Tales from the Stinky Dragon - Armageddon - Ep. 62 - Quadron Vs. Kyborg

Episode Date: August 24, 2022

Infiltrating Quadron’s ceremony in an attempt to save the Pyes, the Infinights realize they may have more allies in their fight than they thought, causing pandemonium that comes to a crashing conclusion. Follow us on social media: https://linktr.ee/TalesFromTheStinkyDragon Check our our merch: https://store.roosterteeth.com/collections/tales-from-the-stinky-dragon Red Web is available wherever you listen to podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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pies. But can they rescue the rest from Quadrant's clutches before life and limb are lost? Or will they pay the ultimate cost? Grab hold of your hooch and scooch on in, because it's time for this tale of Armageddon. Grabbing on to my hooch.

Here we go. There was like a missing rhyme. There was like an Armageddon or Armageddon to begin. I don't know. You're setting up for a rhyme. And I was like a missing rhyme. There was like an Armageddon or Armageddon to begin. I don't know. You're setting up for a rhyme. And I was like, nevermind. No,

just me. Only knows. I just was, I was too focused on hooch. So we're, we're, we're living in the, the pun of Armageddon. Oh,

okay. Sorry. I, we just had this, this back and forth with my computer. So if we're going against arant, who is a robot, I'm really going to put my heart and soul into this fight because I'm not happy with machines this morning, guys.

You're going to take out your frustration on him? Yep. Is Quadrant all machine or is Quadrant cyborg? Oh, we might have to find out this episode, won't we? He's pure evil, John. He's pure evil. Well, it's not Quadrant. It's M'ra.

M'ra. And what's going on with It's M'ra. M'ra. And what's going on with that? Yeah, so is M'ra and Quadrin the same? Yeah. Arm. It sounds like it is the same. I think we figured out it's arm backwards and that these Tabulians are worshipping him because I think he's cutting off arms of people or pies in particular

and giving them to him. Yeah. If you're an entire race of individuals that don't have arms and you find this guy who has a plethora of arms, it makes sense to be like, ooh. In the kingdom of blind men, the six-eyed man is king. Yeah. Is that how that goes?

That's exactly how it goes. Is that like a Bible verse? Okay, so you open the large stone door to a cavernous sandstone hall bathed in firelight. You see rows and rows of tabooians bowing toward a raised stone dais in the center of the room, surrounded by a pool of green fluid. But some of the tabooians look different. Half of them are no longer limbless serpents with wings.

Now some have glowing orange arms. To the north, you can see a cave mouth shaped like a fang maw. And out from the mouth, a towering figure slinks from the darkness onto the dais. The taboolyans continue chanting, M'ra, M'ra, M'ra. Firelight flickers across the metallic body of Quadrant. He smiles wide and raises four arms, pushing the crowd. My fellow Tabulians, I have just spoken with the Great Cloud, and I come bearing good tidings. The time has finally come when we no longer cower in the shadows of shame. The great cloud has shown favor on us

and granted us the power to reach. Quadrant's right eye shimmers and radiates with an orange light. The crowd cheers and raises their fists. With these arms, we will take back what is ours, our Draconic honor, our homeland to Tora, and the arms of our oppressors. Bring forth the tributes. Out from the fangmouth come four squadrons escorting a line of pies chained up together. You recognize Chick, Kara, and Ludie among the prisoners.

They're all dragged up toward the stone dais. The last pie in the line is much shorter, paler, and has red eyes, and you recognize her as Pat Ernst. Quadrant looks down at the prisoners and says, Thank you so much for volunteering. We appreciate you supporting our cause with such open arms. The squadrons yank on the chains and all the prisoners fall to the ground,

prone with their arms outstretched. Quadrant unsheathes an orange-bladed arm, holding it high. Let the Armageddon begin. Well, lucky for you guys, nobody has noticed you all enter the room yet. So you all get a little surprise action to figure out what it is you're going to do here. Bursting arrow!

I think Bard is still invisible. I think Mud had passed without a trace before we went in, correct? Yes. Also disguised self, so I look like a tabooly. I guess without arms, right? Because you hadn't really seen the with arm ones yet my takes look around the room and then adds arms to his disguise how many

taboolyans are there there's quite a few taboolyans they're you know in rows facing up toward the dais if you had to make a guess I'd say you'd estimate that there's probably like 20 the odds are against us. I feel inclined

to try diplomacy before just jumping into action. There is no diplomacy with Quadrant. Well, I meant more with like the Tabulians. I wish the audience could have seen Blaine's face when he said that. He looked so disgusted and so just like how dare you even

suggest diplomacy. I don't even know you, mud. They're clearly a misled people and I put more fault into Quadrant than the Tabulians. If I'm going to be like pragmatic about this. I'm going to put some arrows into Quadrant. You can do that. I'm not defending Quadrant here. Bad, bad guy.

Lots of arms bad bad guy lots of arms bad guy i'm worried that there's just too many of them and quadrant's probably too powerful if we try to attack so like the question is here do we try to like make a distraction and save the prisoners do we try to like just go for quadrant like i don't know what to do here as much as i want to feel quadrant's blood on my hand and prosthetic hand, no, I think we should try to get them in and fight another day. Because I'm all out of lucky feats. I got an idea.

That's why. Mud nudges Gum-Gum and says, Gum-Gum, these are your friends. They are my friends. These are your people. They are my people. You've got to help them. So this is your moment. Go, Gum-Gum.

How far away are they? So you all enter through a door that's kind of to the south of the room. So you enter from like kind of the southwest corner of the room. And the room opens up in front of you. The first group of Tooians is probably not that far away we'll say 20 feet but the space going on to the dais is a little further beyond that we'll call it like 40 45 feet or so and are there any like of those warp gates just those really really convenient portals to another land oh the immersed gateway no you do not see any immersed

gateways but you do see that entrance at the center northern portion of the room where the prisoners were brought out from. And is that also where Quadrant is? Quadrant's on the dais, kind of in the center of the room, so like 40, 45 feet away or so. A little bit of a theater in the round is what he's doing. Yeah, kind of.

It's rectangular, but yeah, that's the same idea. So box theater then. Yeah. I smack Gum Gum's the same idea. So box theater then. Yeah. I smack Gum-Gum's butt. Okay. I feel like we should try to, like, go around the, like, side of the walls to where the prisoners are on the other side and get them back out that door and escape. Yeah.

So just to Barbara's point, the prisoners were dragged out of that door to the north, but they had been brought up to the dais with Quadrant kind of in the middle of the room. Oh, man. They've been forced to kneel there. And we already blew our sending stone text, right? Our phone a friend? Yeah, and I don't know if we have time to, like, telephone.

The idea here is that this is supposed to be a surprise round, not that you would have necessarily time to send a message and get one back. Got it. Bart's invisible and has passed without a trace. If Bart gum gum does some of his uh charismatic charisma wants to like try to get to the prisoners and do a little bit of sneaky sneaky yeah i was just gonna say like if i tug on one of them while invisible is that gonna like freak them out or is that gonna be like oh maybe it's a sign does chick know you does chick know you i mean we

met we all met chick back in pious past when we broke her shop and stole a bunch of stuff i think i think we gotta take out we think i take our move like this is a surprise okay uh john you're tabooly and in disguise so you go play uh uh counter and try and convince other caboolians to go along with it bart you're you're invisible. You grab the, get the captives out of the way. I'll be distraction. Blaine, you do, you have... Kyborg. Kyborg, you go

after Quadrant or take his eye or something. I don't know. Wait, what? No. We gotta pick one of the, like, here, GumGum, if you can convince the Tabooleans to turn on Quadrant That's what we can do here What I'm saying is you're a taboolyan dressed up

So you can be like yeah he makes sense Okay so I Then Mud tries to like Join the back of the crowd And be one of the taboolyans You what's your name I don't think you speak what they speak Are they speaking common or draconic?

Draconic, bro. They're speaking common right now. Okay. Because Quadrant's here. Quadrant don't speak draconic. You know, you gotta. Right, right. My name is Fizzlesticks.

Oh, Fizzlesticks. Are you as excited as we are to see Umrah unleash the Armageddon? Yes. Look at my new arms. They're so orange and cool, aren't they? Oh, you're so lucky. What did you do to earn your arms so quickly from Umrah? I won a spelling bee.

Oh, the greatest of us all. They begin bowing to you. A little worm bow. I spelled all the words. Make a deception check just for fun. A what check? Deception. Okay. I like the shock in your voice.

A what? I'm using inspiration dice. That was a nine. That was a five. I mean, that was a six. It got worse. A nine. Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and roll their insight here. Lucky for you, they're not the brightest. I clearly should have advantage, though, because I'm dressed like them and I got cool arms.

Dude, I'm looking at my spell slots and all that stuff. I ain't got nothing. This is why we have to do this. They also get a nine. Oh, OK, cool. So I'll give that to you. Tie goes to the runner. Why don't you have arms?

Oh, were you bad this year? It's several of them. They're kind of grouped up together. Oh, none of us have been deemed worthy yet. We're hoping to reach for our arms today. That would be great. Is there an area that's opposite, like the other direction where I could distract them?

The back of the thing? Yeah, sure sure why not okay also should we roll initiative just for like a turn order in this scenario do you think I'm gonna kind of give everyone one shot to do something I'll go around the horn here and then we'll surprise right exactly so that was pretty much

mud and now gum gum what were you gonna do well if I'm gonna distract then I want to go to wherever that like raised area that's opposite of where the front of the thing is, where the captives are. So to the center of the room, to the dais? Well, no, opposite it so that their attention would be turned the other direction. Oh, so like the very south wall then? Yeah.

Okay. I want to go there and I want to take a little of my exploding jelly and throw it up so it makes a poof, a little poof. Does that make sense? What's it going to explode with? I just throw it up against the ceiling, just a little like poof. Gotcha. Not a lot, very little, just enough

to get attention. Okay. And then once everyone's looking at the explosion, Hello! Jesus. What was that? Bart, why didn't we go? I am Gum-Gum, the great wizard. And I tell you there is another way to get your arms.

A magical way. And I can do it and help you all achieve Armageddon without the Geddons. I have already done so, my friends. If you know of Otak and Oshuich, they have already gotten their arms without violence. Ooh.

Calling back to actual names. It's an interesting tactic. Go ahead and make me a deception check as well, but I'll give you advantage for referencing their compatriots. Okay me do this come on i really wasn't on the board before but you gotta do it you gotta oh 21 oh there we go and five i'm gonna go with the 21 we'll go with the 21 all right choice you're probably gonna beat them but let's see what they roll oh they got like a 16 lucky for you some of of the Tabulians in your area lean in a little closer. If you want, we can say that's everything you've done for now

and I can keep moving. Yeah. Bart or Kyborg, does any of you have an idea for what you all want to do? Is there anything dangling above Quadrant? Like a big exploding chandelier or some exploding marbles? A chandelier made of C4. Yeah, so the dais is surrounded by a green liquid similar to what you saw in the lake, that corrosive stuff that kind of damaged you all A cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder cinder c In D&D terms, can Kyborg do a ready a strike? Yeah, you could. That being said, it would not proc during the surprise round.

So it basically would waste your surprise round and you could activate it during once initiative rolls. Because everyone gets one action right now for a surprise. I feel like we just went into this dialogue and all this stuff. So it's going to really throw Gum Gum's plan for a loop if I act and shoot Quadrant, you know. I think a great action for Kyborg is actually withholding action, because that's character growth. I'm looking through if I have anything.

Did he even hear? Right over his head. Right over. I thought you were going to say something like, I think forgiveness is the right action. No, no, no. Don't forgive Kyborg. No, no, no. What a twist. What a twist in the arc. No, I mean,, no. Don't forgive Qyborg. No, no, no. What a twist. What a twist in the art. No, I mean, I mean, Quadrant.

Don't forgive Quadrant. Well, I wonder what Gus and Micah would do if Blaine was like, you know what? Qyborg's going to forgive Quadrant. And let bygones be bygones. Well, that would require Quadrant to also accept it and change his ways. Is this the boss fight? Is this the boss fight?

Is this happening? I don't know. Don't think of it like video games. Don't think of it like video games. Don't think of it like video games. Well, because I have the longbow of crystallina, so if I have the opportunity, I can switch my bow over. Oh, do that. The thing is, though, is if, because if I claim that Quadrant

is, uh, with the longbow, I can do this thing where I, uh, I deem him my my, uh, nemesis. Enemy or whatever. My nemesis. But if I do that, then I get disadvantage on everything that doesn't go against Quadrant. So if we are not facing Quadrant for the final time right now,

then I'm going to mess myself up for, what, 10 days? That's just you announce it, right? So that's not even a turn thing. That's just like a free action. No, but switching his weapon. Yeah, but you don't have to announce it. Do it, do it. So I have to say forever, Winter.

The target of your attack becomes your sworn enemy until it dies or until seven days later. You can only have one such enemy at a time. When your sworn enemy dies, you can choose a new one. Don't overthink. Just do. All right, fine. I'm switching over to the bow of Kristalina, and then I've just got an arrow trained on Quadrant. Okay.

Do I have to scream forever winter, or can I mumble it under my breath so the bow gets the idea? You can whisper it gently to the bow. Okay, okay. I say, forever winter. Zero, I do it with Cooler. I do it. Forever winter.

And I have an arrow trained on him. Kyborg's growling at his bow. Yeah, I'm calling that canon as you did both. No, I need to do that again. Bart, what's up? How far is this center dais thing from us? You came in the door in the southwest corner. The dais is in the center. It's kind of a diagonal northeast from you.

We'll say it's between 40 to 45 feet or so. And don't forget, there is that green pool of liquid that's kind of in a semicircle along the southern edge. So if you want it to get to the dice from where you are, you have to go north, kind of around the pool and approach it from the north. Okay. So there's no like stairs or like bridges. It's like a moat. Yeah. It's almost like a moat. You'd have to go up to the northern wall and then kind of head southeast from there to get around it. You could try jumping over it. At its thinnest, it's five feet across. At its thickest, it's 10 feet across. I'll go try to get onto the center there and jump over so I don't have to go all the way around. So to do that, it's from the southern edge is the thinnest. We'll say it's about five feet across.

Okay, I'm gonna try to do that. So you're gonna head over from the south edge is the thinnest we'll say it's about five feet across okay i'm gonna try to do that so you're gonna head over from the south so the south is also where gum gum is so that actually works to your advantage because every tabooly in there in the southern portion has turned around and is facing south to see gum gum's distraction so you'd be able to to jump even though you're invisible and pass it out of trace no one's actually looking in the direction for this moment where you're doing this. So go ahead and make an athletics check to see if you can jump the five feet over. All right. Oh, thank God.

17. Nice. Oh, curses. It rolled from a four to a 14. And I was like, oh. We were kind of hoping you would jump and wouldn't roll so well. Just a big splash. Yeah, you are able to jump across.

It's not very big, but in your mind it's bigger than it actually is, but you managed to- How deep is it? You don't know. Okay. Because it's like an opaque green liquid you can't really see to the bottom. Okay. But yeah, you jump across to the dais and land on there. Is there anything else you want to do?

I guess technically you would get one action and movement. We'll say you moved here, so yeah, you could still do something if you wanted to. Okay. Question for the team. I could attempt to use Polymorph on Quadrant and change him into a different thing and push him in to the green liquid. Because I feel like this guy's a big guy and probably wouldn't. As cool as that sounds, man,

there's no world in which he fails that roll because he has such crazy modifiers. Like, didn't we try to do something to him in the last encounter in the flashback? And he just like, I don't know. What do you guys think? I think it also, doing that spell would break my invisibility, right, Gus? Polymorph is a concentration spell, so yes. Yeah.

Would it give away your position? Could you cast it and like, if we pass it, then hey, it works. If not, then no one knows just to clarify for how the spells work remember invisibility just gives you advantage on your stealth check uh so your invisibility would drop but you still do have pass without a trace which is giving you a plus 10 to your stealth so even though you would lose advantage you would still have plus 10 on at what percent of quadrant's body is metal would we say it looks like all of it because i also do have heat metal which would maybe hurt him a lot i see

the gears turning in barbara's head i just like i i guess it's like what direction do we go and do we try to take him out i'm on team gum gum right now that's where that's where mud is okay um i'm gonna cast heat metal on quadrant okay uh i was gonna just to clarify and like give a little more description specifically for this barbara it does appear that he is all metal with the exception of his four eyes you know his three regular eyes and then his glowing orange eye his eyes do not appear to be metal just for clarification okay i took that other he has four eyes yeah just to be clear, just for clarification. Okay. I took that other eye. He has four eyes. Yeah. Just to be clear, if you cast Heat Metal right now, you just walk right up to him and then

cast a spell and you're right next to him. Yeah, I know. I mean, I got to do something here. I'm going to actually try to tug at the prisoners and try to lead them away. Okay. We are all so on edge, man. This is rough. Pretty much the only direction you can go off the dais is north.

Like I said, the other sides are surrounded by that green liquid. So you want to try to tug them and pull them back to the north. You're trying to go back out that exit to the north or west or east around the liquid. What do you think? Probably the exit to the north. Okay. So you start kind of tugging on them to the north. Yeah.

And I maybe go, come with me. Come with me if you want to live. Come with me if you want to live. Yeah, yeah, I hear that from a distance. I go, yeah, yeah, that's cool. All right, now that everyone has taken like a little surprise action here, everyone just go ahead and roll initiative

so we can get things in order here. 16. 17. 11. 14. 14. We see Gus roll 20 D20s or whatever. 20, 20.

That's true. So just to clarify, Bart was 17, Gum Gum was 14, Kyborg was 11, and Mud was 16? Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Should I use my lucky? Why? I thought you were out.

I have one left. I got one. Don't use it for an initiative role. I just want to be the first to shoot Quadrant. Man, if it hadn't been for Miranda Lorien, I'd have literally all of my things. That exploding arm cannon thing and a bunch of cool arrows. Whose fault is that? You put a bunch of enemies in front of a boss battle.

You give us a save point. You give us a checkpoint before the boss battle does. You got to stop thinking about this like a video game. It's hindering you. Yeah. You can't. You're like, if only the non-playable character hadn't forced me to use all my good stuff to hit

all the buttons on D&D Beyond. All the buttons. I just thought it would be funny. Alright? So if, you know, last episode's gonna be real funny, you're welcome for my sacrifice. Where we all You're welcome for my sacrifice where we all die That's this episode that we all die The thing is exactly and you're complaining to like Barbara and I who are spell casters and we play the game all the time Of having to like figure out how to slowly use our spell slots, you know strategically

So we don't get to the end of stuff and don't have any spell slots. You're right Give me your spells. Give me your spells I cast call lightning on kyborg Need this polymorph on kyborg and turn it into a When it gets to your arc, all right, then then I'll give you whatever you need But sure sure this I cast conjure animals. Eight cows fall on Kyborg. No, no.

Okay, I'm finally done rolling my 35 initiative rolls over here. Bart, make me a stealth check. Just because you're close to everyone and you're moving prisoners now. With advantage though, right? With advantage, yes. And also an additional plus 10 because of pass without a trace yes so 34 hell yeah how is it 34 24 24 plus 10 with uh without a trace pass without trace how is your stealth modifier oh no no no my god no no no wait is your stealth modifier plus 10 oh are

you proficient in it? Yes. I mean, my stealth is just plus 10. Yeah, that's what it is. Yeah. What's your dex? My dex is plus seven on saving throws and plus four on checks. So it's 18 total.

Wait, wait. I guess like what number are you asking for? What's your dexterity? Like what's your dexterity? 18. Dang. I was looking at the wrong character sheet and it didn't make sense. I clicked over to your character sheet and it makes sense now, Barbara.

That's why I was like, I was looking at the wrong character. Now I look at it. I see all the numbers add up. That is correct. Yeah. Wow. Crazy. That is impressive.

All right. 24. I'll just for fun. I'm going to roll. I think this is an impossible roll for me, but I'm going to check anyway. 34. This is, yeah, definitely impossible for me. Yeah, there's no way.

I rolled 2d20 and I still didn't get to 34. Yeah, my performance and my stealth are my highest modifiers. So if we ever need sneaky boys, it is I. Bart's the guy. My highest one is my animal handling. So, Bart, you were up there on the dais and you're kind of pulling the prisoners away. You're kind of close to Quadrant and there's like four squadrons around him. They don't seem to take note of you as you're pulling the prisoners away.

They do all, however, notice Gum-Gum and their eyes are on him right now in the southern end of the room. They are familiar with you guys. So two of the squadrons that are up there decide they want to do something about Gum-Gum being down there in the south. What are they going to do? So it's their turn right now mine yet correct okay i just had you make a check because you're up there and close to them to make sure that they weren't gonna notice you and attack you okay so yeah the two of the squadrons that are up there see gum gum to the south and they say uh destroy all humanoids and they both fire it's very casual they're cold emotion. And they both fire. It's very casual.

They're cold, emotionless. They both fire lances out toward the south from their robotic bodies. Towards Gum-Gum, hitting AC 10 and 18. So I assume the 18 is a hit? 18 is a hit. A lance comes flying across the room and hits you, Gum-Gum, doing 15 points of damage. Okay. Bart, it is your turn.

And then after Bart is Mud. Chris is very broken up about that. I don't know. Maybe I'm reading Chris wrong, but I was thinking that it seems like we're just in full-on battle now and that the opportunity for, like, talking is gone. Well, that's up to you guys. The squadrons and quadrant are definitely against you guys. Chris was treating with the taboo-liens. So, I mean, that's TBD. to you guys, the squadrons and quadrant are definitely against you guys. Okay.

Chris was treating with the taboo lians. So, I mean, that's TBD. From your perspective, you don't necessarily know. Okay, yeah, fair enough. Who threw the thing at Gum Gum? One of the squadrons that's up there on the dais. How many squadrons are there? Four.

There's four on the dais next to quadrant. Goodness. Really quick, John, if you act like your arms fall off and it's all a cheat and that Quadrant's screwing them over, then you can turn them against because you're still a thing, right? Yeah, yeah, I got you. I got you. But it is Bart's turn right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, sorry. Could I try

to walk away from the dice with the prisoners towards the door now? Yeah, you absolutely can start doing that. All eyes are on that little wizard boy. Yeah, you absolutely can start doing that. All eyes are on that little wizard boy. Yeah, so I tug at their little chain. Just to clarify, I believe we said earlier, you're pulling them out to the north,

which is the closest exit where they came from. Yeah, I guess, do we want to bring them where they came from? But if it's an exit, it's an exit, so yeah. Yeah, the only other option would be the one to the southwest, which is kind of far. You'd have to make them jump over the liquid like you did. And I don't think they could make it. They're all chained up. Yeah, I'll take them to the north.

OK, yeah. You begin moving them. Make another so you can make a stealth check. They're going to have to make one independent of you. OK, that just means that and honestly, metagame wise, most likely it's going to be noticed that they're being moved, but you probably will not be noticed yourself.

Okay. I'll make a stealth check. 29. I guess you might don't have to do another one. No, but you still have the plus 10 as well for pass out of trace

because that's still up. So 39. 39. Okay. Yeah. It's ridiculous. All right. Yeah.

You begin leading the prisoners away out to the door to the north. Is there anything else you want to do? You get pretty close. Just FYI, with your full movement, you prisoners away out to the door to the north. Is there anything else you want to do? You get pretty close, just FYI. With your full movement, you're pretty much at the door after this move.

So if I cast Minor Illusion, I don't see that that's a concentration component. So am I able to cast a Minor Illusion and still keep my invisibility? So invisibility says the spell ends for a target that attacks or casts a spell. But this is a cantrip. But it's still casting a target that attacks or casts a spell but this is a cantrip but it's still casting a spell yeah normally a spell would drop if you have to cast something

that's like concentration but cantrips are still classified as spell so if you cast a cantrip invisibility ends okay well if i'm going to break my invisibility i want to do it with something a little more uh meaningful so could i now that we have moved off the platform could i cast cloud of daggers over the uh dice yes and i'm gonna do it at the third level i don't like that all right so you're gonna cast it on the dice let's see we got quadrant we got some squadrons and what's how big is the cube it fills? I think it's a five foot cube. Five foot cube. The range is 60 feet.

Yeah, yeah. I'm just trying to figure out how many enemies you'd be able to hit. Who do you want to center? I assume you want to get Quadrant in it. Yeah. Okay, I'll say you'd be able to get Quadrant and one of the squadrons that was next to him. We'll say the one that successfully attacked Gum-Gum. What about the other squadrons?

How close are they together so it's kind of like quadrant in the middle and then two squadrons on one side and two squadrons on the other side they're each grouped up together okay i think i'd rather hit two of the squadrons sure would you rather hit the two that have act or the two that have not act acted uh i'll take the ones that have acted okay go ahead and uh roll your damage on them oh here we go 16 so yeah a cloud of daggers appears on one side of the dais engulfing two of the squadrons which have already acted and uh yeah they do take damage from that and they flail around a little bit kind of trying to squat the daggers away from them. Zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot, zoot.

What's that? Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi. Sparks are flying off of their body as the daggers are slashing into them. And that's it for Barty Boy? Mm-hmm. All right, Mud, you're up. Then after Mud is Gum-Gum.

Mud slaps his knee and casts Guidance on himself. Yeehaw. Real knee slapper. Woo. And turns to the Tabulians and says That doesn't break your... Does not. Okay. This guy's self is not a concentration

spell. Wait, Tabulians have knees? Sorry. Okay, then I guess I slap my torso. And I say Oh, I've heard of that man, that Gum Gum. He's actually, I heard he's the man who found our ancient relic

that actually gives us our true form without the help of anything that this, whatever his face, Quadrant, if that's what his real name is, is selling us. I think he actually is uh is uh is on the up and up uh i like this i like this i like where this is going make a uh deception check uh mud one nat 20 nice uh which is a 19 19 that's pretty good and roll some insight for them i like the cut of this guy's jib.

They rolled a three on their insight check. So they're definitely hanging on your every word. What was that D4 for? Was that a mistake? That was my guidance. Oh, oh, oh, oh. So it's even higher then. 23. Okay, gotcha.

They begin murmuring amongst each other. Oh, really? The true form. No need for Armageddon? No. The Tabulians are very interested in what it is you're saying right now, Mud. I feel like we should be on his side and helping him out. This guy seems to be attacking this guy who has a way to our true form.

Oh, interesting. Interesting. The enemy of my friend is my enemy. Right? I mean, our true form Like it's weird that's our friend Can I respond to that No wait and then I drop the arms

From my disguised self can I do that Yeah if you want Even the arms that I got From Quadrant aren't even Permanent that's not even our true form This thing is full This guy is full of lies Umrah is true form. This thing is full of lies. Umrah is full of lies.

Umrah is full of lies. Umrah is full of lies. Umrah is full of lies. Umrah is full of lies. Shocking. What a turn. Yeah, the Tabulians are fully invested and they're starting to chant along with you. Vive la revolution!

Can I respond to that? I'm going to wait until your turn, Gum-Gum. Mud, is there anything else you want to do, or are you happy with that turn? Yeah, I just started really shaking with curiosity because I don't have arms anymore, so I can't do anything. Okay, so then, Gum-Gum, it's your turn,

then Kyborg, you're after that. Okay, well, I want to have raised my arm like I cast the daggers. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Do not attack me or you'll be destroyed. It is all true. Your so-called umrah is

wrong. He's deceiving. That's too clever for Gum Gum. No, it's just simple enough. He's deceiving you. That's too clever for Gum Gum. No, it's just simple enough. He's deceiving you. He plans to use all of you for his own evil plans. The real arms you look for do not come from Umrah and his evil magic. It comes from within you.

Umrah is the friendship you had along the way. And then I hold up the potion or the blood that we got from Otak, you know, whenever he... Here, this elixir is the beginning of a new... Beginning? A new beginning where all of you can grow arms and then begin your new life. But first, you must turn away from the evil lies of

M'ra. M'ra. So you're just holding the bottle up? Yeah, I show it to them, and then I will, well, yeah, I want to try and persuade them all to turn, like, the only way is to turn on him and show him for who he really is and take him down. Okay.

Yeah, just, you know, I've been, I had Mudd do the same thing. I need you to make me a deception check. Okay. Is that deception or persuasion? Deception, because you are lying. I mean, there's some truth in this. There's truth in that.. There's truth in that. There's some truth in that.

There is. Well, what would you say is wrong or a lie? You don't know that necessarily Umrah is leading them astray. And you are not. You don't have a way to give them arms. Well, I might. I have an idea. No, you don't.

I know you don't. The potion. The blood. But they drank it all over it. Or Mud drank it. And then they sucked Mud's blood to get it out. But then I got his blood. But you don't know that the blood necessarily can work that way. Well, I'm going to use my inspiration die on that one.

Because I'm so glad you have an inspiration die. You rolled a six. That's an 11. 11. A little better. But I also have a butt slap. Yeah, you do. You just slap his butt. What dice is that? D4. You also have a butt slap. Yeah, you do. Yeah. You just slap his butt.

What dice is that? D4. You can have multiple butt slaps going. Mud? Let's say yeah. So that's 13. It's not much added to him. So 13.

13. Okay. Let's see. I'm going to roll. Their insight is at a minus one here. So you would want this to be 14 or less. Oh, come on. Seven. Yes. Yes. Even without. Oh, come on. Seven. Yes. Yes. Even without us cheating, we win.

Yeah, they begin chanting, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum. And then I guess I'll rage. Okay. Seems like a good time for it. Yeah. I'll see what that does. Wow. Gum gum establishing that relationship

back in Pius' past was actually worth something like we're all like you dummy. It always comes back around. It does. Yeah. Look at this go.

I'm honestly shocked. I thought it was a waste of time but yeah having those names and the blood it's working out. Yeah. It was all part of our genius plan Gus.

Yes. So I teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space. I can see. So where would be the place where I could teleport that would have the biggest, like...

Get right up in Quadrant's face, maybe, so you can do barbarian stuff? Yeah, I'll teleport right next to Quadrant. Just front on him. So now I'll teleport, you know, I chanted to attack him and pointed. Yeah. And then I teleport next to him.

Okay. Yeah. And then I'll strike recklessly down with my axe. Okay. Get down with the sickness. How many episodes have we made reference to that? I get to attack, do it twice. Okay.

So I'll use the first one, which is 26. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that hits. That's 12 damage against him, and I'm, like, aiming for his, like, eye. His eyes. I don't know if I can do that. Okay, cold shot.

Yeah, sure, why not? So, you know, you get so mad that you teleport right up next to Quadrant. You take a swing at him with the axe, aiming for his eye, and right as your take a swing at him with the axe, aiming for his eye. And right as your axe is about to impact with his eye, he quickly grabs a squadron next to him and swaps places with it. And you end up hitting one of the squadrons instead. Okay.

Doing 12 points of damage. Nice. And then I have a second action, a second attack as well. Okay. And I also scream, begin the revolution! So can I not attack quadrant in game you wouldn't know but i'll tell you metagame that's one of like quadrant's abilities it's just a reaction where i'll tell you once per round he can uh he can do that or he can swap places with someone who's close to him so is he like now not next to me uh he's still within melee range they were like right next each other. So you just have to turn to a diagonal

if you want to attack Quadrant now. And then I'll, yeah, I'll turn to Quadrant and then attack him again. It would be 14. Yeah, 14 misses. Dang it. I guess that's it. All right.

Because I mean, I called upon them to attack him and then teleport and attack. Gum Gum's a revolutionary. He's starting an uprising here. Well, with help. Yeah. Kyborg, how do you feel about that? Oh, I've been waiting for this moment my whole life.

So, Quadrant's not my sworn enemy, because I said forever winter, so I'm just going to take a shot with the Belongbow of Crystallina. Do it. That's a 21. That hits. All right. Doing nine points of damage.

But it says, if the attack hits, your sworn enemy takes an extra 3d6 cold damage. But first, let's get a little icy hot up in here because I still got flame arrows from the last episode. So that's 1d6 fire. So I'm going to do a d6 roll. I'm like nervous. I'm horribly nervous. That's a 6. All right.

And yeah, you're seeing a person who murdered your entire family right in front of you so yeah this is not a good feeling but it is a good feeling because we're gonna kill him now I'm gonna switch back over to cold damage which is 3d6 and that is 12 points of damage okay cool that's fun yeah you uh hit quadrant who starts looking around with fury to see the source of the attack uh and then between my attacks i say i will have my revenge and then uh i shoot another longbow of crystallina arrow 18 that. Alright, that is 6 points of damage plus 1d6 fire damage because of the fire arrows. That's 1 point additional.

Shoot. That's better than 0. Yeah. So 3d6 cold damage. Let's get them special arrows. 13. Okay. A lot of damage. It's a lot of damage. Quadrant's orange eye glows almost red with anger and fury as it locks onto Kyborg.

Probably need to get this eye out of him too. Well, then while he's doing that, then I turn, I pan, I moon him. I moon him. I say, lock onto this. Target lock onto this. You're like, that's the full moon of everwinter you're looking at and I slap it a couple of times

I'm like the blood moon is out so kyborg removes his armor I'm hearing is he wearing armor over his posterior he was I pull it back up it It's right back up.

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should I just do extra cold damage or should I be doing fire? Can I perceive whether, which ones would be more effective, the fire or the ice or both hitting? I'll give you this one. Since Kyborg has a long history with Quadrant and presumably has been studying and learning over his entire life for how best to defeat Quadrant, from your knowledge of after all these years, you would know that cold and fire are equally damaging to Quadrant.

If I make chromatic infusion like fire, even though it's shooting ice arrows, is that negated at all? Or can it just look like a really cool ice flaming arrow no no flaming ice okay cool then i'm gonna make them uh flaming arrows cool so i have flaming arrows plus chromatic infusion plus their ice arrows so they're just like i'm sponsored by shack and icy hot it's funny you say that we were joking on the side here that it sounded like you were about to do an ad read before you started attacking for Iced Hot. You're Todoroki from My Hero Academia. Oh, oh, heck yeah, John. Did you say Academia? Yeah, My Hero Academia.

Yeah, My Hero Academia. Academia, isn't it? Yeah, Barbara, it's an anime. I'm with you, Barbara. Academia is how you pronounce it? That's how I would. I don't know. Okay, I think maybe my brain goes Academy, so Academia. That makes sense it? That's how I would. I don't know. Okay. I think maybe my brain goes academy.

So academia. That makes sense. But that's my turn. Roll for correctness of pronunciation. 100%. It's probably one of those words I read. Like, there's so much of my vocabulary that I read in a comic book before ever hearing anybody say it. So I had to just come up with my own pronunciation of a lot of words.

Yeah, things are really going awry right now. I mean awry. Shoot. You put the emphasis on the wrong syllable. God, that's... Oh, I hate that. Okay, now that Kyborg's done, it's a bunch of their turns,

and then eventually Bart is going to come back to you. Just FYI. Eventually. Okay, well, first up, we have Quadrin, who is very angry. Why? he's just been attacked like crazy what's his deal he not get good rest last night and he sees his enemy kyborg showing him his bum his bum his bum bum all right he's going to make a beeline for quadrant for uh kyborg he runs into a mirror you have to go over thatat? He has all those arms and legs so he can move in a like, he can crawl

and or walk like a biped. What he actually does is he jumps up to the ceiling, grabs onto it and climbs across the ceiling or down the wall over to close the distance next to you, Kyborg. That's my move. Yeah, it's a very spider mud move. Pulls up close

and swings a fiery arm at you. Two can play at this game. He hits AC 22. Sure. Which I assume is a hit. Yeah. You'll allow it? Yeah, yeah.

Only because you took your armor off of your butt. That's the only reason why. No, no, no. Does that confirm Kyborg's a moon elf? Hey. It does eight points of slashing damage. However, it is on fire, so it also does six points of fire damage. Gift of the Chromatic Dragon, Reactive Resistance.

When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage, you can use your reaction to give yourself resistance to that instance of damage. Ooh. So you take three then from fire. Okay. There goes my 10 points. Bye-bye. Quadrant says, nice party trick. And then hits you with another arm

with pure like slamming force. Hitting AC 23. Yeah, that's a hit. That's a hit. Yikes. So he gets plus seven to his rolls, I guess. Yikes. He's doing 31 points of bludgeoning damage.

What was the roll on that? What did you roll for that? A bunch of D10s. Yeah, he rolled a bunch of D10s. I can't lucky roll that then, unless I lucky rolled his attack. Right, you would have had to have done it immediately. Yeah. How much was that again?

31 points of bludgeoning damage. Hey, guys, Kyborg's tanking this one. He's got it. Oh, my God. Things are not looking well for Kyborg right now. And now you need to make a strength saving throw. Strength saving throw. All right.

Come on, come on. That's a one. Oh, my God. Lucky. We're using lucky. I thought you used them all. No, no. This was his one.

He keeps saying it, but he hasn't used it. 18. Yeah, I think this is a good use. It is so much damage. It almost knocks you to the ground, but you like steal yourself, you know, maybe like drops you to one knee, but you like pull yourself back up.

You managed to avoid being knocked down by the massive amount of damage. And you only let a little bit of poo come out out of how much that hurt. Good thing my pants are already pulled down. Gross. only let a little bit of poo come out out of how much that hurts good thing my pants are already pulled down then uh quadrant swings again with a different arm this time yikes yeah this one is kind of a tentacle looking arm hitting ac 16 i'm a 16 that hits doing 29 points of damage. Are you like, okay? No, I'm not. It's going to take one more hit and I'm dead.

Well, lucky for you, that is his final attack. There you go. On this round. How much damage has he taken, Quadrant? It was like 50 something. It took quite a bit. I think he took 56. How's he looking?

He's like sparking a little bit. You know, things are a little rough at the edges yeah but he's like he you know pulls himself up to his full height because remember he is large and you know lords over you kyborg looks down and just says pathetic it's the taboo lians turn who are being roused to insurrection at this point yay they're also in the clod of daggers are they not no no those are the squadrons. Squadrons. Oh, oh, sorry. These are the Tabulians who Gum-Gum has inspired to overthrow Quadron. With Mutt's help.

Yeah, with Mutt's help. Let's see. What would they do? I'm just trying to- Gum-Gum's campaign manager. So you told them to overthrow Quadron. You went up and attacked him. I'm just trying to figure out if they're going to attack the squadrons that are still up there, or if they're going to go after Quadron because he moved.

How many are there? Could they... There's a bunch. Yeah, there's a bunch. They're all kind of in a group that's like mob mentality almost. You know, they're all strength in numbers kind of thing. You know what? The green pool does not affect them. So they're all going to dive into that and go straight up to the dais and begin attacking the squadrons up there. Yeah. These rolls you don't have to worry about. These are just for me. I'm doing, they're attacking the squadrons.

I'm going to just do a few things. I do feel like independence rules are happening here. This is a mothership situation. So I'm going to, you're going to see me roll a bunch of dice. This is because there's just a bunch of different things all at once. Not because Not because this is all a damage. We are all simultaneously.

I'm really glad they're on our side now yeah could you imagine no one of the squadrons up on the dais falls down not functional any longer yay is it one of the ones that got damaged thus far yes okay then as it falls motionless, it explodes. That's right. Gear and flames reaching everywhere. Some of the Tabulians fall over, dying in the explosion, but the rest of them seem energized by the combat that's going on. Some of them died? Yeah. It's a big crowd of them.

Oh, I feel kind of bad. You did this, Gum-Gum. For the cause. For the cause. Y'all are making me fight myself. We should give them a hero's funeral after uh okay so that was then that was the taboo lians present arms oh oh all right so now it's some of the remaining squadrons that are up there oh what would they do they don't see bart they see gum gum

up here they're being swarmed by tabooians. Kyborg and Quadrant are fighting. They're going to fight some of the Tabulians because that's the immediate pressing. And are they still in the cloud of daggers? That is not these. That's the next ones that are going to act, but yes. And only one has died so far of these. One of the squadrons.

Of the four. Okay. A few more of the Tabulians fall, but they're still a relatively strong crowd. Now some of the other squadrons go. These are the ones in the cloud of daggers roll me more cloud of daggers damage if you could bart oh yeah um and i cast it at this third level you said third level yeah okay all right that's only 11 jesus okay still that's a good amount of damage the remaining squad drone that's in the cloud of dagger steps out of it does some more damage some

more of the tabooliants fall down. Bart, you're up. Okay. I'm sorry, before you go, Bart, your sending stone is buzzing. Oh, could I pick it up? No time for booty calls, Bart. Sheriff Gov has been in touch. You're not alone.

Help is on the way. Oh, thank lord. Alrighty. Well, thank goodness cause we're not looking real good and I

I make direct eye contact with kyborg he's like coughing up blood could I open like am I near the exit door now uh yeah

you are at the door yeah it's open okay could I like shuffle the prisoners out the door yeah are you going with them or are you just like pushing them out the door? I'm pushing them out.

Okay. Yeah. They disappear through the door. Okay. And you're staying in this room, right? Yes. Okay. I must help my team.

All right. Look at you. How far am I away now from a quadrant? He's about, we'll say 40 feet on a diagonal from you. The other squad drones are still on the dais, yes? Correct. And how far is that away from me now? It's just behind you.

What is that? About 15 feet? 15 feet? Maybe 20, but yeah, it's close. I would like to cast Thunder Wave. Thunder Wave. And try to push them back and have them fall into the acid. Okay, and that's a 15-foot cube coming out from you.

That would hit all the remaining squad drones as well as the Tabulians that they're engaged with currently. Is there a limit to how many people it affects? It just says each creature in a 15-foot cube originating from you must make a constitution saving throw. Yeah, it would affect all of them. There are three remaining squad drones as well as the Tabulians. Okay.

Right side is they're resistant to that poison stuff. So if they fall in, they're fine. Yeah. But they still might take thunder damage. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Would it push them out of the daggers though?

It would. But I mean, that's a compromise. You can take this damage instead. All right. So they need to make constitution saving throws. Is that correct, Bart? Yes. Bart, to cast thunder wave, he does the thing where he smashes his fists together

and pushes them out. Cool. Thunder Wave! What's the save on this? I think it's 14, if I remember right. 14, yeah. All right, here's the first one. Has a minus one.

That's a failure. Oh, is this hitting me? Oh, this would hit Gum Gum too. I forgot you were up there, Gum Gum. I did too. The Tabulians. 13. What is their modifier?

What is... Plus one. 14. They make the save. Yeah, they're good. The two other squadrons. They are plus one. So one of them makes it, one of them fails.

And GumGum, you go ahead and roll it as well. Okay. Come on, GumGum. I don't want to hurt you. You did. That's 12 so roll your 2d8 thunder damage uh bart i did it at the third level oh okay roll your appropriate d8 damage then so how much d8 4d8 oh bart's getting strong 24 so the taboo liens take half because they saved the squad drones. It doesn't matter. Even the one that saved,

they all fall down motionless and are shoved away. Two of them explode in the liquid below. One of them explodes up top, however. So that means gum gum. You're up here. I forgot you were up here. Make me a dexterity saving throw.

19. Very good. 19. Okay. Yeah me a dexterity saving throw. 19. Very good. 19. Okay, yeah, that's successful. Gum Gum, you take a little bit of damage from the exploding squadron. You take five fire and five piercing. But two piercing and five fire

because you're raging. Two piercing. So seven total. Seven plus the 24. Yes. The second Bart casts that and hits everybody and as it's coming out of his fists, he notices Gum Gum's up there and he goes, 24? Yes. The second Bart casts that and hits everybody. And as it's coming out of his fists, he notices Gum-Gum's up there and he goes,

No! It's only 31 damage. It's okay. I'll heal you later, Gum-Gum. It was only half my life. But on the bright side, you did clear the squadrons out from up top there. Yes. Excellent.

And got the prisoners to safety. All right. Yes. Looking good. All right. Is that it for you, Bart? How far is Kyborg from me? About 40 feet or so.

Can I give him some bardic inspiration? Let's see. Does it go that far? Yeah. It's a 60 feet range. Yeah, absolutely then. All right. I'm going to give bardic inspiration. That's a 60 feet range. Yeah, absolutely then. All right. I'm going to give Bardic Inspiration.

That's a 1d8. Thank you, Bardic. I'll use it. They could use it for ability check, attack roll, or saving throw. Sweet. I'll use it for a death saving throw here in a second. Yeah. You might have. I mean, actually.

Is that it for you, Bardic? Yeah. All right. After Bardic is Mud, then after Mud is Gum Gum. Mud, you're Bart? Yep. All right, after Bart is Mud, then after Mud is Gum Gum. Mud, you're up. Okay, since I'm not surrounded by tubulians anymore, I guess I can drop the disguise and become my glorious fear bog. Yeah.

How far am I from Quadrant? You from Quadrant, let's see. You're a little closer than Bart. I'd say 30, 35 feet or so. Okay. I'd like to do a few things. One, I'd like to cast Conjure Animals. And Conjure eight Constrictor Snakes.

Ooh. Felt like that's in theme. And they all attack Quadrant with Constrict. No! Which is a melee attack that upon hit, the target is grappled and the creature is restrained until they can escape it with a DC save. Okay, so you have to hit then, correct?

So I'm just going to roll eight d20s. Okay. Okay, so I'll just go numbers and you tell me if it's a hit uh 15 no 16 yes 19 yes uh 12 is a no 6 is a no 8 is a no 16 is a yes yes and nine's a no so three hit yes so i'm gonna roll for damage which is 15 bludgeoning damage. And now he is being grappled by three of them. Well, I don't like that. I do.

And on top of that, Mud's going to try and use a combat wild shape. And I turn into an aurochs. Ooh. Beautiful. Barbara's eyes just lit up. Yeah. We're all inspired. I heard aurochs and I got excited.

I'm going to charge Quadrant and try to get between him and Kyborg. Oh. Right before you charge, when you turn into the aurochs, you just hear Bard go, Daddy, sorry. Daddy, sorry. Okay, cool. I guess charge is like an Aurox-specific trait or something? So charge is specifically,

it's actually something that more so if I do an attack as an Aurox, which I can't because the, oh wait, it's combat. No, because conjure animals was my spell. I'm more so describing to you that I want to use my movement to get up into like, to just kind of, like, run at Quadrant and try to get between him and Kyborg. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, that's pretty cool. It is a Aurox

move, but it's a thing that you do with connection to an attack as well. Got it. Okay, yeah, I just want to make sure I'm on the same page. Is that all you can do, Mud? Yes. Not that it was very little or anything. Alright, that means it is Gum-Gum's turn, then after Gum-Gum is Kyborg. So where am I? You're still... You're on mud? Yes. Not that it was very little or anything. All right. That means it is Gum-Gum's turn. Then after Gum-Gum is Kyborg.

So where am I? You're still... You're on the dais. He got pushed. Yeah. Oh. You're teetering on the edge of the dais from where you were, right on the edge of that green liquid.

So you're at the southern edge of the dais. How far am I from Quadrant? You probably teleport, right? You're pretty close. I'd say you're maybe 25 feet or so. So he's constricted by three snakes right now, right? Yeah. Correct.

Can I teleport right to him? Or like right? Is he standing or is he on the ground? Standing. He's restrained. He's not prone. Yeah. Then I want to teleport, I guess, behind him and then reach around and grab his eye.

Cool. Very cool. Interesting. Okay, don't forget, he would see you coming. Don't forget, he has four eyes, two in each direction. But yeah, absolutely. You can totally do that. Yeah, he is a four eyes nerd.

I mean, but I teleport. So like he couldn't see me teleport. I'm just saying like he would know when you appear behind him. Not like he wouldn't know. That wouldn't be just like a hand that comes around and grabs his eye. I'm not trying to tell you don't do it or it's bad. I'm just trying to like let would know when you appear behind him not like he wouldn't know that wouldn't be just like a hand that comes around and grabs his eye i'm not trying to tell you it don't do it or it's battery i'm just trying to like let you know remind it's just a reminder he has four eyes okay nerd i'm just gonna play keep away with this uh with his eye i guess yeah i don't know what is that like yeah you're gonna have uh an advantage on this because he is restrained. What would that be? We'll say like a... Strength?

Slide a hand, maybe? Because it's not like you're using your sheer strength. Like, you're trying to be precise and grab this one item off of him and pull it. So, I'm inclined to say slide a hand. Or like, it's going to be something dexterity based as opposed to strength based. Acrobatics?

Roll a slide a hand check, but I'll give you advantage because he's restrained. He's thrice restrained. Come on. Sneak friends. Bad rolls. An eight. His head's just moving around so quickly. Even though his limbs are restrained,

he's still able to move his head, and he dodges his head away at the last second from your hand. Well, then I'll use my second attack and do it again. So what happens is it's like you get two attacks per action. It's not that you get two actions. Like a slider hand check is an action. So that wasn't like an attack.

See, I viewed it as like I'm trying to grab him. He's saying it's an action. Like an unarmed strike? Yeah. Or you didn't strike him. I thought it was an unarmed strike? Yeah. Or you didn't strike him. I thought it was an unarmed strike, but it was, in fact, his entire action. So he took away two of his attacks. Oh, what?

Yes, and. Yes, and. Sure. Why not? Go for it. Okay. No precedent is being set here. Yes.

Thank you. That's my new favorite catchphrase. Yeah. Yes, and. No, his catchphrase is, I'm not setting a precedent. I reserve the right to not do catchphrase. Yeah. Yes, and? No, his catchphrase is, I'm not setting a precedent. I reserve the right to not do this next time. Yeah.

So that's a 14. Yeah, Gum-Gum, you were initially very dismayed when you failed to pull out the orange eye, but then in a flash, you remembered, Gum-Gum has two hands. And you reach around with your other hand and swipe at the orange eye and you manage to successfully pull it out.

Yes. As you pull it out, Quadrant howls in anguish. He collapses to the ground. His front right eye is loose from his head, now in your hand. Suddenly the automaton's iron plating tumbles to the floor. One by one, each of his arms drops from his head, now in your hand. Suddenly, the automaton's iron plating tumbles to the floor.

One by one, each of his arms drops from his torso until all that's left is a scaly serpentine body with wings. Oh, I knew it! I knew. Quadros could be a snake. Quadros didn't use a snake all along. Squadrons, hurry!

Help me! As he turns to look for his automaton forces, you see that they're crumpled on the ground, exploded. Yeah, that's right. That's right, baby. What's more, all of the orange arms that the Tabulians had have also fallen to the floor as well. You can't stop the inevitable, Kyborg. Armageddon is upon us.

I have seen the future. Tabulians, bring me the orange diagym at once. What? They're on our side. He's trying to make his case. He's trying to make his persuasion check. That's silly. What do they do?

Is this Quadrant's action? Because I got an action up next. I got a lot of arrows that are burning a hole in my quiver, man. He's talking. Yeah, this is just a reaction to the orange eye being replaced or being taken. I'm just standing there with my phone in a drawer. Mud, as an aurochs, just starts chanting, Mm, wrong.

Mm, wrong. Mm, wrong. Mm, wrong. They still think you're saying, Mm, wrong, though, because it's so close. Gum Gum, do you have anything else? I guess I haven't moved yet, right? Is teleporting, I guessing just like a bonus action?

It's his magic rage thing. Yeah, you have not moved. I should say you have not taken a movement action. Yeah, I don't know if it's better for me to stay away from him with the eye. Maybe take a few steps away. Well, with that, I guess it wouldn't be an attack. He's restrained. He's restrained.

Yeah, so yeah, I guess I'll take a step between, I guess, Kyborg. Put Mud in front and then take a step back towards between Mud and Kyborg. So get behind the Aurochs. Yeah. There it is. I was like, I was trying to think of like. So the order is Quadrant, Aurochs, Gum Gum, Kyborg. Physically speaking, correct?

Okay. Yes. I'm on the other side of the room. All right. Is that it for Gum Gum? Yeah. All right. Kyborg, you're up. Then Quadrin, then Bart.

Here we go. All right. I just shuffle a little bit over to get a clear line of shot, but not so much that I want to give up my cover, graciously provided by both mud and gum gum. Big cow, big cover. Yes, yes. I'm going to say for mom,

and then I'm going to draw my bow back and shoot with the longbow of crystallina. Also, I have advantage. So that's a 25. We're going to roll that again. Just for the heck of it. It's a 13, but we'll take that 25. That's a hit.

All right. And then that does 11 points of damage. Ouch. But then we also have the flame arrow graciously provided by my friend Bart. So that's a D6. Not Bart. I gave you the Bartic inspiration. Shoot.

Mud gave you. Graciously provided me by mud. That's a one. The Aurox kicks him a little bit with a hoof down boy down uh so that's that flaming arrow but i also have uh gift of the chromatic dragon no no no no

say it okay uh but i also have gift of the chromatic dragon there it is 1d4 actually no before i roll that i want to roll Gift of the Chromatic Dragon. There it is, brother. 1d4. Actually, no, before I roll that, I want to roll... I want to roll the 3d6 cold damage. So we're going to go fire, then ice.

Let's get an icy hot sponsorship on this podcast. 16. That's a lot of damage. That's actually... That would do a lot, because that messes you up if you ever put your hands in hot water after being out in the snow. Plus, now we go back to

Gift of the Chromatic Dragon. And then that's a three. All right. So how's he looking? How's Quadrant looking? What was that total? Oh man, I don't remember at this point. I just keep the final tally.

31. He's looking a little worse for wear. Yeah, you're definitely you definitely have the upper hand now. Okay. All right. Well, this one's for dad. So then I pull back to the longbow of Chrislena take another shot. I got an advantage.

That's a 27 and that's a one but we'll just ignore that one. Yep. Wow, a 27 and a one. And then first I'll do damage on that. That's an eight. Ouch. And then we do fire arrow gifts from mud. That's a five.

Okay. And then we're going to go with 3d6 cold damage from the longbow. That is 10. Okay. And then we'll top it off with a little bit of d4 from Gift of the Chromatic Dragon. That's a 2.

Okay. Yeah, you fire this arrow and it flies towards Quadrant and the spirit of your family rushes out like rose ghosts and charges into Quadrant's scaly body. Yeah! Yeah!

Make me a perception ghosts and charges into Quadrant's scaly bodies. Yeah! Yeah! Make me a perception check, Kyborg. Okay, watch me fail this real quick. Oh, not bad. 19. You feel like the ground is shaking beneath your feet. You hear like a rumble and a wham and a bang. Smarsh breaks through into the cavern.

What? Smarsh! Smarsh iss. What? Smarsh! Smarsh is king! Smarsh is king! He begins riding around, smashing the remains of the squadrons and pummeling the quadrant. Smarsh is riding around in a fit of excitement,

crashing his colossal purple head into each of the cave walls. Oh! Smarsh! Smarsh! Smarsh! Smarsh! Smarsh! Smarsh! Smarsh, Smarsh, Smarsh, Smarsh, Smarsh, Smarsh, Smarsh, Smarsh, Smarsh,

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Oh. X to stage right. That's not good. To find out what happens, you're going to have to tune in next week to see if our brave party is able to escape in time. I had a lot of fun this week, guys.

Y'all took this in unexpected directions. Yeah, I'm curious to know how you guys thought we would tackle that situation. Well, we thought, you know, combat, hand-to-hand, straight in. You know, roll initiative, kill everyone. But y'all took it in an interesting way. I'm glad you did.

I'm excited to catch up with Smarsh. What's he been up to? The adventures of Smarsh. Smashing. Ruling, being king, you know, that kind of stuff. But yeah, we'll be back next week to find out what happens. Can't wait. Bye. Oh, Dron! Thank you.