High Rollers DnD - The Tapestry (Part 2) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #85

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:34 a district that once belonged to the elven mages of Vathalien. They have been accosted by various guardians, lingering spells and spirits. And it is by no means a throwaway battle for these spells still hold much power, this defender still strong and sturdy. And so, we jump back into the fight at the top of a brand new round, which means it is in fact
Starting point is 00:02:03 my Ghanem said, my deepest apologies, one thing I forgot, slow is a concentration spell. I do get hit for 30 points of damage and previously for a little bit of damage from Stone Raider as well. I owe you two constitution saving throws. Very well. My bonus.
Starting point is 00:02:19 It was 20, oh yeah, yeah. It was 30, so 15, DC-15. You don't have to do those if we get full heels. Plus five. Worth to try. 21, first one. And then eight. So yes, the sneak attack would have stopped slow.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Nice. So no more slow on Ophelia and us. I could be unleashed. You are unleashed. However it is my turn again. I'm gonna roll to see if I get my slow back. No. What do you need?
Starting point is 00:02:45 Five or six. What did this happen? Oh, four. Yes. Oh, well, still, I have plenty of things as this guardian. It's rally. and call the left an R, the left an R, is going to attack.
Starting point is 00:03:01 It's got three possible targets here. It will step five feet this way. That's slightly closer to me. I know he's something to tie me. I'm going to roll to see who it will attack. The three, whoever gets the two highest numbers on 3D6. I mean, the mini does have its spear. Kemp right at Rowan's throat.
Starting point is 00:03:24 So that is going to be Gruff and Ophelia. I know what the minnie's doing, but I roll. Ophelia, you've learned your name. Tack. 24. Gruff, I'm going to just roll to see if I hit you as well. 27. No.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Right, I need to do this separately. One day, all work. Because Ophelia has damage reduction. I don't know if it's not. You know. I can't believe, man. 13 bludgeoning damage, so half to six, but then another 11 force. So 17 to you. Okay. And then for Gruff, I can roll this all together
Starting point is 00:03:57 because you don't have resistances that I need to worry about. So that's going to be, 21, 27 force total damage to Gruff as this big, heavy cudgel slams into you both. This Defender is certainly a powerful. The what, sorry? Defender. Defender. It was a G.
Starting point is 00:04:19 There was a G there. No, you heard G. No, you heard a G. G. Right, that's it. They don't need to do anything else on their turn. So we go to Affiliate, the following up by Graf. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:30 So, okay, Affiliate is currently raging. Rijing. Raging. Very, like what we do in the shadows, it's kind of I'm raging, Nandor. Nandor, I'm raging. It just reminded me of the wrong cards, so the bow-ways and the spires.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Oh, it's in space. No, I got very, astrotter. I don't watch that in the UK. Oh, yeah. Right. Yes, so Aphelia is going to strike at this construct twice. No bitey damage because it's a construct and it won't work.
Starting point is 00:05:04 And it bleeds sap that explodes. Do I? Reckless. So far you see no sign of like any sort of blood or sap or anything like that, but you've barely chipped its exterior. I shall reckless. Okay. Good to know.
Starting point is 00:05:19 Good thing I did. 26. We'll hit. Amazing. Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go. D8. One. One, D8.
Starting point is 00:05:28 Nothing wrong with me. Two. Three, eight, nine, ten on the first strike. Ten on the first strike. Again, chippening into the, whatever it is made of, this wooden stone mixture. Second strike with Vex, 18, plus seven, 25. We'll hit. Cool, and I'm going to add a D6 bloint to the same.
Starting point is 00:05:49 This next one. So that'll be six, 11, 12, 13 on the second strike. 13 points of damage. Very good. Very good, excellent. Yes, good. Yes. I approve.
Starting point is 00:06:04 These strikes are scratching, tearing its surface. You see no sign of blood or sap or residue or anything. You are really just tearing apart like small, small pieces of whatever this construct is made of. It is not bloodies. Anything else on your turn, Ophelia? I have bonus action and movement left, if you would like. I will probably move around to the rear of this construct creature.
Starting point is 00:06:31 Keep within reach of it. Yes. All right. So if you, once you, so if you go, so you've got a couple of choices here because if you move past graft, some of these shades will get an attack of opportunity. If you move past Rowan to go to the other side,
Starting point is 00:06:44 this lightning hammer will get an opportunity attack. I will risk it with the shades. So you're going to go around this way, basically. Okay, yeah, the shades will reach out. And you did attack recklessly, so I've advantage. My house there is going to be 12 plus 1, 2, 3. So that is going to be 19. Just hits.
Starting point is 00:07:07 Just hits. That is going to be 12 points of necrotic damage. And once again, as they strike you, they call upon the magic residual in the environment and create another echo as they damaged a creature and dealt damage. All right. But you have moved to the back.
Starting point is 00:07:33 You are now on the other side of this creature of the construct. Gruff. Hi, yeah, I'm going to cast mass kill wounds. Okay. Oh, nice. Kill wounds. Is that the thing?
Starting point is 00:07:46 Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a range. Fifth level, baby. Yeah, they. I could not. Yeah, I think it does that. Oh, I'm very impressed. Or two, fuck you sideways.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Yeah. How many people do that, he too? Everyone but you. Everyone but me, nice. I believe it's everyone. I'm full, so. It's six creatures, so I can literally do. I wouldn't describe myself as a creature.
Starting point is 00:08:10 You're a gremlin. A gremlin's a creature. One, one, two. Nothing's a humanoid. Zanthius, Ophelia, Rowan. You can heal Percival, yeah, he's on the list. Are you gonna say Ophelia? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:25 Did you say Ophelia? Literally all of us. Wait, did you say Rowan? Yes, yes. Tom. Do you know my name? It's a long combat, guys. I appreciate the gags, I know we're doing a show here,
Starting point is 00:08:36 but it's a long combat. You remember my name? 2425, 20, 28. Oh wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. Your Lice of Life. I've never felt better.
Starting point is 00:08:50 My God. I imagine that it is like, I know that Saren is temporarily not with us, but I've always said that his magic is not best. It can still have the form of, yeah, but it's not the Saren. So almost like Seren kind of shoots up out of the stuff and then almost like rain comes down,
Starting point is 00:09:10 but like very like sea spray. Love that. A little bit salty. Gets in your ice. It stings a bit. Start crying. It's all over. Very cool.
Starting point is 00:09:19 Blinded. That's going to be my action. You get your ten pin points because you healed. And I get my tempies and then as a bonus action I'm going to daunting roar at. Well, I don't think it's going to work for anything but I've got nothing else as a bonus action so might as well. Just have a little shout at... These other things. You can roar about.
Starting point is 00:09:47 Come on. Dantius. I'm talking to you. No, the construct. You roar and it has no effect on it. It's immune to being frightened as you defiantly roar this. It boluses us.
Starting point is 00:09:59 It looks cool. We feel great. I love it. All right. We go to after graph. It goes to Drup, I believe, Rowan, followed by Percy.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Because of that wonderful heel, Rowan is going to change tactics. Keep is sort of quipped, and then large form. You don't quite have enough space with this fountain here. So you could step back into this space where you can easily fit as you grow in size. That's it. Then that was a bonus action.
Starting point is 00:10:40 So I'm going to, once again, true strike. Once again, true strike. Okay. Nice. The construct? The construct, yes. Okay. Well, yeah, yeah. So, 20.
Starting point is 00:10:54 Hits. 3D6 plus 3, 18 points. Nice. 18 points is pretty good. Yum yum. Just being big give you any damage benefit. Advantage on strength.
Starting point is 00:11:08 Okay, but it's true strike, save them out. Cool, all right, perfect. Yeah, you grow big and slam the now enlarged stone razor into this creature. As it strikes, barely chips away at its surface. It is still not blood. Does it seem like it's... It's taking damage.
Starting point is 00:11:25 But does it look like it's harder to penetrate with physical weaponry? No. Or I'm true striking, so it's radiant. Yeah, so it's kind of making the blade glow and become radiant. The radiant energy and physical damage is affecting it exactly the same.
Starting point is 00:11:39 It's just tough. Just think this thing is really tough. But we don't think it's doing nothing. You're damaging it, you are damaging it. There's no doubt about that. You can see pieces of it breaking away, but it's just unrelenting, it's not reacting, it's not in pain, it's just unrelenting in its pursuit.
Starting point is 00:11:55 All right, Rowan, if that is your full turn, Percy. Yeah, so Percy is in between this hand creature. Frost axe as well behind him. Oh man, he is separated from the pack. Um, I think, can I have Percy disengage and move back towards like this cluster of rocks down on the, on my eastern side of the map, just so... I'd say he can pass through this space, because the flighting axe is not enough of a deterrent. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, we'll get him about here. So he moves back towards another partnership with this broken column and some bushes and things like that.
Starting point is 00:12:39 Yeah, that's gonna be his turn, action plus movement. Yeah, that'll be it for now, yeah. Okay. Some time to regroup. Okay, all right. That is Percy's turn. We then go to, check all my things, I've got so many things. I believe it's Xanthius. It's pretty much Xanthius and then all the bad guys. Nice. Hell yeah. I know you guys love it when I use fire spells.
Starting point is 00:13:02 I'm gonna use a fire spell. I'm gonna use fireball. And I would like the radius. please because I need to determine how many friends I'm going to hit in this as well. Sweet. So I basically want to put it, like, what is the radius on it? Sorry, it's the whole thing.
Starting point is 00:13:19 The whole thing. 20 feet. Yeah, do it. I want to get every enemy except the bow, and it is one, two, three, four people in there. Daisy and Percival are fine. Thank God, Daisy Percival left. And then I'll use a careful spell
Starting point is 00:13:36 to protect four people, the four of us. succeed and take no damage, right? Yes. So I have to make a saving throw for all the things. Well, everything. For the hand? Except the bow. For the construct, ah, these do all have madrasins.
Starting point is 00:13:50 They do have advantage on their saving throws against spells. Yeah, but I look at it really. Hand still fails. Golem, Dex, fails. Fails. The, all the spells, the Flaming Sword succeeds. The lightning hammer fails. Oh my God. The Frost axe fails. Oh my god. And then the shades all fail.
Starting point is 00:14:15 Holy shit! This can't be huge. Oh my god. Hey, all those D6s that you lined up for your sneak attack can I have them please? What you want you once? Thank you love you three four you're not upset it six. He's real good at D6 rolls. We've seen it from O. Two's on all. Let's watch. When I could roll Zan, I rolled great. You actually did. I rolled D8s like a box. Yeah but watch this. You can do it, you can do it. You just What? I said, come on.
Starting point is 00:14:39 I didn't hit, come on. Okay. All right, boom, chet and say, fuck you. Maybe. What? It's probably come out average. It's pretty average.
Starting point is 00:14:49 Sorry, it's really like, on this side of the board, it's like ones, on this side, it's like five, and it really gradients up. It's so weird, right. One, two, four, eight, twelve, fourteen, seventeen, twenty, two, twenty-two, twenty-two,
Starting point is 00:15:06 twenty-two, twenty-two, twenty-two, of fire damage. Fire damage. The flaming sword takes nothing. 22. Fire sword takes nothing. Yeah, that makes sense. The frost axe and lightning hammer are destroyed
Starting point is 00:15:26 by that fireball. You see the defender takes this heavy blow. Still not bloodied. Good, do you take more damage being. is bloodied. You can see, and when I say bloodied, it's at half health. You see it's like magic is flickering and dissipating.
Starting point is 00:15:45 It's still there, but very clearly, whatever power is sustaining it has been heavily weakened. I need a Constitution saving from you as five. Two, fours. Do I need to make five Constitution saves? No, you make one, but the DC goes up for each one you destroy. Can you state? You could.
Starting point is 00:16:02 D.C. goes up, you say. Yes. I think I'm going to fake this one. Okay. Yeah. Hmm. Faye gives me a six, 12 plus six plus eight. 26?
Starting point is 00:16:16 26 is a success. You take half damage and do not lose any spell energy. Oh fuck, I completely forgot about that. He got so excited about the fireball. That's just a typical sorcerer. Does it, boom. Man, terrible damage as well. So 10, sorry, just one second.
Starting point is 00:16:33 10 force damage, half to five because you succeeded. Hell yeah. The construct is made of this silver wood but is inlaid and mixed with stone as well. It does catch fire but it's probably not gonna have an effect on it massively. Because it's also so much of it's made of stone as well. But it is technically on fire.
Starting point is 00:16:52 Okay, okay. And all those spirits are now gone. They are now destroyed. Hopefully it was the spirits themselves that were summoning more spirits. It was. So that solves that problem. You are very lucky you made that con save.
Starting point is 00:17:06 because you would have lost seven levels of spells. Yikes. Oh my God, I would have been dried husk. What happened that you don't have enough levels to... You take exhaustion levels. Oh, fuck. Oh, wow. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:17:22 So it could, like, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I have enough spells lost. So if you are not a spellcaster, you don't, just you take the force damage and that's it. Yeah. But if you're a spellcaster and it drains you and there's not enough magic,
Starting point is 00:17:34 it just pushes your life force out. That's crazy. Shit, cool, nice. What was the DC on that after killing five of them at once? The DC on that would have been plus 10. It was 24, so you only just beat it. If you didn't fake that. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:50 Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my fucking God. That was your action. Yeah, good fireball, careful spell. And I imagine that this is like, do you use like the runes to protect your allies? Like you almost send out like shields or is this like you just divert the front?
Starting point is 00:18:06 I like to imagine that a run flies out and just drops this fireball into the space where it lands, which creates this explosion. But yeah, the run's just blocking their path, completely like creating this corridor fire for them. Yeah, areas around your armor to protect them, very cool. And yeah, it hits everyone.
Starting point is 00:18:24 But now I am not within range of a load of creatures. I would just like to use my 30 feet of movement. I'll just sidle up to this tree in the back here, away from all the creatures. And then I'm gonna climb it, and I'm gonna make a tree house, and I'm gonna live here forever. All right, cool.
Starting point is 00:18:39 Sure, yeah, the trees love you. Trees love you. Well, you start using your movement to climb it, but you're only five feet up because it's difficult terrain, obviously. Okay, so I'm just like, yeah, you're clinging to the trunk. All right, after Xanthius's turn,
Starting point is 00:18:53 it is the spells go. Rowan, the big hand is going to attempt to force fist. Oh, you are, well. Natural 20. Oh my god. 30 total? I'm ready to receive.
Starting point is 00:19:08 Are you ready? This is gonna hurt. Hello, is he within five feet of you? Warden's duty, it's all goes to me. Oh, that's not any better. It's a little better, but... Are you sure? It was 28 points to Percy and that wasn't full.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Are you doing this? Yes. Oh, Graveth. So noble and true. You take 57 force damage. Okay, that's good that you did that, but that's fucked. How much shit?
Starting point is 00:19:42 As this kind of glowing hand reels back, throws itself, Rowan, you turn, Gruff, you see this is gonna be bad. You throw yourself in, you get the shield up, but the force is so bad, it slams into you, feel like something in your chest, like ribs snap, as you're like, you barely manage to stay on your feet. No, in fact, you don't stay on your feet,
Starting point is 00:20:03 because I get to move you. So I'm actually, go on. I have advantage on. This is not a saving throw. It's just an effect that happens. And I'm gonna push you five feet away from your friend. As it punches you across the street.
Starting point is 00:20:19 You kind of skid, like maybe using the axe to slop your movement. But that was bad. You took a really bad hit there. That was stupid. There's no way I would have taken a crit if I had that ability. Keep in mind as well.
Starting point is 00:20:33 There were originally two of those hands and Rough got rid of one spell, so. I'll like turn around from the tree, like... Daze. Hello. Yeah, I'm just gonna do the same thing again. I'm gonna try and hit the point. Actually, I'm...
Starting point is 00:20:51 The hand is very weakened. The two spells are unharmed, the fire sword and the acid bow. I might. I'm gonna steady aim and hit the hand, hopefully. Well, the hand is next to Rowan, but the advantage from steady aim would give good advantage.
Starting point is 00:21:08 That's what I'm hoping for it. Yeah, the hand does have a very high AC. Huge crit. It's not a huge crit. It's 19, which doesn't hit it. Doesn't hit it. So I don't do anything. Even with the advantage.
Starting point is 00:21:20 I got two nines. Ugh, yeah, shit. Unfortunately, you try and aim for this hand, but as you do. Sorry, 18. Yeah, no, I wouldn't. It just bats the radium blade away, almost kind of like,
Starting point is 00:21:31 swing, swings in the air. and voids it. Your movement speed is now zero, and that was your bonus action and action. I do talk, I do fuck all, I'm afraid. Hey, let's try. Hey, sometimes there was, sometimes, you know, it is what it is.
Starting point is 00:21:48 That would have been huge. If you destroyed that hands, it's a lot of damage prevented. The shades are all gone, so they're all done, which means it is just the two spells left. This one is gonna continue to attack Rowan. This one is gonna turn an attack Ophelia. That's a fair.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Rowan, that is a natural one. Miss. Good. To know his. And Ophelia, that is an 11. So the aster just splashes over your scarab arm and does nothing to you. With that we go to the top of a brand new round. The Golem, the defender, sorry. Does it recharge? Slow.
Starting point is 00:22:24 Yes. Oh! Can I have everybody except, oh no, personal five, ten. 15, 20, 20, 30. Yeah, can I have everybody make a constitution and secretary, please? She's the only with it, 30 range. It's a bunch of people, I believe. 20.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Let me look at up. No, it's all right. Six creatures in a 40-foot cube. I believe I can do it. 19. Success. I succeed with 20. Success.
Starting point is 00:22:54 21. Success. Uh, 26. Success. 24 for Ophelia. Success. Oh, you guys. Percy got a 11.
Starting point is 00:23:02 That passes you exactly slow. He's the only one, which is pretty good. And then that was a bonus action, and is then going to attack Aphelia and Rowan with its slam. Just a slam there, then slam on the back. 22 to hit Rowan. Oh, yeah. That's cocked.
Starting point is 00:23:21 I've got another reaction to see. Please stop. Yeah, you're fine. Rowan, you, I'm just gonna roll this all together because even a few stones endurance, you don't have specific resistances to this. So that is going to be 24 points of total damage, of total damage, bludgeoning and force.
Starting point is 00:23:41 A little stone's in two, or it's that one. So 24, you reduce it by. And then a feelier I'm gonna do separately. So that's gonna be 17 bludgeoning, so halft to eight, and then 11 force damage. So 19 total. This guy's brutal. I mean, two attacks, it's big.
Starting point is 00:24:04 Yeah, yeah. Yep. High level, you're big boys now. No, no, I'm not saying we can't kill it. I'm just saying, we're only baby. Oh, you're not baby, no more baby. I just don't think you'd use this
Starting point is 00:24:16 against a party of level two's. How could you? Mark, you've never leveled the cells. You've tried, you've that worked once, so it'll never work again. That was pretty good, though. 24 damage, right? 24, yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:31 So would you reduce it by 10? Nice, it was 1812. That is the creature's turn, so it goes to Aphelia, followed by Gruff. Yep, Aphelia is going to reckless attack this construct. Oh, I do apologise. I forgot, I won't do it in fact now, but I forgot that I had advantage against you, Ophelia, if she recklessed. What, I've got another net 20?
Starting point is 00:24:52 Different? No. Still would it hit. Yeah. 60 and 22. So you strike forward, yep, you hit the rapier, phthm, digs into the creatures, into this construct, this defender.
Starting point is 00:25:07 Cool. Point, nine, 11 for the first strike. Finally, as the rapier strikes in, it breaks off this flaming defender statue. It takes out a chunk of the stone and you see that silvery sap now runs down its body as it is finally bloodied. Oh.
Starting point is 00:25:37 Thoughts about that. What do you mean? Don't guzzle it. No. What would happen if I let Veracity guzzlet? That's a great question. And I would love to find out the answer to that if it happens. I think I'd say what would happen if I touch it?
Starting point is 00:25:53 Do I let Veracity do it? Oh, I don't want to kill my sword. I don't want to kill my sword. I don't want to kill my sword. Great lands she's gonna let's be honest she's gonna do it anyway she's kind of want to know the one who wanted to dunk her head in the river I kind of want to know one we'll find out your second sec is uh yeah killed the damperer so she hits first I'm probably not gonna hit on any of these uh 17 is my highest
Starting point is 00:26:22 just barely misses ah balls this is 18 ball nation uh it's a shame uh it's a We'll have to wait a whole new turn to find out what happens. Anything else in your turn, Ophelia? The bone section move. I think I'm good where I am right now. Right, I'm cool. Hello. Okay.
Starting point is 00:26:44 Conceptualizing time. Gruff's got plans. I have a spell called Stone Shape. You touch a stone object of medium and size or smaller and a selection of stone no more than five feet in any dimension and form it into any shape you like. I'm going to tell you right now this creature is large. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:59 But no, but you said it's wood and stone. Is there enough stone in it? Ruling of the spell, is it a creature of medium or smaller? This is a large creature. Also, I'm going to save you some time. Just because it's a cool idea, and I don't want you wish to time. This creature, because of its nature as being created as a defendant, it has something called immutable form,
Starting point is 00:27:22 which means its form cannot be changed, right? Oh, so you cannot stone. Now, you could stone. Now, you could stone shape the ground under its legs and try and, like, trap it in place and restrain it if you want to do a cool thing like that. Like, there is stone, you're walking on, like, wooden stone sort of pavement. It's kind of the same as the creature.
Starting point is 00:27:42 It's wood, it's that silver wood, but it's inlaid with stone sections, and you could maybe cause those to, like, come up and try and trap it. But the creature itself, you cannot change. And so is there that magic that is, like, just floating around, like from that, can I absorb it? No, don't think you, you could try and do something with it, but it depends, like, when you say absorb it, to do what exactly? Do you some spells to that's bit?
Starting point is 00:28:09 Ah, I see. You could certainly try. When I say that there was residual magic, like every time you guys have cast spells, once you've been in the Fay Wild, and you've seen this happen, it's leaving, like, particles and stuff in the air. When those shades, whatever they did to Xanthius, ejected forcibly magic out of him.
Starting point is 00:28:29 And then as they attack, that magic created another echo. You don't think it's like spell energy that's remaining. It is just magic essence in general. It's like expended essence. Hmm. Hmm. But I love creative ideas. So if you would like to try and do something with it, but you would need to tell me what, how you're gonna do that?
Starting point is 00:28:53 How would Gruff try and absorb? this, you know, errant energy. Yeah, right. Stand in it. Tough it up. Um. You tell me what you're doing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:07 You know me? I love a creative thing, but I want specifics and I want to, I want to, you know, it's probably going to be a check involved. God, be more specific with your creativity, guys. Yeah. Jeez! I did want to try and do it. I did want to try and dismantle that's dead you.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Um, I, could I like, I guess, stand where the, the, the, no, it's not special enough. I was going to say, like, just try and, like, focus with my staff and Sarah and then just try and, like, absorb it in, but it's not, there's no focus or, like. You can do whatever you like. I'm going to cast a spill magic on the hand, it twad me. Okay. I need another D20 plus wisdom, so plus four. I think for you.
Starting point is 00:29:55 Can I fake it, please? Yeah, yeah, it's an ability check, I think, so yes, you can. 11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 19 is enough, yeah, you successfully dispel the last remaining one. Hand down. Yeah, I just imagine, like, from my place, like,
Starting point is 00:30:19 on the floor, I just lift my head, spit out some blood. And just, yeah, Maybe I send Sarah and shooting through it, and it just tears it apart. And it just dissipates it. You watch as the hand dissipates entirely, removing a pretty strong threat. Yeah. Yeah, very strong threat. Very nice.
Starting point is 00:30:38 And then I'm just going to... Not very durable, but hard to hit and hits hard. I'm going to stagger up. 20. Okay. Not impossible for you guys. No, no. It needs a good role.
Starting point is 00:30:49 I'm just going to stagger up, and I'm going to put myself within five foot of row in. Okay. and just roll my shoulder, set my shield, get back into it, ready. Hey, you're okay. A big hand pan. You're not slowed anymore.
Starting point is 00:31:05 That's his big voice. Oh, I thought you were doing slow voice. He's just slow voice. He's just a slow voice. Wait until we hear his slow, big voice. Oh my God. After graphs, we jump to Percy. The ends up on the rings.
Starting point is 00:31:18 Just. Percy, he's slowed. He's slowed. So maybe I'll get him to do some damage. on this bow. Yeah. Yeah. You can reach that.
Starting point is 00:31:27 Yeah. Go to the bow, Percy. Yes. With the last masterwork. It does look like he's. Yeah. I'll just use it. 22 to hit.
Starting point is 00:31:38 Hits. Oh. Nice. And now it's the... D8 plus three. Profect. I guess so. No, my D8's gone.
Starting point is 00:31:46 I literally had that there they are. I can't see, I have so much red and black dice of full damage! Oh! 10, 11. 11. points of damage, Percival swinging the Masterwork staff, dissipates whatever spell he remained,
Starting point is 00:32:01 taking out the acid bow. Well done, Percy. Does he do a saving through at the end? He does, yeah. To see if he gets non-slow. 16, 18. 18 is a success, he is no longer. He's free!
Starting point is 00:32:17 Yes. Perfect. My boy. My boy. Okay. Oh, dear. Right, the last of the Bigby's hands are destroyed, which means we jump straight down
Starting point is 00:32:34 to Xanthius. Hello. And Daisy. Hi. Can I cast sanctuary on Grafuf, please. It's a bonus action. Touch or? It's a 30-foot range spell.
Starting point is 00:32:51 Okay, great. All right, perfect. So I believe if I choose to attack Gruff, I have to make a same throw. Yeah, until the spell ends, they make a wisdom save or are forced to pick a new target. Can you check as well for me?
Starting point is 00:33:02 If I do an area effect, does that count? Or can I, I don't think it does. I think if I, like, attack an area and Gruff is in it, it doesn't count. Any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack role or a damaging spell. A damaging spell. A damaging spell.
Starting point is 00:33:18 Targeted them with it. Oh, this spell does not protect creatures, Warded from Areas of... Okay, perfect. Great, good to know. Perfect, yeah. You conjure this barrier of runes and protective magic around Gruff.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Nice, and I'll use my 30 feet of movement to run up to Rowan, and I will give... With my action, I have... How many of these do I have? Nine essence runes. I would like to give him
Starting point is 00:33:44 one, two, three, four, five. Okay. So you have five essence runes, so when you get attacked, you can... spend them to reduce damage. Spend them to reduce damage by D6. Coming up to me and just putting loads of stickers on me.
Starting point is 00:33:56 Yeah. Stuck on this big rowing. And then I'll just... What was that movement? 5.10, 15, 20. 10 foot back. There you go. He's out.
Starting point is 00:34:11 Everyone's safe. He's out. Ain't no one getting damaged except Ophelia. Oops. Okay. That's my full business. I'm going to throw a blade at the construct. Okay.
Starting point is 00:34:28 Why did you say it that way? Are you steady aiming or just normal attack? No, just regular. Okay. 18 plus 9. 6.8? 6.8? Sorry?
Starting point is 00:34:39 Oh my god, I rolled three sixes on that. That's good. That and nice. 32. Jesus. Damage. You watch as this radiant blade blows a huge chunk of wood and stone.
Starting point is 00:35:01 The fire kind of burnt itself out now, but it takes a huge chunk out of the creature and more of that silvery sap is now spilling onto the ground out of it. Do it again. Bonus section. Sadly can't. Sneak attacks only once a turn.
Starting point is 00:35:14 With Vex, 17 plus 9. It's. I love Vex. Yes. Not the best. Eight points of damage. Another eight points of damage. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:27 This other blade now, kind of digging into where the damage has already been sustained. You can see that the creature is reeling from these attacks now. You know, staggered back. Not in pain, you don't think this thing can feel pain, but the momentum of the blows is kind of knocking it off kilter as you strike. Cool, end of turn.
Starting point is 00:35:43 End of turn. All right, just the last rebating flaming sword. It's gonna go for Roman, It's gonna say, that's right. Okay. What's the roots do? This doesn't do a lot of damage, so you're okay. You have five minutes.
Starting point is 00:35:58 That is gonna be, it's just 11 points of fire damage. Just 11 little points. So you can spend every point of those range, you can reduce it by a D6. Yes, you roll a D6. So you've got up to five, you can choose how many of them you spend. I'll try two.
Starting point is 00:36:12 Nice. Six and five. Eleven, you just negate the damage, the range is completely negate. You see this spell tries to like strike at you in the bridge, just flare to life protectively. You've got it. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:36:26 They're good, they're good. Zinthios. All right, okay. That is the end of the round. Luckily we're getting speeding through now. Is the crudges go. I am going to spend my exceedingly large pool of fate. I'm going to spend two points.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Gorgeing your pool of fate. And it is the, you watch as the, creature sort of, I would say it leaps in the air. Oh, I suppose it's gonna slam down here. Oh, I need to see if it's slow. Behind Ophelia and away from everyone else. Nothing personnel, kid. Does not, this movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.
Starting point is 00:37:04 Ophelia, can you give me a deck saving throw, please? Okay, do I see this coming? You do, you get dangerous sense. Thank you. 21. 21, you're gonna take half damage. That is gonna be 20. so half to ten, half again because it's bludgeoning
Starting point is 00:37:22 because you're raging, so you take five bludgeoning, and then it is going to strike the ground in a line hitting Xanthius, Gruff, Rowan, and Ophelia, as it slams the ground and causes, that's my other fate point, this line of, and I'm going to basically make a slam attack against all of you. That's why you're asking about that AEOE thing, huh?
Starting point is 00:37:47 Ophelia, the first one, 27. Mm-hmm. Gruff, natural 20. Oh, Rowan, 14. No. Zanthius, 23. God damn, yeah. All right, gruff. I'm gonna do you first.
Starting point is 00:38:02 This is gonna be 16, 30, 40, 63 points of damage. I collapsed. Gruff. Oh my God, is knocked down. 60, 63 on a crick. Ophelia, you take 19 bludgeoning half to eight. Oh my god, right, you're just saving my ass. And then 12 points of force damage.
Starting point is 00:38:33 Never mind. Down. Oh, you're down as well. Yeah. She was like, Zanthius. That would have been my whole health in one hit. Well, there's 63. 60, yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:44 Well, I would have three hit points out. Yeah. 25 points total damage, bludgeoning and force. Okay. Is this? Yeah. You can see that the creature, as it lands, it is lumbering, it's off balance. It's whatever magic and forces keeping it together is heavily, heavily weakened.
Starting point is 00:39:02 As it slams down, almost in desperation now to perform its duty. And that is its turn. Oh my God. Ophelia, can I have a death saving throw, please? You may. That's right, that's way, that's way, that's way. Rowan's still up, right, yeah. Oh, 15.
Starting point is 00:39:22 It's a success, it's a success. One check. After aphelia, that's at the end of the beginning of your turn, but you're turning in. It is gruff. May I have a dance, same is for it. 20. Oh, yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:39:36 The ground slams. You feel yourself go weightless as you are launched into the air. You land that cracking of that rib, whatever it was, a pain surged through unlike any pain you've ever felt before, and you feel yourself on that verge of blackness, of unconsciousness. You can hear the soft lapping of waves, the shores of Tramorrow, that familiar family sound. You can hear the kids playing. You hear your wife calling for you, that sort of welcoming thing. And then you hear the cries of
Starting point is 00:40:12 Ophelia, you hear Rowan shouting, you hear the sounds of battle, and something in you, maybe almost the pool of this silvery sap that was left by the Golem, your hands sort of touches it, you kind of reach out and as you touch it, you just feel this little tiny surge of strength in your chest and you crack an eye open as you are still in the land of the living. 20 death saves because this part you had like because I mean I just wrote three that's 20 that's true for death save specifically though that's got to be a record right he's a super rare for I turn on the table magnet for yeah yeah yeah yeah gruff is the start of your turn you have a full turn
Starting point is 00:40:59 fuck yeah I gruff is having a hell of a fight you're doing so good well second crick you've taken yeah raise up my paw and aim the void star ring at this creature and blast it. Cool, very cool. So that is a DC-15 deck save for these. I'm terrible at these. A four, fail, full damage. That's solid a D6.
Starting point is 00:41:25 That's a very, D6. Oh, 10, 18, 19, 20, 21 points of starlight. Starlight. The starlight, the radiant energy, slams into this thing, it staggers back, It drops to a knee, pieces of it broken off this kind of faceless, automaton-style design. Almost shaped, you know, like a kind of central,
Starting point is 00:41:53 not quite a tree, but this kind of central trunked, heavy form, these big limbering arms, pieces of it now broken away. It is still up, but heavily injured. And with my bonus action, I'll kind of imagine like he almost like, his head dropped to this. side he sees Ophelia still down and I'm gonna cast a healing word at level one.
Starting point is 00:42:17 Okay, nice. That's all I got left. Yeah, 2D4. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 10 points of healing to Ophelia, if you're really conscious. Ashley, can I use a point of fate? You absolutely can. I'm gonna use advanced healing.
Starting point is 00:42:35 From the ampule. From the ampule. Oh yeah. So you get an extra nine points of healing. 19 total. Thank you, Graf. HB, Ophelia, you hear and you feel the sort of soothing energy of Gruff.
Starting point is 00:42:51 I will say as you are teetering on death's door, unconscious as you were, Ophelia, you are very far from the Greylands. You are in a realm of the Greyfather's primary enemy. You don't, there's just a sort of black You can feel a vague presence, but it's very, very, very far away. There's too much life here for death to reach out to you. What does reach you is Gruff's energy.
Starting point is 00:43:26 This soothing, cooling, calming energy, this sort of welcome third hand gripping your shoulder and the call of seabirds. And you feel, and then air fills your lungs, and you kind of come to. Can I come too? Yeah, I think I feel like, grip her chest and just sort of like look to gruff
Starting point is 00:43:44 and just be like, thank you. With that, gruff. I think just for the RP, but I'm just gonna stay low on the ground. I think that makes sense, man. Like, I love that, I love that. Well, after gruff, it is immediately to Rowan, followed by Xanthius and then Daisy.
Starting point is 00:44:00 Oh no, sorry, I do have at the very end, the sword goes, so I keep beginning. That sword, fucking kills me. Rowan's still up to. Is big angry, so he cocks his up, like Henry Cavill. Oh, marine. And as he's running towards this construct,
Starting point is 00:44:18 he's gonna cast level five mass healing word. All right, before, so are you cast that before you move or after? Because I will get an attack of opportunity. Do it. It's part of the anger. 12. That's a miss. So you rush forward as you are moving, you cast.
Starting point is 00:44:36 I just throw my hands out to the side. Mass healing word, level five. Perfect. So that is... 44. Hmm. Yes, plus three. There we go.
Starting point is 00:44:54 13 points to everyone. Everyone. 13. 13. 13. That was your bonus action. And that's my bonus action. Nice.
Starting point is 00:45:03 And for my main action is True Strikes. Yes, can't trip. Go for it. On this sucker. It's defender. This ancient defender of City lost. A sucker. 14 points of hitness. It's not enough.
Starting point is 00:45:23 Even in its weakened state, it raises the cudgel and your sort of slow, heavy blow. It just knocks to the side. But it is in a weakened state. We then go to Xanthius. Seeing Caruff and Affidus take a nasty, nasty, nasty blow. Nasty little blow. I want to use my big boy Bahamut move
Starting point is 00:45:46 by doing my scorching ray at level four please which is one, two, three, four, five beams. Fiery beams. All right, you know, there's attack rolls. Anime missile style. Enemy missile style. Scorching ray! I show, I don't.
Starting point is 00:46:06 Oh, God. The first one is 10. The next one is 13. The third one is... Oh my God! I don't know why you do this. 11. The fourth one is 13.
Starting point is 00:46:21 The fifth one... Fuck this dice! He didn't roll above a five once. Not once. In five rolls, did he roll over five? Can you want to tell me how why this goes as bad is? He's so mad. Is it just un-aimed, uncontrolled? uncontroll.
Starting point is 00:46:39 They all hit Rowan. And take out all of your roots. Yeah, just, I don't know, dude, like. Oh, that sucks. It's a moment of like gruff has just hit the ground. Yeah, it's a panic. Is this just like the aim is just wild and... It's literally just an instant just burst.
Starting point is 00:46:58 And the missiles fly out and just... The beams hit and sort of explode around it and it kicks up all this dust and you're like, Zanthius did it. And then it just clears and it's still there. No way! How? How could it be?
Starting point is 00:47:13 I have a plus eight. That's it. That's rough, buddy. That's rough. And I'm going to use my bonus action to Misty step into the ground. I suffocate myself in. I just lay down and then Misty Step six feet on.
Starting point is 00:47:30 If only that were possible. All right. We just see like Zantzzi's life. like glitching. Like stretches. The whole game crashes, it resets, yeah. Relo saved to just before my turn. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:50 Finally, no, we didn't save since action rest. Yeah, months ago. So that's, that's, is Stacey's turn. We're level one again. I'm gonna misty step into the ground is my new favorite thing. That's a shirt, there's a shirt idea. Misty step into my grave.
Starting point is 00:48:08 my grave. Oh my god. Nothing higher than five, that is wild. 19. 20 did. Hit, and you have Rowan had moved up, you wouldn't have had sneak attack here. I actually know, Ophelia is conscious, yeah, that I forget.
Starting point is 00:48:27 Go on, put him to shame. It's what it deserves. Is that dice in your mouth? Don't swallow it. Punishing it. I'm not going to swallow it. I'm really worried. I'm really worried that you're going to choke now, dude.
Starting point is 00:48:39 Please spit it out. Oh my God, I hate. 35 points of radiant damage. Oh, goodness, I didn't. If I rolled a 20, then. Wipe it down. Two six is two fives and two fours. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:48:53 Two sixes, two fives and two fours. That's neat. Radiant blade. You throw the first radiant blade. The creature's chest cracks and breaks, and now the whole open of its chest is exposed, as it's on one knee, you see that this silvery sap is pouring out everywhere, but at its heart,
Starting point is 00:49:12 there is this carved crystalline case, and within which there is this sprouted flower butt that its tendrils have sort of touched the edges of the crystal, and that is almost acting like its heart, and sort of creating this magic that creates this thing. It is still just... Just cut away. So as you, as the rain blade cracks that chest,
Starting point is 00:49:40 leaving this now very vulnerable, you know, core point, the second radiant blade. 18? Exactly it's AC. Oh, do you have enough damage to finish it off? Probably not, because I only hurt my. Well, let's see, D4 plus modifier. Pretty good.
Starting point is 00:50:03 Yeah. Eight points of damage. The second Radiant Blade, it strikes that crystalline case and for a second you see cracks and you think it's gonna shatter, but then the Radiant blade vanishes and it's cracked, it's barely holding it's together. It is on the verge of defeat, but it's not enough. The sword.
Starting point is 00:50:33 What? You've got! It goes off to me! And I have fire resistance. It misses. 14 to hear. Was 14 miss? 14 does miss.
Starting point is 00:50:46 14 does miss. Yes. No. It hits. Yay! You take, wow! Five points of fire damage, two points of fire damage. Two points of fire damage.
Starting point is 00:50:58 I have resistance, baby. I'm down. But then it is the golems go. Oh, Percy have a go. Oh, did we miss Percy? Yeah, he missed. He killed the bow. Can he please kill the bow?
Starting point is 00:51:14 Was that last? No, that was in the actual, right? There's a lot, there's a lot going on. It's go. It is really bad. Does it recharge slow? No. Oh my God. Imagine if I slowed you all.
Starting point is 00:51:28 It has row and it has a target. it, it's just gonna strike you twice, Rowan. It's gonna miss twice. First attack, natural one, 11, second attack. 17. Meets it, beats it. So we've got three rooms. One.
Starting point is 00:51:47 Three, you used two. How many you give me? I gave you fire. 20 bludgeoning plus 12-4s, 32. No, two, I'm gonna use some runes. Three runes, yeah. I use the last three. Last three sticks.
Starting point is 00:52:01 How much is it? 32. 32. Reduced by eight. Reduced by eight. So 32 goes down to 24. You take 24 points of damage. You still up?
Starting point is 00:52:12 Can you use your son's endurance as well? Can you? Using the runes is a reaction. Oh. I believe, right? Check it. Let me see. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:25 Are you still up? I'm still up. Okay, well that's fine. This is two attacks. Yes. You know, in this last desperate moment, it's just bellowing out, this cry, Valandatha, Velan d'athar, Velan d'a,
Starting point is 00:52:36 it's just on repeat, you know, just rampaging now, just swinging wildly around it. It's a good job, I imagine almost, you're having to, like, stop it from hitting Ophelia who's on the ground, like, you're always trying to intercept it. As it's just like, swinging its arms wildly trying to take you out, but that is its turn, which means Ophelia.
Starting point is 00:52:57 Rip out its heart. Finish it! Yeah. Ophelia will stand up and raging again. Yeah, he'll raise veracity aloft. Love it. Plunge it into this construct's heart. Great.
Starting point is 00:53:14 Why is he doing that? Yeah, I'm gonna attack recklessly. Okay. He's doing the thing. He's conditioned you. There's 10 years of conditioning. I mean, my only question was, is this crystal thing like a good essence for me? for me 13 for the first one to hit is that 13 to hit yeah it's not enough
Starting point is 00:53:34 shit come on right this thing die it's AC is 18 AC is 18 okay yeah love it plenty there oh come on what is that what is that 21 is it hit oh my question of yeah yeah Does Veracity drain from... See, I was reading... I was having a little ready reads, I was having the last thing, and it doesn't specifically say about blood
Starting point is 00:54:07 going into Veracity. No, no, no. It does not say that. Does it not? No. It can drain essence. It can drain like life force as well. Oh.
Starting point is 00:54:15 So yeah, in doing this, yeah, feel your will plunge Veracity into this creature's chips. Let's roll your damage to see how much it drains. Let's see. And add it to your tally. 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13. Damn it. Nice.
Starting point is 00:54:32 Is that what you need to get to 100? Might be a bit more than I need to get to 100. I think it's a bit more than you need for 100. A bit more than I need to get to 100. You watch, as Ophelia throws herself up from the ground, like launching herself at this thing, feral. The first blow of Veracity, it hits the crystal, shatters it, but doesn't damage the interior.
Starting point is 00:54:52 The second thrust, Veracity strikes. drastically through into the heart of this creature and you watch as the runes and the gemstones on the basket hill rapid glow, drawing life as if it was drinking blood as Ophelia has used it many times before. As it does, Ophelia, you feel this cool,
Starting point is 00:55:15 almost not ice cold, almost pleasant like a spring morning, draw into your veins. And you feel rejuvenated to the point where I think you visibly grow a little younger, like only a year or something like that, but you almost, the rejuvenation is like a full-on process. Like you actually feel yourself, you know, your skin, just your appearance. You don't think it's expended your lifespan or anything like that, but it makes you look and feel a bit younger. And as it does,
Starting point is 00:55:50 something in Veracity changes as you feel its power having drained blood and essence and life force you have met one of its relic conditions and it grows in power and it unlocks to the tier two
Starting point is 00:56:06 Oh shit I thought was going to blow up more power well here's the thing as the grave the magic of the grey lands as Veracity is some sort of artefact you know, you recovered by Ravjan, you know, and given to you, the magic of the Faye and the Gravefather and the Greylands collide.
Starting point is 00:56:29 And were it not for the fact that the relic just, you know, took on this power to evolve itself, you see that a power tries to build in Veracity, but Veracity remains. And that power explodes, shattering the defender. It just explodes into its stone and the rest of its body as it is annihilated by it. An explosion of force that probably sends Rowan and Ophelia
Starting point is 00:56:57 throws you by his back like 20 feet, 10, 20 feet. You know, you'll skidded back as it is completely destroyed. Finally, holy shit. As it does, the living spell evaporates. Whatever power that was keeping it here seems to have been connected to this defender as it is defeated. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:19 Nice. Go on. Is everyone okay? Ophelia, are you okay? I think I'm okay. Gruff, how are you feeling? Come on, stand up. I know I'm just going to lie here for another moment.
Starting point is 00:57:35 Do you need healing? I've got potions. I've got loads of potions, I think. What do you need? I'll be okay, boy. I have some healing, Graf. Do you want some? Just quiet. Would you like some healing? I'm just going to look at the sky.
Starting point is 00:57:50 Okay. My back hurts. I can imagine you took a really big hit there, twice actually. Roan will get up. Okay. Large form still. And offer a hand to Gruffeth. Oh, yes, maybe you can click my back.
Starting point is 00:58:08 Flicking like a rug. Like a beach towel. I got, whoch. You hear a loud snap. I hold gross hand like a handshake and then keep pulling and then I'm gonna put him into a fireman's carry on the shoulder. Okay.
Starting point is 00:58:26 Oh, this is nice. Let's get to safety. Mm-hmm. All right. When you look at Veracity, I've always described it as having this basket with like gem stones and then there's gems along the blade. Some of those on the basket hill,
Starting point is 00:58:40 there's sockets where gems or something could be installed. Along the blade, one of the gems was always glowing. Now two of them blow. Veracity now deals an extra D6 necrotic damage. Oh, yes. And it has two charges, which you regain at dusk every day. And you can use those charges to cast Misty Step. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:59:04 Yes! More movement. So 100 feet, action dash, and then another 30 for Misty Step. Into the ground. Into the ground! Which is what you'd love. You love it there.
Starting point is 00:59:20 This will also unlock a new requisite to unlock its third tier. Hell yeah. Very good. I want a misty, you have one. You too. Yeah, but I want one that's more daisy specific. A radiant bow.
Starting point is 00:59:36 No, I want my celestial thing, but I can't do anything with it. Oh, that's in, yeah, Kelskaris, I think. No, it's at a monastery. With that, you all make your way. I think that having fought off these defenders, we rush through the streets and whatever commotion, you can hear that something is happening
Starting point is 00:59:58 somewhere in this district. You can hear other sounds of battle, but whatever it is has not reached you yet. You travel for some time making your way, carrying each other, supporting each other, and eventually you, you find what you've been looking for. Up ahead, in the center of the city,
Starting point is 01:00:18 kind of following some of these lines of magic, Xanthius using the waypoints, gruff, you kind of keep in your eyes out as you move. You see a beautiful estate, not a big tower, like the one in Aschon's Rest, but a beautiful sort of, not quite townhouse, but like a small mansion almost, with its own small garden and grounds,
Starting point is 01:00:39 but the entranceway, is flanked by these two large pedestal statues with ravens atop them. The lattice, the dome of this mansion is almost like a lattice that almost looks a bit like a bird's nest, but from it dangle all sorts of crystals and trinkets and charms that glitter and sparkle. You can see that there is an iron fence,
Starting point is 01:01:03 you know, a wooden fence made to look like iron kind of all around it. There are beautiful trees and hanging from, from inside, you can see through windows, drapes of blue and silver and black, quietly confident that this is likely to be Black Wings' estate. What do you guys do? I'm not quietly confident about this. I'm loudly confident about it.
Starting point is 01:01:29 If it's not his, then there's someone who's taking a lot of inspiration. Yeah, your magic is, you are, this has that same signature. Yes. I'm just gonna bleed on the doorstep a little bit. Can I go up to the door with the little raven. Yeah, so you hold this thing up.
Starting point is 01:01:44 And as you approach, the doors, there are a momentary glow of various ruins on the windows on the doors as you all begin to approach. But as Daisy holds this up, it's doing something. It's doing something. The door opens. Oh, it did a good thing.
Starting point is 01:01:59 Okay, everyone, it weren't. Maybe you can close it behind us as well. Maybe, I don't know. So you will step, you're gonna all move in? Yeah. Okay, you will step inside. Once you are all over the threshold, with Daisy, I'm assuming you're all sort of close to Daisy as you move in.
Starting point is 01:02:14 The doors shut after you. They don't stay open. As soon as it senses that no one's trying to come inside, the doors all shut. You are stood in this majestic hallway that leads down into a large, round atrium at the center of the estate itself. In that atrium, there is a beautiful birch-like tree, but it's rose gold in color and it has pink and teal shimmering leaves all on it and there's almost a little mini garden that's been built in this atrium but that's you know down the hall there are archways
Starting point is 01:02:52 that lead off into various corridors and hanging from the roof in in all over the house are these long draped dark blue silver black fabrics that hang down as you all sort of start and looking around at this beautiful majestic place several of those draped break free and they form into a sort of humanoid shape almost as if somebody was under a blanket but there's nothing under there so the features are very like not detailed but there is enough there that you can clearly see a sort of a sort of hunched slightly elven almost care like butler-esque type figure who just sort of bows this fabric bows towards you
Starting point is 01:03:40 as it does so. As you have entered the Ervana Leithas Irnuiath, Blackwell's that's why I was in the state. You have entered their home. Sorry, we're not asking. That is where we're going to bring the episode
Starting point is 01:03:56 to an end. Ivana Newath. I'm asking, how you spell on that? I've said this before. This is Black Wing. Black Wing's told you their name before. I know, but how are we spell it now? A.R. E.E. R. V-A.
Starting point is 01:04:14 Actually, I'm spelling, this is my phonetic of how I remember it. Let's do this after. This is not the most hype ending to the episode. We can get. Also, I spell it phonetically so I can say it. It's not how it's actually spelled. But yeah, let's bring this to an end. You have entered the estate.
Starting point is 01:04:30 All it remains now is to grab the things that you've come for. Three different items. Get the hell out of here. And that's what you need to do, right? Easy, easy, right? It's gonna be easy, easy, simple as that. Easy, easy? No problem.
Starting point is 01:04:42 Yeah, why are we starting an episode doing this? That's just, uh... Well, I'd like to imagine, you know, you want a nice ending, don't you, you want a nice cinematic ending, don't you, Tom? I do, yeah. Well, how about, as you all here, you're presented by this, this magical creature, this, you know, appearance of this house spirit, the sort of camera pulls away, and we see making their way
Starting point is 01:05:03 towards the very area that you are in, demolishing those defenders and fighting spirits and shades of their own. We see several large, armored, you know, troll-like creatures, you know, ogres and goblins in full unsealy armor, flanked with unsealing mages at their behest,
Starting point is 01:05:25 but ahead of them all, holding up some sort of vicious-looking, horn-like spiked device that seems to be obliterating any sort of magical creature or magical thing that it seems to come across. We see a huge, giant-like figure, but their body is grotesquely mutated and warped.
Starting point is 01:05:49 One colossal arm is bigger than the other. One eye is clearly far larger than the other. The other actually has a small sort of like patch over it. It wears a jagged, iron crown, sort of stuck and embedded into its skull. It has one giant tooth out of one side, and a hallbrick of chain mail that's been blood-stained red. From their belt hangs several heads of satyrs and elves
Starting point is 01:06:18 and things like that, and it wears a bracelet of dead pixies around Bennett. In its hand is a giant axe as blood the conqueror. makes his way. My God, he can take the district. It's just we need to get out of there first, please. Well, let's see how quickly you can get about your business. With that, we'll see you next time.
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