High Rollers DnD - Obey the Edict (Part 1) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #96

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

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Check us out on your favorite podcast feat. Welcome back to Althea the Dragon Empire. Whilst visiting the Ecliptic order stronghold of Gallo's Erie, the heroes met with Hahn Farrier, a Dava blacksmith who agreed to help them forge an exas. Hold it together. You broke me. You're a professional.

Who agreed to help them forge in essence for Xanthius, as well as helped Daisy with the celestial Gagor that pursues all Deva. Whilst meeting with Hahn, however, the magical stronghold was tampered with and the prisoners released. They swarmed to attack and the heroes, attack Han and the heroes out of spite and jealousy. But Rowan, thinking quickly,

conjured a massive stone block to keep them out and prevent them from attacking. After some time, Gruff decided to stone shape a way past the conjured rocky barrier and the party encountered one of the holy monk guards and a prisoner acting strangely, infected

with some sort of magical curse of the plane of law. Knocking out the gun, the heroes learned that it was connected to Edict, one of the special planar prisoners held within the IRI. Making their way up to seek safety and assistance, the party fought more of the infected guards, and Gruffeth of Tremoro himself was infected and attacked his allies. High inquisitor Argus was able to restore Gruff to his senses,

though, using the last of his magical power to do so. Gruff in a fury ran off to put a stop to Edict with the heroes and an injured Argus following behind. Now the very last thing that we had seen was Gruff had run off a little ways ahead of the rest of you, making his way down through back into the lower level of Gallo's Erie and towards the high security area called the Gullet, a sort of diagonal downward passageway that housed the more dangerous prisoners. Just outside, he encountered a strange undead creature called Rackis the ghoul.

But after bypassing him, sensing no threat, Graff pressed on and came face to face with the gullet having being slowly transformed into some sort of metal, cocoon-like forest, almost.

And just before reaching Edict, at the very end of the corridor, a enormous figure, nine feet tall, muscled, clearly possessing some sort of demonic or infernal corruption, but now covered, yes.

It was a corrupted Yotnir who maybe once had made a pact with the twin pits, the Helian throne, but now infected with the same subjugation virus was entirely silver and metallic and seemed to be acting as some sort of defender. So, I think that rather than jumping straight in with Gruff, who is going to be alone for the same, at least a few rounds of combat, perhaps.

Kim's also out here, we could just... Well, my question is... Gruff runs off and has maybe a round, two-round lead on the group, maybe a bit longer. What do you guys do? Rome would instinctively chase after Gruff. Yeah, it's a... I figure that you would, but are you taking any extra steps,

any extra measures? You can see that High Enquisite Argus Argus is coming with you, but is clearly clutching his side. It looks like he's had several stab wounds. You can see that his body is marked with several signs of battle. If I recall from last episode, did he deny any healing from us? He just said he was fine, yeah. Yeah, that we needed for the coming back.

He said save it for yourself. Yeah. Okay, so. But he's obviously going to be coming along with you. But obviously, you know, we know Ophelia can move exceedingly fast. Daisy can also dash. So I'm assuming that you guys are probably, Ophelia and Daisy, are you going to move ahead of the group?

Or are you going to try and stay with, like, Rowan, Zanthias and August? Are you going to try and move even quickly? I was going to ask Argus some questialness. Okay. So as you're moving, you'll ask some questions. Sure, sure, sure. What about Ophelia? Yeah, I think.

Because this will affect what is going to happen in the combat that is going to happen. Yeah, I think Ophelia will move up and try and support Gruff As quickly as she can, yeah. Cool. All right, so Aphelia dashes off. So you're going to be the first one. I'm going to go with Ophelia for a bit, and then I'm going to come to the rest of you,

because I know you've got some questions for August and in case there's any preparation you guys want to make. It's going to take you maybe five, six rounds to get down into the gullet, like moving at full speed. Maybe something like that. Aphelia, you're going to be a bit longer, but Gruff does have a considerable head start. on you.

Afila, you chase after it. You know, your blood pumping, the rage still running through your system. This is literally a few moments after your last combat ended, so any kind of combat abilities that were still active are still up. You can, your world is black and red.

Your heart thumping in your own ears. And you're almost kind of, you can smell gruff's wounds. Like you're almost following like a scent trail of his blood that as his bleeding. But just, just before you reach the gullet as it begins to descend

and you begin to hear the clash of steel down below, you see in the corner by the gullet, by the entrance to it, a shriveled, emaciated, undead creature. It's dressed in rags, it has large, almost bat-like ears that have been torn and ripped, and it turns its head to you, completely flat nose, like as if it didn't, you know, its nose has been sheared off. It's zombie-like, but a little bit, it's less putrid and stinky. You know, it's got the

gaunt skin. It's not skeletal. And you would recognize it as a ghoul, a creature predominantly associated with the house of rot. But it sort of looks at you as you sort of approach towards it. And if an undead creature could show joy, this thing, you know, if it had eyes to light up, they would have lit up, and it just supplicates itself in front of you, just throws itself onto its hands and knees. Mistress, mistress, good mistress, you have come to save, Rackus. Rackus is saved. Saved, what are you doing here?

Captured, captured, we were abandoned and captured by the living ones. Captured? How? What? How? What? How long? How long have you been here? Many years, mistress, many years. Oh no, she's gonna get a new pet. No. Um, I'd, uh, the grave father has sent you to rescue me, to rescue Rackus.

I mean, you shouldn't be here by all means. I mean, I don't even, uh, okay. You can hear Gruff kind of cry out as something heavy and loud, some cracky of stone and screeching of metal comes from further down. I will protect you. Stay close with me.

When you say you will protect it, this thing runs up and literally like, like, flams onto your leg. You know, it's quite pathetic in a way. It's just sort of holding onto your leg, like looking up at you with these pleading eyes. I can only picture Tom.

Just a cat to me, you want an image of that. It's with bat ears. Imagine Tom with no nose, no black, glasses and big broken bat ears, make him fully grey and dress him in rags. And that's what this guy looks like. Oh, okay, maybe he doesn't stay too that close to me.

It might get quite dangerous. Can you give me a... You're being quite polite, so give me a persuasion. Only after that was it a get away from him. Oh, yes, yes. Would you have spent fate on that, Ophelia? Nah. Then we'll do that after this, rather.

It's a nine. A nine. He does not let go. He's like, no, mistress. Mistress, you will protect, you must protect Rackis. Okay, well maybe climb on my back then or something. Just like, I need my legs. Yeah, he's scurried.

And, you know, this is, you can see that, like, if it were to stand up straight, this is quite a tall, gangly, but it's very emaciated, very thin, and Rackis really doesn't weigh that much. Definitely is still some weight. You have basically a full-grown being, not your back, but it sort of drapes its long, and you can see its ends in claws,

and it sort of drapes its arms. down sort of clutching around your shoulders. And yeah, it has climbed onto your back and you now have Rackus accompanying you. Yes! It feels like a much, a taller, ganglier, grosser, smeeke that's like that. With that, let's roll fate.

I'll be the judge of that. I think Tom likes Rackus a lot more than he likes me. We'll see about Racki now. He's literally clinging to Avelia. He looks like me. I will say there will say there will be disadvantages to him being a one. I rolled a one.

That's a dice for me. I rolled a two. That's another dice for me. I copy Tom, got a two. Oh, that's really, three. Is it my birthday? Look at all this fate I have. I copied Katie.

Oh, well, let's see. This is gonna go really well. Oh, it's a five. Just take it. We don't need it. No, we don't need it. Yeah, we'll be fine. We'll see what happens.

Kim's silent. So that was Kim's rolling. A few moments delayed by Rackus climbing up into your shoulder this little encounter, then you rush down to try and assist Gruff. Okay, I'm gonna say you do move quite quickly. I'm gonna say gruff is gonna be on his own for one round of combat, then Ophelia shows up,

and then the rest of you will show up the round after that. So it's gonna be one solo round Gruff, yeah, one round, gruff and Ophelia, and then the rest of you arrive at the start of turn three. Awesome. I'm so glad in these corridors, there's no weird creatures. So we cut back to Rowan,

Xanthius, Daisy, and Argus running down, following after her who just speeds ahead with her enhanced barbarian movement. But yeah, is there any plans? And Daisy, you wanted to ask some questions. Well, I was speaking to Argus because I was asking if he needed healing and stuff

anyway. But I think Daisy will just sort of turn to him again and say, how did you have her powers contained before? Is there some kind of mechanism that she disabled? There is all of the special prisoners. Each of their cells was specifically constructed to withhold their unique abilities.

Edicts, Ediths, Edith, I must remember that she was once a person. Hers was to keep her away from others. She was not meant to interact. There was special conditions. Only guards who were protected were meant to approach her. she does have this ability to influence others who get too close but also she was bound into her cell as well

Dragon one of the other prisoners is a brute extremely strong had magical restraints that weakened him Rakis the ghoul we used life magic to keep him at bay and keep him weakened but edict had not has never really been too much of an issue as long as we keep our distance, I fear that in my absence in coming to Ashen's rest,

perhaps one of the newer guards, one of the newer brothers or sisters got too close, allowed themselves to be infected, and then they've disabled the systems. They've spread this corruption, this curse, this subjugation. Where's the control? Do you know where the mechanisms are? Edith is powerful enough with magic

that she has already sealed the main gate of the tower. she's disabled, she's preventing teleportation out of the fortress and communication. I fear that she would have disabled any security measures that were once in place. I think this may simply be a case of defeating her. And you said that some of the guards could be protected from her? Was it just not getting too close? Was that their only protection? No, there was a magical system in place, but that has clearly been disabled now.

There were sigils, wards that prevented not mind control, but influence. Those are clearly no longer working. Is there a way we can put that back on? Or do we have to redo the wards? Possibly. I do not... Edith has the power to transmute things around her. She can warp metal and stone and various other things. It may be that she's destroyed such differences at this point.

Okay. We should really catch up with Griffith. If there's anything else you wish to know now, is the time to ask? Any other, anything else that might help us against this brute? Well, I don't imagine. It does not look like he's made his way to the armory where his weapon is stored. That will severely limit his potential. Without the sword metal bog, then I think that he will be a lot less dangerous.

But incredibly strong. Dracon Fellstone was a yacht. a short-near warrior, one who craved victory in battle. He made a deal with the Twin Pits with a powerful demon to grant him extra strength and power. But it made his berserk a rage and his bloodshed desire for bloodshed much stronger. Very, very strong, very dangerous in combat.

He possessed, I don't know what may have changed, but he once possessed the ability to conjure hellfire and the magic of the twin pits, but I do not know. I cannot see him voluntarily working with Edict. If he is down there, I imagine that she has taken control of him as well.

Maybe if we can bring him back, you could turn him on. That is possible, but Dracon is a dangerous foe by himself as well. All right. I don't think any of us can do that. I think only Gruff can, but... And what about...

saw on the maps there was also an undead creature down that way as well. Rakis, Rakis is a ghoul of the Greylands, quite a weak, pathetic creature, but dangerous, if left unchecked. He has killed many people in towns and cities, feeding on them. We tracked him down, hunting for the beast. Okay, good to know. Listen, I'm glad somebody asked.

I mean, we don't know. You don't know. You don't know. But yeah, with that, I think that you have some time if you want to cast a spell or anything like that. Yeah, so while I'm running, a golden aura will surround me, and afterwards I will stand a little taller,

run a little straighter, I don't know. Is that awesome? Is that possible for Zen? Can he be any straight? I'm casting arcane vigor on myself. Okay. To heal up a little bit. two hit dice and that gave me 13

HP which is really good. Nice, that's pretty good. Any other Roman spells or anything like that that you want to pre-cast? You have an opportunity to definitely have enough time to cast the last spell. I think just before I get to them, I'm going to enlarge myself. Okay, perfect. How many, sorry, how many turns do we have? Could I cast another action spell?

I would say you can, yeah, because you didn't like ask any questions or anything like that, so I think Xanthia, apart from the brackets one. Yeah, in that case, I will cast a Circle of Power as well. Can that move with you just for check? Which does move with, is aura that radiates from me. Because I'm presuming that this effect is magical.

So allies have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Okay, great. How far is it? Within 30 feet of me. So you have to stay within 30 feet of Xanthia. Yeah, which I imagine is not too hard in these sort of... No, no, this is like very narrow, tight corridors.

Nice, that sounds really good. I think the last thing just before you arrive at the gullet, Argus will use one of his divine aid bonus actions, and he will cast Bless on the three of you. Oh, nice. You're currently with him, so you get D4 on attack rolls and saving throws. Oh, nice. He's concentrating.

And he will just whisper, Moon Mother, please. We must do what is right instead right. Malia, bless them. And with that, a wave of divine power washes over you, and you will feel your sort of body, and your magical energies infused with divine power. Cool.

If you have an extra D4 with Bless and Advantage, do you roll the D4 twice? No. You get the advantage on the D20. The advantage only applies to the D20, and then you add the D4 to the highest result. Got it, got it, got it. So it's a good stack, right?

Yeah, yeah. So adds loads. Right, well, with that case, we cut to Gruffeth of Tremoro. Hello. Who currently stands, thank you. Flores. She stands before,

having arrived into the gullet and making his way down, he's arrived at the very end where it looks like bars of cages have been ripped open and sort of almost pressed up against the wall. And where those bars were once cells, they have grown into almost like metallic trees and vines

have spread down this corridor. We see at the very end a sort of a strange device, almost like a cocoon beginning to form at the very end, in which, completely sealed from the waist down, we see a silver-skinned gnomish woman. Really, only her cherubic-like face is the only thing that reminds you of who she once was. Her eyes are completely silver. Her skin, almost like metallic leaves and petals, has grown over.

But you also see other things as well now. Whilst most of this prison and the curse that you've seen have, natural elements to her. You can now see that, you know, pieces of her body, there's almost, there are these metal irises, but they twist and turn like cogs. And you can see that several of them are connected and seem to be shifting all over her body, constantly turning in a rhythm, in a motion, at a very particular speed, never alternating, always remaining static at the same speed. You can see that those irises, those flowers, that have bloomed all around the room

are beginning to do the same thing as well. They're all kind of beginning to turn. And there is this faint ticking, turning sounds beginning to echo through the chamber. But from the side, just before Gruffkin can do anything to this creature, from the side from another one of these cells, bursts this nine-foot-tall,

yacht-near warrior, who once would have had great demon horns growing from his head, glowing tattoos, but now is... almost like he did it completely silver with these growths, with these vines growing out of him. You know, cables almost like twisting, coiled cables

going up into his head, into his back, very bane-like from Batman. And he burst out. And one of his arms has just become this enormous silver steel sword, like a crushing blade. And yeah, I think that that is where, we are going to jump in, we're going to have everyone roll initiative. Oh, you know.

Somebody roll for gruff for me as well. Who's in charge of gruff rolling? You can rotate it if you like. You do have a light updyes. Trial, can do it with his light up dice. This is gruff's roll. It's whoever does the best gruff accent. Hello!

Well, I'm counted there, it's me. Gruthers of Tramaru. Guys, we didn't announce it, but Jack Septica is here. What do you do? With a trimor, oh dear. I love that. Is that cocked? I'll find out on my app.

That looks quite, me. God's sake. That's cocked. I'll do it again. I love how he has his app for his light-up dyes. Let me check. Not sponsored by this five-year-old case. It says 12, but I'll just double check.

13. Four, Gruff. Graph's initiative. Oh, yeah. Is that... Is that... I use a different light-up dice for me. Daisy.

Eleven. 11 for Daisy, Xenthius. Unnatural 20. Ooh, good boy. Nice, Rowan. Speedy bitch. 13. 13 as well.

So me and Graff both got the same. Okay. Well, have you go first in the initiative, but obviously you're not going to be arriving for a test. Apelia. Six. And then I will roll for Argus. The guy on the back. I mean, he will slow you down.

What did you get? 11. Spragus. Soz. Speedy bitch. I have a plus five. I roll the six. Dang.

So, we're going to have Groff's carriage sheet open. You guys are going to need to control Gruff here as the infected, the subjugated dracon fell storm, surges forward and just looks, and with a silent command, moves up and immediately engages Gruff as he's going first in the initiative. We do, in fact, have a battle map. As soon as we're all in the room, which is not yet,

assume, he's going to do a mass healing word. Yes. but you are not there currently. We have a flow chart from Kim. We have Kim instructions. He's gonna make three attacks against Paul. Three. Oh my God. Yeah, they all get three.

Groff. First one is a 16, which I know misses. Great. Don't forget, Gruff currently has a plus three AC because of armor of open thorny. It should be 21. 21, yeah. Next attack. That is gonna hit because that's a natural 20.

Ooh, that's a bad start. That's a very bad start. That's a very bad start. When you see how much damage this guy does. And then I'm gonna do the last attack. In fact, actually, no, I'm not gonna roll the attack because there's a chance that Gruff's gonna get knocked prone. That's so good.

Shit. So, let's do this damage. So, 12, 24, 28. Is that all right? Is that? I'm not done. Oh, two thirds. 36.

Okay. That's max damage. That's going to be 48 points of slashing damage and I need a strength saving throw from Gruff. Me? You do the negative rolls, I'll do the positive ones. Oh, okay, I like that. Strength saving throw.

Oh, 16 plus. He does have advantage, he has advantage on this anyway because of Armour of Voken Thorn. Four. So 16 total. Does he have a bonus to a strength saving throw? No, that's it. So 16 is still a success which means he's not not prone.

Can you update the HP or do it? I can, yes. I can do the HP. Tom should be able to. I can't. Oh, you can't, okay. It's all right. This little, that's fine.

Gruffy homunculus is gonna figure it all out. This gruff looks pretty badly half. And then the next attack, which does not have advantage, is going to miss, only a 17 to hit. So he brings up the shield, first attack sort of glances off, but staggers gruff back. But this time, Dracken's waiting for it and sort of shoves him with a, foot that boots him in the chest, then brings the cleaving blow down, cutting through

Gruff's, almost like splits the armor of Oaken Thorn ripping through him. But then just on the second attack, as he brings it up into a third upward strike, Gruff manages to bring the axe and parry just enough to save himself from another pretty devastating blow. That was a bad start. It's just when you get charged by Mr. X. Yeah, basically, yeah. Mr. X is actually a fantastic sort of idea of this.

Just so everyone's on the same page, because we all know the HP. you may as well tell the audience, Gruff's on 46 out of 124. And he was on 80 something. Yeah. He's just happened. Did you actually 810? Yeah. However, that is, so now Gruff would get a turn

as we are in a solo combat to begin with. I think Gruff is going to tee pose to a wall and start walking into the pillar. Yeah, walk into it and then... ...against it. Yeah. I mean, the flow chart said mass healing words when everyone's in the room. What does the same? I don't think we should hold...

I think he should fight back. Attack for now. Please stay. And if you attack, you get eight September hit points. Yes. Oh, okay. So may as well. So I would put eight ten points on anything.

In that case, we bring in Thaugville down on this phone. Roar of the Mountain, please. Yeah. Okay, great. Roar of the Mountain, please. That's a positive role. Would you like to have Fitzpin Faye? 19 to hit. 19 to hit, the corrupted dragon fell storm is a hit,

a successful hit. He's doing a two-handed, obviously? No, he's not, he's doing it one hand, because he has his shield. So one D8 plus five. I don't know if there's any other bonus. He also gets his divine primal strike, which is another D8 of damage.

Oh nice. There's nine plus four, 13. What kind of damage would you like to have him do? Uh, Insta death. Fire? Fire. He's a fiery land though.

Yeah, slashing in fire. No, there's no fire on him. He's made of silver. He's like made of metal. We got... Silver hates fire. The Helium Pits, doesn't he? We got told Helian Pits on the show.

That isn't necessary. Yeah, you did get told but Graff doesn't know that. We did. I thought the axe was only slashing in fire damage, sorry. So no, so the primal strike is something that Gruff can do, and if he chooses fire, he can re-roll the fire damage with the axe. Hmm.

I mean, a four is an average on a D8, so there is a chance you'll roll worse if you re-roll it. He could do the Tier 1 benefit. What's that? Which is Mountain's Rour if we spend a fate. So you choose that after the fact, or? No, that's as part of the instead of the attack. Although he does have two attacks, you could do it next. Just slams it as the ground,

deck saving third. Let's say he does fire damage, just to speed this up. The fire damage has full effect. It does not resist. That's 14, that would be 9, 13 points of damage. So we've only got one thing. Yeah, we know. We're fine.

We can save it. We can save it. No, no, I mean, we don't need to use it now, I think. So he can make another attack with his two attacks. You do a positive one. Oh, this is a positive role? Yeah, do it. All right, watch Test Drive.

One, that one? That one. You take... That sounds good. So, Gruff swings with the axe, it slams into Drac and kind of like, doesn't really stop the juggernaut, kind of really has very minimal effect.

And then the second one, Gruff maybe a little bit injured, just doesn't quite have the force behind it. Can't even wrench out from the first attack to go for the second attack. Perfect. And then it is Edict's Go. Voodict.

Bonus actions he can do. A healing word and stuff. We could heal the word himself. He could, if you like him too. Yes, please. I'm going to do that at level. He's looking great for spell slots. He has an extra level three spell slot via Springheart that's not on the sheet, so you could use that as the healing spell.

Yeah. So you could do a level three healing word on himself. I think that's, because then that would be that. 64 plus four. 64. One, two. And he can re-roll once on his heel. can re-roll ones.

I'll check the out. 13 plus four. Did you roll any ones because he can re-roll them? Just one. 15 plus four. 19 points. 19 points to himself. I will give that two.

And then the eight temp goes back on. And then he would get, yeah, he would get eight temp. Ultra dope. Amazing. Very good. Being the tank. We're trying, Ken. We're trying. Unfortunately after that edict also gets a turn.

There are two creatures down here. Edict will... Now, I don't want to do too much just yet. I think that she will... She can make ranged attacks. Ooh. I think I'm going to... I'm going to have...

This is going to be sensing that Gruff is here to try and stop her. There is this quite high shrank. real voice, but it is monotonous, and it is almost, it has this sense of eternity about it, a sense of inexorableity about it. It almost seems to extend and echo more than it should, but it still sounds like a gnomish woman in a way. You will not stop the edict. You cannot stop eternity. And with that, you watch as parts of the room that have been transformed, Those bars that have turned into vines lash out towards Gruff

will rip out from the ceiling. And she's able to use her domain strike anywhere within this chamber. That is sick. Natural one on the first one. Your best me. Rough rolls to the side, Dark Souls style. The next one is going to be a 29 hit. Ooh, let me check.

That is going to be. And then the last one I think is also going to miss. It's only a 12. So only one hit. That's going to be 12 points of blood. damaging damage. Ouch. I know I have to do.

Thank you. That's fine. Taking away those temporary hit points, but those did absorb most of that blow from the armor of oaken thorn. And then as a bonus action, she will look at Gruff and she will cast command. Oh no.

Oh no. I need Gruff to make a DC-16 wisdom saving. Is there a negative or a positive save? If you fuck it up, it's negative. If you don't fuck, if you don't have positive. What is the save, sorry? Wisdom. D.C. 16.

Plus eight. Don't roll bad. Four? Yeah, he rolled four. Plus eight. So 12? So on Gruff's next turn... I shouldn't use crone steel dice for...

That dice is awful. I've got blue dice. I should have used that instead. Yeah, that's 13. So I'll use this for Gras from L. But unfortunately for this one, he fails. On Gruff's next turn, all he can do on his turn is fall prone. He will basically go down on his knees

and that then ends. his turn basically. This is not like drop your weapon or flee or something like that? It does make him vulnerable to being infected and being attacked as well. However. Aphelia and a creature. Backpack ghoul.

Well unfortunately that creature is making Ophelia quite slow to react. Afeely, you run in with this creature on your back and I don't, I will have to use Percy for this because I didn't have a ghost. I was waiting for the information to be a totally fine creature

just do not let it climb onto your back. Well, I think that Aphelia can sense that this creature, if you were not half undead yourself, its touch is paralyzing. You know, like you could potentially be really messed up by this thing. Can you instruct you not do that to us?

But you sort of stumble in, rackis on your back, like, no, mistress, no, that is dangerous down there. No, no, that is where the creature is... I told me to be dangerous. You didn't listen to me. You must flee, mistress. They're already beckering. Yeah.

Yeah, this relationship is sound like already. You are the one who sees, unfortunately you are not acting first. It is Dracon. Felsomper who is acting. In fact, everybody acts before you. So, Groff, Groff! But you see, luckily, Groff's turn is after Dracon, so he's not prone yet.

But Dracon is going to make three more strikes. Oh, God. So still. Still 21 AC? Still 21 AC? Still 21 AC? That's not gonna help. That would be 27.

It hits. Fuck. Second attack. That is gonna be 24. Third attack, that is gonna miss. That is only a 12. So two attacks hit. First one.

20 points of slashing damage and I need a strength saving through rough. Hit. I'll do it. I thought I got my blue dog. All right, that was gonna... Nat 20. That's actually a Nat 20. Yay!

Man 20. What a big boy. It goes to slam him into the ground and knock him prone, but Groff holds strong with the shield. See the side of it. Was it a last clap? But the second attack.

Butt cheeks. Oh my gosh. It dies. It captures the sword. 16. In Galent on the butt. That is 24 slashing. Oh my God.

He's just taking out of 44 damage and 1.5. He's down to 17 HP and I need another strength saving throw. Oh my god. Oh, that's a four total. He was gonna not prone anyway because he was under the command spell, but he is just slammed to the ground by Drac and Fell Storm. He didn't run into a combat completely unaided.

He did. We're gonna go prone anyway. Yeah, it was going to be prone anyway. Yeah. Here's the thing, on Gruff's turn, the command spell still takes effect. All he does is basically lie there. and sort of supplicate himself and then ends his turn. That is the ruling of the command spell.

I forgot about that. It's basically grovel, I suppose, I put Neil. But it's basically the same thing as grovel, which is you basically fall prone and end your turn. Christ. Then it is Edict's turn. Yeah. Now, luckily for Edict, there are multiple threats now in the room.

Also, prone means disadvantage on ranged. Yes, although these count as melee attacks because she's attacking for any space. Well, fuck me. This is why they work in tandem. He knocks them, and then she has the advantage of it. It's a good stress. So imagine that basically she is, like,

she has full control of the room and can I animate parts of it to make melee attacks for her as like pieces of metal rip themselves up and then slam down from the walls, from the floor, from the ceiling, whatever it is, basically. Now there are multiple targets now. None of these are magical effects. So, the spells are,

Oh, good, okay. Yeah. So she's gonna make two attacks against Gruff and one attack against you, Ophelia. That is gonna be, so against Gruff, I have advantage, that's gonna be 24, so that's gonna hit. That is gonna be another natural 20.

Gruff down. Oh my God. See, I might roll really bad on damage. Well, no. You have to roll pretty bad. I might do. So I got 17 hair points. is going to be nine points of damage.

Okay, well, at least the Nat 20 doesn't go through to the... Exactly, and that's why we check. Now, the next one is going to down him automatically because of the crit. Oh, I did roll a one, though, on the extra damage, so it's only 15 points of damage. But he's down. He's down. So, Aphelia, you rush in and just watch as pieces of, like, methyl vine,

just slam into Gruff, who's just laying sort of, almost just opening himself up to be attacked. And then one of these things from the wall reaches out and tries to pierce against you. Yeah, Stenis just shocked. He's just like, what is going on? That is a 22 to hit you. 22, yeah.

That is going to be 13 points of bludgeoning damage, so you would half that, so that would go down to six. Down from 80. 80 in one time. I mean, yeah. Two-9-20s, like, yeah. I mean, the second net 20 wasn't too much damage. It was only 15 months.

points of damage but that first one, 48 points out. It was also two rounds of just being pure focused on Gruff. Exactly, exactly. Oh, rough. But with that, Ophelia, it is finally your turn. Here I come! Yeah. Oh, Ophelia's seeing Groff going down,

she's going to charge straight at this. Towards the Dracan. Yeah, towards Dracan. I should knock poor Graff down. Oh, sorry, Kim. She knew. She knew what was happening. I just try and do my brutal strike against him as well,

so foregoing my reckless. Okay, nice. So you just get the normal roll here. Normal roll, if it hits, I get an extra D10 of damage. Love it. On a hit. There was quite a fate there. I love your victory noise.

No, yeah, it's so good, isn't it? I forgot your fate would have done anything. Oh really? Yeah, 10. 10 is not enough, unfortunately. We can try again! Second attack, and you still get the brutal strike because you haven't hit you?

Please hit. 22. That, so I'm gonna say that as long as you have rackus on your back, you have a minus two to like attack rolls, but it does still hit. Okay. Minus two, with the... Get him off immediately. But there might be hidden advantages.

So extra D10, and I would also like to push him 15 feet back. Oh, can you do that? On top of the D10, I can add an extra... Excellent, so roll all your damage together. So D10. That's just, I can just do that. Just pushing back. That's pretty good.

D10. D8, D6, no, just a D8 and a six. And X2D6, yeah, blood point. Oh, and Veracity. Veracity, yeah. So, oh, 10, 11, 12, 21. 21, pretty good. Needo.

So you slam Veracity in, sending this creature 15 feet, you said? 15 feet back, yeah. Nice. Then I can then move, I can use half my movement to move 15 feet towards him. Oh, great. So you move up, keep charging.

So you've just cleared graph out of the year. Perfect, amazing move. So you slam this creature backwards. There is no roar, there's no pain, just this passive. The face is almost frozen in this angry, rage grimace, but there's no sound, there's no change in expression. It's just like a frozen silver face. Slammed back, almost using the sword arm to slow itself,

kind of gouging out the metal and the floor, as it kind of craps back, and then you just rush in, following up behind it as you do. so. Cool. Be wary, mistress. We should not engage it directly. If we need to survive, we'll have to engage.

Stay close. He's like, I can't get any closer. You're wrapped around your head at this point. I am on you. Is that the end of your turn? That's all I'm gonna do now, yeah. Okay, well, we then go to the top of a turn as the rest of you all begin to arrive.

The whole gang's here. The whole gang's here. I'm gonna say that Han Farrier was training with a bit, he's gonna stay. He's not coming into this comic, because there's nothing he can really do. It's no use. But Argus is with you.

He's gonna be, I don't have a sexy wolf man, so he's just- What the heck? We've got to change that immediately. The sexy wolf-man has just been downed. I know. I did think that of all the things you would have, you probably have a sexy wolf-man.

I don't have one. I should do, I need to do a hero forge order and just make a bunch. Get the 3D printer off and running. I was trying to remember the whistle the sexy wolf in the pussy and boots. Isn't that like that? So, unfortunately, Dragon Phelom is the first to act. So, Othelia, you are getting three attacks against you.

Let's go. Now, as you're being attacked, I'm going to reveal the advantage of having Rappus on your back. When you are attacked, roll a D-10, and on a one or a two it hits Rackus instead. Yes. So this is when you're attacked. So roll a D-10 right now, and if you get a one or a two, it hits Rackus instead. It's rack. Entire benefit is just boring you, but again here.

A one. If it's rackets, one. Let's see if it does. It's got to still beat his AC. It definitely does beat his AC. He's dead in one round. He's probably going to die. He's pretty tough.

He's got undead fortitude. I want him to live so bad. He's cute. 16 points of damage to rackers. Come on, Rackas. It would be an interesting. As the Silver Sword slams into him. I'd say that it actually,

like, probably like, he raises one of his hands and it chops the hand off. Dude! But then you see he, as you sort of scoge back, he kind of crawls down you and with the other hand, grabs his hand back, puts it over the stump and it begins to knit and feel back. Oh, that's so cool.

Cores a little bit of liquid on it, Reson Evil Village style. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine, splash, flash, flash. But yeah, he just is like, Mistress, you must be more careful. I'm trying, Rackas, I'm trying. Second attack, can you roll a D-10 forming please? a nine.

Okay, this one does hit, well, it might hit you. That's only a 14. Does it. So you leap to the side this time. Third attack, can you roll a D-10? Five. This one, does it hit you?

That is going to be a 20 to hit. Yeah, that hits. It only buy one. It is normal slashing damage, so you will get to half this as well. Put it in my stack of blood points. 20 points of slashing, so 10. Awesome, cool.

I would never describe blood points to the stack. Oh, that did hit you, can I get a strength saving? Oh yes, you may. This is against being knocked prone. And advantage. You do, you're raging. Uh, 22. It's a success, you are not off-prone.

Hell yeah. Have you wrong with advantage on all your attacks? Because of... Reckless. Well, it would have only affected the one miss, basically. But it would hit rackus, not... Oh no. No, there was one that missed a failure.

I will remember next time. I'm gonna blow it off this time because I just want to move on. Cool. That is Dracan Felstorm's turn the infected to Drac and Falstorms 10. We then go to Xanthia, in fact, actually. Hi there, hi gang.

You see Gruff, unconscious, heavily bleeding on the floor. Oh shit. I am rattling through my inventory. I don't think I have a potion. Oh, I do have an unremontious. an unreliable blood. No. What's that going to do in this situation?

Can I, if I, can I, can I, can I give Gruff my Fiola of Renewal? I'm gonna say no. It's bad. I'm gonna say the enchantment of those is like a bound to each of you in the ritual. I can't trade it. And I believe he's used his. Is it sole bound? It's soul bound.

Yeah. Fuck. It's fine, it's actually bind on pickup. And we've got. Okay. Okay. No, that's okay. I, so let me just see the range, sorry.

Ophelia is 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Okay, I'm gonna move, so I'm sort of in the doorway. I'll do, no. So that everyone is within the aura. Oh, the aura. The aura. Everyone is, everyone's, everyone's, Xanthius Orogan.

What, you know, what the Orogan, yeah. An advantage on saves and magical abilities. Savings and, oh, nice. And there's a couple of other things, I'll check in a second. I would like to cast on Big Boy, hold person please, which is a wisdom save. Okay. How wise can steel be silver, I know, but.

Okay, okay. Wisdom 20. Oh, it disappears. I don't know, but you. Tom Scott. You're not, because when you do your spell rage, they have disembate. on saves against, oh no, increases the DC.

No, increases DC. So it still would have missed on the spell, on the major age. Unfortunately, whatever curse is affecting this creature also seems to have maybe enhanced its will and it resists the effect of the hold person. But it would have worked, it is technically a humanoid. Okay. It's good to know that it would have worked.

It would have worked. And you know what? Two legs, two arms, you're not. One day it will. One day, one day. And when it does, it's huge. I know, yeah. It's okay because I want to use my bonus action

to give myself more ruins. Okay. Rooms, please. He's got an action for it. For podcast listeners, just imagine that movement. A lot of arms, a lot of circling arms. It's like when he does the thing, but it's...

Oh, six, seven? No, it's like when you do the thing for chat. I despise it. The thing that you do, when you're pointing at the corner thing. Yeah. It's just... Just imagine the movement.

Are we all done? Yes. All done for that? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, perfect. I was done it long ago. High Inquisitor Argus is going to do several things. He's going to move as, whilst he's moving, he's going to use his bonus action to use Divine Aid to cast a level one healing word on drugs.

Awesome one. Yeah, it's only a level one. Who's this guy? At least it frees us up to do other things. Oh yeah, that's two. Don't waste our time. It's a D6, it's not a D4. He's already done for, just leave him.

That is going to be... Let's just kick him. Only eight hit points back to Gruff, but he is up. Yay! Okay. Doesn't stand up automatically, no. No.

No. No. No. Okay, not. When you don't get up. Take a little around. Ah! As he...

As he rushes past Gras, he speaks a brief prayer to Malia, you watch as this kind of silvery light extends from his hands, and Gruff's worst of his wounds begins to it back together. But as he moves up next to Drac and Fellstone, he is then going to use one of his, he is going to use a point of my fate to activate an ability. Oh, we're swimming in a knife. Hunter's ire.

So he marks a foe. for this attack. When he attacks, an ally of his choice, in this case, Ophelia, can make an act, an attack as a reaction. He basically moves up to you. He's like, Ophelia, now strike! And kind of, like, launches in.

That's all. That's so cool. Cungers, like, his two blades, and he's going to make his first attack, and then you get to attack, basically. Unfortunately, totally giddy. His attack is going to miss. That's only a 13 to hit. I roll a four. Then you get to make an attack as a reaction.

Do I get vexed? because I hit him last time. You would, yeah, absolutely. 22 to hit. Hits. Amazing. Cool. So I imagine as you're kind of getting your dice ready.

Dragon reacts to him and Parry, as you know, uses the giant enormous sword to like fend off Argus, but that leaves him open for you to reach up and strike. Amazing. Yeah, eight, nine, ten,

then, 12, 13, 14, 14, 17 damage. 17 points of each hit. Wow. Huge hit. As you slam into the side of him, him not expecting that. And then Argus will take his second attack. That's awesome.

Because you hit, he'll get an advantage. That is gonna be, that will hit 21. Hell yeah. So he gets this, and then this. That's gonna be, not the best damage. Eight points of slashing damage, but then six radiant damage. So 14 on top. So perfect.

Is that ability only if the person adjacent to Argus or adjacent to the creature that Argus is attacking? He marks a creature and then if he attacks it, he can choose an ally to make an attack. Oh. So it could attack something else. Okay, that's cool.

It's really cool. Yeah, it's basically him like coordinating using his inquisitor training. Yeah. But that is his full turn. And that brings us to, that brings us to Rowan, who's gonna act before Gruffeth.

Rowan is going to rush up. He's gonna, poop, bloop, blu, plop, large form as he runs. I do not have large Rowan with me, but... Right there. He's very there. Not that one, no. It doesn't have a base signs.

Rowan will stand over Gruffeth to protect him in his large form, face down this Drackenzie Deutsch guy. and is going to place a hand on Gruffus. Fifth level cure wounds. Nice. Spicy. This is 10d8, isn't it?

This is 2d8 for every spell slot. It starts at 2. It starts at 2 and then it's 2D8 extra on top of it. There's 3. There's another 3. I'll do 5 and then. If I just give you a D10, you've got more than 5 there now. 3, 4, 7, 8.

8. And then. Do you need more? 9, 10. Okay. Huge. We've got so excited. He dropped the roll.

He dropped the roll. 816. That's pretty good. It's because you kind of went, Yeah, when I dropped it, it was full cum face. Jesus. From like my half leg, it just looked like you went, huh?

By all means, let's keep doing it. In the corner of my eye, you just spat. It's so hard to fucking count with it. count with it. Sorry. 48. 48. Wow, that's as much damage as he took from the print.

48 points of healing. Awesome. You watch as, you know, Gruff is still bloodied. He's still under half, but you watch as many of his wounds begin to knit and refuse restoring life to him.

It was your action, Rowan, so you've moved up, you've grown large, presenting this big threat, and then you've... An action to kill wounds. So that's it. Stap around, Gruff.

Get up. What would you like Gruff to do? I mean, Graff would obviously say something cool, like I could do this all day. Oh boy, oh, I could do this all day. I think actually, Gruff is probably gonna look at Rowan knowing that he's still reeling from hitting him in his state.

And they'll make out, I think. I think that's the first thing that would do. I think him would be rather upset. Now, so first things first, he will probably want to use his bonus section to re-armor evoked thorns it goes away of incapacity. I was going to say, yeah, it's a good point.

And then obviously half movement to stand up. I think if we follow the flow chart, it's mass healing word. If that still applies, I think it's not. I think none of us, it was still messed up from the previous background. Well, yeah, I mean, in which case, yes. I have some healing I could take.

I think everyone, everyone could be healed. Everyone could be healed. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, everyone could be healed. I think it would be worth it, yeah. I think that's a good use. We're following the chart. Didn't say what level, so we're gonna do a mix.

On everyone, Buck Gruff. Six level. Let you know. No, don't do that. We do fifth level. Yeah. How many mass healing words? Two spells lots of fifth.

Gruff also has the ampule, which. They do massed your wounds. They don't have a mass healing word. Oh. Probably meant Masqueer wins then. I think Masculer wins. At 1D8 for every slot above 5. So it's at 5, so it's...

Is everyone that bad? 5D8 plus 4. 5D8 plus 4. So you're re-roll in 1. What? I think it's... You said it's 5, 1D8 per level... Yeah, but it's at 5th.

Above 5. Above 5. Right, so it's just... 5. Yeah. I made it confusing. I too will check it. So you also have that ampule of St Talan.

That would just add healing to one person. It adds healing to one person. Oh yes, you're right. I think a level five though would probably be okay. Is 3D8, the extra D8 is above fifth level. This is at fifth level, so you don't get any extra. It says 5x8 plus four on his sheet though. Yeah, absolutely.

That's too. Incorrect if it's at fifth level. Fifth level is the base level. It's 3D8 plus your spell card. target against 5d8 plus spell casting i don't know i'm telling you now it's at fifth level i'm reading the spell directly from the rules so d and d beyond is probably thinking it's being cast it sounds like it's being cast at seventh level huh interesting well so it's three is it it's 3d8 plus spell casting ability modifier kim might have been doing that wrong the entire time

i don't know why it's giving yes for td8 If you've got ones. If you've got ones. Yeah, re-roll ones. 17 plus 4. 21. 21, everybody gets 21 hit points, including High Inquis de Ragus. 21 hip-posed to go.

Wait, did you roll ones? No. No, no, no, no ones. No ones. Huh. Huh. Okay, I'm on roll 20 as well. That also says 5D8.

How are you on, what do you mean roll 20? We don't use roll 20. No, I know, but that's got mass cure wounds from 2024. That also says 528. Well, I'm on. I'm on, oh mate, hang on. You might be it. I think I click Legacy.

Yeah, where's 5D8? When healing's fell too much, and add. A wrong extra 2D8. 21 plus. We, why do I put Legacy above the normal one? Oh, yeah. That's dumb.

I click the top link. 29. There you go. So an extra and an extra. It's mainly it'll heal Graff extra. Yeah. So 29, I'm full. Have you healed?

Yeah, I'm full. Have you healed? Gruff. So 29 did you say. Yeah, 29. I have not healed. He's the main one. I was he, Heinquisthragus.

Yep, so Gruff is no longer bloated. Yeah, Pyrechus Targas was bad as well, yeah. Cool. Okay, so Gruff stands up and with that sort of roar of energy, that healing, green energy rolls off of Gruff, instilling into all of you around you, as you all feel invigorated. You will see, at the very back, at the end of Gruff's turn,

I'm going to spend two points of fame. Oh, God. We go. As Edict will say, this is unacceptable containment. And you watch as some. That's what you were trying to do. That was the original plan. That's our things.

You can't imprison me. I'll imprison me. I just don't block myself. Oh wait, no, okay, shit, this wall is actually worse than I thought. I thought it was gonna be just blocking like the exit. Is it going through me? Do I get Resident Eviled?

Like the movie? Not quite. That's the third Resident Evil reference today, and I don't two of them with me. Yeah. By far. We all know the grid lasers. I have some walls of flame.

Oh, sure. Just because I don't have enough. So for, for... Oh, we're in a box. We are living in a box. We're living in a box. And then there's one more here. Around Argus, Gruff, Xanthius, Ophelia, and Rackus,

you watch as a shimmering field begins to form around you all. Let's have Rianan. Can you roll a D4 for me, please? This is how many rounds. Intubtably. A two. Two. Middle of the road.

Middle of the road. Okay. That is at the end of Gruff's turn. So we then go to Daisy. I can't do shit. I'm guessing I can't do it. Oh well I can just replace your walls of flame then, yeah. Oh yeah.

Can you still see? You can see through them, yes. You can, it seems to be a shimmering, clear field. Take your walls back, bitch. There's no space around them at all. It does not look like it, no. It seems to fill that at 20 foot sort of gap. He will summon a radiant blade

and just try and throw it at Big Boy. Okay, as it just seems to impact as if against a wall of force and dissipates. I can't do anything. I'm trapped outside the room. There's nothing I can do, even like, there's nothing I can do, so. No turn.

Shit. Rowan, you are currently outside. So on Edict's turn, she is going to have her like metal vines and things attack you. They intend to grapple me? They're not trying to grapple you. No, they're just trying to slam against you.

Just saying I had advantage. 17 to hit. Yes, it's meets it. Meets it, beats it. Second attack is definitely going to hit then. That's a 24. Third attack. Oh, that's only going to be a nine.

So you get hit twice. Okay. First attack is going to be only eight points of bludgeoning damage. And then six points of bludgeoning damage. All right. weren't stone. Grav had so much worse.

It was in that 20s. I just, yeah, I kept getting that 20s. And then as a bonus action, Rowan, again, I think that she is going to speak a command and is going to, what one should I do? Strip. Too late. Not the boss of me.

She will in fact say, approach. Can I get a wisdom savings? Is it a charm? Is it a charm? Please. The command, it does not, it is not a charmed effect. Faitedly. One day there will be a charm.

There one day there will be, which is not today. Weirdly specific charm, isn't it? Yes, it is. Hot, like, things like Dominate Parsons is a charm effect. But this weirdly command isn't. You will spend a fight, a fate? Marvelous. Are you in my aura?

You are. currently your aura is not extending outside the cube it blocks by the wall the wall of force I should say 10 on your next turn you must by the shortest and most direct route approach within five feet of edict uh oh and that's your turn and that means going past dragon no this one is like you it doesn't specify that your turn ends

you just have to move towards it and then you can have your but you can't move away from her again. You still get your action and bonus action and stuff, but you just have to be closer to her. Is it the first thing I have to do? No, basically, on its next turn, you must follow the command. The target moves towards you by the shortest, most direct. Okay, so I could have to end its turn

if it moves within five feet of you. It doesn't say you have to do it at the start of the turn. It's just you have to do it on your turn. No, no, no, because it ends your turn. It was you have to, yeah, I think so. The target moves towards you. I suppose it doesn't say that you can do something before. Yeah, I'd say you can do that yet before you do.

At once. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. But that's on your turn that you have to do that anyway. So that is Edixenzo. We go to Ophelia. So this is a wall of fall. It is like a shimmering, like semi-invisible field that you can see.

It's formed like a cube around you guys. Can I climb up it? Was in like... Spider-climb up the wall? Ooh. I would say yes. Is there a lid? Yes. Oh, there's a lid on the wall, okay.

It's not just a wall, it is a cube. Okay, it's a cube, okay. So you can take that back if you don't watch it. Yeah. You can't see through it. If I'm Misty Step, will Rackus come with. He's on me, but he's not, he's a second person. Misty Step does not allow a second person

so you will drop out of it. Does something become armor? Dimension door let you take some. For intense and purposes. I think he's don't. He is, what, a backed pack. If you spend a point of fate, I might allow it. Yeah.

The devil's bargain. A devil's bargain. A little devil's bargain to spend a point of day. To Misty Step with my board. Well, no, okay, before we do this, the devil's bargain is, I will let this happen. There is a chance that Rackus will get heavily injured by this. Because it's like you teleport him and like parts of him get like sheared off.

You'll get out of the cube eventually. Leave him there. Just leave him. It's up to you. Oh, I love him so much. Keep him faith in the queue. That's mine, yeah. Would you like to Devil's bunk? Yeah, go on.

You're gonna take him with you. I'll take him with me. Okay. Yeah. All right. We're going with the stroke together, me in Brackus. You missed his step. You do successfully a Misty Step, where would you like to Misty Step 2?

A Misty step between Dracan and, yeah, an Edict, yes, please. Now, can you roll a D20 for me? I shall. If you get a, I will say if you get a 1 to 5, Rackus is going to get really hurt. Oh, no. One to 5? Yeah, on a D20.

No. So imagine, like, a piece of his ear. So the Misty set. He clings to you as tight as he can. And I think that it's because he is undead and you're partial undead, the spell sort of registers you as both. If you've rolled a natural one, by the way,

I could totally like teleport, like Star Trek teleport and fuck you up. Redness. Like you get, like, he becomes half of you. Oh my God. I think on this, you teleport through and like a piece of his ear

is like sheared off. And it's lost, it's not like there's nothing to reattach, it's just gone into whatever teleportation magic. But you do arrive and you just hear him just be like, but you do escape. That's your bonus section. Amazing, and then I'm gonna yeah, make two attacks against Dracan.

Okay. All right, first strike and then, oh, advantage because I hit him again. Because I've only used it once and I forgot it existed. Yeah, I didn't want to say. You should have said because I forgot. With advantage from Vex 19. Does hit, yes, does hit. He is big and tough, but he does not look particularly hard to hit.

I'm gonna spend a blood point for D6 of damage. So D8, 2D6. Get his ass. I'm trying. Get his four ass. Take that man's ass. 18 damage on the first strike. 18 points of damage.

Just liver unto me. And then a second strike. Advantage. 22. It's. Cool. Another blood point. Loewy. Listen to how desensitized she is now.

She just struck her and drew blood. 11, 12, 13, 40, 50. 21 on the second strike. 21 damage. Yep. Wow, we. Nice. Were you, is that with, were you doing brutal, critical on those?

No, that's just standard damage. Oh, wow. Okay. She rolled good. you watch as Dracan is now bloodied. Oh, okay. Swipe, you know, these piercing blows, dodging, darting between his heavy attacks, you thrust and thrust.

And you can see that you've got to the point where the silver skin is broken in several places and this kind of thick, greenish, green red blood is beginning to see pal. But it's thick, almost like treacle dripping out of him. And there is definitely no change in an expression, but there's almost a little reaction. There's almost a kind of twist of a head and a sort of almost shake as if something was there,

but still commanded to attack. That's your turn? That's all done, yep, thank you. And you rolled a two on your default. I did, yeah. As two player turns have ended, you watch as the walls begin to press. Oh, fuck, I was about to joke about that being,

a whole thing. Okay. Wait, do they all move five feet at time? This basically reduces down from a 20 foot cube to a 10 foot cube. How many of us are in there still? Argus, Gruff and you are currently in there. So there's only really four spaces.

Yeah. There is currently four spaces. If it shrinks again, you will be crushed up against each other and we begin to take damage. Yeah, I'd say so. Tom, can you roll a D4 for me? Oh, yeah.

So this determines how many player turns until it shrinks again? Yeah. Three? Three. Okay, that's good. God, every, like, four turns at most is still rough. I don't have a way of dealing with it. Okay.

Cool. Well, there could be other ways. Yeah. This is an effect coming from Edict as well. Yeah. Okay. Someone's about to walk right up to him. Right?

Well, it is. That is the end of the turn. So we go to Dracanthel Storm, who is going to turn his attentions to, he does have a very large roan, but he also has an Ophelia who keeps stabbing him with her annoying, pointy little stick.

And he's just going to turn and three attacks against Ophelia. Yeah, let's do it. But does it hit Ophelia or does it hit... That's a great question. Does it hit Rackus, or does it hit Ophelia? Seven. That is an Aphelia.

That is going to be a 26 to hit you. Oh, God. It's all right. Yeah. You did get. You've got range roll, low damage roll. Yeah. Very low damage roll this time.

13, so 126. 12, 6. Perfect. Yeah. Second attack, does it hit you or Racas? 10, me. That is another 28. No, 28 to hit.

28 to hit, sorry. Oh yeah, sorry. Sorry. 18, so nine. Nine, awesome. Slashing. Third attack, does it hit you or Rakis? Me.

Boo. Rackus is too precious. That is only gonna be a, but, but 13. Does not hit. It's not, crawling around your body, just always, slamming.

Yeah. But it's also a feeling like dodging and darting, because you kind of use more of your dexterity and like leaping to the side rather than just relying on group. I like to think he's just full on dead weight and doing nothing useful at all. He's not dodging, and he's just like...

He's not even a cape. No, just a full-dead way. But he's probably making Affilius movement is quite unpredictable. That could be good. This is what he's doing. Do again? Do again? No, no, no, no.

I don't want to deprive the point of course. That is... Rewanderbord. Drafton Feltorm's first tent, Zandlias. Hello. Hey. I really want to find a way to break this spell. Come in out of my cage.

that at my cage. They put me back in the cage. But I don't have any means of... I have counter spell, but it's too late, right? It's not... It's not ongoing. Yeah, does not seem to be a spell necessarily. It sort of is, but also isn't.

But I recognize that... It's coming from her. It's coming from... You can make a free... I'll kind of check if you would like. Yeah. If I'm looking at us through a wall of force, is it hard to see...

This whole time. Nat 20? Nat 20. Oh my God. Here you come. She is concentrating on this. It doesn't look like it because she's so passive and placid. But you can see that her hands, her lower body is almost like fused into this cocoon like device that she's made around her.

She can't move. She's permanently restrained. But she is concentrating on this to like crush you basically with it. So if her concentration was broken, that would probably, or if enough damage was done to her, that will probably break her concentration. Yeah, it's just I've got a lot of projectile spells, which is difficult. They will not break through the barrier, basically. Mind sliver, the can't trip. Mind bullets.

You have to see someone. Oh no, they have to make an intelligent save while they take no damage. Okay, I'm going to have bonus action use a misty step. Okay. To just get out of this. Yeah, you can get out of that, no problem. And... Where would you like to go?

because I want to hit them let me go yeah about there north of the room north of the room and still away from trellis like bars that have like draped down like vines and trees around yeah it's like a jungle gym

so I start climbing it and I will do a sorceress first can trip on on her okay you see that Fellstorm, Riannon. Yeah, and is gone.

Looks over towards Xanthius and almost goes to try and intercept a bit is too far away. Would have been able to intercept this attack if he was in range of view, but it's not. Fantastic. So you are able to get the spell off. You have advantage because Edict is permanently restrained.

Nice. Awesome. So you have advantage on attacks against time. That's funny. Does a... 15 hit? No, just shy. Just shy.

It's a shame you did. Oh, fuck! The 15 is not enough, and she quickly creates like a barrier of these vines to block the attack. Sean, draft, and blast. And also, quack.

Fuck. Not draught. And that's my turn. That is my full turn. Your full turn. Let's try out of the crushing. Yeah, and it might last another turn before people start taking damage in there.

Maybe. All right. It is. High Inquisitor Argus' turn. He tries to slam against the wall of force, he looks around and just looks to Graff, I have nothing, I cannot do anything about this.

We must rely on the others. Unfortunately, we'll simply hold his turn because that's all he can do. Takes down the play account to buy one. Then we go to... It's going to start shrinking. Rowan.

You must move When you move within Five Feet of Her, you must move towards her And when you do, you end your turn. Yes. So if you're going to do something, you do it before you move. I think I'm going to move up to her so that I'm going to...

That will end your turn. As soon as you move within five feet of her, you got turn ends because of the spell. Oh. In which case, Roan is going to... to, on the way to moving, prior to the five feet, is going to say, I think we could do with a dragon and will summon a dragon behind him.

Oh, shit. We've all had bless. You have all had bless under attack cross. Well, the three of you. I haven't done shit. Gaze hasn't had a chance to think, so you would have got that one on that attack against it. You would have.

It was at least one I needed. It was one. It was one. You would have gotten it. Yeah, but I only should remember, so. Shame. Sure. I'm gonna go fit your dragon for a row. Oh no, I've got it right here.

No, I can use T and it. No. Where would you like your dragon? Too big to fit. This is the size of it. I like a dragon where I currently am and I will move forward. Okay.

That's the only place that will fit on the board. It's fucking huge. Just clipping into that like, floss, feel. Yeah. Tells like, do, do, to, come down. Yeah.

You watch as this spectral, what does the dragon look like? So this one would be a fire dragon, so it'll be red. Red dragon. Just seeing that the fire damage worked before, that Gruff did. And he's got Rohan's face. Yeah, it always does. Can't have Rowan's face.

All right, he's got a tattoo of Rowan. He has a tattoo of Rowan. That's fine. It has to still be a dragon. It can't be a dragon with a person's face, but it can have a tattoo of Rowan on it. Yeah. Sick, sick, sick.

Hell yeah. And then he'll... I'm not letting you have a dragon with Rowan's face. I'm sorry. I don't know if it's like at a certain angle. No. I think that's a dragon, it can have Rowan's features. Like, you know, Rowan's colors and things like that,

but it cannot have yours. Like I was doing a police sketch. And then at the very end I said, but now make it a dragon. Sorry, I'm trying me out. B and B&DBI. Oh, it signs you out. Sorry, so sorry about this, everybody.

Technology. You fucking should be. I can roll my digital dice stuff if you like. No. In the meantime. Yeah. I'd like you to get into D&D Björ. Yeah.

So the dragon's going to attack. Okay. Who's it attacking? Dracon. Okay. Zdor. Sure. Dracon fell storm.

I did this at fifth level. Okay. Just so you know. That increases his AC and HP. Okay. Just so you know. Okay. You're doing a really good job.

This is super interesting. Thank you. Make sure it uses your spell attack bonus to attack. attack render tax natural 20 nice i fucking hate you got that after all of that build up and so i saw the way he rolled the dose

15 plus i spell attacks so they'll both hit so let's do the crit first so how much damage is it normally that's a loathe limp roll 1d6 plus 4 plus spell level which is 5 um so 6 10 15 and damage plus another roll of the dice yeah um it's four plus four plus five 13 plus six 19 i'll just add up for you oh fuck me that was tough on it that was tough so you watch as the dragon swipes with one of its massive claws catching dragon probably in the back as it's turned

towards antheus raking its claws down its back then the second attack does its normal damage yes Dragon, go, go. One plus nine, so ten. Ten, ten points. Yeah, I mean, heavy blows, like raining down on this creature. You see dragon beginning to stagger, beginning to slow as the dragon is bearing down on him. Its head will turn with Rowan's eyes

and gaze upon with an uncanny Rowan expression and does a breath weapon. So that's deck saving through by dragon. size is the breathway? Oh, he's gonna angle it so it just hits the force field and dracon. What size is the cone? It's a 30 foot cone.

Oh, so way bigger than this 15 foot cone. If it goes sideways, so it's like towards, oh, there does have a cone on it actually. Does it, yeah, if you angle it towards the force field and dracon, it wouldn't. Just cancels that right? Yeah. It would just spill around the field

but only hit dracon. Yeah, I would say so. I'd say you can do that. That's like the guys in there are cooked. Deck save? Yeah, it's half damage if you've 16. 16. My thing is 15, so you beat it.

So half damage. Eight points. Nice. Okay. So you watch as the flame sort of engulfs out. But then you pass that. Then I've got me. you move and then end your turn?

Or you've got you summoned this thing? You got a bonus action? Yeah, I would do. Okay. You could use your bonus action. Ibaric inspire. Ophelia. Okay.

Thank you. Strong. Nice. Passed. So inspired. Strump. He goes. Strum. Amazing. Then you move your turn and end your turn.

At the end of your turn, the cube shrinks to a five foot cube. Oh, okay, so Argus and Gruffeth are crushed against each other. Because also it's like crushing it vertically from the sides. Both of them, create shrinks, pushing any creatures after another turn,

create shrinks to buy five feet. Are they gonna touch Pauls? Yeah, I mean, they are, it's pretty bad. Head to pad. Squishy. Toes, no. This is gonna be, so they begin by taking so they're like really pressed up against each other like the two of them like

pressed up against each other and you know it does not look comfortable but it's it's enough that they're not like completely square you know this is not gonna like absolutely share their long capacity it is going to be 11 points of bludging damage to both of them uh 11 okay but if this shrinks again it will be near catastrophically like oh my god it's like the compactor of star wars yeah yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

They're kind of like, you've got like gruff, like, please help. They've kind of like squished up against the side of it as the two of them are pressed against each other. If there had been more creatures in there than just the two of them, by the way, they would have taken about, you all would have taken 10 D'SI-Sign-Wates damage. Oh. Because it's only two medium creatures in there. They are, you know, it is painful, like they are being painfully crushed. attack, fucking edict. Well, yeah, I...

No, with my dragon. Oh, with your dragon. It is Gruff's turn. Gruff at the start of his turn takes more damage. Oh, fuck. He takes 12 points of bludgeoning damage. So him and Argus are going to keep taking damage as long as they're being crushed. So Gras on...

62 now. Okay, no, it's not... honestly not too bad. I don't believe he has a teleport or anything like that. I don't think of that he... Would you like him... to prepare an action if the cube goes down? Oh, that's bad idea. Prepare to hit Dracon with the axe if the cube goes down.

Sure, okay. Nice. I guess he's got enough HP right now. Oh, it's just if the wall goes down, they're not going to be within range, right? No. Can Gruff summon Serran outside the cube? Oh, I'm so... Well, the thing is, is the way...

So when Gruff summons Seren, it's normally like a spell, like, flavor that he's doing. Like, it's like, gruff summons it to cast a spell. things like actually casting Find Familiar takes like 10 minutes. You know what Groff loves? Yeah, he does love Moonbeam. And you know what that creature can't do? I should also point out,

Graff does have can't trips. He does have Starry Whisp and Thorntwick. He could do moonbeams. Yeah, he could cast Moonbeam. Yeah. It's got a good range on it as well. Moonbeam. But it is concentration, so Groff needs to find a way out.

Oh, yeah. True, yeah. But. I can. It's just a place that he can see in range. Yeah. So Moonbeam is castable, it just might lose it straight away. Yeah.

It's worth doing something, though. But against a creature that can't move, like Moonbeam is pretty dope. Pretty dope. Yeah, let's do that. Moonbeam on edict. Sure, he's already used one fifth level spell, hasn't he? Yes, so this would be third and above, so we could do it at third or fourth. Let's do fourth.

I think he has one fifth level spell left as well. Yeah. Fourth level, moonbeam on edict? Yeah, fourth level, moonbeam. Fourth level moon beam. So that's four detail of damage. On edict. Yes.

Consive. They can't hit both, can it? No. 16 to beat. No, there's too many people. To beat. 16 can't lead. Does have advantage against spells

and spell-like abilities like this? But does they not have advantage because they can't move? Well, that's only on dexterity. Yeah. Oh. Like constitution, it doesn't affect it. However, I rolled like trash.

So, let me just check. Excellent. What abilities I have. Yes. 4D10. 4D10 radiant damage. I do damage. Oh nice.

You do good. You're gonna roll four tens. I will, watch this. Oh, actually, you know what, not bad. So that's 16 so far. 16 plus eight. 24 plus five. 29.

That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's really good. Nice. A lot of damage. This, we see above edict, Ceryn begins to sort of swarm. and circle as this beam of light begins to radiate down.

You see Edict again, this passive face that never sort of changes an expression. Error, error, the light of the lucent peaks, the light of the world. Radiant, radiant, cannot, cannot. Error, begins to sort of almost say out loud. It doesn't seem to be vulnerable, just to make it clear, but it's taking that damage, does not seem to be resistant to it. as she is being damaged for the first time this fight, basically. Does not anticipate that.

You watch as she gestures, and obviously Gruff is being constrained by the cube, but just points a finger and, like, Draken's head immediately snaps around and looks towards Gruff's direction. Does she make a save as well? Yeah, for her concentration. That's a good point.

So 27 damage. So half to be... 29, you said. 29. 14, DC 14. Natural 20. That does it. That will do it.

Does it? Oh, sorry, just because when the cube changed, let's have Truck, can you roll a D4 for me? Do you want digital or? It doesn't matter. No, I wouldn't know the wrong. You haven't turned on your dice. It's not charged.

Is that a D6 or a D4? That's a D4. Is it? Is it? Yeah. Oh, that's fucked up. It's a cubular D4. A cupular.

He's got points on top and bottom. So Graffs would have been a turn, right? So in a turn, so... Oh, fuck. One turn left. So after the next turn, it's shrinking a game. And... Oh, fuck, who is next is Daisy.

Ha! I shoot her with the fucking bow. Nice. So... I have advantage, because she can't move. You will need to move in just to get line of sight. Oh, okay. Because the barrier is still blocking your way.

Because it's kind of crushed. But you'll just need to move to about here, I would say. I'm also gonna... Get rid of these dice. So at this point, this is like a five foot. Really just yeat them off there. The back right leg is where Rowan's, the fate tattoo of Rowan is.

Just so you're really close to it right now. Nice. Get a really good view. You have an answer. She is restrained. I do. 24 to hit. 24 will hit. And I had advantage so I get, and Rowan's there. And you get sneak attack.

Okay, there. But I'm commanded. Does it matter? No, I still get it anyway. You're not charmed. Still get it from the, yeah. I rolled three sixes. Was it a single command? So I'm no longer.

No longer a fake. Okay. You can convert if you want. I might just pretend, yeah. 33 radiant damage. Oh shit. Hell yeah. That's.

I've been standing there, let's go, let's go, let's go, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go, oh! That's 16 to beat for the Constitution. It's almost like the moonbeam is big. 16 to beat. Concentration, sorry. Hit, hit, hit, concentration.

That is gonna be 17. No! 17. I don't know if we can beat her concentration. That was a big, that was... We just kill it this round. Yeah. Well, you have to kill her by the end of your turn?

I've used my turn. You've used your action. You've got, can you, wait, can you not bonus action through? No, not with Parheelian, this is the thing. and this is the thing. This is why it has its drawbacks. But yeah, it has its drawbacks, but it has other things as well.

You can shift it between the forms and stuff as well. But it also has the range. Right. But even if you've got another attack, what you're going to do, like a D4 plus four? You might roll a one. I might roll a one. That's true. It's true.

Shit. I might roll it one. Shit, shit, shit. End of turn, Dacey. Yes, please. I'm afraid that gruff and high-clister argus. Now I could roll really barely down. like I've begun to do several weeks. 62 health is what graph's on.

Yeah, but it's decreasing again. Yeah. That's the catastrophic was the way. It's just crushing to death. Yeah, so you'll find out of it. I think we're right to find it. I think we're at that point. Both of them take 35 points.

Oh, you guys. So still, well, Groff's still standing at least. Yeah. It's also their bodies are kind of like, it's now trying to crush them, but like their bodies are existing it as well, like they're kind of pressing up against the wall of force. So it's not like completely squashed them, but it's now basically completely tight around their bodies and smushing them into each other.

And it's only both their kind of constitutions that are keeping them both up. It's a 16 save for Moonbeam. Do you want to do that? Yeah, show this out. Plus four, you've got. However, the next time it crushes, it instantly puts them to zero. Natural 20. Okay, moonbeams still up. So that's still up.

That's good. That's very good. And that's 4D10, right? Oh, Grazie. You're the only one who's not rolled a D4 for this yet. I don't want to. I don't want to. You might get a nice big four.

Two. Two. That's not charged. I can't remember where we are in the turn order now. I've lost all track of turns. Yeah, man. It's just a brawl. It's also, I think, probably break time.

It is break time, you're right, yes. I just wanted to get that done. So that was Daisy's turn. Then at the end of that, the thing happened. So just before we go to break, it will be Ophelia's turn next. Awesome. That is where we're going to take a break.

We're going to take a break, everybody. We'll see you in five minutes. Two turns left. Two turns left. It'll be fine. Until the war crushers. It'll be fine. Oh, see in a bit.