill. 18. 18. Lucius. 12. 12. Quill. 19. 15. Rhiannon, can you roll a d20 for Oriah for me, please? Of course.

So Oriah will basically be... Oriah will represent the ship's movement. So Oriah's initiative will basically be like when the ship can act. Nice. 17 for Oriah. 17. Oriah slash Storm Chaser.

17. And then I will roll for Sakura. Okay. We haven't long rested since the last thing, have we?

We have not. Nope. Yeah. Yeah, okay. This is going to be scarier than I thought. We haven't long rested since the last thing, have we? We have not Nope Yeah, okay This is going to be scarier than I thought A lot scarier Oh no Yeah I mean, yeah

It's, it's, yeah Potentially, we'll see It's fine It's just Arcea It's fine It's fine So, we start with I believe Aayla is actually at the top of 21.

I think what Ayla will do at the moment is probably just go around and help doing any sort of heavy lifting, any preparations that the airship crew needs help with to get away. I don't know if that makes sense. She's going to assist as much as she can and she'll probably shout at them in a vaguely intimidating way

that they need to hurry up. That sounds like you would like to make an intimidation check then, please. Sure. Try and get the crew motivated and at least get them speeding up as best they can uh 20 20 yeah so with those kind of bellowing shouts and kind of shouting orders and to kind of just get people to pick the pace up uh the crew of the storm chaser um as a reminder for any new audience members the storm chaser is the party's airship, and they have a crew.

They have a crew of kind of beast people, the Wolf Pack, kind of wolf folks led by Kamara. They have Penny, who is a kind of human sniper archer lady. Lookout, who is a guardian. Lansian, who is some sort of young sorcerer boy. Howard, who is a halfling cook. Grey Lano, who is the medic. And then oraya uh which is the half orc captain um previously riannon's temporary character uh and yeah with those kind of shouts the wolf pack certainly get to work they begin sort of like

pulling out the the sky sails making sure everything's ready to go um and the the airship is lifting off like the the ship is is making its move uh to try and get away as quickly as possible um cool uh sentry um thanks somebody like the airship stats actually sorry the century which somebody like the a refresher the airship things i will put them into the whatsapp nice i think i've got engine actions but i don't know if it's for the twin bow or for the storm chaser if it's on roll 20 i think that's for the twin star i will yeah i will put the google link in our red phone you should all be able to access that that's got stats it's got ship actions it's got pretty much everything for the airship there awesome got it all right sorry century go that's right um so i think century would uh go

to penny and help her or tell her to keep aim on zarkira and the starbane forces and just help her keep focused on them okay so you're basically going to give the help action to penny uh to try and give her advantage on ballista attacks um yeah yeah so kind of like very star warsy you run over to uh the the storm chaser has a ballista on the top and then a ballista kind of on the bottom like a little swiveling bottom turret um and she will slide down the the ladder basically to reach that one and then you're kind of leaning over shouting at her from that bottom turret basically. She's got an extra pair of eyes to help her aim. Cool. Right, so Penny

has advantage on her attack. Quill, what would you like to do? So I want to concentrate a spell using the staff of oracles. Does that mean I cast a spell and use the staff at the same time like how does it actually work it's just you can basically concentrate on two spells now so

it's all your still actions you still use all your normal actions and bonus actions etc you can now concentrate on two spells if any effect would cause you to lose concentration uh you choose which spell you lose um so if you take too much damage and you fail the check, you pick which spell you lose concentration of. And then we assume that you maintain concentration on the other one until you either...

That's cool. In that case, I'll summon Future Quill from the staff and have him concentrate on Beacon of Hope for everyone on the ship or everyone on the deck of the ship. Yeah, what's the range? Because the ship is quite large

so I don't know if it will catch everybody. It's a range of 30 feet. Okay, so... Yeah, an area of 30 feet. So you can choose. You can either basically cover the deck and the ballista or you can cover the helm which is where like Oriya and some of the

sail crew are or you would have to go below decks to try and catch things like the engine room and stuff like that. Because the ship is gargantuan. It's a huge space, the ship. You won't 30 foot radiuses and catch everyone unfortunately. So if I do the helm, does that still catch like the immediate party?

It'll catch some of the crew. Well, Sentry is up by the turret, so it won't count Sentry with the Ballista. And if Nova goes down to the engine room, obviously she would move out of range a bit. But I don't know if it counts like... Is it when you cast the spell it affects Beacon of Hope, affects

people then? Or is it like a continuous aura effect? They don't have to stay in the aura i don't think i concentrate on it but anything that's within range yeah okay so the party get it ariah gets it three of the wolf pack get it um as would lancean uh the rest are all either in other parts of the ship or aren't immediately available okay that's cool um and yeah i'll just uh stay stay pretty much where i am uh with my future quill and staff staying at the helm so um in terms of the visuals for this by the way quill focuses on the staff and you see like almost like a flicker of lightning like a flash of

lightning in the gemstone at its head and then a very spectral, translucent-looking version of Quill, older, maybe like graying feathers, dressed in these resplendent robes. His scar has not necessarily healed, but has faded, and now almost gives him this more wizened warrior look. His armor gleaming along with the robes in a matching style and he he looks like an older version of like you know a high priest of quill uh a high priest of hesper that you might imagine basically um i'm gonna look good right yeah yeah yeah a month from now yeah what do you like five years uh yeah yeah the mechanical wing is all like still there and

um i the thing wing is still there. The thing is, it's Quill's perception of himself, so I don't think it would have any of your designs. It would just match what he thinks. Because it's not actually Quill from the future. It's like a representation of what he can be in the future. Okay, awesome. That's it for Quill?

That's it, yeah. Nova, you guys are all very, very quick to react as it looks like Zarkira and her forces are pointing and getting their weapons ready as all of this is happening at once. Does it look like... So they're 300 feet away. Does it look like they're going to try and run towards us? It looks more like they're going to shoot.

They're all carrying these Valkyrian rifles, and Zarkira is pointing at the ship. Okay. So they're about 300 feet away. Things like longbows, a lot of ranged weapons will be

at disadvantage. I'm going to try something a little weird, but I'm going to try it anyway. Can I kind of duck down on the deck so they can't see me anymore, shut my eyes, and then cast

Mislead? So Mislead basically makes me invisible, and then creates an illusory double of myself. so mislead basically makes me invisible and then creates an illusory double of myself and then I can move

twice my speed with the double so 60 feet can I start making it so that my double leaves the ship, like very visibly leaves the ship and comes back down and what i want to do is try and control my double in a way that almost tries to distract them like i'm kind of running back towards them like maybe draw some of their attention um also i can see and hear

through my doubles ears so maybe if i could get some i guess intel on how many they are even if you move that 60 feet of 300, you're not going to be really close enough to overhear anything too close. But you can definitely summon them. Yeah, you can summon them double and send them running towards you. Yeah, I want to use it as a kind of distraction to try and, like, divert some of their attention away. Like, maybe, you know, just be like, oh, hey, I've decided to run back to the temple or something.

Or, like, into the, what is was it forest around us jungle around us there's no forest it's just it's like a slate stone valley um so there's not really any cover or like apart from rocks uh here and a small stream the only real feature is the temple itself which is behind them now. Can you make your clone high-five my clone as you go through? Yeah, sure. Cool, cool. You can look like they do, yeah. Clone bros, awesome. Yeah.

All right, so keep in mind that to everybody else, Nova appears to crouch down, stand up, and then run off the ship towards Zarkira. Oh, it misleads us too? I'm sure people would have seen me go invisible. They would have seen me go invisible. The way the spell is described is

the duplicate appears from your space. It's literally like, the idea is that you step somewhere and an illusory duplicate separates from you, you become invisible, so it looks like it's just the same person. That's the whole point of the spell.

I mean, you could just messenger ring to tell them. Yeah, I will messenger ring and say I'm going to try something really stupid. Don't worry, that's not actually me. I'm still on the ship. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. go, go, go, go, go, go.

That's all it takes. You just need to tell them what you're doing. Otherwise, people like Lucius are going to go, Thank you, because Aayla's 10 out of 10 would have jumped off the ship like, Who are you doing? Yeah, exactly. Teamwork. Communication. It's the big part of teamwork. Cool. All right. So Nova rushes off. Fake Nova rushes off down towards it. What about Nova? Any movement for your part? Me?

I'll just be... So actual me will be just ducked down invisible behind. So you're not going to go down to the engine room? I guess as soon as we boarded... Actually, yeah, I guess because I can move, can't I? So I will go down to the engine room. I will, I So I will go down to the engine room I will Mark I will go down to the engine room I will do that

Yeah So after Nova Araya and the storm chaser crew The storm chaser lifts up And the kind of sky sails catch wind And it begins pulling away Rapidly Moving in a quick acceleration about 100 feet.

So you're now about 400 feet away from the soldiers as it begins basically flying off into the air to try and get away as quickly as possible. The crew all begin rushing to their stations. Most of the crew aren't going to be able to fire now as the ship is moving out of range. They're going to be beyond longbow range. But the ballista, Penny, is still going to make an attempt she'd normally be at disadvantage she has advantage

because of centuries help so it's just a straight roll to see if she can hit zarkira and she will aim for zarkira uh it's a straight roll i rolled a two so the ballista bolt fine if you hear the kind of snap of the crossbow of the large arms. The bolt flies through and embeds about 10 feet away from Zarkira in the ground. Just kicks up a bunch of dust. And she just kind of looks over it in disgust as it begins running around. The rest of the crew will basically just await orders now as they are out of combat range for themselves with their longbows. So they will just move into position.

Unless anybody wishes to give them any orders? Or, like, anybody wishes to, like, shout at them? I know Ayla kind of shouted at them to get the ship ready. Okay, where's Lucius' go next? Sweet. Lucius is going to go to the help of the longbows.

Okay. Somebody correct me that his long range is Okay, she would like me to not do that Yep, so have the crew fire their long goes basically Sure All that 20s Sarkira's dead Oh my god We did it Out of 3 archers

1 has hit so far Yay Go 1 2 have hit out of 5 Let's go Let's go wolf pack 2 more So many shots Both back. Two more.

So many shots. Go, go, go. Right, three hit in total. Nice. They don't target Zarkira. They are just kind of shooting into the group of soldiers, and the soldiers are going to be the ones who are mainly hit. hit. So it's about 20 damage to the soldiers, like, as a group.

So these arrows kind of fly through the air. Most of them fall short, but a few do kind of, like, embed into the soldiers' armor, or some of the soldiers have to kind of duck and cover as this kind of rain of arrows kind of scatters amongst them. And then the ship pulls away, and then Lucius is now your turn.

Okay, yeah. Lucius runs up to the helm, and he shouts full steam ahead, which hopefully the crew are trained to know what that means. Knuckle down. We need to get out of here as quickly as possible. Nova! Messenger ring. We need to give the engine everything she's got! We need to get

out of here quickly! Okay. With that, Nova, I need you to make an Arcana check on this. DC 15. I'm giving it all she's got! I can't keep using that every single time.

I'm giving it all she's got, Captain! 12 plus 7 is 19 arcanas. Fantastic. Roll a d6 for me, please. And then multiply the result by 5. 3 times 5 is 15, math. Cool. So it gets an extra 15 feet as the engine begins to kind of power up.

And the Ethereum engine roars to life um as yeah basically you surge forward a little bit of extra speed as lucius finishes his sentence and does the salute that jolt sends him stumbling he has to grip on to the helm yes keep going perfect uh the storm chaser yeah rises like 100 feet into the air at a diagonal basically trying to get away as much as possible uh quill who's pretty much the only one who can really see anything with any clarity um back on the distance as zarkira is looking up almost just kind of watches the ship for a moment uh holds her hand up she points uh she has three of the soldiers point at the Nova illusion running towards them. She directs three of their attention to that,

and you can see the soldiers begin sighting Nova with their rifles. But Zahkira then will basically begin casting a spell and pointing towards the storm chaser. Okay. Okay, it's not my turn She casts a spell Any reactions? I think Lucius is the only one

Who's on the top No counter spells I feel like I'm too far away to react to that. Okay. In that case, you watch as she kind of reaches up and you can see power just kind of coming off Zarkira like mist,

like almost like raw mana, raw magic. As she just rips her hands up into the air, clutches them, and then slams her hands down towards the ground. Four giant kind of tears in space seem to open up above the storm chaser, and giant

meteor-like shapes begin crashing down. He's casting meteor! I need everybody on the Stormchaser to make a Dexterity saving throw.

So we'll do all of your Dexterity saving throws first. Then I will have Rhiannon roll for Arias, for Arias and the ships. And then I will have to roll for all the NPCs. Okay. 18. 19. Natural 20. For me. So, uh...

So 19 for Ayla was that total? Did you do advantage for that, Katie, because of Danger Sense? Yes. Yep. Lucius I saw rolled a 6 century 13 total 13 uh century can you roll us riannon can you roll for oraya um so i think she has a plus six i think 17 17 can you now make a roll for the ship as Araya, who is piloting the Stormchaser. This is a plus two. Fourteen? Fourteen. Okay. Grey Larno, plus two. That's a natural one.

Lansian. That's a two, plus two is four. Oh my god. Howard. Nine minus one is an eight. This is a terrible spell. The Wolfpack gets seventeen. 9 minus 1 is an 8 the wolf pack gets 17 Kamara herself gets 21

I think that's all of the ship's crew oh Penny and Lookout Penny is a 12 Lookout is a 1 not very good okay where is roll 20? What? What?

What? Just meteors the ship? God damn! Why is there two? So, these meteors, two of them collide into the storm chaser itself, covering the whole thing. The other two are aimed so that into the storm chaser itself covering the whole thing the other two are aimed

so that if the storm chaser had swerved these ones would have hit it but orion manages to avoid them and they instead smash into the mountains that form the valley on either side huge stone begins crumbling and stumbling down in uh these two meteors from the spell meteor swarm smash into the storm chaser every section of the storm chaser and all of you, anybody who got above a 20 can half this damage, otherwise Nova you are below decks aren't you

so you're in the engine room okay so you're going to take half of some of this damage as well as if you pass the saving throw because it's obviously hitting the outside and the top deck of the ship itself. It's 62 fire damage and 77 bludgeoning damage. Right.

What is that? Yeah. That's absolutely no way. Is everybody down, Dale? Yep. Hell yeah. I had 32 hit points. What about your Tomb of Lovistas, Nova? So Tomb of Lovistas, yeah, that would have gone off.

So Tomb will go off. You won't believe this. It's 69 damage I actually take, which is half of it, and I have 68 HP. You have 1 HP. No, no, I've got minus 1. I'm down. So it's both of those

together. 77 plus 62 that we take. Well, so this is the other thing. Anybody who has resistances, so if you have fire resistance or bludgeoning damage resistance, that would come into it, because it's 62 fire damage, and resistance or bludgeoning damage resistance, that would come into it. Because it's 62 fire damage. And then 77 bludgeoning damage. What I could do is...

If people have reactions as well. Potentially. I'm not near anyone to protect, so... Can I try and absorb some of that fire damage into my alternator gauntlet as a reactions so i think that you have to use your chromatic control to turn it into acid or cold right and then you can use the gauntlet to absorb it okay do you have the

sorcery point no because i think we changed it so it's like it's a reaction to chromatic control and that costs sorcery points but then the gauntlet is basically like a free thing that you can do um when you see a spell can i rage as a reaction to seeing that happen hey i will let you rage because you were like yelling orders and stuff like that really gonna help but then i if i get dropped to zero I can make a check that might just take me to one also you'd have resistance to the bludgeoning damage Katie so the 77

that's the only one I would which is still too much I'm at half health you're at half health okay it's still too much this is literally yeah I could try and raise my shield. This is a spell.

I'm going to make a saving throw. You'd have resistance to all of this damage because it's a spell. Because you have your paladin aura. I think I'd still be down anyway. It's half of that. Let's go round. Starting with Nova.

Let's go round because I know Kim's been working some stuff out. Can I try and absorb this before people take damage? Let's go round. So starting with Nova. Let's go round because I know Kim's been working some stuff out. Can I try and absorb this before people take damage? Or are we doing stuff to prevent it? Yeah. So this is like it will absorb the whole spell, wouldn't it? Because this is that you absorb the whole spell into you. At least the fire of it. I convert.

The physical damage of a meteor? I don't know. That's true. That's interesting. Let me have a read of how the gauntlet works. Alternative gauntlet. This is such a cool spell. If there's a meteor swarm, I can read it here.

If there's a meteor swarm spell, all of it goes into the gauntlet. Yeah, because you're channeling before it forms the meteors, you're absorbing the magic. No, I think it's actually, I do think it works that way because the gauntlet here says when you see a creature ahhhh when you see a creature

within 60 feet of you that casts a spell she is beyond yeah because the spell itself is just an instantaneous effect she's too far away for you to absorb it before it manages to manifest as the full spell all right so i can't do i can't do it to absorb this all right uh do you want to cast absorb elements do you have that as a spell as a reaction do you want to uh there is an airship action called brace that you can use as a reaction

well i did my action though but can i do it it's a reaction this is a reaction. Well, I did my action, though. But can I do it as a reaction? This is a reaction, yeah. It says brace. As a reaction, the captain or first mate can call for a brace. All crew aboard the ship use their reactions to brace themselves, take cover, or otherwise protect themselves. The crew can take no further actions until the start

of the captain or first mate's turn. This basically will help avoid them being instantly killed by this. I crap i'd like that yeah okay so rather than saving yourself with absorbed elements you want to basically spend it like your reaction like everyone get down like you see this damage and lucius is calling out for them to like you know duck down um you know below decks and things like that. Yes. Okay, right. So Lucius is doing that. Nova. You said you worked out some stuff.

So one thing, I just want to do some admin. Because of mislead, I just want to point out that on a bonus action, I can switch between my two forms. So just on the previous round, I would have summoned my invisible form done the movement switch use my bonus action to swap back to nova to go to the

engine room um so this round um the first load of damage what damage is that is that fire damage fire yeah fire okay so and if i take half because you're below death so you take 31 is 31 i'm on one hit point i'm on one hit point i will um i will activate tomb of la vistos well you don't that's a reaction? That activates automatically when you go to zero? It activates when I take damage. It's when I take damage. Okay. So having taken the first load of damage, the fire damage, I will activate, go down to one hit point,

activate Tomb of Lovista, so that gains 130 HP, which will be knocked down by the bludgeoning damage. And that's me so as a point the damage isn't like one source of damage followed by a second one, both sources of damage happen at the same time

but for the purposes of Tomb of Lovistus it would work the same way where you'd basically go down to one and then you'd activate the tomb and then it would absorb the rest of the damage. So it still works the same way, basically. Okay, well, if you're happy with that, then... So the tomb would basically

take 35, 38 points of damage the tomb takes. Okay, 38 HP. And that is my turn. I imagine I need to make a concentration check on Miss Leed, although it kind of seems

ridiculous. Yes, you would. DC would be 16. And I've got advantage. I rolled exactly 16 plus 3 is a 19, because I've got Warcast. In the icy tomb of Lovistus, you not only maintain

concentration on Miss Lelead but you are still standing uh as you see these meteors smash through the remnants of the ship you will see nova that like because all of the ship takes this damage as well things like the engine all of that stuff is like basically rendered to it needs fixing otherwise it's going to crash um so ayla you raged so let's say your rage was active anyway uh so how much damage so you said that you'd still go to zero because you're at zero hit points but then you get to do i would still go to zero but i did a relentless rage check and i got a 19 plus nine so i am at one hit point amazing uh quillek you are 100 down on zero so what does brace do does brace help in any way race helps it helps the crew it doesn't help you guys it's more like

an or the captain chat in order to all the npc crew and they all take cover and things because you guys have your own abilities and things like counter spells the crew doesn't they'll just get instantly killed by stuff like this, so I wanted to give them a measure of protection. Okay. It raises with saves, but no, I

haven't got anything. I passed the dex check either way, so I am down to minus one HP after that, so I'm down okay at zero basically yep and then century even with your um spell ward aura you still go down to zero yeah by like two oh really so what hit points were you on i was on 67 and it and it did 69 I was on 67, and it did 69 halved.

No, it would have been... So you would have taken... 69 is what it is. It's 139 total. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. I did my math, the calculator. Okay.

All right. If that's what you're saying, if that's what you go down to. Because it was 77 and 62 So to me that's 31 And then 36 139 Okay Yeah, 139 And then half that would be

69 and a half 71 So you round down, don't forget in D&D So it's 69 So it's 69 and then that's two two more than what you had damn it okay um so yeah essentially yeah could she like before it hits would she be able to sort of like throw herself over penny to try and protect penny yeah because you were up there yeah yeah for sure yeah yeah yeah yeah well you have your spell or as well which halves the damage so as this spell energy smashes into it it would absorb some of that and potentially Yeah, because you were up there. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have your spell aura as well, which halves the damage.

So as the spell energy smashes into it, it would absorb some of that and potentially help protect Penny as well, who had used her reaction to take cover. So yeah, for sure. All right, okay. So this is what happens. The meteors smash into the ship.

Huge chunks of the hull. The hull takes 139 points of damage. However, the hull is still standing. The helm, the sails, the engine, all take severe damage to the point where the systems are crippled.

With the engine gone, the ship will begin to crash, but it won't crash immediately. You basically have a round of actions before the ship will connect. Go on, Kim. Do we not have the second backup engine? You do. Somebody needs to basically switch it on and activate it.

So, going in initiative order, the ship is basically things like the rifles and the energy weapons. This looks like it's the only things Akira could have done. So, Ayla, you are at one hit point. What do you do? I would like to run over to Quill and put a potion in his face. Yep.

So you kind of, the ship is kind of leaning and like, you know, going down at an angle, but you can slide along the deck, kind of grab onto a board, grab his body, and start pouring in, because the ship is crashing.

The engines currently have been blown out, and until the second engine is activated, the ship is falling. But he is the only one who has the healing abilities. Yeah, I was just thinking, if I get danged by a small amount of damage, like a broken concentration from this damage, that's guaranteed. But you're unconscious, yeah. If I get downed by a small amount of damage, like I've broken concentration from this damage, that's guaranteed. If I get downed.

So would unconscious break the staff's concentration? Right. It's not the staff doesn't have its own concentration. It's your concentration. You can just concentrate on up to two spells. So yes, you only had one spell anyway. You only had one spell you were concentrating on. So yeah, the beacon of hope is gone.

Right. What kind of potion? I healed myself back up okay what potion katie that was a regular potion sorry regular potion four uh four four max maximum amount 10 hit points oh, yeah, and the ship is kind of listing and it's beginning to tip further and further over as it's careening towards the ground. But Quill, you kind of... as you feel like the potion come through you,

looking around you is obviously a scene of devastation as you look around. Ayla, action, Any bonus actions or anything? Oh, she's muted. I can't hear you. You're muted. Sorry, I'm thinking. I'm not saying anything useful. I'm just going...

It's Sentry, Quill, Nova next. Okay. So. I think I'm just going to bonus action take a potion myself, a regular potion as well. Because I don't... Actually, no, I'm not. I can't give another one to someone else.

You can't. It would have to be an action, so I can't. So I'll give another one to myself for now. It's nine hit points. Okay. That's all I've got now, and I'll just say, Quill, get everyone up quick, quick,

and then I'll messenger ring to Nova and say what can we do for the ship what do we need to do you can still think Nova I'm incapacitated so yeah I think that just means can you still think when incapacitated I think you can

it says incapacitated uh can't take actions or reactions. Yeah, so you can still use the ring. The ring's a free action. It doesn't cost you an action. So use the messenger ring. Okay.

So, yeah, you can reply. Somebody needs to boot up the second engine now! I cannot do it! Oh, fuck. She's stuck in the tube. I'll use my movement to try and get as close as i can to it then sure yeah it's like would it be a full action to do it it is an action to turn it on yeah so i can't do that right now okay well i'll get basically down there yeah um so you begin

making your way down there you can see that uh so as ala you begin moving around quill kind of coming to because of lucius using the brace action some of the crew are still conscious like they managed to either duck into enough cover they managed to hold on they're injured you can see them like clutching what appeared to be like broken arms or like impaled with huge chunks of wood like clearly bleeding and heavily injured but some of them are still standing um ariah looks to be unconscious um but some of the wolf pack um howard lancean and uh gray lano are all conscious enough um that they can take actions can i shout at one of them and say we need to do we need to boot up the engine, go, go!

And I'll shout it to them and hopefully they can hear it. There's a male Wolfpack member who you can see, he's just got this huge chunk of wood stuck into his side. He's just like, I've seen Nova do it, I can do it! And he's hobbling after you kind of thing, chasing after you. Quill. Okay, I'll get up from being blasted, and I want to sort of fly

along the deck as best I can, and as many people as is relevant, I can do this to six creatures, I want to cast a Mask Cure Wounds at level seven and just grab, if I can,

a Raya to bring her back up, and I guess anyone that's, like, incomparable, hugely injured. So at the helm, you've got a Raya, Lucius, Sentry's just out of range because she's by the turrets, but you can grab things like,

you know, any injured crewmates, you could heal them so that they're no longer injured. You can include yourself. Yeah, so I can grab six people. So yeah, just myself and the hugely injured. Yeah. So that'll be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, D, 8 to all of those people.

There we go. 19 heal to all of those. Is that with your, what about your modifier? those people. There we go. 19 heal to all of those. Is that with your, what about your modifier? My modifier? Yeah. Oh, you're right. Wisdom modifier.

Plus 5. 24. So Lucius, Oriya, 24 hit points. Quill, you get 24 hit points back. Those injured crewmates who are nearby do manage to kind of shrug off whatever injuries they temporarily have. Things like broken arms aren't going to mend, but they've got enough energy now

that they can kind of act normally. Araya flutters her eyes, still kind of clutching the wheel, kind of pulls herself. Half the wheel has been blown off. The struts that connect the actual helm seem to have been damaged as well as her eyes kind of flutter open.

She kind of looks around just like, we're crashing. I need the helm. We need to fix the helm or I can't right us. Quick, Lucius, someone help. And she's starting to pull on the various connectors to try and repair them as quickly as she can. Nova,

if you're done, Quill? I cannot do anything until the end of my turn. Okay. That thing with the staff, is that an action? Just out of interest? You know, the thing with the staff? If you want to activate that now, considering that he is only

just, like, has to regain his now, considering that he is only just, like, has to regain his strength, you can try. I'd say it's probably not an action. I'd say I'd let you do it as a reaction. But if you want to wait and see. Just wondering about intern economy, you know, just seeing how it would go. Yeah.

Well, Nova, you are stuck in the Tomb of of la vistos in this kind of block of ice um you know alive but looking as the engine is sparking the room is on fire you can see that like the ship itself like parts of it on rock you know a light um smashed to pieces as ayla kind of stumbling in covered in blood uh you know bru and battered, along with this lone Wolfpack member kind of stumble into the engine room as you're just wide-eyed, staring at the whole thing. Could I communicate with Aayla to guide the Wolfpack member on how to fix the engine?

That's a cool idea. Yes, if you basically use that and then Aayla can give the instructions, that I'd say would count as the help action, ayla can give the instructions that i'd say would count as the help action so you can give advantage on the check yeah yeah for sure so you're like thinking like he needs to go there pull that free activate that flip that switch turn on this dial kind of thing yeah and then ayla's like do this do this do this yeah yeah that's a great idea right okay so wolfpack member engine i think this is the most important check to make. This is with advantage.

The DC is 15. I think I've been missed. Century, you were. Sorry, Century. That's alright. It's because you were down, I think. That was it, yeah. So do you want to roll that d20? No. Well pointed out.

It's alright. 12. 12. Okay, so one success. With's all right. 12. 12. Okay. So one success with advantage on the wolf pack member. But the advantage roll was an 18. So with the instructions from Ayla, you hear all this hissing of steam. You can see that like the room itself is beginning to get incredibly hot as the engine is just roaring with fire.

But you do feel this kind of lurch as the airship, its downward descent begins to stop, but it doesn't seem to be able to kind of pull itself out of this downward spiral just yet. Araya will attempt to basically do the same with the helm and to fix that, along with several of the crewmates aiding her as well. They managed to basically, several of the crewmates aiding her as well. They managed to basically, several of the ones that you healed, Quill, the Wolfpack members, including Fayeth,

basically form like a chain where they're kind of gripping on these various pulleys and ropes and chains and are basically stretching them over so that Oriah can begin pulling back on the wheel as it's beginning to lift the rudders and the fins. The whole ship begins to tilt. It crests the very tip of a section of stones. You hear these huge gouts and kind of tears in the wood as the whole ship lurches free at half speed,

but still manages to kind of like careen off into the distance as it is beginning to make an escape further and further away as best as they can a very injured Penny pulls herself up out of the turret space having been shielded by Sentry

will try and perform a medicine check on Sentry but that is a three she's just like I don't really know how to help Guardians, and it's just desperately trying to do what she can, but doesn't seem to know how to help Sentry in any viable way.

I think the only other people on deck would be Howard. He will attempt to, looking around, seeing that Sentry is the one injured, will rush over to Sentry. He rolls a six. Howard is like, I don't know either do we do we patch it up i i've got and he's like rummaging in his pockets you can see that like one of his eyes is like completely sealed over by blood

and like wounds and things like that but still still alive uh lucius you are conscious i'll get up assess my surroundings notice that the helm is being repaired by other people. I'll run over to Sentry as well and kind of push Howard and Penny aside. Let me have a look and do a medicine check on my own. Sure, go for it. Because I don't have stuff. 21.

Oh! 21. You actually kind of realize, Lucius, that with guardians, it's not just about the physical damage, but the medical, the magical element to it as well. And so with a little bit of your own spell sorcerer energy and binding the wounds, these deep gouges in the metal and the wood

that her sap and energy is leeching out of and then reinstilling it with a bit of magical energy, Sentry, you stabilize, no longer making death-saving throws. And with that, you are now all out of range of dying, but also out of range of your enemy. You are out of initiative as the Storm Tracer limps away in a desperate kind of flight over the valley. Oh, God!

I will immediately go and help Oriah and try and use my strength to help in any way and save this hull and keep it going. So, will my mislead duplicate still be down on the ground? Because there's no

distance on it. It just says the concentration for up to an hour. Yeah, you've not been focusing through its attention because obviously you were trying to help the others, but if you want to do that now, if you want to switch your senses over to the duplicates, you can do. Do you know what? I will.

Okay. So I guess it's a bonus action. So, yeah, Nova in the engine room will go quiet. Quiet. Quiet. Sure. So your duplicate, what your duplicate sees is three troopers standing in front of it. One of them is basically, like, swiping a hand through.

It looks like they tried to arrest the duplicate or, like, you know, they shot at it or tried to subdue it and obviously came to the real realization that it was an illusion um the you see the humanoid figure of zarkira this kind of woman with long dark hair carrying this bladed staff very regal looking posture is kind of looking in the distance in the direction of the storm chaser um arms folded uh she kind of just glances over that probably wouldn't like immediately pay attention to the duplicate you hear her kind of say yes it's crippled but it looks like it will get away yes yes we'll investigate the temple see what we can recover. Very well, Prime. And then

just turns around. Well, what do we have here? A little illusory ganass sent to what? Distractus? Still active, so the caster is still alive. Wander, are you the only one interesting

you can keep wandering but you will pay for what you've done I will see to it oh by all means just remember you were the one who taunted me my dear come and deal with the dragon yourself I believe it was well here I am By all means, just remember you were the one who taunted me, my dear. Come and deal with the dragon yourself, I believe it was.

Well, here I am. Now you've seen what I'm capable of. Just remember my little promise. And with that, she waves her hand and she's going to try and dispel magic. The spell ends. Yeah. I think Nova would have ended it anyway. Yeah. It's kind of like you're like, oh, I'm going to end the spell ends. Yep. I think Nova would have ended it anyway. Yeah.

It's kind of like, you're like, oh, I'm going to end the spell and then she thinks she's dispelled it. No, you hang up. You both probably think that... You both think you hung up. Yeah, no, you both think that you were the first one to hang up.

But I think, yeah, the last thing she would have seen is just pure hatred radiating from Nova. I think what Nova sees isn't necessarily hatred, but just arrogance. It's more like she sees like, you have seen what I'm capable

of. Your threats don't mean anything to her. Like, it's purely just sort of, yeah, that kind of arrogance staring back at you. any of the kind of honor or kind of um any of this like empathy that you've ever seen in callous is not present in zarkira that is you you see a woman who is very much about getting what she wants and she does not care about anything that she hurts in the way of getting it.

Hodorified. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Coming to those of you who are stabilized injured Grey Lano again pretty much everybody on the crew by the way has been injured in some cases. I would like to

now we are out of immediate danger, check for personal injuries, those of you who went down. Yeah. So this would be constitution saving throws, the DC of which is very, very high. I think Ayla's probably the only one who can probably make it.

Well, I didn't go down. You didn't go down, so you're going to get it. Century. What's your total, actually? 27 total. 27. There it is. Half damage.

That's enough. Yeah, it's actually enough to survive the injury. However, I think Lucian and Quill will need to roll a little injury roll. Oh, I'm glad to be a barbarian right now I'm glad to have tomb of Lovistus oh my god what a nice tomb

yeah so let's roll a d20 for me please Lucius six okay yeah so it's the kind of same thing it's um uh roller d4 for me let's see which um limbless effects um two two uh yeah the your left arm lucius is is very badly hurt probably broken or fractured or something like that. But yeah, just trying to move that arm is very, very painful

for Lucius. Probably from some flight piece of hull that smashed into you when the meteor smashed into the ship. The old focus arm. The old spellcasting arm. Can I portent a 15? I don't know if portent works on this sort of roll.

Sure. I don't want to roll a 1, Mark. Sure, you can portent it. He's lost his face. Good, because I would have rolled an 8. Your wing... Actually, roll a d4. Let's see which wing it is, whether it's the mechanical or the organic.

No! 1. Take his real wing. That's the organic one. It's just sprained. So you obviously fell on it quite badly. This only lasts until you take a short rest. So I don't even think it's even worth worrying about

considering you guys are probably going to try and rest up as quickly as you can. Yeah, we're getting the hell out of here. Yeah. Most of the others, pretty much all of the crew have an injury of some form. So they all have the injured status. The crew, yeah, they're very badly hurt nobody is dead however which is incredible um lucius lucius calling out brace uh basically stops them dying yeah it basically is a way to basically they can't do anything that turn um until the next turn rolls around but it stops them from being killed um they become injured and if they get injured too many times they can't do anything that turn until the next turn rolls around but it stops them from being killed they become injured and if they get injured

too many times they can still die so if that was a prolonged battle if there had been another attack after that you probably would have lost some people but that basically saved enough of them that they got away with injuries more than death

also as a reminder that was 40d6, that meteor. Yep, 20d6. Fire, 20d6 bludgeoning. Meteor swarm, 9th level spell. Nice. Damn. The storm chaser, it takes some time to repair it. So as a point, when a station like the helm or the sails or the engine is destroyed,

you can't repair it fully. You have to have the ship dock and you have to spend money and about a week to two weeks of time getting it properly repaired. You can only jury rig a certain amount of repairs to limp the ship back to somewhere else. You can only jury rig a certain amount of repairs to limp the ship back to somewhere else. So things like the sky sails, if you encounter deadly weather or anything like that, you're going to have penalties.

Things like the engine, you're at half speed operating on the one functional engine. Things like the helm, it's very difficult to turn the ship. So Oriya has to work much harder to try and plot routes and things like that. You are limping away. This is like the ship has taken aah has to work much harder to try and plot routes and things like that. You are limping away. This is like the ship has taken a

hell of a beating. Okay. We've got shit to do, Zarkira! What do you guys want to do? What's the plan now? Heal from one hit point. That's advisable. Yeah.

I might just trip over we die at this point she fell down the stairs and she's dead the kamara araya and gray lano basically would probably ask to kind of like speak with everybody as you know you don't seem to be in any immediate danger. Kamara's just like, this is going to be tough. A lot of people have got injuries. I know we're all tired and we need rest, but we need a lot of hands to run the ship in the state that it's in.

Let's focus here for a second. What do we do, Captain? A lot of people are injured, so we're going to need to rotate crew between focusing on repairs and also being healed so let's get a the most injured at the front of the queue to Grey Lana

and get them injured if anyone has any sort of frontline injury or first aid ability they can tend to those with minor injuries right now. If anyone is capable, get them on their stations and get this ship moving. We need to get it to the closest port to be fully repaired.

What does everyone think? Where should we go? Well, it's a question of, are we trying to make this meeting? If the repairs take weeks, we're not going to get there. We need to get... Well, I mean, the initial plan was... But we can't go to that kind of meeting with the ship in this kind of state. We wouldn't be able to get away. I don't think that we have a choice.

We need to fix this thing first. Raya thinks for a minute. Go on. Do we actually know where this meeting is? Yeah. You've been told. It's in the Sky City of Horizon. Okay, it was in Horizon. I wasn't sure if they were keeping the location top secret.

They are. They've told. Sky Prince of Gustaven told you where it was. He said it was in Horizon. He's requested you guys to be there with him in Horizon. He's requested you guys to be there with him. The Sky Prince specifically requested you guys to be there. I feel like we have to be

at Horizon and we can't take the opportunity to have repairs in between. We might miss it. Go on, Quill. Please, Master Quill. We could go to Gusthaven to get the ship repaired at the very place that it was built.

If it's done in time, amazing. If not, we might be able to attend the meeting with the Sky Prince. Take his transport. If we can get to Gusthaven, we might be able to pull a favour and have a temporary ship in its stead to get to Horizon. Well, if you can't pull a temporary ship, Gusthaven has teleportation circles.

With a teleport? It means that you might be in Horizon whilst the crew and I repair the ship, but you can at least go to the city and attend this meeting if it's very important, whilst you wait for the repairs. Better than you just sitting around in Gusthaven doing nothing.

This is true. Okay. So, we limp to Gusthaven and then we teleport to Horizon. That also secures our exit so we can teleport out. Things go south. So long as the teleportation circles are standing.

Plus you can check in with what's going on in Gustaven. You're trying to build that little base there. It's not a wasted trip. No, we're not. I'm pretty sure that these guys are

trustworthy at this point. You can trust us at this point, yes. Any secrets you have, I think we're long past keeping them. I don't know who that wizard or mage or whatever they were was, but, well,

I think if we're going to go up against somebody like that again, the storm chaser is going to need improvements and the crew and I are going to need better equipment. I want to have another shot at that bitch. Me and the crew, I'd want to take her down for what they've done. But if the storm chaser stays as it is, I worry that we're not going to be able to do much against firepower like that.

If you have any ways of finding improvements, it would be highly recommended, especially gear for us. Didn't we leave instructions with the house that Lucius, you partnered your estate with? So they may have accrued some money by now. Weren't they supposed to do

something with money and accrue money for us? Somehow? I remember something about money. Over time, it's early stages but. They were basically paying for the estate. They've basically agreed like Lucius rents them the land for his estate. It's basically he's a landlord. But we

may be again considering the stakes right now we might be able to pull in a favour that we can repay over time. I think considering the situation and the gravitas, I think people will listen and help. So let's make our

way there as soon as we can. Sounds good. And hope that this table is not in absolute ruin. Let's go. Okay, well, how long will it take? I say say how long will it take us as quill quill probably knows how long it will take to get to gustaven from here right it's actually there's uh

there's good news and bad news with that the good news is uh the bay that gustaven rotates um it will come past so uh gustven, the way that it works is obviously it goes around a rowis and it has a set pattern that it follows. When you left Gusthaven, you were almost on the other side of the world to Voxar. You were near sort of the Starfall Archipelago and stuff and

Savona and things like that. It's now basically going to catch up to you. The ship with the speed it's going, if you turn around and start heading towards Gusthaven, it's not going to be very long. It's maybe going to be up to you um the ship with the speed it's going uh if you turn around and start heading towards gust haven it's not going to be very long it's maybe going to be sort of like four days um the only the only thing which reminds you quill being the big brain that you are is there was obviously talk about things like sky piracy and stuff um and in the in the ship state right now if any sort of pirates see it, you are easy pickings.

You can risk it and just try and go straight to Gusthaven. You could try and find somewhere to hide until it's closer, and then make a shorter trip. You could try and tuck the ship in somewhere. If we were to do most of our travelling at night with the shadowy shroud that the ship has, assuming that thing still works,

maybe that's the best way to avoid the piracy. Yeah, if you just try to limit it to travelling at night, it would slow you down, like it would take longer to get to Gusthaven, but you'd be much safer doing so. It would also give people more time to heal and stuff, right? That as well, yes. Sorry, Kim. Go ahead. so it would also give people more time to heal and stuff right that well yes yeah maybe sorry could we also perhaps um and i would say this privately to the group could we also perhaps uh contact um edea and ask for her help with some protection or in fact in bringing us in um she she obviously as her persona was helping out with the Sky Pirates before. Perhaps she would know...

She'd be too busy. No, we don't want to bother her. Lucius, I respect... We absolutely do want to bother her. I respect your complicated feelings for this right now, but we need help. Quill bothers people with messages like literally all the time I think she would be fine with it

I think we should yeah she'd be cool like Quill bugs people all the time I bugged her a ton when we were in the astral sea are you talking about me in your minds again I can't hear that conversation if you're looking at me like you're talking about me

all good things good things. All good things. Good things. I can also contact the name of the place that we got the ship from and give them details of all the things that are wrong so they can get materials and stuff

in prep that we can easily pay for the repair. We have a stupid amount right now, right? Well, Courtmaster Quill, that is your duty, is to go around and get an assessment from all the stations as to the

extent of the damage, and communicate the repairs to the station that's going to repair in there. My arm really hurts. A requisition. I understand mine, too You got a hurt your line out both of you go light out Okay, gray lano looks at both of theirs and it's like Captain Lucius definitely needs some rest master Quillick. Just try not to use your arm for an hour. You should be fine. I

Heard easily rest. Master Quillick, just try not to use your arm for an hour. You should be fine. I hurt easily. I think Captain, I'll need to... Captain, you'll need to put that arm into a sling. We'll need to get you set up. There's a few people with broken limbs and things like that that we can work with.

But yes. Alright, so is the plan that we are going to travel at night and try and limit our interactions in the open air and get some extra time to heal yes let's try and limit our light emission on the deck while threatened all right all right all right yes we can try and do that uh we'll'll limit lights during the evening and try and keep everyone below decks. I'll need to stay up on top of the helm. Lookout. You can see at night, yes.

Lookout, the kind of guardian. You can see he's limping, like one of his legs doesn't seem to be functioning properly. It's like it's seized up, but he kind of limps over to... Yes, Oriah, that is correct. I am able to see at night. I should be able to guide you without

giving away our position. Alright, well, Lookout and I will stay up on top whilst I fly the ship. The rest of you try and stay below edges. I think that a lot of the rooms have taken a lot of damage, so we may need to have people double up in terms

of sleeping arrangements, but I think we can do this. I think if we can find somewhere to hide out, I know a few bays and coves around Voxar that we can maybe tuck into, places that hopefully people won't be traveling past. And then, yeah, keep the ship hidden. If it helps relay to the crew that the mission here was actually a success,

regardless of the damage caused afterwards if there's any solace in that Captain it's it's not I think that let me put it this way whatever business you had in that temple whether that was a success

that doesn't it doesn't matter so much to us clearly this was somebody who was out to kill us they didn't it was you didn't put us in harm we don't it doesn't matter so much to us clearly this was somebody who was out to kill us they didn't you didn't put us in harm I don't think that any of me or the crew or anyone here would blame any of you for what just happened that's an enemy

of all of us and if that's the kind of enemy we're going to fight then we need to get ready for that sort of thing but don't worry about that I'll keep morale up. Good. I count on it. Thank you. Give me like four hours.

I'll be up with you. If it's getting a bit tough to steer, I can try and help you, maybe. A little bit of muscle there. Well, the helm is pretty damaged, but I think I can do... We might need some help later on. Yes, very good.

I might go and try and fix the engine now. Sure. Yeah. You don't need to make the checks. You're not in a stressful situation, so you can just take time to do it. Obviously, it will only be able to be repaired to a certain point, so the engine is still going to be damaged.

But yeah. Well, with that, I think we can take a break there. I just wanted to get that very stressful scenario handled. It was very cool how stressful. Just a bit.

I mean, I was just like, oh no, Lily and Sprocket's shipwright co. Oh yeah. They can try and stop us from going to this meeting. It ain't going to work. We will limp back there and we're going to go to this meeting and we'll die there.

Not here. There was a moment there, Mark, in all of that, where there was a slight look on your face where you're like, this is not what I envisaged. It wasn't that it was an element of like man i rolled higher damage than i expected to um like the 77 was a lot higher than the average i think so i was a bit like that's that's quite high um also the fact that like yeah things like i forgot that the chromatic gauntlet had a range so i was just like lucius couldn't do it there wasn't like counter spell has a range all of that stuff but also yeah i didn't realize like

katie and century were on such low hit points like i i honestly thought you guys were on more hit points than that so i thought okay well he can half of it century can half it might be okay should be okay and then it was like you went down i was like oh two of those but then at the same time like outright yeah yeah yeah same if i've been on top like i don't know almost got us almost even though we were next to bring us down to one down to one hit point god bless tomb of vistus like zarkira literally this is the like just me trying to play the mp villain to the point like she's you know that's what she'd do there's things that you guys don't know that i don't

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