High Rollers DnD - The Song of Stone (Part 2) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #100

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

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And what's just shiny cardboard doing cardio on your wallet? We'll break down the game and give you the simple next steps to start playing or collecting. Visit Special Conditions TCG. Welcome back to Althea, part two of Althea, the Dragon Empire, everybody. Our heroes have arrived at the Giants Wetstone, and having made their way to the top, Xantheus and Rowan were caught in a tense discussion with Professor Braxton Brasquil, who was conducting their investigation and potential extraction of the Giants Wetstone. And, yeah, they crossed swords verbally until the professor.

was threatened, very much, was threatened with potential courts and legal action upon which providing a writ, which Xanthius discovered was a forgery. And with that in mind, there was an attempt of a hint of a potential bargain of an agreement to reveal another source of authorite. But then after being reminded by Gruff, Rowan went back on his word, which angered the professor, causing him to burn the writ and teleport him and his students away, although Xantheists did a valiant effort

to try and counterspell his effort. However, this did mean that the Dame, the knight, Dame Vasha, who had been accompanying you, was convinced that this was all wrong and has sent the mercenary company packing, giving you guys free access to the Giants Wetstone and allowing Vricks and the others to make their way up. Poor Vricks the Broken has pleaded at the Giants Wetstone

to be fixed, to be healed, but to no avail, as their please go unheard. But Rowan, upon approaching, has heard a dreamy voice. Hello, Trubodore. Oh, you must have me mixed up. I'm Rowan. Dreamer dreams of a songmaker,

barred a troubadour, teller of stories. One who has doubts. One who seeks answers. one who seeks to do good deeds and purge evil from stones. Blaine. Oh, yes, yes. Dreams are many.

This one feels so real. I had a real dream, yes, and I was called to you. But I want to take this opportunity, if I may, to thank you. You've done a lot for Althe itself, the land you gave yourself up. And without you, we wouldn't have the trees, the rocks, life itself. Life is life. I dream. Dream of a remade world.

I dream terrible storm. It was only right to have it healed, for it deserved a chance to survive. But now I sleep, a long, long sleep, with only my dreams to keep me. Well, your dreams have kept us, alive and well. And even at this sight that you made, you've made people's realities better.

You've healed them. You've improved their lives. The dreamer merely dreams. What people do. That is their own power. But you have come with more than just thanks, Trubedor. I have. There are questions.

Yes. Desires. I have a question. Speak. Speak your question. singer of songs. I got a burp. Very disrespectful.

Um, our friend Vrix tried to speak to you and is broken. Why can't they be mended? The power of this stone has been drained. This glimpse of my touch of my blood, of my heart, of my essence. Many people have come here seeking. come here seeking what they sought. And power is not infinite. Life is not infinite.

Okay. The treasures of the earth are more plentiful than may first be seen. Right. There is more beneath the surface to what you seek. Okay. Good to know. Thank you. I want to offer you a gift.

Before you offer this gift, are there not questions for yourself, Trubodore? You have asked a question of another, but that is not what I dreamed. It's quite difficult. I'm putting it to the back each time, but maybe I should just face it. I have been blessed with the ability to feel more connected to you and your dream. Am I worthy of this? or am I cursed with this? What is worthiness? Um, earning.

In the world, the predator hunts prey and eats to survive. Pray is cunning and uses its wits to avoid being eaten. Those that eat to grow, those that eat to grow, those that that starved I. There is no worthy. Your marking, they are connected to the primal isles, a place far from here, forced upon you. But like most things, they are not good or wrong.

They are what they are. I myself was created with the power of the primal isles. Your markings allow you to connect with primal earth. But your songs, your music, your desire to protect and uplift, that is all you and will always be you. It's very kind, Othay. My worry is it was the very thing that threatened, Othay, that's given me this.

Speak of the ancient ones. Yes. The warred against me and my siblings. They did destroy our world. That was our creator, a sovereign. They set the bright storm upon the world. Whatever they did, what happened to you, no different to a storm that strikes a tree.

It is not an act of wrongness. They are not necessarily an evil. They are just what they are. As I said, the markings contain a power. Is that power good, evil? Who is to say? That is the act of the storyteller. Okay.

I think I understand. I have this connection with you and it just happened. And there is no good nor bad about it. It's just what happened. And the result of that is what I do with it. It's what matters.

There's no words but just a sense of comfort. As if being swaddled in a bed. Leaving you to answer that. If that is a question, it is more for you to decide if that is what you believe. Right.

Well, I still have this gift. The sword. It was yours to begin with, so I return it to you. But it is not as it once was. No. You wish to purge the sword, the darkness that has infused it. Return it to its former glory.

Yes. A predator is a part of this world, and this sword is a predator, used by a creature that sought strength and power over all. This is not against my will, but I see that it would better serve you without this nature. We can take, we can move this essence from it, and in doing so you will deepen your connection to stone. You will learn a song of stone. But beware, such energy as this will not be destroyed, just moved. Will you accept those consequences? Does Rowan fully understand what that means?

I don't know, does he? I will carry on as I am doing, and who is to deny? I'll say themselves. I accept. I There is no denial, no will. The dreamer dreams, and the singer sings, do what you will, but there will always be a consequence. With that, Rowan, you begin to hear. You've always heard the rhythm of stone, this kind of beat, this intrinsic bass line,

baseline to the earth, but it's been distant, it's been ephemeral. Never anything you could truly capture, but you begin to hear it again now. The loudest, the strongest, the most clearest you've ever heard it. Coming from deep within this plateau itself, coming at you like pulses and rhythms and beats, hundreds, thousands of drums in perfect harmony and symphony with one another. and you know that this is not just music, this is something so primordial, this is the magic of creation,

this is something that has made the world the world, and that the earth and the stone has this song. Go and D&Di Bionji will find the song of stone. Oh, ho ho ho ho! Okay. This is a special boon. It's a spell? It is a magic item.

It's a magic item. With this magic item, you can use a bonus action to expend one of your Bardic inspirations to begin playing the song of Stone. Whilst you are playing the song of stone, you can still cast spells, you can still speak, and it isn't a concentration effect, but you will need to play Sostanuto.

You can't use both hands. You can't use a weapon while you're doing this. Whilst you are playing it lasts for a minute or until you are incapacitated or choose to end it, Whilst you are playing the song of Stone, you and all allies within range who can hear you gain a bonus to AC and strengthen Constitution saving throws. It's just the plus one, but also you can use a reaction

to spend a point of fate when an ally, not yourself, when an ally takes damage to reduce the damage that they take. Oh, I 1d12 plus my careers. Oh wow, okay. Yeah. Charism. Curis. But only whilst the song is being played

Once you've played the Song of Stone, you must then have a long rest to regain the use of it. Okay. All right. That's fucking dope. Nice. Song of Stone. As... So is it manifest as an actual stone,

or is this just like, I feel this now? This is you play this and... I just have this innate feeling that I can do that. It's like magic item, like a magic knowledge, I suppose. Yeah, it's like, you know, it's a beat. This is the, this is the rhythm, right, of a song. And you get the sense that there are more parts to it. more parts to it.

I was a little worried I was about to be Crystal Skulled. No. Where I heard like every fucking rock song. My head explodes. Consequences. But you know that there are other parts. This is the bass line. This is the beam.

There are other parts to this song. That's so fun. That is cool. As you know the song, as you learn it, as you feel it, your body begins to move on its own. And the rest of you watch as Rowan begins to scrape the stone, like he's sharpening it on a wet stone. And those jagged edges begin to

a metal weight. And as you're doing it in time with that beat, almost... I feel like my geometric patterns are glowing. Kind of glowing that green light. I'm in a trance. As you begin to sharpen it, all of those jagged edges get clean, sheared off. But you, Rowan, you feel from you, from something in your hands

like you are carrying a predatory beast It's craving strength. It craves blood. It wants to be the strongest, the most powerful. It wants to dominate. It doesn't care about protecting. It doesn't care about lifting up others. This is selfishness and power and hunger.

And as you feel the beat, it begins to ever weigh. But it doesn't just go into the ether. You feel it going into something. And it is going into the dulled aetherite of which you are currently sharpening. and as you finish Stone Razor loses its magical property is now just a great sword

made of stone and you sort of step back but you can still hear that song and now you know it but as you step back the Ulthorite stone begins to move and shift

as something begins to emerge pulling itself from the stone. Oh my God. Oh my God. What? As an enormous

corrupted earth elemental. You see all those dull all those dull veins of Ulthorite where they were like they had gone dull they're now almost they're so black that there's almost a purple sheen to them

and they're kind of running through and as this creature pulls itself up they become like crystals in its body as it pulls up a huge chunk of stone behind it. The earth almost kind of filling in and sort of collapsing in. It does leave a sort of crater and maybe a hole going down into where it's just emerged from, but this creature just stands over it.

It doesn't roar, but there's almost this kind of thunderous cacophony that comes from within it, like a vibration that sort of shakes everything around. And that is going to be initiative. Holy, everybody. Huge. This is a huge creature. Not four Rowans tall.

I'm so distracted though because there's this little tuft of grass on the top but I don't. On the rock that he's pulled up. I just want a small shit. Yeah, it's just pulled up from the rock. I want a small shit. Isn't that cute? It's very cute.

Look, it's just a little ducky. Fuck, man. Oh, for fun sake. What have I done to the wet stone? Made it murdery. So is it holding the wet stone? No, no, no. It is made of the wet stone.

Like it's kind of like parts of its body are made from the woodstone. It's kind of chest and head. And then all around it is like rocks that it's pulled from the plateau. And the thing it's holding is just a huge rock that it's picked up from next to it, basically. It's like holding it above its head. Daisy, what do we get on initiative? 18. 18. 18. 18.

18. Daisy will go first because of the dexterity. So I'll boost you up to a 19, Daisy. Graffeth. Four. Four. I'm going to bump you up to a five, so you go ahead of Ricks. of Ricks, Rowan.

16. 16 for Rowan. Ophelia. 14. 14. Perfect. The knights and the mercenaries are too far away. They are not gonna be able to get to help you to help you in any time. You have no fate. You have no faithless. We used a lot on that court battle.

You do have Ricks with you. Who having seen this is just like, aggression, yes, now I may take my revenge against the rock that betrayed me. And Ricks is like locked in to fight this thing. It seems to be thoroughly pissed at this thing basically. Okay, well that helps. Aggression, yes.

I love that. I've also used two of their abilities. That's my mating cry. Aggression, yes. Daisy, you aren't going to be up first. I will remind you guys just a second. I know it's funnies. Just a couple of rules reminders.

Everybody on their turn can make a free knowledge, like an intelligence check to try and work out mechanics. So if you see something that's weird, you can be like, but it has to be specific. You have to say, like, can I check what that is going to do or what's going on with that? And, yeah, you know, fate actions and all of that stuff will come into play as necessary.

You probably said already, what size is this creature? This is a huge creature. Huge. Yes. Huge. Wow. This is a huge creature. It has, I will tell you, it has reach.

It has 10 foot of reach. So, Rowan, you are. Rowan is in its attack. That's why you're asking. Yeah. Does he count as my ally? Well, he'd know because he's not within threat range of it. You have to have an ally within five.

Can I, in that case, hold my, I'm going to fire my bow. Do you want to move first and then? I'm going to move behind that rock outcropping there, and then I want to. hold my action to take a shot when it is within five feet of... Of an ally. It's one of my allies so that then I get my stick attack.

Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, okay, so you're holding your action? Yes. Okay, we go to Xanthias. Hmm. Hmm. Is a... What does it look like it's intending to do?

I mean, obviously charge force, but like I can see them, he's holding a big rock. I would say, like, it is clearly aggressive. You don't know what it's going to do next. It's just appeared, it's pulled itself free, it's let out this kind of cacophonous vibration, but that's all you kind of know for now.

Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God. The drone have said out loud as he stumbles backwards. Consequences. Absolutely. Absolutely can. So you can infer what you want from that. Whilst you're thinking, I'm going to quickly catch something. Yes, I need a bigger rock man. That's a big, big rock man.

That looks like big consequences to me. That can always be bigger. Hey Rowan, what'd you do that, buddy, huh? What'd you do, huh? What'd you do? Okay. All right, what are you doing, Zen? I don't know. I don't know. I think I'm going to just be stunned. Okay, yeah, sure.

Yep. So you just wanna... Like a big rock man just emerged right in front of me. right in front of me. I didn't see that coming. I was too busy looking at bricks. Cool. Dumb?

All right. Really? At the end of your turn, I'm going to spend two fate to perform one of its fate actions. It's going to yeat. And seeing a number of you within range, at least gruff, Rowan and Xanthias, in a 30-foot cone,

it is going to bring its huge hands and slam them into the ground, causing this huge shockwave and cracking of Earth, all around it. I need all three of you to make a dexter as it uses Colossus Smash. DC, uh, Dexterity saving throw, please. Dexterity. Oh, God. Okay. 22. 14. 14 is not. 12 will not be as a success. 14 is not. 12 will not be 11.

12 is not. Uh, so Rowan you're going to take half damage and you are not knocked prone from this. Uh, that is going to be 12. 15 points of bludgeoning damage. So that would be seven to Rowan. And Xanthias and gruff, you are not. Prone. M.M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. And that's at the end of Xantheus' turn, it uses one of its fate actions. I would like to expend one of my charged ruins, please, to not be knocked prone. Oh, can you do that? Is it one of your options?

Did you look for? Yeah. Okay. Very cool. I'm stunned, but I'm not that stunned. Yeah. You still take the damage, but you sort of, your runes kind of keep you up in the air, prevent you from being knocked down. It's not good. Like one of those punch toys. Then we go to Rowan.

I think Rowan's going to step back and say, this... If you take a step back, I will get a free attack against you. Because you're a technically... Roan's going to disengage. Okay, yep, you can disengage. He's going to walk backwards saying... How far?

This came from the corruption of the sword. It's a consequence. We have to fight it. That's 30 feet to move you back there. Yeah. Is that okay? And then at the end of his turn, he's going to get out Sostanuto and just... Just look at it.

Well, you can do that as part of your move action, so. Cool, I'll just get him out. Okay. You still have a bonus action. You've moved actions, you still have a bonus action. I'm going to Bardic and Spire. Xanthius, actually. Yes, Xanthus.

Actually, no. Gruff. Hell yeah. Okay. Gruffeth gets a body consprication day. So you can do it. Um, uh, uh, uh, ha. Ruffeth.

Is this what you do? End of turn? Yeah. End of turn. At the end of turn, I'm gonna spend another fate to do another fate action. We're getting fate back, that's good. And you see, Rowan, as you go to move away,

it points in your direction, and it points at the rocky outcropping next to Gruff, and you see its crystals on its body begin to glow, and you are pulled immediately towards it as you are now magnetized. Five, 10, 15, 20. and you're sort of, you just kind of pulled over towards the rock, which now has this kind of gently shimmering purple black glow to it

as you are currently magnetized to it. Let me roll to see how long this will last for, okay. Yeah, you feel like this, you know, like a magnetic pull. You feel like, you know, you're kind of not stuck to it, but like, you know, moving away from this thing is going to be really... I don't want to be near you anymore. We then go to Ophelia. Okay, three check please. The magnetized effect is that a...

How do I ask this in like... Well, you can just be like, I want to learn more about the magnetized effect. Will it, will it go away if I hit the rock creature? Sure, give me an archa check. Three. Three? You don't know. Hit anyway. Yeah, I'm gonna fly into a rage. Yes.

And I will sprint towards the rock creature. creature with half my movement. Right up into its face. I'm 10, 15, 20, 25. And then you could use the rest of your movement to get into range, yeah? Bechably. Do you want to be 10 feet or five next to it? I'll go five feet.

I'll go here. Okay, because then you'll go after this, after Aphelia's turn, basically. Cool. Then I will be... Actually, no. The reaction triggers as soon as a creature moves within five feet, so actually Daisy's attack's going to happen first. Yep. And 19 to hit. 19 will hit.

Okay. What kind of damage are you doing? What kind of damage should I do? Vee-Radian or piercing. I do radiant. Radiant damage, okay. I imagine most blunt stuff is gonna, like force and resisted. What do I have that's not fire?

What are you? Have a little bit of lightning. 32 points of damage. You watch as, you watch as Daisy pulls back her radiant bow launches this radiant arrow. It strikes the creature and sort of, see it chips and blast some of the rocky components of its body, as soon as you hit it with an attack,

the crystals begin to grow more over its body. And the crystal, sort of corrupted crystal begins to grow and spread over its body. But it did take the damage from Daisy, and then Ophelia. Okay, do Ophelia will do her brutal strike on this boy, and I'm going to use their fate to try and get this hit. Okay. 26 to hit. 26 will hit.

Awesome. So I forego any of that. So D10. And I will need to know what kind of damage, how much is of each. Okay, so this first struggle will be piercing. This is a D10 and a D8. Okay. Piercing.

Six piercing damage. Six piercing damage. That seems to be resistant. Okay, cool. And then I've got a D6 of a necrotic. Just stick on there. Oh my God. A one.

That would also be resisted, but obviously a one is a one. Okay. So without that, and then I would also like to... Didn't resist Radiant. Interesting. Okay. Necrotic is feeding off sort of like life force of like, Radiant is like a laser beam or like, you know, direct, like powered sunlight.

I'd like to also use a hamstring blow from my brutal strike. Okay. That reduces the movement speed by 15 feet. Okay. I think that I'm going to argue that as that this thing does not have hamstrings and it's, you know, you don't think that there's something of this size, you can, like, your blow is not going to slow its movement. I think it's still weak in its legs, right?

With a little rapier. And hamstrings blows, a hamstring blow. Yeah, I guess so. It's like slowing it. Yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah. Sure.

It's an ability. It doesn't specify that it has to be a humanoid creature or anything, so. It has legs. It has legs. Minus 10. I can't imagine this guy's fast. He's not fast, no. And then another eight damage is from my bonuses.

That would just be piercing as well. So that'll be piercing as that would be piercing as that would be half as well. That's my first strike. That's your first attack. Second. Twelve. Twelve to hit? Does not hit.

And again, when Ophelia struck it with that first blow, the crystals, again, continue to grow and form more over it as well. Okay. Can I relay to the team? Just plain strikes won't do much damage to it. Try magic attacks. Okay, okay. Maybe force damage, force magic.

End of turn, Ophelia? Yeah. Push magic. That one. Mine was okay. Yours was great, Daisy. You're always great. Love you. I will spend my point of fate

to do another fate action at the end of Ophelia's turn. Okay. Called Earth Shift. You see as, It basically merges with the stone beneath its feet. Okay, it merges. Speed doesn't matter then. It basically appears here.

It only moves a short distance, but as it eruptures from the ground, I need everybody, well, gruff technically you need to make this, but you're already prone. Everybody to make strength-saving throws. As it kind of emerges and it causes, like it throws all this rock and debris around it as it emerges. Everyone including...

Xanthias Ophelia and Rowan. Okay. So you as well, Xanthias. 10. You are knocked prone, Ophelia. What does that mean? 10, you are not prone, Rowan. What if I bounced my dice from the box onto the wall?

You're super cool. Oh, it's one. You're not one. That one, but it landed on the wall, though. So as this thing, it sort of, it dips, it kind of just sinks into the earth, becoming one with the plateau, and then it pops up, and as it does, it kind of sends this force

that knocks you all to the ground, basically. And that was at the end of Ophelia's turn. We then go to Graf. Hello, my name is Graf. That's your name. Graf is going to grumble somewhat under his breath while he pushes himself up. And as he pushes himself up, the armor of Oakonthorns

sprouts, ponds. You're going to stand up? Ponced. His bod. Half movement. And then I will cast tidal wave. on the creche. Yes, I think.

What's the length of it? Oh, very long. Is it five foot? It's like... It has to come from gruff, that's the thing. Range is 60 foot area, 30 foot. Oh, so you can choose a different point to start it in. Up to 30 foot long.

So where are you going to put this? Up 10 foot wide, up to 10 foot tall. So 10 foot wide, 10 foot tall, 3 foot long. Where are you going to put this? Because you do have allies kind of... Yeah, so if I go directly from me, it's going to smush Ophelia. So can I sandwich it between Rowan and Xanthius? I don't...

Let me have a look. Is that five feet? So it's ten feet wide? Mm-hmm. Yeah, you can do it between these two because there's ten-foot gap here. And then push him backwards. Back this way. North. Well, north from where I am.

What kind of same for it? Dexy. 16. Is it Dex? Dexie. Dexy. Yep. I look at it.

That was a natural 20, minus 1 is 19. Oh shit, okay. It's not fair. I mean, it's my dice. Still do it, no, no. You still do damage, but I don't think it has it at half. Oh my God. That's a... 8,875.

Wow. 16, 23, uh, 28. Yeah. Nice. Yes. 28 and what kind of damage? Uh, it is... Watery.

Probably bludgeoning, isn't it? It's probably bludgeoning, isn't it? It's probably bludgeoning. Is it deep a kid. So 28, so 14. No, it's not. Oh, it's punching half. Oh.

It seems like most sort of like slashing piercing. Okay, it's halfed. So 14 points of damage. And it is not pushed as it just resists. It's kind of heavy stone, you know, and this thing is enormous and it looks immensely strong as it is not pushed away from you, unfortunately. That's action, move.

You've used half your movement and bonus action. So you have half movement left, but you are in melee range of it. Can I use my... Other half to pick Rowan? Nope. It's not a thing you can do with movement. Can I use the other half to activate my singular brain cell?

Yes, I'll allow that. Cool. Great. Does it work? We'll see. Is Toyota Wave a continuous effect? No, it's a one off. No, it's what I'm done.

Vricks goes next. Vricks will charge in. Get it. Classic. And we'll use, as a bonus action, you use heroic example. Each ally within 30 feet adds 1d4 to the next attack, ability or saving throw.

So you only get it to one of the three, but it's the next one you make. 1d4. 1d4 to the next attack, ability check or saving throw you make. Grand. As Rix is just like, vengeance. She now has her halber that she got off of the bandits. So runs in screaming with that basically.

Makes two attacks with that. The first one is a miss, kind of just strikes the stone body and doesn't have much of an effect. The next one is 20, which does hit. But again, you see the crystalline armor grows further and further. This is going to be a successful strike. Where's my D-10s? There's one.

Where's my other one? I don't know. Do you want to de-sat my butt? Nope, I've got it. I found it. That is going to be, oh, not too much. That's only going to be nine half. Nine plus, oh yeah, nine half.

four, two, that's a second attack, and then there's a bone, oh no, you don't use their own section to do heroic example. So, Vrix just runs in, does a little chip damage. The halber barely does anything, it just sort of scratches this thing's surface. But Vrix is like taunting it, just like, based, fight me!

And at the end of Rix, and then it goes to the Elementals turn. Elemental. Who is prone? So we have Rowan, Xanthius, Ophelia, all prone. Yeah. And then Daisy is the only one at range currently. We're so low on the ground.

You're so low on the ground. I think it would just, it's gonna randomly pick one of the three that are downed. So we have one to two, Ophelia, three to four, Xanthius, five to six, Rowan. Five to six is Rowan, unfortunately. You are prone, so I have advantage. And when it uses its slam attack against a prone creature,

it deals extra damage, I'm afraid. Very well. With advantage, that is gonna be 25 to hit. Auden's duty. Woo! So you take the hit instead? Mm-hmm. Oh, no deal.

You are not prone, so this won't do the extra damage. Oh, nice. It only does the extra damage against a prone target. Yeah. Thank you, Gruff. No worry. I'm your little baby boy, daddy. There's that big shit to kill. Big boy.

Yeah, I mean, Gruff just throws himself in the way basically, as this thing brings this rock down in a heavy slam. That is gonna be. Ruffles, just so goddamn, lightly. Just see some thick thighs of room. 38 points of bludgeoning damage. 38. 38 points of bludgeoning damage.

And that was the weaker one. That was not against the front creature. It only makes that one melee attack. That's my dog. But then it throws a boulder in Daisy's direction. You will get cover from this, Daisy. So you'll have plus two AC for this. Yeah.

It doesn't have advantage against you. That is a 26 to hit, though, unfortunately. Yeah. And then where are my D-8s for this one? Just catch the border and throw it back. Yes. That is going to be 18, 11, 17 points of bludgeoning damage, and you are pushed back 10 feet and knocked prone.

So Daisy is prone on the edge of the plateau. Oh, I didn't realize it was the edge of the plateau. There's a drop. Yeah, that is the bleak. That's why I raised it. So the staircase is the only... It's the only way up and down. And as I said, this thing is 1,200 feet.

Which is like 1D6 of damage. That would be 120 D6 of damage. I could take it. If you don't cap it. I could take it. Which the rules say you should, but fuck the rules. If you roll, you're lost ones, I'm dead. Then those are its two attacks.

As a bonus action, it is going to cause a pillar of stone. to erupt beneath the bricks. Oh. Come on, Vrix, move. It kind of raises a fist, and this giant pillar of stone emerges. Vricks has to make a dexterity saving throw. Fails, unfortunately,

and it's basically knocked prone next to it. Kind of thrown up into the air, and I think it's going to be... Remember what I taught you about earthquakes. Just go with it. I fully ragged all. Frick's still taste. Five points of damage.

I'm in a lot of pain, Rowan. That didn't happen. Yeah, Vrix also took some damage from that as they were knocked up into the air. That is me done. We go to the top of a brand new round. Round two. It does get all of its fate actions and reactions back.

Daisy. I'm gonna get up. Yeah. Half movement. I'm gonna move back towards the rock, please. Rock, please. Rocks are not our friends here though. Or I'll move slightly around the side.

This rock is just misguided. You can go to- Yeah, I'll go slightly there. That's you've 15 feet of movement, that's what you can do. Can I go around that way, please? So you could go there. To the right. Um, I will take another shot. Sure.

Actually, can I for free, can I ask if the crystal spreading over its body is increasing its AC. So you can make either an Arcana or a nature check. Santhius, you did fire, don't you? I do a lot of fire. A plus zero on both. With him. No, I did.

But I roll an 18. An 18. Yeah, Daisy, having analyzed this and maybe with assistance from NIM, with an 18, you will know that, yes, those crystals are increasing its AC. The crystals themselves don't look like you can attack them directly.

They're kind of part of its body. there is, there's something about them, like they're crystalline, they're hardened, but there's probably some weakness to it. But you just, with an 18, you don't get that extra information. But you can confirm that yes, whenever it seems to be successfully hit, its AC increases. Shit. But it does seem to be, there is a way to neutralize that or to just, you know, do something to the crystals. The armor's getting stronger as we hit it, but I don't know how to weaken it from that. There's maybe something else,

but I'm not very good at Arcana, you need, magic-y stuff. I'm just going to keep hitting. Sorry. Right. I try and hit it with... Sure. 21. 21 will just barely hit it. Oh, God.

Oh, okay. Yeah, it's boosting. Okay. And again, that armagerness. It's boosting. I mean, yeah. We have to damage it, though. We do, yeah, yeah. Maybe if it gets completely covered, it explodes.

Maybe. That sounds bad. Sounds fun. Yeah. I don't want a crystal exploding up here. All up inside. 28. 28. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, strong blow. Another radiant arrow flies into it, singeing the rocks and blasting chunks of it away. But as it does, the crystalline just grows and forms over it stronger. And four. Oh my. What is what you? What is wrong with you?

Uniti foot. Yeah. I'm looking for a bonus action. Yeah. Can I take the dodge as a bonus action agenda? No, you're not. Monks can, but you can't. I will.

You can hide, you can dash, you can aim. I will... Steady aim. Try and hide. Sure. Maybe, just as a why not. Sure. There's a bonus action there.

Behind the rock. Sure. I rolled in 19 plus like 13. plus like 13 on my stealth. Very high. 32, I believe. I think Daisy rolled off the edge of the cliff. Daisy's down.

Yes. End of Daisy's 10? Yes, please. Okay. No, I'm in a pretty good place. So I am going to, no, I'm just gonna let it go to the next 10th, yes. Let it ride?

Yeah, I'm gonna let it ride. Okay, I would like to use the Anquire ability, please. Okay. As I inquire, how does one destroy the crystals on the creature? Arcana or nature check. Akana, please.

Wait, oh, okay, never mind. Five, I have a plus four. He rolled a one. Nine. Nope. Oh. He rolled a one. Total. Whether it's the distraction or what it is, you're just too preoccupied

to focus right now. Pairs and shit. Well, you don't need to destroy the crystals. You wanna get up? If crystal is not on clean. Can I cast? Apparently, this does work on huge creatures. Can I cast telekinesis?

You mean you can cast it for sure. Fifth level, it does have to make, now, how strong is this guy? I mean, he's crazy. That's try to me. But it's a concentration thing. I can just keep trying this turn after turn. It might be.

You cast spells of magic action. On your telling you can exert your will over one creature or object that you can see within range. I can see the effect below. A huge or smaller creature. The target must succeed on a strength saving throw or you move it up for 30 feet in any direction within the spells frame. Oh, I want to major age as well, sorry.

Increase the DC. Okay, so you stand up, bonus action and then cast telekinesis. Interesting. Yes. God, I hope you do this. Okay. Yes, I do. So it has to... Strength saving throw.

Strength save of, what is it? No, it can't be 19. I think it's 19. It is 19 because I think you should usually 17. Yeah, it has to beat strength. 19. So what, your DC's 18? No, it's 19.

But it was 18 and it goes up by 1. Oh, I thought it goes up to 2. Sorry. Oh, does it go up by 2? I thought it goes up by 1, Major H. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it becomes 18. Sure, sure, sure.

It does have advantage on strength saving throws to be moved, basically, which is what the other than sister does. Trust and believe. That is going to be... This would be so cool. It's very strong. I'd hate to tell you this.

It has quite a significant bonus. That would be 23 on its straight. 23 higher than 18? It is. But it's a concentration effect. It's concentration effect, yes. And of mage rage. I mean, if I roll a 1 or something like that,

it will affect it, but it does have advantage of all. It's just its AC going up with the crystals. Just its AC is going up. Not the strength. No. The strength isn't increased. But it's just naturally super strong. Yes, and also it's like proficient and it has advantage on effects that move in and stuff like that.

I'm just saying it's possible. It is possible if I roll badly. Or if something like hinders it saving throws and stuff. More pushing. Ophelia, you pushed a dinosaur last time. Push this. Keep pushing. End of turns, Entheus? Yes. I don't want to move away. No. Because he'll kill me. Yeah.

I don't want to be close to him though because he'll kill me. I think he's gonna kill me. I think I'm gonna spend one of my points of fate, and it's gonna do, same thing it did to Rome, but to you Zanthia, that pillar next to you, it points to you and the pillar, and you feel this magnetizing force, and you are now magnetized to that stone pillar

that it conjured. Okay. So you feel yourself like, kind of drawn towards this thing. Okay, okay. So only downside to me being next to it now? No, no, it doesn't seem to be. All right. We go to Rowan.

I'm just going to hug a rock. Now, I'm prone on the floor. Yeah. If I'm to move out of this range, it will attack me. Yep. Whilst you're magnetized, moving away from the thing you're magnetized to is difficult to rain, so half movement. Can I do a study intelligence check to see what I can do to stop the magnetizing effect?

Sure. Give me an arcana check on this one. What nature I would have? Natural 20. Natural 20. I am a magnet. Yeah. You understand.

Well, it's also, you know, you have this song of stones. You've kind of understand this thing, and magnetization is kind of part of Earth as well. There's several things you can do. You think several things will end the effect. The easiest and the most obvious one is a dispel magic spell will end the effect instantly. But also if you destroy the thing that you are magnetized to,

that will also end the effect, so the rock that you're attached to. Or if you can move 50 feet away from the object, that will break the magnetization as well. Right. Can you get 50 feet from things on the platform? Some people can. Yeah, you can get 50 feet away.

Right. Can you? 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. To the corner. 50, yeah. Right. You can run over towards the stairs, you can do a bunch of stuff.

The one that Rowans attached you. My movement is reduced because. Yeah, because if you're moving away from the thing, it's like dragging you back, basically. Okay, dokey-dokey. You also, and also to reveal to you, and if you move away from it, at the end of your turn,

it pulls you 20 feet back. I was thinking of that. Yeah. So at the end of your turn it will pull you back as well. All right. They're rock off. What if I'm gas? You could become gas.

See what that does? Like those are just the things I've pre-prepared. Like if you do something creative that I'm like, yeah, that would probably break it. Like that will probably work. Rowan says to Gruffeth looks up at you. As he's being pulled in, I go to Althe now. And I'm gonna gash his form.

Okay. Oh, fuck. So you can't gase his form. Okay. gas you are no longer magnetized. Rowan? You're... Rolin!

I believe that in gaseous form you move at half speed. It's me, I'm a clown! It's just a big cloud with your face. Yeah. It's like one piece. Okay. I believe you can move but it's half speed and you're already half. So you stood up, right, from prone?

Yeah. So I'll go five. Yeah, you can basically go five feet. Where do you want to go? Because you stood up. So you've got five feet of gas movement. Directly back. Threatly back to be there. Okay.

It's still within its attack range, so it doesn't make it. A fly speed of 10 feet. Yeah. 10. It's not great. Cash's form is really questionable. Yeah.

Funny though, isn't it? I believe you're also not immune to damage in that form. You just have resistance, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Resistance is still pretty good. Sure. If it's movement, if you've got 10 feet of moving, you can actually go back another 10 feet,

but do you want to? Is the magnet affected me or no? No, no, the magnet's not affecting you. I've overcome. But he can attack you there. If you move out with a threat range. I'll get an attack or opportunity. I will stay.

Okay, perfect. All right. As the two of you are no longer prone. No, I don't want to spend the last two of my fate just yet. We go to Ophelia. Ophelia will stand up. Stand up from prone. Yeah, and I'm gonna get pushing.

Oh. Yes, I'm going to roll and use my brutal strike again. I'd like to use as fate as well please. Okay. 25 to hit. 25 or hit? Amazing. So a forceful blow.

So I get a D10. The piercing. We don't want to keep this rock up here. D8 of piercing. Ground the rock. Yeah. So 14 piercing. 14 piercing.

So half to seven. And then I've got 7, 8, 9 as my bonus. So that's halfed again as well. Yep, so that'd be another four. D6 necrotic halved. So that's two. So is that already halved? That's already halved.

Okay. And then I'm gonna push this guy 15 feet. Basically, I'm gonna go throw that. You have to push him away from you. That will throw him into Rowanagruff. If I move to where that rock is where Vricks is, you've already made the attack. Okay.

So if you want to do that, you'll have to move and then push him away from you. So remember, you're always gonna push him away from you. So if you want to do that, you would have to do that, have to have moved around and then pushed him. So if you want to push him, it's going to knock these guys as well. Can it not go that? No, it's pushing it away from Ophelia.

That's directly away. Yeah. I'm going to argue, I'm going to say at that point, there's also stuff in the way here. So that's how I'm going to rule it. All right. It's directly away from Ophelia where Ophelia currently is. Can I forego that D10? No, you can keep the D10, you just don't do the forceful push on it.

Because that means I can't do it next turn on my second strike. Oh, okay. But that's fine. Can you move before you do it then? Yeah, you can move before your second attack. Yeah, yeah. Is that annoying if I do that? No, no, no, you can take the D10 damage off.

Okay. Do you remember what it was? It was a 10. It was a 10, so it was 5. Okay. Cool. So that's just straight up damage. Yeah, I'll strike again.

So are you going to move? Remember, you need to move first. Where do you want to move to? I want to move next to Xanthius. Yeah. Nice. Right. Right.

Right. Like this way. Yeah. Okay. Thank you all. You did hit him as well, so the armor crystal does increase. And I'll use my D4 from Vricks for this next attack. That would have been applied to the first one.

Remember, it's the next attack, you don't get to choose it. It's always the next saving throw, attack roller ability check. 17. It's not enough. Yeah, with that crystalline armor protects it this time. Yeah, no, my bad, I messed up. No, you did. It's just a thing like, you can't move off.

You can't move after you've done the effect, right? Like you have to have done it from where you were, basically. And it is directly away from you. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, that's my turn. Okay, all right. After Aphelia's go, we go to Gruff.

So I've got stone shape which touch a stone object of a medium size or smaller. It's not an object. You could touch, he is not an object. That is a creature. It's huge. Yes. You could touch like the, area around you, objects around you, but not him.

Okay. Is he, uh, was Sotheus magnetized? Yeah, he magnatized. Yes. The pillar next to him. Is there, so the wording of stone shape is turn it into any dimension and form it. Sorry. No, uh, you touch a stone object of a medium size or smaller or a section of stone

no more than five feet in any dimension and form it into any shape you want. It is 10 feet high. So a section of? Yes, you could destroy a section of it. I can't think of a way to do that. I was thinking of like turn it into something that I could throw so like Xanthius was no longer magnetized to it and shit like that.

Or gets magnetized with it and goes with it, which will be fucking hilarious. Don't worry, I'm okay. Not conducive to any situation. I'm going to call lightning. Okay. Nice. It's a huge creature, so you're just literally going to strike it, basically.

I like the idea. that as the way... Obviously, the way that he's cast this before is Seren goes shooting up to the sky, but in the Ozar step, we've seen shapes of the arch dragon into the sky. So I just love the idea of, like, I don't know, just Seren flying up here.

Yeah, or, like, I don't know, just calling this arch dragon shape, like, into the cloud's arm. Pretty bold of you to assume that you'd get the arch dragon shape because you cast the spell. You know, I don't know, something like that. Yeah, sure. Look, I'm feverish right. I just go with me, deck save 60.

I like the idea, I love the idea of seren flying up and we see like a giant seren in the clouds and then that calls the lighting, because that's where your magic comes from. And the lightning kind of illuminates across her wings. Like a thunder, like a Quisselcottle kind of. Yeah, yeah. That's cool.

Deck save six. Deck seven throw long. That is, well, it's still an 18 minus one, so 17. Shit. Do I take half damage from a failed save, a successful save? Yeah, I think so, I'll recall lightning.

Cool. Yes, you do. I rolled a nine, a seven, seven, and a five. So... So I'm going to add that up. 29. That? Yeah, 28.

28. So... Halved is 14. Either way, it's 14. It does not seem to be resistant to that. Yum. However, this thing is very tough. It is still fighting strong.

I will... You'll still gas, aren't you? He is gas. A big face of gas, Ruffus. I want to cycle next to Ophelia and Xanthius, but he's probably just going to stand on us if I do. You can move next to Ophelia and Zanthius, without provoking opportunity attack.

Yeah, but then we're all clumped together and he just stants on us. Sure, possibly. Stay where I am. Okay, you're going to stay where you are? End of turn? Can I just roar, just a daunting roar just to see, it's probably not going to do anything.

It does nothing. It does nothing. It does nothing. It does nothing. End of turn? Yes, me. I'm going to spend a point of fate and it is going to do its earth shift again. It melds with the ground.

And this time is going to appear here. For podcast listeners, here is... Yeah, sorry, in the middle of the battle. It's kind of shifted position behind Xanthius, Ophelia and Vricks. I'm... And I need Ophelia and Zanthias to make that strength saving throw. Yes, strength saving throw, please. If this is the first role you've made, you do get Vrix's D4.

If you're not made it right, yes. Can this dice not be here? I feel you would have added it to your attack roll so you wouldn't have it on this. Thank you. That dice has been so bad to you today. What do we get? Zanthias? Nine.

You are not prone? You are both knocked prone. But no damage, right? No demage, just not prone. Not yet. Ricks's turn. Fricks will stand up. Let's go.

Fight me. This time we'll make two. attacks with the Halbert again. The first one, sadly with that armor does not hit. The second one does also not hit. And then as a bonus action, we'll fire the Dragon Five pistol as a bonus action that she stole.

That just barely hits because of its increased armor. And does, that will be 10 half to five. But then more crystals. And then more crystals. Oh, Christos. We haven't figured out how to get rid of them yet. No, I was gonna do it for reaction.

No, I'd fight, but I'm dumb. After Bricks, it is the stone-cast elemental's turn. And I am going to use its sweeping crush ability, which allows it to make a slam attack against each creature or object within 10 feet of it in a 180 degree arc of its front. So that's gonna be, Bricks, this pillar, Zan and Ophelia. 5.10, but not catching Rowan and Gruff.

And we're prime. Well, Fricks. So attack against Pripher against Vricks, which doesn't have advantage. Natural one. Misses Vricks. It just ducks under the blow. Against the pillar. It hits the pillar.

Against Xanthias with advantage. Okay, she's not listening up. 21. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Unshelable, 21. 21 and then against Ophelia with advantage. That is going to be a 25.

Yep. You are both prone, so you are going to take the additional damage on this. So I'm going to roll it separately for Vricks, because Vricks also can reduce damage. It's been a fun 100 episode, Ophelia. Oh, yeah, we said we were going to TPK today, didn't we? Yeah. 30 points of damage to Vricks.

Vricks will reduce that by 8. So we'll take 22. Okay, that was reduced. That was reduced. The pillar is destroyed, and as it's destroyed by the Stone-Cursed Elemental, it splinters showering vricks and Xantheus with shards of stone.

But also, there is a pulse of green ather energy, and I get to take one of your fake points for destroying a pillar. And then Xanthius, you and Chris. Wait, there was no extra effect for the shards. You take two extra damage. You take two points of damage from the shards. Okay.

I've not attacked you yet. I'm also magnified. Oh, the magnifies ends because that's destroyed. All of the shards. But no, I'm saying all the shards. Basically, I'm not gonna do that to you. That was funny. Mainly because I know what's about to happen, so.

I don't. I use this one. I do, you're gonna roll like trash. Like a god. Yeah, yeah. Here we go, now one's all around. I can't believe physics. Yeah, very average.

Whole lost, sevens. What to do, what to do. 36 bludgeoning damage to you both. Oh! Halfed because you're raging Ophelia, so that would go to... 19. 18. Can I hellish rebuke as a reaction?

You can, absolutely you can. That's not what it is down. Dexterity's saving through, right? Yes, please. That is gonna be 14. You succeed. It's six years, half damage. It's got a minus one for its decks,

but I just keep rolling so well. Can you stop there? I mean, yeah, I wish I could. I can't. I can't, physically can't stop. Four, four damage. Four fire damage. It does take full fire damage.

Woo! It's blasted. That's my whole thing. That's all right. So you watch as, yeah, you reach out this bit of flame does blast and scorches the rocks and sort of burns apart. I'm back, baby.

You never went! No, I know, I literally have taken, like, no turns. That was, that used its sweeping crush. What's the concentration save on 36 damage? It would be DC 18. Hell cute, I got 27. Nice, you can get concentration. It is then, but it replaces its slam attack with sweeping crush.

So it is gonna then throw a boulder. Daisy, you are being, it seems to intrinsically know where you are, as if it has a tremor sense, as if it can sense anything touching the ground. I rolled like a 30 something. I know, but tremor sense means it knows where you is. It can feel your heart beat through your feet,

through your boots. That's cool. But yeah, that's why I didn't worry. However, you're lucky because I roll a natural one on my attack roll. So the boulder just smashes into the rocks beside you. I'm doing that for me. I'm sorry.

That is, and then as a bonus action, it will create another stone pillar. Here. Pshu-hm, and it cause it to rise up from the ground. That brings us to the top of a brand new round with Daisy. Ah, hello. Hello. Who's after Daisy?

Santis. Dan me. Correct. Yes. Den Rowan. Den Rowan. Den Rowan. Den Rowan.

I don't believe you can attack in Gassie's form. Look, all right. Maybe I made a mistake. I can't do shit as Gatchez form. Apart from Scare Gruff briefly, saying I'm going to all say now. But noise isn't making any time to Gatchez-as- But be louder and bigger.

Probably a small hole you can get into a picture. I think I literally used it once as Nova and got rid of it. It's good for like exploration and sneaking into places and stuff like that. It actually comes from my... It's not really a combat. It's not my spell. Oh, it's from the wand. From the wand of the skull.

Oh, it's really fucked up there. Like, you don't have the cute Rowan cloud face. This is like you're this amorphous, like, almost blob-like ooze mist. Because it's from the protomagic one, Gruffeth. Just waft you away. Inhale on me, Graffeth. Woff, whiff.

Suck me in. Put me in your pipe, gruffus. What's wrong with you too? Activate my wings. Okay. Just so that I have... Yeah, I can fly. Flying capable of her.

You can fly. I'm not going to... Flying seems to be great. Flying works well? Yeah. Um... Just see like a weak point on the top. Can I again at sea if I can figure out how to destroy the crystals?

Yeah, absolutely. Alana or nature check. It's a free action on everyone's turn. I only got 15. 15 is actually enough. Is it? Yeah, 15 is enough. Oh, it's a slightly different phrasing. Yeah, yeah, 15.

No, well, no, it's, um, uh, with the 17, it's different things. Oh, I asked for a different thing. Yeah, yeah. You asked for a different. effect. So if you get higher result, you get multiple answers, basically. Okay. Specifically the crystals, looking at them Daisy, and I think Nym kind of speaks in your mind, like, Little One, it reminds me of some of the crystals in the Lucent Peaks. They were very vulnerable to loud noises. Perhaps if anyone can create thunder or loud sound, that may destroy the shards. And that's what you learn. Basically, the crystals can be destroyed by when the creature

takes thunder damage. You were born for this, baby. There may be, there may be... There may be other elements to that, but you get the answer of how to destroy the crystals is thunder damage. I think if you do something really loud like thunder, then the crystals will be weakened. Rowan, do you have that? I can clap.

Yes, gross mess. Oh God, the mist, it's horrible. The mist kind of forms into a butt of sorts. Aw, no. He's getting ready to clap. Again, I don't think you can cast... No, I don't think you can cast... No.

So you have to come out of that form? Yes. Or is it just a free action? I think I can just drop the concentration. There you go. I will just attempt to shoot the creature. I might miss because it's got a bit of a... It does have a high AC at the moment.

High AC right now. But you can still hit. I rolled an at 20. Yeah! That's gonna do it. Okay. So that's, yeah, it's gonna be a hit and it's a crit. Yeah.

With radium as well. Um, yeah. So, six. And that's all those sneak attack. So it would be six, six, six, six. Seven, if I, it's seven, no. Seven, D-6.

Seven, hogging is gourd. D-6. Would be 38 plus six. 44 plus another six. Fuck my life. 44 plus whatever you roll. 69, nice. 69.

Oh, no, no, no, one more. You ruined it. So 70. 70. 70. That makes it easier for me to work out its hit points. 70. colossal blow as you kind of find a weak point in all of this crystal armor, the radiant arrow

slams into a part of it not covered. And as it explodes with radiant light, pieces of the stone break away. But this thing is still standing. It is bloodied, but, well, bloodied as a stone monster can be, but it is hard. It is hardy creature. End of turn, Daisy? Yeah, yeah, buddy. How also just this might become relevant later on, how high are you flying? Only about 10 feet. Just 10 feet off the ground. I'm just trying to not fall off the edge of the platform.

Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good to know. Security, more than anything. It's relevant for lots of different reasons. Oh, wait, I have an extra plus an extra four radiant damage because I'm in, no, yeah, four. Okay, for my proficiency bonus. Perfect.

There you go. 74. 74, perfect. So this huge blow strikes the creatures back. It stumbles for a moment, and I think at the end of Daisy's time, it's gonna take that opportunity. I'm gonna spend two of my points,

it's gonna do its Colosser Smash. No, it's not gonna go for you, it's gonna go for things that you can strike on the ground. I wonder who they could be. Yeah, it's gonna strike all four of you guys. Ophelia, Xanthius, Gruff and Rowan. This is, it's Colossal Smash, a dexterity saving throw, please.

I'm really good at those. Do I see this coming? You do? Amazing. Are you prone? Do you have advice? I haven't used Ricks's thing yet. If you've not made an attack, yes, you get to happen.

I just turned into gas. Just being a clout. Let me just check and see if there's any effect for prone, if you have dexterity. You get resistance to the damage, though. Being gas, yes. Yes, you have resistance to damage. Hell yeah, it's coming, it's all coming up gas.

Stop showing me, fucking. Rock versus gas. This is the big Rowan fight at the end of his arc. And he's all gas. Oh my God. It turns to a cloud of farts. Yeah, no, it doesn't, a prone doesn't affect you. So what do we get on the Dixote your same throws?

I'd like to use a fate, just FYI. Oh, okay, love it. 19. 19 is just barely a success. Oh, I got 17 then. That's a failure. 20. Success.

10. This boy. 10? Yeah. That's a failure. Tom, use this slide. This has been a good boy for you. This is my crown steel dice.

That's always been a bad one. 19 bludgeoning damage. who failed, so it'd be nine to those who succeeded. And those who failed are also knocked prone, which I believe is... No, Rowan succeeded, rough succeeded. I can't be knocked on. I feel but you're already prone.

Zanthius failed, but you're already prone. I'm raging, so I am, but gus. Yeah, so did you half it again from the night? Unproneable. So that was at the end of Daisy's turn, Zanthius's turn. I passed my concentration check. Okay. I would like to use A,

Uh, bonus action to Misty Step away, please. Okay, where would you like to Misty Step to? I'm Misty Step myself to be standing again. It doesn't matter. Yeah, you can. Cool. Where would you like to be? Uh, let's just say, uh, 10 feet away from the edge of that wall over there. Wow, you go 510, 15, 20, 25, so you can be later.

Yeah, that works. Um, mamps. And teleport all the way to the northern sort of like tip of the plateau. Yeah, I mean, I've still got my telekinesis and it doesn't look very strong. But can you imagine if it was floating in the air just a little bit and it couldn't use all of his earth stuff? It pretty huge. It pretty huge.

Or if you just yeat it off the platform. I could just yart it. I could fucking yard it. You can. I need to see it happen though. It would be pretty fun. So can you make a strength save please? With advantage.

Yeah, against 18. With a plus 11. Oh God. Oh, I didn't know it was that high, but imagine. Can you imagine? Can you imagine? 27. Is that higher than 18?

It is. Fuck! So you're desperately trying to use this magic but your magic is just so strong. Maybe next to fire. This thing is almost rooted to the very earth that it's connected to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that's, that's, that's me. Okay, perfect. Do I want to use anything just yet? Maybe not. Rowan. Can I do a quick study? Yes, what would you like to ask? I would like to ask benevolent GM.

Treating us kindly, episode 100. Very special time, it would suck if anything bad would happen to all of us. I'd love it. I'd like to ask whether this a thunder clap... Actually, no. Am I hearing the pulse of this stone's beat

and does it sound dissonant compared to the other rocks? Yes. You don't need to make a check for that. That's just part of your ability. This thing is now infused. That chunk, what was the giant's wet stone, has become infused with all the dark, evil, predatory energy that the stone sword carried,

and it has corrupted the Ulthraite and made it awaken as this rage-filled, horrific monster, basically. That wants to be the sword. strongest, it wants to be the best, it has become like a predator, basically. Infused with all the hatred of Ajania's minions. Right, I will coalesce back into Rowling. Socenuto is already in hand. And he's going to begin the Song of Stone.

Okay, so as a bonus action, you expend a Bardic inspiration, and you begin to play the Song of Stone. So just read out the abilities for everyone. As a bonus action, you instantly kill any huge rock. Just try and do it properly, please. Oh shit, that's great. Expand one use of Bardic inspiration to begin playing and continue playing for up to a minute.

This ends when I'm incapacity of blah, blah, blah, blah. You and each ally that I hear within 60 feet gains plus one bonus to AC, as well as constitution saving throws. And as a reaction, when an ally within 60 feet takes damage, I can use a fate to reduce that by D12 plus. Everyone's got plus one AC currently and plus one to strength and constitution saving throw.

But my intent with this song is to play it loud, So I'm going to give it gusto. Okay. You play the song loudly, and it has the effect of the song. Is this an action, right? It's a bonus action. It's a bonus action. Yeah, it's not casting a spell.

Oh, nice. I will turn around. You looked at me before you said it. Again, check your spell, because this spell has a certain range. Oh, it's a five foot range, isn't it? And it will hit through all creatures around within five feet. within five feet. So you wanna move your, where are you gonna move yourself to you?

I'm going to move myself to the southwest of the stone creature. So between it and Daisy. Okay. Lovely. I will bend down, gripping my knees tightly, and I will say, for all say. And I will begin to twerk my little fucking ass off.

Clapping, Thunder clap. Alrighty, Constitution saving throw. Yes. Good at these, but it's not as good as its strength. It's a 21. Fuck you. It's a tantric which means no effect. Yeah, but just...

You're bouncing. You're bouncing. There is like a reverberation, but it kind of pulls itself up. It does seem to be frightened of this sound, like this thunderous energy. It pulls itself away. Is it about a pulse day.

It pulls itself away, scared of what that may have done. So that is your bonus action move and action. Go to Ophelia. That's be done. Ophelia would like to stand up. See if you play. Yes. I would like to try and push this thing down the stairs, please.

If it will fit. I may need to go around a little bit. If you move to here and then what, you can push it 15 feet? 15 feet, yeah. Can you do it twice or only once? Just the one. Just the one. 10, 15.

You won't be able to knock it down, but you'll get it close. Get them the edge, yeah. I'll go that way, yeah, I'll do that, I'll do that. Okay. Do it. So attack with fate. Oh, with fate. Oh, shit, okay.

Alrighty, so I've got some maths to do. So, D8 and a D6 necrotic maxed. 14. And a D10 maxed, so I get that as well. And then rolling, do we use blood points as well? Bloins? Yes, I'll use one blood. blood point as well.

Another six. Yeah. Now go... 30. Roll. Wow. 10. 10.

408. 52. Did you roll that? No, that's from the fake. 52? 52. Any bonus? Any modifier?

52 plus 2, 454. 50 for 4. 60. You add plus 8 to your damage? Plus 6. Plus 6. So 50, uh, 8. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, so 29 halved. Yes, 29. 29 is the half, right? No. Yes. Yeah, 29 is half. Yeah.

So you watch as Afilis strikes this impressive blow. It does, the crystalline armor does grow, as that's the next time it's been physically attacked. But you do manage to get the strike in causing. And again, you can see piece of it breaking away. It is starting to look a bit rough, but it's still very healthy and strong. And then I'll push it 15 feet towards steps.

So five, ten. So basically it ends its movement here. Nice, and then I will move up towards it as I can do that freely. And strike again. Perfect. Nice. If I add true strike, is that,

do that negate the attack if I cast true strike? You have to cast that before your attack action. So like you've already used your attack action so you can't do true strike now. True strike would replace your attack action. All right, cool. It's the benefit of you get to attack twice or you do the true strike effect.

Do you get effects though? I do get vex. Did you get bets? Yeah. 22. 22 does not, not with its crystalline armor now. This armor is like fully covering this thing. It is heavily protected at this point.

Yeah. That was a great critical hit though, really, yeah. That was a great critical hit. Huge, huge damage. End of turn, Affili. Yeah, that's my turn, thank you. Now I just take Xanthus, the telekinesis, right? Here it comes.

Gruffeth. Is it me? Is it not son? I don't know. I'm right. Okay. Wonderful, beautiful, sensual, gorgeous. Always works.

Always works. Intelligent VM. Sure. Oh, Dean. What? Is a Thunderbeast a CL1 creature? There's different types. Thunderbeasts are just a generic term for dinosaurs.

Can there be a CL1 a Thunderbeast? If so, graffle wildship into one and ram into the creature try and push it downstairs. Or does a Thunderbeast have an ability to cast Thunderbeast? No, they don't have like... Well, they're missing, then! They're beasts. Some of them do lightning damage and thunder damage,

but they're flying ones, I don't believe if you can become flying ones. I can. There are animals that you can. But they're not CR1. Okay. I don't know, are you tell me. There are some that do a charge,

but I don't know if they're CR1. As a thing, I can go up to CR1. I know, it's the kind of thing I wish, like, if I'd known this in advance, I could have given you, like, snaplocks. I know, I know, I know you didn't. But like, I didn't know.

You almost never use your wild shape so I don't have that one of the kind of mood today. I know, I know. You don't know the entire monster? No, funnly enough, I don't have the entire monster manual at the top of my heart. Give me a minute, but we are near the end of the episode. Also, I want to make it clear at this point,

this was not in my dream. Oh. I can do a giant eagle. I don't know, turn that into a dinosaur. Kegel. Birds are dinosaurs. I think something like, what was the things, there were some things that had charge abilities.

Yeah, there's a few of them, but I just don't know. Turn into a lion. A one else was. Genuinely think it might have been a rhinoceros. A lion has a running in. Rhinoceros isn't C.L.1. So, there's creatures with pounce ability, but it doesn't push.

There is a thing in Kursa Strad called a Sang Zor that has charged. No. It's in Kersestrard. The Spider King? I don't know where you're looking. I'm looking at five, I'm only looking at five, five, but I can't filter out to do core monsters, so. Brown bear?

Brown bear can knock it prone, but it doesn't push. Can I spend a fate to push hard, shove, charge? I mean, that's normally used for like doing things, like adding things to a scene, like cover or like doing things. It's not to give yourself new abilities, right? Otherwise you could be like, can I spend a fate to like reduce the damage?

There's a log behind it and it trips. Yeah. I will also say this, even if I did allow that, you would only push it five feet and that's not gonna be enough to force it off the edge. I just wanted to turn to a giant dinosaur. You can totally turn into a giant dinosaur. I just don't think that at CR1,

you're gonna get like a powerful pushback like 15 feet ability. Um, Let me check. You can turn into flying creatures, you said. Yep. Giant Eagle. They do lightning damage, not thunder damage.

The Storm wings do lightning damage. And the full Molin, which is a creature you haven't fought yet, is CR4. So, unfortunately, the two that I have ready to go. I could try Tidal Wave again, but I need to hit that Dex 16. It's not Dexie. You can give it a shot.

It does damage either way, doesn't it? Yeah. It does, yeah, it takes half, but you can, you've still got good options. Also, anyone that's currently running up the stairs to help us. Bye, suck on. Okay, let's try a tidal wave instead then. Okay. Where are you going to start it?

So I will start it just in front of it to try and push it. So right in front of the philia, basically. Yeah. Okay. So that is a Dex 16. I'll cast it at fifth level. So that will do extra damage but it doesn't affect the pushing on DC or anything. Only a 10. Nice.

So that is 5D8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Blow it on for me. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, points of bludgeoning damage. But, on a failed save, It is knocked prone and pushed along the length of the area. Oh, nice.

So it's like 30 foot. So, a couple of things happen. When this creature is knocked prone, it has a thing called topple, which is all creatures within 15 feet of it must make immediately a strength saving throw as this basically it slams to the ground. So bricks and it feels it back.

Yeah, you push it prone and then it's pushed back. So I'm gonna have it land first. Sorry. That's what Barb's for. It's not a lot of damage, but I'm still gonna follow it through. 17. 17 is not a success, I'm afraid. I need to roll for Vricks.

Ricks also fails. It's only gonna be, 16 bludgeoning damage to both. Vricks will resist that with a last ability, which she does. She actually ignores that. You take eight damage and then you are both knocked prone. but then this thing goes flying off towards the edge. And I am going to, oh God.

I just love the idea that Ophelia started the push. And then this like, Seren almost flies through you. Yeah. Like, you know, in that kind of illusory, and then the water just like, pp, pf, pf, pf. I did it! My powers. My dad did it!

Yeah! That's awesome. Very cool. Yeah. That's a cool visual. Combo. This is me fucking up and specifying that it only got its advantage on strength save, so I didn't realize Tideways was Dex saving throw.

Because normally a push effect is a strength saving throw. So I should have given it advantage on that in its laws, but in its rules I didn't. Huh? I could have telekonez. No, it was serious. No, no. It has advantage on strength saving throws to be moved.

Right, right, right. But because that's decks, it wasn't getting its advantage. advantage, basically. Right, right, right. Yeah, I think that if it's pushed 30 feet, it was only, what, 10, I'd say, even with the stairs there, like 20, I'd say. Like, with the stairs, it could have grabbed on

and melded with the earth and stuff, but with 30 feet, I think that you watch as this tidal wave of water just pushes this thing, and it goes flying off the edge. And it just hits the free air. It has no ability to slow its fall, it has no ability to, It's not connected to the earth,

so it can't use any of its, like, meld abilities. Hold up a sign that says, uh-oh. It basically does, and then it just begins to tumble. What? Now, there is one bad element here, Gruff. You've pushed it off where the stairs are, which leads down to the mercenary camp below. Oh, my God, they're all dead.

Oh, do you remember what message I put in chat today? I said I wanted to kill everything. I am going to, I'm gonna roll a D-100. These are not the academics. This is the mercenary company. And Dane Vashah who's down there and things like that. Sorry, guys, pack up.

I am gonna roll a D-100. Yep. They have not had enough time to leave the area. So this is gonna be like, is it just pure luck that nobody's in the area where this thing comes slamming down, basically? Because it's far enough off the edge of the plateau that it is gonna absolutely collide with the thing below.

I think I'm gonna give this a, I mean the chance is that it was a busy camp. I'm gonna give this. I did say it was busy. Myra's in a mood today. I'm not in a mood, I am being as realistic and fair as I possibly can. And their consequences to actions, right?

Like if you'd pushed it off the other side, not a problem, the camp's not down there, right? But because it's gone off where the stairs are, I think this is only fair that there's a chance it slams and kills, a lot of the mercenaries. I'm gonna give this a 30% chance that it strikes people down there.

So a 70 or higher on a D100. Oh, Jesus. I mean, that's a small chance, right? Like, does not. It's luckily people get out of the area, whether it's just luck or they're currently moving, they're taking all the tents down, they've moved them to the side,

whatever it is or where it lands, maybe it's landing right by the entrance, but there, after a few, I mean, not even like minutes, you know, you're nearly a minute, basically, like 30 seconds, you hear this enormous, kind of slammed. The whole plateau kind of shakes. You begin to hear like cries and shouts, like echoing from down below.

Pruff just appears and goes, thought it. But the creature, the Stonecast Elemental, is destroyed. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Is Xanthius convinced that he had a part in that? I am so strong. I love that.

I don't know what the water was, but... I don't know why it was water. Mattel canis is great. I'm like sweating so much. He's believing. He's so... Wow. As the creature flies off the side

and you are left momentarily just in this kind of peaceful moment. You look over on where the wet stone was, there is now a cavity and a sort of breakaway, like a crevice, like a crack in the earth where the wet stone was. And it looks like there is an opening below it. It looks like that actually there is a cavity in the earth below where the wet stone is.

It's like when you do a HM in Pokemon. They said that there's more below. It was literal. I don't know, I'm just saying. Is everyone downstairs okay? It's hard to tell. Can I peek over the side? You can go to the stairs and peek over.

It is, there's just an enormous dust cloud. You can hear shouts and cries, but it's hard to tell if like people were hurt or anything like that. Sorry! It's carried by the wind. Fricks. We revenged that rock.

I did not get the finishing blow. Oh, well. That's okay, teamwork. I'm not used to teamwork. A dynasty and must fight their own battles. A waste of time. Rowan will walk towards the hole and look down. See what's down there?

When you look down, Rowan, you can see that there is, from a brief moment you don't have to be. have dark vision, your kind of eyes have to adjust briefly. And after a moment, you begin to see that, yeah, there is like a kind of crack, a natural crevice and almost like a small cave in the earth. And inside you can see thin, not particularly strong, but thin, weak, glowing green veins of more altruite buried below. Not a lot, but some.

There is probably three strong vein clusters down there. They're dim, they're faint, but they could be extracted. You could take some of the alt-right for a later purpose. One of them is probably enough if it has the magic believed to heal bricks. And then the other one would be... It could be left. It could be whatever you want to do with it. that as well. It depends on what you want to do.

Does it look embedded? Yeah, yeah, it's natural ore. Like, it's part of the rock as part of a cavity that was underneath here. It looks like the wet stone, the sort of rock that sat on top, that has been depleted over time. But these veins lower down, you know, unaccessible by anybody who's just on the surface, they've not been affected, they've not been drained.

But a creature would need to go down into this. little crevice to either extract them or to gain their benefit, basically. Roan... It's not far, like 10, 15 feet. An easy climb as well with like the rocky surface. Can I devil's bargain? Sure.

I would like to. You know I've used performance of creation to make a statue of Althe. Could I have a little remnant of that power to rebuild a shrine on top of this which has access? to that power of sorts. I think,

I know that Graff still has some spell slots there. I would say if you worked with Gruff who has stone shape, you could do that with you adding, because that power you've used it, but you could certainly help shape and sculpt something using what remnants, what embers of that power remain. Can I give using our group chat, like my imagination to Gruff?

Yeah, it's like, and also just, you can just work with Gruff, you can explain it and talk, but also you are sculpting. You are sculpting it yourself as well, but you're having to use Gruff's power to actually meld the stone. Gruff, if there's only one way that I can channel your power and is so that I can really imbue your energy. Here it comes.

And it is to rub the belly of you in reptile form. See, I was actually just imagining the pottery scene from Ghost. You could do that too? No, but tiny, tiny belly though. I lied, it's okay, I could just. just channel it through you. I'm thinking, instead of it, it used to be a big rock on top of the surface.

Instead, we create a bowl with which people can go down into it. I was gonna say it would have to be something recessed so that they can actually access the power. And then there's a little protective stone around it, but it's still closer to the atherite. And people can come down in here, maybe a step around the edge so they can sit. Okay.

Or kneel. Right. Does that sound good? Well, give me the image in my head. We can do this together. Yeah. Between the two of you, you begin to work with gruff molding the stone, like a potter working clay,

but Rowan's magic, Rowan's imagination guiding the image of what it looks like. Oh, can I be playing Sostenuto, the Song of Stone? Well, you still are. I'll just continue that. So you begin playing that, and you create this kind of reset. quite deep bowl, it maybe kind of goes down about 10 feet, because it's a big, big space.

You create this like 10 feet deep hole, you create like a small rock. Is there like a shrine or is it just a stone? I think it will be a recreation of the wet stone that was there before. So it's like a smaller version of it basically. And as you do, I think that the skies overhead, which have been gray and clouded, a storm sort of promising,

light rain does begin to fall, and this bowl will capture that rain. rainwater, almost creating a pool that people can step into. But little green moats seem to almost fill that water and flay and give it that greenish glow of Ulthrite. And yeah, you create this new placement as that bowl becomes almost, yeah, like a natural pool catching the rainwater, likely to be soaked and seeped away through the stone through tiny cracks that will. But it will eventually replenish each time the rain's come. Nice, well, I'll just gently put a hand

on the little middle wet stone recreation and just say, oh, Thay is not dead. As you do that, I think that's where we bring the episode to an end. Oh, sweet. Very nice. We bring that episode to an end there. Perfect. Well done.

Very good use of pushing and movement. Nice, thank you. Cut me out on that tidal wave, for sure. Need to remember, and also, brutal strike man, Like, that's crazy strong. There's no saving throw on it. It's just hit and push. And there's no size restriction as well.

That's wild. But great, great for the fight and did a great job. You also did a really good job with the professor speaking. Yeah, absolutely. And then we got to the authorite, just immediately after he left. So fuck that guy. Yeah, I mean, that's it.

If he'd been willing to work with you and could have found actual real life Althraing. He could have had that third chart. That was all possible, all possible outcomes. Yeah. Sounds like that kind of bitch. But with that, we're going to bring the episode to a close. Thanks very much for joining us.

We'll see you next time, everybody. 100 episodes. Bye. 100 episodes. Congrats to us.