Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 46 | Valley of Shadow: Part 2

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

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Welcome to Legends of Avantress. I'm Capriccio DeCesto, you can call me Caprice, and you're listening to Beneath Dark Winks. Here's what happened last time. I'm afraid that with the power of the chain god, with so few seals remaining, it is only a matter of time, whether they're broken by force or not. They will erode within a matter of weeks, perhaps months if we're lucky. At the very least, this Count Kreskov will be able to tell us what's happened. of these kids. He has to know. And you sacrificed much

to give this. And she looks around and says, were there not six of you when you left? Akul looks up and says, I would have been fine if you had to kill me. You are all now ready. You've all shown what morals can do.

Call on us when the time is right, and we will stop this all together. As soon as we see elves, they're going to be like, The hands line your head. The gloom of Corvacia behind you is nothing compared to what lies ahead. You hear the kind of clap of thunder and low roll, maybe a strike of lightning as the smell of rotten flesh occasionally fills your nostrils on the wind, the air gets cooler.

If there's a child in that carriage, we can't just let them ride ball. What? Trust me, I know, Tully. You're preaching in the choir here. I understand that. I want to do everything I can to find these kids. But I also don't want to necessarily just blow our cover on the wrong thing. Hello there. Hello, hello. Thank goodness. Thank goodness. You're on the path. Please, please stop. Help. I need assistance. Make a deception check for me. 29. She, you say that. And there's a has.

as she pulls back on the reins, and she kicks a lever out in front of her, and you see this strange mechanism shoot out and smash the massive brute in the back of the legs, stopping, causing the hearse to grind to a halt, and as soon as these hounds see you and notice you, they immediately start tugging at these chains that this elf is holding on to.

And in an instant, you see a crashing blast of Eldred's magic three arcs shoot all alongside of you, but none strike you. And you see the gloved hand of the Shadar Kai as she stares at you and says, what are you doing at this leg of the Widows Road? I'm sorry. I'm going to, as soon as I see the crash around me, I'm going to start looking past her and into the distance.

I've gotten lost in the woods. I don't know where I am. I can't see a thing. I just heard you. It sounds like you're, you've got perhaps a wagon there. I need transport. I need assistance, please. Um, make a decision.

exception check and disadvantage. As the hounds, come on, baby. No, that's just one. Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. I'll just roll one. Wait. Oh, because he's normally I say. Good call. 19. This is a battle wits here. Um, and the hounds are barking and slavering. And they are, you can hear them. Just it's in your, it's in your ears echoing as, as, as, as, as, as, as, and you can hear them. as she steps off the driver's seat with a graceful hop, and she kind of lurches forward as the hounds are scraping,

desperate to get to you. And she continues to follow behind them. And she says, what village are you from? There's no civilization here for miles old man. I call no village my home. I was transported here. I was transported. I am but a simple traveler,

and I don't know where I am. Can you tell me the nearest village? Are we on a path? Can you point me in the right way? Who are you? What spell level is your illusion thing? Well, the alter self is the mask of Mombasa that I got. And the enhanceability is a second level.

So what levels alter self? What spell? That, I can tell you right away. It's not bad. No, it's seconds. It's the second. This is very bad. As the, as you see as the, the massive brute is head leaning forward, as he had stopped,

and all of the figures on the side, the hood stopped alongside it. And as this meeting lingers, the howls and barks of beasts, of these hounds, of each all four heads staring at you, barking louder and louder. As you start to see as there's a bit of tension and movement in all seven of these lurched, hooded figures. And you see from one a long putrid rotting tongue lit down as saliva as if it's lapping up hungrily. And... It's a glance, but I've moved my... And she just narrows her eyes at you.

and she raises her hand in a glow of this dark, violet magic. She casts spell magic. How far away is she from this? I would say, I don't know, where were you guys? How far is the tree line from the room? Yeah, and that's only the question. How close could we have got? I'd probably say like 40 feet.

Okay, we're probably like, yeah, we're probably 50 or 60 feet away. Oh, but maybe... No problem. So we wouldn't be able to hear any of this, then. You'd be able to hear it here. Yeah, I mean, 60 feet away? Yeah, that's not that far. No.

It would be like, you know, imagine, I mean, that's only... Yeah, it's not a hard. But we're not like right up. And also the acoustics of this place, it's catching on a lot of the ravine behind you and it's echoing. It's quiet, right? Yeah, and as quiet as the woods. Can I ready, can I ready something? Same.

I will say as you see this burst of magic and you see Caprice's dust ill form completely drop. Uh-oh. And so you have a moment to ready. I will use my feline's grace and charge straight forward, and I will yell out, Caprice, what is this? Get back to the caravan, you imbecile. The daughter of the pharaoh of Sacket demands it. I was just having a little fun.

I don't find it funny. I do not have time for your pathetic, peasant ways. I thought, I thought, you know. Shut your mouth. Or I will shut it for you. And I will stomp up to him, and I will push him down with my claws. That is in order, caprice.

Yes, ma'am. Yes, your highness. And I will turn toward the dusk out. My apologies, my servants, in impetus or impetuousness. Okay. Make a performance check. Or intimidation, Chuck.

Your preference. Perselement or what? Intimidation. 16. 16. Not bad. Not bad at all. Not bad.

With that, she looks at you. And I am covered in all of my jewels. You are covered in all of your jewels. Absolutely. All of you. And she seems to make no motion against you. But then you see

the chain in her hands start to slip as she says, I don't know who you are, but your servant has to pay and she drops the chains. I will cast calm emotion. As the hounds leap out and begin to attack and the magic washes over everything.

So I wanted to cast commemotion before she let it go. So if she let it go, I would like to cast something else. instead. Okay, so if you're going to cast something, we'll roll initiative for the dogs. Sounds good. Oh, that's great. May I join? Yes, because you're on the ground. So the three of you will be, will be rolling her initiative. It's the four of you now at this point. The dogs win initiative and caprice is eaten before she does the smell.

What's up, dog? Hell no. To set the scene, the, the, the dusk elf looks at you with the piercing violet eyes, seemingly seen through the facade if you're rolling quite well, and letting the chains go as the dogs leap forward towards Caprice. As this happens, we're going to have a roll-off between, we'll say Iris and the dogs for now. Oh shit, it's a roll-off. And Caprice.

Just for initiative in general? Just for initiative right now, yeah. Roll. I did. Noose thinks the whole map is a dick. 20 to 25? He's not the six, oh, 20, no. We'll get this.

15 to 20? 17. 17. Where does it go? Oh, wow. The dog's got an 18. Oh. Uh-oh.

Everything's fine. All not to get lunch crunched. You'll not to get lunch crunched. So we'll put monsters one here. Monsters one are the hounds. Then it's Iris, Iris and Caprice, right? Caprice and Iris. Caprice and Iris.

and Iris. And so as this happens, the dogs lunge forward. Let me roll for her as well. So just like for your information, seeing the dogs begin to lunge, I would begin my trek forward. So whatever that just roll. Let's roll. Let's roll. Let's roll. Let's roll. Then you guys will roll for initiative. So for now, it's just this. And then she is, she'll be a big bag. So I don't have enough monster. Little fucking God. So the dogs leap forward. And Caprice is actually in front of Iris. I I imagine like kind of from behind. Oh, I wanted to step out in front of them. Okay, so you're in front of them.

And so they're going straight for Caprice though. Whatever it was, she had, whatever it worked had least not gotten them on you. They are lunging for Caprice. Can you move the death dogs up? And they're gonna do four attacks with pack tactics. Oh, sweet Jesus. This is far.

And back here's the carriage with the big guy, and the six hooded figures. I'll use my reaction on one of the attacks I guess that's how this works one is gonna be a 19 I'm going to on that first one that is a 19 yeah I'll say um all dogs go to heaven I'm just saying cutting words he needs to subtract 1d8 from that unless you roll a 1d 8 I do well shit on me shit on me okay that's that he missed 17 so he misses yes okay so he misses and the The next one is literally, 17th is meter or beat it.

He hits. So he does head. Damn. The second one is two choose. Misses. So you are, you do get bit by one head and the other. And we'll just roll for the other one. Packed that because that's going to be a 20, yeah,

23. And then that's gonna be two and a three. So a one head of each dog, you're able to dodge to those you get up from Iris's act as you're able to do that. But two of the hands hit you. The one I tried to prevent. Can I use my, my pendant and my reaction to have the one dog attack the other one.

Oh, yeah. How did I even word that? Probably, yeah. It is, I believe it's a wisdom saving throw. Oh, with a saving throw. Roger that. A DC-17. It failed. So as you do that, you channel the medallion around your neck. Brand new.

As the eye of Osiris flashes out and blind the dog as if they're sand in its eyes and it lets out a yelp and lung, but its momentum is there. It lunges forward, and we're gonna say number one chumps into number two. And so we're gonna do, this is gonna be D-D for the death dogs. And then it's gonna chomp, and that is going to be, the one head is going to be some damage here.

I'm gonna, as I do it, I'm gonna call out, no, you'll attack him. Bam, got him. And he chomps in and tear, he lets out a yelp as he tears in, looking, confused for one head of the other head still leans in so only one attack. And I'm gonna turn and I'm gonna make direct eye contact with the woman knowing that I control her all.

She, oh nice and she looks at you and she seems surprised at these these strangers who looked wildly different, not even Korbakiya as they as they lunge out and the other one is only going to do eight points of piercing damage to you Caprice. And I'm going to need you to make a con-saving throw as these horrible disease mouths on this dog tears into you. Is this poison? It's against disease. It's against, well, I have an advantage of saving throws against poison. Poisoned, de fact, yes.

It's a poison. Okay. So that'll be a con-saving throw? That'll be a 19. 19. You're able to resist that. And with that, it is Capricus' term. Oh, um, I'm screaming because I just got my leg bit and it hurts.

Oh, fuck it! How do you like it? I will cast a Thunderwave. Why not? That's actually amazing. Fuck. That's actually a girl. All right, so they need to make a constitutional saving throw DC 17.

High is 16. Okay, so both of them are going to suffer some thunder damage. and they're both going to get knocked back 10 feet. They both, oh, you hear four yelps as they get blasted back. And they both, as you hear a, his, Chris barks it louder and louder and louder. The final bark, and as his barks and they get blasted back.

13 points of thunder damage to them both. That's hilarious. 20 cents. And 13. Roger that, as they get blasted. Iris, you're up. I'm going to look to her, and I'm going to raise my hands towards the sky. Do you think a woman of my statue of invention to this dark land when protected?

It would be in your best interest to stand down, and I'm going to cast Dawn. Oh! Roger that! And so the blazing pillar of like a radiant summer sun, the sun on the desert, and you can can feel the oppressive warmth of it as it shoots down from the sky and they have to make all of them have to make a Constitution saving throw. Okay, we're gonna do... Get wrecked.

Do dust belf. And then we're gonna do... One, two, three, four, six. And then I'm gonna do one. Sorry, I'm just gonna set up here. I should have done that out ahead of time. So the clouds open up, just briefed in a massive beam of dawn, shoots down on all of them.

Yep. Roger that. So she's gonna make, what is it's con? Yes. Roger that. She is gonna get a 17. Fails. Dog's gonna fail.

Other dogs gonna fail. Wait, what did you say it was? 17. 17. Oh no, 17 succeeds. Okay, so she's gonna succeed, the dogs fail. So big enough for all of them? Yeah, it's 60 feet. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, but it's a silver, 40, 50. So everybody except these last two. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. So you can choose not to do the dogs. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, yeah. You're going to be blasted.

Definitely. Yeah. So you're getting all of the hooded figures? Okay. All but the back to. Okay. So we're going to do the one of the lead. Uh, oh.

That is going to be. 14 fails and we're gonna do just one in its works with one two so the on the right back right passes and then we're gonna do the other two um it feel great that chum-full spicy spicy both of the the the middle ones you've seen and the beam a blast down and singes away and you see as the the dogs let out of yelp as well as the the shenar kai and she covers her eyes, but then you see as the light burns away, the leathers, and you hear a loud hissing from the six, as the, as the massive bruce, as the hoods all fall back, as they shriek. And you see now the bloated, brutalized corpses with long slavering tongues, one massive,

reanimated ogre with sharp teeth and a massive putrid tongue and you see two human what looks like reanimated humans and then you see what looks like a larger reanimated orc and then another reanimated air cocker

its wing snapped off empty eyes slavering tongues and so you can flip all those tokens over and they're fast too well they're all I just wanted to hide as ghouls these these these ghouls all Shit.

All shriek out. I'm trying. I'm very excited. As the being, as they all seem to be affected by the sunlight. So it's very apparent that this dawn has done

is effective. And so anyone failed takes 30 and anyone that succeeded takes 15. So the dogs take 30. Radiant. 30. Oh, radium.

Roger that. Yeah. The one, I love it. I love it. Hound number one lets out a yell as the,

as his first and pups and he looks up as the divine energy of Anubis, despite being trapped wherever he is, is still channeled through you. You are able to call on it, even from that godless place. And the hound number one, lets out a yelp and shriek and collapses to the ground dead. Whoa!

I will, not one. Keeping eye contact with this elf, I will say, stand down. Three. Oh, so three, three. Yeah, I'll let you all let you finish your math and then I'll say what I need to say. And then six is 15.

And then... Damn, I'm a little far away. Holy shame. And she's also going to take 15. Yes. We're taking it's a bell sniper. As the radiant beam. That's true.

And she's being burned by the energy. It wouldn't you see. You get the sense that it's not just the, that for the ghouls, it's not just the, it's not just the the radiant energy, it is the sunlight affecting them, but she's just being burned by the radiant energy and she's adjusting to the sunlight. Fire was more just trying to be like imposing and like, leased in sunlight and like.

Intimidation, check an advantage after that. I love that. Did two survive somehow? Yes, two's a life. Natural 20, you said intimidation. It should have taken the thunder wave and then whatever she does. No, one bit the other.

One bit the other. Oh, what? 27. 27. 27. Okay. She, um, how would she take it? How would she like?

I would see how she takes this. As soon as she takes damage, burning in the light, she looks at you and as the sun beams down, you see as it is, it simply. singes her skin and she backs, she had been full of bravado. And as soon as you boom that out, she sees what's happening, you see her poof into a cloud of shadowy mist and fog and disappear. As she uses misty escape.

And will pass her turn. As she poofs very clearly frightened. in this moment. At this point, however, the ghouls are all bull, the massive ogre snaps off the, what is it called, on the horse or something like a harness? It's like a yoke, right? The yoke, the harnessed off of it and looks forward, ravenous. And you see that one of the ghouls, it now unfreeed, their master all disappeared.

one reaches into the basket, pulls out a rotting human lag, and gnarles into it, and chops into it. And then they all turn ravenously at you. I'd everyone to roll for an issue. 21. 21. Chum bucket.

I got it 21. So, uh, rather that. Toa, witnessed it. I didn't. Felix. Toa? 17. 17.

17. Which ties with Caput. Iris. Iris or Toe first. 16. Oh, yeah, 16. Oh, time it's Caprice. I'll go second because I'm later. Capriccio.

That was a 13. A 17. A 13. It's a buck. Big bad. Got it. All the way down here. And so, point, point. Boink.

That's going to be your next character. Luffy. 13. And then I need to roll for the overgoor. I don't know what that is. I want to play half a time. I feel like they want to just be a little halfling. Yeah, it'd be great.

Get to re-roll one. Yeah. You got 21? Natural luck or whatever. I got a 21, yeah. It's so good. Oh, get the fuck out of here. My layer action is over.

Okay, I can deal with that. Wait, he, oh boy. I can do that. I can do that. And then at the, uh, in between Iris and Lifty are the humanoid ghouls. Oh, great. As you see now, their jagged teeth for the one that is in a beak, as this empty, massive owl eye sockets are, uh, are, or, or, or, or, or, are, or, or, or, or, or,

are ravenously trying to run forward. Their claws are extended as these horrible, reanimated abominations lunge forward, causing the hearse to shake and creak, but the sunlight does not harm it. And their master has disappeared, who knows where. With that, our round begins as the over- Wait.

Oh, they didn't have a turn? I know. I know. Was that? They didn't have a turn. Who, the big bad? No, the monsters. No, no, no, no, that was part.

So they had not been told to be commanded yet. So basically they didn't go. So now basically we're starting initiative with just the four, the hounds, Shadar Kai, Caprize, and Iris. And so now we're starting again. And with that, the ogre lunges forward and is going to...

Did they take the end to the start of their turn? At the end of their turn. At the end of their turn. Roger that. So they're going to go and... How far? 40 feet. I might be okay here to fail me. Okay.

And with that, he takes both of his claws and lunges forward. One close at you, Iris, and then the other close at you caprice. This is a sharp claws, or this seems to have some sickening disease on it. For you, I love our reaction. I'm going to use my reaction again and have him part of the dog. Okay, let's see if he fails that. Cons, uh, con save me throw? Wisdom saving.

This, oh wow. I love that. I love that so much. The one at you swings forward and race. I don't know how this dog survives this. Uh... No, I don't think so. There's actually no way.

As the ogre, uh, takes his claw and the dog is not so out of being blasted back by Caprice's barking. It rends into it and just completely eviscerate. You see its guts spill out. as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as, as the death dogs are dead. How about that? How about that, the DMs? Oh, how about that?

You gave me this item. I did. No, I mean, this is the point of that stuff like that. Do you regret choices? No, I think that's really fun. The other one is gonna lunge forward to grass at you Caprice. And with that, it does hit. It's gonna rake into you for a call.

Oh, my God. You're on chat. Before you resolve this. Do I feel like I could cutting words this again? Does there any rules about undead or like it being? No, just if I yell something to fuck it up, could I get it under 17 based on its role? Oh, it currently, it got a, sorry, it got an 17 plus 6 is 23. I'll let it hit.

It slashes into you dealing 16. What's the dye? Is that anything? That is where she wanted to see lady was. 16 plus three is 19 points of slashing damage. Mystic Skeet. It's different than Mystic Skeet. So she blinks out and you have no idea. Ah, fuck!

What? As it rends into you and you feel this sickening, horrible, creeping disease pouring into you. I need you to make a con saving throw for me. Is it against poison? I would say it's a, it's not a poison effect. Okay, so just regular style. Yeah.

So cool. I will enjoy a 16. 16, that's enough. As you feel this disease that is about trying to paralyze your muscles, you resist it. And with that, one more attack, as it is not in range, it's gonna blunge towards with this massive mall, teeth, his ogre just solves down on you on you on us.

I'm coming! That's me, natural turn. I got it? You get it? I guess my reaction. No. I didn't realize that I had four. I know what he did, except for me.

It's okay. I already rolled for my, my dong. I don't say some day. Yeah. Oh, don't. There comes the dong, bitch. Here comes the dong. I was going to say the night is darkest before the dong.

Oh, yeah. 17, 17, 16, 16, 17, 17. 16, 17. Iris. Oh, wow, I'm blown away. This is the first time anyone else in this cramping has gotten crazy. 43.

43 plus. So that's like half your wife, right? Yeah. 45 points. We have to have similar health. Or 46 points of piercing damage. As it chomps into you. And you need to also make a con-saving throw.

As you feel its bite is also horribly diseased. I fail. you fail, and your maximum HP is reduced by that. Nice. As you feel this horrible, feverish, ghoulish disease seep into you. So how do I do that on G&D Beyond? Max Health Modifier. Yes.

Yeah, you do minus. You just like minus something. For max health modifier, you minus and then whatever the factory took. And that is the ogrester. 46. Yeah. Do they have to roll anything at the end of their turn?

I'm so good. I think I screwed this. Yes, they have to. They have to roll a con saving pill. Roger that. Oh. You know what? Just the ogre.

I'm going to take that back, Nikki. He should have been disadvantaged, too, against all its attacks. Because of the radiance? Because he didn't sound like. Yeah. You might roll another 20. I'm going to just re-roll. I apologize.

I'm going to re-roll that. He has to damage, too. Well, no, just roll the other thing and see what happens. I roll the other dice. I get a four. There you go. And so that is going to miss. I apologize for taking up the time.

I want to make sure I maintain the end up. You never have to apologize for not doing damage. I'm going to roll, and that still hits you, Caprice. I'm sorry. As it runs into you, as the bite misses, the sunlight very clearly affecting this. Yeah, that's fine. I roll my contact.

I just trying to figure out of being. I apologize. Nice. With that- And then con. 17. You're pretty beefy boys. It's gonna be a 19.

So it'll take 15 points of damage. 15 points of damage. That is fog damage. That is fuck, man. As the scent, the smell of rotting flesh is in your nostrils, and now it's burning rotting flesh. As it's absolutely putrid as it's starting to sizzle and pop, and it's like, and it's like, and as it leans in,

it leans in, you almost get like a slap by its tongue as it misses its bite attack. It's this incredibly unnatural tongue, taking another 30 points of damage. Okay, let's drop. Yes! Okay, so if we're saying seven and a half at diagonals, right? Right? So I can do four of them to get 30 feet? Yes.

Yeah. Is that really? Yeah. So four of them gets me 30 feet, right? Just 15-50. Good. Math works out. As I see this happen and I begin to charge out of the brush

at a diagonal that is 30 feet long, I say I'm yelling out loud, Iress has the right idea, this is perfect. Time to take it for a spin. And as I plant my feet, it's almost as if there's like a clock underneath of me, a transmutation circle begins to appear underneath of my feet. The light coming up from the transmutation circle

is blinding white as I cast sunbeam. and I target this giant creature. I'm gonna need a creature to make a con-17 saving throw. That's gonna fail. Wonderful, Felix. I'm gonna re-roll. I'm gonna re-roll these two. Yeah.

So that's gonna be eight, 19, 11, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 19. 20, 21, 22, 30, plus five is 35. So 35 points of radiant damage. And if you failed the con saving throw, it's blinded. It did. As you hold out your dagger and you let forth a, from my hand, some, like radiant light shoots forth in a beam. A flash of light in this dark gloomy day, now being pierced by a massive suddenly

and now a streaking beam and arcs out and singes it blast this over from the side. It lets out a horrible groan as it blasts his face. And you see now the side, the flesh starts falling off as his jaw is exposed. and you see an empty hole. And from my hand, there is a 35 radiance. And then from my hand, there is a moat of sunlight that sheds light in a 30 foot radius from me. Roger that.

Do we take damage from Dome? If you're in it, yes. Oh, what's the rate? I might be it. No. I might say it's a spear. Can you put the point where the middle would be? Because that would help.

No, it's way back. That's 60. It was in the middle. Right? So it cut off, it cut off there, so wherever 30 is there. So yeah, it's here. And then go out this way. And you said, I think I'm outside of it, like, barely. Yeah, oh my God, you are.

You are, yeah, okay. Yeah, and it's there. Oh, it's a 30 foot radius with 60 feet. Holy shit. Yeah. 40 feet high. Fuck. What the fuck.

I guess I did that as Sarnax once. I almost killed everybody. Oh, yeah. You absolutely obliterated things to say that. Oh, but I almost kill my friends. Poohy. Okay. That's my turn.

As I am, I am also mimicking iris and radiating sunlight. Yeah. The divoxy for the footstead. That's disgusting. It was following in her footsteps. This is a high level spell. Three, four, five, six. Fucking pto.

And whatever is in the carriage will say the very least is behind full cover. full cover. Yeah, it is reasonable. Totally empty. Oh, that's unreasonable. I got a pee. With that, as the beam, as this ogre is blasting, it's singeing, its flesh is singeing away, and it's absolutely putrid.

With that, it's good, uh, Kri's her. Oh, shit. Um, how's this fuck did looking? He's a beefy boy. He's taking some damage, he's a meaty boy. He's just the beefy boy. Um. I will go, uh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,

Iris, uh, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, and, um, you, you fucking ogre, you, you blind eating it, you look like a dropped pie. Uh, he needs to make a wisdom saving crow. He's a, a music, vicious mock rate. Just to, yeah, just to make fun of him. Um, Um, just, look this up, good. Oh, I think of disease. DC-17 with some saving crew. I'm just trying to make sure that I see this.

Yeah, yeah, take the camera. Okay. Russia that. Um, uh, whiz, you said? Yep. Whiz, whiz, whiz. That's gonna be 15. He fails.

He'll have disadvantage on his next attack roll. Okay. And he takes, oh, that's good money. Uh, nine points of psychic damage. Nine points. As he as, oh, let's see if he's amazing. With my thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I give Iris inspiration.

Nine points? Very cool. As you do that and you see that despite him, some of his brain is leaking out of his ear as the skull is cracked. It still is affected by this bardic magic and let's out of, and with that, it's toaster.

Oh, it's watch it. I will say, Arnors, I'm coming. I will. Chosen one. Chalmers, I'm going. What's my speed again? It's pretty fast. Three feet.

I was gonna guess 35 or 40. And technically, he's there. That's mainly range, right? It's a large creature. So please beat the shit out of him. I will proceed to beat the shit out of him. Yes! So I was preparing to battle trance before you started.

So can we see that that was during the surprise round? We can. I'll allow it. Then I will go in and just recklessly swing in twice, power attack style. Oh, rolling 91 and kill irons. It's so reckless. Holy shh. What the fuck is this?

So they're color-coded together, so these. Those are the attacks for those dice. Seven. You roll a fucking monster attack there. Yeah, but that's only a 40th. This is for Winfury Proc to see if I prok. I think I'm sad. I don't know what.

It's not great. Your turns never make any sense. Richest turns never make any sense no matter what campaign. Well, you know, all I have to do is discombobulate the fuckenader. And all of a sudden, no, it's a hundred and seventy-three. These are my two advantage attacks. Right. These are attacking for Winfury-Roy.

You know, it's fine. When we get a medicine attack, I'll take another 400 actions. It's how we deal. Power attack means that subtract five for the mite to hit. So instead of plus 11, it's plus six. six. So my lowest is a... I mean, 21? Oh, 22? Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah, no, that'll hit. Okay, so... Wouldn't you really let you attack again?

Yes, and it gives me an extra attack, it promise. That is awesome. Yeah, it's very good. We should just design our own D&D source book. Hey, yeah. Now I get to re-roll these two dice. Thank you. That'll do. Uh, so that is nine. It's 11, 12, and a pretty 15. More like a dead pound. Oh, I mean. 15 plus 40 is what? 55. 55.

Is that right? 15 plus 40 is 55. You plus 40. So these are my dice. How did you get plus 40? Because when I'm raging and my plus two, it's my, so my plus two attack is seven, then raging makes it plus 10, power attack adds a plus 10 on top of that.

So every hit is basically the dice, the die roll, plus 20. So it's these dice. That's two attacks. That's for two attacks. Yes. Okay. I was going to say why am I laying a wizard? How much I'm, I'm, so what was it? Eating this over for it? 55. 55? 55. You smash and you hear the loud, sickening crack of ribcage as you see its large gut in those sick leathers and you smash it out. You hear a crack of the ribcage as its intestines rotting, putrid spills out of its gut. And it was like an abomination. Fox wants to know what kind of barbarian he is. Toa's a fucking barbarian. I'm a sexual guardian.

50 what? Sorry, I'm sorry, 50 what? 55. I imagine that we hit him with your club, right? Yeah, total. Why do I play any kind of castor if you can do that kind of name? Yeah, it's like punching a bean bag. Yeah, that's it.

Okay. You do that. He's blind too, so we're by the nuts. Yeah. He's up? Yeah. He's up. I'm gonna cast.

It's my turn. Yeah, it is. I'm going to cast a spiritual weapon down on top of his head. Get it. Get it. They change equipment to inventory and throws me off. Does an 18 hit? An 18 on the ogre?

Absolutely. He's a big fucker. He's going to take. Wow. Wow. Oh, well. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Bavarian's hard. 17 force damage. And then that was my bonus action. So as my full action, I am then also going to hit him with a sacred flame. So I need a deck saving throw from him. You summon the crooked flails or shaker, your spiritual weapon, right? It smashes in.

A deck saving throw, that's going to be pretty good though. Dex is a 21. That passes. He is of shockingly, despite being in, and sunlight does not make him disadvantage on saving throws. as he dodges out of the way with that, of the plane that radiates down, but he's being fucking scorched alive.

He just accidentally dodges. He's like tripping blind. He's just like, whoa! That's my turn. As you see these ghouls now, the humanoids of four humans, one orc and one Eryokokra are owlfolk, no wings to speak of, snap bone poking out from the leather.

They then lean down and look at you and they, they turn you hungrily, and they will use their bonus action to dash as they all just all six of them, sprint forward. All six of them all sprint forward. The other one's gonna skirt, the two in the back are gonna skirt the side. Why are they smart? What's their movement speed? Their movement speed is 40.

They're not smart. And so, yeah. They're just the zombies from fallout four. They can go. you would like a light speed. So they're gonna try to run out of the sunlight. The last two. Oh, no, you're gonna start.

They're gonna all try to run. Okay, no, you mean they're gonna run through the light? Yes. Yes, they're gonna all singe. And so if you can make it, if you can't make, he's gonna run straight to Iris. Not that's worth. But he's dashing, he's dashing. Yeah, so you can get all the way around.

Easy. And these are gonna skirt. Those are gonna skirt. Try to get a few bucks. One, two, three, four, five and a half, seven, eight and a half, nine and a half, ten and a half, eleven and a half, twelve and a half. Yeah. And 20. No, he's going to try to get to get to Felix.

He's going to go this way. I don't know. Oh, the other way. It's going to be one safe behind him. We can't walk through the cart. It's not, he's not walking through the cart. He leaps over the car. Thank you.

He leaves over the car. Thank you. My immersion has been broken. He leaps over the car. I'll roll macabatic. Check to see how it does. He gets a 19 actually. I hope he is too.

And as, I see. As these ghouls now approach you after being so far back, now as they approach, the stench is so horrible and horrific that it's so overwhelming that when you start your turn

within 30 feet of them, you are going to have to, make a con saving throw. It's all of us. That sounds like bullshit. Yeah. And so with that, they're going to do, uh, they're going to do four claws on you, Felix, and they have pack tactics.

So they're all advantage. Good luck. Pack tactics. Uh, that one's going to be a 24. Pack tactics. Yeah, so, so hold on one second. All the one second. Give me one second.

Keep rolling, keep rolling. But do your thing, but give me one moment. As you do your thing. you do your thing uh where is it where is it where is it where is it where is it is my fucking spellbook 15 that's fine keep on keep wrong natural 20 that's no you have your action right so hit so I'm working on it you actually do the thing it was just 24 and that's a mess so so what I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do is until you're next to this well yeah so I am going this

looks like a job for the idol of the justice bringer I will cast shield the The problem is the 24 still hits. I am up to- But it's not a crit now. No, no, no, no. The 90-20 is not a crit. But my AC goes up to, God, that's pathetic, 21?

So two hits still? Yeah, probably. Whatever's above 21? Well, the natural 20 still hits. It's just not a crick. But the other one's 24. So both will have. Okay.

So they've read you twice. You can roll two con saving throws. Well, I'm gonna have to roll a million con saving throws. I'm gonna roll this here. Because of my concentration. So what's my plus con? My plus con. I'll be both sit every way.

So these are gonna be for whatever Mike is having me roll for. Seven. These are gonna be for me having concentration. Seven, the first way. Is this the hill? Is this like- That's the tree line. Wow.

Oh, but it's flat lamp. Wow. Pretty full. So I got double Natty 20. for whatever you're having me roll. Yes. But I lose concentration on my spell. Roger that.

Because I rolled a two and a three. So, Sunbeam. Plus, wait, plus seven. Yeah, I lose Sunbeam. It feels really bad. There gives my sixth level. Wait. You're radiating sunlight as well.

Yeah. I was. So then I take back my thing. Yep, I apologize. I'm sorry, guys. I forgot. We got a lot to remember. It's a lot to remember.

It's a lot to remember. 20 it still gets a 20 so the first one hit second one so that that misses first one now first one that did hit it missed okay the second one that misses because it already missed uh the other one missed uh because it's the natural 20 i just rolled a yep i rolled a 10 and then this is the last one that that oh no that also missed i'm good so i missed i'm good so the As they're approaching you desperately trying to attack you, their eyes are blinded and they're horribly, the sunlight is a problem.

And they're gonna both try to attack you. We're gonna try to get an attack. That's gonna miss. For me? Nope, there are bites. So they have three attacks. Oh, no, okay. And then on Toa, can that one get to you, number six?

Ha! They all, oh, he's, yes, sorry. You should be there, yeah. We're gonna get a round of, are they out of the sunlight? Yes. out of this time. It's 30 foot radius. My sunlight.

His son is around you. Yes. It reads from my hands. They're all fucking in there. Okay. Well, DeKang, hold on. This is their advantage against me, so it just evens it's even. It's even.

I'm going to just take both of these as both quad tax. And it's going to be a 22 and a 24. Move, both. Swipe, swipe. Damn, sorry. Uh, claw. Swipe, swipe. Sorry, egg.

Sorry. Eek. Eke. Um, that is going to be. only good thing to come from that movie. 5, 10, 11. 17 points of slashing damage, and you need to roll two constitution saving throws for me. 17, that's from two attacks.

Well, it doesn't matter, I have it all, but 17, 16, I take, what, 8 damage? Yep, and you roll two con saving throws for me, actually. Two con saving throws? Yep. I get DC12. Oh, you crush it. You feel the paralyzing venom in their claws. And with that,

you do that. And then two bite attacks, normal on you? On me? No, no, I'm still doing two. They both fail horribly. Didn't you just go? And then, and then same thing with IRS. They're still in the sunlight too, right?

I don't think the ones on me are in sunlight. No, I think they're more than 30 feet away. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so, yeah. Yeah. Roger that, and then we're going to do... One is going to be 20... I'm going to use my reaction to make one of them.

Do a... Okay, with saving throw? Yep. What the fuck. We'll do that. He fails and he swings and is going to rend the flash. We'll say number one is going to tear in and number four. And do damage.

And that's going to be... be, wow, max fucking damage. How about that? So number four is going to take Max's damage. Oh, boy how. Oh, oh. Okay. Wrens the flesh. They don't seem to care. They're ravenously focused on you. Going in for a bite on Iris for that, for that one. That is going to be a 16. No, no, 17, sorry. A 17. Okay. No, 18.

Okay. It misses its bite. Okay, we're going to two more Kalaa attacks on Iris. They're just straight. It's going to be, one's going to miss. The other's going to be 23. That misses. Yeah, my AC is 18.

22. It's going to tear into you. You need to be a constant saving feel for me. Um. Tear. Boom. 11. 10.

You fail, actually. As you take, and this one is on the last one. You take first... It's weird... 13 points of slashing damage, and your body locks up and you are paralyzed. Wow. I use my reaction to send one of my spectral ancestors to your body locks up. 11. Reduce that by 11.

Okay. That is the end of their turn. I love to Europe. Oh, wait. Hold on. I won. I'm sorry. Uh, interesting treats. Do I have the one where it reflects back? Yeah. Do I get the hit? Oh, but maybe. But maybe. No. I see you haven't done it yet.

Not yet. Anyway, but yeah, so we'll take two of this time. Yeah. Loftly. Loftly. Me. I hold myself. So, finally, I will pop out of the trees.

I'm here now. Felix, watch out behind you all! And I'll run out, and just as I do, my new headdress will slip over my eyes, and I will trip and fall and roll forward. roll forward and then spring up just at the last moment and just totally lower my shoulder into this fucko. Oh, pleasure that.

And so that will be my new carnival bounce. Ooh. So that guy will have to make a deck saving through. Press of that. You turned clumsy into a power. Mm-hmm. 16. Oh, motherfucker.

Okay. I'm sorry. I heard. It's based on your decks though, by the way, not wisdom. Apologies. Okay. Okay. That's high than a 16.

Your spell save D.C. will be affected by Dennis. Okay, so that's what we were talking about in the break. So help me with that. What does that mean for me? Eight plus five, plus our proficiency is four. So it's eight plus nine. It's like 18.

17. 17. 17. So it misses. So yeah. Okay, I will adjust that. Thank you. Okay. So then this guy is going to do.

This guy is going to take 3D10 damage and be knocked back 5, 10, 15, 20, and then this guy will take 2D. Okay. So we'll be 3D10 for number two. Yep. So it's 7. Plus 5. 4 and 9. So it's 16.

So 20 plus 5. 25 to number 2. 25. You fall forward and you feel just this dark power rise up within you. and you fall in this, really in this comical, but also a grotesque way. And it blasts out this thunder damage. And 13 to number five.

13 to number five. And then they're what? And they're both not prone. Damn. As you basically have to send them bowling into the other one. And it falls back and you see bones snapping in its body. Oh, nice. And so that takes, so I have two attack actions.

That takes my full thing. I can't. That's your full action. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can only get the extra tacky if you make the tacky action. Yep, correct. Correct.

Any bonus action? Is it? No. Okay, watch that. Actually, I'm gonna use my bonus action to smack Felix on the web. Roger that. So you do that.

What's a 30-foot cube? Can I get all of you in there? Yeah. Oh, I have to do the con, yeah, if you're diamond style it. Do I need to roll a three foot cube? Khan's saving throw for having started my turn. That's attack roll so it is Matt, so yeah.

Roll it anyway, really. Roll it anyway, actually. Maybe. It's close. We'll just give it to us. Yeah, you can get all this. 25. You pass it.

The stench you're able to come forward there. We'll give it to him. That's tough. That's close. 30 foot cube? Yeah, it's close. It's very close. I have a 30 foot cube.

No, we got a 25 foot radius here. Can you get everyone but Lufty? Or Iris. I would say it's one of the two ladies. Yeah. Yeah, so basically you can either dodge iris or you can dodge. Roger that. So, you see, as this is all happening, you see for a moment this flash of gyrating purple, violet, swarling light as it shines around you and is absolutely mesmerizing.

As you all look at it as hypnotic pattern is cast from... the invisibility of Misty Escape. I don't have to react. As she appears, the Dust health appears about right there. Yeah. Oh, okay. And that's actually... Oh, so she's

all the way... She's over there. Everyone besides Luffy to make a... Wisdom saving throw, please. DC... 22. Passes. Wisdom. Natural one.

DC 16. You can twist that shit. Is this her real over there? She reappeared. Yeah, we should say that until we... What? Is this actually her over here? Yeah, she's actually her over here or she...

Okay. That feels pretty bad. 18. I failed. 12. 12. So anyone who got below a 16. It's so mesmerizing.

You are now charmed and incapacitated. As you stare up in the light. As you stare up in the light and it seems to hold your it's absolutely hypnotic Does that make you lose concentration? No, you just can't take actions or reactions right. And your speed is zero. Okay.

So your speed is zero, you can't take actions or reaction, you're just both looking up at this beautiful gyrating light and then disappeared and you're just in this strange hypnosis. Um, and that is going to be, I don't think she can do anything else. There's a spell. Cheezer action, get over there. Yeah, yeah, here we go. What's up? I'll be out here.

Okay. With that, it's Oger's turn. And is he advantaged? Not even in light. He's in light. He's in light. Could walk out of it. Let's see, he's a-

He's disadvantaged anyway because I hit him with fish as much, right? Yeah. I'm gonna roll an intelligence chip for him. He's also his advantage against everyone that's not me. I think this ogre is too stupid in order to do that at this point. As he's so beat up and so bloodied, he is going to lose four, now seeing two targets, as he's just in agony. He's also blinded.

And he's blinded, he can't see him. He's going to make a disadvantage, and he's going to swipe blindly. He's disadvantaged like six places on that. He's normal for me, though, because I'm in. A mint, ogre load. 20 for you, Toa. Yeah. It's going to swing, slice into you, and he's going to take, uh, let me get my other D6.

6, 10. 13 points of slashing damage, con-saving throw. So 13, I take, uh, half of that is. And then one disadvantage on IRS. That is going to be 17. Misses. 16 on my con-saving throw. Dodge out of the way. 16 on your con-saving throw. You pass, you resist the, the, uh, The, oh, but are you paralyzed, Iris? I am paralyzed.

Okay. So am I. Did he hit me? Okay. So I should roll advantage then. Oh, no. It was already. I was right.

No, I think it's an auto-crip. So you... Oh, it's paralyzed, an auto-crip? I think so. Yeah, because that's... Yes, because that's why hold monster's so fucking good. Any attack that hits the creature... Yeah, yeah, it's a crit.

So it tears into you. You're... You're prolet's to her? Yes. Okay. I'm going to roll three more. Oh yeah. Does add this?

Actually, there's another down here too. Rule 9 to your damage. And you never told me what my damage was. Your damage. Because I don't think... I forgot to... Oh, it missed. Are you paralyzed?

No. I am paralyzed, but you missed. But I am... You would be advantage, but he's... But then I'm disadvantaged. So he's just straight. So I'll just take these two and the... I mean, they both miss.

So he's one. Yeah, so anyway, it's... They still miss it. anyway, and the highest is 17. And then he's going to roll in, and we're gonna see who he's going to attack with his bite by rolling a D2. One is Iris, two is tow-up.

Two is tow-up. And he's going to roll straight, and that's gonna be a natural three. As he lunges forward, he is being horribly singed. Is the sunbeam still up? Yeah. Oh, I don't know about your sunbeam. So the, so if I'm incapacitated,

By rules as written, I drop concentration. Okay, Roger, Roger. And so the sunlight fades, but he is in the dawn, he was a natural one in his con saving throw. And so whatever damage that is. So incapacitated, a creature just can't take actions or reactions. It doesn't drop your concentration. It says under spell casting, being incapacitated or killed,

you lose concentration on a spell if you're incapacitated or if you die. Got it. Okay. So you are hypnotized, and so it would, I technically wouldn't be concentrating on it. So I rolled a natural one plus I failed the saving throw on Don.

Okay. So it is a total of 17. Okay, 17 points of damage as it singes him. He's looking very rough. Okay. With that, Ogress turns up. I am, man, I feel bad. Felix, you're up.

Yeah, I'm incapac. So you can reroute the saving throw. It's just a whiz. 16 whiz at 16. And what do you want with that stage at from? I roll it that fucking time. I got a 23. Oh, fuck man.

You snapped too after being hypnotized. That's my old team. That's my old turn though. Yep, it's the end of your turn. Can't move. I'm stuck there. With that, you snap too as the, as the hypnosis leaves you. Caprice, you're up. That's a big yikes.

Looking around, I'm seeing people looking in the sky getting dazed by this hypnotic pattern. It doesn't affect me. I'm seeing them, my friends get it surrounded, and I can see her right in the brook. She's looking right outside the tree line. I can see her. Looking your way in the world today,

takes everything you got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Sometimes you gotta go, and I explode with energy. A destructive wave of sound as I smash into the strings of my viol, it's gonna be a destructive wave affecting all of these creatures. Does it hurt friendlies?

Nope. Oh, thank you. I was good to try to do that. So. Yeah, I mean, I've been playing D&D for how long and I've never realized incapacitate. Thanks for keeping game state, Andy. Each creature I choose through that 30 feet of me

must succeed a Constitution saving throw. Roger that. Is it everybody? Everything that I consider to be hostile. So literally everything within 30 feet of me is everything except for her. Roger that, okay. Constitution saving throw, DC 17.

And they're thrown, so I don't know if that does anything. But maybe. Uh, that's... First one fails. Five over here. Second one. Five over here. One in the back.

We've got two rolling bands. Con. Fourteen fails. And then we're going to do three. It's going to roll. Con. Fourteen. Ten.

Six. It's going to fail. One is going to be 21 on one. Four is going to be 15 on four. on four, Ogre is going to be a 22. So, number one, at Gould number one, Ogre, Gould, a deal on one in 16. Okay, so they'll take half of this.

It's going to be 10, 15, 19 points of thunder damage. Okay. And nine, 10, 14 points of radiant damage. And the ones you failed are not prone. So just add all that up for me. Oh, how much did I say? 10, 15, 19 plus 29, 39, 33 points total, or half that basically succeeded.

Number four is instantly blown apart, the one that's closest to you. It's bones and guts spill everywhere. Number four is here. Is that three that you're talking about here? No, that's one. Oh, no, number, yeah, number four. Actually, it's not close to you, actually.

Okay. Sorry. No problem. He's destroyed. So number one succeeds. He's going to take half, which is... Oh! And Toy, are you incapacitated?

Yes. Iris, you're incapacitated? Yep, which means, Mike, you have to heal that guy for 17 bones of belt because it paralyzed... You're paralyzed. It capacities me, which it does. You dropped off. I would have dropped.

Oh. Oh, this is turning very quickly. Uh, not paralyzed. A creature is incapacitated. Yeah. Paralyze is a fucked up condition. 33. No.

He's going to succeed, sir. So why are you guys paralyzed? Um, because something hit me that, and I didn't have a lot. How much do you need to hit for? Oh, 17. It's a peril. So you got paralyzed by the disease. Yeah.

Oh, okay. That freezes your mucus. Yeah. So the claws have a disease on the goal. And I'll turn to toe and be like, Wake up, buddy, come on! We're gonna go and sailor some shit. Fucking fish, come on.

And I'll give you inspiration. Okay. Okay, she's looking rough. Okay, as the dawn drops, and the sunbeam drops, the darkness descends upon this battle. And she looks at you with a haughty smirk, as the ghouls ascend all upon you,

seemingly not caring that her hounds died, having no care for them whatsoever. So this is gone now? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Who's that? That was Grace.

Tell you're us. You go to the ghouls. At the end of the constant. You might be able to get out, right? Oh, yeah. That's why you have inspiration. It's a whiz scene, isn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Against the blinded by the late. And you have inspiration. And you also get the inspo. Oh. Which you should cash in on. What's the inspo? Wendy 10. It's funny yucky.

It's funny yucky. Play it lucky, I can crush. Not your goal. The Gable Goulds. 11. Plus. 12, 13, 12, 16, less. No, no, 12.

Should I twist this? We only have like two. I mean, I didn't use a twist. Sunbeam would have been really fucking good to keep up. I would say no. No. Yeah, no. It's fair.

Up to you guys. I don't get shit. What do you guys want to do? Okay, you are continually mesmerized and hypnotized by the dark magic of this dust gout. God damn it, toe-a-fuck. I'm gonna do the toe thing again. Iris, you're up?

Uh, no. So I guess all. Cause this is boys venom. Yeah, so this is against the- This is common, so it's much lower DC than the 16. What is that? Clavix or what is? Yeah, no.

Okay, you are continuing, paralyzed. Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you. You are paralyzed. Thank you. Oh, thank you so much for the twist. Yeah, let's put it into the orgasm pot right away.

Yeah, we need it. We need it. But you're not paralyzed anymore, right? No, I'm good. I wasn't paralyzed, but I'm not incapacity. So we're going to get two attacks. And they're still disadvantaged because it's not you. So it's just straight, because they're advantage on Iris.

Okay, we'll do straight. As long as you don't lose whatever your advantage thing is, Paul, another misses, the what, bite? Whatever's the one you do to everybody else be disadvantaged attacks. The one on Iris, its body is falling apart. It is still trying, it is. Oh, time out.

Attack rules on paralyzed creatures are advantaged. And he's saying that we lose our... He's not giving us the benefit anymore, because he was also... And that was just on the ogre. I didn't attack him, so he is no longer advantage. So those were all three, and they... I rolled really terribly, so I'm just gonna roll another one again

for each of those. Okay? Yep. Claw is going to be a 19. Another claw is going to be a 22. And a 15. The bite is... is a 15. So do both of those hit? To whom? Aris. My AC is 18.

Okay, so two hit, two hit, and so it's going to be two crits. Yep. As they slice into, what the fuck? Two crits? As they're paralyzed, they descend upon you like, wow. Four hands, wow, he says. Four, ten, fifteen, and four, ten, fifteen, and four.

20 plus 10 is 30 points of slashing damage as they tear into you. And so that is Iris and then on Toa it's going to be you are, you're what you call it? Only have one on me, right? Yeah, there's just three attacks. How was that? I'm paralyzed against. You're paralyzed.

No, no, you're some capacitated. You're not paralyzed. Paralyzed the disease, hypnotic is incapacitated. Were you diseased? Are you diseased? You can't take actions or reactions any. Yes. But it doesn't.

The difference is all- No auto-crit. I don't crit you. And I'm not advantage. And I'm not advantage against you. No. Okay. I'm doing all four Kala attacks.

What do you know, I'm gonna do, a call attack here that's gonna miss? The only thing is you lose your actions or reaction. Right. 22 to hit. Got it. 22 hits. That's going to be

five points of slashing damage. And then cocked-saving, as the disease seems. Five. And then a con saving throw. Cs seven. Okay, con saving three. Okay.

DC12. Yeah. Oh, you're good then. Bight is going to miss. So now the other one, now number six is going to go. That's going to be a 22. That's going to be six points of slashing damage. Con saving throw.

Okay, so that's three points of damage. Oh, yeah. Okay, you pass it. One more bite. PZ. white on you, that's going to miss. And then we're going to have one, they're both going to get up. The prone ones are going to get up.

One's going to go to Lifty and one's going to go to Felix. Felix is no one, none of you have status effects. No, but I should have my reaction back, right? Yes. Because I passed the check. We're going to do Lifty first. Slash is going to be 17. Nope.

21? Yes. Okay. Get ready for the slashing. The cons of making go, please. 8 plus 3. 11 points lacking damage? I am going, I wanna use my thing.

I wanna use my reaction to reduce damage. Okay. Just 11 points. So reduces by nine, so I take two points of damage. And then my con. As it goes in, a flurry of colorful feathers burst in its face, And I managed to not hit you as deeply.

15 on the con. 15 on the column that succeeds. And then a bite on you. That's gonna fail. We're gonna get Felix. One more, fails. 15? Phillips.

Now, miss. And then 20 on the white. Shield and it passed. And it passed. You channel the thing, and that is their turn. With that, it is Lifty's turn. Okay, so her mesmerizing, shimmery boo-boo, boo. Would I be able to see that?

It was a one-time thing. Oh, it's not lingering. Just a cast. Yeah. Not lingering. Got it. Well, I guess since they're up on me now. So I'm going to raise my spoon up and just come down as much as I can over top of both of them and make a strike on both.

Okay. Um, that is a 24 and a 19. About both it? Okay. They're 80s 14. he's 14. So let's see, that would be 16 on number five. 16. Oh, it's looking rough. And 14 on number two. Number two, 14. And then so after I make that strike, I will take my spoon and jab

when to number five. You smashed into it, you smack and they're both looking very rough. One's jaw rips off and their tons are hanging out. Their eyes are wide with ravenous hunger. All right, and my other one fails. Okay. Watch that. It is her turn. She is going to Um, We have Um, let it pee.

Um, let it pee. Let it pee. Let it pee. Let it pee. Let it pee. We have all got bladders. Let it be.

As she reaches out, and she stands in the tree line, and her hand, it glows with this violet light and blast out. As, uh, she's gonna attack Iris, Toa, and Caprice, Elders Blast. Thanks. Iris is going to be.

a 19. Toa is going to be a 20. Wow, that hits. Caprice is going to be a 22. Yes. As they blast, they crash into you. So that's a crit on me. It's within five feet. Well, crit on me.

We're gonna do Iris first. 19 points of force damage. Toa. 17 points of force damage, Caprice. I can't take reactions, correct? If you haven't passed your fame. If you're incapacitated, then no. Caprice is 9 plus 5, is 14 plus 5. 19 points of force damage. 19. Hmm. Hmm. Okay. And she just looks confidently by the tree line with her hand out. But that's her time. If I maintain concentration, I do. The ogre still, let's see if he's smart enough to get out of this.

He isn't. As he's just lunging forward. You're not paralyzed anymore, right, Iris? I am. Okay. So that's going to be advantaged on, he's still blind. Let me see if he actually gets out of the blind. Nope.

That's so Iris, advantage. There's no more gone. There's no more dawn. Oh, okay. Oh, wait. As long as he didn't pack, he can, he was blinded from my attack. Oh, right of that road to that. But I assume that he can make that saving throw. He did. Over and over again. Let me double check here. And I'm, I presume it's one minute. I'm going to presume that. So that fails against Iris. He's going to make one attack on toe advantaged. That's going to miss.

And he's just bling and bite. Oh, he's only blind until the next turn. Yeah, okay. Okay. Yeah, you're good. So he's at advantage against me. He did advantage. So I'm going to roll one more time for that is going to hit as the claw rends and it's going to be a crit. Oh no! One, two, three, four, five, six. This is going to get swish-smoked here. Ten plus five is fifteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-three. Twenty-three is a twenty-six points of slashing damage.

And with that, Toa is going to attack on you. It's just regular and that is going to be a 17. That misses. It misses and so as there's these targets He's gonna bite on Tote Baseline that is going to be a 24 Yep. It tears into you and it's going to do a bit of damage here I guess I do miss this I'm like the other blast yeah 13. 14. 14. 14.

17 points of us of piercing damage and constantly even though for me. Good old attack. Okay, that's his turn. And with that, it is Felix turn. As I snap to from the mesmerization, I looked at my hand and there's no more orb of sunlight. So instead I say, oh, nah, a fireball.

And I see what I can snag in. I can snag here. I'm trying to figure out. Yeah, I think it's pretty close. If I go like... Is this guy dead or what's happening on? Yeah, you can move it over 100%. Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna fireball all of them and I'm gonna keep all of my friends safe. So I need them all to make these. And I'm casting a fifth level. So I need them all to make a deck 17 saving for us. Okay. Yeah, all of them. Everybody but the, uh, the leader.

So I'm gonna re-roll this bad boy. Oh, and this one because there's a one's a two. CC? 17. Dex. Five passes. So that's gonna be 12, 22. Six passes. That was a five. 22. 30, 37. 5 and 6 pass. No one else. 37. And I re-roll this bad boy. 37 plus 8 is 45 plus 5 is 50. 50 points of fire damage to everyone who failed. Half if they passed. 50 points of fire damage, everyone failed. The blue eight.

55. Points of fire damage. And I don't move because I don't want to draw from the exact point. I just want to sing all of their flesh. 25 or, well yeah, no, 27 or 50 or 55. I can get mad. Yeah, 27 or 55. Fireball, you said, yes.

Fireball, I say. Felix says, Fireball. Five, half of 55 is 25. 25, yeah, 26. 27. 27. a lot. Exactly enough.

Yeah, get fucked. As your... Not the DM. As the man's. As your... As you clutch your dagger, a flame whips around you,

and this is no sun, but it is pure, raw, elemental flame. As it whips off and a bead goes in the center and a massive explosion, it's shaped around all of you as every single ghoul

burns... Not alive, but undead. As they all singe away you smell, sizzling. popping flesh. Is the ogre okay? Tell me he's okay.

No, they're all dead, right? Is the ogre dead? They're all dead. Every single one is dead. And as the ashes and the smoke and the horrible smell begin to drift and fall, I look directly at the opposing mage. I pass my turn.

She seems to be completely shocked. She had such a upper hand. She was a pain in her doors. Now, all of the ghouls, including the ghouls. Luger are dead. Caprice. Is hypnotic pattern still doing work? No. It was a one time thing. It was a burst of a hypnotic pattern and then you're just

stung like fucking Blair Witch Friac. Oh, so it's not him not a pattern in the stone, or the spell. It's hypnotic pattern just like esk effect. Um, because I remember using hypnotic pattern when I was a young, younger Caprice and it was a concentration. Oh yeah, maybe, but we'll just say for this, this is a special dark Ler version. This happens.

That's fine. That's fine. It was just trying to decide if I'm in a breaking concentration mode or if I may in a go and fuck her up. It's weaker because she's a minion. Um, uh, I will turn to her and I will. I'm gonna use my moan other spell, I guess. What do I have that I want to do real quick? The pattern appears for a moment. So you can keep them hypnotize for a minute. It doesn't stay in the air.

So I believe it's correct. Right. So you know, it's something you pass and then you can just face it. and then you can just keep this long as your conglitaine, you can just keep them hypnotized, but you can't re-hypentat it. So technically it breaks on damage now that I'm reading it. So can I just say I'm now I'm broken out of it? I've taken like shit tons of damage

while I didn't have not hypnotized. So not her taking any, you take it. Yes, as long as I take any damage. Or someone, yeah. Yeah, that's fine, that's fine. Yeah. I'll turn to her and I'll be like, making your way in the world today takes everything you got.

And I will attempt to castes slow on her to see if I can hold her. Toa, get her. I'm gonna inspire Toa. You already haven't this break. I used it. Toa, get her. Grab her.

Stop her. Stop her. Break her skull. Bromple, though. I'm okay with that option. She needs to make a DC-17. She feels catastrophically. Outstasing.

These guys are gone. I slow her to me. You would see her as she moves and as she turns to you and she feels the magic, she's trying to resist it, and she looks at the hearse, and then back at all the ruined ghouls. And you can see there's a moment of hesitation where she's considering running.

But she steals her resolve, but there's some trepidation there. Okay, so she's slowed now, and it's your turn. Yeah. With inspiration. It is my turn. Does there any way to mean to be in at least?

I don't think I can reach up. If you can give me an action to haste you, then yes. What? This could take three movement. So let's say I do one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And then hit her with your boomerang right in the head. Boomerang! You got a net?

He used to. I think the net fluttered through the skies of Urios. Yeah, it's right. There's literally the end of the Avatar with Sockis. Oh, goodbye, boomerite. Oh, is a moon sword? What did he first? The moon sword.

Both happen. He threw both them away. Goodbye, moonsword. It was to show a level of sacrifice what he'd do to save his friends. Yeah, so he sacrificed both to be lying. Yeah, and his moon sword. So what space sword, I guess?

Space sword, moon sword. Yeah. Goodbye space sword. Is, I'll use a bonus action and I will swirl my hand around for my bracelet. A watery shark will arise. As opposed to the other kinds of sharks. chomp onto her.

It's a land shark. It's a blade of water. So I'll do him first. Oh, I think. He is going to erupt in... AC17. As she shimmers. Really like him right here.

Move onto her space so you can put her on top. Oh. So she's going to be going to jump and chop her. Oh. And she's going to be inside of them. Oh. And she needs to make a DC-15 straight saving throw. Okay.

She's a wizard. Hmm. 15 strength, you say. It's plus zero. 11. So she fails. This is great. And she's like... She's going to take 11 points of bloodshunding damage. Okay.

And she's now grappled inside Miku. That's what I wanted you to do. You channel your bracelet and Miku explodes into in the form of sea waterway shark lunges forward. She does not have time to react as it splashes on top of her and also the end of Avatar with Azula. And she's floating around being crushed by the water of the shark.

And so now she is grappled. I'm going to have Miku swim towards me with her in tow. Yes. It has to move for 15 feet. Oh, get right. Back one more because she's slow. He has slowed. So that's as far as you can move.

Now I have the movement to go. Walk up here. Flaw. And I'm going to come in with my mall. Is she in capacity in some sort? She just grabs. Just grapples. Oh, five.

Oh, she just can't move. And she can't breathe if that matters. No, don't you can breathe. Don't worry. She gets negative two. Penalty to AC. She's alive. She's plus you two, penalty to AC.

Negative two. You can see her. Aren't you. I don't go ahead and make two power attacks. Let's see what happens. Well, that's turned around very quickly. God. I like, you're like, I'll make two attacks

and roll 400 dice. Right. So that's one. Recklesley, of course. Of course. He says that after he knows what he died. No, no, no. I always know.

It's not right closely. Right? So my lowest is a 13 plus six is 19. And her AC is reduced by two. Was it 19? With her AC minus two. So her AC is minus two, right? So it is, so that's, so her 80 is now 15.

Oh, point. Okay. So I hit both. You've dropped. And so. That's my. I did prock, I did prock. I roll this guy.

So make sure, just tell me the full damage and then I'll, and that's great good. Dude, this is fucked up that you do this shit. You get at least one more attack. I get one more attacks. So Winfuri prox and, uh, this is like a pinata. It's like literally a water shark pinata.

That actually, I think, misses. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. It does. Yeah. Fuck. It's fired? Yeah. Let's fucking get up.

Hey, hey. All you need is a two. You. No! Someone. What's bad? That's exciting. Oh well.

It was a good. She's probably good. Like, she's like the inside the hearse is like a nightmare. 12, 22, murder all these people. Yeah, that's what I said before we attacked. I was like, hey, we got a . 42, 62 points of damage. Get fucked.

She dead. Her brain spill all over the . How's the damage? I apologize, sorry. 62. I'm trying. Okay. She literally dies.

With Nico now grappling, she is drowning. She doesn't know what's going on to your eyes. Her eyes are adjusting to the salt water as it stings, and that really sucks. If you open your eyes underwater. This is your attack really mildly inconvenience. You just Cito smashing into Miko as he does that. Miko is getting redder and redder.

But Miko does take damage in that. Right? If you're smashing into him as well. So he's grappled in his space. I think that's fine. But I believe technically I can target just her. So you smash in and Miko, managed to sloop his water away to not get hit.

And she's getting absolutely fucking dumpstered, as that is a shock. I'll bring to that. I don't have any reactions. This is what happens when we spend any amount of resources on the fire. It turns also restraint. Anyway, this is matter.

Okay, register that. Iris. What's the DC for the... 12. Yes, then I finally... You finally come to as the perilization You see that the sheer power of these horrific ghouls from something as simple as a scratch as you come to Monsters 2 are dead.

Lift it, you're up. Oh, yikes. Okay. I can now lose. I guess I'm just gonna dash and get behind her. Like, yay. You sprint around and she's grappled, and floated inside of Miko.

And that's my turn. Enough winner. I keep putting it. Step of the window. If you want. If you want. Who in the fuck have I been losing money? Yes.

What? This is horses shit. Oh, I don't have to tell you, man. I'm in. Okay, and then I'm going to make two strikes. I didn't code. I should look at them. I'm going to kill everyone for this.

It's probably not worth it. You're doing that. It's probably not worth that. It's probably just like, it's probably just a game in check. It's probably just a game in chat. And I think you're at the restrained. Oh. Check the restrain feature.

Okay. Yeah, let me know what that would be big. Oh, I can check here. I'm sorry. I can check too. Yeah, that is your advantage, yeah. Okay, so it'll be 22 for my first attack. They all have her ACs now 15,

because her AC is lowered for some reason. Slow. Oh, she's slow. What's her AC? 15. 15. 16 is my second, so both with this. I'm about to tee off on this bitch.

As long as she's still restrain. And sorry. 8 and 8 is 16 plus 12 is 34. Is that right? 16 and 12 is 34. 28? 28. Sorry, thank you.

28. I play a lot of blackjack. I'm really good at numbers through 1 through 30. 28 plus 32. 32, 4 of which is thunder damage. Okay. You are smashed into a bam, bam, and a burst of thunder damage as, uh, yeah, yeah. 32. Incapacity, grapple strength.

She loses her turn and it's Felix's turn. It's good game. She is restraints, she can use an action. She can try to escape. Except she's slow. She's slow. So she needs one action. Yes.

Inaction or a bonus action, not both. Oh. Try to a mistake. escape and then trying to figure out get melted yeah you're trying to figure out what I can do here can't do anything because it's feelings to start you're about to be you know what we're gonna I had a plan but now I've got you got a day of your action break the grapple I could yeah yeah the skeeer really take the son of musical yeah and you can say if you do then you can say how do

you like them grapples and everyone would we would we would We would have lab. We would have lab. We know. We already seen how much pattern? Technotic patterns not good enough. She can try it again, but Felix has other plans. It's gonna be fun when she enjoys her last moments on the surface.

She's going to look around and just is incredibly, she looks around and she, you can see now, she's strained and she looks, even though she's drowning, she's choking and she's spitting. She's choking and sputtering, trying to hold her breath now, realize what's happening. She's now a spoon in a fucking totem. I've been smashing her. She's blooded and there's blood now floating inside of Miko. And the blood in the water, it's like, Mika goes into more of a frenzy.

And she's gonna turn and then, her hand flashes violet and then she disappears. Then I cast a counterspell as my reaction. Wait, wait, wait. If the creature attempts to cast a spell with a casting time of one action, roll a D20. On an 11 or higher, the spell doesn't take effect until the creature's next turn.

It is, it's a 13. So it doesn't take effect until it's next turn. Oh, no, no, no. It doesn't roll up. On an 11 or higher, the spell does not take effect until the creature's next turn. I don't cast a new a spell.

It flashes and swirl. She's casting invisibility in the final last effort to try to trick you. It'll take affection in the next turn. I don't think she's moving very slow. I should have been also panstiming her being slow. I can roll at the end of my turn, though,

to get out of slow, right? Or no, it's a no, it's concentration. You have to hurt me. Roger that. Okay. Yeah, no, it's, it's, no, over's dead. Felix, you're up.

I thought so. As I am looking at her in the eyes and she's, you know, hanging in there, I'm, I'm frustrated. I'm frustrated because of the, the, the pain that she's put my friends through. And I look at her and I still, snap my fingers and I cast emulation.

That's a terrible. So I'm gonna hear make a Dex 17 saving throw. I don't know how that affects, you know, her being restrained or whatnot. She has a name. And in water. So I don't know how that changes things. She's totally consumed by water.

Does it? Does it matter? She has a negative two penalty. I would say that because it's the nature of raw elemental fire for this spell. I'm also an addict. There's no resistance. No, I mean, I just don't know how it would, you know.

I'm just a great. No disadvantage. advantage according to flow but a negative two is it is it a deck safe yeah it is a text safe she's restrained so yes this is so one's a natural 20 with my good die unfortunate and the other one is a natural eight minus decks minus uh minus two yeah no it's this is a cat a real you know we try and this guy you know we try so that's going to be 12 plus 10 is 22 plus six is plus seven is 35 plus five is 40 points of fire damage to her.

40 points. These magical flames can't be extinguished by non-matchel. Oh, that's magical water, isn't it? Mm-hmm. But I'm not trying to extinguiting. Technically, it's not magical water, is it? Is this part? It's animated water.

I would say that the elemental that is burning through. It's boiling or alive. It's boiling, literally boiling. Yes. It's curious if it was like a fire, like, around the wood, 50. I said, it's, I said, it,

45, I believe. And then, as she is attempting to... And then on her turn, she's going to take another additional... Very slow bubbles. Boop, boop. Looms her eyes are wide as she's boiling along. So at the end of her church, she's taking another 46.

So just let me know. Uh, okay, pressure. As Miko now heats up, as he's a boiling ocean shark. Boiling a little bit. She's on fire. She's on fire. She's flaming in the water. It's horrific.

Caprice are up. No, let's turn here quick. Um, I'll walk up. D&D swings real quick. Actioncommon, man. 510, 15, 20, 25, 30. I'll walk up and I'll be like, you're probably regretting

casting to spell magic on that old nice blind man. Nice. Just you're like this, if you give up, and we'll just take you prisoner. Gesture like this, and maybe we'll let you live, and you can tell us a little about yourself. Persuasion check and disadvantage. I lost, I have concentration on flow,

so I do not have enhanced ability, so it's just a regular. Disadvantage action, so that's going to be a persuasion. 8 plus 14 is 22. 22. She looks at the carriage and then looks at the ghouls and looks at all of you. And you see that there's a bit of crack in her resolve, but she steals her eyes and continues to drown. And she, she actually does this.

And burn. She looks like Avatar, she does like a Commander Zhao, an Admiral Zhao, and puts her, uh, who says, the Kuzuka. Fuck you fish, I'll cast vicious mockery on her. She has to make it a Wisman Saving Throw. Okay. With saving throw?

Yeah, 17. Let's say 12. She takes six, seven points of psychic damage, and if she gets a chance to attack something at some point, she does disadvantage. Okay. You see her, some blood starts to pour out of her ear into this as she's boiling.

alive. This is a horrible, horrible situation. Toa. Um, let's see here. So at the start of Nico's turn, he will crush her in his waves. Dealing an another 2D8 plus four damage. Watchin that. Pretty good actually. 8, 19, 11, 12, 13. 14. 18 wudgeoning damage. Okay. Being grappled much as passive. She's be boiling and also being crushed. Let's see if Welm recharges real quick. It does. Well, there it is. Well, there it is. Can you slam? No. It's well. It's wellm or two-sms. Okay, well it recharge. It's going to whelm again as its action.

ship DC 15 giant Ziam and throw it's already what's already grappled though that's a natural one okay well take no matter not great uh three seven points of damage but damage okay uh and then for toa's turn uh he is going to just make two attempts okay oh i've lost my whole setup here might not need it uh okay so recklessly uh the lowest is going to be be a 22 yeah yeah crazy's a 15 guys yeah let's see if either of those prock any other people nope so it's it's going to be a six 12 17 18 19 plus 40 in is 50, what did I say? I said 12 to 19.

So it is 59 points of bludgeoning damage. You smash in, smash in, smash in, and smash in as Miko's crushing her. She's slowing, she's burning. She is looking horrific. She's alive? And barely, barely, barely hanging on. 50, how much?

Sorry. 59% of damage. Looking incredibly, incredibly rough. And then for my bonus action, I will do nothing. Okay, Iris, you're up. I'm gonna walk forward, I'm going to reach in, and I'm gonna grab her by the throat. You do that?

And I'm going to say, you don't touch my friends. And I'm gonna cast your foot wounds at a sixth level. How does that work? That ought to do it. And that doesn't, Jesus. I have to roll, and it's plus one. And like a human paper shredder. What's her a race?

15. Oh, no. Okay. Fuck! Wait, you're advantage though. Because she's the shrink. Yeah, yeah. I hit.

Jesus. How was that? I didn't know her strength was advantage. It's gonna be a D-10 necrotic damage. That's gotta be like. If she rolled all one, you can roll up. I'd like to see. As a dungeon master, I'm curious.

Um, let me get. Let's find out if she rolls above the men. No, this is not the BBHA. This is a tiny minor mini-balls. Super tiny mini-mini. No, this is just an average commoner in this realm. Yeah, this is just regular adventurous combat. I'm going to any days.

How many eight T-tems? Do you need more T-10s? I do, but I have them. Okay. I'm going to compare you against the mean of the roll, just for the fun of it. The average is what, half plus one per die? The average of a D-10.

is a five and a half. Yeah. So called six. Six times eight. Five times eight. Five times times. Dibh. Eight.

So three. The average. Don't count while I'm doing this place. 31 points of necroft champion. How would you like to do this? Yes. I just want, I literally want to choke her out and watch her life for. So as you do this, you grip out and through the flames and the water, you being,

Despite you reaching into the fire that she's impossibly ignited him in seawater, your hand is also impossibly not affected as Felix is an incredible master of the arcane. As your power reaches in, and she very slowly, and suddenly a horrible pestilence pulses through her veins and her eyes go wide, and blood and bile spill out of her mouth as her violet eyes, eyes bleed and they roll back and she just floats dead still burn flames to go out if she's dead oh so they ignite once she's in me go in miko her corpse now is floating and i drop slow i'll sloosh in back into the bracelet you do that um

holy fuck she got dumpstered i would immediately run to the uh this uh this uh this hirks Hold the hole. Don't open it right. I would immediately run to it and begin to expect it and try to figure out what this side. You sprint on over to it, making the investigation check for me. Nah, not great. Let's take a look. It's probably pretty good close, though. At least 15, right? It is exactly 15.

Ah. As you walk over, you inspect it, and you see a bit of shimmering sheen. There is a magical enchantment. I attempt to cast a spell. Okay. Let me actually, I don't know what spell level this is. Are you ritual? Let me make sure, no, I'm gonna take a look here.

No, I can't ritualize it, so I'm gonna actually cast a spell at a fourth level. I'm gonna upcast that bad boy. Ah, um, as you do this, you cast the spell magic, and a swoosh of silvery, shimmering magic falls over the carriage. and that sheen that you had once seen is gone. Is there any kind of way to look into it without opening it? Are there like, you know, Windows of Curts? You're normally familiar when perhaps in cities, or whenever you've seen a funeral, there might be glass panels,

but these are completely boarded up. Not boarded up, but just it looks like a hearse, but doesn't have that glass panel. I hate to do this, and doesn't like it. I'm going to see if I can find a way to open it. Felix is very concerned that there's a child there. You reach forward and you feel. find that the door is locked.

Physically, magically. Magically. Seems as if whatever magic has been dispelled. It's only a third level spell. How about that? Wait, wait, wait, wait. So it's not locked. Oh, it is locked.

So the magic trip, the magic trip. It's not magically locked. It is now physical locked. Toll us, it's locked. I need you to break it. While they're doing that, can I check her body? Like, and see. Make an investigation check.

Yeah, I just want to see if she has a lot. I will join Louvty and checking her body. Advantage, please. I'll come over to Felix. Toa, please! Come over! I have zero to investigation, but I got an 18. An 18.

You reach through and you find some personal belongings of a coin purse, but the important thing that you find is actually a ring of keys. And you also find what seems to be the fragments of a soaked, charred, bit of parchment that seems have a bit of writing on it. So I'll take that with me and Toe, you run over the Felix.

Wait a minute, you stupid boys. I have to do everything. Oh, don't be walking very slowly swing. I have to move my figure because if the figure doesn't move, I don't move. You can't see it. Does anything say your name on there? Don't follow me so closely.

Okay. So I'm walking very slowly and swinging the keys around my finger. And once I get there, I'll very slowly and methodically try each key in the lock until I hopefully find one. While she's doing that, I'm frantically, like looking over the thing to see if there's a name or any writing or anything.

I'm gonna tizzy. The old janitor thing. You do that as the third key on the ring fits in perfectly. And you hear click. Oh. As soon as it pops, I would throw the lid. You open the door, and you rip open the door, and you see inside a made of beautiful,

polished, gilded wood, you see a coffin laying flats in the bed of this horse-like carriage. Are there any markings or anything? No. How large is the coffin? It seems to be, perhaps not child size, but very slightly larger. I would immediately, no, please, no, no, no, Milo.

You go in and you grab the lid, and you are actually able to just lift it up. It opens on a hinge. And as you open it, you expect that same stench of death. But the stench is outside from those rotting, singed ghoul. You see now a girl, no older than 13, short blonde hair, laying around her, her head. As she rests holding a single white lily in her hands clasped, eyes closed, completely still. I would immediately...

How old is she look? probably about like 11 to 13 you'd have to guess. I, feeling the sudden like, holy shit, this could have been Milo. Yeah. I would, I would like try to like scoop her up a little bit and see if she's alive or anything, like, you know, feel her temperature. You jet very, very tenderly, like, you know, almost as if she was a little sister. You scoop, you gently reach in and you pull her out and you realize now this little girl was wearing a, uh, a, a, a, a small bustle dress that's of a complete jet black with white, white and red ribbons and designs.

And you gently grab her and pull her out. And as you grab her body, it's warm. Ah, the Iris, I was quickly. I think she's alive. Quick, please. I chugged my potion. And I slowly get to my legs. Oh, Michael, I need to sleep.

Oh, my God. Let me get you. What do you want to? I'm gonna run over and just pick up Iris again. All right, man? You don't believe that. I can't do anything. I think I'll carry Iris over to the group. It hurts, but not oppressively so.

This girl, I think she's still alive. Is there anything that you can do? She doesn't feel like she's dead. And I would like to medicine check her to see what I could determine. Please roll a medicine check. As you hold, feel like this girl gently. And she's a human. I know nothing.

And the dress that she's, you give the sense that she must be from Corvacchio. She looks, has that same look of the, of the blonde hair. She looks, her features look very Corvacian. But the style of clothing seems not like someone who would have been plucked out of Corvacchio, as if she was put into this dress and put in this state. And Iris, what do you roll, just so I know? Five. A five.

You place a hand. Seven. A seven. You place a hand. A pole. Okay, sorry. My modifier for that, I can tell you right now. For medicine, it is a plus five, and I rolled it too.

You place a paw and you feel very faintly. There is a heartbeat. Her body is warm. She is alive. But it is slow. I'll say, and that's what I'll give you. Well, no, she's live. Struggling.

Rather taking a look, I'll just kind of unfold that parchment that I found. I'm peeking over Lutti's shoulder. I want to see if I can learn anything about the woman we just slain. Okay. I want you to make... I want you to make an... A reading check? I fail.

I want you to make an investigation check because with the water and with the flames, it has been pretty brutally... taken apart. The girl is possesses. 16. I don't understand what is this.

Oh, no. So you got a 16? Yeah. Can you make a quick investigation check for me, Caprice? I can. But will I? Shevin.

A shevin. You you, you, you have really big shoulders, dude. You're not seeing it in the corpse. I'm looking over her shoulder. I'm trying to learn more about the woman, so I'm trying to learn more about the woman, so I'm trying to read what she's reading. Oh, oh, oh. Okay, apologies. I was very confused.

I'm actually not looking at the map. Once combat's over, it's all theater of the mind for me. Wow. And you attempt to piece together, and you can read Elvis, correct? Me? Yes. Yes. But it wouldn't matter because it's in common. As you can't read common. Yeah, as you see bits and pieces of words and the sentences, the ink is smudged and I very clearly had a red wax seal that is smeared and melted away. And you see the remnants of a wax seal. But as You can see several words. And one that leaps out to you is Raven Child. Raven Child. Another that leaps out is New Friend.

New Friend. New Fred. Oh, New Fred? New Friend. Oh, friend. New Friend. It's right. I have a good.

Yes. Except after seat. And then another. Another word that is word you don't know, Zarakosa, Zarakosa. How you spell? Z-A-R-I-C-O-S-A. Z-A-A-A-R-C-A-R-C-O-S-A. C-O-S-A.

Yep. Zara-A-S-A-R-O-L-O-L-D-E, I might be able to fix this. I know it's wet and charred and melted and all this. all the horrible things we just did to her, but I think if I have 10 minutes, I could try to mend it. Take 10 hours for all I care. I can't read it.

I don't think we have 10 hours, but, um. Oh, and if I dropped the keys, I don't really want them, but if anybody does... Oh, we should keep them just in case, and I'll pick them up and put them in the bag. One more thing in the bag. I'll start to attempt the ritual of mending

to see if I can improve the state of this. I'll put some pieces of parchment. Oh, man. Okay. I'll put some... I haven't got to... to use this since the last wax seal I repaired in like episode four. I will attempt to mend and you guys can do what you want to do for the next 10 minutes.

How, I mean, like, is she, does she a large child? No, she's actually a average size. I don't have 10. And you get the sense where she's, you know, probably your average height, average sized, we'll say. I would see if I could like pick her up. like I would say you'd be able to do it like you you had been picking up Milo and he's a young man I'm I'm six feet tall I you know I have 10 strength I'm better than a I want to ask I'm like some 12 year old is like six feet tall you know especially with

what's in today's hormones and the milk takes the remnants and the pieces and yeah that's what I'm assuming she is very small uh yeah I mean so I would I would like scoop her up as if she was my younger sibling. And I'm very concerned. And then I'm gonna turn to toe and be like, I know this complicates things, but we have to get her to the Count's Castle. There's no way that we can leave her here.

I can't leave her like this. Well, for now, just get in the tree line. Just move out of the way. And I wanna pick up the wooden kind of drawing post of the wagon. And I wanna try to start, he holds the shit out of it. Make it a legion for me.

I would immediately follow him. I would take his, command and I'd fall in into the tree line. I'd start dragging some of the bull bodies into the trees. Okay. Once I'm done, I would basically drag this body out. And I want to just get everything. So why don't you just make an athletic advantage,

because she's helping you? And basically, you work together. Much better. Kicks this dirt on. Let's make it look at it. Someone not us. Come on. Uh, skills.

That is a 20. A 20. You and. Luffy and you get in this thing and you're not quite an ogre, but you can manage and you can see how it works. And you heave as you pull it. It's a struggle. Even though you're incredibly strong, you don't have the strength of a massive, especially the supernatural strength of an ogre ghoul. But you manage to pull with Lufty's help. You manage to roll and it clatters horribly as you manage to get it into the tree line. You're able to cover it with brush, pulling the last of the death dogs, the bit of the bit of the tree.

and remnants of the body parts have been blown apart by Felix's fireball. I have to go over here, there's an arm, there's a foot, as the ghoul's not completely eviscerated. Look what I can do with these two arms. While all this is happening, after Toa basically said like get to the tree line, I would make a small fire and try to heat up water from my, you know, my water skin scheme and tear actually like tear a piece of cloth off of my coat to dip in the hot water for hot rag to like see if I can like, you know, put it on her forehead and like clean her up a little bit.

And like see if she comes to it all. You do. And I'll say, do quick medicine check for me, disadvantage. Shit. I don't even know what that. What's a medicine check? Wisdom. Poor.

My wisdom might be plus six. Let me check. Hold on. It's not a save, though. It's literally just my wisdom. It's an eight. I got an eight. You gently, you get some water out of your water scan.

and you gently heat it up with your your pesticide or fire bolt or whatever it is and it's a this beautiful warm cloth and you put it to her her forehead and she doesn't react she doesn't stir but uh there does seem to be a softening as you as you gently hold her and and and and cool her off but there is no fever there is no she just seems to be a very baseline temperature and um as that happens you manage to is anyone else doing anything out of the in the open. Are you probably dragging the um so I would like to drag the ogre. I don't know if I can drag him on my own. I say with Lufty's help you're like you're able and also he got the whole part two so okay he's pieces of over right it's basically yeah so you're able to take chug by chunk with everyone's help and get into the tree line and right as you do that you see um as you finally are able to take a look at the tree line you hear a very distant squawk or cry and you see fall from the distance of vulture soaring through a giant vulture coasting back over the valley,

but you've managed to get to the tree line in time. So we're all in the tree line, hopefully hidden in the canopy. I'm in there just doing my little mendent trick. Oh, I will say we will, we will do that and we'll do that and you manage, you're you finished the ritual. and glows, and you see the pieces. Some pieces you weren't able to find or are completely incinerated, but you see as it fold together. And you see what looks like a letter from the princess. This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon.

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Open it. And you see the red wax seal that it once been smeared away. turned into a still a little bit smudge, but you can see a seal, and it seems to be a vulture with wings out to either side in front of a shield with a castle on it. And you read it and it's in common and it says Trela, T-R-A-E-L-A. I expect you'll deliver the child to Zarikosa after properly preparing it. With how some of the candidates have been reacting, we may have found the Raven Child yet. But if not, at least I'll have more new friends.

Do not be late. You know I will not be happy if you are. And King Vorok will be even more displeased. Make haste. Warmest regards, your princess. How do I spell Vorak? V-O-R-R-O-K. Good old King Vorok.

I don't know what the rest of the group is doing, so I will read it privately to myself and check to see what everyone else is doing before I attempted to convey this. I would say that you did that while the bodies were being cleared, and you're now in the brush, and you're there as the final body is being dragged. Well, that's disgusting.

Hey, do you guys want me to read this letter? I managed to repair it. It seems to be almost complete. Yeah, oh, what's it say? Well... That means, I bleak. Oh, weird. What does that mean?

So Xeroosa's a place. I would assume it is a place based on the context of the letter, yeah. And we know it's to the north somewhere. We're heading southeast, so. So Vorak may or maybe Zoroosa, Zericosa, is the castle or the kingdom of the king? I would deduce that. That as well, yeah, sure. Why not? And I point over to the corpse that I've now dragged into the tree line.

She must have been Trela. Trela. Just out of curiosity, does this look, and I attempt to make myself look like Prela as much as possible. Violet eyes, Descalve's self. Did we hear her speak very much? A little bit, yeah. She spoke, yeah. Can you give me a...

She talked to you. Yeah. She sounded like a haughty, you posh accent. Like British RP. Yeah, British RP. Receive pronunciation. No, I'm a trailer, I'm trailer. Do I look the part in my portion of?

It's pretty good, right? Do I think... Well, to it would be it's great regardless. It was good. Yeah, I think of my time! Oh, thank you. Yay! I just wanted to make sure I have this arrow in my quiver.

my quiver. So to speak. And now I will do a little jig. Even though I've just watched myself get emancipated horribly. Yeah, this is kind of creepy because it's like you're here, but you're also there. She's kind of covered in rush. She's not that visible. Horribly made corpses. Um, as you look over their toe, I want you to make a perception check for me. Oh, oh. We all prepare to die. I love the way you like devil-may-care toss your dice when you have to roll. That's 16. 16.

Despite the stillness, as you look and point to her corpse, deliberately looking at it, you see something in her chest, above her chest, a little slight movement. Intreelis? Yeah. What the fuck? She's dead, right? He said like a squirrel friend just rummaging around for little bits? Yes, I'm very dead. Oh, oh.

And I want to go up and I want to take a look. Oh, probably just a squirrel. Ha! You look and you start to see that there's subtle movement in her vestments that have been mostly charred away, and you see bits of exposed flesh, but you see through the robe that there's a bit of... And it starts to move away from you. I try to grab it without like crushing it. Let's do a acrobat or a Dixarity contest.

That's very good. That's fair money. That's very good. Not acrobatics, right? What in the hell? I think it's a plus three. 22. 22.

As you leap forward, you see as where this little slight bolt is on her person about at her shoulder, the cloth rips and tears and there's a flash of shimmering blue. And you're as buzzing wings as it flies out and you lunge for it and barely grab it and feel like you're about to crush something. You caught a bug as you hold it, but you manage to clench it in your massive fist. Just really, just, you know, not enough to let it out how big I think it is, and I'm just like trying to, kind of quick look and then close it again. Perception check. Oh, boy. Let's see how much you see. Oh.

Eight. Eight. You see what looks like a blue beetle of some kind with a gem-like shell as it begins to, you feel a pain in your hand as it turns downward and it tends to burrow into your, into your, as it starts to. I hate this. It's burrowing into my skin, but I don't want to crush it. Can we put up to sleep somebody? Just kill it. Why don't it need some kind of blue beetle?

Tawa, no, don't let it hurt you. Kill it. But it didn't do a flash. You take nine points of piercing damage as it burrows into your hand and it rips into your palm and feel disgustingly as this, whatever you grabbed a hold of, burrows into your massive hand and begins to work towards your bone in tendons. I am going to...

What the fuck! Stuff it in! Stuff it in! Stuff it in! I'm going to attempt to hold out an empty file and try to have him cram it down the nose and throat of the vial. Okay. I will say as you do that,

you managed to slam it in. I will say that it would have normally had to have made a contest, but because halfway into your hand, you slam it down. And it is burrowing, it is continuing to burrow in. So you can move it away. I have a dagger and I can just sort of like get between the hands. Okay, let's do a quick as that brief moment. Let's see how fast you are.

It's just like Brendan Fraser in the mommy. What kind of contest? Nice. Dixirity. Oh, that's where I'm a Viking. Seven. Saving throw or just straight out? Just straight contest.

13. 13. You manage as you do it and you see as this glass vial. You see a beetle with a shimmer. jewel-like shell is scraping out its eyes are, you would expect, like, wide, bulging eyes, but they're sunken in. And as the wings fluttered, flashes of blue,

they look like shimmering lapis lazuli. As you then see when the shell comes down, it forms the shape of a hollowed, corpse-like face of a human. And then, like a skull almost, with a little bit of flesh, as it flutters. as it attempts to escape. Someone, the cork is in my pocket,

the cork is in my pocket, the cork is in my pocket. The cork is in my pocket. Oh, well, holy shit. What is that? Does anyone else you have a face? Do you know what kind of bug that is? You know bugs a little. That looks like an orosy thing if I've ever seen one.

Orris, is this an orrissy thing? Nikki's looking up something. I think I'm going to see if it's what I think it is. Have any of us ever seen a thing? anything like this before. I would say absolutely not. I want to inspect where I think, I want to basically rip the cloth away and try to see

where I think it came from. Did she have it on her? It wasn't burrowing inside of her? You'll rip the cloth away. With your wounds, it's difficult, with the wounds you unleashed upon her. But there's very clearly a hole in her chest that was buried out. Oh! No! I'll slowly make my way over. Have I ever

seen anything like this before? Why don't you make a Religion check. Probably not. At advantage. No, it still doesn't know. I have a bonus. A boon.

That's not bad. That's fine. Pretty great. What you see, Iris, your knowledge of gems, your knowledge of what you, everything you know and your religious teachings and everything experiencing Sikkim, that is unmistakably a scarab. That's desperately trying to escape. escape and the face looks like on the back looks unmistakable to one you had seen just the night before. Oh, like in my vision. In your vision.

Shut up. That was during this day, wasn't it? No, no. No, it would have been like a day or two because of we traveled. It looks like the face of a mummy in the- What do you? shell as its attempts, and you can tell very much that the shell is, the shell is, you're not sure if it's, it's meant to resemble Lappas-Lasley, but it certainly looks like it. Well, it's the rough, the rough imitation, scarecrow, obviously it. Well, remember, I told you about my dream.

Yes? The face of the mummy. And look for yourself. And you see, there are no eyes, so it's not a, it seems like a very strange scale. of and it's sunken in where there may have been eyes. Why would that be? And the limbs almost look skeletal. You know that bugs don't have skeletons, but it almost looks like a skeletal,

if you know a scultula or a played Warhammer, you would know it looks like a strange bone-like upon further instruction. Inspection. But what could your vision and Siket possibly have to do with Scythronome? Well, I have a fair. What do I know about dark domains? Give me a priestess of death.

Give me an archa check. And because of your grave clear, let's give me, give it to me an advantage. What on earth? Really nothing. What on earth? No, highest was a six. I rolled two and a four. You know, I would say that you know, that there are dark, that there are dark to the shadow fell. My biggest question is what I know that the dark domains have their own wards?

Yes. I would say that is something that you would know as part of the process of death. You know that some spirits, they go to the upper plains, some fears they go to the lower plains, many spirits go to the shadow fell and all of the various domains of where they are depending on a wide variety of factors. You would know that. My fear is this. I do believe that a newness is held to against his world in the shadow fell. In the Shadowfield, there are domains of death itself, and I fear that this entity that I have seen is the Lord of Dred in the realm in which a universe is held. We've been told that Schernerner is linked very closely to the Shadow Hill. If that is the case, this entity is able to allow its creatures to walk about in the material world.

It would go without saying that they would look and resemble them. some sort. Now, it is just a thought, a hypothesis, but that is Matthew. But what is that thing? And why the hell was it inside of her? Well, we could put it inside of us to see what happens. Oh, no, no, no, no, we're not doing that. Yeah, no, thank you.

Then I'm not sure. You could try to ask it. Can you talk to it? I can't, but all of you, magically inclined. I can't. Hey, hey, bug. What's, what you doing in...

It's desperately trying to tear away the cork, and you see there's actually shreds of the cork now. Oh, bullshit. It's desperately trying to claw with his mandibles and its it's almost like finger bones, like appendages. Caputri, sweet, we can't keep that thing. It's only a matter of time before it gets out.

I agree. Then cork is hard to come by. It's something. I could just let it go. No, I don't think that we should do that. You saw what it did to tower. We incinerated. Well, all right.

Well, we should at least try to retain its form and hope that we could study it. So we let it out. Let's preserve it. Does anyone have... Do you need it alive? No. Well, what do I mean?

I'll pop my wine. You're gonna drown it in wine? Why not? I could just insult it to death. I figured that the alcohol would preserve it, but maybe not. I don't know how these things work. Insulted to death. That sounds like a, you know.

At least it would be fun. It would be a first. I'd like to see that happen. A, A, bug, if you can understand me, understand that you are an inferior bug. We defeated your host master, and you should feel bad about yourself and probably die at this time. What are you gonna make wrong? And you see it's getting, and it immediately turns,

full, swings over, blades, legs are in the sky. For vicious mockery, does it not have to understand you? It needs to... I don't think so. It needs to be able to hear, though it need not understand you. That is, wow. Imagine, all right, all right, time out, time out. My sides are like actual in agony right now.

Imagine, you're just, you best. You're just, like, walking. You're just, like, walking. through the woods one day, and then, like, there is this red being porn. You've never seen before you're like, and you look at it, and it says, and you're like, what?

And then all of a sudden your brain is like, fuck! And you die. Like, that is horrifying. Pure attitude and bravado kills you, because you just feel bad about yourself that. You're just like, what? Oh, man.

That is fucked up. Big, deep caprice. Well, hey, that worked like Gamebusters. Now it's dry and preserve it then. No. I'll take it. At least I take a look at it and maybe you can learn more. I don't do bugs.

Inspect it. I want you to give me an Arcana check at advantage. Oh, God. Edit event. 15. Pretty good. You take a look and you inspect the core. the corpse of this little beetle.

And I will say you're able to discern two things. That this bug is no beast or creature. It's very much undead. Whatever it is, I'm not sure if it was anything in life, but whatever this is is an undead. You would know that as a grave cleric far easily. And I would say as a grave cleric as well, you know that you feel a sense of faint, fading,

power just for a moment as its life force finally disintegrates after being mocked to death by fucking Gabrize. You feel the lingering remnants of necromanic magic, not just animating this thing, but also within. I would relate that. I'm not quite sure what that means. It's good to know. on the new, absolutely. And he's struggling enough to imprison Anubis. Well, I'm not sure. I'm not sure if that's young story,

which is simply against us. The magic that she cast, the swirls, the hypnotic patterns, they were all the same violet color as her eyes, not the lapis lazuli, like, blue that we're seeing on its buck. Is that an nectar assessment? Yep. Hmm. What was it doing in there? What I can say, tell me to a question.

Is Anubis's realm so not that the shadow found? It is not a place for God's. So what is that? That I imagine, though I do not have much experience with it, that a Lord in his or more realm would have more power than a God, a God would remove where they should not be. We'll be helicopter.

We'd probably need to save him. Yes. And I believe that is why we were told to come here. And to your question, Caprice, my fear is that the creature was embedded in her chest as a way of this entity to spy, potentially, or control. So the creature you saw probably just heard me say all of those things and is aware of all of us. Oh. Especially the, and you should probably die.

Control would have been my first, yes. But I'm not sure. But it's weird. I mean, maybe. It could be something as similar as what Beatrice is to Felix. Just some sort of familiar. Yes, and that because we killed it before it had the chance to make its way back to its master, that it won't hear anything we've said.

Or it doesn't even belong to him at all. When Beatrix isn't around... Beatrice... When Beatrice isn't around, she's not inside of you, is she? No, I mean, she's being of pure magic. So if we killed you, there wouldn't be like a Beatrice being like... Oh, fuck, I hope not. They didn't teach us that at the Academy.

I mean, to my knowledge. No, no, no, no, no, absolutely not. I don't think. I want to inspect the corpse as a... if I can see where it broke from, like where within her. And like roll her over and see, like, make a Madison check to see how well you do that. I mean, it's not bad. 11. That's not great.

It's with the amount of as brutal damage that you unleashed upon her. She's a fucking mess. She's a broken, you can find the exit wound. She's a broken woman on the house of the burrow. The burrowing, the burrow wound. That's about all you can see were her. Would you allow me 10 minutes? Her ash and gray skin. I mean, we have time. We do have time. I mean, I'd like to get going, given that we just brutally destroyed this caravan that they're expecting at some point.

There isn't much evidence, but now I'm concerned about whatever potential hosts or spy is. Take 10 minutes, and as soon as you're done, then we can go. During the 10 minutes, then, I would be cleaning up what I had done to try to take care of this poor girl and prepare to carry her on the journey. Where are we going to take her? Just with us to the castle? We can't leave her. Yes, I think we have to take her to count Kreskov's castle.

We know my choice. These are one potential ally in the throne. And I'm not going to leave her here in the woods. And this could have been Milo. Okay. So we just have to go in the woods. We'll have to be slow and steady and take our time. No slower than already were.

And as long as you two act as our eyes, and we have Toa protecting us, and Iris is feeling better, we'll be all right. We'll be all right. This is fine, and the count will help us, and we'll make sure this poor girl gets to safety. And we'll find out what she's being used for. Do we know how far away we are from the castle? It can't be that much further. Only another day or two. Yeah.

We've come very far. And we've made good time. We haven't rested too long, and until now, we haven't really had any interlupus or stress. We'll make it. And we were crossing paths with this, correct? Yep. Okay.

You were cutting across. We're going to have to be careful that letter said that they were going to, you know, I don't know. It said be on time or something like that. Yes, to quickly arrive. So they were really darting to, Zerocosa. We have some time before anybody recognizes that they're missing.

We can make good time in that period of time. I agree. I would just wait until... I guess I don't actually need 10 minutes. Oh, even better. Great. I quickly set up stuff around me. We are going to talk to her.

Yes? To the bog? No. Borg. Veracose veins. Trial. Trial. You don't mean the absolutely broken corpse of the person that we've...

Yes, absolutely. You do mean? Yes. Okay. Now, she has no reason to provide us truthful answers, but we can attempt to learn something from her. She will hear everything we say, but we only get five questions that she will be willing to answer, whether truthful or not. Five questions? Yes.

Does she have to answer us, even if she hates us? She has to answer us, but she does not have to be truthful. However, we can speak to her outside of those questions and let her know that it would be in her best interest to answer those questions for us, so we need to be choosing with our words. I don't think I'm going to participate. Something tells me that I won't be very good at this.

I guess first off, what should we say to make her... Do we threaten her? Do we say, we can help you that... We could start off by saying, if you answer our questions willingly, we have the power to bring you back from the dead. Not committing to doing it, of course, but letting her know that I do, and I thought.

Though I would re-encounter so she would not be a deaf's girl. I mean, do you think? Well, I need help with questions. So far, I only have, were you aware that a scarab-like creature was embedded in your chest? Who or what does this creature belong to? We should ask what the Ravenchild is. Yes, that's exactly correct.

At the bare minimum, we need to find out what they're doing with these kids. And who's the princess? Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe we can just know that it's the daughter of King Wara. I think, honestly, I think the count might be able to ask that question. We have to find out what the Raven child is and what they're doing with these kids. We have to find out. What were they going to do with them?

Yeah, what were they going to do with her? Yeah, what would they do with her? They said something about deliver the child and properly preparing her? I don't know, do we need to know that? Look, from the context of the letter, it sounds like the Raven Child is something special. And they may have finally found the Raven Child within her. It doesn't mean they got it right. But finding out what the Raven Child is may inform what they're looking for.

Maybe how do we wake her up for? from whatever state she's in currently? Oh, you know, speak with the beetle. Help you. My spell provides it with the semblance of life and intelligence to any corpse of my choice. I think maybe the spell, you can't use it on them dead. You're correct, I cannot. And it must have a mount.

Wow, Toa. How did he know that? It hasn't pulled out. Just weirdly, you hear, you see a pigeon. D-DAR! I think it's killed by a vulture. as it gets picked off. Well, so far we have four questions.

Well, if you have a burner question, how did it feel to die? Oh, don't ask that. No, that's terrible. I don't know. I mean, I can tell you it was not great. Don't you wish he didn't cast his spell magic on that old white man? Can you read off your current questions? Were you aware that a scarred like a creature was embedded in your chest?

Good question. Who or what does this creature be able to your question? does this creature belong to? Also a good question. Or what? Is the Raven Child? Great question. So that's actually only three. And then maybe what is the preparation process that they did on the Raven Child?

Maybe I think we should ask what happened to the children that weren't Raven Children. Or we could use the, at least one of the other questions to sweeten the pot. Should you answer these questions truthfully for us? will make sure that your name goes down in honor with what is the name of Hedbos? King from the letter?

That sounds like a statement. Would you like... If you answer these questions honestly for us, would you like us to make sure that your name goes down in honor with King Vore? I think we can do that if the first

question is a no. It should be the first question. Okay, then provided we do, bear with me. We have four, three questions. If we insert a question there, The first question becomes the second question. If the second question is a no, we don't have to ask the third question.

That's true. We need a decision tree. A decision tree. It's a tree that grows decisions? I'm coming with you. No. Iris I'll handle this. Yes.

Wait, I got a good question. Please. What happens when you find the Ravenchild? That we can work that in. First question. Honeypot. Second question. What is Honeypot?

Sweeten the deal. Yes. Second question, if they answer no, then we don't need the third question. Because they're not going to know what the being is if they didn't know that it was in them in the first place. Unless they are lying. Unless they're lying. Damn.

Would you lie to us? Do we know that they're lying? No. Double damn. We could, if someone is capable, we could put down his own truth. We charm her. She's dead. She's dead.

So she doesn't become, she's no longer a creature. Yeah, I can't do anything to her in the form of like suggestion. Oh, so, zone of truth. So then maybe we, let's, let's wait on the third question until we get the answer for the second question. Well, so far, we only have four questions. That's okay. That's good. So let's, let's go through it. We only have ten.

Yes, to ask all of the questions. That's fine. We don't need that much time. Let's start the beginning. Sweeten the Honeypot. First question is Honeypot. if you answer all of our questions truthfully would you like for us to make sure your name goes down in history

with the Duke of the King of Warwick The Carrion King Vorok Potentially The Carrion King could be another king Oh yeah But we're not going to cross that thresholds yet So it doesn't actually say the carrying king It just says the king

That's all we know That's all we know. If they say no, then we just ask what we have. We will just continue to ask the questions. Perfect. And who. The next one, were you aware that a scarlet-like creature was embedded in horses? If yes, we ask question three.

Who or what does this creature belong to? If no, we move on to question four. Who or what is the raven child? Question five, what happened to the other children that were deemed not the Raven Childs. And then bonus question, if we get a no to question two, I understand this is very complex. Just bear with me.

We need a bonus question. Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more life? Not asking that. Because even you confuse me on that one. Ah, my brain. Use it 25 seconds like that. Oh, that's so good.

the crumbs. That's the second time that joke's been used in our campaigns. Bonus question. What happens to the Raven Child once it has been found? That's a great... That should be one of the fucking primary questions.

What do you think, Iris? My fear is that if we go down the road too deeply into the Raven Child, this person will not want to answer the questions. The only way we can convince them to do so as if they think we're not going to foil King Vorham's plan.

How can we help find the Raven child? Add that to the honeypot. What do we look what do we look at that to the honeypot question? We say we have no need of this child right and could potentially deliver it to King Voron because we're looking for allies. Yes yes yes yes in order to make her name go down in history yes we've got it so the only thing we'll do is we'll move the the raven queen. I need to find out what happens to these kids. We're going to move the, the, what happens when they find the raven child question

above the, what happens to the failed. We could ask. Upon your untimely deaths. Who is the next in command to bring the raven child to? And then we have a name of someone in the wrecks. I don't hate that. Because we could play subterfuge and pretend to be... That's always fun.

I don't know if talk to it to be honest. Well, someone can go over there. We'd have to pretend he's a moot. And also probably cover his face because he's always so smiley. She's watching a butterfly. I think that we do that. We promise her fame. You know, she'll have her name in the halls.

She'll get a whole contingent in the army named after her called the Traila Park Boys. It'll be great. Honeypot question. Okay? Then we've got Scarab. Did you know Scarab question? Scarab existing question. If yes, we go to, who put it there? Who put it there?

If no, we go to Who's your second command? Right? Sure. I'm trying to write down these questions. on a small bit of parchment. While they're writing this now, I'm going to go to the path, and I'm just going to look up and down and make sure nothing's coming. Make your session check.

Scarab exists. Who put it there? That's if it's a yes. If it's a no, we go to second in command. We go to Raven Child. What is Raven Child? One, two, three, four. Oh, we are running out of questions quick. What happens when we find the Raven Child?

No, what is the Raven Child might answer the question of who, what happens to the Raven Child? looking up for vultures. I'm looking down the path. You see what happened to the vultures had been overhead? Not even further south, perhaps looking for where the caravan may have gotten held up. Like, I, guy. Second command. We don't have much time. We, we got, we got to go. This is it. This is it. I got it. I got it. I cannot even read your handbra. I'm sorry. I'll read it out of you. All right. The first one is honeypot. We asked the honeypot question. The next when we ask is scarab existing question. If yes, we go into who put it there question. If

whatever, we go down to second in command question, and then finally we go down to what is the raven child question. If no, we go to second in command commission, we go to what is the Ravenchild question, and then we go into what happens to non-raven children question. And that's what it says. It's very plain here. Why can't you read this, Iris? Well, because I'm a well-learning of the pharaoh, my penmanship is immaculate. That sounds like it's supposed to be an insult, but I'm not going to take his one. Do you think, hurry, before we get found out, we need to go like right now, so you better hurry. What was our fifth question?

It depends on what happens. Why don't you ask it? Oh, right. Sweet Raven Queen, help me! I just said it. The fifth question is that ridiculous whole set. I cast a spell. All right.

It's an action. Okay. You do that. And you channel the power of anubis being the fairier, the fairy woman of dead souls. You channel your power and the power of death and life. It's funny. Washes over this corpse as she's laid out, the whole still bored out of her breast. And as soon as the magic washes over her, you see.

her violet eyes now open, staring up. I always time the music like that. All right. I've never done this before, but we have no interest in the Raven Child outside of helping your great king. If we do so, are you interested in receiving great renown and fame for this act? I'll say do a deception check and advantage for me, please. Why isn't Caprice doing this? I thought you were going to ask the last question.

No, it's a honeybug question. We mapped, we mapped this out. No, I'm saying because we can each ask questions. So what Iris was telling you was that you would ask the last question. Oh, I missed understand what you said. I thought you said just asked the questions. If you want to take over, you can take over. Now that the honeypot question has been asked,

at advantage, I rolled a natural 20. Yes. for, what is it, deception? Yep. So here are my questions, if you want them. Plus two. So 22. They're on the other side. Did I get the honeypot question close?

Yes. Okay. Okay. I'll go. All right, fine. I will take over. So you see, can she move? She can speak.

Okay, so she's laying up, and you hear the grinding of her bone. Her jaw has been dislocated. Oh, God. and sickeningly grinding against her skull. And can you beat the question for the Dungeon Master, please? The question was, uh. I can read it off if that would help. Sure.

It says, we have no need of this child. And with truthful answers from you to the following questions, could give you full credit for the delivery of this child to King Vorok if that is what you wish for us to do, question. Yeah, that's much better phrased than the way that I phrased it. We'll pretend like that's what happened. The voice rasped out her throat incredibly dry from agonizing, boiling, the blight that you put on to her. Rast out.

Yes. Perfect. The next question is, Ben, I guess, am I doing this? I'm concentrating on keeping the matter going. Were you aware that a scarablike creature was embedded in your chest? Yes. Oh, fuck. Who or what does this creature belong to?

Her eyes stare upward. Not to be confused with Uncle Hoteb, which is my scarperep. That's not a question. No, I'm not saying that out loud. What is the Raven Child? She stares up her eyes wide. Carian's plan. Carian King's plan.

We've got one left. The two options, we have some time. We've asked these questions for every we have 10 minutes, right? The other two options are find out who's your second command is. and potentially make some sort of deception play. Don't have any questions. Or we find out, I'm talking. Huddling.

Or we find out where the other children are. I believe it's your judgment. I must focus on the spell. Any employee. Or should we ask what the plan is? I think we need to learn about what the plan is. I know you want to know what the children are, or where they are, how they are,

but this might be more important. Caprice, hang in your put. Data point. Go. I'm sorry. Fine. What's the Carrying King's plan? Remember, you are at no obligation to answer these. Truthfully.

Truthful. He's making up bullshit. You know, don't remind him. What's the DM? Revenge against the Raven Queen. I say, I hate this bitch. Was that the last question? Yep.

How do you term the value of material components? Oh! The eyes close. So assuming that all of this is even correct, it doesn't even really clear anything up. We just know that the Raven Child is the key to this guy's plan to take revenge on the Raven Queen. Guys, I hate to do this, but I think we should walk and talk.

And I'll be looking around at the, looking up at the Raven. Damn it, power walk. And then I'm gonna scoop up the child. You do that. And holding her over my shoulder, like, you know, not like a, not like this, but like this, I will walk. You are able to scoop her up, and you see that the vulture riders are now far south.

And you had heard that Trayla had said that this is a, basically the reason why it was so difficult to convince her is because this is so much out in the wilderness. such a strange stretch of the widow's road as you cross and you make your way through the forest. And unless there's anything else you'd like to do, you travel for two more days and nights. I want to know if Iris recognized that name. I would ask, I would ask Iris if she recognized the name of the person or being. Do I? My guess is no.

I would say, make a... Make a... Arcona check at disadvantage. Well, I rolled a one in a three, so... Nice. You do not... The name sounds very similar to the language and naming scheme of your people. the Osirian pantheon that you worship.

But that name particular does not sound familiar. No, it's similar to the name of my very own Scarron. Who you've all met, briefly. Okay. Yes. Uncle. Oh, Uncle. Uncle.

Not Uncle, Uncle. I heard Uncle, too. Yeah, okay, so... Clearly there's a lot more going on than we realize, and I think we need to keep going. Yes, I agree. We just need to keep her safe and hopefully this carrot can help us. I wonder what he would want revenge on the Queen for? We have to remember that we cannot guarantee the answers for untruthful.

That's a good point. We shouldn't assume that maybe it was all just made up to throw us off the train. Or, as some want to do, the best way to lie is to hide the truth in it. so maybe he does want revenge, not on the Raven Queen. I have a dumb question. There are no dumb questions except for the ones that you ask, the priest. What makes a count a count?

Is it like a lord? Or are you... I think it's just a title. It's just, well, right, but like in the hierarchy of titles, like, is, are we, like, are there arc counts, or they're like... Bic count? Bicount?

I think a count. Count serves under a king and rules over a specific part of land within his kingdom. I don't say that. I was just saying, I was like, Toa, how do you know that, Toa? I... I don't say that. I don't know. What's a count?

What's a king, really? I mean, you know, I know what a king is, but sort of, you know, what's a king versus a count in this land? Huh? All right, well, I just thought I'd ask. Just trying to gauge, you know, where the respect ladder is on this during this journey. We're taking to count Kreskov. I have literally no more questions for Irish from the next two days. So you camp out.

And I'll say that you made a couple close calls, bits of valley where the vultures, riders overhead, you get to a bit more, another more populated area where you see a castle out, and you see that all really the seeming the villages in this area are all around these castles. Each one in a certain area, and you occasionally see a road where there seem to be perhaps, now that you know the gate, perhaps just as much, if not more undead, than Shadarkai. as you have a couple of close calls you hear the howling of wolves in the distance you occasionally have a close call

or you stay very stealthy or a whole pack led by a massive dire wolf alpha barely notices you and you continue to make your way did you say that we are encountering just as many undead as Shattuck. As you see out on the roads you're able to see something with how mountainous

you're spending just as much time going up and down as you're going across which slows you down for sure as you can get great vantage points over how mountainous and just jagging and inhospitable is terrain as. As you can see long roads for many miles, you can tell now that you've seen these ghouls, the gate that they have. Many, many ogres, or even larger, undead creatures. But most of them being humanoid-sized or medium-sized and dragons rules. And it's, it's, it's, it's, uh, towards, it's around dusk of that final day.

That you realize now that the civilization that you've left behind is, where there have been fewer castles and villages and plots of, of farmlands within the walls, perhaps, or right outside the walls of the castle, the castles that are around. and you get incredibly remote. You haven't seen even a vulture rider in hours. You see the occasional is a smaller vulture flying overhead, but very few and far between. Until eventually you make your way into the most treacherous part of this by far. There is, you make your way to a small road, and you realize that this road is very narrow,

no more than five feet across, overgrown on either side, trees, as if it hasn't really been used in a very long time. And almost as part of the forest itself, you make your way up these winding pathways around very treacherous cliffs that go down hundreds of feet. And eventually, as you turn around one of these bends, the rain, the rain, starts to fall as the cloud boom with thunder and crackle with lightning. And you see five, the lightning illuminates five turrets of a castle built in an incredibly distant treacherous remote in the jagged mountain top. And you see ahead the through the rain and silhouetted in the mountain, a bridge that connects from the part of the top of the smaller, jagged mountain that you're on to where a large, decrepit castle stands before you.

And you see with each flash of lightning that there are gargoyles that line smaller, guardhouses on either side every hundred feet or so and you see now the walls that surround this castle and it's five spired peak and you see there's a bridge across from one tower to another and then one turret is connected to the very highest turret of all rising up as it crashes and you actually see a bit of moonlight as the sun sets and the moon begins to rise. It's difficult to see through the storm, but the wind howls and the rain peltz your face. You finally make your way up to where the small overgrown road arrived, and no more than 50 feet ahead of you is the bridge that leads to this castle or count, Kreskov.

I'm getting curious. So is it like just right in front of us? Like right there? Yeah, you see that there's basically this spiraling mountain top. And there are relatively low mountains right here. But you see is there's a bridge that goes across this massive ravine to the point of stone in this pass where the castle is built into the wall surrounded five towers in total. You can see now that the stone is crumbling.

The wall in certain parts are in disrepair, some falling in good, having been worn away, a good 20 or 30 feet from their tops. But the bridge itself looks, that have made a very sturdy stone, but crumbling away in certain parts, the wood rotting, it looks to be in great disrepair. Has the girl stirred at all? No matter what, every night you check on her, she seems to be in some sort of state. I would be trying to basically press the need to take the rain off of us. You do.

Like in dry clothing, so I'd be like constantly trying to keep her dry and like, you know, fancy whizbiz. Should we try to cross the bridge? I don't think we have a choice. We come all this way. You just, can anyone like, teleport with her in case we need to get across and it starts to crumble? You can at least protect her? Can I teleport? My friend.

friend. I'm just checking. So you can take it with you if you need to. Without even hesitating. Right. As you approach, the rain peltz you in the boom of thunder. And as you get closer, you finally see that the tower, this castle, as decrepit as it is looming over you, you see a crash of lightning. And it illuminates what had, had you been, been hidden before, but you now see rows and rows and rows of pikes. Outside of the bridge, and on top of each pike speared through is the head of Shadar Khai, in varying states of decay, in some cases just a skull. You guys want to ask them questions? Sure. I think we should be going. I'm with tow on this one. Let's carefully cross the bridge, and we slowly work

our way, trying not to, you know, crumble. Everyone just wait for Toa to go across first. I think it's a total Norway that can see what everyone's wait. What's the intertween? Yeah, blah, blah, blah. There is a stone and wood bridge that's built across with several, basically, what's it over cross?

Over a massive ravine that plummets down, now thousands of feet below. You see some pine, you see some pine trees down below, but it's mostly barren. Wow. Okay. And this is an incredibly remote castle. And it's difficult. It's not hard to see how this count allegedly has not been conquered by the Shad Arkai, despite having turned against the crown.

And you see now the strung up on metal chains are the corpses of giant vultures. as... It's because of badass. As you see that it is that the severed heads, the ones that are, some are more recent than you would have expected, have where their necks are impale

is a completely clean severing. As you make your way and you approach the bridge. Who's going first? Toa's going first and alone until it makes it to the other side. Get me out. Maybe we should, you know, Say hello, hey, we're coming.

Fine, but either way, I'm not letting To go alone. We're better off and I can help all of us if we stay together. You have to trust me on this one. Okay, let's go. Altogether? Altogether and close. It's the only way I can make sure we all make it across. All together now.

All together now. All together now. All together now. All together now. And we start to make our way to all together. You do that. Close. You run ahead.

And what is your plan? What is my plan? Yeah. If the bridge begins to collapse, I'm going to cast telekinesis, and I can move up to 1,000 pounds with my mind. Roger that. And you don't have to worry about me because you've seen me fly. Toa.

Right. All right. I can try to keep the bridge sick. I have multiple plans. All of you, you run forward. Felix, you're ready. As you make your way forward, Toa, you feel your foot sick on one of the stones. Immediately.

Dozens of stones. stakes shoot out of the towers around you and they fly towards you. I hate everybody to make a dexterity check fly. Yeah, I don't have abjurity saving throw. Oh. I'm not an abjuration wizard. Oh. I don't think he means like meat stakes. I think he means like spikes. Yeah, I think he does too. Luckily, I rolled really well. I got a 22. 23. 23? 23. 24. Is that? 23. 23. I was 13. 13. As you managed to make it through, but this iris, one of these stakes spears into your shoulder. Piercing through, you're going to take some piercing damage. Oh, sweet. Jesus. I'm going to reduce it by seven.

And that will be 2016. No, I'm not going to do that. 18 points of piercing damage as it pierces through. Oh, dear. Hurry fuck. Are you right? Oh, good. We should have known this is trapped. We're trying to pull it out. We should say who we are. Right in the kidney. They can disarm the traps maybe.

The thunder booms out and lightning crashes the sky and you see the silhouette of this castle as somehow the clouds almost supernaturally will part reveal a massive moon behind this castle. We have to be careful. There's clearly booby traps here. Should we keep going forward or should we just try to get his attention? We've come too far. One or the other quickly. Shout it out.

Let's go. but let's walk slowly and someone in the front needs to just, I'll do it. I'm gonna walk in front of the group while they're behind me and I'm going to keep my eyes out for any additional pressure plates or- Persector check for me. Just stay close.

The rain is incredibly difficult. Are there like railing? Or a three? What was that? Perception. Let me a 10-0 on that. A 10. You make your way through and as you parse forward,

You walk very close, you're keeping your eyes on the ground. It's difficult to see with the rain coursing everywhere. It's as frustrating as it is for Dennis Neddry in Jurassic Park. As, as, as, you know, nobody cares. As you make your way, and there's no pressure plates. And as you walk between the next two towers, suddenly you all see flash of green on either side.

Green. And everyone to make a dexterity chap is, Alchemist fire blasts out of the turrets on either side. Saving thorough check. Saving thorough checks. Saving their apologies. And I need you to make it advance you're holding the child. Yeah, I kind of figured that was coming. At least I'm a day, guys. If you ever give me any good roles, give me two good rolls right now. Fair and by two good rolls. I fail. Okay. I fail. 15. 15? 15? 20 20? 20?

23 27. I fail. What did I get? No, sorry, six? Uh, the DC is 15. As the- The six doesn't make me. Thank you, Dick, just to be clear.

Just to be clear that out. It didn't do it. You dive through the glowing green Alchem's fire blasting out. Sick. It blast you, Felix. I'm going to give you a a, and I can give you an acrobatics check

to see if you can shield the child from the fire. No, not even close. If it's between me or her, I would attempt to save her or at least shield her. You said, what am I doing? Acrobatics? Yep. I got a shot.

Not with you. I got a shot. I got a shot. I got a shot. Oh wow. 14. 14. 14. Not good.

I, you are unable to do this. Not good. as you're able to shield a good amount of it. But you're going to take, oh my goodness. Oh, my goodness, says the DM. That's the word. 24, 24, 30. I thought of something else too.

Nope, I prepared, that's for it. 31, 35, 305. 37 points of fire damage. As you are ignited in flame, and you catch on fire, the fire clinging to you with alchemist fire as it continues to burn. Every six seconds, unless you put this out, you know that it's going to.

And you see now, in the girl, she catches some fire damage, and she gets blasted her, the side of her dress starts to ignite, and it gets her calf and her hand. And she, it's almost as much will as it is flame. Would I know that this one as a wizard, would I know that this fire,

fire is magic and to what I know that's dispelled. I would say that you know, don't have to rule for her, that Alchemist fire is a very common thing, that all you just put it out. Okay, then I would immediately try to put her out before myself. So you would take that out and you're gonna take an additional damage because you put her out first. Or you see that's singed, but it's not too bad.

However, you're gonna take an additional 11 points of fire damage. Got it. Got it. Got it. This is too dangerous. We have to do something different. I'm just going to run ahead.

Maybe I can get their attention. If you're too far away, I'm not going to be able to help you. I'm going to cast mass cure wounds at a fifth level. Yes. I can use this all day. The power of anubis channels. May I, because we're standing here, may I also cast Beacon of Hope? You may. You may. Nothing's coming at you. I'm going to get down into a battle trance just so that I'm focused and ready to go. I'm focused. We got to get through this. Can we just fly over it? I can try to run through. I can fly and get to the other side and maybe disable some of this.

I could see if there's triggering mechanisms on the other side. It all seems to be a part of this bridge. Everyone takes 29 points of humor. Oh, that's huge. That's huge. That tickles. Well, good is no. Oh, we should have long rested after the last.

Yes. You would have. Wait, after what? After the last battle. We have to be in the days of T.A. Yes, I know. I got fucking shit on in that fight. Obviously.

you like so to do. So, uh, one, okay. Um, Felix, do you want me to carry her? Fine, but don't go ahead. You have to stay close. I'm gonna stay right next to you, but you need to focus on on dodging. I heard her, I hand her over.

I'm going to walk over to her, and I'm gonna place my hand on her, and I'm gonna cast a deathboard. Oh, Roger to that, okay. You feel, and you see the shimmering golden turpoy's light, and then it then seeps back in. She is watched by a new bus just as you are. So we just run.

through? Can we just... Lighting crashes, rain pelts on you. Lighting flashes. You see those spires, some crumbling. It's a miracle that anyone lives here. No, just continue. Do you want to be able to fly? You and I could be, and they could, well, that's selfish, but we can get the girl to safety if one of us could fly in carrier. How, how, how, what is the length of this bridge? Uh, the length of the bridge, roughly, if I can ask. Probably another, probably every 100 feet. And how many of those?

There is probably, every 100 feet there is that, and so it's probably three more. I can make it to the other side an instant. And depending on how many instances we have to go, I might be able to take one or two people. No, I think, don't worry about me. Just get her safe and get you safe. I'll be fine.

I can make it to the other side in an instant. Then you take her, you go. O.B. Farm, too. Are we sure? Just be careful when you get there. You don't know what's there. I'm not quite sure it's a good idea after us to split up. Especially, no offense, Felix, but the scrawny one going ahead, especially with the Ravengyle.

It's 300 feet, and it's fine. I get to the other side and just don't be deal. And something happens to you, and we all try to rush to save you in an instant of panic when we see you get attacked by a giant gun. or a huge hulking undead beast, and then we fall off the edge and die and limit to wash her head anyway. I think it's worth the risk because if she gets, if any more of these traps hurt, the girl, we're much more hearty than she is.

She can't. Maybe I can just trick us them and then, you know, boop around like I always do. I will not let her die. I'm going. I'm going to just lower down and anime runoff, uh, kind of being as, as cautious as I can to avoid anything as I come upon those like towering and as I go

I'm screaming the whole way. I'm following. I guess we're going. Come on. I would wait to see how far she gets and if she makes it towards and how dead she is and if she makes it towards the third gate or third set of towers I will dimension door to the other side of the towers.

You do that. But I'm waiting to see how it goes. I'm 30 feet behind her trying to keep up. You throw your arm behind you and you sprint through the rain. And as you make your way, you're, you're, you're, you're fast, she's fast. And you do, as you pass through the next guard towers and you hear a bubbling pop as acid burst out

in this this horrible sizzling sheet that appears and then drops that you have to run through. I need to make a dexterity saving through to see if you can avoid it. Oh yeah. Dex you say? Come on. 31.

Oh, yeah. You managed to run through and it crashes down. And then Capricia, you're following behind. Lufty's already had. Yeah. Another sheet of acid make a dexterity saving. Good to know. Good to know.

We're learning. That's going to be a 27th. You managed to make it through before the sheet of acid falls down. And looking, as you go, you make your. way and you see that there's only two more. There's only two more spans of this. You make your way and you run through and as you run, you're incredibly light, but you just feel slight give. As you're midway through across and suddenly and you feel the bridge open up as it begins to just completely drop. How far of a distance? It's what I said, 100 feet. So basically you're in the middle, so you're in the middle,

The whole hundred feet. So it's 50 feet as you begin to slide down the rain slick as the bridge itself begins to close and open. The bridge begins to open up to the ravine thousands of feet below. So how quick is it dropping? Is it like? It's like very quick. It's probably like probably two or three seconds. Only you maintain foot contact with anything.

Yeah, basically I would just like sprint as fast as I can down that slide and make whatever jump I can to try to catch the other one on its way down. I would say make a dexterity check. Because you run up, a dictionary saving throw, rather. As we're sliding in. It is raining, though. And it does affect it, I believe. Right?

She's like half rain cloud. It inflicts climbing. But she's a monk and whatever. She's a storm monk. I think that's fine. Yeah, she's part rain cloud. Like, we're, yeah. She has limitating.

Yeah. Yeah. Yes. She's literally made for this. Again, 31. it opens in a completely vertical. You just, you feel this, and as soon as the grinding of the stone drops,

you immediately sprint, and you leap forward the power of the, you're riding the lightning as it crashes, and you embrace your thunder and lightning nature, and you leap to the other side, quickly making, closing the distance, and landing just barely on the other side. And then you hear,

I'll turn around there, I'll stop and turn around. Caprice, stop. E, eat, eat, eat, e. He screeches as you almost fall off, Caprice. And then you see his, I would have been okay. Toa, Iris? Yes. Are you guys right behind?

No. I look behind to see where Toa and Iris are and what they're doing. The howling of the wind is so horrid. It's drowning. back where you had left them. And the three of you, I guess the four of you, including this child, is, are looking at the castle rooming.

The gate is not that much further for you, just one more to go. And then you're at the span right before the gate of the castle. Caprice, there's a, there's a thing. There's a thing, don't step on it. I might intentionally step on it because it seems to come up and then I can try to run across it when it is up.

But Toa and Iris didn't follow me when I asked them to, guys, what are you guys doing? Come on! I'm gonna look to the two of them and say, I can get her across. I can come back and I can take Iris across, but I can't take you, Tola. Well, Kiti's got claws,

so I might just climb. Can you just use your thing? I'm gonna scoot myself down along the side, and I'm going to kitty run with my claws across the edge of the bridge. Dude, I should have done that. I will say, just for this sake, Let's do an athletic archibatics check.

I would have said disadvantage because it's slippery, but because you have claws, I always make it straight. Got to ask that acid. I fall to my death. Shut out. Probably not. We've got a twist. Ten.

Ten. So, um... Oh, no. Iris, you begin to descend, and you see Felix and Toa right there. And as soon as you jump down, you sink your claws. in and as your claws, you're shimmering down and it's very wet and you're, and immediately

your fur is all damped down, it's difficult to see, and then suddenly you make your first move over, suddenly your pulse slips and you begin to slide down and you'll hear the scraping of Iris's claws against the side of this bridge. You can turn it every... How far, you're way far away from me. Yeah, you're hearing, you're hearing Iris scrape down and fall into your... ours is right next to us, right? She's down. She's down in the second that she's getting down.

She's sliding down probably about 20 feet from me. From us? Oh, okay. Sorry. I was trying to... Hold on. So this matters, right? It does matter. So here's the idea. I can manipulate creatures or objects by thought, right? I can lift up to 1,000 pounds for 10 minutes,

but I can only move as 30 feet at a time as an action, right? I can automatically move it 30 feet in any direction, but not beyond the range of the spell. My thought was, my original thought was that if, Your, differing, my original thought was that if the entire bridge decided to collapse and move all close together, I could telekinesis a walk underneath of us and float us across. I was not prepared for multiple levels. Traps and acid and spikes. So you couldn't target a creature. You could target

Iris and use my staff and bring forth my giant scarab beetle and jump on its back. As you fall, I'll say you scrape and you, you, you, you, you, you, been loose as you fall down as it looks like Mufasa from the Lion King as you do that. And you think for a moment you grab onto your staff. Oh, God, just save me. And so a scarp that does not have a mummy face in its shell immediately buzzes out and you grab it by the legs and it begins to pull you along. Has anyone seen Ferengully? What's Ferengully?

As you buzz across and which way are you flying as you guys are figuring out what to do? I'm just going to try and fly and get to Capri. get to Caprice. Okay. You manage to fly around the outside, and as you fly, you will see as there seems to be some sort of sensor on the side of these turrets. You do see one, only one, arrow, fly out. So I'm just going to make an attack roll here.

I could just tell you can see you're like right on your back? Both of them miss, and you get the sense of how they might have also this, this count may have also killed a giant vultras. As you hear the buzzing of the lanes and Iris, you land next to Caprice. Just like the game of the road. You're beetles. So as she was flying, there are an arrow attack. Yes, on the outside as well.

Because we're going to fly out. All right. I'll make sure. Iris, this mechanism, it makes the whole bridge just collapse, but then when it comes up, I think that we can race across it. But we need to wait for Toa and Felix. Toa, Felix! No, yeah, so here's what's happening.

Right, yeah. He's doing this. Toa and I are, I'm holding the girl, and Toa and I, we're talking. I am very, very focused, though, on Lofti to see what happens when she gets past the third gate. And I'm not doing anything until I see what she does. So I turn and see him turned around doing this, and I'm just like, and I will continue to run. You do that. You continue to run, and you see far ahead as the lightning crashes, and you make your way halfway across the gate is right in front of you.

And you notice too late in the storm as the lightning, you see the silhouettes of four huge gargoyles, bat-like. And you see bat-like wings from the back of their shoulders begin to beat and fly and take off into the sky and begin to descend towards you. So she makes it past the towers with no issue. So that was the last trap. We're the gargles. The gargles, yeah. But my- Funny, I feel like a certain cat mentioned there might be garg.

I know, you said that. I'm like, I guess- It's crazy, Tukhires. This is. So she's over the bridge. And wherever she's landed, she's over the bridge, and she's halfway to the gate. To the gate of the walls outside.

So just, just so I understand, if I cast a spell, That is concentration for 10 minutes. Yeah. Generally, in combat, while I'm maintaining this concentration, I'd be able to cast another spell. Yes. As long as it's not concentration. May I take two, may I cast a spell?

That's 12 seconds, yeah, so you're good. I cast telekinesis on tell. Okay. I am now able to lift 1,000 pounds. Yeah. Dimension Door says whatever I can carry, I can carry. I can take with me. So, but it's only one creature of...

The size, small, a little. It's crude. When it comes to creatures, it is, it limits that power. Yeah, what you can carry, not what your mind can carry. Well, it says what you can carry. So regardless, it'd be, it's a creature, right?

Those are the limits. Objects. You can do you carry. So basically, the limit is one creature. As long as their weight doesn't exceed what you can carry. Yes. But toe is not an object. To is not an object.

He's not an object. It's a creature. Felix, come here. And I want to grab Felix, who's holding the girl, and pick us all up. Right, the issue is that we're never gonna get there in time. We can only move 30 feet per second. That was, that's the only reason I was showing.

30 feet per turn over 10 minutes? You definitely do it. You could definitely do it. Not while she's getting torn alive by gargoyles. That may be our only option. To be fair, I did warn us from splitting apart in case there were gargoyles at the end of this. The point is, we haven't...

I didn't hear you. So from a meta knowledge, that is obviously my plan to get over there, right? Was to carry us all with telepices. It's not fast. It's not fast at all, right? You guys will get there first. We'll eventually catch up, and that's fine. What I will do is I have Felix and the girl,

and I'm basically just going to sprint to the next trap. And I'll say, take us over! Yes, and I will mentally move us above and beyond the gates to not have to worry about... So you move above and beyond the eyes. You're flying up and around, and I'll say that as you, as you're being carried, you're basically this floating Mary Poppins, as you float through the air. He's basically stupid manning us over. And the arrows are going to fly out into attempt to shoot at you, just as they had to Iris and her beetle. One misses. One flies out. Nope.

My beetle, my other is going to fire out, and we're going to see who that hit. The arrow pierces in to, we're going to see who it hits. In this cast. No, we don't. Oh, it's Toa. As it pierces out and it's going to deal. Yeah, I'm trying to like shield them, right? As much as I can with my body. 12 points of piercing damage.

I'm writing down a name. It's in this castle. It pierces in as you all float over and eventually you land. And are you going to basically fly over Lufty and, I guess, Caprice and Iris? Yeah, we got, yeah, we're going to the end. I'm so going to look. So basically my goal is, if we just going over each trap so that I can sprint the rest of the way because it's much faster

than you just call it canesing us you know what I mean you're like I was okay just take me over yes yes that's reason I will say you do that so we we go over the acid wall you know fly over the pit trap and then we get so one more one more arrow will hit you toe up sorry brother as it pierces into you that is going to be 13 horse of piercing damage and as uh uh uh uh Lifty now the gorgo are about halfway as they descend slowly. You see that they're humanoid, they're bat-like, but they're made of stone and they're very clearly alive.

Their eyes flashed with this alchemical fire that animates them. As they begin to descend upon you, you don't have much longer. Seeing that they have lifted off and that they have passed the acid wall, I would trigger the trap to make the pitfall go and then launch it up and go. up and go, Iris, we need to cross right now. So you need to get halfway across. 50 to you get across the trigger before it slides down.

Or like a cordial across. You could be in the dead middle of it for keeping in trigger. Oh. Is that a point. Yeah. Sneaking like that. Oh, I misunderstood. I thought that it triggered as you crossed the initial threshold.

Nope. Then you were just like back. But we know how it works, right? Yes. Yes. Yeah. So I'm going to use my feline's grace or agility or whatever. Because you're a needle coming with you.

Oh no, I'm just fell in the hole. Okay, he's, he doesn't last long anyway, because he's the big one, so he's gone. So I'm gonna, preparing for this, knowing what Caprice told me, I'm gonna rush to the middle, and right as I get to the middle, I'm going to jump.

I'm gonna watch her and I'll cast flying myself just to. Okay, I will say that as you do that, Iris, you feel, but you feel like you're ready for it now. I need to make a dexterity saving through advantage, even in the rain with the celebrity. as you leap forward and, I think it's a 22. It's 22.

22, as you leap and even though it's going, you feel you're barely gonna make it, but you sink your claws into the stone, and you find the grooms, and you shamble your way up as you see your friends now, Felix and Toa landing as the gargoyles are very close at this point. So where I'm going, where they're coming from, coming like, I'm here and they're coming down, or they're coming towards me?

They're going to land here. In front of you is the, they're coming towards me. I will say at this point, as Caprice is waiting, all four gargoyles are going to slam down on top of you with massive fists. They're going to do that. I need to make four separate dexterity savings throws in place. Oh, no problem. No problem.

From Lifty. No problem. It's been doing okay. These ones happen. She has four. Please take those back. I do. I just, this is the only one that I'm trusting at the moment. So this is gonna take 40 minutes. Let's four, it's just four rolls, right?

Four rules, just roll, you can roll all four. 21. Okay. Natural 20 is, so, 12 million, you're fine. Your Dixirity, same. Natural 20. Oh, wow, okay, 400, one and 400. Let's go for, oh, oh. 17. 17. It's a little well.

You manage to dodge out of the way despite these four massive bat-like gargoyles. I'm just going to tuck it roll through them. These large lower teeth jutting up. They look at you with no, with just this empty stairs, they slam down. You managed to dodge out of the way and just skid back on the slick stone about 15 feet as Toa and Felix now land beside you. Iris now climbing. We've got goggles. Caprice, you're waiting, and so you start to see.

I just want to see that Iris made it across safely, and as soon as she does, I'm going to zap as quickly as I can to... You're flying. Yes, I'm flying. My jump is like that meme with the cat jumping off of the sail. Say and say, eh, whee! You do that, and so you cast fly, and an arrow shoots out as you try to fly through, and it misses.

As you all join down, as he gargoyles once again, look, as the crumbling dust is, whipped away in the wind of the storm, and they look, and you're nowhere to be seen, and they turn, and they take to the sky and leap forward and begin to descend upon you. What do you all do? Oh, there's no combat?

They're coming towards us, right? Yeah, you can do something. I was gonna haste to my boy, but if we're not in combat, fuck that shit. Are they, they're facing them or me? They're facing, you're now back with them. You've slid back and they've all joined you. Everyone now has joined you.

We're all in line. Oh, wait, I thought I like slayed through them. And there were just four. How big are these girls? They're like about the size of that, the oak. But also with wings and tails. Giant, warm. They're large sized.

I'll take two steps forward. Count Kreskov! Where are your allies? We're your friends. We're not chat archailles. Zinn. Mention Zinn. We're friends of Zern. We have friends of Zern.

We have like symbols, right? Like some sort of menatime. I would reach in while he's doing it. gin while he's doing this and like wave the symbol of the raven or gas. As they fly forward, you see their massive fist, these, their alchemical fire in their eyes, as they lumber forward and you see the fist slam. And as they're right at you, Felix, and you see slamming towards the child. And then as it slams toward the touch, the sort of towards the child, the lightning flashes illuminating it.

And then as it illuminates the sleeping girl, it stops. and I need you to roll at persuaded check at advantage. Oh, fuck. Oh, thank God. Yeah, don't, not me. I'm not successful in guys. 24. Yeah, let's go.

24. That's pretty good. As it stops, the other one, the other ones look at it, and they all look at the child, and they all just kind of back off a little bit. And then as you, as you, as you stand there, wait, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the wind and the wind howling and the rain beating your face, the thunder crashes, and then you suddenly hear as the gates of the wall start to open.

And you see as the lightning crashes, and you see the silhouette of a humanoid figure standing behind the gate as it opens. And you're expecting to see some tall count, but then you see a very small squat, stout, figure, shorter than than Herja. And you hear a voice say, All right, boys, take it easy, take it easy.

And immediately the gargoyles turn and they nod and they fly back up. Their stone wings flying up and they then begin to perch and then the fire goes out. And you see as this small figure starts to move, a large feet and big hands. tiny little wings on his back, as you see as a crash of lightning, you see very clear that looks like a garboil, but small, swat and stout with almost like, with bat-like features and a large lower jaw, and but seem to be carved into a butler outfit.

As he steps forward, as the wind, as the thunder crashes and the lightning strikes, he steps forward and says, So you're all the one that the master was speaking about. Sorry about all that funny business. You know you got to take precautions. Those are some good precautions. Can we get inside, please?

Please, I mean, we need help. Oh yeah, get yourselves out of the rain. Come on, follow me. And he turns and you see as this small stone man begins to walk and guide you in. What the hell? Into a grand courtyard with the gates of the gates. of the large door of the castle open already. The very dim glow of the very dim glow of just light candlelight from within.

As there's stairs go up and you see there's actually a bit of a, there's a bit of a marble or a stone block on one side of the stairs as you see that through this courtyard, it's effectively empty besides just rubble. As you see now that there are gargoyles all around this castle. and some spots where there might should be a gargoyle and there isn't. As you continue, say, oh, come on, get your show, dry it. And he leads you up the stairs as the, as the gates close behind you and you out of the wind and the rain.

I would be getting frustratedlyitating my friends to try to dry them off. Yes, please. And then trying to dry us. Did you call it Caprice and a wop? Yeah, yeah, that's an accurate acronym of what I called you. when we were at the spa. So very long ago. Yes, I'm one of those.

Oh dear. I'm sorry about all that. My name is Major Domo Brutus. I am the head of the house, or castle, so to speak, of the master. And I did hear that you was expecting guests, but you can never be too careful these days. Joho?

What? What did you say your name is? Brutus. Brutus. Major Domo, Rooters, yes. Roodle-Domo? Domo. Major Domo.

Major Domo. You've got a major part of very important. So you're a butler. I think that a major domo is like the head butler of an estate in a, in a Lord's Castle. How do you know that? Why do you know? I don't say it. God damn it.

And you see as the... Oh, Mr. Major. It's nice to meet you. As this grand entrance hall where there are pillars, one is toppled over, leaning to the side. And you see that there's a number of, uh, of fixtures where it's... There are candles. Some are lit. Some are broken. There's just a very dull glow. And you see that there's a double spiral staircase going up. One side this is completely collapsed in. And you see that there's tattered cloth where there may have been tapestries. As... We have many tapestries. And he says, um, oh, I will say, are you here to see the master of all chance? We're here to see the count. Yeah. Yes. Yes, we are.

Okay, he's not in a good space right now. He's not feeling quite well. But if you allow me to do talking, I might be able to butter them up a little bit. I can get all buttered a row. He looks at you with a grin. You see that there's a stone tooth on one side, another one coming up.

We have nowhere else to go. I mean, things are pressing. It's urgent, but I mean, we're not going anywhere. Is there maybe like a fire we could sit by while you do whatever you do? Oh, oh, pardon me. We have any guess. We weren't beheaded by de Masta.

In a long time. Let me, and you see there's a large, there's a large fireplace in this entrance hall. He heaves apart of it, he keeps aside a stone block as he begins to build a fire, actually very dexterous despite his short squat form. And a fire roared. A fire roars up.

A fire roars up. And you realize now at this point that it wasn't actually him that there's a blast of flame that just comes from the stone itself as it ignites. And he says, give me one moment and I will fit you in one shake

of a little lemmy's tail. I was absolutely convinced that this was the count. I'm not going to lie. I was very confused. I was like, wow, the count is a two and a half foot tall stone but very weird.

That's weird. I don't know why that's the thing, but that's where we're going. Okay. Now, Lee, Felix, it's not unreasonable that a Count would have his own butler. I... I... Someone needs to order all of the servants there?

Fine. I'm sorry. I'm not used to us. Well, now it's just me and old as stoneheads up there, but you know, it's an end of course, and it's a little bit of only only only, but we may do. You're the only one left? Only ones left? Well, I'm the one... I got a stonehead, but it's a little bit more thinking, you know what I mean?

They all listen to me, because I'm the major Dumbull. Yes. You're important. Hey, the Stonehance. I'll go let the master know that you're here, and you stay warm. I'm going to go make sure he's not in a estate or mood. Thank you for, thank you for buddley.

And we mean that sincerely. We owe you a lot. It is my duty and my role in life to serve the master. And he, like, bows to you, and he begins to shuffle up the stairs. and you see a door open as it slams. And as the firelight flickers, you see at the center of this audience hall that there's actually where at the center,

there's a pedestal where there may have been a statue at one point. And you see the bits of crumbled pieces and ruins, and you see what looks like what might have been a horse rearing up and a young man with a sword held high, riding atop of it. But it's just crumbled into pieces at this point. And the light flickers, and you're able to warm up, and it's not much longer until the doors, they open. And you see the small shape of Major Domo Brunus.

Oh, fast. As he shimmies on down, and he says, oh, okay, Okay, the mass is not feeling well, but he says that you all can come, and I like to take his word for it, because if he doesn't, then, oh, that's bad news for me. So let me do the talking, and I will make sure everything's okay, and we'll have all the pleasantries. And then you can have your fancy political counter-talk. We won't see a word, right?

Yeah, sure. Until you tell us to, of course. Yeah, of course, of course. And he begins to guide you through the cask, and it's dark, and it's cold. You hear the dripping of water and the occasional rumbling of the thunder crashing outside, lightning through the windows that you pass and you make your way, and there's very little candlelight. Then you can see kind of down hallways.

You hear what sounds like the bubbling of perhaps cauldrons. You see glowing of light of magical. and alchemical goings on in various rooms and strange mechanical traps and features as he guides you through this castle and eventually you arrive at this grand door. And you see that on the door some sort of sigillance. It's it is a a black horse with a fiery red mane rearing up to the side. And he says, remember, let me do to talking. and he pushes the door open. And on either side or rows of candelabras

that are lit flickering in this dim space. It's difficult even for your eyes to adjust. As you see now, this audience hall is very large. You see that one pillar is tumbled to the side, and you see that there is several stairs on a platform at the end of a, a large throne of some kind where a withered humanoid man, he looks like a human, is leaning forward.

His long, nearly white, blonde hair is ragged and disheveled hanging over his face. He's holding a golden goblet with rubies as he looks forward. It's difficult to see his face. As you approach, you see that one little bit of, one little bit of actually, some of this actually pristine and not in ruin is a massive portrait behind him. And you see an absolutely gorgeous young man with perfect pristine long hair and perfectly impeccably dressed. As you see sitting on his lap is a beautiful young lady with black ringlet curls.

in a poofy dress. And as you approach, you see this man, he's, he appears to be a human, his face is sunk, and his eyes are hollow. As he looks at a thousand-yard stare, and you see,

beside his throne, is a shimmering silver rapier. And you hear, Brutus clear a stroke. Master, allow me to present. present. Oh, I didn't get your names. What was your names? Oh, I have the guys. What a certain, what's certain sense? Just as ordered. I know you don't like them, but they're here and they apparently mean well. They got a little child.

The wings are the raven. Oh, the wings are the raven. Uh, and allow me to present, master, cut it with the pleasantries, Brutus. And you see as the man lifts up his head, his disheveled, plaiters. and blonde hair hanging low in front of a tattered outfit as he looks at you. And he looks like a broken man as he forces a smile. And you see a flash of candlelight glint across his teeth. And you see a single fang. And he says, Holy shit! How can Count Escher Kreskov help you?

And that is where we're going to section. I had to say I don't remember when it was but I said I know who is in that castle and I specifically wrote it down. She wrote it down. I knew it. So how do you know?

I just had a feeling that you know how I could see the future because I'm clear, I'm clairvoyant. I was expecting Prince Renafal with the rapier and like, you know, I was expecting very, fuck, we got a lot to talk about.

He only has a single fang. No, he just showed us. He just showed us. He's also ancient. And you know what that means. You know who's on his lap. Yes. Do you?

Yeah. What's your face? In the portrait. Oh, I thought you were saying it was like actually. No, it's in the portrait. Yeah. It was in the portrait. Thank you so much for listening to the Legends of Aventra's podcast.

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