High Rollers DnD - High Rollers Lightfall: The Descent #7 | Arkhan's Ambush

Episode Date: August 13, 2019

A brand new adventure for our old friends in the Lightfall campaign sending us into the depths of hell in the brand new campaign module Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus! An ambush is planned to take down Arkhan in his own tower! Thanks to Wizards of the Coast and D&D Beyond for making this mini series possible! Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, welcome back to High Rollers for a miniseries set three years after our previous campaign, Lightfall. This series is partnered with Wizards of the Coast and takes place in the brand new campaign module, Baldur's Gate Descent into Avernus to rescue an old friend under the command of Asmodeus. So, let's continue our adventure where we make a plan to ambush Arkhan in his own tower. Hey!

Look at me being all zoomed in. We're ready, we're live, we're back. It's us, it's the High Rollers. We've just played three hours of D&D on our regular game, which is every Sunday. We're a little bit insane today. How does one druid? But we had back, we were at a convention last week, we're back this week with our adventures in Baldur's Gate Descent into Avernus. Playing through some of the content in that with a little bit of a custom twist The party are playing their the characters that they played in their very first campaign here on high rollers Spell cards almost went everywhere. That is pretty funny

The party are playing the characters that they played in Can someone host on Hyrule's Twitch please? I'm doing it. Thank you, Christian. They're level 15 or level 16 now, as we leveled up. Woo! The big boys. Oh yeah.

And they are currently on in Avernus. The first layer of the Hells. Literally the best place on planet Earth. They have travelled to Avernus in order to seek out the soul contract of their friend Trelamar Aleth, a drow warlock who sold his soul to Asmodeus to help them protect their home city back in their

own world of Arak, our homebrew world. They have since travelled to the Forgotten Realms and into Avernus, and here they have been beleaguered and plagued by demons and devils, all trying to make deals or trying to kill them. And they have allied themselves with an Eronis called Khaleesa, who has promised, who has made a deal with them that she will help them find what they need,

which is a ledger of soul contracts and a celestial creature called a holophant, in exchange for them helping her with a task. To elevate her in the eyes of Asmodeus and to prevent the release of Tiamat from her infernal prison, the party have helped, have agreed to kill Arkhan the Cruel. Or see him

sent away from this plane. I think kill's easier. I think it will be. Okay. They have journeyed to Arkhan's Tower deep in the wastes using Khalees' magic to travel across Avernus in the blink of an eye. And there they have engaged in a wearying and long battle against Arkhan's Tower. They assaulted it in a siege.

They fought off an army of skeletons. They fought off four young dragons and a Wyrmling, and then eventually when confronted with Krull, the Tortle Priest of Tiamat, Cam Buckland, Trickster Domain Cleric, pulled out the most clutch modify memory spell

in the history of Dungeons & Dragons. Convincing Krull that his master, Arkhan, has turned on him, has sent him away and has betrayed him in favour of the hand of Vecna. They have gained his assistance. He has let

them rest in Arkhan's tower. Khaleesa and Alzra the Voidwalker have decimated Arkhan's wormlings and dragon eggs having just waded through it stomping and smushing whilst everyone else

took a long rest. But also the Irenese Khaleesa has been whispering to Juto reminding her that perhaps her enemies of her mortal life still remain here in Avernus. And that is where we pick up with the knowledge that

Arkhan is not in his tower. He is in fact at a place called the Monument of Tiamat. He's not here. A great mountain. In another tower. And that is where we begin the session. You finish your long rest in this dark tower. There are beds designed

for Arkhan's followers that you alleviate yourselves to. And you find yourself awoken in this black iron tower in the middle of a blasted wasteland. I slept so well. I didn't sleep very well. I don't think it's a very good place to be sleeping. No.

Just stay on edge. Stay on edge. I think everybody except Alzra, your sleep is quite fitful and beleaguered by nightmares and uncomfortable feeling that you're being watched

or that you're slowly burning away that keeps you from restful sleep Alzra is just normal Alzra's fine just pick and drag

and go off my feet Cam was throughout the night trying to lie and use an empty wine bottle as a pillow. But it kept slipping. And he dragged it back in, sucked his thumb, and started sobbing. Because he's in hell. Yeah, and also, you've had wine, but the alcohol has been limited.

And anything you have eaten and drunk has tasted pretty bad. It's tasted ashy and bitter. Yeah. Now. Okay. Can we go home? And I believe you were still deciding on a plan of what you want to do. Whether you want to try and lure Arkhan here

or whether you wanted to try and go to the monument. Kroll has informed you that the monument I mean there are forces at the monument Arkhan has a camp there of about 12 Abishai which are draconic fiendish creatures but also the monument itself

is full of dragons that abide in the mountains just past the monument that can easily be summoned to Arkhan's aid. Right. So, well, what's the plan? We either

go there and fight everything ever, or we find some way... I thought we just did that. Yeah, we... Wiser more. No, it was just a little piece of everything ever that we fought just then. But this time, we can hope that he might answer some sort of summon to bring him here. But I don't know what we can do to bring him here alone, ideally. Or at least without his force of everything ever.

Well, he's going to have a Minotaur with him. And a Manticore. For sure. And an Abishai, I believe? The Abishai are his camp. He has twelve white abishai that protect his camp by the monument.

I don't know if he'll bring them. He might. But there's definitely a manticore and there's definitely a manticore. I think they're pretty capable. The manticore is my master's companion, Jango. Oh, okay.

He's named it. Well, what would you suggest? We could bring him here somehow? How would we do that? I feel that my knowledge of my master is now limited. I did not consider that he would once betray me and our goddess, but my memory cannot be faulted. By my own eyes and mind I witnessed him turn his back on us,

send me away, though I have been nothing but loyal. It can only be that the hand has fully corrupted his mind, and that means that he could be changed, for all I know. He might not care about his tower. His, uh, I've got a headache. Alright.

I do not care for your headaches, mortal man. We may be allies, but you must deal with these minor inconveniences. Minor? This really hurts. We are allies against my former master. Yeah. Cool.

Have you got anything for a headache in this tower? Medicine cabinet? Water? There is some water here. Is it purified? Is it... He dispatches one of his ghouls to go and fetch you some water. You see this horrid undead like... Just don't make him touch it.

Well how else is he gonna get it to you? Just don't put your undead fingers in it. You call out as the ghoul scampers off deeper into the tower. Well how do we lure him back here though? Yeah, now we've got that, don't we? How do we get in contact? Is he not returning here after his duties at the monument? We don't know how long that will be. I do not know. He goes to the monument to converse with Tiamat, at least once we did,

but perhaps now he is trying to subvert it. Perhaps he is desperately trying to reconnect with how Goddess with the Hand may be controlling him to some other purpose. Could you call him here? Send him a message? Yes, I believe I can try, yes. But I... I do not know what to tell him.

Should I tell him that forces have invaded? Yes. Something immediate. Then he'll come that forces have invaded? Yes. Something immediate. Then he'll come prepared for a fight. Yeah. Maybe plead for your loyalty again. Maybe there's a part of him that's still

pure, uncorrupted. I can try. I'm not sure if that will bring him back to the tower. The only thing that would normally bring the master back to the tower is if it was significantly threatened, or if there was something of significant power he needed here

that could not be brought to him. He would expect... He left me before he exiled me. He told me to stay here, and that if anyone came with something that he could use, I was to take them to the monument. So to lure him back here would require

something that I could not bring him. I start cracking up and I say, sorry, I need a minute. I walk to the other side. He's just audibly laughing. You see him just squinting his eyes watching him. I think he might still be drunk. You can see Kroll is like

Furious Cam's Cam's attitude is infuriating Him but he also Has these memories of like This is the person that came to him In his darkest moment And he's conflicted

He doesn't know what to make of it What about What about if we moment and he's conflicted. He doesn't know what to make of it all. What about if we... Is there any ground that would be more neutral for both parties? Us and him. Something that isn't his tower or his monument.

What about the ironclad? We're not really also very likely there. I would not recommend we return there given how you left. Khaleesa looks around. If I were Arkhan, it would be... If I know that my place of strength is at the monument, or here at the tower,

why would I leave to go somewhere else? I would need to be significantly convinced. I would not simply go there because somebody asked. Is there a way we could lure him back here and then perhaps destroy the tower so it falls on him? It's not bad. It would be

considerable amount of engineering skill to get the tower to fall directly onto him. It would, but... My master could survive such a feat. We'll need to fight him with more than just that. He has the ability the hand gives him powers of teleportation and such as well. So he could just spring up at any moment here. He could.

That's encouraging. That's really great to know. It sounds as though we need to separate him from his hand as soon as possible. Yes, yes. We must do that at least. Perhaps if he is free of the hand's influence, he will come to his senses and learn that he has been tricked by the

spirit within it. Mmm. I'm going to walk back, drawing my eyes. Are you done? Are you done? I just wasted so much water in my face. I'm talking to a turtle.

Sorry? I'm saying it's under my breath. Have you not seen a turtle? The turtle is like, his shell is spiked, carved with demonic infernal runes. He wields a great war hammer made from two flaming skulls. Oh boy. His flesh is turned pale and withered

from necrotic energy. He's a scary looking turtle. He's a turtle. He's a scary fucking turtle. Yeah. As turtles go. As turtles go. Scary one. I haven't seen one with war hammers before.

And I've seen a lot of turtles. Does he have the flat paws? Feet? With tiny nails? He looks like this. He does have big flat feet. He's got hands. He's got hands.

I want the flat padded feet. No. No. No. I'm not going. What's the relevance that's just how Cam was thinking

okay good just a bit of RP I'm just RPing here I'm just RPing just enjoy it bro I mean Arcan loves obviously he uses

the hand a lot right what if we said we had news about the hand or like you know if we told him something about

we've discovered the secrets it's on the wrong it's on the wrong he's using it on the wrong hand what a fool he's been using it wrong the whole time what if we come back immediately unearthed an artifact yeah yes that could be more powerful than the hand um come back and have a look at it. And they'll wham! It sounds like easy trap stuff. He's not going to fall for that. We've got even bigger stuff that come over here. True. Bear trap.

Bear trap. Doesn't really work. Could we just say that his dragons are unruly? Or dead. Or they're dead. They're pissing up the tower. Well, if they're dead, then he'll come back with a force. And angry.

He will return angry. They're very sick. They're very sleepy. The dragons are sleepy. Please come home. Please come home. The dragons need their warm milk and a boo-boo. My dear Alzera, I don't think that that's going to work.

Khaleesa kind of flickers her tail suggestively. Can we have a discussion away from Mr. Tuttle? Am I not part of this alliance? Absolutely. Then surely my presence must be... I must be here to discuss our plans. All right. He knows him best out of all of us.

I still think... Khaleesa telepathically is like, if there's something you need me to tell the others... Yeah, okay, sweet. Thank God, this is all in my head. Thank Evandra. Can you... Can we just go find Arkhan ourselves

without Mr. Turtle and say that we've got him captive? We could do. Because obviously Arkhan still considers him a right-hand man. True. Obviously that would mean he would be coming guns-free. If I know where he is, I can try and teleport there and inform him,

and then bring him back. Can we just do that? Instead of trying to whirl our way around this guy having a different memory? So this is all like, she's the middleman telepathically. She's like, yeah. Relaying the message. Like, Cam says this, Cam says this, Cam says this, Cam cancer says this Raynaud says this bubble But I guess there's no way to do it without Imposing some kind of threat to get him back. I just don't want him to turn up with an army of dragons again

You know we are in a tower even if he can teleport he cannot bring all of his Abishai with him We are in a tower. Even if he can teleport, he cannot bring all of his Abishai with him. At best, he can bring a couple of companions. We could threaten him and say that if you do not come alone, then he will die. That is true. Depends on how deep their loyalties lie. This Arkhan, he was a servant of Tiamat,

but the tortle does seem particularly beholden and loyal to him, and I wonder what he has done to earn that loyalty. Perhaps Arkhan feels the same. It's worth a shot, at least. I'm quite surprised, Mr. Buckland. Quite a little... Hmm. A bit of a malicious tactic, I quite approve. I mean, he's a bad guy, right?

Of course, yes. I'll probably use that against him. The ends justify the means. He's cruel. It's in the name. It is in the name. Yeah. Let's bring him down at Peggle Tears.

Very well. I can try and seek him out. Mr. Krull, whereabouts is this monument? If you tell me, I can perhaps find it. I can teleport there. It is north of here, along the plains, near the prison of Tiamat herself. You'll see it. There's a hill overlooking the pit

and a large camp there. But without my assistance, you will be attacked on sight by the Abishai. Oh, you don't need to worry about that. I'm sure I can deal with them. I'm only delivering a message after all, and then I'll return. Okay.

Out of interest, lady. Khaleesa. Khaleesa, I keep getting sobering up. It hurts. What do you want from all this? I want to kill Arkhan. He poses a threat to Asmodeus, my true master. And if I am the one who helps prevent his plans, it looks good on me.

Then there's just a hand of Echner just lying around. Well, I've already told you, if you help us recover that, we will provide you with a bonus. My Asmodeus has no need of the hand. What he doesn't want is for mortals like this Arkhan to get a hold of it. As you can see, it just gives them more power. Asmodeus isn't interested in collecting powerful relics and things like that. He has all the power he needs. But if he deprives other mortals of such power, it means he has

more of a bargaining chip. Why would somebody like Arkhan wish to make deals with Asmodeus? If he already has something like the Hand. Well, I feel like this is as good a plan as any. Yeah. Capable. So how are we to expect him to arrive? In the tower itself? Assume he's going to teleport behind you right now. He normally, if he believes me under threat... Oh no, you've not told him that. That's the plan.

My master would likely simply return here. He would teleport either into his chambers or into the main chamber here, where we stand. Okay. Yes? I'm just very wary all of a sudden. That we're standing in a room

that he could teleport right into? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've been on edge this whole time. Lady Dearwin. Ah, what's your name again? Kalisa. I know that you know it. You just like playing the fool.

Or perhaps you are one. I've not quite decided yet. Oh, I'm a fool. I'm in hell. I'm an idiot. Why am I here? It's stupid. It's a good question. I don't really care. Telepathically, she says to Karen, would you like to leave? Yeah, I could banish myself, thanks.

Interesting. Why? You got any other options? No, no. I'm just interested what you wish to return to. It doesn't seem like you have much. Well, it's all about perspective, isn't it? I'm interested to know. I'm not a mortal.

I don't understand the perspective, so enlighten me. Nope. All right. Fine. Not telling a demon my family. Devil, please. I say that. Not telling a demon I have a family. Oh, okay. She still says devil, please. I say that. Not telling a demon I have a family.

Oh, okay. She still says devil, please. She says devil, not demon. I keep mixing up my Ds. Anyway... Does not surprise me. So, if you have a plan...

So we need to set a trap, surely? Yes. Don't tell him how many of us there are. Or that there's even people here. So I'm to set a trap, surely. Yes. Don't tell him how many of us there are and that, you know... Or that there's even people here. So I'm to tell him that his companion has been kidnapped by nothing? Just been kidnapped. And is being held at his own tower.

Yes. Alright. That's how powerful we are. Wait. We don't want to say that we're very powerful. But we did get through the tower and kill all the dragons to get him. Less is more. Yeah. It's got to be believable as well.

Just the bare minimum? I will do my best. Do you have some sort of... You've been captured by the bare minimum. No, I'm just saying that she can tell him the bare minimum. I will tell him the bare minimum. Tell him that his corporate level is green. It's pretty green right now.

Captured, but still green. Yeah. I feel like we need to provide evidence for it to be enough for him to come here, right? So can any of us provide a scry to him or some sort of image? He would need to cast it himself, I believe. We could always chop off a part of the turtle and send it back with me um i suspect something is up by the way we do current we do current and she she sends this to all of you we do have the turtle outnumbered if he does realize

what's happened he will become an enemy we should deal with him now while we have the advantage if we kill him we lose our bargaining chip. Narcan doesn't know that. Could we lock him somewhere? If he tries to scry and it fails, can he even scry? Probably. He's got the hand of Beckner. That's true. Could we lock Kroll somewhere up in this tower? Potentially. I'm sure we can.

But he knows its secrets better than us. He's clearly some sort of powerful necromancer. What if we... I just simply think it's easier to deal with potential threats rather than risk them coming back to harm us. If we kill him, that's enough of him to come here and face us. How secure is this spell that you've placed on him? It's modified his memory permanently.

Until there's conflict in his memory, in which case he could believe the new truth. Or if Arkhan simply says that he is still allies, he may become conflicted. We know that his loyalties run this deep. All I will tell you is this. If we begin fighting Arkhan with this tortle in his presence, I suspect the tortle will fight against us.

We need to deal with something. Just kill him now. It's so easy. She's doing the thing, though, that she does when she tries to convince us to do the bad thing. This is just simply a good tactic, my dear. All we need to do... I understand that you have your sensibilities. Your little...

All you need to do... Just walk up to the toll, turn into a rock elemental. He dies inside you. It's easy. It's not how it works. It's really not how it works. I mean, that's how it should work. What if we just provide him with a claw from one of the most elder dragons that were living here?

What about all of them? How very boring. They're already dead. Or an artifact from his bedroom. Should we... I do agree that we do need to deal with the tall, because as soon as they find out, he's going to be fighting both. Yeah. She wants us to do that, but...

He also could be a powerful ally. No, he won't. I think the moment Arkhan arrives, the memory's going to be conflicted. Yeah. Arkhan's going to be like, She's smiling at you, funny! No, she's not smiling. She is poker face.

The dungeon master is smiling. There is a difference. That's enough, Amel. Come on, let's. The dungeon master is smiling. There is a difference. That's enough, Amel. Come on, let's kill him. He's tall. Doesn't even have the flat feet. Far too eager. What?

You seem far too eager. Usually when you're really eager to do something, it's probably a bad idea to do it. It's to worry about. What is to worry about? You said bargaining chip. Two hands. But then we could just cut off an arm.

And now. Four more skeleton hands. Yeah, but then we could just cut off an arm. And now? Four more skeleton hands. Here's Juta. Bring that behind me. Juta. Why are you raising your hands? We're voting. What on?

I've not heard a vote. Who's the best looking? I'm against. Oh, my God. I'm against not Cam being the best looking. What do you think, Elora? I think he's hideous. Well, that's two against two

who's the best looking whatever secret whatever secret communication you are partaking in this does not strike me as something allies are doing what are you planning who do you think is the best looking? You're from the city. I'm not here to play games, human. Just a little game.

Just a little fun. Fun, light-hearted moment. Please don't flood. That's a lot of rain. It's a lot of rain. We'll be fine. If we suddenly cut off D&D, it's because our office and studio are flooded. Again.

Okay. Surrounded by electrics. Juto. Enough nonsense. Oh, God. You said my name? Yes or no? Until it starts coming through the ceiling, don't worry about it.

Yeah. I am undecided. I think both options are terrible. Gotta do one of them. Cam or Reynard? Who's prettier? Whatever your... You may discuss this as much as you wish.

I am going to go prepare myself. I suggest you all do the same. Make sure you are ready for this battle. As as Boim pointed out, Arkhan could return at any moment. I'm going to go prepare myself. I suggest you all do the same. Make sure you are ready for this battle. As I pointed out, Arkhan could return at any moment. I'm telepathically to... Khaleesa, yeah. Khaleesa to say, we need to deal with him before the prepared spells,

because he's going to prepare himself for fine. We need to... Perhaps you and... You and Azra seem to be the only ones willing to do the necessary actions. Azra, let's do it. Let do the necessary action. Let's do it Let's do it Alright, lead him away from the others Can I roll to this is telepathically you can't roll shit. Oh

It's good idea I'm gonna stretch my legs and prepare myself. Yeah, my arms just need a little. Can you lead us somewhere? Can I not see this? Can we make an insight check to do, like, just an intelligence, like, because we know that Cam's... He's acting shady. Cam's acting weird. That's what you... Okay, yeah, make an insight check for me.

The two people that voted for him are now suddenly like, ooh, come over here, ooh. Ooh, here's my sword. Guess what? No matter what you rolled, yes, obviously Alzra and Cam are acting weird. You don't know what their internal thinking is.

I'm always weird. Are you going with them? No. Well, I mean, yes. I mean, we... Juto? Right, so I'm going to snap his neck. I'm just going to break his arm.

Are you saying this out loud? Well, like, way behind him. Like, whispering. Okay. And then he gets a natural 20 and he hears everything! You see him, uh, Kroll the Tortle begins, like, wandering off to... You can see he has, like, work stations around, like,

the tower and he begins just going over there and pouring over, like, scrolls, gathering potions, that sort of thing. Your blade. He's got to be under 100 HP though, so you kind of... I don't know what that means. You see Elzrin and Cam whispering

to each other, yeah. Kroll, is there anything in this tower we can use against our Cam? Nothing that would be of particular use. Most of it is equipment for the skeletal hordes, food for the dragons, torture devices, laboratories for my experimentation.

No, not really. I have a few potions for myself, but not much else, I'm afraid. My master carries everything else he needs upon him. I'm going to go back to these guys very quietly. Are you in? What if we simply deafen him so he cannot hear Arkhan? Can we do that?

I can blind and deafen him. I feel like he's probably going to be able to. His body language is going to be enough, right? He can probably do that. He's powerful. Yeah. He's a powerful dude. Powerful little turtle. I can't have this variable. It's a powerful dude. Powerful little turtle.

We can't have this variable. He's a big turtle. We can't have this variable that can go one of two ways. We can deal with the Arkhan ourselves. I can try and turn him into a little turtle. A little cute one. Polymorph and then we fuck him up. Then he just becomes a big angry turtle again.

How long does Polymorph last for? We just stamp on his head. Not very long. I thought it was Polymorph. Up to an hour. We hurt the Polymorph. Someone hurts him. He just becomes a big angry turtle again. How long does Polymorph last for? Not very long. I've fought through Polymorph.

Up to an hour. We hurt the Polymorph. Someone hurts me. Or the turtle. We could box him up, but he could just dispel it. And then boom, we've got an angry turtle. Could you banish him? He's from this dimension.

No, Kroll isn't. He's from the Matera plane. He's a humanoid. He's a humanoid He's a mortal creature So he would go back to his home plane Which would be the Forgotten Realms Well, permanently Yeah Banish that boy

Did you cast Banishment? At level I mean, now we don't have anything I'm going to take an arm first No No Send an arm Oh, that's a good point

We're going to send Banish everything but his left toe Yeah, just No. No? Send it on. Oh, that's a good point. We're going to send him. Banish everything but his left toe. Yeah, just keep a toe or something. You can't do that. You have to banish the whole creature. And we'll banish him. Keep a toe. All right.

Just slice off the toe and then banish him. I'm going to banish. Saving throw DC. And what type of saving throw? Charisma. 18. Charisma. Charisma of 18. I feel like he's got good charisma, he's a tough one. He doesn't, oh, but I rolled high.

Ah! That is a total of a 20. No! 16 plus 4. Does he have any idea? Yeah, he would. He hears, by the power of Evandra, banish thee! Because spells have spoken components. And you're not yelling it, I'm not. He hears, by the power of the Vondra, banish thee!

Because spells have spoken components. And he turns around and feels it. He's like, what? Roll initiative. Oh, wow. We need a piece of him anyway. We suck. Oh, wow.

That's nice. By the power. I banish thee. All right. Oh, he's got four ghouls Boy howdy am I glad I get to look those up Where's D&D Beyond Aren't they fetching water Four ghouls are always with him

They're fetching water they're not fucking far away They drop the water as an action D&D Beyond Where is D&D Beyond Can I I'm going to use my turn to do something I mean yeah you absolutely can

Keep doing it How many Do you have your bone bros Oh yeah Right Elora Initiative Reynard Juto Cam Azra Right, Elora initiative. Four. Reynard. 18. Juto. 10.

Cam. Eight. Azra. Alzra. 20. 20? Yep. I don't need to roll for Arcane yet.

What? What? What? What? What? What? You what, mate? He's got a pirate link.

He will. And he steals everything. No. He's currently scrying through. He will. And he stings everything through the turtle's eyes. He's currently scrying through. Bollocks. Where? You guys are just like,

the conspiracy theories of my faith. What if Arkhan is the turtle? He's polymorphed! Okay. So, the first person to go is Alistair. Hello, hello. So you watch as Cam casts this spell. The turtle kind of shudders for a moment,

looks back, and you just watch his eyes. Betrayal! Betrayed by our cannon, now by you! Bring it on. You want all of the power to yourself! I'm going to cast Blight at level 4 on him, please. Okay. Wow, just open up with a Blight.

Sure. I've got loads of them. Saving throw is constitution, I believe. Con 17, saving throw. That is a total of 7. Takes 4 damage. Nice. So that is... That is...

8d8. The way you did that intro and the music came in, it made you sound like the start of a boss fight. Betrayal! 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, Start of a boss fight. Betrayal! Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da Nice one. Just open up. You just watch as his already pale withered skin sinks down. It turns black as he's wracked with pain. Ah, my goddess. I will seek vengeance.

You're all in the main tower. I'm not going to draw a map or anything, but you're pretty much all within about 30 feet of him, and he was like you know 30 feet away doing something at the end the ghoul gang is within range to attack as well but they're just little it's okay just hit the bone bros on the ghoul gang uh i love that reynard bone bros can they have a dance off his uh ghoul gang are they all within are they all within like 10 feet of each other yeah cool i'd like to do volley sure i take a shot at every single one of them sure go for it can i sharpshoot that as well

is it just you take a shot at all of them um is it just you make a range attack because if so then yes volley volley volley volley volley volley multi-attack volley you can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet. I'm going to sharpshooter every single damn one of them. Okay, so minus 5 for the attack roll. That is... Tom, I'm going to tell you now that their AC is 12. Alright, one gall hit. Natural 1.

It still might hit. Plus 14, so 15 minus 5. 10, so it's a miss. That's a miss. Second one, that hits. No. This one also hits. So three hit the goal. Three of them.

Bros. And now Turtle himself. 14 plus 14 minus 5. 23. Okay, yeah, that hits. 23 is the total, yep. Okay. Just roll one damage for all of them.

Oh, and my 7 Plus 7 14 Plus 10 24 24 points of damage All but one of the ghouls Okay all but one

So all Three of the ghouls die You just blow open Their brains Like And then Kroll takes What's it 24

Yes You see him just like... The bolt impact, but he pierced through his toughened shell, and you just hear him like... Like thrashing around in desperate pain. Damn. Also, I 100% mark him. Should have done that before.

Whatever. Yeah. After your go, it's Khaleesa's go, and she just... She's like... Just pulls her bow out And then just starts Like firing rapidly But she's just like, die you little pest Die!

Love it, she's living her best life Natural one though But her second attack doesn't hit Bounces off her arm, her third attack does hit No, she's still like Whenever you try and do something cool like that then then roll the dice you fuck it up well she still says it and one of them does hit uh so this is d8 she's laughing less at her own shots and more three d8 poison That's what I do. Blight, blight, blight, blight, blight. Blight, blight, blight. Blight, boys.

Put all those d8s. Yeah. Are you going to blight as well? Blight. I'm way down the initiative. I don't know. If you combine two blights, you create a blight hole. Double blight.

15 points from Khaleesa. Blight hole. Oh. From one shot as the thick Icarus poison on her arrows seeps into his wounds. You just see him just struggling. He's shaking violently through pain. Oh, amazing. We just beat up an old man.

Easy. The last remaining ghoul just tears forward towards Reynard like... Natural one plus four to hit, five just a back, no you're just like dodging out the way this creature's slow and clumsy, prevents everything you thought oh wait, he's not large is he? oh sorry, and then Kroll actually should have gone before the ghouls

he's not a large creature is he? so Kroll this is amazing what's Kroll... This is amazing. What's Kroll going to do? Kroll retreats into his shell. Like, he just goes like... Yep, he goes into his shell, which increases his AC,

and then he is going to cast some spells. He's just going to roll away. Yeah. No, he doesn't roll away. I might modify his memory again. None of this happens. His arms and his head retreat into his shell, and he just runs off. I just poke my guantanamo.

How much does that increase his AT by? You don't know. Why would he tell you that? I'll tell you once you kill him. How about that? Sure. Once. That seems certain, Mark. Yeah, it's pretty certain. If. If it's good.

If it's good. If it's good. Are you looking at spell? Yeah. Yes. You watch as he retreats into his shell and then in a 15 diameter around his little shell, these kind of spiritual dragons begin flying around. Just kind of

swarming around. And he just hides in his shell. that's his turn. Nice. Juto. Nerts, I was gonna just straight up attack him, but I feel like these dragons are gonna- Yeah, come, come, come attack him. Not me.

No, come attack him. I feel like movement speed might be halved in that area, too. There's not a great deal else I can do, so screw it, this could go wrong, but I'm gonna attack him. Technically, he casts a spell, and then he goes in his shell Right

Chill, chill Cool, so I'll move up to attack him Okay, so you move up to attack him Can you make a wisdom saving throw? 17 17 is a pass, but you take half damage and this is a wisdom saving throw so you do take half damage if Asian doesn't work eight these songs 32 halfed is 16 You take 16 necrotic damage.

Oh. Your speed is halved in the area, but then you can make your attacks as normal. Okay. Ice him. 12 plus 12 is 24. Hits. Oh, yep, still hits.

Even through his shell, you just pierce through his little shell. Oh. That's 11 regular damage, six ice damage, and four farts. hits even through his shell you just pierce through his little shell 11 regular damage six ice damage and four parts I add it all up in one thing funny one okay so you just stand through his shell with chain break you see parts of the shell splinter in Khalees was just like, yes! Do it, E-Fling! Do it! Can I stunning strike him as well, please? He has advantage on constitution saving throws in his shell.

For a total of con saving throw, 20. Okay, nope. I'll attack again. Okay. Literally killing a portal in his shell. 13 plus 12 is 25? Still hits. Oh, Kroll. Your shell

wasn't going to help you. The other idea I had probably would have prevented this, but oh well. Thirteen. Thirteen damage. Was he just going to shield a face? And with that, Kroll is no more. Oh, I think we're good. Oh, we're bad people.

Oh, sorry, there is a ghoul left. There is a ghoul. Well, who's go is it after that? Cam Buckland. I've still got two attacks. Do you want, there is a ghoul left. Well, who's going after that? Cam Buckland. I've still got two attacks. Do you want to kill the ghoul? Yeah. You kill the ghoul.

You just go up and just butcher this turtle in his shell. And his last thing, just before, his head kind of pops out. He's like, take my curse then and my traitorous master. You just finish him off. I wish I got in there. You just chopped him up inside his little shell. That's amazing. Are you happy, Cam? Well, I was just going to banish him.

It didn't work, did it? No, I mean, you guys didn't have to do that. No, but he was going to kill us all. I was just getting ready to help. Oh, you were just going to cast the spell again, I imagine? No. I mean, you guys didn't have to do that. No, but he was going to kill us all. I was just getting ready to help. You were just going to cast the spell again, I imagine. Yes. Yes, of course. And none of you had to do that butchering part.

He was attacking us. You just see Khaleesa looking at Reynard and Alzera like... Just so you know. I mean... I personally thought that your display of necromantic ability was very impressive. Oh, thank you. It was good to, you know, use a lot of it. You let it out. You need to let it out.

Yeah, exactly. You just let it out sometimes. I expected Alzera to do it, but Raynard... He was going to attack us! That was the plan! He was a bad person! A bad person! I mean, it looked like he went into his little shell, and then he cast a spell to defend himself. I didn't do the final blow! I didn't do that. I didn't kill the crocodile... I mean, it looked like he went into his little shell and then he cast a spell to defend himself. I didn't do the final blow.

I didn't do that. I didn't kill the crocodile. I mean, turtle. She wanted this. I didn't want anything. No, she's trying to turn to turtle. I do think that this is more tactically advantageous to us. She's trying to provoke everyone.

We now have a piece of evidence. Well, now I just go and tell him that his friend's dead in his tower. Brilliant. Now he sends an army. Well, no. If the turtle's already dead and you've left Then why would he bring his army? He'll just come to collect the body, right? Would he?

I don't know, maybe We're going to find out I hate all of you He may try to resurrect his friend I could do that Do you want me to do that? No Cut his head off

He was an evil I could do that Tall Can I do it? Can I it can i do what you want to animate dead he's a corpse he'd be zombie crawl yeah he wouldn't gain any of his spell casting he'd literally just be the same stats as a skeleton basically what if arkhan doesn't know that we've killed him and i reanimate him and then he's like oh normal and then based on your skeletons he'll know.

It'll be obvious. Yeah, they can't speak as a zombie. He'd literally be like... But he would be walking around. You could make him, like, stand in the corner. Yeah. He'd just have, like, wounds,

but he'd just be like... Everything's fine, Arkan. I'm going to see it. Arkan turns up, cast a spell. Carl! Carl! Carl! Kroll! Kroll!

So you're going to lure Arkhan here by telling him that Kroll is dead, but when he gets here, Kroll is alive in the corner. It's Kroll in the corner. Why don't we just... Kroll in the corner. We've made a series of bad mistakes. We just tell him we've killed all of his dragons and Krull.

Why not? Let him bring his entire army. He's going to anyway. I would have thought at least killing this creature would have ended this discussion. I'm going to search him for potions. I've had enough of these people. Yeah, you find...

So, first of all you his his big skull maul is magical so if you want a nice plus one maul who wants this

someone take it I love the idea I'm sick of these discussions why haven't we come up with a decision I'm looting the body yes

you guys have discussions you guys carry on with the discussion I'm gonna level up uh five potions of healing thank you five and two body. Yes, because I'm carrying with the discussion. I'm going to level up. Five potions of healing. Thank you. And two odd coins.

Oh! And when you pick them up, Juto, as soon as you touch one, a coldness spreads through your fingers and you can feel a living soul bound to this coin wailing in sorrow you almost can feel the tears and hear the cries in your ears as you hold it when you pick up the

second one it's burning hot and you feel rage and they're so heavy even though they're little coins as you you hold them but it's not physical weight it's like a weight on your soul you are i would say you're a neutral but would you say juto is more good nowadays i would probably say yeah with all her diplomacy if you were to hold any more than these two coins you're not sure what that would do to you. Like, it's agonizing, like, on your heart to hold these coins. Like, you feel it almost tightening around you, like your own sorrow, your own rage bound around you. Is it almost, like, triggering, like, the screams and stuff,

like, from back when, like, maybe I was a slave? Yes. Very much so. Very much so. Oh. And you can tell that it's not like this is, is like a magical effect to make the coins feel like this. You instinctively know that these are two tortured souls bound into a coin. These are living souls of a creature that lived and breathed and had dreams and hopes and plans.

And now it is nothing but torture and pain and rage bound into a coin. I'm going to turn to Khaleesa immediately. How do you release them? You can't. How do you release them? You can't. They were evil beings that came to Avernus. Their souls were pressed into the coins.

That is what we use for power, what we use for currency, what is traded amongst the devils. And they are definitely evil, they are not innocents. Then they would not be here if they were not. But an evil soul, I mean, how do you define it? They killed, probably. Perhaps they were murderers or worse. Perhaps they were just selfish, greedy, foolish. I don't know. But I don't really care.

Whatever they did, they're here now. They're not in the celestial heavens. They are not good people, as you would define them. They are not even ambivalent people. They were wicked souls. If they were strong enough, they would exist as devils. But for whatever reason, whether they were too weak to survive here, or perhaps they simply angered the wrong devil,

that's what they are now. Hmm. Hmm. Suspicious. What is the reason for binding them? Why do these exist? I don't know. It's a question older than myself.

You would need to ask Ismodeus or one of the other nine. What is the point of these? Used for currency. Why do you press gold into a form of currency? For economics? I don't know. Gold does not scream in pain. Souls here do. I'm afraid you're asking the wrong creature.

I make no illusions. I'm an Iranese of Avernus. I'm a warrior born to slay the demon plague that burdens our very shores. I make deals with mortals who are ambitious, greedy. They seek power to rule over others, to kill, to corrupt, to live in decadence. I don't know, but I'm not a creature that understands your empathy or your morals. I make no illusions about that. It felt like a backhanded compliment. It's not.

I mean, you are you beings. I can't understand you in ways that you can't understand me. That is just the nature of things. That is the way that the world is here. That is the nature of the hell. I'll put them in my bag of holding. You still feel it. I feel it. I feel it.

Yeah, it's almost like, although it's, even though you're not touching it, it's because you're the one carrying it. It's the weight of the soul is on your own soul. So I think if I put it in the bag and I still feel it, I'd be like, why? Why can I still hear them? I don't know. Belle is the one that forges them. Belle, one of the archdevils. He makes them in his forge. I don't know. I cannot take these. I cannot't know. Bell is the one that forges them. Bell, one of the archdevils.

He makes them in his forge. I don't know. I cannot take these. I cannot hold them. Someone else must take them. Not you, Laura. I imagine... Alzra.

I can hold one. Oh, no. We should split them up. No. You should not hold one. Alzra can likely hold them with less effects. I'll give you the two. And Alzra, you hold them.

And you feel the same things Juto does like you can feel these are tortured souls and you feel you know anger and sadness but it's much less pronounced for you being a creature who is brushed with evil and I would say is bordering on evil as you make these plans and admire Avernus

it is bad but you don't feel the same crushing weight as Juto and the others do. And certainly if innocent souls were to hold them it would be very different. Looking at this side of the table. Good, good

boys. I understand how you feel. I didn't destroy him. Juto did. I shot him. I just shot him. I didn't kill him. I didn't kill him. I got rid of the ghoul gang. I think with all of this and what just happened, I'm just going to turn and just

give a real frustrated rage scream and then I'm just going to fucking destroy whatever table was new. Yeah, yeah, you can just start going into his lab equipment and smashing it and flipping up the wooden table. I have had enough! Somebody make a plan! That's the due time.

Or else I am leaving! God, definitely. That was so hard. Ow. Okay, here's the plan. Let's cut off a bit of toll. Yep. Sure. And take it to Arkhan.

Okay, that was very quick. I was trying to, you just, okay. And then... Do what needs to be done. You say that he's still kidnapped. Very well. They don't need to know he's dead. Then why did we just cut off the head? Not the head.

Did you take the head? I didn't see that. What did you cut off? That was so fast. What body part did you cut? Was it the head? No, it was an arm. Oh, it's an arm.

Yeah, he doesn't need those. No, he doesn't need an arm. He said, he said he said you put the head back on it's like it's like it's like

delivering the head like we got the rest of it if you want him I say we you know

do a bit of deception I will simply deliver the arm Arkan can make of that what he will I suggest you

prepare yourselves can you put it in her thumbs up she closes two of the claws and what he will. I suggest you prepare yourselves. Can you put it in a thumbs up? She closes two of the claws and extensions one and looks at you. She just takes it, tucks it into like a little fine job.

Alright. I find you quite amusing, Mr. Buffer. Thank you. In that case, let's find places in here where we can immediately get the jump on it. Sorry, if I was Ayla right now, I would have done something different. You're lovely. I can't be me.

Damn it. Ayla would be better in hell. Yeah, she would. While this is running, just silently give everyone a healing potion. So everybody gets one healing potion. It's a regular healing potion. Cool. Yay.

I'm just like, potion. Cool. Yay. I'm just like here. Here. Princess. You're still nice to Allura. Everybody else you're mad at. She like tries to druidcraft a flower and it dies again. It just bursts into flames and melts. I'm just going to look at Allura and go I want to go home.

Me too. I have discovered though that I can get us out of here. Good. I have a spell that can get us all out. So when we need to, we're fine. Good. It's all fine. It's fine. Cool. Anytime. Preferably now. Right now I'd like to go home immediately.

I'm leaving. Goodbye. A flaming kind of window appears behind Khaleesa and she just flies behind it. She kind of looks at Aaron and just kind of smiles as she just vanishes. So, your preparation. So, basically, so the tower itself, it has a base floor

which is like a large, open circular room with four columns. Great in the floor. Probably blood goes into it, drips down. Cool. Uh, the upper floor is more of a workshop, which Juto has pretty much destroyed, um, which is where you were just standing, where Kroll is, basically, like, Kroll's room. This is, like, a big workshop with, like, torture devices and potion-making equipment,

um, experimentations on, like, dead bodies and things like that. Um, the chamber above that is Arkhan's, the main door to that is locked you've not been in there yet and then the chamber above that is the dragon hatchery which you go in there and just see smashed dragon eggs and blood and flame um i did not do this jobs have to be done jobs have to be done proud Jobs have to be done. Proud of that one. And then the top of the tower is just an open, like, eye of Sauron, like, flat space that looks out onto Avernus. Beautiful. You can see that there is the remnants of bones and what appears to be like a nest, like a dragon's nest up here.

Any eggs in there? No. Good. Okay, cool. Does it look like a bigger dragon? Yeah, it looks like the white dragon was nested up here, basically. Was. Yeah, was.

Was being provident. See all the dragon corpses outside? So, you don't know how long you have. What do you want to do? Bolster up. Let's get ready to fight. Yes. Or die.

Let's all be within range of each other Spread out Don't stand in a line One of us needs to be here to be the person So I've got an idea for that Have you? So when we feel like he's close How do we feel that? If you feel it

Can I feel? The Arkham tonight Coming to kill you. Tell you what I'll do. When he appears, I'll invoke my dupe to walk out to meet him. Okay. And then... He'll say hi.

He'll exchange pleasantries, I'm sure. And then, stabby, stabby, kill, kill, death, death, we win. Hand ofchner. Okay. So I think that if we can get the hand away from him first, that's the best plan. How about I go to shake his hand? I don't know if you can use... And that's the signal to get the hand as a huge elemental.

Pry it from him, or at least pin him down. What if he uses the hand to blow you up? At close quarters. I feel like a clean cut is probably easier than straight up pulling it off. I do have the sword for it.

You could at least hold him at the same time as cutting. Apparently he'd survive a tower falling on him. But you could drop on him as an elemental, and that would at least pin him. Do remember as well that he is... We don't know what the hand will do. Fire and poison will not damage him,

and neither will non-magical weapons. Lightning. He's got to think of using the hand, so if we'd stop him before he uses the hand, then I think that's what's giving him his power. Yeah. So you're going to meet him on the ground level? If that's what's giving him his power. Yeah. So you're going to meet him on the

ground level? If that's where he teleports to. Yeah. Yeah you don't really know. You would assume so because the other

rooms are quite clustered. Yeah. Based on what the tortle said. Imagine it's in the base room and I'll draw it out like this

isn't really a battle map but it's like a large circular thing. The main door is kind of off to one side. You have like a metal grate in the middle of the floor. Coven in blood. And it looks like a short pit is down there.

And then there are four columns holding up the tower basically. And then at the back you see the stairs leading up. And I guess it's just what balcony is all the way up. Yeah. Awesome. Let's... Flumph is not to scale.

Well, I will go up on one of the upper floors anyway. I am going to, yeah, if we go around a bit but spread out and then I'm going to go in this ball with my ring. Okay.

He can probably still see me at least staircases the side of them are they solid or can I hide it underneath mmm the underneath of the stairs will say hollow it's like a metal gridded thing with like a barrier going up it's kind of in the shadows a little bit yeah a little bit not massively but a little bit can i like hide in the grate underneath in the blood yes you could yeah yeah i'm sure you could yeah there's like dead bodies piled up in there putting yourself in a corner there a little bit that's what i do directly underneath our camera everyone else i fucking love it what a plan his robes. Yeah. He's like, oh, hello. Jesus.

He wept. Okay. You all right? I can't as a girl. Right up the chutney. Chutney. Why? I was making chutney earlier.

Oh, good. That's still a weird thing to say. It's pretty good. I'm going to be walking around all these places and kind of hiding behind it, running to the next bit. Can you see me? I'm like, no. Shit.

I don't know where to hide. Have you got invisible or hide-and-play site or anything? Yeah, do you not? No, you don't. You've got cloak of shadows, which lasts six seconds. Okay. You can just make a stealth check under the stairs. That's don't have to do that. You've got Cloak of Shadows, which lasts six seconds. Okay. I mean, you can just make a stealth check under the stairs. That's what you want to do.

Under the stairs. I'm going to hide under the stairs. Yeah, there we go. And then... Yeah. Okay. I'm for the best. I've got hide in plain sight.

Apparently I can camouflage myself using nearby materials, so I'm just going to pick up a brick and put it in front of my face. I'm a brick! No I'm just going to pick up a brick. I'll put it in front of my face. I'm a brick. No? Doesn't work? No. That's a bit awkward now, though. If you wish to hide yourself in such a manner, then you could lean against the wall and pretend to be a corpse amidst the ghoul corpses.

Come and join me, Reynard. Come in here. Are there any barrels? Can I just hide in the barrel? There are no barrels. You can use one of the columns to hide behind. Yeah, I mean, I'm on the upper floor anyway. If you're on the upper floor, then you could basically just lay down on the ground so the line of sight's broken. I just wanted to be like a barrel behind a brick or something, you know? Maybe like a birthday cake and I could pop out.

Ta-da! Happy birthday. Surprise! Mr. Arcand. Okay, so don't need to worry about Krull anymore. Where are you? Where are you? Talk, well I'm just saying.

Invisibubble? Invisibubbles. But you're going to be upstairs as well, right? Yeah. Ready to jump. Jump. Earth Elemental. I might not go Earth Elemental.

Who knows? Maybe I'll hide in that. Oh man. Like a thwomp. I just want you to meet your land on Earth. Grrr! Also, when you're an Earth Elemental, I can launch off you, because for some reason I'm just so meteor land on her. Also, when you're an earth element, I can launch off you, because for some reason I'm just so drawn to that move.

Bouncy, bouncy. Need it to happen. I'm having such a good time. Bouncy, bouncy. Please stop. She's all in a line. Okay. So, refresh me of your position.

So we have invisible on the base floor with Elora. On the first floor. So you are onto the upper balcony? Yes. Where Raynard is. Yeah, okay. So we'll draw an upper balcony. Nice.

Yeah, so first balcony. I think we're just on opposite ends of the tower. Actually, no, I need that. That's a DM. Yeah, I don't have any miniatures. So this is just to give a vague idea for positioning. Raynard is up on the second balcony. Cam is hiding under the stairs.

Alza is hiding beneath the grate Where is Juto? I guess I'll be on the balcony as well Okay And we will be equidistant from each other Oh this is nice This is good They won't see it coming

Well they will Because Cam's jupers are actually just going to walk out Hello! Hey we got your friend he's dead yeah where is Kroll's body what is Kroll's body

should we put it on the crate on the grate on the crate so just like slumped forward missing an arm blood pouring down

his body maybe like look like he sat down okay we could maybe bandage the arm to make it look

like we've okay so you make it look like he could still be alive. Yeah. Okay. And then Ulzra animates him, turns around, just waves.

Ventriloquist dummy style, just... Yeah, do you want to cast animate on him? I can. I can. Yeah, let's do it. What? Okay. So your watch is the lifeless form of Kroll, like...

Do we get time for a short rest? Short rest? Sure. Rest. I just realised you're just giving back all the ki. like do we get time for a short rest short rest sure rest just realise you're just giving back all the key Carl's like zombie is just like

on top of the great sway it's very creepy from down here yeah I'm assuming I'm like yelling this from the top

like I'm assuming we'll know when he's arrived you begin well you begin to hear like a You see a flaming gate I'm asked to invoke duplicity Okay well the flaming gate

Khaleesa comes out of It's the same one that she disappeared from Because she needs to teleport back You invoke duplicity She kind of looks at it She tries to communicate with the dupe and is like and then basically you see her

flying up towards the second balcony. She sees those of you, so Reynard and I think Juto, telepathically yeah, but she flies up so she can see you. She just telepathically says like, I imagine that he will be arriving soon.

He did not seem very happy. Good. Perfect. Good. That's what he wanted. He's bringing everything and everything else. He is. He, I mean, I don't, I didn't stay. Let's just say I had quite a few arrows being shot at me at the time,

so I fled. And you can see that one arrow is, like, sticking into her side that she kind of, like, throws. She doesn't seem bothered, but she just kind of throws it to the side and is like, yes, I would advise that you be prepared. Okay. And then you begin to hear a fizzling kind of like...

And there is an explosion, a pulse of energy rockets through the main base of the tower, and three creatures appear. And I say creatures because at least two of them are very large. because at least two of them are very large. One is a manticore, a kind of humanoid-faced, leaning creature with huge wings with a saddle on its back. I'm not going to worry about the battle map.

This is just to get a vague idea of what it is. The manticore kind of lands off to the side of the room and stretches its claws and wings and begins looking around. Master. The other large creature that arrives is an enormous buff-as-hell minotaur. You can see he's shirtless, but he carries two curved falchions in the hands.

An armoured skirt, arm skirt armored hooves and he just and begins looking around angrily but then there is a being of cold fury who just appears in the center of the room and just breathes once and then begins looking around. A red dragonborn, decked in black spiked armor, the symbol of the five-headed dragon of Tiamat, ablaze proudly on his chestplate. In one hand, he wields a huge battleaxe with a curved single blade. In his other hand, a withered necrotic claw cut off from the armor at the join

and just this withered dissected hand that's become like a claw with talons he lands and looks up he scans around seeing the body of

of Kroll and the dupe of Cam my friend Kroll get up well I think you need to speak to me first the eyes just turn upwards

oh I will speak to you friend and he levies the battle axe after I take your head. But first, get up! You're stronger than this, Krull! We knocked him out. I mean... The shadow

of me is like going... So what was your stealth, by the way? I don't know, I didn't roll it. Let's find out. I thought you animated Crow. Yeah, I did. Yeah, she did. I think.

I don't have a good stealth. Oh, that's a shame. 19. 19, that's pretty good. Arkhan and the Minotaur are both looking at the dupe as they speak, but the Manticore is prowling around the room. Boring! Come on! Let's just talk about deals, shall we? We're in hell.

The Arkhan just takes a couple of steps towards you. Speak, then. Well? Right now, I see no reason not to simply take my friend and take your head. Why do you need to take my head? Do you take my head do you like it you have heard my companion and you can see he like twitches and the hand kind of spasms oh I was gonna shake that but uh well shake it if you want and he's just like begins like reaching for the throat now maybe yeah what is he standing up the manticore eventually

gets the point where real cam is hidden and it's like yeah master and then what do you want to just step upwards so yeah okay so you wait for my charge as well the soul stealer charge i mean you remember there's got to be a hit and then it's got to be under 100 hit points. But yeah, you can make it if you hit. I'm going to chance it. Make an attack. So you have advantage because he's unaware of you. Okay, so that was 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

Just. What? What is AC? Nothing to tell you It hits But it wasn't very high above it Fuck So you watch as this long katana

Glowing orange with runes Thrusts up And he just barely manages And it just Scrapes his chin It's a roll damage I'm in trouble. Yeah, you are.

So it's 1d8 plus 3. No, 1d10 plus 3? Are you using one-handed or two-handed? If it's two-handed, then 1d10 plus 3. Hell yeah. 10, 13. 13? Okay.

Is that it? I can attack again, can't I, as well 13, okay. Is that it? I can attack again, can't I, as well? You can. You can also use your Channel Divinity to add 25. Channel Divinity, yes, please. Is that what you want to add 25 damage to that? Yeah. So you watch as this blade, crackling black with death energy,

thump, like, just strikes upwards. And then we'll go again okay yep yeah don't have advantage actually no you still because you're still acting yes

swan waggling through a grate well she's just blasting between the bars same again 16 again yeah is that 16 total or is that

okay no that 24 hits and then so d10 that's a 6 so that's 24 hits. And then so D10. That's a six. So that's 25. So what's... Are you adding that because you've only got... Have you got both...

Oh, you did. You took a long rest. You have both channeled minis. So you're using it again? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. Why not?

Don't forget we all took a short rest as well. Yeah. Yeah. So what was the damage on the base weapon? Base weapon is... Was six. D8 plus three. So that's six. Yeah. Yeah. So what was the damage on the base weapon? Base weapon is D8 plus 3, so that's 6, yeah. Yep, and then the 25 would make it 31. 25, yep.

So that's both of those done. It's nearly 70 points of damage in two attacks. But she's just like blown her load of channel divinity. It's just like, ahhh! And then you want to try and use the charge kind of thing. Yeah.

Is that on the second hit? So that is, uh... I will tell you now, it doesn't work. So like the charge, whatever, the conditions have not been met. DC 15 con save. The conditions have not been met. Okay, yeah.

So... He's over 100! He's over 100. You just watch, it's just like, ahhh! And then immediately the whole room explodes in the combat that's gonna be initiative oh my god i'm really praying tonight oh my god that was top notch everybody yeah 5 Reynard 18

Juto 12 Cam Buckland 11 Alzra 7 That's bad That's real bad

Especially what you've just done The Manticore Having sussed out real Cam Buckland Just literally charges in To try and grab Cam from underneath the stairs And things like that. Don't though. It will make three attacks.

One with its bite and two with its claws. Cam Buckland does a 19 hit. Yeah. You take seven points of piercing damage. Does an 18 hit? No. Oh. How much damage?

Seven points from the bite. Thank you. And then an 18 missed. Yeah. Oh, nice. I've got a 19 now. Oh, nice. And then the second one misses as well. It's an 18 missed. Yeah. Oh, nice. I've got a 19 now. Oh, nice. And then the second one

misses as well. I'm trying to buckler stopping a manticore. Because you've got the scale armour, didn't you? I do. So you're just like

desperately fending off this manticore as it's trying to tear into you on the stairs. This is bad now. Reynard. It's my alcohol. I'm going to peek over now,

jump up and ambush that thingy. So shooting at him now, does he know I'm going to peek over now, jump up and ambush at thingy. So shooting at him now, does he know I'm here? Make a stealth check. Make a stealth check. Yeah.

15? Yeah, he's not aware of you currently. He knows that there's an ambush, but he doesn't know exactly where the strike's coming from. Okay, well I'm going to... So you have advantage. I Hunter's Mark him. I have advantage. I'm going to sharpshoot with both of them then. I know his AC's an ambush, but he doesn't know exactly where the strike's coming from. Okay, well, I'm going to... So you have advantage. I Hunter's Mark him. I have advantage. I'm going to Sharpshooter both of them then. I know his AC's super high, but... Sure, go for it.

Risky. 1630 minus 5, 25. Hits just. Okay. Go for his hand. 15, 14, 29, 24. Still hits. Don't get happy about it. Go for his hand! 15, 14, 29, 24. Still hits?

Don't get grumpy about it. Don't do it. Two shots. Both hit. Boom! Oh, and another 2 on Hunter's Mark as well. Boom! Did you do Hunter's Mark? Yes. Yeah, he did. That's it, I did. Unless you want to take it off. No, no, no. 8, 9, 11, 12, 17, plus 20, 37. 37? That's not a lot.

It doesn't feel like a lot. You rolled pretty bad. Oh, no. Plus another 14. Hang on. Like, this is crazy. Like, what? So is this from both attacks?

You rolled 17 on the dice. Yeah, so then... This is a magical weapon. 17, and then another 20, so 37. From Sharpshooter. From Sharpshooter. Why are you adding 20 from Sharpshooter? It's 10.

You're just doing all of the attacks at once. So this is all of the attacks together. Yeah, it's everything. Okay. So both shots hit, so that's another 20. And then another 14. Where's that 14 coming from? From the plus 7s I forgot to add.

So the dice was for Hunter's Mark and the crossbow dice? Yeah. Okay. So 37 plus 14. Yeah. 47, 51 points of damage. Okay, I like that. That's good, actually.

Nice. Bam. So what have we opened up on? Like 130 damage? You have done a total of 120 points of damage. Wow. In one round. Ooh!

But you just see Arkhan like brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 20 points of damage. What did we do? That would have killed me. Khaleesa will basically spring up and just be like, fucking go back to where you came from, Dragonborn. Yes! She's firing as well. Unfortunately, her attacks are nowhere near as good as your guys'. Stop quipping! Ping, ping, ping!

They just bounce off of her armour. This is all words. She rolls really badly. Like, the first time she joined in a combat, I rolled like a god. Now I just all words. She's not... She rolls really badly. Like, I... Like, the first time she joined in a combat, I rolled like a god. Now I just can't hit anything. Now you roll like a devil.

Yeah, it really does. Arkhan steps off the grate, kind of realizes that Kroll is a zombie now, looks down at Alzrah, grips the grate with one hand,

and just throws it against the wall wall and it just bam! He looks down at you with an absolute fury and he just reaches down with the hand to try and grasp you.

The withered one. We're piecing our time. That is going to be a 16 plus 7 23 to hit. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, you're flying. 120 points of damage.

Here we go. Voice, 120. What, the hand of Vecna? This is with the hand of Vecna, yes. Bring it on. Uh-oh. Does the hand of Vecna count as an object? Nope.

It's part of his body now. Ew. At all, Arkhan, baby. So it's part of his body now at all our can baby so it's like actually attached yeah it's his arm now yep so you gotta cut that bitch off it's not it's not this this this attack isn't that crazy damage well we'll be the judge of that see mark well we'll be the judge of that, Mark. We'll be the judge of that. He brings out all the d6s. There's lots of d6s there, guys. I mean, to him, we just did like 100 fighting in his life. Whatever.

Just go angry now. How many forms does Arkhan have? A wing comes out. Oh my god. You're going to take... 15 points of necrotic. Alright. He'll do that. I'm a bitch, am I right? 15 points of necrotic alright he'll do that

I'm a bitch, am I right? but then he'll do, he does something else he will make he's gonna make 3 attacks against you 3 28

24 Alright. Just three. Just three. It's cool. What have I got? Uh, 28. Yeah. Uh, 24. Yep. Uh, 31. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh my god. What? Alright, okay. Whew. Um. My voice. He's steady now.

He didn't roll a crit, so. Okay, cool. Nice. Uh, so that's gonna be, if I just use the average damage to speed things up. Yeah, things up that's going to be 27 points of damage do you have any cold resistance then just 20 27 points of. 27 times 3. Uh, 81. Oh my god! 81. 81 points of damage. Just a little attack. Bam, bam, bam! And he just slams this battleaxe into you, carving and slamming the battleaxe away. Ooh. Are you unconscious? No.

Okay, well that's all right. You're not unconscious. That's a lot of fucking damage. I'm in trouble. Oh my god. We've got a little healing potion. A little one. That. That's a lot of fucking damage. I'm in trouble. Oh my god. You got a little healing potion. That is true. I have a healing potion. Juto.

A healing potion is like a deep hole. I can't deserve it though. I want to go home. It's like you did 70 points of damage. He does 8 of your points of damage back. It's like a fair... Yeah, it's fair. It's pretty fair.

It's a deal. He's just got way more HP. Yeah. Yeah. Juto. Fair dues, mate. Fair dues. I'm shitting myself. Yeah. Fair dues, mate. Fair dues.

I'm shitting myself, man. I had no idea. And he's, the whole time he's just screaming. Like, ahhhh! Is that all you've got? Is that all you've got? I'll show you all I have, you little vermin. Do it!

Do it! Oh god, he's just so crazy! He's amongst corpses. He's planning. In a cage. Making his head explode from rage. Yeah. Maybe that could do it.

Oh god. He'll just have a heart attack. Making his head explode from rage. Maybe that could do it. He'll just have a heart attack. I guess I'm just going to have to attack him, aren't I? Yeah. Yeah. Can I attack him, but can I...

It's annoying he doesn't have crawl. I wish he had crawl still alive. Good. Can I attack him, but can I just aim him to try and sever his arm?. Good. Can I attack him by trying to aim to try and sever his arm? I mean, you can absolutely try. Give yourself disadvantage on the attack roll to try. And if you're aiming to try and cut off his arm, then it's a disadvantage on the attack roll. Because he's an armored warrior. He knows how he's fighting.

It's no easy feat. Yeah, I'm not going to risk that then. I should have cast fucking oh no i didn't do that as a moment okay so can i come down i'm gonna start attacking can i like be behind him there like i'm just gonna i mean yeah sure he can still attack you there but wherever the manticore and the minotaur are can i be away from them like so he's between me and them this room is not big enough that if they choose to engage you they will get to you. This is not a huge tower.

30 foot radius? Yeah, kind of. From the middle, I'd say like 45, 50, but they're also not right at the very edges of the tower. They're kind of in that more central location. Right now, the Minotaur, Arcann, and Alzra, and the Zombie Krull are all on the basically middle of the room.

And then Cam's the only one who's on the far edge. The Manticore is next to him, but the Manticore is also large, so it's got a wider reach and space. Okay, I'm going to start attacking. So with Chainbreaker, 11 plus 12 is 23. 23 just barely hits him. Okay. Okay.

13. Does he have fire? He does. So that's half? Half from fire, yes. Okay, so that would be a 1 wouldn't it? 13 plus 6 plus 20. Fire, yes. Okay. So that would be a one, wouldn't it? 13. 13. Plus 6. 19.

Plus 20. 20 points total. And that's fire already halved, yeah? Yeah. That's pretty good. Even with the half fire damage. Can I, out of curiosity, can I just stunning strike that? You can try.

Yeah. Constitution saving throw? Yep. You won't have high points. That is 21. Yeah, no. I'll attack him again. Mm-hmm.

16 plus 12 is 28? Yeah. 28 hits? Bang. Seven, eight, nine, ten, 10 11 points of damage 11 points And then Can I You've got to kill me

No, I'm just trying to decide whether to use Spitting bird kick Step of the wind or patient defence I mean I'm going to use Yeah, I'm going to use... Yeah, I'm going to use Step of the Wind

and go back to where I was back on the balcony. So you just fly up. Yeah, play again. You can't make an opportunity attack scanning with Step of the Wind. Okay, sure. After Juto,

it is Cam Buckland. The magical's on me. It's like, right, it's like you're under the stairs Like Harry Potter And it's just like In your face Best thing to do is disengage

But you can just catch up to me So I'm going to cast my holy moly aura Which is a level 8 spell Okay what does it do? Holy moly aura I added the moly What does holy aura do? Oh my god you. I added the Moly. What does Holy Aura do? Oh my god, you literally have as well.

Divine Light washes out from you and coalesces in a soft radiance in a 30 foot radius. Okay. Creatures of my choice, so everyone in the party that will be in range. Including Khaleesa? Yeah.

Okay. Have advantage on all saving throws. Oh my god. Beautiful. And other creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls against them until the spell ends. Holy crap. Very good. It's a concentration.

No, yeah, it is, yeah. In addition, when a fiend or an undead hits an affected creature with a melee attack, the aura flashes with a brilliant light and the attacker must succeed on a con saving throw or be blinded until the spell ends. Nice. I guess there's no fiends. Khaleesa.

Khaleesa is a fiend. The Manticore is a monstrosity. Khaleesa's affected by the... Is Arkhan undead? No. No, he's Dragonborn. No, he is a humanoid. That's my 8th level spell that I just got.

8th level spell. Damn! So who's in range of me then? I would say, who are these dice? Laura and Juto? Those guys aren't, so you are here. Did you run up to attack Arcan? She flew back. So basically, Reynard,

you, and Alza are all in the affected aura and Khaleesa. Even being on the second floor or first floor, whatever. Yeah, it's 30 feet up. Yeah, it's a sphere basically. Oops. Awesome. But so Juto and Allura aren't affected by it. Okay, but if you come into my aura... Oh, so we come into the aura.

Oh, if you come into it, it's permanent. It's a duration of a minute. Okay, so it's whilst it's around you. Concentration. Oh, actually if you designate the creatures at the start, I think it's those creatures for one minute. Unless it stays. It's a good choice in that radius when you cast the spell.

When you cast the spell. There you go. After Cairn Buckland, we go to Torgar. Torgar Steelfist. Hey, that's a cleric spell. That's... What? What are you suggesting?

You see Torgar Torgar look over He's like I can Spellcaster under the stairs I'll deal with him And he is going to come at you Come at you, brah

Yeah He's basically going to come and try and grab you And slash at you from underneath the stairs Disadvantage He does have disadvantage But he does have three attacks So let's see Lots of rolls

So that is only a 16 on the first one No That is a 18 on the second one No That however is a 21 on the third one Yay So you're going to take 20 points of damage

So do I need to roll? Constitution saving throw. Ten? With advantage. Don't you? Concentration check. Is it a saving throw? I think it is.

Yeah, it's not a con save, isn't it? I think so. Concentration. So you'd have advantage because of your spell. Would I? Did you not just realize that we would have? Constitution saving throw. So yes, any saving throw.

So you have advantage. Damn. Sick. So you have advantage on the concentration anyway. What? Natural one. What? You have advantage.

18. 19. 19 is enough. Oh. Sorry. Torgal would have raged, but I've already factored in that damage, I believe. 20 points.

No, I haven't, so take another three, but it wouldn't affect the DC. Bam. Your holy glow. Elora. Hey! Oh, actually, Alzra goes. Okay. Then it's Elora.

I'm going to go at her today. You have had the lowest initiative. I'm going to cast Vampiric Touch on Arkhan at level 6. So you're doing the same spell he did to you. I'm gonna be like, you got a magic hand? I haven't got a cheat to use mine, you bastard! Okay, damn! Oh god, he's infuriated. I'll bring it on, that's gonna be a miss anyway, so...

Yeah, I think it is. It's his spell attack modifier. 6 plus 9. Oh, that's 15 to be a miss anyway. Yeah, I think it is. It's his spell attack modifier. Six plus nine. Oh, that's 15. That is not enough. You go through it and then he just grips your hand with his armoured one. Not today. Alza, you have advantage. Oh.

What, on attack rolls? No, it's on saving throws. Yeah, I'm asking you. I didn't say to you. I'll double check. Does she? I don't think. Attack rolls against non-affected.

Their rolls are at disadvantage, not hers at advantage. You didn't say that anyway. Your advantage on saving throws either. Saving throws. They have disadvantage to hit you. Yeah. Still, the amount they're attacking, that's pretty good. Yeah.

We bonk. But was that your entire turn? As a bonus action, I would very much like... Would you like to drink a little Potion? It's either that or I use... Uhhhh... Second Wind. I mean, how much does your Second Wind do?

Second Wind is 1d10 plus 5. A regular healing potion is 2d4 plus 2, so actually the minimum for yours is higher than the minimum of the potion. Yeah. So I would second wind. Second wind. So 1d10 plus 5. 1d10 plus 5 super play. Super play.

So 9. That's 9. 9 extra hit points. How many you want? I don't know. I should stop making the dragon man really angry. Is that your turn? Yeah.

Hey Laura. Okay. So I'm still invisible currently. As far as you can just be like... Hey Laura. Okay. So I'm still invisible currently. As far as you can just be like... Nope. Hey, this doesn't happen very often. Okay, so I am going to... Is he like right in the middle?

Where is he? Yeah, Alkine's right in the middle, next to Al's room. Get a swan dive off the balcony and turn into an earth elemental midair and land on him. Please. Make your slam attack with advantage. You're falling about 30 feet,

so we'll add your falling damage to the damage you deal if you hit. If I hit. Yeah, because you can dodge out of the way. Look at him. Ooh, that was a 19 plus... however much it is to... that'll hit him. Well, let's see. Hang on. Slam attack. So that is 19 plus 8 to hit. 27 is a hit.

And then what? So add 3 extra d6 for the falling damage, so your normal damage plus 3d6. You are also going to take some falling damage. So 2d8 plus 5. So, what was it? 11 plus 3 extra d6. Yep. This will be half for him and you. 3-1.

I rolled 3 fucking 1s. So it's 1 damage. No, wait, wait, no. 13, 14, 15, all together with that extra damage. Yeah, but the extra damage is halved, because it's a non-magical bludgeoning attack, which he takes half damage from. I'm pretty sure that my, everything that I do... The falling damage, this is the extra weight behind it, which is why I wanted you to roll it separately. So, okay, so he takes like, so the half, so it's three ones on the falling damage, so yeah, it's three.

It's one, half to one. You're going to take, it would normally be 15, but half. So you take seven bludgeoning damage. I take, yeah. Because you take 15 from the falling damage. Your fall is a bit worse than his, but he manages to just kind of like, you land on him and with his immense strength, he kind of throws you to the side, but you still like hear like bones crunch beneath you as you land on him basically

is that count as all my attacks that would be your attack but i gave you extra damage and advantage because you fell on him basically can i try and like restrain him can you can you do that as an action or is that then that would be a separate action cover the shame is your action to do a flying leap down smash ult style basically if you haven't got multi attack No No, no grapple is like a full action say Okay Man's core

Will attempt to still attack cam Not being smartest thing in the room. Oh, it's at disadvantage. 18? Nope. 12? Yeah, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss. The Holy Aura just blinding it as it's like,

Ah! Ah! Can't, can't hit! Hissing as it does. Reynard. Oh, I'm just going to keep popping away. I guess I don't have advantage anymore. Against Arkan. No, you don't. Arkan.

Does he risk that sharpshooter? Arkan-y. I do risk it. Okay. Let's go, boys. Is this two attacks? Two attacks. That one definitely doesn't hit. God, why? Let's go, boys. Why are you going twice? Is this two attacks? Two attacks.

Okay. That one definitely doesn't hit. The other one, 23, 33, 28. Hits. Still pretty good. That and a D8. Bam. You look so done with it.

No, I'm not. No, it's fine. I just want to know what people are doing. No, I don't mind. It's not my character. I don't give a shit. 28. 28. 28 points of damage.

What can I do for a bonus action? I don't know. What can you do for a bonus action? Would you look here if it wasn't a sharpshooter on the other one? No, no, no. Well, that's good then. Yeah. Why?

Because you did sharpshooter. Yeah. So again, more bolts. The first one bounces off his armor, but the second one sinks into Arkhan's shoulder No I cannot fall here Oh

You're looking pretty scared there Arkhan Stop it Now you're looking scared Khaleesa will look and she can see that Arkhan is injured But she knows that her arrows aren't going through his armour So she turns her attention to the Minotaur. Minotaur. Minotaur.

One is a crit. Oh, wow. The other is a hit. The third is a miss. So she will do 8, so 11, plus 13 poison damage. So 24 to Torgard with the first one. There it is. And then the second one is 3 plus 3, 6, 19 points.

I'm being upstaged by Flumph Cam. I actually put an elemental down. An elemental that is now covered in tea. Yeah, coffee. So her arrows pierce into Torgar, and you can hear her like, Ah, poison, bitch. And then kind of shrugs it off. Dude, come on.

Arcann's turn. There you go. Rude. Fucking looks at Alzra with all the hate in the world. Oh, she's down. She's down. Hi, everybody. I think this might be it.

You've got to go. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think this might be... This actually might be it. You've got to go. Bring it on. Bring it on. I want it, Mark. I want it. You are acting a bit like... Arkhan. You welcome death.

Give me that cake. I want it. I don't want to die. You think... So torn. Oh, come on. W-A-D. What would Arkhan do? Come on. I don't wanna die so torn WWAD what would Arkhan do what would Arkhan do

he'll make a mess well the thing is he's smart enough to know that the cleric has cast some form of protection which is hindering their attacks he's a smart enough guy to know that yeah but we kept saying this camera is so blurry which is hindering their attacks. He's a smart enough guy to know that.

Yeah, but we kept saying... This camera is so blurry. What would Joe Mangano do? Yeah. He'd go out all blazing, but he doesn't disadvantage. But yeah, he's going to swing. Yeah, just... That is first roll with disadvantage.

There's a 12 and a 1. So that with the thing is 14. So that, with the thing, it's 14. So that misses, right? Second attack. That is a lowest one was a 14 for a 27. That does hit. Let's roll these individually. So I'm just going to use average damage.

So that's going to be another 17 plus 9. So 24 points of damage. Still up. Still up, man. One is a 11 plus 13, 24. Another 24 points of damage. Goodbye, my friend! 17 plus 9?

Oh, 26 each. Is that like a plus 13? Yeah, he's got very high. Oh, hang on. Was she downed before the final hit? Why? Well, because then that would be two automatic fails, wouldn't it? That would be. So it's 26 on the first one.

But I've got my lantern. What does that do? Tell us where your lantern is. So if I fall unconscious within 10 feet of my magical lantern, the spirit emerges from it, magically stabilizes me with a touch, and then quickly returns to the lantern okay so you basically get stabilized at zero yeah so the so 26 damage does that take you to zero the first okay so you're down but you're at zero hit point you stabilize okay yeah it's good he will then drink a potion

He will then drink a potion. Oh. No! When he hits her, does it not blind him? No, he's not fiend. Do you need to... Yeah, fiend or undead. Hang on, I've got to work this out. I wanted to make sure.

Yeah, but you were wrong. Because it was the second... He missed the first attack. Yeah. No, it... He missed the first attack. He missed the first attack. If 26 was enough...

She was on 33. She was on 33. I don't know. I can't see that her health... She... She sucked. She motioned it to me because she was like, help me. I made the dragon man mad.

How many points do you want? She went... He pulls out an ornate healing potion and downs that to his heals. Fancy man. He's a fancy man. Fancy man. He sees you fancy man. Fancy man. Okay.

He sees you go down. He's like, that's one. Who's next? You are. You're next. Big rock boy. Two, two. Okay, can I bonus go into void stance?

Yep. You channel focus your ki. The third eye opens. And I'm going to throw some shurikens, actually, and stay up where I am for now. So I don't remember the last time I ever threw one. That will be a natural one. I mean, add the bonuses.

11. Nope, miss. That'll be a natural one I'm going to add the bonuses Eleven Nope miss It's a good habit to get into It's a good habit to get into Is all I'm saying Fourteen Big bing Just She kind of deflects them

With the battle axe I'm going to duck back down Your little knives Don't seem to mean much I don't think they would And then you just Dunk down onto the balcony You're like

I'm standing up here Fuck this shit Wait You're down there aren't you No I went back She jumped dunk down onto the balcony. You're like, I'm staying up here. Fuck this shit. Wait, Pam Buckland. You're down there, aren't you? No, I went back. She jumped up back onto the balcony. Suck in the wind. I didn't want to be there.

Can I just tell that Alzera's... Fuck it. Cast heal at level seven on Alzera. 70 hit points. Oh, wow. Great. Thank you. 80 hit points.

Holy shit. Because it's level seven. Thank you. When I get that. Thank you. That kind of game changes. But until then... Oh, you liked your healing last time as Quill.

Come on, or in the live game. One time you did it. Okay. You're not done yet! Oh, yes! See you in the meat shield. Oh, I missed Kroll. I wish Kroll was here.

Kroll's dead! No, Kroll's not. Kroll's having a great time. Well, actually, no. When Alistair went unconscious, Kroll's having a great time with zombie. Well, actually, no. When Alistar went unconscious, Kroll's zombie form just went... Just slumped down on the ground. Did that really tick off?

Arkham, even more. A little bit. I'm assuming heal is not a concentration spell. No, it's a speed hit. I figured as much. Alistar. Alistar. Hi.

It's'll go. Wow! You're on 80 hit points. You're prone underneath our camera. You're alive. Nice, nice, nice. Stab up again. You're still in the...

Yeah, she's like lying on top of bodies, basically. It's like, mmm, comfy bed. This is a way to die. Um, whoo, right. Mmm. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. Blight level six. There we go, sure. Constitution saving throw. Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na I'm like all the other guys. You want more? Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. I need one more. What other boys?

Thank you. The other lad. Oh, the Minotaur and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Six, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-five, halved. Math.

Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. Seventeen. 24 25 26 27 28 29 35 halved math 17 17 17 points

yeah and then you just watch he kind of holds up the hand which absorbs a lot of the blight but somehow he begins crawling up his biceps and muscles

I'd like to use action surge and use another additional action yes and then I would like to get action surge and use another additional action. Yes. And then I would like to get my nine life stealer longsword and go for the soul steal. Yes, the action surge, you get two attacks.

Oh my god. Action surge is fucking amazing. She gets a whole action. So I'm going to try. Attacks. So, see if you hit. Is it cocked? No. No, it's not. Okay. Nice try. Oh, it's not. Okay. Nice try. Fiddle Dee Dee. Fiddle Dee Dee.

Fiddle Dee Dee is going to need a tetanus shot. It's a kid's show. He just deflects them. Deflects them away. Swing and a miss. Oh god, we've got like 10 minutes to wrap this up I think. I don't think we're going to. After Alzaro we go to Tor-Toragar. Oh god, we've got like 10 minutes to wrap this up, I think. Ah. I don't think we're going to.

After Alzura, we go to Tor-Toragar. Son of Tor- Who will continue focusing on the biggest threat that he sees, which is this annoying fucking aura spell on the Cleric Man. Three attacks. Lowest one is a 14. Bam. Lowest on the second one is a 16. Oh.

Third one, lowest one is a 16 third one lowest one is a 21 that will hit another 20 points of damage constitution saving throw you have advantage or if I could just knock you unconscious but I think that's going to take a while get that advantage

10 just passes it's DC 10 or half the damage taken so it's 10 either way so you're like being pummeled by these blows but you're like

focusing on the holy aura keeping it going the holy moly aura off to Toragar we go to Elora hello

so can I what would you like to do for my turn try and grab the hand of Vecna and Arkhan and try and grapple him? Yeah, make a strength check. Or athletics, I suppose. Or if the IQ would be strength for your elemental, yeah. Oh no, I rolled a two!

So that's only a seven. So you go to grab him, Damn it. This unnatural strength. He's like, I've wrestled far worse than you. And kind of like slams your arms to the ground. Oh, shit's tight. You're nothing compared to Strongjaw. He says.

Ouch! Strongjaw. Yeah, doesn't mean anything to you guys. No, it means something to me. Manticore! Cam Buckland! Roggo. What?

Miss! Miss! Fucking this Oliore is pissing me off. 16. Nothing. Ah! Manticore just can't hit you. What's the matter, big guy?

Oh, you won. I think he he's gonna go after another target next turn if he gets one. I'm gonna go for the other shiny ones. Reynard. I'm gonna slam the sword of Greybell and around Al's room. You are currently on the balcony. You are.

What's the range on it? 30 feet. You're gonna have to jump down. Sure. You just jump down. Acrobatics check. I'm standing there, you could jump near me. Yeah, I'll do it.

Why not? I seem to have broken both my legs. Could somebody throw me a... Take 12 points of bludgeoning damage as you tumble to the ground. But you manage to... And you fall to your legs. And you fall to your legs. Down the stairs.

He leaps over the balcony like, I'll save you! Ready to stab you with the ray-bell sword. I kind of like stab it into my own foot. Yeah. I haste Arlzra. Oh! You gain a plus two AC, I believe.

Plus two AC, advantage on deck saving throws. And you gain an additional action on your turn. Pro turn. Yeah. But if Reynard loses concentration you are stunned. I did not know that. Is that your whole turn, Reynard? Er, and I'll bonus action cry. Okay.

Khaleesa will take some more shots at Toragar. One hit. Two hits. Ooh! Why am I wrong with advantage but she still hit three times that's going to be seven twenty points of damage each one half in the seven, two, three so sixteen

the minor four minor four is no he's not dead heavily injured just arrows protruding from his back Not mine at all Is No he's not dead Ah Heavily injured Just arrows protruding from his back But He's just like

I'll deal with you later you flying wench Oh No Oh Oh Oh Oh Cut

It's the big boy Yeah Big man Big man time Big man on campus I'm beginning To get very Very angry

You're making this personal It is Kind of kills his friend Like It's dark personal It's dark very personal He is going to cast Is it worth modifying his memory?

We are best Crawl We are BFFs. Kroll betrayed you. Kroll tried to kill you. We saved you. Branding Smite is a bonus action. Next time he hits it deals extra damage. That sounds good. 3, 6, 7, 8, just a 46 if he hits. Alzura! Yay.

Plus 2 AC though, remember? Plus 2 AC does a 21. Yeah. Still with a plus two? Yeah. Okay. So basically it's the same amount so it's 24, but this time you get to add 46 radiant damage. Four... That is ten, sixteen more so 40 points of damage. The first attack. Oh okay. So you got like what, 40 left? Luckily, as disadvantage, that was a natural 20, which is really bad on Arkham. Uh, 23. Mm-hmm. Uh,

so another 24 points. Yep. And then, oh, that's actually, you might save this one. 19. Does not hit. Okay, so the haste, with the haste, you dodge out of the way as he's just pummeling down on you in this pit, desperately trying to hack you away. And that's his turn. With haste, can she cast two spells? Yes. Holy crap. He did not signal for that.

But you still can't cast more than... Oh, no, that's a different thing. I'm sliding fast. Right, well, we've got five minutes, so we're going to try and get through as many combats as we can, but we'll have to leave this one midway. Let's go, let's go, let's go! Okay, I'm going to jump down, attack Arkhan twice, and then Limit Break. Okay, well use your final ability.

Ugh, natural one, so 13, one hit? Nope. Better, it's 12 plus 12 is 24 just it is a eight forget to half the fire damage sorry 11 11 points of damage and then I'm gonna limit break my voice dance okay and I'm adding so I need you to make a deck Limit Break my Void Stance. Okay. And I'm adding... So I need you to make a deck saving throw, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what my DC is. It's your key.

It's the same as your Stunning Strikes and stuff like that. Stunning Strike. It's the same as any of your key abilities, DC. DC. That's 8. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. So he fails. He fails? Yep. Okay. So this is the beam, isn, 13, 14, 15, 16. He fails. He fails?

Yep. Okay. So this is the beam, isn't it? So this is the beam. So it's 5 foot wide and 100 foot long. So can I catch the other two in that as well? Yes, you can maneuver so you can catch him and the Minotaur, but you would probably hit the Elemental at the same time.

Okay, let's go for him and the Minotaur. I think we can take him out. Okay, so the Elemental is going to take the same. So can you make a deck save for us? Oh, the Elemental is going and the Minotaur. I think we can take a Manticore. Okay, so Elemental's going to take the same. So can you make a deck same for us? Oh, the Elemental's going to take it as well? Yes. If you go for both of them. Let's do it.

She's got like five. What about the Manticore? Can I get the Manticore as well? No. It's 100 foot. Yeah, but it's a five foot long line. So it's like, imagine doing this. It's five foot wide, 100 foot long.

Yeah, five foot wide is basically one square. So if he's like in the middle, so say he's here you've got the the Minotaur on the other side of him one or the other it's basically gonna do like that I can space it's more like the Minotaur is here Arkhan's here and the Minotaur is like over here actually no the Minotaur is attacking Cam isn't he so he's actually over here it's the Manticore so you could hit the thingy's right in front of Cam is the problem. Both of them are, aren't they? Yeah.

So you'd have to hit Cam. If you want to hit the Minotaur or the Manticore and our Cam, you have to hit Cam, because it's a line. But not Allura. But, yeah, you wouldn't hit Allura. You'd hit Cam. Yeah, I'm not doing that. So you can just hit our Cam.

You can just hit our Cam. I can. I'm going to power it off as well with 3d8. Okay, so three extra key points. No, it's two, isn't it? Two key points for everyone. Yes, sorry, it's a six key point. It's been a long time since we've done this custom class.

That is 8d8. So basically, Juto kind of brings her fist and in a kind of Dragon Ball-Z style pushes out this beam of purple energy, force energy. I didn't realise the damage was quite that high. No. And I was like, yeah! Should have hit Cam with it.

38. 38? 38 points? Yeah. Can't tell now. Sorry. I think it's 38. Yeah.

So you just watch as his back is like blasted, like, as this beam shatters parts of his armour and just golfs him in this purple light and he begins like, panting hard. That's your go, Juto? Yes. Cam Buckland. We've got five minutes, I want to try and go through. Can we?

Well, we've got a minute, but... 30 seconds. Should we just wrap it here? Yeah, let's wrap it here. Do we? OK. Well, we've got a minute, but. 30 seconds. Should we just wrap it here? Yeah, let's wrap it here. And we'll do it next week? We'll have to do it. We'll have to finish this off next week.

We'll have to carry on next week. Oh my god. Ah! Hey, thanks for joining us as the party battle against Arkhan the Cruel and Thorogar Steelfist with some very clutch spells and some clutch abilities coming in. But will they continue? How will Arkhan survive But will they continue?

How will Arkhan survive? Will they continue? No. We'll find out next Sunday. Thanks for watching, everybody. Enjoy all the D&D content. See you soon. See you later. Hey, everyone.

Thanks for listening to this episode of Lightfall The Descent. And once again, a massive thank you to Wizards of the Coast for making this possible. This series will return next week as we continue our fight against Arkhan the Cruel. We'll see you then.