High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #99 | Shadowsong Pinnacle (Part 2)

Episode Date: January 28, 2021

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Lovely. Let's go, gamers. So, we currently have the situation. Nova has made her way into this strange... One of these buildings connected to this facility. She's made her way downstairs and yet again found another one of these kind of magically sealed doors. magically sealed doors. The rest of you are currently outside, having investigated some of the crates that this group

are shipping or receiving, you're not quite sure which, which seems to contain a variety of magitek weapons, including some sort of giant arm. Yeah. What would you like to all do? Lucius is weighing up the Kim Nova fair point

of if we could disrupt this weapon supply line that would be a good thing for Aroas so I'll say to Nova yes I think you're right we should take action while we're here do something well there's a couple of yes, I think you're right. We should take action while we're here. Do something.

Well, there's a couple of guards between me and you guys right now. I've got a couple of sweet biceps here ready to, you know, suplex. I really need to know what... When have you had time to catch up with

wrestling? All the adrenaline. Spellclash does a lot of it. What's Spell Clash? Yeah, can we get rid of the guards between you and me right now? I'm feeling a bit isolated here. We'll just do what we did before. Just lure him out, just take him down.

We did it before. I'm sure it'll be fine. How many are in there, Nova? I definitely saw one. He just pulled his armor on, and then I heard voices of maybe one or two others from another room. I don't know. I cannot confirm.

I did not get a visual. I think it's the lingo. I read it in a book once. Why don't we just, element of surprise, get in there, and, you know, all guns, all arms, all spells blazing. Hope none of them have communication ways with other people. Just do what we did last time.

Just get them all one by one, really quick. Same time. Worked well last time. But ain't broken don't go trying to open it tell me what's the plan you just running in there

everyone just runs in there yeah should we roll initiative now screaming screaming could I maybe like try and imitate like a

like an officer maybe be like you know like come out here at once kind of thing and like you know say like yeah absolutely you can

try and get me in the same place. Yeah, that'd be more of a performance check, I think. Like to try and like... So you want to lure them outside of the building, like bring them out into the courtyard. Try and at least lure them into like the same room, just so they're all in the same space.

Okay. So do you want to... So you guys are all currently outside. Is the idea that Sensory moves into this main room and then you're going to try and lure them into that main room? Run me through it. I don't think we should have them in the courtyard. People can look out and see.

Contain it within one place, right? Try and get them in the room before they go outside. So, like, yeah. I go in, get them to come through and as they come through, then we all jump on them. I've got, I'm running low on some of my gadgets, but I do have at least, um,

I have something that I can try and put several of them to sleep at once. Until now, they've all been separated, but if we can gather them all up in a group, I can try and render them asleep. Perfect. Okay. We could try that to start asleep. Perfect. Okay. We could try that to start with, maybe. Yes, and if that fails,

you know, just get in there and start pummeling. Duplex and pile drive, you said. Duplex, pile drive. I'm very cold. Okay, okay. Century, you do that. You're the perfect candidate. You don't sleep, so great.

Okay, let's do it. Neither can elves. We've got to be careful of elves, by the way. Oh, wait, they're all elves. All the guards are elves. Ooh. Oh! That's not going to work. You almost got us that time, Mark.

We saw right through that one. All the guards we've encountered so far have been elven. I imagine they can't all be, but this is a very smart consideration. Let me do the physical takedown. We do the older... grab him, grab him, bring him down. Sure. The old one-two smackaroo? The old one-two smackaroo. Okay.

Don't mind me. Don't mind me. I'm just setting something up. Don't worry. It's not a big deal. Performance check, right? Yeah, that's it. So, you tell me. You describe to me. How does this look? You guys all storm in the building

that Nova's currently in. You guys all just run in. Who's leading the charge? What's the plan? I don't think we're storming. Sentry's luring them with the voice first, I believe. Yeah. Outside? To the top room.

Go inside. Yeah, so I'll go in. Pretend I'm an officer. Load them into the room that I'm in and then once they come through... Sentry moves in. Stealth check, please, Sentry. Okie dokie. Nat 20, here it comes. room that i'm in and then once i come through moves in stealth check please sentry well now 20 here it comes oh no disadvantage though it is disadvantaged it is a disadvantage this would be a 20. not 20 here it comes that 20 here it comes

10. 10. Okay, 10. Not 5. 10 total. Hey, it's a double-digit spell check from Sentry. That's actually very rare. So Sentry moves into the room. What are the rest of you doing?

We're waiting outside. Are you following Sentry? I think we'll be ready to go in, right? Yeah, ready to go in. Yeah, I mean, Moonstar is definitely going to try and sneak in behind Sentry. Yeah,, right? Yeah, ready to go in. We're definitely going to try and sneak in behind him. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think, yeah.

No, I'm going to go with Moonstar. I'm going to try and come in as well. Anybody who's moving in, stealth check. I'm going to stay down the stairs. Yeah. Right now you're out of sight. As long as you don't move, you're invisible because there is dim light down here

Not great 13 18 13 Okay, let's go as you kind of begin slowly making your way in trying to be quietly as you step into this rec room Like Nova said the doors open and it extends into this kind of large open space with tables sofas above you you can see there's this gangway that seems to be part of the second floor um where you can see rooms and doors kind of leading off of this um and it looks down into this room almost like um you know like in prisons where you have like the the kind of um section the walkway above looking down into the main room um from the lower ground level though there are also two side rooms and as soon as you start moving in sentry's boots um do definitely make a kind of

heavy kind of clacking sound against the floor the stone floor and there is a voice that calls out uh who's that and then a bunch of people begin it sounds like they're about to enter this room okay um i'll just call out you're all required to meet me here now get in here okay give me a performance check yeah this would be performance i think you're trying to afford play a character i think or a deception i guess it'd be more deception doesn't matter natural one I think. Or a deception. I guess it'd be more deception. Doesn't matter. Natural one. How does that actually sound, Rhi?

That's how it sounds. That's a natural one. Well, the stealth lasted this long RIP we did better than we did the thing is it's not you still call out but your voice as a guardian

is partially modulated there is a magical reverberation to it and there is almost an immediate there's a pause whoever was moving you hear them who's there and when you like there's a pause like whoever was moving like you hear them like who's there and then when you speak there's like a pause of silence roll initiative

shit yeah they're silent they're talking into those pinky tubes maybe why where was the where was

oh well Maybe. Why? Where was that? Where was that? Why? You react super quickly. What is wrong with you? Why? You've rolled like four times. Get your physical dice out, mate. One in 20. Lucius, initiative.

Seven. Kelek. Uh, 15. Ayla. 21. Entry. 20. Nova.

21. Okay. Unfortunately, none of you guys actually go first somebody had ayla beat by one the you there's this pause this agonizingly long in your mind's pause and then the door bursts open as a much more i would say senior looking guard like the rest you've seen of all wearing these like kind of just like luth clothing you know a couple of weapons and things like that this one appears to be wearing

like a full uniform like an airship captain's almost with a high collar, they're wearing studded leather armour, you can see that their weapons and their equipment just looks much you know better off than everybody else's and they are pointing their hand crossbow

as they kind of like breach the door in a tactical manner. And in one hand, they roll something along the ground whilst a whistle in their mouth, they blow loud. There is this like... I need everybody to make constitution saving throws, except for Nova, who's not actually within the blast of this. I'm outside the door. Am I...

Sorry, in that case, Quill as well ignores this as well. Anybody in the room, on favor? 19. 26. Another natural 20. Fortunately, Sentry's the only one affected by this. Moonstar manages, like, with her mask, she kind of ducks ahead.

Ayla, you manage to close your eyes and kind of brace yourself. And Lucius, I don't, you know, whether it's just like you kind of hold up your ears, there is a bright flash and a loud kind of like, kind of noise that erupts through the room. Century, you are stunned until the start of your next

turn, end of your next turn, sorry. As this thing, you're like, ah, you're blinded, you can barely see, your vision's, sorry, as this thing, you're like, you're blinded, you can barely see, your vision's all blurry, as this flashbang goes off, basically. And this figure, this elven captain, will basically just fire two bolts

out of this little hand crossbow. They will target the first thing that they really see who is stunned, which is sentry, so they get advantage on the attack roll. Okie dokie. That is going to be 24 to hit on the first one. And then the second one is a 25 to hit. Yep.

I'll just roll all of this damage together if that's okay. Go for it. It's going to be 714. That's okay. Go for it. It's going to be 714. And then... That is...

Do you have any resistance to poison damage? I do, yeah. I'm... Yeah, resistance to poison. Okay. So you're going to take 14 regular damage, and then it would have been 13 poison, so half to six. so 20 damage altogether. As the crossbow bolts both thud into your body,

and you can feel this kind of thick poison trying to get into your roots and your vines and your lifestream. And, you know, you manage to resist some of it, but it still burns at your interior, kind of working some things like that, as these bolts thud into you. And, yeah, this loud whistle goes off, interior kind of working some things like that as these bolts like thud into you um and yeah this loud whistle goes off and you begin to hear something moving on that second floor above you

as well um ayla can i rage and i will just uh go for him as the first target that I'm seeing. Yeah, you rush up to him. This captain-like figure is on the opposite side of the rec room. You know, it's within 20 feet. You can easily dash to them. But they're stood in the doorway. Looking behind them appears to be some sort of training room.

You can see kind of like weights and targets and, you know, practicing dummies and things like that. There are at least three more of the regular guards that you met outside in that room and they're all getting ready to come through. But you managed to engage this captain immediately. 17 plus

13 to hit. 30, yes, that will hit. I would try and parry it, yes, that will hit. I would try and parry it, but unfortunately I do not. Okay. Oh, I rolled a 10 on my d10. So, 18... 22 damage from the

first hit. The hammer slams into the figure. They desperately try and bring up their weapon to try and parry the blow and dodge the side, but they're slammed against the wall. Cracking stone. And a dex save. Oh, you're throwing the hammer.

Sorry, I misunderstood. No, no, I'm not throwing it, but he still takes a zap. Oh, right, yeah. Of course you've got your zaps as well you have a second attack though don't you i know i'm rolling it are you okay okay you're doing i was gonna say 15 plus 13 yeah that's gonna hit you can't parry that either uh so that is going to be... It's a 15 on the dex. 14 damage from the second one.

It's how much on the dex save, sorry? 15. 15? Yeah, 15. Fail. So... 12 lightning damage. Oh, shit.

With all of this, you just lay into him these two heavy blows and then this surge of lightning blows into his chest and you see this captain reeling from these blows. Still standing, but just barely. Yeah, definitely on the defensive as they're kind of thrown backwards.

Nova. Cool. Fija. Who did Sentry cast Bless on on was it just myself or were there two other targets three so it was uh it would be nova quill and lucius um and uh it's concentration isn't it it's concentration you make two saving throws please century well you know you might be able to save them oh in fact i actually know you're stunned that would lose it automatically i think because you're anyway so it's fine i am checking it anyway for my own benefit yeah being stunned you'd lose concentration so

cool so no i'm gonna run upstairs and and prepare some Eldritch Blasts on the captain. He's the only one you can see right now. And when I say prepare, I mean I am going to Eldritch Blast the captain, so first beam is a natural 20! That's 10 plus D10. 10 plus a D10, so

I rolled a 2 on the D10, unfortunately, What was it? It's been ages since I've done a crit. Yep, so it's maximum of the dice. I rolled a 2 on the D10 unfortunately, plus 5, so 5, 6, 7. Of course you get your plus 5 as well, so 17. Am I? That's the first ray, yeah. The first one slams into him, like catching in the neck, thrown into

the side. Unfortunately, I don't think this is going to hit. I rolled a 4 plus 10 is 14 to hit have not hit manages to just make themselves to the side and the last one is an 11 plus 10 so 21 um and i rolled a 7 8 9 10 11 12 points of damage I rolled a 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 points of damage. With that, the final beam just burns through part of his neck, and the body just thumps to the ground, lifeless, just as the captain falls in the doorway. Okay.

Anything else, Nova? More movement, you just move up into the room. I'm going to loiter around the stairs, because I want to keep an eye of anyone coming through from the blacksmith. Yeah. Kelek, sorry, Sentry is stunned. At the end of your turn, Sentry, the stun ends,

but that's basically your whole turn is you're just like, what is going on? Kelek. Okay, so is there any that haven't been attacked yet? There's one that's now dead, one that Ayla whacked to shit.

No, that's the same one. So right now, the captain ran into the room, was stood in the doorway, has been pummeled to hell, but the rest of them all seem to be in this room behind him, this training room, and then you've heard some noises from above.

Okay, can I cast Blindness Deafness? So Blindness on just one of those two. They'll need to make a constitution save. There's three behind. Oh, three. Three, sorry. Sorry. Yeah, I'd say three. Sorry. Yeah, I'll just cast Blind.

Sure. Saving three? Constitution needs to be a 21. Natural one. Failed. One. They're blind. They've blinded me!

And that is a full action to do that. So I'll just stay outside the door again. Okay, so you would have had to have moved into the room, cast blindness on the one you can see, and then you've moved out of the room. I peek in and then just look at the guy, put two fingers to my eyes, two fingers to his, and then his vision vanishes.

Yeah. And then you step back outside. Okay. Lucius. I believe Lucius is going to look into the room and cast for the other two the Hypnotic Pattern and see if we can stun them. Tap a thing through.

It is a Wisdom. And it's a charm effect, isn't it is a charm effect yeah that's pretty dumb unfortunately my but my first roll before the advantage was a 20 and an 18 um wow 20 and 18 so yeah they the colorful lights begin swirling um but as they kind of see this you see them all basically pull down like this pair of blackened goggles. And they just like shake their heads and they seem to be unaffected by the hypnotic. Okay. That's just me flavoring their saving throw, by the way. That's all.

Sure. Anything else? I'm going to get behind Sentry because I know I'm going to get pummeled. So that's what I'm doing. I think I've pissed them off. Walk back. Sorry, it didn't add. I tried to add some monsters and it didn't add them.

Can I just do it here? Add some monsters? For fuck's sake. Sorry, my Chrome is having a hissy fit as well. I have to manually do this. So they're dead. A lot 21. Sorry.

I tried to add the figures from above but they didn't add so now I've got to reset the initiative to add them. That's cool. A little worried about when you said monsters though. All things are monsters, Tom Hazel. Wild elves are monsters. Wild elves are monsters, Tom Hazel. Wild elves?

Wild elves? High elves are monsters to you, Mark? That's a thing to say. Okay. I mean, a birdman could seem quite monstrous, you know? I'm

adorable, thank you. And you have no more parentheses. But to some, you might seem terrifying. It's a walking, talking birdman. No.

No to nobody. I'm a monster. Because I'm a monster slayer. So do we. Oh my gosh. Actually do I. Oh, my gosh. Actually, I suppose if Quill digs his talons into your chest and, like, rips out your beating heart, then maybe, maybe... Yeah.

Oh, my God. Yeah, that's pretty monstrous. That's... Okay. So the three figures in the room, one of them is blinded, but still manages to kind of like kind of try and pull themselves together is readying weapons and things like that. A bunch of things kind of fire off at once.

The first thing is the entire rec room is filled with darkness. Dark vision doesn't help. You are all blind. Unless you can see in magical darkness, you are all blind unless you can see in magical darkness you are all blinded um they basically there is a small like pellet bead that they throw in and then it just into night into pitch black darkness um just fills the whole space uh kim you were raising your hand uh just being on the stairs would that affect nova uh yes because it spreads from the point and fills all the space 15 foot radius 30 foot room yes this will reach the stairs

but not if you go upstairs but in the stairwell that you're currently in yes okay it does uh the other one is everybody but Quill and Nova. I need you to make a dexterity saving throw. Plus three. So that's the darkness spell, right? It's not that everyone is being blinded. It's that the room is being... It's the darkness spell, yeah. It's magical darkness fills the room.

Yeah. 23. Okay, that's a success. If I'm within Sentry's aura, if not 20. I think you are, yeah. Sentry? 14.

Lucius? I got me to roll as well. Anyone in the room? You are hit behind Sentry. You are in the room. 8. 11. 11 plus behind Century. You are in the room. Eight. Eleven. Do you get any blessings for Century? Eleven plus Century. Yep.

So, out of everybody... Oh, and Moonstar as well. Oh, Moonstar fails as well. Moonstar and Lucius are both surrounded, not that any of you guys can see this currently, but they're surrounded in like a thin outline of violet green light

that kind of helps illuminate them to those outside but they're surrounded in a thin outline of violet green light that helps illuminate them to those outside of said space. Pretty cool. Good old Faerie Fire. Yeah. And then Lucius, there will just be a shot

at you. So shooting into the darkness is counteracted by the Faerie Fire. That is a 19 plus 4. 23 to hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's going to be 8 points of piercing damage

and 7 points of poison damage. You just feel like a crossbow bolt graze past your arm and this burning sensation as it shoots past you. Okay. And then they move around in the room, but you guys don't know roughly where they are,

as you guys can't see. Then you hear the sounds of doors opening above and more heavily armored boots kind of stomping onto the gangway above you. Again, those of you in the room, you can't see. As you hear, yeah, you don't hear something for a second, and then there is a kind of a volley of Thunderstone rifles, like as shots are fired from above.

They're in here, the intruders, get them! Shit. So this is going to be... They're going to target the people that they have the best shots at, which is Lucius and Moonstar. Lucius, 70 hit. You can do, yes.

You would still impose... You would cancel out... At the moment, they're even, so you'd add another source of disadvantage, I think. I'm going to say in the darkness, though, you don't know where to protect him. You can't see where Lucius is to protect him, so I'd say that you just can't really benefit from the protection, right?

The next one is a 11 to hit Lucius. No! Okay. Hey! Oh, my gosh. One of them hits Moonstar as well. Make a wish. We got there.

Can I wish for some more nat 20s? Can I? Yeah, you can certainly wish for them. Yeah, that aren't in initiative. So it shall be granted. On the third of your roll today, you have been one of the... Five piercing damage,

17 poison damage as this bullet kind of strikes you. Moonstar, yikes, that's nearly max damage. 27 points of damage to Moonstar. Oh my god. Nice. Yeah, you basically hear this kind of of like crack crack from these rifles um somewhere in the room you hear moonstars cloak kind of like uh and the sound of like a some sort of like

grappling launcher being fired and then just the of somebody flying up into the air um she's gonna launch herself up onto the gangway with her grapple launcher and basically fly up onto the second floor out of the darkness sphere. She's making that noise with her mouth, not with the grapple. Yeah. Using a grapple is a bonus action so she will use her action

to shock and grasp one of these gunmen which is a miss. She kind of swings a punch and they launch themselves back as they do so. Ayla! It's black everywhere. So the room that the three soldiers were in, they were in a separate room, right?

Yep. Is that one also in blackness? That one is not, no. Just the rec room. Okay, because one also in blackness that one is not no just the rec room okay because i'm in front of that room you are can i barrel into it if you just if you're just like i'm just gonna move forward you take like two steps and then it's like your vision comes back on you'll just like step out of this orb of darkness into this room you can see that they've split themselves up um so this room is like a training room one of them is currently

crouched behind like some sort of like bench like a workout bench and is pointing a crossbow at the door the blinded one has just backed themselves up to a wall and is like waving their sword in front of them trying to defend themselves and then the other one is in the far corner from the others and is

basically aiming a hand crossbow as well um can i hit the blind guy yeah you have advantage when you hit him you just charge for him just like um oh 19 close uh, no, not quite at 20, but 19 plus 13 to hit. You hit, yep. I'm pretty sure this guy's dead. 18 damage? Yeah, he's dead. The first hit you just swing the hammer and wham!

Like smashes him against the wall you just see blood like and then he just slumps to the ground. And can I go for one of the other ones? I think you can reach one but yeah the other one is going to be then like 30 feet away from you. Okay. I'll reach whoever one's closest then.

Sure. 16 plus 13 to hit. That's a hit. You don't have advantage on that one but hit that's a hit you don't have advantage on that one but it's still a hit no 17 damage and a dex save that one's also dead nope he's dead

just like the guards that were outside these guys just collapse when you hit them the hammer kind of swings into him sending him flying like a generic bad guy as he just slumps to the floor. I'll just turn around and look at the third one in the room and smile at him. And then that's me.

You definitely see a little bit of doubt beginning to cross his mind. Nova Vija. Darkness. Imprisoning me. No parents. All I see. I can't so the stairwell I'm on is it a circular one that also goes

up to like the second floor? It's not circular but it does go up it basically is like it goes down it goes up and then it doubles back on itself it goes down doubles back on itself and then goes down I guess kind of planting one hand on the wall can I try and move up goes up and then it doubles back on itself. It goes down, doubles back on itself, and then goes down. Or I guess kind of planting one hand on the wall,

can I try and move up to the second floor? I'd say maybe difficult terrain or you spend five feet of movement to walk around the city like a wall and then you can lead yourself up. I have a ring of free action, which means difficult terrain

is a cost of achievement. It's more just like narratively you're trying to figure out where you were, and then it's not you're being slowed by an external force. Yeah. Okay, so can I try and do that? You spend five feet of movement, and then you've got 25 feet of movement to go up the stairs, which gets you to the top, basically.

Okay, and then what do I see when I'm at the top of the stairs? So when you get to the top of the stairs, once you're outside the sphere of darkness yeah you see this gangway uh with like a little railing that looks down into the room below where it just is this big black blob uh when you look down up on the gangway there are two more um maybe a half elf and i think one might be um probably no these guys would all still be cloud Barons. Would just be human. They're both armed with rifles, but they're decked out in breastplate. They look like tactical

soldiers. And one of them is leaning down and is tracking this kind of glowing figure that they can see in the darkness. And then the other one is now clashing with Moonstar, who's basically trying to pummel him with fists. Can I...

Is it time to break out the spells? Three spell slots. I've only got two. I'm just going to Eldritch Blast. Can I Eldritch Blast? Yeah, I'll Eldritch Blast the one that Moonstar is tangoing with. So that is a 14 plus 10 is 24 to hit. Hits.

13 damage on the first beam. 13. 17. I rolled 17 plus 10 to attack on the second one, so 27 to hit. That's 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 to hit on the second beam. 13 more. Wait, sorry.

No, no, no. I rolled a 27 on the second beam. Oh, sorry. You said 13 to hit, I think, and I heard that bit. 13 more points to damage. Sorry. Yeah, okay. That's fine.

And then I rolled 18, 28 to hit on the third beam. And I rolled five. 10 points of damage on that one. 10 points of damage. All three beams hit into their back as they're struggling to fight Moonstar. The other one now turns their rifle in your direction over and is going to focus on you.

Yeah. Anything else? If not sentry, then collect. Do I have enough movement to duck down a little bit so the stair gives me a little bit of cover? Moving up to get to the top of the stairs, I mean, you won't be able to, like, you could move, like, five feet back

into the room, but this person could just move up, like, right in front of you and shoot down. Like, you can do it, but, like, you're not really going to get any cover if they just move up i'll stay where i am then yeah okay yeah just otherwise they're just gonna move up to where they've seen you duck into and then just be like oh here you are bam bam um sentry hello um so can i can i see like the door like the exit from where I am right now you see Darkness you can't it's just black. It's like the darkest night Does anyone see my outline in darkness or no the I'd say that these guys can't know okay?

Yeah Century is it's you are basically blinded for the purposes of the spell you are blinded you're in pitch black blinded. For the purposes of the spell, you are blinded. You're in pitch black. Okay. I'm gonna cast Aura of Purity. Sort of give me resistance against poison or anyone in the aura around me. I'll have resistance against

blind charm. What's the radius? 30 feet. Is a 30 feet radius out from you on me yeah okay nice so that would basically include um quill lucius um i think ayla and nova are both going to be just a little bit out of reach i'm saying that 25 feet up actually because if it's like a sphere around you i would say nova and moonstar count as well. I think Ayla's just a little bit too beyond

because she's in the next room over. Okay. I'm going to just say to Lucius, I can't see anything. Hold on to my cape or something so I know where you are, and I'll try and keep you protected. Then I'll, yeah, I'll end my turn now. I'll just go where Lucius goes.

You can still move. It's just that, like, you'd have to stumble so you don't quite know, you know, which direction, what is in and things like that. You can, you know, it's not like Aayla where you were stood right in front of the door ready to just move out. And you can tell that you're being attacked

from somewhere above you, but that's about all you can tell. So I'll try and find some cover try and move somewhere yeah you kind of stumble around until you find like a kind of a sofa and like you can kind of like pull yourself right around that as like something is like to orientate yourself but for now um and aura of purity expands out this kind of like wash a feeling of purity expands out. This kind of like wash, a feeling of warmth expands out from you and surrounds your allies. Keeluk? I was thinking about

dispelling the darkness but instead I'm going to dispel the fairy fire. Because the darkness can at least be used against the enemies. The fairy fire is brutal even outside of the darkness. So I want to cast Dispel Magic on that.

No roll. It dispels immediately. You break the magic that is surrounding Lucius and disables the effect around him. Nice. And that is, again, that's my turn. That's a full action to do that. And I will stay outside the door using that as cover of some kind. And you need to be able to see the target Quilek. I dispel a magical effect within range.

Within range. Okay. In that case, yeah, I'll count. That's fine. As long as you don't need to see it, you just kind of sense that there's some magic and you just dispel it and it vanishes away. Yeah, I'll see the outline of all the people in the fairy fire

and darkness and everything anyway, right? The thing is, the way it works is like, you can just faintly see like this outline of all the people in the fairy fire and darkness and everything. The thing is, the way it works is you can just faintly see this outline of Lucius, but because of the darkness, it's also you can't see the outline, but the people outside the darkness can see the outline. It's a weird combination of the spells. Yeah, I'm outside of the darkness anyway. That's right, because you're outside the room, aren't you? Yeah, you're right. There is a wall in the way.

All right, well, we'll say for now, yeah, you're outside the room aren't you there is a wall in the way alright well we'll save for now you dispel the fairy fire and then you duck out but yeah apart from that can't see anything Lucius I will cast armor of agathys on myself at second level which will give me

10 10 php and I'm going to try my best to listen where Nova and Ayla went because it doesn't deafen right it just blinds so I will

walk in that direction blindly well there's two separate directions Nova went one way Ayla went the other way which way would you want to go I will go in the direction of Nova, where there are more gods. You kind of stumble for a moment, and then you feel... Sentry, by the way, you called out to Lucius to stay behind you. You just hear him leave. He just wanders away somewhere.

Sentry, come this way. I think this is the exit. You trip for a second, Lucius, as your feet connect with what feels like stairs, and you kind of have to stumble through the darkness if you want to clamber up those. Yeah, I'll stumble through as much as I can. Okay.

Yeah, so eventually you kind of clamber through these dark stairs, finding your way, feeling along the wall, and eventually your vision breaks, and you are now outside the darkness as you reach the top floor. Nova is just in front of you on this gangway. That's the last thing you see. I'll call out to Sentry. Follow my voice, this way.

And then end my turn. I suppose bonus action. Have I still got it? Barrier ring. Barrier ring barrier ring is happening cool ding dong alright

Ayla this one remaining guard is gonna attempt to shoot at you twice with his little hand crossbow it's like and then he's gonna

make a run for it that is the first one is this might actually hit for a change 21 that'll hit and then the other one doesn't hit Uh, that is... The first one is... This might actually hit for a change. 21. That'll hit.

And then the other one doesn't hit. That's going to be eight points of piercing damage. Uh, you're raging, so half to four. And then eight points of poison damage, um, which does go through. And then he basically, uh, scopes the room, steps into the darkness, and you just hear him sort of like scurrying away. Does he go close enough for me to get a swing?

No, he was on the other side of the room. So when you'd run over to hit his friend, he was on the other side. He shot you twice and then literally nipped around the corner and into the dark room. Cool. Then up on top, Nova, you get two shots from one of these Thunderstone rifles in your

direction, and then the other one's going to try and engage Moonstar. That is going to be a 24 and a 16 to hit you, Nova. First one hits, second one doesn't. Okay, so the first one is going to be

seven plus 11 18 points of damage do you have any poison resistance i don't think you do do yeah centuries aura is my aura oh centuries aura that's true. So that would be 7 plus the half of... God, I've just changed my roll. I'll just change it to whatever this is now. 9 plus 3. So 5, so it would be 12 points of damage total.

So 5 poison, 7 piercing. 12 damage total. Twelve damage total. Twelve damage total. That's already including the resistance. Was it two shots? No, one shot, one shot. Okay. That was one shot.

You've taken twelve damage. Yeah. Done. Yeah. So the kind of shoots forward. And yeah, that's the last thing you hear. The other one tries to tangle with Moonstar and will make two attacks.

First one is a miss. Second one is a miss. They're kind of like struggling with each other, kind of like he's trying to bring his rifle to bear. She keeps dodging out the way as the two shots go wide. And that brings us to the top of round with Ayla. as the two shots go wide. And that brings us to the top of the round with Ayla.

Can I go into the dark? So I'm going to be stumbling a bit to try and find the sound of the stair. I can hear people upstairs. Oh yeah, you can hear people upstairs. I can hear that guy as well, but I can also hear people upstairs. So I guess... stairs so as well you can hear people up there you hear that guy as well but i can also hear people upstairs so i guess can i stumble towards the staircase and see if i can get there i've got um 45 feet movement yeah i'd say that like a little bit of i'd say with a little bit of

slowed movement because you're kind of having to orientate yourself like you kind of stumble into like a chair you're like ah you kind of like clatters around yourself. Like you kind of stumble into like a chair. You're like, ah, and you kind of like, it clatters around the ground, but you're like, okay, the chair's there. I think it's this way. You find a wall, you pat the wall. You manage to eventually make your way to a staircase. I'd say that with all your 45 movement, you basically managed to cross the room,

get up the stairs, and that's where your movement ends. So you're behind Lucius. Like Lucius is in front of you, Nova's in front of him. And then there, that gangway is out beyond Nova. Is anyone within any enemy within my range to hit? No.

Can I pull Lucius behind me? As long as Lucius doesn't mind. Try it, just to give him cover, to give him protection. Watch the shoulders. Very cold. Yeah, you feel like like throw him behind you. Very cold. Yeah, you feel like this icy cold as you shove him backwards. Cool. Alright, anything else, Layla?

Not for this round if I can't attack, unfortunately, but I've taken damage, so my rage will continue. Continue. Nova? I'm going to keep Eldritch Blasting, the one that I was attacking before.

He hasn't moved, has he? He's still where he was. He's not near me. Him and Moonstar are maybe 15 feet down this gangway. The other guy is like 10 feet in front of you. Actually, do you know what? I'm going to switch it up a little bit. I'm going to go up and I'm going to attack him with Tiangong and green flame blade the situation as well.

So I move up. So Tiangong, I haven't attacked with Tiangong for ages. 18 plus 12 is 30 to hit. 30, yeah, that hits. So this one, you'd have to attack the one that was shooting at you, by the way. So the gangway is only like five feet wide. So he's in front of the one fighting Moonstar. So you've moved up to the one that was shooting you.

Swipe him with a sword, it connects. Yep. Um, seven, fourteen points of, uh, Tiangong damage. Um, sorry, I'm just, uh, checking. I prepared to Eldritch Blast

and then I changed my mind last second to go Green Flame Blade, so I'll just get my right dice out it cuts it through half in front of him. Okay, so two times D8. So I rolled an 8 and a 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. So 12 points of fire damage to him. And 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 points to the one fighting Moonstar. Why is it just out of interest?

Why is it 17 to the other guy? Shouldn't it be the same damage? No, it's 2d8 plus 5 to the second target. It's 2d8. Oh, you get the plus 5 to it, do you? Yeah, yeah, to the second target. Oh, you get the plus five to it, do you? Yeah, yeah. To the second target. Oh, okay. So Green Flame Blade says,

on a hit, the target suffers the normal weapon and then fire to the one I'm attacking. So 2d8 fire damage to the one I'm attacking and 2d8 plus five to the second target within five foot. I just didn't know you added ability modifier to it on that second one. That was what was throwing me. Yeah, me um yeah it's not an ability modifier it's just green flame blade i've always done that i've always done that no no no it's i'm just that's

very unusual for a cantrip it was just i was like oh that's really interesting very it can't most cantrips you don't add your ability modifier to so i was like oh cool um yeah so the flame kind of like engulfs the first one and then launches onto the one behind it kind of coating backwards as the flame i've done it to the wrong bloody one um so that was oh no i haven't that's right uh so yeah the flame kind of engulfs both of them as it sprays backwards. Anything else, Nova? That is all I can do. Yeah, that's all I can do right now. Sentry.

Sentry's going to raise a shield, take a big deep breath in and walk towards where Lucius's voice is. Sure. You have the same thing of like, you stumble a bit, you lose a little bit of your movement as you're kind of orientating yourself, you find the stairs, go up those, and then eventually your

head kind of pokes out of the blob of darkness, and you can see Lucius, Aayla, Nova all in this kind of narrow corridor leading out onto the gangway that connects to the room. Okie dokie. So who

can I see currently? Everybody? Can I see the guy fighting Moonstar? You can't see any of those guys. So right now, imagine that you're at the top of the stairwell. I'm under a fog of darkness.

You're at the top of a stairwell. There's a five foot like corridor and then a doorway you've got lucius ayla nova in this corridor and then the the then it splits off to the left and right and whoever nova's fighting is off to the right like behind a wall like yeah there's like a corridor that leads around that way you can't actually see what you can see is lucius Aayla, Nova in a line leading out onto this gangway. Okay, I guess what I'll do is

I'll turn around and just keep the group protected from the rear end, just stand guard in case anybody comes behind. Yeah. Sure. Okay. Great. Keeluk. So the dudes who were pointing rifles over the gangway, are they within, like, 50 feet of me?

Well, the thing is, Quill, if you go back into the rec room, because you were, like, at the door outside, you're in darkness. Yeah. And you can't, looking up, you can't see anything. Okay. Can I just fly right through the darkness? Yeah, if you just fly and just fly up yes eventually you'll basically emerge in the center of this like tall ceiling where there's this second floor

looking down onto the first floor hovering above just like a pit of black beneath you and you can see moon star and the two gunfighters and nova all engaging each other on this gangway okay because my plan is I want to lightning lure someone over the balcony. Yeah, so you could fly up in the middle of the room, lightning lure one of them, and then they should hopefully drop into the floor below. Yeah, so they have to make a strength save.

I will do the one that is, I guess, attacking Moonstar. Okay. DC? 19. Oh, 18. So the lightning kind of wraps around him. Your spear kind of giving you

that last little bit of strength to yank them forwards. Oh, you'll love to see it. 17 to, no, sorry, 18 damage in the lightning lure alone. If the lightning kind of crackles, yanks around him, you see him just launch forward out of Moonstar's grip,

he's going to fall. It's probably about two floors. What's that going to be, like 15, 20 feet? Yeah. Takes another five points of damage as he falls down into the blackness below and then something

lands in the inky black below you and he lands on the guy that's already in the darkness right? maybe, you can't see so you don't know that's ok and then with a bonus action I will do a level 3 healing word on Sentry.

I guess I'm not in range of that. Level three healing word on Sentry. I can see. Chocolate. Yeah, I think if you fly over to where Nova is, you can kind of see behind the queue and you can see Sentry just kind of at the very back. Yikes.

That's going to be like zero healing. You may as well not even mark it down. Don't bother. I'll mark it down. Got a one, a one, and a two on 3d4. That's wisdom. Yes, so it's ten total.

There you go. It's not nothing. It's good. It's not nothing. It ain't not something. It's not nothing. It's good. Yeah. It's not nothing. It ain't not something. It ain't not nothing. It ain't not something. Anything else? Quill. That's my business.

Okay. Quill. Lucius, sorry. Imagine having, like, the literal ability to harness magical energy to stitch up wounds of someone else and be embarrassed about it. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.

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Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. front of you in this little tight corridor that leads out onto the gangway.

And how many people do we see in front fighting? So you've literally got Aayla and Nova in front of you. Then it splits off to the left and right as if there's a wall. You can see Aayla and Nova in front of you. And that's it? Right now. I'm going to push ahead of Nova. Right, okay.

And see what I can see. Left and right. When you merge, when you stand, like, push past Nova, you emerge onto, like, this little narrow gangway that looks down on the room below. There is one gunman pointing a rifle at Nova. And then one of them has just been thrown off into the floor below. Yeah.

Okey-dokey. I mean, would you be able to push past me given that I'm engaging this guy? I ran up and attacked him. Oh, that's true. Actually, you move forward so Lucius would be behind you. So he pushes past Ayla and then is behind Nova and you can see Nova is fighting a guy. I forgot that you'd switch

to Nelly. So there was a guy there. No. Ayla moved forward to engage him Thank you Katie. Thank you. Thank Christ within range of Lucius Lackness Lucius Ayla, enemies are on this corridor. Nova moved to engage one of the guys in melee.

So that little dot moved along. So you can't see anybody directly in front of you until you push past Ayla. That's what I said. I want to move up to the T-junction so I can see who Nova is engaged with. That's not what you said at the start. You didn't. No, you said, why can I not see enemies? Like, when you hadn't moved.

Yeah, when I'm... Anyway, either way. I'm going to move up to where... That's why I wish we had a battle map. I wish that Rolfi had been working today. I move up to where I can see a guard. And what I'm going to do

is cast the classic the thing that Lucius always does Mind Sliver. So what they have to do is Nice one. Intelligent saving throw please. Intelligent saving

throw. That is a 4. 17 to beat. That's 1d6 so I'm 11 I'm level 13 so this is 3d 6 damage okay 6 that's a psychic damage psychic damage yeah So you see this guy kind of react. He winces a slight amount as you conjure this spell, which has nothing to do with your dichromatic powers, but you've conjured it anyway.

You've manifested these powers in some manner. I'm just kind of annoyed I've got it and I haven't used it yet, I'll be honest. Never, I'll subdue him. Mentally. Maybe Nova's taught him how to do it cuz no one knows how to do it as well so maybe she's okay Nova's also picked up this spell that she's never used until now why not why not take it well Quill, learn Mindslipper with us. Yeah, I'll take it. That's what I'm doing.

That's it, just the psychic damage. Mm-hmm. Okay. That's my spell. That's my action and my movement. Okay. All right. In that case, you hear the sounds of...

Yeah, you hear the sounds of somebody running out of the building and shutting the door behind them oh no then there is the sound of somebody taking a shot of the flying bird man who's flying above him who just pulled him off a building i was the only one god damn uh 18 quill to hit is this the one that's in darkness yeah does he have disadvantage no it's almost like they conjure this girl so that because they can see through the magical darkness but you can't but very far is gone yeah but they can see through it uh right yeah maybe because these guys are different to the ones that were in the room earlier

18 and then the second shot is a that's only a 15 to hit oh damn it oh I forgot you took off your big armor you took off your big boy armor because you couldn't fly with it alright but the first shot is 7

11 normal damage, and then 15 poison, so seven, so 18 damage total. Okay, that still sucks, sure. Are you concentrating on any spells? Oh, no, not anymore, no. Okay, nice. The next one is 10 normal damage, and then 11 poison, so more, no. Okay, nice. The next one is 10 normal damage

and then 11 poison, so 15 damage total. Ow. Like duck hunt? Yep. And that's it. That's his turn. Cool. Aayla.

Ah. So someone left and the door closed. You heard the sound of like scurrying out of the room down below and the sound of the door being shut, yes. I was watching the door, sorry. Go chase it. Fuck's sake, okay.

I'm going. I'm going. Keep a hero landing. I'm going. I'm going. Nice. So you leap over the side of the balcony. Do you want to give me an acrobatics

or do you just want to take the damage? Yeah, I'll try it. Do I get advantage on that? Because I'm... No, it's not. It's athletics. I get advantage on that because I'm no it's not it's athletics I get advantage on uh

wait 18 oh yeah you land like I guess you maybe take half damage you take three points of bludgeoning damage

as you leap over the railing and then slammed so yeah half to one because you're raging so yeah slam into the ground

like the table breaking underneath you and you dart in the direction that you think the door is in. Again, you maybe waste a little bit of movement finding your way to it. You pull it open and step out into the light, where you can see the one guy that had run away from you in the training room is booking it to the lift. Like, he's like, and he's, like, just about to reach the lift.

Can I? lift like he's like and he's like just about to reach the lift can i do i have any movement left i'd say you've made like 20 feet of movement but that would still he'd be like 15 feet out of range of a melee strike i'm gonna throw the hammer at him. I thought so. Okay. Um, yeah, just give me the, uh, give me the, the effect. Yep.

Uh, 14 plus 13. He's dead. He's a dead man. I'm not even gonna like the damage is going to be too high. Uh, you just kind of run out. He's like running.

He reaches the levers. He's about to pull it. When you just see this like flying metal thing strike him in the chest and throw him against the back wall and then slumps to the ground as they whoosh back into their hand very Thor-esque as you just like look around

kind of nice ice fresh wind blowing in your face as this guy just slumps to the ground and then I'll just step back as this guy just slumps to the ground. For fuck's sake. Nova. And then I'll just step back in. I guess. Step back in. Well, actually.

Actually, no. He was the last one. The darkness was his. When he dies, the darkness disappears in the room. Ah. Oh, nice. He was the one coming in on the darkness. Okay.

I'll go back in and close the door. Nothing happening here. Just. La, la, la, la, la. Yeah. You go back in and close the door. Nothing happening here. La la la la la. Yeah, you step back in. Perfect. And yeah, we go to Nova. I'll carry on attacking this guy with Tiangong. Just a quick question, because I never questioned it before.

So I have two types of damage because Tiangong is Just a quick question, because I never questioned it before. So I have two types of damage because Tiangong is a martial and a versatile weapon. So I either roll a d10 or a d8. I'm guessing it's a d8 because I've got my shield up. Yeah, if you've got your shield, you can only wield Tiangong in one hand, yes.

Cool. I've been doing that right then. So I will attack with Tiangong and that is a 9 plus 12 uh 21 to hit um i rolled eight and it dies eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen points of uh that damage uh slashing tiangong damage um i will green flame again um and that is another target within range unfortunately there is yeah You get the extra fire damage on this guy, but there's not another target within 5 feet for the kind of splash damage.

But yeah, this guy, the green flame roils over the armor. He kind of reels back. You can see that he's already beginning to worry that this is not going in his favor. Anything else, Nova? If not Sentry, then Kelek. That's all I got. Carry on. All right, Sentry.

So there's a guy who shot at Quill. Now the darkness is gone. Yeah, you're currently on the stairs looking down. Yeah. If you were to go downstairs, you would see this guy pointing his rifle up at Quill. I'm going to go after that guy. Okay, so you're going to chase down

the stairs, shoot forwards and engage this guy in melee. Yes, please. 11 plus 10, 21 to hit. That will hit. Cool, cool, cool. And I will do a, let's see, what Divine Smite am I feeling today? Let's do a level 2 Divine Smite today.

So I'll be 3. 3d8. 14. Plus the original d8. 21. Plus 5. Plus a d4. Good lord.

Oh, 1. God, maths. 21. 5 plus a d4 good lord oh 1 so god maths 21 just like as he's looking up at quill he turns to see like your stomping form and with one just cuts through his neck and he just

slams to the ground heavily injured by all of the combat and being thrown off the balcony. You just finish him off. Unless you don't want to brutally murder him. You could just stab him. What's up to you really? What's with Starbane? Take him out. Okay, nice. Ben,

take him out. I love him. I can see all the way down his neck. Body just popped over. Anything else, Sentry? You still technically have another attack but there's nobody within five feet um um back the body enough enough can i can i maybe try and search him for like yeah yeah you begin like patting the body down um he doesn't have a keystone on him he does have a a Thunderstone Rifle, and you can see a pouch of ammunition, a short sword. He has vials of poison. He has one vial of poison on him as well.

That's about it. Cool. Oh, and like, I don't know, 14 gold. He's got like 14 gold. Oh, and a gold. Yeah, I know. I'll take that. Sure. There's still one

guy left. The one guy fighting Nova is still standing just a bit. Nice. All right. In that case,

I'll fly around the corner and give him a little zappy zap with my shocking grasp. Okay. Oh, wait.

Apparently that doesn't add to my thingy, even though I've got potent spellcasting. Fine. You probably have it as a wizard

spell then. Remember, potent spellcasting is Fine. You probably have it as a wizard spell then. Remember, potent spellcasting is only for your cleric cantrips. Oh. Okay. Well, in that case, I'm going to go around the corner and lightning lure him so he makes a strength save. Can you minus one from that?

Oh. The mind sliver minuses a d4 from his next okay zero team damage 17 and gonna take damage from falling as well oh god I just a century who just decapitated you thought you pull him he goes flying off Wilhelm Scream style and slams down prone next to sentry on the ground. Enjoy.

We should really subdue him so we can ask about the keys. Oh. Could we like anything else? Bonus actions or anything? If not, Lucius. No, I'll just leave it there. Okay, Lucius. Is he still alive? I mean i mean yeah he's alive he's like groaning and like trying to get himself up all right i'll um maybe way down the stairs to him if i can with my movement

uh you would just about be able to yes and. Then I'll ask him, where are the keystones? Where are they? He takes one look at you. I'd rather die than tell anything to you, you nobody fucking son. No, he's just like, yeah, he's just like, he just looks at you like... That could be arranged.

Little pop. It's about something bigger than that what is it about you don't even know what you're dealing with here do you weapons doesn't matter we're not here to kill people we're here to

stop you from killing people that's the point so if you want my challenge with hmm is that you just asking him questions yeah I'm just asking him questions that Yeah, I'm just asking him questions. That's what I'm doing. Okay. He cries to grapple you and put...

Can you make an acrobatics or an athletics check, Lucius? Would a protection work in this instance? It's not an attack roll, but maybe. Okay. So I'll tell you what happens, right? He drops his rifle and goes to grab lucius whilst pulling like a pistol out of his like um holster and he's gonna like it looks like he's gonna try and take lucius a hostage like tries to like grab him and point the the gun at his temple or

something like that um lucius manages to back up his way century if you want to take an opportunity attack at this guy you can can i just like step on his neck just like put my foot on his neck and like try and stop him from moving no no no so like as he goes as he's like pulling himself up from prone to try and grab lucius you just plant a foot on his back and slam into ground sure make an athletics check for me this is basically like a reverse grapple oh athletics 19 19 you just plant your foot on him and he's just like is basically like a reverse grapple. Athletics, 19. 19. You just plant your foot on him and he's just like, and he just

slams into the ground and can't move. He's like struggling to pull himself free. Now, friend, this foe unfortunately had his entire family killed by you, so I'm not in a mood right now to deal with your outburst of anger.

Now, if you wouldn't mind telling us where the keystones are. You're not that one, are you? Yeah, I heard about that. Heard that they got blown to smithereens. One of the boss's little bombs did the job, did it? Yes, I assume so. Moonstar is making her way down the stairs.

Doesn't say anything unfortunately my sister isn't as kind as I am so I'm sorry and I'll just walk away okay Sentry, you're just not letting him get up I'm not going to let him get up I'm going to keep him pinned down yeah, Moonstar moves up to him

just looks like crutches down next to him are you going to tell us anything about this facility? Like I told your little pretty brother, there are some things more important than your own life. Well, that settles that then. She just points her hand at him, a gemstone flares, and she incinerates his skull. She's just like a firebolt

just through his skull. And then she just like kicks the body, dusts her hand like a little gauntlet. Let's search the others. Let's search the others, see if they had this keystone on them. There's one body out on the lift by the way just

dead but definitely you know out there there should probably pull it away just in case it activates so one sees it can I search the body of the captain dude the one that was

yeah searching the more of the captain, dude? The one that was... Yeah. Searching the regular crew yields nothing of particular interest. The two gunmen, the ones with the rifles, like I said, with Sentry, there's a rifle, a vial of poison, about 10 gold on the other one, but nothing else. On the captain, you do find something. He carries a hand crossbow, cutlass kind of sword, leather armor, that sort of thing.

But a kind of square, like miniature tablet with just a single elvish rune for one is engraved on it. And it's just like in like a little leather pocket that he's carrying. Level one. I think I found one. This looks like it's one of these keystones. But we now have access to...

Can I go and get the body and just bring it back? Yeah, sure. And the door downstairs too. When you start pulling the body back, Aayla, as you're pulling it into the building, you do see the lift starts going down. It's on its own. It starts just like...

I'm going to lift the body. I won't drag it. I'm going to be carrying it. Okay. But yeah, I'll tell people. The lift's gone down. Okay. Hide in the...

Maybe close the door. Unless they go underneath that platform outside, they won't see any of the bodies. They're still alive, though. They can let out muffled cries and whatnot. We need to be careful. Well, okay. Where do we want to run away from these guys who are inevitably going to

follow us? We surround the elevator. Only so many can fit in it. Well, the weapon... Nova said that there was someone crafting weapons, so they'd be on that level one clearance door? Why don't we go in

and get them? Okay. There's a level one downstairs. While we have the time, yes. I'm going to take one of these and I'm going to grab one of the Thunderstone rifle, the Thunder rifle from and then the ten gold as well. Fine. Whatever.

There's enough ammunition for another 15 shots of the Thunderstone rifle. It loads five at a time. So it's like you load in five of these shots and then... How was the elevator being lifted? Was it just a chain? It was four, like there was a chain in each

corner, basically. So Nova, while you grab that, you're not proficient with these weapons by the way, so none of you are proficient with Thunderstone weapons. So you don't have proficiency. As Quill can attest. I couldn't shoot a stained glass window.

So what's the plan? Are you going to go through the store downstairs? Well, could we disrupt the lift before it even gets up here? Stop the things from following us? Or could we jam it, maybe? Or like... Drop it? It doesn't seem to be coming back up. we, like, jam it, maybe? Or, like...

Drop it? It doesn't seem to be coming back up. Like, Ayla watched it go down. If you fly out, it's not coming back up. It's just gone down. There's other levels for the lift. It went down further than the place we came in, so it might not even be coming back up here.

I say let's just keep going. Keep moving quick. Yes, before people catch on to what we're doing so let's push this advantage we've given ourselves sure okay let's let's go into this room then and i'll yeah okay so you've fallen over downstairs um in this kind of barracks we'll call it um that you were just fighting these guards in you head downstairs and yeah you see these clear glass doors with uh this plaque uh quill when you pass the the stone the stone square um over one of these round plates you hear the doors like unlock and they open on their own they kind of just like swing inwards um open on their own you the sound by the way um uh of forge, you could barely hear it when the doors were closed.

When they're open, it is like a loud, like, roaring forge. You can hear, like, the sound of something being hammered, like the kind of clinking of chains or, like, of something like that, bellows. There is a short corridor. On the side, there is another one of these doors with these sealed locks. This one says rank, I think it says rank four on it. And that seems to lead into an armory where there are these racks of Thunderstone weapons. You can see like kind of sets of these little metal explosive spheres.

It looks to be like an armory ready to equip a small army. And that is all behind one of these sealed magic doors. The corridor continues, and then it seems to open up into a larger room. If we could... While it's loud, let's go in quietly. Try and muffle our sound, at least. I'll message a ring.

I'll say, if we can destroy this armory, that would go some ways. Just detonating one of those small silver spheres could send off a chain of explosions that could disrupt the whole thing. We just need to get in that door. Yeah.

Let's try and find some schematics first that we can take back and maybe yes give exit yes you guys uh stealthily make your way trying to kind of like keep the sound of this giant forge to muffle your movements and then when you emerge yeah you find yourself standing in a almost like temple-like forge there are these four giant columns in the middle around a great anvil and a big fiery kind of like pit beneath it that seems to surround it. There are chains that have been stretched all along the rest of the room,

kind of connecting the walls to the columns all in different places. And you can see all sorts of different like symbols hanging from them, like these metal engraved symbols. And stood at the forge, almost in a welcoming position, is a human with kind of long gray hair tied back uh kind of gray beard very short like mine kind of grayish face wearing a kind of almost like a priest's robe but this like long coat um with like a high collar um emblazoned on it is like the symbol of a forge like an anvil with a sword laid across it and flames around it and in his hand and he's almost like waiting almost like he's in sermon as if to

give a speech and when you kind of move in and kind of kind of see him his eyes open he looks ah welcome it seems that you've made short work of my followers above. But now the reverend is ready to give his sermon. And he summons into his hand the most elegant golden hand cannon. It's this like magitek pistol, all kind of gold interlaced magic. And it just, in flames, summons into his hand. Welcome

to Reverend Ocelan's Holy Temple. And that's where we'll end today's episode. Holy shit! Oh, God! Cool! It's so cool! Gold hand cannon, man.

Priest. Best handgun ever made. Reverend Os. Best opening line for an NPC ever. Reverend Os. Fucking hell. Reverend Revolver Osalon. Osalon.

I mean... Osalon, yeah, I know, right? What are we going for here? It's weird, isn't it? It's like key cards and a snowy base. us a lot yeah i know right what are we going for here the snowy base how did i not get this last time yeah how did i not did you know everybody coming up kim got it when i just got the elevator coming up and seeing the base kim got it 100 do you know why we didn't enter this space in this year that's why but you came in through a dock where there was like a ship's base

yeah oh my god with that we will end here and we will come back to our little boss fight against Reverend Ocelan amazing intro to a boss fight holy shit so cool greatest handgun ever made Reverend Ocelin. Amazing. Next time. Amazing intro to a boss fight, though. Holy shit. Yeah.

So cool. Greatest handgun ever made.