High Rollers DnD - Mystery of the Illusory | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #121 (Part 2)

Episode Date: October 8, 2026

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Welcome back to Part 2 of Althea the Dragon Empire. Our heroes have been investigating a mystery. What is going on at this Ossian gala? We have people absent, Xanthius under some sort of spell. We have Lord Ambraxian being an illusion, and now signs that he has been abducted in some form. You've cornered the poor, poor counselor Jalia, a bronze dragon-born councillor for Suncrest Isles

who's been cornered and has just revealed and it sounds like she was blackmailed to go and do something involving Lordenbraxian. But that is where we jump back in. So who's this they you're talking about? I don't know. That's the thing is I don't know. They contacted me.

it, them, I don't know, that it was via a spell called Dream. I recognize the spell after it had happened. They contacted me through the spell and told me that if I didn't follow their instructions, then certain

things, private things, that I don't want to be made public, would be made public. And they, it didn't, it sounded more reasonable in the initial request. and then when I saw what had happened, I just thought it was, I thought it was going to be like a ransom. I thought that they were ransoming,

and I thought that it would just be a ransom. Has anyone here, I can fucking talk now, has anyone here looked to you in a particular way? Has anyone spoken to you in a strange way? Um, uh, about this? Hinted at anything that made you question them, Anything unusual? No, not that I can think of.

I've spoken with most of the guests here in some capacity. You looked like you were having a pretty heated conversation with Ambassador Abbott Loken. He was pressuring me about research and I was pressuring to know about certain research endeavours I am performing and was making accusations that I was not very capable as a mage. What are you researching? That's irrelevant to what this conversation is. Humour me. With all due respect I would rather not. It is not relevant to what we are discussing now. That is exactly

exceptionally not only private but also quite important work. Something to do with necromancy? No, no, nothing to do with necromancy. Where's our Benoit blog? Oh, you guys are the Benoit block, that's the thing. I think unfortunately, you're in a position where we decide the relevancy of your research. The research has nothing to do with this.

Surely you would rather know about what happens happened with Lord Arbraxian, yes? What? What? The sender of this dream, they picked you for a reason. Yes, because I am a mage capable of the spell that they need it. Both spells that they needed. What were the spells you cast?

There's no use hiding any of it now, is there? Um, out in the garden, shown a very specific location in the garden to face that looks out onto an abandoned estate neighbours this one. The balcony can be seen from this particular spot in the garden. I conjured a gateway, an arcane gate that links the two spaces between them. We need to go there. What was the second?

A major image to make it look like Lord Umbraxian had left. Right. I know that one. I was just, I was told, open the gate and then to go make it look like Lord on Bragsyon had left on his own accord. So what's significant about this other house? I don't know. I don't know. I was just told to look in that direction, look for the balcony and to conjure the gateway there. Did you see who used the gate?

I couldn't really see. Ambraxian was in front of me and the portal behind him. I just saw him go quite weak. I frankly didn't want to know any more details. I immediately, as soon as I'd cast the gateway, I left. I just turned away. Lady Glomeris. Yes.

Do you know anything about... She, by the way, you've known... Like, for somebody who is so still and so gathered and collected, you can feel the anger and the sort of rage that this person has dared to do. this in her house against one of her kin. A dragon. And she is, you know, this is like, you can see her eyes are literally lit with like green flame.

Her mouth, her like teeth now look more fang-like. Her long nails have become more like claws. Almost like she's barely containing her humanoid form. It's all right. All five of us will be good cop. Lady Glomeres. Yeah. Do you know anything about this estate that backs off to your garden?

There are several that surround my estate. Not as beautiful as yours, but this abandoned one. I'd belonged to some alchemists long ago. It's been abandoned for at least a decade or so. Is it trespassing if we go and investigate? If it is, I will give you full permission. I will deal with the wormguard. You are in my district.

Then we shall do that. Go investigate, find Ambraxian. Perhaps then we can get to the... the bottom of this, you, you cretin, you traitor, you miserable little mage, how dare you do this in my house? You see like green and black flame is like rolling out of her like, almost Angelina Jolie, like perfect like features.

And it's rolling. You see Jaliah does manage to keep her nerve and does not pass out from fear, but it's just sort of like, I didn't know, I didn't know, I just thought it would be some sort of, Ransom, I thought it would be paid off. It's important. It was important that they don't reveal what was about me.

I had no choice. I had no choice. You had every choice. Like grabs her by the throat and like lifts her up. I will make sure the worm guard makes you pay. Just before we go running off after this, can I just incite that sort of reaction as well? Yeah.

Just to see how authentic it is. Or even if anything they've said is... Yeah, get paranoid. suspect everyone. I kind of want to just stick around though and just see what's going now with her. She's fine. Dragon fine.

I can watch this for a bit. I've got a four, so... I mean, she seems just real pissed. Yeah. She seems like this is, she is taking this exceptionally personally. Oh, yeah. Oh, not glimmer, sorry.

The, um, the... Oh, the counselor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just see if the reaction to all of this is like... Oh, actually... Yeah, she is basically... She is being caught red-handed by you guys. There was, like, no way out.

for her. Once she'd been cornered, once it was clear that she knew about the lie and she knew that basically she was rumbled. Whatever she does not want to be found out and whatever her research is

is clearly like worth probably like life imprisonment or something. To be a participant in the abduction of a dragon is like capital effect. You know, it's as bad as being, like, killing a dragon, basically. So this is, like, she is in deep, deep shit. Hell yeah.

And that research is getting errated, I imagine, eventually. Well, potentially, but she is doing everything she can to save face at this point with that. You get the sense that maybe not entirely for herself as well. Like, this is, it goes, she, if it was just about her and her reputation, she, like, yeah, there'd be no point in trying to keep anything secret because, you know, at this point, she's kind of stuffed, but imagine that there's probably some element here of protecting either co-workers or other people or perhaps conspirators, you don't know.

Yeah. But definitely, she, at this point, like, she's, yeah, you don't get the impression that she's lying about anything. She whumbled. Rumbled. Well, before we skedaddle, there is still the issue of who did this to you, and they could still be here.

Yes. So if we all leave, there's still people here that we haven't pursued. Okay, the thing is, with the wording of the spell, I don't know who cast it. Well, that's how we're choosing to interpret it, right? I know that, like, you know, obviously the suggestion spell, there is nothing in there to say that you don't know who cast it. But also there's nothing in there to say that you do know that you were charmed. It doesn't specifically say that you are aware that you were being manipulated. So I think the way that you're choosing to interpret it is that Xanthus thinks it was his idea.

Orah said something, but it went into my head as my thought. As your idea. And also, like I said, it was a crowd, it was a big crowd, very easy to miss. I think that's the thing, even Daisy and Rowan didn't really see her do anything to Xanthius, because everybody kind of got up and went to move at the same time. So it's kind of hard to know exactly what happened. Despite that, though, Zanthius does still want to know where Orra is. So if I'm like looking around, can I...

You can like move back in and like glance into the ballroom. You can see that there is commotion because Lady Glamyrus's house guard are currently blockading the ballroom and preventing anyone from leaving. Okay. To which the Ossians are like, how dare you, you can't do that to us.

We're diplomats. Like, we have diplomatic immunity. If we want to leave, we can leave. So you can see that, like, like, like, poxmus is especially getting quite irate. He's like, no, I wish to leave, yes, yes, yes, it's time to be leaving. You cannot stop me. I am plague master poxomis. Like, he's getting quite agitated.

Delia, we might need some. Yes, I was then thinking, I'll go over and see if I can calm them down. Yes. While they do that, can I send Saren up and out, like, to fly past. So Gruff would have known the direction, because she's saying, said looking from the balcony. Right. And he saw where the scorch mark was of presumably the arcane gate.

Right, yes, I see. Yeah, you absolutely can. Just do some aerial surveillance. Yeah, so let's do that first. You send Sarah now, and Serran flies in the sort of direction that Jaliyos described. And he flies probably about 500 feet, almost to the exact point. And you see that there is a balcony of this old. kind of abandoned,

probably was once quite a gorgeous kind of gothic-y estate, but it's long been sort of abandoned. You can see that most of the windows are boarded and barred, the garden below is like super overgrown. But there is a stone balcony that looks that is almost in perfect view

of where that line, where that portal was. And as Serran flies closer, you can see that those two doors, all of the wood like barring has been pried. free and they're sort of like in the wind they're just gently sort of like flapping back and forth um Does Serran get closer? Is this just like an aerial observation? I think aerial observation for now because I don't want to spook if any

Sure like she's pretty in a city. Yeah, she's pretty unusual. Yeah, so I think that like kind of keeping the distance, but Seren does see that there is this clear balcony that would be the exact point that these two things would be connected and it's almost exactly 500 feet. I know exactly where we need to go. So Sister Afida, you make your way down, sort of joining Xanthius at the top. I think that there is like some commotion as, there is a parvina wants to see who's.

Galen, it's like, well how come they can leave? And he's like pointing at Xanthius. Why is he allowed to leave? And he's pointing directly behind. I don't know. My dear obstin, please, everybody, calm down, calm down. Barris, like, Sister Ophidio, what is happening? Why are they blocking us from anyone from leaving?

We're just making sure that everybody is accounted for. Why, what has happened? I've just motioned Varus over. As you motioned Varys over, high priest Zithos will also come over. Anything you say to young ever night, you must say in front of me, Sister Ophelia, if you know something. Well, no, it's just, someone has gone missing. We're just trying to make sure that everybody here is all accounted for.

So once we know that everybody is here... Who's gone missing? Where's Namissia? I don't know where Namissia is. Is she all right? Is she the one that's been hurt? Is someone hurt? No, no, no, no, no. It's fine. It's not a murder, it isn't? No, no, no, no. We're just looking into it. I'm just helping the good lady just make sure everybody is all here,

and then everything will be sorted. It's... Afila, you must understand. They don't have the authority to do this. We are allowed to leave. If they try... If they don't let us leave, we are full of. fully under our rights to have our guards force. I understand, but please, a little drinking, little more dancing.

It'll be over very quickly, please. Oh, the mood's long gone for dancing, Ophelia. Make the mood, make the best of it. Do what Ossians do best. Give me a persuasion route, please. Fate. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Thirteen. Thirteen. Even with fate, I think that Varus is not convinced. And I think Zithos also is just like, you must understand. Ophelia, this is not a time for mirror-making. This is quite a statement to have a draconic noble accuse us and force us

to remain in their home under their guard. This is unacceptable. It cannot be accepted. If you have any sway with the Lady Gromeres, you must tell her to let us leave and return to the embassy. This is against the diplomatic agreement between the

empire and Osseus. She must be allowed to let us. She can keep the others here, but we, the Ossian delegation must be allowed to leave. I understand, yes, but while you were here and present in this room at the time that this has all happened, we must remain. It's for our safety. Is it? Is it for our safety or for these dragons?

It doesn't sound like it's for our safety. It's for everybody. Is it an Ossian who is missing? No. Then it is not to our safety? It is for everybody's safety. It is not. We are fine. If no Ossians are missing.

No, no Ossians are missing. but Austians have since left the building since this took place. Then even more reason for us to be able to leave. Well, yes, but, oh, you must forgive me, you must forgive me. It's important you must stay here. Mr. Ophelia, you are not as wise and experienced in diplomacy as I am. If you have the Lady Glomeris's ear,

you must convince her for us to leave. If we do not, our guards... What do you think the Shadow Walker will assume when we cannot leave? This is an incident. It will cause an international incident. If there is suspicion, the embassy will work within the law. We will cooperate with the wormguard at our embassy. We will not be held prisoner here in this estate.

I understand, my lord. Go and speak with her now. Fine, I will. Various will just look to you. Sister, Aphelia, I know this really is the most important thing for us. I understand. I just don't want anyone to get hurt or go missing. fine. We will go straight to the embassy. We have our guards. The Shadow Walker is patrolling.

We will be right. But we cannot be kept in here. Right. She can keep the others, but the Osseans must be allowed to leave. I will speak to the lady, but I make no promises. Xanthias, you're watching all of that happen. Oh, sorry, I was looking for Aurora or just to get a track of his too. Orra's just with her two friends.

And, like, she's just drinking. She's like, ha, ha, ha. Like, she's playing the stupid Valley Girl party girl right now. Okay. Hasn't left, okay, fair enough? No. And she, like, she's, like, just, like, whispering to her friends. Adventurous, lady.

Yeah. Everybody except the people I mentioned are here. Great. Just making sure that no one else has sort of slipped out somewhere along the line. Nope. They don't look like it. Okay. Great.

Pass through everybody. Yeah. Just run through all of them. Should we, where is Rowan Daisy? You guys are still in the entrance hall with Lady Gomereus. I'm going to send the Daisy chain out so at least Ophelia can hear it. I think we should head over to the abandoned estate as soon as possible before anything happens. Like they leave the estate and go further away.

The Ossians are very unhappy about this. Right. Is there anything we can do? I don't know. They want to leave. Okay. Uh, well, Glomiris is not going to be happy with that. No. Because any of them could be suspect. Yes.

But... Being a diplomat's hard. You've got this, Ophelia. I might go ahead. Daisy come with me. Rowan, keep an eye on, Zanthias. I just don't... This is going to take some time, and every second we spend here,

we're losing an opportunity to find the Lord. I agree. I'll stay with Zanthius. Ophelia. How did things go? Not well. Okay. They are very unhappy. Then let's just try and get this wrapped up as quick as we can.

Why are they unhappy? They want to leave. They believe it's a, well, I suppose it is a diplomatic faux par. Is it? Are they innocent? I don't know. Well, if they're innocent, they should just stay put, right? Oh yeah, because that really works when you accuse a foreign nation of like a crime, and they're just like, well, we're innocent.

stay here. We'll just accept that we're being accused. No, but accusation has been levied their way. Also, we don't know, an Orseon did or didn't do this. Well, then there's no reason to keep them here. Plenty of reason to keep them here. Apparently not. Plenty of reason to keep everyone here. There is not enough chocolate.

I don't know who I'm arguing with. I'm arguing with the sky. You're arguing with the GM right now. Yeah, yes. Well... Right. Well, just get this wrapped off as quick as we can. Right. What did you say? You said you were going to... I said I'll go speak to the lady.

Right. Great. Great. in that time that we pretend to do that, let's just go to the abandoned place and just try and get this wrapped up quickly. I'm going to recast the Daisy Chain with Santhes in back again. Okay. Right, let's go find Lord on Brexit.

So just to confirm, you are not going to speak to Lely Glomeras, Ophelia. Can I just drop a hint to her that the Ossians are just getting unhappy? Just so she's... Just not say that they want to leave, but just say... I mean, you don't need to drop a hint.

can hear them from where she is. But she is, like, she has basically got the counsellor back on the chair. You can see that, like, she's, like, conjured black roiling flames, like, manacled. Okay, she's got it handled. She's clearly got this handled. Okay. Let's just go away. Okay, so, good to know.

We can mop that matter. So let's, just check in. That's not us issue. That's an ophelia issue. So just to check. So Gruff and Daisy, you are going to do what? Well, we were going to start. If Ophelia was going to be stuck talking to Glamyrus,

I was going to suggest that we went ahead, but it sounds like everyone's coming. Okay. Either way, I'm casting pass without a trace. Hmm. Okay. When we, you know, are on the way to this estate. Okay, sure.

Um, yeah. Uh, Lady Glamaris will, is like, Yes, find him quickly. Inform me as soon as you know where he is. Sending spell me or something. We will. Do you have anything of... We have his cloak?

Yes. I can scry. I try to send a spell, but yes, if you wish to, by all means. It will delay us. Do it. It's best we know what we're getting into. I've never done this before. Worth a shot. Worth a try.

We'll keep pushing you along as we're walking. Uh, okay. So you're not going near Orra anymore, you're heading with us. No, if Orr is in the ballroom, which is currently being blockaded by the house guard. So if they're not going anywhere, they're not going anywhere. This doesn't seem to be going anywhere. All right. Until shit kicks off and Clamaris goes back in there, starts screaming at Arseans.

That might be when people start to leave. But until then... We've got a little bit of time. We got maybe 45 seconds top. Well, this place is 500 feet away as the crow flies from the garden. It will take you a bit longer. It's going to take you time to go through the streets and get there and then make your way up into it.

It was 500 feet directly from the gardens, like in a straight flying line. You have your dimension door jacket thing? Have you used already? No, I can use it. I have dimension door. So I can get two of us. Someone else will get. Four of us.

It's two. It's a, me and another person. Yeah. And then if Rowan does it as well, that's four. It will take me 10 minutes to cast Scry. Oh shit, really? Yeah, fuck. 10 minute cast time.

Yeah, and that's not even as a ritual as a normal spell. Oh, damn, okay. So 20 minutes is a ritual. It's not a ritual spell either. Any other means to track him? That's all I got. Okay. Okay.

So may I ask what the plan is? Are we doing Scriy spell? Some of you could go ahead. Do you mention doing? I think, I think, I might as well just charge in, to be honest, a scry or not. It will get there before ten minutes are up anyway, right? I see. Time is against us.

Yeah. We go. Can I take his cloak with us? Yeah. Yes, take it. Go. What are you waiting for? We go. We fly. The mansion door, Ophelia, do you feel like running?

You're the fastest of all of us. I can run. Frankly, I'm quite happy to run. Take the roofs if you need to. Yes. Well, because you can spider climb as well, say, 50 feet. I can't have Batman.

It will take, you are going to be delayed in arriving there if the rest of them dimension door. It's fine. It will get us out super fast, though. So, Rowan, Graff, Zanthius and Daisy, you guys are all going to dimension door to the balcony from the garden.

So that's using your door. One spell and in your cloak, basically. If you're happy to use that, obviously. When we rematerialize, I will cast pass without a trace. Okay. I'll leave Percy and the ballroom. Percy's here. Percy could be with Horned.

Really? Okay. Yeah, yeah. he'll just he'll be slower he won't be able to like keep up with you come on Percy we're going for a run yeah he's gonna be like very slow compared to you um yeah and also he has no spider climb like he doesn't have climbing speed so he's like physically climbing up there goes around the perimeter he's not going some of the guards outside Percy where are you going chasing off the mother yep um you make your way you all the four of you

rematerialize on a balcony, a thick layer of dust along most of it, but even the least perceptive of you, it's not hard to see. That's me. Hey! There has been great disturbance to the dust on the balcony here.

The doors have been, had their wooden boards pulled free, have been unlatched. Gruff, you cast past without trace, taking a few seconds. Can I cast Detect Evil and Good? Yeah, read that out for me, though, because it's not a spell I super know very well. For this duration, you know if there's an aberration, celestial, elemental, feign, or undead within 30 feet of you, as well as where the creature is located.

You do not sense any of those creatures. Fine. Worth for try. It was with the gold site, aren't you? Sure. You cast a spell as the four of you are now on the outside of this balcony. Oh, a question that might be useful in the future. Do you detect NIM?

Celestial. I think that you would detect from Daisy. There is a faint celestial energy from Daisy. And there was a faint undead from a feeling as well. And a faint undead, yes. Yeah. But not like a fool. Because like NIM as a spirit is like infused into Daisy.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was something about that. Elemental. And there was something about me too. I think all of us except gruff. It was, except me, because I was just, I'm just correct.

Yeah, I'm just gruff. It was gruff. But now. But anyway. Demosonic. You all arrive on this balcony. You take a few seconds to cast bells. Any noises inside that house?

Make a perception check. Shit. Why did I ask this? It's a great question. I can make a perception. Anybody can do whatever they would like. I'm gonna make a perception check. Um, unnatural one.

Umpanour one? You hear nothing. You fall off the balcony. God, the noise of that spell was so loud. No, I rolled a natural one. His dimension door is crazy loud. It's been an hour since I've conjured my mindless servant. No.

So I got a... Oh wait, no, so it would be a 10, because I have... I did cast it. I just didn't do anything because... Reliable talent. Reliable talent. If you roll under a 10, it counts as a 10. So it's a 19.

A 19. That's so stupid. No, that's one of the main things of being rogue. It's a great. Nat one into a 19. Reliable talent is amazing. It feels weird. 19, please.

On my Nat one. Thank you. You hone your senses, Daisy. And again, very similar to before, you feel NIM's presence in. You sort of almost trying to extend your senses. out using their own hearing, their celestial healing, trained for millennia as a scout, as a soldier. You hear coming from in the room. There's like a kind of drapey curtain, you know, drawn where these

windows, these doors out onto this balcony are. You can hear just a faint sound like somebody in armour has hidden themselves or is like trying to be quiet. You can just hear this faint sound. metal scraping as if they're pressed up against something. Like close to the door? Not close, no. You can't really tell where. It's kind of echoing in the room, but you can definitely, you have a feeling that your arrival and then casting spells

has alerted people inside, and now they are trying to keep themselves hidden. I will say that you don't know where they are because you actually got their stealth, you've got evens, you got equals. But you know that somebody, at least one person inside is hidden, is hiding. I will in the Daisy Chain inform everyone of that. Someone in there, with her hiding, okay. In Daisy Chain. They know we're here.

Would it be crazy if I altered self into Jala and walked in? As a reminder, alter self doesn't change your clothing. Like height, wait, sound of voice. Yeah, it's just the body, isn't it? Mm-hmm. Naked. So still, potentially. It'd be a much harder cell.

Crazy out there. I would also say, like, you guys are like, this is like taking time, like having this conversation, like, stood out. Would it be crazy if I disguise self as Jala, just walk in? For all Jarlah. Because that does alter clothing.

Stathius maybe move first and we'll keep. You know we're here. Right. So we get in now. It's made us more silent. Is it just... Is it just these doors? You are on a stone balcony. There are like French doors, basically.

There's no other way in that you can see. There wasn't like a ground floor. Like 60 feet below you or so you are up high. Like this is like from the garden. Like she was like looking diagonally so you're up on like the top floor of this estate. So you are up in like the top top floor. Is my on scene? 11 is still up.

Yeah? Can I get them to just go through the door? So this is like 500 feet away from the house, like there is... And also I don't know if it has the range to do that. No, it's got 60 feet. I'm just going to say, were on me, or if they were...

Well, you are also on your way there. You are not there yet. You are going to take some time to get there. I'm coming on my way. Yeah, like even moving as quickly as you do a few, like you are like at least five rounds away. So with the spellcast and maybe this conversation, where she can move like 100 feet a turn.

Yeah. She can move and then dash. Sorry. That's all right. If I had a blood point again. If I had a blood point again. If I had a bloodstream. If you know if that doesn't take you that far.

Sanguine meteor. It takes you like 30 feet. 10 feet every two of course. It's a sanguine meteor. It should take you to the end of the world. Also I need to give you the updated version of the blood fruit because it's all been changed and updated. So I need to print that off for you.

Also that is a valid question. So, what's the plan? I could turn into a cat and go in again. Yes, I think the smallest cat you can do. We're assuming this is all indeed. Okay, the smallest, selfish cat. See you'll hear anything, we'll come charging in quietly. So I can still, well actually, pass without trace.

Now that I've cast it, it's just on me. It's just concentration. It's on you, don't forget. So if you move too far away, they'll lose the benefits. You don't lose concentration. You don't lose concentration when you... No, when I have a cat. When you're wild shape, I mean.

No, cool. I'm the most concentrate cat ever. Really thinking about... Licking that. Little one. Keep in mind, do you have wild shapes because also your armor of Wokenthalen uses them as well? I haven't armored.

I've just... Gently open the door for you. Okay, you transform into a cat. Got it. An older cat. If you became a kitten... It looks like Milo. And then set me inside.

graph anything in there? So the doors are kind of like, so you're going to push the doors open and step through basically. Oh, I was just going to gently like enough for a cat to get through. Sure. No, just fully arrogant that ship. Tactical can.

You move in. They're in. Obviously, you didn't say that I'm going to assume you are moving stealthily and you are trying to like slip in unseen. And I have passed without a joke. Because also keep in mind, you are like on a third floor balcony of an abandoned building, it would still be weird for a cat to move into this room.

It's an abandoned building though, and it's also dark, right? It's not a side. It's 60 feet up in the air from a balcony that has no, like... No, I just mean like, we're going into an abandoned building. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, so I'm assuming that you're going to be stealthy. The cat looks like myel. Very dark fur, black fur, you'd say. So I will need a stealth roll.

The darkest fur. Yeah. But heads of grey. So you can use the cats. A cat's a line. Bonus. It says I'm here. Crazy, cat.

So I have... So you've used the cat stealth in this case because it's a physical. Plus 10 bonus as well. Plus, yeah, so cat's bonus plus 10 from Pass Without Trace. I don't have a cat up. Do you have a cat up?

I think it has plus 5, plus 4 to stealth, I think. 15. 25. Plus 10, 25, plus whatever the bonus is. So 29. I don't think I can spot you. I am the night. You slip in.

The room inside is not pitch black. There is a single oil lamp, which has been left, turned right down, so that you can't see it from the outside because there is a curtain from the windows. But it is enough to cast about a 10-foot dim light glow at a far end. You appear to be, in what would have once been,

a rather opulent large ballroom, similar to the one that you've just come from, but this one obviously up on the top floor. Or maybe just a large open room. I think that this has been long cleared out of furniture. There's no furniture here. It's all like bareboards. There are still some like columns

and decorations on the walls, but they're all old and faded. Everything is covered in dust. What is your passive perception graph? Passive 19. 19. you stealth in and you can see that very carefully positioned in one of the corners of the room using darkness

and these sort of like carved columns that are sort of set into the walls there's an old battered door that's been sort of propped open and that leads out of this room into probably what you assume is the rest of the estate you see that there is a figure a fully armored like plate wearing figure and they have a, you can see that they have like a sword on their back, but they have a longbow part drawn and they are looking at the doorway. They have a ready action. So as soon as they spot a creature coming in and they're going to take a shot with it. The only other thing, you don't see Lordenbrexium here. The only other thing of note is you can see that leaning up

against the wall with like an old dust cover thrown over it is something. It could be a painting, some sort of long, flat shape that's been like placed up against the wall and it's been covered with a dust sheet. It looks like it could have easily just been left here from the previous. I've got my bag of holding. I'd communicate where this person is

and that they're drawing a long bow and they have a direct line of sight on the... If I charge in, I can take control of their mind or something. Wait. Wait. Wait, wait. I can't use once I can. Um...

I can make a minor image to run in first. And now I charge you. Do you want me to check? I would need, I don't believe minor image can create a full creature. Do you want me to check if there is more people here? I think silent image would certainly do it. Sorry, yes. So I've got silent image.

Image of an object creature, no larger than 15 foot cube. A silent image. Silent image. Silent image. Yes. But look to see if there's others as well. So is there a way that I can walk, I guess in there's one exit? There's one exit that's sort of in the middle of the wall.

this figure is at the far end. So I'd have to walk past them? You would have to walk past them, no, but you would be walking closer to them. You'd be walking towards them. I will keep trying to walk. Get yourselves ready. I'm going to try and walk so I can see what else is in this place

because I think there's probably more. But if case this gets wrong, get ready. Dozy, if my spell doesn't work, I need you to go in there and stab him in the neck a hundred times. What are you doing? Yeah, I need to hear what people are doing. I'm ready to cast silent image to cause the ready action to go off.

To go into the door, the moment the longbow, whatever, the arrow charges at that, I go in after to dominate person. Okay. Can I get Gruff to send an image of the room to us? Yeah. Basically want to try and plot. It's a big empty room. Yeah.

Big empty room. Because I don't have a map, so it's like, a 20 foot by 30 foot empty room. But just in relation to where he is in the room. Yes, he's in the far corner. So if you're on sort of like the back wall, he's on the corner to the left, in the back left corner of the room.

But he doesn't have anything covering him. He's using like a column, like a wall column is like a partial cover. Right. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Do you see it in Cat Vision?

Let's move on. I'm going to move, try and move, towards the exit. Give me another stealth roll, please. Yep. As you move closer. Two plus 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 16 total.

If it's a plus four for a cat. It's plus four. I'm going to say it's a plus four. I can't be bothered to look out. Because I've got a lot of things open. Only a 16 you say. As you sneak your way down, as a little cat, like, you sort of move, move closer.

And I think that even with your lightweight form with pass without trace and everything on, there is, I don't know what this would be, maybe like, just like smotes, moats of dust, and you sort of kind of make, not a sneeze, but like it causes like a little bit of a disturbance, and you see the figure kind of looks and seems to see you as a creature.

And almost autonomously, you get the sense that this is like, there's no conscious thought it just immediately and fires at whatever creature it can see basically and it is gonna take a shot at you basically it seemed exceptionally perceptive

as well I feel like it should be higher because I'm small and like if you were a kitten far harder to hit that is going to be a 21 to hit oh that doesn't hit 23 for a cap.

It's 12. As they pull a shot on graph, can use that opportunity to get into the... So this is like a ready action for like shooting a creature as soon as they see it. Then we're gonna roll initiative and then you guys connect. That is gonna be 15 points of damage graph. I'm just double checking so I get temporary hit points 12, 13, 14.

Ah, beats it by one! Yeah. I don't believe it necessarily knocks you out of your form, by the way. Does it not? No, I was reading this up. It doesn't knock you out of the form, but obviously there's no real benefit to you staying in cat form. So it doesn't knock you out. You just get the temporary hit points, and if you go to zero now, then you get knocked out of the wild shape form. But when you don't have combat wild shapes, it's not as relevant anymore. Yeah, you're a tiny cat. So you take the 15 points in damage.

Also, your speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of your next turn, and that will cross over if you shift back into gruff as this basically catches you in like the hind legs kind of rips through your flesh there. You then see that this warrior is dropping that bow and is going to pull out their sword. At this point we roll in this too. Do they feel like a dreadful person

because they just attacked a cat? No, there's almost, and you don't see, you can see that they have a full, almost like Salet Helm, like black-coated Salet Helm. They only have like a tiny visor. Their eyes are like glassy. Two ones. Fucking God.

You have advantage? Yeah. That's for the advantage. Two ones. At once. That's phenomenal. You should make a wish. I mean, at least it's on, what, initiative.

Like, that's fine. I mean, I'm not there again. You're still like four rounds, will be. Here you go. Oh, thank you. In this trying time. Okay. Daisy.

Sixteen. A little. 16. 16 Zemp. I got a top of it. Four. Oh my god, did you rule one? Okay.

So Gruff, you have stepped in. And again, there is this glassy look. All you can see is like two almost like unthinking, just completely glazed eyes. Takes the shot with the bow. As you're sort of reacting to that, you kind of send a trigger to like the Daisy Chain, like they've spotted me or something like that.

A second, sorry, it's going to be a second, a third, three arrows in succession come from the other corner of the room where there was another one hiding who had a slightly higher stealth and beat your passive perception I think I'm definitely coming out of cat form well you're in cat form right now right

but you said I will come out of it I'll choose to come out of it on your turn that's how your wild shape works right like I think you have to end it I can't find anything that says that it's a bit confusing since they changed it quite honest with you. There's nothing...

You lose temp HP, though. I've lost, though. I've lost my... No, whenever you wild shape now, no matter what form you take, you gain temporary hit points, I think, equal to your druid level. Yeah.

And then that's it. That's the only... And then you get the statistics of the shape that you're in. So you can get, like, its senses or at speed. You stay in that form for a number of hours, or until you use wild shape again, have the incapacitated condition or die.

Oh! Okay, so you have to wild shape again to come out of it, basically. Oh, that's the bit that's confusing me. I thought it was... once you lose the wall. Y-Shap HP. No, so that's how it used to be,

that they've changed that now. Okay. Yeah, I thought it was just- You can also leave the form earlier as a bonus action. Yeah. Oh, right. That's, yeah.

So this, and so this is where it matters because obviously a cat's AC, much lower than roughs-s-a-c. Yeah, like, what, three readied actions, ready to just... Well, this is normal, this is, he's just rolled 20 initiative, so he's going first.

This other guy's just going first. Oh, I didn't know that rule change, yeah. Yeah. And that's like, that's the thing is I think because the last time you wild-shaped, we had you get knocked out of the form. But I read it up, and apparently this is how it is now.

It means that wild shaping as creatures like cats in combat, exceptionally dangerous because your AC is really bad now, and you just have to take it all on your normal HP. Whereas if you're like an old druid like your Laura was where you could become like actual decent creatures, then you're like, well, this is fine. I've got shitloads of HP and I'm still a combat beast. I think I just would have approached it differently

if I'd known that was a rule change. Shoot me, Mommy. I'm going to. I'm going to. The first one, sorry, I rolled was an 18, so that one's gonna hit. The second one is a 23, and the next one is it like a 28, so all of these again.

So how does this work with HP then? It goes through to my HP. Okay, I'm with you now, I mean. You don't use the cat's HP. You get temp HP when you're wild shape, and you use your HP pool now. That's how it works. 22 piercing damage.

It's confusing though. From the first one. 14 from the next arrow. So they're not. I was just thought you'd die as a cat. Like, that was my conclusion. And then 14 from the third arrow. Fum, fom!

From the corner is these three arrows. And then you hear the sound of a longbow being dropped. Armoured footsteps begin, coming from the corner, you see dressed in black plate armor, again with that black salet helm with just the visor visible. They're all bound up in black cloth.

They have flamburge, like waved great swords in their hands. And you can see that on their belts, they have a complex-looking hand crossbow and what looked like at least one more of those tranquilizer darts that you found gruff. And they come through. What does it mean? They do not speak.

They do not. It just immediately is like coming towards the threat. No insignia. No insignia. No, yeah. And it's weird that they're like this aggressive. Yeah, they're just going to square a cat. Yeah.

Almost like they're acting under autonomous orders. A moth flew in. Yeah. Yeah. Well, the moth would have died to a single arrow. Yeah. And a cat, a normal cat would have died to a single arrow, but this one, they just charge in.

So... It just moths pin to the wall. Nothing gets in. Moves in about 30 feet. The walls are littered with that. And then as a bonus action, there's a flag. Charges and gets within five feet,

but has no more attacks to use. I'm sorry to get bonded. is like, literally, it's like lifting this great sword over you. Oh, God. Rocks up as you see this cat just get booted out of Valgoon. What's up in the room? Hey, gruff, how is it going in the... Rowan.

Fuck, man. I mean... Oh, you might need to... Looking at the situation, can I see you... I think it's gone, man. It's fucking gone, man. There's like a thick curtain on the other side of the French doors.

Like, you can hear it from the face change. You can hear the sound of arm and feet. You hear it. the thumb, thumb, thumb of the long bone. You hear the grow? I mean, do you want me to roll four concentration checks? Yeah. So what do I need?

Over 10? There was no damage over 20, so yeah, three, three, four technically tens. 11. 19. 13. 15. How does not try to stop.

That means Daisy can just go right to the very end. You do have a plus 10 bonus to stealth if you wish to be stealth. Oh, plus 23. the range on it. 30 feet. So yeah, you are currently all still within range. Plus 23.

A plus 23, you said. Reliable on Scarfrey. Yes. I'm on this feeling. So the minimum you can roll. Rowan. Running in. Okay, so you burst in, you see two armoured figures

over Gruff's body basically, both of them now wielding these great sorts. You would never see in me. I'm not here. 33 minimum rolls. I was gonna slow, but I didn't, With, pass without a trace as well. But, yeah, Reliable is, like, one of the things that makes Rhoeg's awesome.

It's crazy. Yes, go on, sorry, right? Given that they're right over, I'm going to thunder clap. One of them is. One of them's right over the cat. The other one is about 10 feet in the corner. Yeah, they're separated. Slightly.

Oh, okay. So that would be. Yeah, we're going to have to theater of the mind in this one. All right, in which case I will cast slow. Up to six creatures of my choice within range. hit both of them. What kind of saving throw am I making? Can I hit anyone that's here? Is it only two? There's only two? Oh, well, see. It's a wisdom 16, please. Wisdom 16. The first one is going to unfortunately pass with a 17. The next one is a 26. Dice are very hard, I'm afraid. So you burst

in, you try and strung with Sustanoito. This slow spell falls over them, but these two warriors, like, just completely unfazed. But one does look towards you. No. No, he does not want to baric. I want to bar dick. Use your words. Xanthius.

Santhias, perfect. Rough, you are up next. Hello, I will come out of cat form. Bonus action, come out of cat form. That was a cat. And I will, I think, just didn't panic, nothing fancy. I'm going to straight up just attack with Thadokvood. Okay, go for it.

No, it's not good. It's not good. You never know. 13 to hit. 13 will not hit these guys. No. They are covered in armor. I've only got one attack, haven't I?

Why can't have two? You have two. If you're doing Therick four. Yeah. You've gone again. You use your bonus. 13 plus nine. 20.

That will hit something. Yeah, that will hit. Seven. This is the one that's right over you. We're going to call this one B. B gets 12 slashing. What do I do? What damage do I do? Slashing with an axe, yeah.

And I will do one, a single point of fire damage through my primal strike. Perfect, okay, 13 points of damage. Sorry, it's a D8 for that. I rolled a D6. You dumb ass. 12 points of damage. Five points.

17 points of damage, thanks. Thank you. You strike. the blows slams into the armor, no reaction, no grunt of pain, sort of takes it. You know, they're still at high hit points. It doesn't maybe cut through and slice them or anything, but you definitely put them on the back foot.

That's your whole turn? In that case, we go to Daisy. Hello. Hello. I will enter the womb. Okay. Are you entering stealthy? Ah, I'm going back.

They know about us. They know about these guys currently fighting them, but. They haven't seen you guys out on the balcony yet. So he's not still up. I run. Proman's burst in, yeah. Yeah, so I will... Sure, I'll try and step.

Because it would be a bonus action to do the hide action and sneak in, is what I'm saying, is the reason I wanted to ask. Teleport behind them, nothing personal kit. Or you could just run out, like, one's engaged with gruff. You can just run off and sneak attack right now. Well, one's engaged with gruff,

so I could just come into the room and... That's what I mean, you can just sneak attack them anyway. Yeah, so I think I will... Attack, from, I will go in the door, I will attack, first of all. Bo, shoot the one fighting gruff. Okay. This balcony is not very big, by the way. It was about big enough for the four of you guys.

Oh, 22 to hit. 22 hits. Then, I get a sneak attack, hang on. Thanks. 27 points of damage. And then I will... Radiant damages. And then I will...

The arrow slammed into one, kind of staggering them off for a brief moment. Looks back towards the balcony. Can I run into a corner and attempt to hide in the columns that he... You can, but as soon as they get within five feet of you, they're going to know where you are if they move up to you, because there's nothing to hide, like, directly behind.

Sure. In that case, we then go to Warrior A, who is closest to Gruff, so he's just going to move up to Gruff and make three attacks against Gruff. First attack with their sword is going to be only a 15. No. The next one is going to be a 22. And then the last one is going to be, that's also going to be a miss. It's only a 14.

Nice. Give me these D6. It's cool. One hit. One kill. But they are the one-hit wonder, yeah. Yeah, you're done. 14.

400 catch. No, not a cat anymore. Well, I'm a cat, but I'm a big cat. 23 points of slashing damage, and they are also going to use, do-do-do-do-do-do. They're going to use the maneuverability, which is one ally that can see them, can use their reaction, and is actually going to move half their speed without provoking opportunity attacks. That one that was engaged with you directly, the first one, B, is going to move away

without broken opportunity attacks and engage Rowan. And then just charges into you running, basically. Oh, nice. Congratulations. Oh, nice, congratulations. Oh, nice, congratulations. Thanks for wedding. So, Ophelia, you are literally on the rooftop just coming up to these guys.

You're basically this turn. You are not in the fight. You are scrambling. You're, like, running to them, like, leaping through the air. Next turn, you will arrive, basically. Yeah, I feel like he's activated rage at this point after hearing that Gruff has been attacked.

Yeah, you think, yeah. I'd say you can, as an action, you can bonus action rage, no problem. Ready to go. Because you're going to arrive in the next turn. Yeah. Zanthius. All right, well, let's see how it goes. I don't know how these people are fighting,

and it seems like they don't have minds, but let's try and dominate your mind. I'm going to... Which one? Look through the door, so the one that's fighting... You will need to, like, step in because it's, like, you know, you'll have to, like, fully step into room. Not the one that's fighting graph.

The one that's just run up to run. Yes. Okay. So this is... It's the injured car. Dominate Person. One humanoid within range must succeed on a wisdom save. What's the DC?

The DC is a 17. 15. Oh, boy. What you sense, Xanthus. I can't believe it. When you seize control of this warrior's mind, you immediately get certain information from just this casting spell. That is, you become aware that firstly,

this person has had their mind rewritten and controlled and dominated so much that their mind is basically, most of their personality and mind has been erased and white. They've just been dominated and mind-controlled and memory white. Way to add to that. So much that they are. Just another layer on this. The only thing for you, and again, this is like,

there'd be no evidence or way to prove this, but you get the immediate sensation that their last command, you kind of get like this vision of Orithera basically telling them when the portal opens, drug the dragon, drag them in, put them in the mirror and do not let anything and anyone enter this room until I give you,

until you hear from me. Put them in the mirror, okay. Oh, is it my favorite spell? But you have full control over them. I mean, put them in the mirror. I'm like, I can see that. There is a large dust-covered object. She's a sheet-covered object. Please don't be dying, please.

Full control. She's dying. I don't know. Do I get a command straight away? I believe so. In that case, attack the other one. Yeah. On his turn, you will do that.

Yeah. Asshole, attack bastard. And with my... Well, you controlled B. Oh, I controlled B. You said the one that you wanted to go to the one. Attack arse off. Yeah.

Okay. I have... You have... You have... Bastard. It's... My bastard. Yeah.

Bastard, my bastard. Okay. Bastard's the inched one. Good. I'll tell everyone else, don't attack this one, he's mine. Okay. End of turn.

Do you have a new daddy? I love them. Now, are there conditions on Dominate where they get to repeat the saving threat? Yes. When they take damage. When they take damage.

Okay. So that was an important thing to tell us. Yes. Yes. Yes. Nothing if they like, I fight their friends or anything like that. If I don't give it any more directions,

then it acts and moves as it likes. Protecting itself, focusing on that. You've given it a very clear one. It's its turn next. It's B's turn. Oh, well, with the rest of my movement, can I go in and... Say you probably can't get to the far sheet, basically.

You get to it, but you can't pull the thing off. It's B's go. B walks away from Rowan, moves up to his mate, and makes three great sort of attacks. Sweet. Oh, I forgot you dropped the boat. Yeah, you're right, that's fine.

That's good. Hits with the first one, misses with the second, damn it. Misses with the third. What an idiot. I roll back. Who's controlling this character?

8, 11. Control lag. 16 points of damage. And we'll use the sap effect to give it disadvantage, the other one disadvantage on its next attack roll. So we've brought two pets. Rowan, you are up.

No, no, no. Rough, you're on deck. Are they? So they're fighting each other now. Each other. Well, one is fighting one, the other one hasn't decided what it's doing yet. It's probably going to try to attack it to me. Zanthius hasn't revealed what he knows.

Oh, uh... No, you did, didn't he? You told him not to attack... Yeah. You just told him. Oh, he hasn't revealed anything about like... With the time about the mirror. Sorry, I said, don't attack that guy, he's mine.

Yeah. Yeah, but nothing about the mirror. Not yet. Mirror, mirror, on the floor. You've seen Zanthus move up to this thing on the wall. I'm going to go up to gruffy-wuffy-woo. Oh, don't go on. Okay.

And give a little... Healy-weely to Himmy-Wingy. I hate you so much right now. Okay do-dokey. Kimmy-wimmy. Kimi-wimi-wee. All right. I don't even have to move up to at your will.

Touch me, Daddy. I need to stop. I refuse. I don't think yours was the worst so far. It just automatically comes out of your mouth, doesn't it? I'm in an odd place. Yeah? Healing word, level three.

Here we go. Let's go. Big boy, on campus. Healing up the boys. Let's do this. Bonus action, healing words. Yeah, bonus action. Here we fucking go, gamers. Look at this shit.

Can't leave it. Oh. Can't get here. That's not it. That's not it. Add your modifier. Wait, what level did I say? Third.

No, I don't need that many dice then. Yeah, yeah. It should be more, right? It should be 64. It always says it wrong, doesn't it? Yeah, 64. Plus 4. You can't say it wrong.

Oh my god, it is right there. I was looking at mass healing well. That's right, boo. Hey, Mario, we've been played this for telling you. What was the first, what was it that I said first? You said 12. 18 plus 4. 22.

Thank you. Up in your ass. And then, that's my main action. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna fucking. You can only can't trip or physical action. This is going to be fucking. Can't cost another spell.

Crazy, man. Ready? Watch his drive. Fuck, yeah. I'm gonna... You won't fucking see this coming. I'm gonna start performing the song of Stowe. Oh.

You didn't see that coming, did you? No, I didn't love it. Yeah, I got fucked. I got it. I expected so much less from you. I'm gonna cast armor of open floor. Femnest action? Yeah.

And I'm gonna whack them. Which one are you whacking? The not one, the good one. The not Zan one. Okay. I'm dyslexic, so I don't know what letter it was. A, we'll attack asshole. B as it is.

Okay. Bastard is his, I will attack asshole. Okay. 15 plus 924. Hits. Kill him before he can use it. Hopefully his friend fights. Nine points of slashy.

Nine. A single point of fire. Okay. 12 plus 9. is 21 to hit. 21. On that one, I'm going to use their counter attract trigger, which is going to boost their AC, causing the attack to miss, and then they get to make a great sort of attack.

This is really low. Oh, that is going to be 22 to hit. Wait, 18, 19, 20. You get plus one to AC. Oh, 22 means it beats. Meets it beats. That is going to be... That is going to be...

Well, I'm playing the song. Mites a bouncer. 18 points of slashing damage. How are you looking? I'm all right. And it causes the attack to miss, unfortunately. I might, as a reaction, take that. I'm okay. I'm okay, baby.

I'm okay. I'm a fucking man. If you want to. It's up to trot? No, it's fine. I won't let it. All right, so that was on the miss on the second attack. Anything else on your turn, Gruff?

No, I'm just gonna be here. All right. Daisy. Hello, I'm going to, I guess, shoot A. Okay. Asshole. Asshole. Asshole.

Shoot asshole. I will tempt that. In asshole. 28 to hit. 28 will hit. 2 A and A. Go for the A. On A.

E's A. God, we're funny. That's good. So funny. It's crazy. And you're blessed to listen and watch this. 203. Free.

For free. For free. Oh my God, we should do stay. And you're not supporting us on Patreon. Like what? So the arrow thuds into that one. You see it kind of. stagger for a minute, but I mean they're taking some big punishment from some of these big attacks,

but currently do not seem to be too bothered. Anything else? No, I don't think so, because Xantheis isn't told us about the other... I used my time to say, don't attack my boy. I mean, that was... No, no, pardon. You haven't had another turn yet, so I'm not going to meta-game it. Okay. Oh, I think I've got to be two more... In that case, asshole is going to rather than attack his friend, because... Although they do seem to have this mind control,

they are still very tactically competent. It's going to use bonus action tactical charge to move up to half his speed, 20 feet, towards Xanthias, does not provoke opportunity attacks, and then he's gonna attack Xanthius three times. Am I near Zanthia of the mind? Zanthius moved up to the mirror, so he is not close to you.

Just wait until I dodged it. Is he within 60 feet of me? He's here within 60 feet of you. I will take a reaction for you. Well, this is three attacks, so you can do one. It's okay. That is unshieldable hit. How many?

How many? 10 foot right of head. Yes, he's about 15, 20 feet away currently. The next one is 23. That is unshieldable. And the next one's even higher. So all three of these are going to hit. So first attack, that's even less shield.

He's going to do 23 points of slashing damage. Say when. And you have disadvantaged from your next attack roll. Damn. The next one is going to do 12. Oh wait, he had advanced. He had disadvantaged on one of those rolls from his style. That is very true.

I will re-roll that one. That would still be, bb-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-18. That's shieldable. That's shieldable, motherfucker! Okay, so you shield on the first one. So you can take that damage back. 23, I do not take. 23 do not take, but then all of the other attacks

would be against the shield AC. So that would be 23 on the second attack still. So is that? All the others. They still get. Okay, right. So the actual second attack that does go through is gonna be 19 points of slashing damage. Okay, I think that.

Concentration check on the Dominate person, please. For 10. It would be DC 10 on this one. You do have a body consideration. I also have a plus nine to my corn. Oh, okay. Until he rolls a one. That's 18.

Okay, that's the success. This next one is gonna be 26 points of damage. So that'll be DC 13. Hey, ro-ro. Is that a when? Hey, right, when? When, I'm going to spend a fate to take that into me. So you take 26 points of damage?

Yes. Goente. Because you take no damage, Zanthia, you don't have to make the concentration check on that. Thank you. We'll cut the plan. But definitely, it seems to know that you're the source of its friend attacking, and that's why it's gone for Xanthias.

I reduce the damage that Alic takes. Oh, by 1D12 plus Carrizia. Oh, that's very different. Oh, so you start to make... Either way I'll be making a check. It's 26 currently. Great. That's a fucking 12 plus my Rizzy Whiz of four.

So 16, so it'd go down to 10. Yeah, 10. I did just roll. I got 14, so still the domination stays up. Nice. Bastard. Yeah, also you get the sense that this... It's not just that it senses you're the one dominating the friend, because I don't think it would necessarily know.

that. It's actually more that you've moved up to the mirror, I imagine. Oh, okay. That seems to have triggered it as well. Not even that I stroked the face of bastard as he walked past me. No, didn't seem to affect it. If you didn't like that. Ophelia, you arrive on the scene. Hello, needo, needo. Bursting through the windows.

Raging as I do so. So, what's... So I see... I think we've all gone. So you see a creature fighting Xantheus, like an armored warrior with a great sword. There is another armoured warrior that's currently to you stood between Rowan and Gruff. But I said in the mine. Oh, that's true, yes, which you're a part of, not to attack.

Although, you said don't attack. I said, don't attack him. That boy. He's mine. He's mine. So, I mean, if you charge in, I was like, yeah, I'd say that you know which one not to attack. I'd say you know which one.

This one. So the one attacking Xanthius is the current one. Free one to attack. This guy. Then I shall reckless attack. Don't, not this guy. Stunning rolls. Jesus.

I'm guessing that was 12. Not enough. Wow. But first attack. Yep, second attack. It's just a standard attack this time. Let's see how. Request is for all attacks.

Yeah. Sixth is better. 23 on the second. Hits. Yeah, I can't counterattack that one. This is bog, standard veracity as I pull it out from behind my dress as it was artistically added to the rear of my dress. Mm.

I forgot about the dress. Do you twirl in? Yeah, we haven't had a twirl yet. We need a twirl. I'll twirl on the moment's right. I'll twirl on the moments, right? You guys shouldn't have your armor equipped because you went straight from the gala

where you didn't have your armor. Mine have, yeah, grassy's armor, updated his old outfit. You have shield? You can have, yeah, I'd say you can have your shield. So what would it? It would be... Just unequipped your armor.

Armour of Oak and Thorn, though. What does that do? Adds to his aces, so it's different. Right, right, right. I'm okay, so I always have magic armor. I didn't get hit yet, so I will do it now. What fuck is my mouth? Inventy me.

My iPad is not registering my fingers. We didn't get weapons complicated. No, no, you could still have your weapons. Although you've had to break the peacebawning, but I don't think that the Lady Glomeris is gonna care about that. She said we could do what we wanted. Yeah, she doesn't care about that. But you wouldn't have won your arm into the Gala.

How much damage are we looking at, I feel? That was just the six damage. Just six points of damage? Yeah. Okay. I get a blood point. All right, end of turn. And turn.

How much damage was done to my outfit? Oh no, wait, this is just the... I'll see an outfit. This can get damaged. Yeah, it's also your turn. Oh, it's my turn. Um, uh, I would like to, uh, grab hold of the...

The dust sheet. The dust sheet tap thing. Yeah. As you lift it beneath the... God, it's heavy. Beneath the cloth is a very elaborate looking mirror. The frame of which is decorated in black wrought iron in the effigies of skulls and symbols of death and the icons of

well no direct icons of Osius but this frame this mirror is almost certainly of Ossian make it is currently not reflective it is almost foggy and and filled with a mist do I know of the spell Give me an arcana roll, Zanthias. Because I don't think I, Tom, know the spell. It's not a spell. Oh, okay. But you can give me an arcana roll.

Oh, I don't have any fate. Kind of worse than that, didn't it? Nine. Your knowledge, you know this to be some sort of magical item. Right. You do not know of it, but certainly the Identify Spell would probably reveal more. But also, when I invaded mind, I saw, like, They were told, put them in the mirror and do not let anything enter this room until I tell you.

Daisy chain, they're in the mirror, they're inside the mirror. I don't know how magic item, they're in the mirror. Do not touch it, do not go close to it until I've had a look at it, please. I was going to dispel. Xantheists has also stood right in front of it right now. Okay. Just be, just be careful. Please. Do you touch it?

I mean, I was going to try and do it. dispel. Does that require touch? Does it all? Does it require touch? Yeah, that's quite touch. It is just magical effects, including objects, yeah. So knowing that this is a big mirror, I would like to upcast this spell magic to, let's say,

fifth level, and see how that works. For each ongoing spell of level four or higher, yeah, so it ends an ongoing... It ends an ongoing spell. Hmm. So it doesn't like diminishing magic items. Uh, no. Cool. You cast a spell magic and it has no effect on the mirror.

Okay, there's no, no spell. You imagine that, yeah, this requires the usage of the item itself. Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. I'll learn the game one day. Um. No, it was a good, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you, yeah. It was a sensible thing to do, I think.

Uh, well, but. And also if you had had fate, I might have allowed a devil's parking to try to do something. Well, also with Ophelia saying, you know, don't touch it, be careful. Obviously, I cast a spell on it to try and get rid of it, but I will be careful with it. And I need to give a command to my boy, which is protect me. Ooh, okay. At the end of your turns, Anthony's it is it's go. Yeah.

It will do the same thing. it will tactical charge away from Gruff and Rowan to move directly next to you. And then it will use its action to basically give you, like, cover. Like it's going to try and block and get in the way of its friend. It doesn't make any attacks, though, because you've told it to defend you. That's totally fine.

It will try and basically intercept attacks on your behalf. Rowan. What do you want me to do, Ophelia? How do we get them out of the mirror? I don't know, I need to have a look at it. I'm not, it looks Ossian. I need to check to make sure it truly is. I can't believe it if it is.

Okay. I can't. So my song of stone, just making sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it concentration? I just keep playing a song. Yeah. If you get incapacitated, it stops,

but you don't, you can concentrate on other things. Can I cast a spell? Yeah, of course you can. Dissent whispers on the one not controlled by Xanthius. Okay. At level three. I believe that is a, if it's wisdom, that's a phoenix, it's a 50. Ultra cool.

5D6. Three. You upcasting it now. Yeah. It's at level three. Perfect. Also it fucks up its, it has to move away on its turn. Ah.

18 points of damagey damage. You see you kind of pierce into this. creatures mind whispering, you know, uttering things, telling it to leave this place. And you do see it kind of real and hold its head with its free hand, and it glances back towards the nearest exit, which is going to be that, probably the door leading into the estate itself. Cool. Gruff, you're up, unless there's anything else, Robin?

No. All right, gruff, you're up. This room's pretty small, right? About 20, it's about 20 by 30, 30 by 30. So if I cast any of my spells, I'm pretty much hitting everyone. If they don't have it like creatures you choose, if it's all creatures, then. A polite tidal wave, 10 foot wide. Oh, yeah, that's going to hit.

Polite light. 10 foot wide, though. Yeah. I don't mind that I was hit by it. Santhius is right next to like one of them. And I don't like do, Mampheus and Ophelia. I wouldn't cast. Like, there's like four of them clustered up right now.

Also right in, also right in front of the mirror. Do you mind. Do you mind. No. It's just a light ocean spray and it touches you, but then it drowns someone I don't like. I'm just going to attack the asshole, not the bastard. Not that one, though. That is 9 plus 2. No, miss.

MET. Miss. 13 plus 9. That hits. 22, I will use its counter-attack ability. It will be attacking against you. Truly is an ass- That is gonna miss though, that's gonna be terrible, 11. Yeah, that does miss.

It's a loser, but I don't do anything to it. No. He's about to flee. You'll get attack opportunity and all about stuff. Bonus action, I got nutton, useful, I think. I could roar at it. Fair enough. I mean, it's gonna leave anyone. They're frightened.

They don't strike me as the kind of people that can help frighten though if they're dominating. I think we can't. So, well, because if they're already charmed, then they're probably not going to get frightened. Yeah. So can I at least just cycle around, so I'm not going to disengage,

but can I cycle around so that I'm kind of between it and Xanthias? So if it makes a B-loan for Zanthias? It's like right next to Xanthias, and he's already got the other one sort of, like trying to protect him from one. Replace. Wow, okay. Can I push Zanthias out of fucking window?

You'd have to drag him over to the window. Okay, I will drag him by his fucking ear, by the window and boot him out. Every word I say, and I love him. Is there anyone near me that I can protect, like within 10 foot with my... I mean, like, if you've moved up to attack them, pretty much all of your allies except Daisy

who's kind of lingering further back in the room are now within 10 feet, basically. And Daisy could easily move up within 10 feet. Oh, wait, no, I did do a bonus action. I will bonus action fucking heal myself with... Well, I'm going to just let you do that while I move on. Just in my own time. You carry on.

Daisy. Oh, I will attack asshole. I'm going to use steady aim. Okay, give you a set of advantage. Nice. It's a 19 and not a 20, but it's a 29 to hit. It's still gonna hit. I went somewhere else. It is. It's waiting until person,

arsehole is looking quite bloody. You can see like blood pouring from like the joints of his armor. That is not something I want to do. You guys named him. You guys named it. I don't want to get that today. I rolled the last six is 37 points of radiant damage. Looking...

Pissing a bluff from asshole. You see the arrow bursts against a section of its plate armor, which just gets rent apart, just like completely split and cracked and shattered. And you see the first time almost reacting, and it almost like shakes their head, like, almost trying to pull themselves out of a day's, like blood coating their armored gauntlet,

just sort of swaying on their feet looking really rough. Are you the baddies? Yeah. His turn? I believe Dissent Whispers. They have to move away from you as quickly as possible, right? Yes. By the first of street.

So yeah, it's basically going to make a run for the door out of this chamber. So that would mean Ophelia, Gruff, and Xanthius technically. And his mate, although he's been told to protect Zanthia, so he won't make another. I can't use my reaction. to give him a reaction. Oh.

Really? Yeah. So you can tell him. I'll double check that. It's also moving as far away and on the safest route as possible. Okay. Yeah, you can command the target.

I mean, it has to move past you guys. You can command a target to take a reaction but must take your own reaction to do so. Would you like it to make an attack opportunity? I'm not going to slap it. 21 will cause it to hit. So he's hit. What about Gruffin Fidia?

28 to hit. Hits. I do 10 points of damage. I can't primal strike back, can I? Yeah, you can. It's any melee attack that you make. You know the only. One point of fire.

Okay. Reckless, I believe. That's only on your turn. But you vexed, you hit last time. Oh, yeah. So you'd have the passage. Let's move swiftly on. Where's my damage for bastards?

Neenel. The feel is here. Neenor. Smashes. tries to smash through the window, but just... That's flight. It is actually his own ally that delivers the finishing blow. As he turns to run and moves away,

gruff, you kind of clip him just briefly. You're the rape, you're kind of straight, and you just see this flambourge, this curve. Gratesol just plow through the middle of his armor, come out the rent that Daisy caused, lift him up into the air, and then as the body hits the ground. I was like... I'm watching this.

There's so much joy. You squeaking. How long does the Dominate person last? It will last for another, it's been like two turns of it, right? Three turns, so another seven turns. Okay. So not that. Keep that in mind.

It's not that long, but it's long enough to be like, jump out of the window or runoff or something like that. We're out of the window. I'm going to take you out of initiative now. Can I ask him to remove his helmet? Yeah. He removes the helmet and you see that there is a rather uninterested. quite plain looking soldier underneath,

looks quite gaunt, quite pallid, just looks at you with this glassy-eyed stare. Okay, they're not undead. They're not undead, they are living. Yeah. I can use the rest of the time just asking him questions, I suppose, right? We'll leave it to Ophelia then. Do you want to...

Yeah, I'd like to just wrap this little bit up so we can, in the episode. Yeah. I'm Phil is going to go look at the mirror. Okay. You examine the mirror. Does it look Aussie? It is almost certainly ossian.

Shit. Based on... Give me... I want two roles. An Arcana role and a history role. Okay. Arcana is 11. History is 12.

12. 12. Almost certain. Certainly this is an Oscean created magic item. It is difficult to say which of the house has made it. There are icons. There are skeletons, but there are also like spectral looking rates. There are creatures like almost like vampiric faces.

Like it's very hard to tell exactly what this is. Who is it? Or I'd say that rather maybe there's not anything specific like skull faces or vampiric faces. It's all just bones and like general symbols of death. So you can't tell that this has been made by a specific house. Right. And also with the Arcana test, you have no idea how this thing works. You've never seen anything like this before.

You've never seen... And it's different to your mirror that you made. It's a different kind. This is an Ossean mirror. Oh. I just wanted to check just to make sure it wasn't a forgery or someone pretending, putting up a false flag. Orr gave these things the commands to...

Put someone in the mirror, well, obviously we know who, the dragon, and to protect this building from anyone that got in. Ora did that. That makes sense, then, if she was asking the Ossean embassy about magics. So someone from Osceus is working with Orra to kidnap a dragon? Can we get him out? I tried to dispel it, but there's no spell. It's a magic item.

We need to find a way to completely cancel that magic. I don't actually know what that'll do to the person's side of it, though. What about your eye thing? Would that help? Could you look at it maybe as an item? Identify? Can I ask, because there's now probably been enough time I need to give this guy a command.

How do I break the spell on the mirror? Tell me how to break the spell on the mirror. I think that he opens his mouth and you see that he has no tongue. Makes sense. Okay. No, no, no. All right, well, I'll ask him next to him something else.

But yes, I will use the gold sign eye. Do I have a charge on it? I do, thank you, fuck. Identify, please. You identify this item, Xanthius, examining it, its magical properties, and it is, you would identify it as basically being an alternate version of an item called a mirror,

of life trapping. Normally used to house multiple creatures, this one has been tailored to hold but a single creature. It is a pretty simple item in the action of it. A command word will activate it, and whilst it is activated, any creature, the first or a creature that looks into it or is shown the mirror is basically pulled inside.

And you have a feeling that this has been modified to make it because it can only hold one person, the effort to resist that ability is much, much harder because it's focusing all of that power on one person rather than it being able to capture multiple people. Once that person is inside it, they are held in an extra planar cell, which would mean that things like scrying, sending would not have worked.

It's quite simple, though. It's currently not active, otherwise when you approached it, you would have been pulled inside. To free the creature from it, You simply have to, ba-p-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bam. Put the guard in it. No.

No. You simply have to name the creature trapped in it. And then their image will appear and you communicate. You can use a magic action and the second command word to free the creature. But you do not know the command word. Oh, shit. Also, I need to remember names.

With the next six seconds, can I ask, uh, bastard, communicate in your mind to me the command word to free this person in the mirror. I suppose you do have a telepathic link to them. You would telepathically, they would relate to you, probably more as like a memory.

You would catch it. Because this guard, this bodyguard effectively, this mind-wiped bodyguard, was present when ORA was communicating with someone that you can't see in the memory, but you overhear, say, when you get home, and you have set up, you've set up the appropriate measures to contain your new guest.

Simply say the word erytheris, which is freedom in draconic. Eratharis. Simply say that, but do make sure you've got the proper things in place to contain them. Right. And that's what, that's like, can you overhear that? So just need to say, the person who's in the mirror's name. Yeah.

Whose name is? Lord And Abraxian. Lord and Braxian. Probably their full name, though, right? Don't know. Don't make it complicated. Why did you just make it complex? And then heiartherus, or whatever the draconic word was.

Do we take this back to the garlet? The mirror? How big is it? It's pretty big. It's like a full. length, like big tall. We should release them if we can. Full foot, tall, like two, three, four wide. And then take in the evidence or hold it here.

Yes. We need to get them up, because also there are people who are involved in this at the garland. We don't want them to. True. Oh, this has got so messy so quickly. The worm guard can secure this area when they arrive. Yeah, I don't know if the mirror will be active once I do this, by the way.

So don't want to get it. Everyone stand away from it, and then we'll do the thing. Should I, can I, I'll hold the sheet. So when I'll hold the sheet. So when I'll look. When Lord Ambraxian comes out, I'll immediately cover the mirror back up. Sure. Or you could put the guard in front of it, I guess. But why? Because they're probably going to attack us in a second.

If the mirror reactivates, which we don't know if it does. They're probably going to try it in us soon. But if you're ready to throw it over just a moment. Yeah, in action to throw it over. Okay. Okay. In that case, Lord Ambraxian Araftheros. The image shifts, and for a brief moment before you say Eretharis, the mirror shows a very groggy, confused-looking, you know, huge draconic form,

like not in their dragon form, but in their humanoid form. You see Lord And Umbrexian sort of kind of hold in their head, like blinking, like almost peering out, like, is he seeing something? And when you say Eretheris, the mirror's surface ripples, and he comes tumbling forward, kind of slams his gigantic, you know, hand sort of on the ground as the mirror returns to a perfectly reflective form. Can I cast here? Cover it, yeah.

Okay, yep. Can I cast lesser restoration on him? You can, it doesn't appear to be a need for it. Like, he's just groggy, he's coming out of whatever tranquilizer they gave him. He, like, looks around, he's like, Charlie, what are you? What's going on? It's okay. You're safe.

We rescued you. which we can explain, but perhaps that, yes, give me a moment, thank you. Wildheart, my head is clearing. And that is well well in today's session. Yeah, okey-dokey. We're already running a little late, a little late, but. Oh, yeah. Damn.

Oh, boy. God damn. Oh, boy. Got him out. We saved him. Yeah. I mean, the main thing is you tracked him before they could move the mirror. Yeah.

Which would have happened if you, well, not just. that but it's like you know if you'd gone in a different direction or if you'd pursued a different angle like it would have given the people involved ample time I also need to see if the ball has been contained the people that are well yeah well oh I don't think that that's gonna be the case like five minutes and five minutes in Osseon time is a lot of time being held by these dragons yeah but I want more to be that is what I'm saying well Well, here's the thing, I will make it clear as well.

You caught those glimps of his memories, Xantheus. I'm going to say that that is maybe a special connection that you get. Because the Dominate person doesn't normally give you that. That is because of your wonderful connection to this sibling. Nobody else would get that vision if they cast at that spell. Because Dominant person doesn't normally give you stuff like that. That was me giving you, you especially a bit of flavor. Extra insight.

So just as a thing, like, it might be. very difficult to prove the aura gave them those commands. I'll do it. I'll do I can. Yeah, I mean, by all means. But with that, we're going to call the session there. I've still got like four turns on Basta as well. Yeah, you do? Yeah, and it might be worth like using trying to find some good use for that. Yeah.

But my final one is going to be. I think that is what we're going to call it. Marry me. Nice. Perfect. Okay. Good job. So, well done.

Yeah, nice. Thanks everybody. We did it. We won. Did you... For now? At what price? Certainly, I put it this way, by doing this, you have just foiled one of Oregonas's major plans.

Ooh! You have foiled a major deal that was very important to his plans. Major deal. I was a major deal. So, is that a good thing? Is that a bad thing? We'll have to wait. It's always a good thing.

It's a bit of plan. It's always a good thing. Currently, Sam Piers has made his father even angrier. Angrier. Ow. How angry can you get? Whatever. You are so grounded.

With that, all listening anyway. Take care, everybody. We will see you next time for more Hirolus. Bye. Bye. Bye. Calculating route to avoid seeing poverty. Turn left to bypass the unhoused youth sleeping on the street.

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