The Glass Cannon Podcast - Giantslayer Episode 194 - A Wail of Two Pretties

Episode Date: February 12, 2019

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This week on the Glass Cannon Podcast, Licking Their Wounds. I sort of feel maybe some of the effects, but I'm not sure yet. But I gotta say, I'm not feeling very well, Pimbroke. The heroes scour the chapel. You see that the rock sort of ends, and there is an opening. An attempt to find a way forward. I'd like to see what lies beyond. But just as they begin to orient themselves

It's heading towards our goals, Pembroke. Where are we getting off track here? I don't know, but one never knows when one might find something that will help one, does one? One does not. Well said, well put. They soon find themselves caught between a rock. In the distance you hear

a strange sound start to echo up the cavern. And a cold place. And you start to feel really, really cold. Because all of a sudden, buffets of severe winds and snow start flying at you and around the corner. What? The adventure continues. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on a minute. I just realized

we never rested.k.a. Baron Ashpeak. I hope all of you are getting ready for Valentine's Day, a date shared with my mother's birthday. Happy birthday to Mary Berger, former Glass Cannon podcast guest and all around the best mother in the world, at least by my count. Maybe I'll get her something special for her birthday this year, something cool and fashionable

like the new Howie t-shirt now available on our website. It's a cool design and available to anyone who wants it, but grab them fast because there's only a limited supply. There also might be an Iron Tusk coin or maple syrup shirt if you want to check. Just saying.

Those Howie shirts made their debut at Glass Cannon Live Chicago, which I can't believe is already in the rear view, and up next, Glass Cannon Live Dallas. We might have something else cool to debut there, so you had better get your tickets or you'll miss out. We will be continuing the Strange Aeons campaign February 23rd at Canton Hall where the doors open at 7pm. Lastly, as if the 14th wasn't jam-packed with enough exciting events like Valentine's Day and Mary Burger's birthday, the 15th is also extra special for those of you in and around Denver. On the 15th, I want you to head

over to the Tabletop Tap in Inglewood at 7 p.m. to grab some drinks with your favorite wizard, Skidmar, and super special friend, Eleanor DiLorenzo. All right, that's it. That's all. Buckle up, because the Imagination Copter is taking off. Enjoy episode 194. 94. Ba, ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba. Ba, ba, ba.

You watched that today. I did. New Hope. It was on TNT. Empire. That's a national network? network no that's not the national they were doing it was weird they went empire to new hope to rogue one it's like i need to talk to the program director that's that's just really incorrect i thought you were doing the lullaby version of the imperial war that's right that's what i sing to archer every night just trying to turn his heart black it's funny i. I got him, for Christmas, I got him these two little plush dolls.

Did I tell you this, Joe? No. One is Luke and one is Darth. And he was going through this phase where he would just grab Luke and just scream in Luke's face. And I'm like, it looks like he's been tempted by the dark side. Matthew, do you know the name of that song that I was humming? The Imperial March. Close.

It is the Imperial March to 200. Oh! You just got served. Bird, look at his face. It's got egg all over it. Give that guy a towel. It's got egg all over his... Your face stinks of raw egg.

All over his face. Clean that up. Salmonella. Salm that up. Salmonella. Salmonella. Salmonella. Hamburger. I thought, well, I was technically incorrect because it was Imperial March. Parentheses.

Darth Vader's theme. Parentheses. The March of 200. If you will. Well, here we are. Episode 194. It's getting close, fellas. Getting close.

Getting close. Getting stronger every day. Just wondering, still figuring this all out. I had a really crazy idea this morning as I was doing some prep work for 200. I was like, oh, I've got it. I've got something very, very big. And I can't tell you, but just remind me to tell you that thing. Remind me to tell you that thing.

The crazy thing. Yeah, what was that thing, Troy? After you that thing the crazy thing what was that thing troy wouldn't after you uh saying the imperial march crazy the bad idea you were talking about the really bad idea that ended up not working out and derailed the show in the business the one you thought of while you were half drunk and watching empire strikes back was it a similar idea where you were like we're gonna do episode 100 and what was it gonna be 75 minutes yeah yeah yeah five hours later you remember that episode 100 you were like uh yeah we might run an hour and a half but uh we got to get it all in sometimes you just you just have to go five hours later i think episode 200 is going to be a seven-parter

it's going to be big oh god the fans they deserve it right and then uh they won't have an episode 201 the next week i'm not questioning whether the fans deserve it, because they definitely deserve it. What I'm questioning is your ability to gauge time. Yeah. Sometimes you just get lost in it, Matthew. You do an improv, and you're just so into character. You just got to close your eyes and dream a little bit. And then when you come out on the other side, and it's eight hours later, so be it.

So be it, Grant. It's strange how time travels so slowly in the imagination copter that's true you know you're going so fast in that thing and you're taking off vertically how does that huey stay up amazing um this episode brought to you by huey huey for all your imagination copter needs we're all about the industrial military are they still making copters hueys are still in service they Hueys are still in service. Nice. Let's look.

I don't know if they're new. I don't know if we've bought any more. They're just still maintenance. Does anyone agree with me that Huey Lewis is better than Bruce Springsteen? Am I the only one? You might be the only one. All right. I just enjoy Huey Lewis more than Bruce Springsteen.

Oh, you're fucking wrong. Well, you're from Jersey. Of course you're going to say that. Who are you? Patrick Bateman? I just love Huey Lewis. With or without the news? I will tell you, I've known people that went and saw Bruce on Broadway.

My mom texted me. She's never listened to Bruce Springsteen in her life. She's like, Grant, I'm coming in February. Can you get us tickets? No, Mom, no. Because they were $800 and you have to sell a kidney to get them. Maybe that's why she's not coming to see us in Dallas. Yeah. she'll be there mary burger will be there don't worry about it joe i went and i did not pay i did however have to stop a final i was giving for my college students

so i could get on the phone with my wife who was trying to buy us tickets i was like somebody was like giving a final presentation you're like i have an emergency my phone was going off and i could see it happening i was like we have to stop hey shut up shut up this this couldn't be involved this can involve the boss i didn't i explained why i stopped them and they all supported me but at the time it was a little weird i don't dislike the boss but i'm not in love why you finish up with bruce brinkley bruce brsteen i feel like is the original uh equivalent to like beyonce fans like you can't say anything negative about him or else they freak out right they freak it's like a low rent huey lewis it's what i call it it's like a low rent now i don't know enough

to get into this argument neither destroy but it hasn't stopped him but isn't didn't bruce springsteen do like a ton of songwriting that he didn't sing for other people like a ton not a ton but i mean big hits i thought that there were some big hits that were like sneaky written by bruce springsteen you might because the night was was was his well then he went back and recorded that one oh but then i thought there were like a lot and so you're thinking maybe somebody was going off of me one time about bruce springsteen and how amazing they are and uh by the end of it i was like oh i was really drinking the kool-aid i was like he's he's the greatest ever uh there were some really convincing arguments i mean prince wrote a lot

of big hits manic monday for a lot of people yeah well prince is also prince yeah prince a whole different ball that's my bruce springsteen okay there's also a vault of the vault of uh of unrecorded song or unreleased songs that maybe we'll get to hear maybe not so we're not going to hear it on this podcast matthew because it's not in the public domain so take your love of springsteen and your love of that terrible state and get out of the back are we talking about new jersey or minnesota we're gonna talk about prince we're gonna talk about Pembroke and Feyraza leveling up. Yeah. Leveling up.

Oh, high-level casters. Yeah, man. For the record, the Huey is manufactured by Bell. Not, I thought. Ah, okay. Like the ones who make the telephones? Not, in fact, the ones who make the telephones. Huh.

Bell, hell. Fun way to distract away from yet another spell mishap on your part. Yeah, about that. So I hope when Feyraza leveled up here, she gained some wisdom that you can't have multiple polymorph spells active. You have to specify that Matthew needs the wisdom. Feyraza is very wise. Matthew is not. Yes.

What is her wisdom? Feyraza's wisdom is 18 I believe and what's yours less than that yeah less than that decidedly less let's just let's start with the

with the Osirian druid here what do you get what do you get at this crazy we're 12th level now 12th level everyone is 12th level

this is wild that's right wow I got there for free yeah I just had to die We're 12th level now? 12th level. Everyone is 12th level? This is wild. That's right. Wow. I got there for free. Yeah. I just had to die to get there. I did nothing. None of my characters died.

I played poorly right into 12th level. We fertilized the beautiful plant that is Dalgrith with the corpses of your previous characters. So it blossomed beautifully. Yes. Tell me what you got yes tell me what you got show me what you got uh not a ton okay well major things but not like new things so i got a millisquare bonus which is not a new sweet very uh she put that into rules knowledge why would i need to do that i don't know i just thought it does seem like a wasted point, actually. It seems like a wasted point to me. It's terrible for the character.

It can only hurt you. It really can only hurt you. No, I put it into con. Con? Con! I'm going to live forever. Are you going to live forever now? Con didn't live forever.

No. You're going to have to come down here. You hear me, con? Like a poor marksman you keep missing the target great movie just watch it two nights ago yeah i was i once i once caitlin had never seen it i once tried i once spent like a good 45 minutes just walking her through the intricacies of that plot and she was like why are we talking about this throw a copy of moby dick and just say just do your homework we'll watch this after your time yeah right what's funny to me is like wrath of khan like clearly khan is a fan of moby dick because he keeps quoting it but he didn't really seem to understand its underlying message

genetically engineered genius. He's not so great on literary analysis. Right. It's like the whole point of this is not to let revenge consume you. Good job there, Connie. So what's your con now? Yeah, what's your con? I have a 15 con.

15 con. Okay. Okay. Snore. Next. Welcome con. Okay. Okay. Snore. Next. Welcome to Snoozeville. Well, I got a bonus to my saves. Oh, I forgot to warn you.

All my saves went up. One. Don't tell me that. Did you get access to any new level of spells? No, I got access to six level spells last level. I get another one of them. That's cool. That's cool.

And we got to roll HP. We got to do that. Hey, let's do that live. All right. Don't you get like a- Can't you expand your wild shaping? Oh, I get- Yes, I get another instance of wild shaping a day.

But I mean, can't you like wild shape into like something diminutive or something or like a huge elemental or a- I think- Yes, a huge elemental or a huge plant creature. Oh, that's fun. That's big. That's awesome. That's huge.

You can turn into a huge elemental. You can turn oh that's fun that's big that's awesome that's huge you can turn into a huge element you can turn into a huge fucking fire element huge animals this whole time an animal is not an elemental an elemental that's a whole different ball it's true it's not um i also have been trying waiting waiting for the great opportunity to turn into a plant but uh and to use spells that involve plants but troy has been denying me is there any dirt here on the ground no sorry it's all work stone work stone this entire mountain made of worked polished flat stone it's rare i defend troy but it is like a stone hole in the ground in permafrost we don't see any other plants there was it was our little literal christmas card we were in

Oh no Around the copse of trees and everything else I'm on your side but like here right now By camp you can turn to a plant all you want You want me to roll a d8? Yes please I would expect nothing less Come on

Come on Fieraza He pulled a grant right through the table Should have had a D8. Eight. Oh, wow. I only rolled a five, so. All right. Nice job.

She'll live forever. Wow. She really will live forever. Good for you. Good for you, Matthew. Good for you. Good for you. 18, excuse me, 15 con and eight more hit points.

You'll make it out of book four easily. Let's talk about a real character for a second. Pembroke, you are now 12th level. You're a 12th level wizard. I am. Talk to me. What does that all entail? I'm sure it's just mostly spells, right?

Yeah, at a certain point, spellcasters, the wizards, the features kind of tail off and it's mostly just about getting new spells so um i get an additional fifth level spell an additional sixth level spell per day and then i also spent my ability point on intelligence and i was at 23 so that gets me to 24. I get an additional bonus point to, so I got 12 new skill points to play with. Oh, wow. So I invested those.

And the DC of your spells go up probably. By one, yes. Across the board. Gross. So, and I also got, so, and for new spell, because you get two new just spells. And you got to pick them, that's it. And I picked them.

spell because you get two new just spells and you gotta pick them that's it and i picked them um so i i picked out uh getaway uh which is a pretty fun spell so i don't know that one it's like a contingency type spell you cast it when you're setting off in the morning what it is you you cast it where at a safe place when you're when you're there and then it lasts for an hour per level and then if you're ever in trouble, then you cast it with all the people that you want to be able to take with you. And to get into trouble, as a swift action, you can basically cast teleport,

and you don't have to be touching everybody. They have to just within 30 feet. And then as a swift action, you are shunted back to that safe place. Wow. So I got that. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's amazing.

It's kind of like when you can quit out of a game and you lose your progress, but you get to start over. Yes, exactly. Yeah, it saves scumming. One of the components of this spell is a brass doorknob. A doorknob, yes. But I have a shoe material, so I don't need that anyway.

Excellent. And then the other spell that I took is Greater Named Bullet. have a shoe material so i don't need that anyway excellent but uh and then the other spell that i took is uh greater named bullet and uh we'll save that one i don't even want to look that one up we won't talk about that one yet greater named bullet yes you know what i imagine when i think of that i think about the bullets and who framed roger rabbit that all had yeah this is on him i could talk like that's what i'm thinking of yeah yeah god what is it a is it is a third party spell no it's not it's not it's it's in the core i'm gonna throw up the core something uh yeah ultimate combat ultimate combat i don't even want to look i don't know i want to be surprised by this he's already reading it uh i just could tell me a little i talked to

you about it i told you about it i'm surprised you didn't keep that little secret but i guess troy will murder baron before it ever gets released. Right. So now I got to know. Well, it seems like he could just cast a bullet straight at my character. Awesome. What else? What else you got?

That's pretty much it. So I just need hit points. A little HP. What are you? D6. Oh, boy. Let me get my best D6. This is my least favorite D6.

Two. Okay. Here we go. Oh, no. I bought This is my least favorite D6. Two. Okay. Here we go. Oh, no. I bought this at my first PAX East. Did you purposely grab your least favorite D6? You jerk. No grant rule?

No grant rule. Okay. Did you roll a two as well? I did. I could get Pembroke 20 hit points. It won't matter. Yeah, really. It's not.

He basically can't be in the i just i just can't be hit all right everyone's at 12th level i can't remember the last time all the characters were at the same level this is very exciting yes um when last we left our intrepid heroes here. Intrepid? They had just, unless we left our zeros, they had just cleaned the room here of this Onanfexia, Zoyabeta, and a zombie-like creature that quarter, or halfway through the fight, three quarters of the way through, just collapsed to the ground. Right.

It was a rental, I guess you could say. collapsed to the ground. It was a rental, I guess you could say. You are in this horrible chapel of Urgathoa that you can see is in a section of the tomb that is of newer construction, but still they've taken their time to create this horrifying fly with the skull on its back on the ground.

They've made it into a true desecrated, horrible place. She spoke of things. She spoke of visions of having seen you before, knowing what you're all about, evidently, knowing where you're heading. A fight broke out, and you won. What do you want to do? So, Troyroy i've been going over some of my notes uh you know i discouraged that i know you don't take any notes i do take notes you actually

complimented me on something i read another episode where i took good notes so i take notes you do take good notes um i have written down here um some alternate titles for another episode, including Save the Last Lance for Me, Four Bears, Lancing with the Stars, and Lance. I think we went with Lance Lance Retribution, too. But did we add Lance like nobody's watching? Yes, we did. Anyway. Have a fun time. I think these are all, most of these are from Agrokim, the angry old dwarf.

A car grim. A-car-grim. A-car-grim. See, I just can't with these sausage fingers. They just don't go anywhere. Right. Demand the decapitant lord remember his name or he'll come again and again and speak with the haunt for this I've written down. I have the secret door to the east of the catacombs.

These are all options for us. And I have written down here something that's interesting. Something I want to check out in this very room. Do not deign to face the queen until you cross the open wound, which I believe is the chasm we crossed, and look into the mouth of the princess, which could be referring to Ergothoa. Could be, I believe, Onanfexia is a female, correct? There could be a princess there. We're both females, yes. So I want to look into the mouths of both of these dead creatures, and I'd like to look around

if that's not what they're... I'd like to look in every mouth. Every mouth I see. Is the chasm itself not a mouth? It is. So we're going to look in that mouth too, Matthew. Lots of mouth looking. Open your mouth. I'll assume from here on out you're looking in all mouths.

Yes. Unless otherwise noted. We'll're looking in all mouths. Yes. Yes. Unless otherwise noted. We'll be looking in all mouths. Save bets. What is that burning wheel where you have, what is it? Yeah, instincts. You have instincts.

My instinct for my character is to look in all mouths. Yeah, so something you automatically do. Immediately at the end of combat. Without having to say it, it's something you do automatically. Right, so the GM can never... Yeah, say, well, you didn't say it that time. But it's usually like, my character always goes through every bit of loot

and picks it up because... In case you forget to say it. In case you forget. Right. It's like, yeah, my character... I have that in Ruins of Aslan. I always have that in my head is my character always has shield out,

no weapon drawn. That's my instinct. Shield out, weapon drawn, unless I say I draw my weapon. Spoiler. Yeah, well, that's my instinct. Shield out, weapon drawn, unless I say I draw my weapon. Spoiler. Yeah, well, that's my thing. Big spoiler. Look at all that free content you gave the people who aren't on Patreon. Well, now

we know he's not an interesting character. Spoiler. Walks around with a shield. He's got a shield? Imagine these heads of these creatures have to be huge in comparison to not only the dwarf, but even those of you with average height. You just, you open up their, their heads have to be the size of, like, three quarters of your chest. Right.

So you kind of push them, push open this dead mouth, this one, a dead eye just staring back at you. The eye hasn't closed yet. And Baron's, like, using his boot. And he's, like, he and he's like kicking at it and like whenever it doesn't cooperate he's just like being real rough with the head. What are you doing? That just seems unnecessary.

Alright, you look into the mouth and you don't see anything. But you do see that... He's a very literal man. Is it like a tonsil that's one tonsil or two separate tonsils? I'll tell you what, She has all her wisdom teeth. Okay. What else is in this room?

It doesn't. You know, you had this altar. Obviously, you had the slabs. One of the slabs had a body on it that rose and fought for a little bit. But other than that, you just see the creatures themselves have gear, but you don't see anything else of import. And there's an image inlaid into the ground of Urgothoa. Is there anything in the mouth of either the skull on its back or its own head?

No, it's just that giant fly with the death's head symbol. And then in the corners of the room are three columns carved into the likeness of the new giantess who's like skeletal from the waist down holding a scythe just like you saw in the chapel outside in the skier guard uh but yeah those tiles on the floor just make a fly um that's all you see can baron do a quick check for hidden compartments or doors just in this area. Joe O'Brien special. Four. For a 25.

You don't see anything. Dolgrath is going to root through her corpse. Yeah. Just for anything. All valuables. Both of them. Weaponry. All three corpses. Okay.

I'm doing a detect magic on everything. He just sort of came to the ground on top of Onanfexia, so he's going to just root through hers first. Right. Well, I can tell you, if the others are looking, that zombie cyclops that's like an amalgamation of parts, that thing has nothing on it. That is like a creature in the middle of being constructed. The other giant that you don't know about, Zoya Beta, just had a Masterwork scythe and a Masterwork breastplate. However, Onanfexia has got a lot of stuff going on here.

She's got a Masterwork heavy crossbow. Oh. She never pulled that out, did she? Ten bolts, no. That's just her rainy day crossbow. Dog Wraith kind of picks it up, looks down the sight lines. That's a good looking weapon. Well made.

Got a pretty sweet, magical scythe. Obviously, it's large sized, but you can tell it is pretty magical. And then has like an ion torch that has fallen where she fell. And a magical headband. Ooh. This is what I'm talking about. The Ion Torch is very, very cool. I told you without having you roll the spellcraft,

but it's basically a stone with continual flame spell cast on it, so it floats in orbits, allowing the wearer to have light, but keep their hands free. That's cool. So that could be very helpful, especially for those of you who don't have darkvision. Though you'd see it coming. Yeah, though you'd see it coming.

It's just Feyraza at this point, right? Oh, we all have darkvision, though. Yeah, if you're ever in the point where you want to crack a sun... I don't have Darkvision. He has the goggles, though. You have goggles. You have the goggles. Oh, yeah.

No, you're right. Yeah, I was thinking... So it would have been great. Save it for another character. Or we can sell it. We'll keep it in our dead character pouch. We'll open it when a character dies, and you can come back with that Darkvision. It'll be fine.

What's the headband, Troy? The headband? Well, let's start with the scythe. Let's save the best for last. Go ahead and roll a spellcraft on the scythe. 32. It's a plus two scythe. Oh.

Plus two. Obviously still a large scythe, but man, scythes are no joke if you can wield them. The time's four. And then roll on the old headband. And then get ready to fight. Love it. 33. Okay.

Well done, Faye. This is when you know, oh, the campaign treasure has started to change. It is a headband of mental prowess plus four, which gives you a plus four to wisdom and charisma. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Guys, that would bring Baron up to an 11 charisma.

This is what I've been waiting for. He'd be so much more fun to be around. I will just say that would be very helpful for Farazza. Why? Because all of my spells are wisdom-based, and all of the DCs would go up. Ooh, DCs go up. There's a couple of wisdom characters around here. What about charisma?

What's that value to you? It's valuable to me for purposes of being good at diplomacy. How many skill ranks do you have in diplomacy? I have one. One rank in diplomacy. Interesting. Are you wisdom-based, Algarth? Are you wisdom-based? No, no. Or charisma. Baroness. Baroness for grit and I mean, it would definitely help a lot of my...

I have diplomacy stuff now as an Inquisitor. Oh, you get more grit per day. Yeah. It's plus four? Yeah. So you get two more grit points per... Wow. Wow. That's very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. So you get two more grit points per... Wow. Dizzle? Wow. That's very interesting.

Pembroke, wisdom charisma do anything for you? Well, it would, but I would have to give up my plus four intelligence headband to wear it. That doesn't seem... So no deal. Are we talking about an old blood feud of Hatfield and McCoy going down between the Capitacazas and the Burgers? We talking about an old-fashioned roll-off between Jersey and Texas? It's funny. The charisma really doesn't do anything for either of you. I mean, I guess it makes Baron a little less ornery.

But Feyre Husserl is always very lovely to be around. Just shoot her, Baron. The wisdom is... It would have been amazing for a necromantic oracle. It's just... Let's just... Let me just... I'm just going to, as an experiment here, I'm going to put it on the character sheet

and see how it changes things. It does such different things. So we don't have as much time as Bruce Springsteen does for his songs that are too long. You mean a man who gives four hours of his life for every fucking single set? Wow. Wow. He really was compensated poorly with those hundreds of millions of dollars. I'm not saying he's...

I don't have that kind of time, man. I want to listen to a minute and a half Huey Lewis song. I once went to a Versace concert. You have the attention span of a 16-year-old. Power up! Lightning storm. Get a feeling! Pouring rain. Met-old. Power up! Lightning storm. Get a feelin'! Pouring rain.

MetLife Stadium. It was his fucking birthday. He went on like- It was his fucking birthday. He possibly could. It was maybe like 10.30, and he played until like 3 in the morning. He's an American hero. Yeah, I agree.

Wisdom and charisma, he said. What does wisdom give you? So, the DCs of- Did this not work? Hang on. Oh, there it goes. Sorry. Hero of trouble. Yeah, so my DCs will go Hang on. There it goes. Sorry. Hero left trouble.

Yeah, so my DCs will go up by two, which is no joke, and I get more level five spells, more level six spells. Really? Yeah. Really? See, that's important, man. Wow. I'm going to give a bottle cap to Grant for this roll off.

Give him a grit. It all comes down to this, Matthew. You know, we could, we don't have to roll a D20. That's true. You could roll a D6. Or a D100. Or a D100.

Oh. Why are we doing, why are you spicing it? The thing is, the lower die, you have more chance for a tie, a thrilling tie.

Matthew, we've only been married for like three and a half years. There's no need to spice up the relationship like this. Also, only Grant's 20s are loaded. D100. Oh, he's calling it. He's calling it. He's calling it. It's like a Warcraft roll D100. Oh, he's calling it. It's like a Warcraft roll-off.

Oh, those are nice dice, Grant. Oh, man, I'm so nervous. If you get 75, 37. Oh! You know what, Matthew? It was recently my birthday. I got a nice present from Skid. Joe was unable to attend my birthday party,

but he Venmo'd my wife the attendance fee. He asked for a return right away. That's very nice. Troy gave me a nice gift. I got nothing from you, Matthew. I got nothing from you on my birthday. But you know what? In the spirit of aging and birthday parties, you can have the headband.

Wow. Really? That's so generous. Wait, Grant, are you power gaming? Are you actually giving it to him because you know it's the better thing to do for the party? No. I'm doing it because I already have a head item that I like and I'm fine with. Grant.

Wow. I just wanted to show that I could. What is your head item? My head item is Greater Thremier's Beard. Would you like a headband of Alluring Charisma? Got head item is Greater Thremuir's Beard. Ah. Would you like a headband of Alluring Charisma plus four? Got a lot of mileage out of that one. I'm okay.

I'd take it. Would you like a headband of Alluring Charisma plus four? Course I would! Yes. Oh, no, please don't get any more charming. All the young ladies of Avistan won't stand a chance in your presence. I had never thought what could happen with something like this. It could be dangerous.

You'll have to keep an eye on me, Pembroke. Not let me get a hand. Two eyes, as often as I can spare them. With your 24 intelligence. That's right. 24 intelligence. I love it. All right, so you feel pretty confident that you have cleared this room of its value.

Obviously, it seems as if the greatest value here was maybe knowledge, another sort of run-in with an oracle, but for the first time, one that was not on your side. It all started back in True Now with Kretrezra, which obviously Baron would be the only one that remembers. And then, never forget, Deroja in Red Lake Fort. And then, of course... And now in True Now?

Oh, no, wait, Atena was evil. So there goes my theory. Oh, Atena was evil. So there goes my theory. Oh, Atena was evil. I forgot about that. But at first you thought she was at least non-threatening. And then she changed her tune once you got all four parts to relight the Forge. But this one just straight out of the gate. It's hell-bent on destroying you.

The question I have, though, is I'm thinking back again after looking at my notes. I'm thinking back to what you said before we entered this room. When I detected alignment on this room, I only felt one evil aura, according to you. Yeah, and what it was is they were in the back of the room, and it's such a big room, you didn't have the distance. Yeah, and I was happy about that because I could trick you.

I actually took the ruler as you were saying that. I was I could trick you. I actually, I took the ruler as you were saying that. I was like, oh, you detected evil. I took the alignment, huh? Yeah. Only one evil presence. Wow. Besides my own. That would be cool to meet Troy, though. So Dalgrath is going to kind of saunter over

to Pembroke and then very much so under his breath, trying not to be heard by the others. He's just going to be like, you know, as he puts the headband on, he's going to be like, I sort of feel maybe some of the effects, but I'm not sure yet. But I got to say, I'm not feeling very well, Pembroke. I don't feel myself.

Are you ill? What's wrong? Something about that scythe is making me sick. I can't explain it. I can't put my finger on it. But I think I might be a temporary negative level. How does it

manifest itself in role playing terms? It's probably like having the flu. You know what I mean? You just feel like every part of you is a little less than what it is. I think he has felt like this before. I felt like this before, but I don't know. She had something on that blade or some sort of magical sickness. Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

And he puts on his little spectacles and pulls them out of his pouch. He says, let's have a look at you. And is that knowledge arcana or spellcraft uh yeah it would be uh i would say hmm i'm always confused by these yeah i i would say knowledge arcana because he's explaining to you basically what happened like it hey something on the scythe yeah uh okay so that is a 38 38 yeah classic energy drain situation here so remind me of this like as a player it's like if if i don't get this healed after i rest it becomes permanent it becomes permanent another saving throw you get one more saving throw and then it becomes

permanent do i get a saving throw for each one or is it one saving throw. You get one more saving throw. And then it becomes permanent. Do I get a saving throw for each one, or is it one saving throw? And whatever negative levels you have are permanent. I believe... Do you have multiple negative levels? I have two negative levels. Well, I'll look that up to make sure. But Pembroke, you know that this particular giant has an ability to channel its negative energy directly into the weapon that it wields. Ooh.

Ah, yes. Now, it used its power to channel its power to remove your abilities directly through its weapon. It wasn't the weapon itself. This is very unusual. I thought the weapon was a bit mundane. Yes, no, it is. I mean, it's fine work, but it's not magical. But I think if you, well, let's see how it goes.

Take a good night's sleep and see how you feel in the morning. And if you still feel bad, well, that's terrible news. 24 hours after gaining them, you make a fortitude save for each negative level. And the DC is the energy drains spell save DC. If you succeed, that level is removed. If it fails, it is permanent. How's your fortitude save? Terrible.

Oh, boy. What is it? Plus six. Oh, that is bad for a dwarf. Zoinks! And we said Bear's Endurance would not help with a fortitude save? No, because it would have to be... That's shocking.

That's shocking. That's shocking. Well, it's six now. It's six now because of the negative levels. It would normally be eight, which is huge. Huge. Yeah, that sucks. It's like you're fighting against yourself. Right.

I have a proposal for you. I have a plus four from my dwarfiness, from my constitution, but a rogue only has plus four. You don't get those points every level. I have a proposal for you. We could murder you, and then I can reincarnate you, and you'd only have one of those negative levels. No thanks.

What a great deal. I would consider it. What did you roll on the D100 earlier? Let's just assume that to be what race he would come back as. Yeah, it was a 37. Yeah, just tell us real quick as a quick little fun. You're a cripple. Yeah, that's no good.

That's no bueno. You would have come back as a gnome. That's so close. It's practically the same thing. I'd throw myself into the chasm. So do you have any magical means? Ferraz, you don't happen to have any restoration magic on you, do you? I can cast lesser restoration, but that won't help you.

No, that won't help. Of course I can't do it. It's divine magics, you see. According to my sheet, I have a scroll of restoration on me. Oh. And I believe I subtracted it, but it's been so long, I don't know if i meant to delete some of these i don't think i have the scroll of stone skin that's on there and is that

a d4 to see how many levels it restores or is it just i think it i think it restores all temporary negative levels and then after that it does one permanent negative level per cast oh okay i think it's it functions like lesser restoration, except that it also dispels temporary negative levels or one permanent negative level. Okay. But if it's used to remove permanent negative level, you need the diamond dust for a 3,000 gold.

But do you have to roll a d4 to see how many temporary negative levels? No, I think that's for ability scores. No, I think you're good. I mean, you have to the the text for lesser restoration where it's limited is in terms of it only removes one permanent negative i think that's the only limitation yeah no it would wipe out all temporaries if you do indeed have that spell it may it may be worthwhile he's certainly under the weather and we need all of us at our best

agreed you have a scroll of restoration. Yeah, it's on my sheet. Did you buy it? You seem like you're cheating somehow. I think Troy should actually honestly roll how I feel dice. But why? What is making you hesitate? Because I added a bunch when I was...

Because that's where... You remember when I did that big aura spell when we fought that person, the like cool sanctuary spell where it was like. Yeah, I definitely bought that one. But I added more spells that night. I remember that night. I was very hazy. I feel like I can tell you there are no scrolls of restoration in book four of Giants. Like, yeah, we might have bought one.

But you might have bought one. Yeah. We also might have got one before book four. You've had that character sheet for four years. You've had that character for a while. That sounds like someone with negative levels. But yeah, I think we can do it. And if not...

It's on his character sheet. Let's just subtract 800 gold later. All right, let's do it. No, it's only 100 gold. Scroll of restoration. We could just as easily just teleport to buy one tonight. All right. And you can cast that automatically because it's on your spell list,

and you don't need to roll. Well, I think Feyraz would probably cast it, I think. No, it is not on my spell list. Oh, restoration is and restoration isn't? Yeah. Oh, wow. Really? It's probably a Pemberk.

No, it's on. But I have UMD. Oh, dear. It's going to be high level for you, so you're going to have to roll for it. to roll for inquisitor for fourth level inquisitor spell yeah so it's beyond what i have available to me so what does that do to uh you have to do a caster level check okay walk me through one it might be better if pembroke has to use magic device right because he probably has an insane i don't have a great umd because most of the stuff I don't need it. Yeah, it's basically, it's not that crazy.

I believe it is, the DC is the scrolls caster level plus one. So what level Inquisitor do you have to be to cast Restoration? It would be 10th level. Yeah. Wow. You get one. So that is not a gimme. No. So it's DC 11.

Doesn't sound bad, but what's the bonus you're getting? Five. I'm 5th level inquisitor. He's a 5th level inquisitor. Can you get... So anything under a misfire, and you misfire my life! That sounds true. I mean, you still get two fortitude saves tomorrow.

I mean, Joe, it looks like you have a bottle cap on the board it doesn't matter man it doesn't matter when do when do you scroll mishaps occur uh oh geez oh thank you man thank you bring it up dc5 wisdom check which he auto passes yes um so because i can where you can deal 1d6 points of damage. Nope, a natural 1 always fails on a scroll. Sorry, sorry. Yeah. A surge of uncontrolled magical energy deals 1d6 points of damage per spell level to the scroll user. That's one of the mishaps.

Wow. Oh, wow. It should be fine. Yeah, I mean... You ready for it? I don't know. I mean, I guess it's worth a bottle cap. Because that just means you're taking out the two to five with a bottle cap.

That's what that does. Takes out two to five. It has to be a natural one. It's your character that I'm casting on, so it's up to you. Yeah. I am not going to spend the bottle cap because I still have fortitude save rolls. It's not a death sentence. Well, let's see what happens.

You know what I'm going to use? I'm going to use big red. I'm already starting to think of what the mish. You know what I'm going to use? I'm going to use big red. I'm already starting to think of what the mishaps are and it's going to be bad. It's going to be like walk away from the table, quit the game.

Oh, no! So don't fail. 13 on the die. Yeah! 18! That's my man! It said, one of the things

with spell's effect on the target is contrary to the spell's normal effect. I was going to make you take two more negative rolls. Oh, God. All right, so let me remove that scroll from my sheet. Yeah, actually remove it this time around. Look, I was open.

I was brief. I was frank. Do you ever hear Samuel L. Jackson talk about how he's always frank and earnest when he meets women? No. He said, yeah, in Chicago, I'm frank. And in New York, I'm Frank. Do you ever hear Samuel L. Jackson talk about how he's always Frank and earnest when he meets women? No. He said, yeah, in Chicago, I'm Frank. In New York, I'm earnest. It was great. It's an Oscar Wilde reference.

It is? Oh, yeah. No, it is. No, Samuel L. Jackson did not accredit the source. He's like, fuck Jerry. Oh, man. Yeah, exactly. All right.

Huge, huge. So, yeah, Dolgrath is going to stretch a bit. He feels himself again. A big thank you to Baron. Oh, of course. Yeah. I could never let someone who fought so bravely on the field be sidelined like that. I'm so glad you had the right scroll right on you at the time.

It was fate, must have been. Divine providence. Divine providence, yes. So I'll take it. Any glimpse of that is very welcome in a place so devoid of the divine as this. Speaking of which, I'd like to get out of here sooner rather than later.

Obviously, we don't want to rush too fast, too hard, but it's time to take this undead queen out. So what's the plan? One moment. Please clear the area. And Farazza is going to cast Stone Shape on the floor to fuck up their fly. Oh, nice.

So we walk out beyond the tapestry back into the room. Just don't stand on the fly and she's just going to desecrate the image of Urgothoa. That's great. Okay, cool. So you just kind of mess it all up. Yeah. Alright. Talk, cool. So you just kind of mess it all up. Yeah. Alright. Talk to me about stone skin.

Time-wise, is it still affecting you? I know some of you have taken some chunks of it away. It was three plus hours. Three hours? Longer than that. Okay. Yeah, it was 200 minutes. It certainly has not been that long because you came right into the room

south of the castle. It was three hours and 20 minutes so uh okay so uh you all have various chunks taking out of it but uh yeah you're in good shape great could you read the the thing about the looking in the mouth again certainly at least what i've written down which may not be verbatim i am not a licensed stenographer matthew i know you want me to be i I know Troy's been pushing me to take classes, but I'm not going to do it. We'll pay for it. The company will pay for it. Do not deign to face the queen

until you cross the open wound and look into the mouth of the princess. Cross the open wound. Well, because that sounds like the chasm. It does sound like the chasm to me. So that sounds like two separate things. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm.

I mean, the other thing is, the other part of it is the, we could learn more about, or we could learn the name of the, is it a Dullahan? Is that what it's called? Mm-hmm. By speaking to what I wrote down is probably a haunt. I think there's a haunt in front of the black doors, if I'm remembering correctly. Yes, there is. The doors are a haunt i think there's a haunt in front of the black doors if i'm remembering correctly yes the doors are a haunt essentially so the haunt will know the name of the doula hand that might be the but it's the chasm do we explore the the full extent of the the chasm here we never went in there we never went down there yeah yeah i could fly down why don't you turn about 30 feet

down would you like me to take a look? And the tapestry as well. There's no pallid princess on the tapestry, the black thing we look through to get in here, is there? No, that was just pure blackness. Pure blackness. Wow. I mean, unless that itself is the mouth, right?

Like, it's covered by... Yeah, maybe it's simply... It's not a prophecy. Maybe it's simply a warning. I'm thinking about this because Troy, every once in a while, after we fight a battle, is like, well, this happened because that happened. I'm wondering, in my metagaming mind,

if we didn't take these people out, they would join the battle. And I hope maybe that's it. Yeah. But we'll see. Let's go down to the chasm. Let's see what you see. Let's go down to the chasm. Who is the mouth of the princess?

That's what we're trying to figure out. Yeah. I mean, who is the princess? Ergothoa, I think. Urgothoa, right? And so Urgothoa's mouth, is that Onyxia because she spoke for her? Maybe. Which is Onyxia in general?

Yeah, that's a good idea. Spoke for her. Like the mouth of Sauron? Yes. Yeah. Heavily influenced Orphos. Do you want to explore the depths of this chasm? I'm happy to jump down there, but I prefer to have Pembroke looking over my shoulder.

I can also fly down if anyone else would like to fly with me. I can fly. I don't... I can. I'm not much of a flyer myself, but you two will go have a great time. It's only 30 feet down, too. Right, that's why he can climb right now. Yes, it's more

a matter of being able to fly away if we run into something awful. Exactly. But I'm willing to try it. All right. Then he'll hold for you guys then. But he's going to perch near the southern end of the chasm, like right near the cliff. And if there's trouble, he'll get down there in a hurry.

And Baron's sitting on his broom like a backup Quidditch player. Ready to take off and apply. The backup quidditch player ready to take off the back of quidditch a quidditch backbencher right before a line change yep yeah he's slapping the board he's like yeah yeah yeah clear the park clear the park the checking line baron could never baron could never catch the whatever. What's it called? The snitch. The snitch. I apologize.

The quaffle. But he's an enforcer. All he does is come in and break people's mouths. Yeah. Like that's all Baron does. You're a beater. I'm a beater. And you try to beat the bludgers at the other players.

Okay. All right. Or just like Chris Simon. Just come in and just beat up people. See, Troy, that was a combo. A hybrid hockey and Harry Potter. Oh, boy. Hockey I like.

I have no idea about. All right. So. Shall we? I'm going to leave Stu Grimson here behind and fly down, see what's happening. So you both fly down as you are, not as an animal? Yeah. No, I'll go as an animal.

As you are. Which way do you guys go? North, south, east? Shall we go north first and then turn around? Yes. Okay. When in doubt, always follow the compass. Roll a knowledge engineering check.

Oh, I just put points in it. I don't have that. I've done engineering. Oh, hell yeah. Well, Mr. Intelligence over here. 90, 20. Oh, huge. 32.

32. 20. Oh, huge. It looks like there were probably more frost worm tunnels here at one point that collapsed over time or either during the more recent construction. It's hard to say if the ground here was already susceptible to being cleared away because there were worm tunnels. You're not 100% sure, but it's definitely what's left is man-made. And as you fly to the north, you see that the rock sort of ends, and there is an opening in the rock, like a little cave. Oh, wow. Yes, you see, this rock here was porous before the work began.

But there, that's something else entirely. Did you just reveal it on the map? I did. And you see, the cave isn't large enough for a frost worm. It's only a five-foot-wide cave. So you'd like the tallest among you, Pember... No, excuse me. Hey, Raza, you'd have to duck to get in there. Shall we?

Well, currently I'm very short. Sure. But in general. Shall we investigate? Yes. Yes. This is spooky. Would you prefer to bring the others, or would you like to go on our own?

I always prefer to bring the others, but if they but we only Baron can fly at the moment, right? It's true. Although I can bring them down by other means. Let's give it a recall since pass. Right. All right. So can we, like, buzz the tower and do a flyby and do a perception check? Buzz the tower? It's a Top Gun reference.

It's just a tiny little hole. You go in there and the ceilings are only 20 feet high. Detect magic. Okay, you detect magic. You don't detect any magic. But you see that it quickly turns, sure, and starts going, like, southwesterly. Oh, it turns. Let us bring the others. Yes, southwesterly. Oh, it turns.

Yeah. Let us bring the others. Yes, I think we should. So I am going to go back and tell them, I found a small cave down there in the northern wall. Would you like to join us? Absolutely. Might be this secret entrance your friend was talking about.

All right. That was to the east, and this is to the north, so it might not be that. Be on your guard. Sure, but it was the dwarf's head speaking riddles. You're right about that. That's exhaustible. We don't make sense when we're alive.

Farazza actually, I forgot I prepared this, is going to fly back to her and say, come closer, I have a solution to our problem and she's going to cast spider climb communal on everybody oh

no thanks don't need it you got it anyway I just see Baron walking down the side and uh walk like a man play as well

as you guys that's what I want to have happen alright so then uh we will scramble down I also have airwalk communal prepared. Would you prefer that?

No. Spider-Clan is better. Just cast all your high-level spells. Is there, once we get there, does Baron get a sense that this reminds him of the Frostworm Tunnels we already went through? Wait, wait, wait. Are we already at the tunnel? Is there any problem crossing the chasm floor? No, it's difficult terrain down there, but you're not in the middle of any fight.

Oh, it's not water. No, no. It's just a rock bottom. See, it's difficult to rain down there, but you're not in the middle of any fight. Oh, it's not water. No, no, it's just a rock bottom. See, it's colored blue on the map. It does look watery, but it's all just rubble. And ice. Barney rubble. So yeah, put yourselves all at the mouth of the cave, we'll say.

Alright. But is it not a cave? Well, it's just... Damn it! It's cave-ish. Abort, abort, abort. The cave of one's death. It's cave-ish.

Remember your failure at the cave-ish. Remember your failure at the cave-ish hole. The cave-ish hole. It doesn't have the same ring. No. It's the sister of my slumber. Yes, so you see that this... There's this hole where the rock wall ends that leads in. And Feyrezi, you peeked in and you saw that it turns southwesterly.

Before you were all standing there at the bottom of this chasm. Could this be the back entrance that was foretold to us? No, because A, it was was called secret and this doesn't really seem secret to me and b it's northerly and westerly uh whereas they mentioned that the door was to the east so i think we're probably going into an unnecessary combat but let's go. Dalgrath is going to make a move in. He's going to take one step in and look stealthily. Try to roll stealth.

Roll stealth. 28. Okay. And a perception, I would guess. 22. Okay. So you enter in. Oh, 22. Okay. So you enter in. Oh, no.

And you see that this passageway, it's like a very small circular tunnel, uh, that goes both to the north and the southwest. Now that you're really in there looking, it looks like it's twisting and winding pitch black. Um, and there's a small trickle of greenish liquid flowing

through the center of the passage. Oh boy. That's a good sign. Like under our feet? Under my feet? Yeah, right when you step in you feel a slosh and you look down. Can I try to roll a dollar check to see what it is? Sure, you in there too? Yeah. Okay. You're good. Roll a perception. Perception.

Even better. 35. 35. It's flowing in the opposite direction. So it looks like it's flowing from the south up to where you guys are coming and continues past you to the north. And it looks like embalming fluid. Oh, no. It's abalming fluid. Oh, no.

It's a shitter line. Oh, weird. Of embalming fluid. Are you sure this isn't going to lead us back to... Oh, I don't like the smell of this stuff. I'm getting queasy. It's a thin little trickle. Which way do you want to go?

You guys have 60 feet of dark version, right? So I'll give you a little more here Yeah, you see it's a very thin way to the north And then more leading to the south I'll do north first and then south Is this heading towards a goals Pembroke? Or are we getting off track here? I don't know, but one never knows when one might find something that will help one, does one?

One does not. Well said. Well put. Can I do a survival check? Sure. Any sort of movements of creatures of any kind? 18. 18.

No movement whatsoever. No tracks that you can see. All right. Just this very thin trickle. You can see. All right. Just this very thin trickle. Without any tracks,

Dalgrace hunches to kind of double back toward the way they came from to clear out what would, quote-unquote, be behind them. What do you mean? Back out to the chasm? No, there's one room that is pitching back towards the Pallid Princess's chamber in that direction.

The northern one. Yeah, the northern one. And there's embalming fluid and stuff, and they were performing those rituals and stuff with the making corpses. So maybe it was running there or coming from there. Yeah, let's go that way. He's going to start heading that way and roll stealth. Okay.

Do you want to roll it over or do you want me to roll it again? Yeah, roll it again. 32. Okay, 32. You're sneaking along. You don't hear anything anything the fluid just keeps running in that direction again it's a very small amount and it's getting smaller and smaller so you can tell that there's a finite source of it um that seems to be coming from the other direction seems to be coming from the other direction and uh if you continue that way, do you just keep walking north? Yeah.

Yeah, about five, seven minutes, you reach a dead end. There's nothing else there. Okay. All right, cleared out the space. Can I do a perception check for secret doors? Sure. Oh, Baron will do that, too. 33.

All right, so you all head north, and you do a 33. 37. 37 with stone cutting. 37 also. No secret doors that you can see, and you feel pretty confident in your search. Great. So now all that's left is the southwest. To the southwest.

All right. Dalgrath will double back that way and do the same thing. Once he crosses the area where the chasm was over to the south, he then do another stealth check at 25 to start moving in that area. Okay. Reveal a little bit more. And you see it's starting to

twist a little bit more southerly, but you still don't see anything except this trickle of fluid. Okay. I'm going to this trickle of fluid. Okay. I'm going to do mirror image of myself. Wise decision. So with 60 feet of dark vision, he sees 20 feet or so, and then it just stops?

Okay. No, I'll reveal more. Five images, by the way. You see it really starts turning to the south. It's still angling. I think this is our back entrance. Maybe it is, yeah. Should we pause and go check out the other side of the chasm?

If you want to, real quick. Down the other way, see if we can find that mouth idea? We'll both fly over there. Yeah, we'll do that. So we're going to leave the cave for a moment. Okay, everyone? Yes, well, I'll join. Well, I'm going to come to leave the cave for a moment. Okay. Everyone? Yes. Well, I'll join.

Well, I'm going to come out of the cave and just stand outside of it, watching them fly over the chasm in case they get into any danger. Not that I can do anything. I'll hop on my broom, and if Dalgris sees it, I'll start flying. So we're going to fly down to the southeast. Right. East of the direction. So you go towards the southeast, and you saw a pretty good view of it before you went into the room

with the oracle and the other giant. But now as you fly over there you see the area that you weren't able to see and see that it just ends in three more tunnels that look more like worm tunnels. So there's one it forks in three directions

directly east can i roll knowledge engineering to see if the if based on what i saw from the earlier worm tunnels i would guess that these connect sure uh 24 uh possibly uh more likely knowing what pembroke already discovered that this was like this is probably oh... Oh, this is like in the Linnorm tunnels? Yeah, or these are the worm tunnels that are still intact. And as they came into this other space, it was easier to collapse the room, but they didn't want to collapse this portion for whatever reason. Okay.

Huh. All right. Well, shall we proceed down the back? Let's go back and see if we can find the back door. We got to go back. We have to go back. Back in time. We're going to go back in time.

I do love that song. It is a good song. Don't anybody. I love that he's in that movie, too. Won't take a thing. I love that he's. Don't need no credit card to ride. I'm still very sick.

Judge. Yeah, he's the judge. You're just too loud I'm sorry boys It's so great Once we're back with everybody Farazza would like to gather everyone together And cast resist energy communal Which energy What do we think cold

Cold is probably the safest bet. Sounds like a good one to me. All right. Resist energy cold? Yep. And how long does it last? So I have 10 minutes per level split evenly among you. Oh, in 10-minute intervals.

So I have 120 minutes. I have 12 sections. 30 minutes. 30 minutes each. 30 minutes each. Yeah. Great. Perfect.

I always forget why there's only four of us here. I don't have to care about Troy. You know who's obsessed with Huey Lewis, by the way? Who? Jimmy Kimmel. Really? Really? Yeah, this is Jimmy Kimmel's favorite musician of all time.

We also haven't talked about how sad it is. He has Meniere's disease. He's losing his hearing. Does he really? Oh, I didn't know that. He had to cancel his tour. Oh, no. Indefinitely.

Oh, man. Bummer. Nofinitely That was really sad You know what Troy Matthew secretly likes him more than Ben He's doing the research I do like Huey Lewis I just don't like him more than Bruce Springsteen How could you like anyone more than Bruce Springsteen

I want a sense motive on that Troy Natural one He loves the boss Alright so back into this tunnel You're going to get that promotion Always kissing up to the boss. All right, so back into this tunnel. You're going to get that promotion. Always kissing up to the boss. And do you want to go a little bit farther? Talk to me about, you know, what is everyone doing here?

Dalgrith is continuing to stealth down this tunnel. Okay. This dark, lonely, cold tunnel. What's your stealth at, Dal? Plus 21. That's good. That is icy. All right.

Baron, what are you doing? Baron will follow shortly behind. Give him probably 20 feet, and he'll also stealth along, because his stealth is aight, but it ain't no plus 21. Sure. So 20 feet behind, Baron will also follow. Okay. Pems?

I will be... I'm going to fly right behind Baron. Fly behind Baron? Yeah. He's a stealth bomber, by the way. You can't pick him up on radar, so don't even try. Faye Razal said? Faye Razal will unwild shape.

Okay. And we'll just proceed, and she'll stealth along behind Baron. Get them a little out in front, but I'll come behind. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on a minute. I just realized we never rested. It's true. After I cast a fifth Elspon. I think we might

need to rest. I don't know if it's such a good idea to move forward or this is really a back entrance into your powerful queen's lair. Well, it is rest right here in this icy cave. You must be joking, my friend. I am. Your cleverness knows no bounds. Your reputation precedes you, Dalgry.

If you insist on getting the early jump, I don't think it's a bad idea, but I do need a spot of healing if anybody's got a little hand for me. I can give you the healing. I like how your character went all the way here until he was like, shit, I've got to rest. We were just looking, you know what I mean? It got out of hand quick. It did.

We were just going to take a look at the chasm, and now suddenly we're like entering the boss fight like that quick uh i don't know we are are we gonna rest or he rejects me like uh i mean it's up to you i have uh a couple things that i'm short on because we're not resting but i got the end i got spells i'll roll them on you i mean if we're gonna it would because of the headband i'm only down 23 hit points so it's not about hit points. It's about his abilities. 13 points of healing. 11 points of healing.

That's all I need. And then I'll heal myself. The least amount of healing. How uncharacteristic. I'm really down, actually. Exactly. If this has really got to lead where we think it is, we might want to rest. Is everyone ready? Is everyone set? Joe's right.

We should rest. Because there's no turning back once you get her in your sights. So what do we do? Do we teleport out of here or come back? What do we got? Teleport sounds fun. I do have a teleport. And every time we teleport, the closer it is to a mishap.

Yeah. Every time. It's going to happen. We keep doing it. Statistically speaking, we will have a mishap. I'm going to cure serious wounds on myself. I don't know. But I think we should still rest.

Dalgrith, are you sure you don't want to see the door we're going to be knocking on so you can have dreams of ending the reign of Skirkotla, dreams of glory, dreams of ending yet another conquest. One more notch on the belt of the conqueror Dalgrith. You know what? I'm drinking some of Pembroke's Kool-Aid. Don't goad him.

I'll tell you, I haven't lived this long, though, by taking stupid chances. I thought everything out well and good, and if you tell me that this undead dwarf said there's a back entrance into this tunnel, and we're heading in that exact direction, then I think we might stumble across something we don't want to.

Let us rest. I'm not into the stumbling game. I don't like rolling dice. Now, you do remember what the dwarf actually said, right? He said that the doors were, like, in the tunnel of the... This is a secret entrance to the east of where he was. Excuse secret entrance to the east of where he was. Excuse me, to the west of where he was. Oh, I wrote that down.

Yeah, yeah. We're east. We're west of him now. We are west of him now. Of the room where he was. We're very far west. Whatever. It's not...

I mean, obviously, it's not the secret tunnel, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't want to slip into something without being prepared and i'm fine to move forward i'm just stopping to ask everybody is well aware that we could get into a serious combat joe i get the sense that you're feeling a little defensive right now i just want to let you know it's okay i'm not i just i'm trying to like play the character in that it could be this back entrance into the thing i think it's pretty clear that the back entrance comes from the room where the Dullahan is. Yeah. But I don't want to...

Are we going to go back into that room? It's weird. This is the first time that I've seen Dalgrith as a coward. So it's an interesting side of him. You're completely getting it wrong. It's certainly his counter to the tales that preceded him. It's a tactician. It's a tactician.

Dalgrith the coward. He's a hunter. And he'll make a fine tale. You roll perception on that water again. It's Dalgrith's urine. Because he's a coward. Yeah, I mean, you completely misunderstand this whole situation. You're trying to make a joke out of something that isn't.

I'm trying to off-dan you. Exactly. Like, I'm fine to move forward. Fraza is furiously wanding herself in the background. Get a room! Look, it's not my party to lead

here. I think it's you, Sheriff. It's your call, and it's you, Pembroke. You, Feyraza. You've been hunting this queen longer than I have, so I'll do as you say, but my instinct's telling me that we better be ready for a serious fight. If we are, then we can move forward. I don't demand much from those that I lead, and I could hardly say that I lead someone as potent as Pembroke and someone as wise as Veyraza. I like to rely on the counsel of my team.

What say you, Pembroke and Veyraza? Do we go forward and see to rely on the counsel of my team. What say you, Pembroke and Feyraza? Do we go forward and see what's at the end of this hallway? Well, to be honest, I'm feeling a bit lucky. I'd like to see what lies beyond. I don't think we should go too far, obviously, but I'm... Curiosity is going to be better for me. I think, and

the more time that we spend, I think the worse situation we make for ourselves. I think it behooves us to get as far as we can, while we can. Make hay while the sun shines, is the saying goes. You're the deciding voice, Bayraza. I go with Timbrook. Then we go. Thank you.

Dalgrith. Thank you, my friend. Are you still all right taking the vanguard, even though this was not your decision? Is the green stuff, the embalming liquid, thicker here? Does it seem like it's coming from this direction? Slightly thicker. Yeah, it's definitely coming from this direction. So it's probably like a slight incline the way you're walking. It's got the stink of the undead on it, doesn't it?

He's going to sheathe his short sword and draw his crossbow and load it and move forward stealthily. Move forward stealthily. And I'll assume all of you are staying that same distance behind. All right. You can see 60 feet ahead of you, it starts to turn to the south. It goes from southwesterly to just straight south. And so until you get there, you can't really see around the corner. Okay.

All right. Dalgrith will approach this corner. Is everybody staying back or are we staying within like 20 feet of Dalgrith? Within 20 corner. Is everybody staying back, or are we staying within, like, 20 feet of Dalgrith? Within 20 feet. Yeah, yeah. So he'll come to the edge of this corner and just kind of peek around. Okay. Peek around.

Oh, sorry. And the rest of you are about 20 feet away. All right, so you take a little peek around the corner, the corner. And sure enough, it goes from being this kind of winding, turning cavern to just going straight

south. Dalgrace, roll a perception check. 27. 27. 27. In the distance, you hear a strange sound start to echo up the cavern. It starts very softly.

It's like... Oh, no. I hate these, man. So many of these in Giant's Lake. I know. God, that's a start with someone crying. That must have been dead. so many of these in giant slay I know God bets it started with someone crying it sounded very very very sad but that sound of crying multiple

voices crying female voices crying is soon replaced by like a whirring of wind like and you start to feel really, really cold as all of a sudden buffets of severe

winds and snow start flying at you and around the corner filling up the entire drainage tunnel. What? And two figures start to emerge out of the snowstorm. Roll for initiative.

Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, no. What? Roll, rick-a-roll, rick-a-roll, rick-a-roll. Oh, man. Zippity-bop, dibbity-boo. This is the last thing I expected. Are we fighting the Scatman?

I've got a new drug. Pembroke, talk to me. I'm the Scatman. All hits. Five. Five. Five. Oh, shit. You'll be fine.

Oh, shit. Faye Raza. 18. 18. Baroni. 27. Me. Woo-hoo.

Dalgrith the Coward. Dalgrith the Coward. You picked the right monster hunter to take along. I got a 32. Oh, my Lord. Is that a natural 20, Joe? That's a natural 20. Wow.

Natural. He was ready, man. He knew there was some shit. Zony around this corner. All right. It is Dalgrith's turn. I want you to describe in detail and not this vague bullshit exactly, exactly precisely what he sees. All right.

It is a snowstorm. Okay. So there's like concealment of everything. It's concealment. Yeah. Well, it's severe winds, which I can tell you right now is a minus four penalty to all ranged attacks. Of course. It's a minus four to all perception checks.

And it's fucking snowstorm. And this goes all the way, and you would assume, shoots out the whole of the cave you walked in straight into the chasm. It's very, very intense. Okay. In terms of the creatures that you see,

they're two beautiful, but very, very forlorn, sad-looking women wearing ornate robes. Surrounded, each of them surrounded by their own whirling mass of snow. And their feet are just ever so gently hovering over the ground. And they just look at you. Are they giant? Nope, they are...

They're medium-sized humanoids? They are medium-sized humanoids. They're like Amandasized humanoids. They're medium-sized humanoids. They're like Amanda Seyfried. Do they seem ethereal? Do they seem corporeal? You can roll a perception check at a minus four. Oh. That's not going to be easy, Troy.

23. They do appear to have what you call, incorporeal tendencies. Oh, great. Which has always gone well for giant slayer PCs. Yeah, we do real well with that. God damn it. Let's run. You know what?

I mean, this is exciting. Man. I laughed to myself when you drew the crossbow. I laughed. I laughed and laughed. I wrote about it. On my session notes. Well, I'll tell you, the crossbow should hurt these guys.

All right, let's see. Trying to set up a little atmosphere of a snowstorm here. There we go. Oh, wow. Nice. I'm getting chilly. I'm getting chilly in here. Glad I put on a sweatshirt And we all have resist energy cold

That's true That was good That was good Good call Do have resist energy cold And all of it is depleted In the first In the surprise round

Of course Alright Then Dalgrith has to act fast And to act fast He definitely feels that this is, seeing as they're incorporeal, they are definitely a threat, and so he's going to fire at them with his undead bane light crossbow. Okay, lefty or righty?

Righty. Okay. Actually, no, lefty. Lefty's a little bit closer, so we'll take a shot. You're left. Yeah, Dahlgraith's left. So righty. Okay. He's going to take it. Actually, no, lefty. Lefty's a little bit closer. So we'll take a shot. You're left. Yeah, Dahlgrave's left. So righty. All right.

To Dahlgrave's left. He unlooses a bolt, and he knows in this weather, it's pretty hopeless. Against flat-footed AC here. Against flat-footed AC. Ooh, that is a 27! That is a 27. That is a hit. Nice. Beautiful! Alright. Don't forget, it's a minus 4, but still a hit.

Any ranged attack in this snowstorm is a minus 4. Damage? Minus 4 to attack. Yeah, that was minus 4. Oh, you added the minus 4. Yeah, I added the minus 4. Alright, so I'm assuming incorporeal creatures are undead, right? Or is that not?

That's not necessarily true. That's not necessarily true. I was incorporeal for a little while. Oh, that's true. That's true. You were more than you should have been, too. You can read me the undead damage, and then when someone finds out that information, I'll let you know. So the regular damage is four.

Which would be two, because all are incorporeal source. And if they're undead, another seven. Another seven. And then... And if they were undead, do you think that bane damage would be halved as well, where you're a corporeal source? I think it's a magical damage. It doesn't matter. A corporeal source is always halved, and you're a corporeal source.

Why do you ask such a dumb question, Troy? Even magical damage is half. That's right. Okay. I can't hear you over the wind. Non-magical damage doesn't affect it at all. Yeah. So he turns.

It's just like the buffets of wind are blowing his hair back out in front of him. It's whipping into his mouth and stuff. He looks back 20 feet to the rest of them and he's like, They're incorporeal. They're coming for us. And he immediately moves 20 feet back to the crew.

All right, it is Baron's turn. Baron cannot see them currently from where he is around this corner, correct? No, he just went, You know what? You can roll a perception check and a minus four. 19 on the die for a total of a 38 minus four, 34. Yeah, you know, you can see not the one that he shot, but you can see what I'm calling lefty about 50 feet away from you.

Because Baron can only take one shot, and holding would essentially just give me one shot anyway, tactically, Baron is going to make the decision to wait and see if these things get closer and inside of his touch AC range, and he will fire if they do get inside of his touch AC range. Okay, which is 30 feet or 40 feet? 40 feet. Okay, great. It is Feyraza's turn.

Feyraza will begin casting. Feyraza begins casting. She's going will begin casting. Feyraza begins casting. She's going to do something good. Please make a lava elemental. I'm cold. Joe, do me a favor. As you shot at it, you notice that it's just like, they have a blur effect on them from the snow.

Always a 20% mischance. Oh, if incorporeal creatures weren't hard enough to kill. Let's just throw on a 20% mischance. 36. if incorporeal creatures weren't hard enough to kill. Let's just throw on a 20% mischance. 36. You got it. All right. Good. Good and good.

It's their turn. It is their twin. Twin. All right. So the one that Dalgrate shot, I don't think she could be any more upset. She already looks very upset. She is going to just fly within Baron's touch AC

range. Okay, so I'll take that shot. Take that shot. 24 minus 4, 20 against touch AC to hit, and the concealment? I assume that hits. It is not a hit, actually. What'd you say? 20 against touch AC is a miss.

Yeah, they are all decks, baby. They're all dodge. Well, it's been nice working with you, gentlemen. Always a pleasure. Were you so happy when you read this stat block, Troy? Oh yeah, I saw it this morning and I was like, you know what, in case I go in that tunnel, let me see.

That's their Touch AC? Awesome! Alright, this one is going to just go ahead and unleash a Cone of Cold. So just... Everyone roll a Reflex save against Cone of Cold. Oh, Jesus. 18 for Pimms.

23 for Ferrazza. 23 for Farazza. 28 for Baron. Feeling like Huey Lewis. What about you, Dallagrave? 9th or 20? 20 on the dot. Okay, so... Farazza, what'd you get?

23? 23. All right, so only Farazza and Baron passed. The rest of you get a full 10d6 damage. Minus your energy resistance. Yes. And minus the stone skin or no? I think so, right?

Oh, yeah. I don't know. How does that work, Joe? What? Do we get both energy resistance and stone skin reduced on any damage we take? Stone skin, it would go through, because that's DR. Right. Yeah, but it's 30.

Resist 30 points. Of cold? Of cold, yeah. Oh, great. Okay. All right. There's a caster level of resist energy, like it ups. Remember?

It was when Four Bears was casting it, it was worth 30. Who? Oh. Yeah. Oh, you know what's such a horrible bummer? What's that? That my new character has evasion. And I rolled crap.

I rolled a six. Those who fail take 36 points of cold damage. Those who pass take 18 points of cold damage. All right, man. So six damage. So since I took no damage because of the resist energy. Right, it wiped out your resist energy, right? In one hit?

No, I only took 18, right? No, no. Oh, you took 18. That's right. It's constant 30 points. Oh, it wiped out your resist energy, right? In one hit? No, I only took 18, right? No, no. Oh, you took 18, that's right. It's constant 30 points. It's constant. Oh, it's constant. You have to resist, so it's like,

you have minus 30 off of each hit. Oh, wow. I thought it was one of those chip away, like protection from arrows. Like stone skin, yeah. So do I have to roll

a concentration check? Oh, yes, yes. Even though I took no damage? Well, you took zero points of damage? Yes. Just imagine a magical quorum. Yeah, no, you don't. You only take that if you take damage. That's zero points of damage? Yes. Just imagine a magical quorum. No, you don't.

You only take that if you take damage. That's the way I see it. The other option is to have it be DC 10. Why? Because it's 10

plus the damage dealt. The damage taken. I would make it automatically. Plus the spell level. Oh, that makes sense. You make it automatically. I would make it

automatically. Well, plus the spell level. You make it automatically. 10 would make it automatically. Well, plus the spell level. You make it automatically? Ten plus the spell level? Yeah. No, I could make it automatically, but it's a pretty... As long as I don't roll it. It's funny, there's a concentration check that is affected by a non-damaging spell.

But this isn't meant to be a damaging spell. It just didn't. And the concentration check is injured while casting, which you weren't because you smartly put something on you. You know what? I just rolled it just in case. I made it. Would you have said what it was if you had failed it? I rolled a natural 14.

I know. All right. The other one flies up, zippity-boppity-boo, and is going to cast a pretty horrible spell. Let's see who I'm going to cast it on. Let me get the old D4 out. Oh. This one is on Talgrath Deathbringer. Oh, no.

This is going to be... Oh, actually, it's a 20-foot radius, so it will affect all of you, but it is centered on Talgrath Deathbringer. Let me see if there's a save. There isn't. An ice storm rains down directly on... Great magical hailstones pound down upon casting the spell, dealing 3d6 points of bludgeoning damage

and 2d6 points of cold damage to every creature in this area. Damage only occurs once, but now for the remaining duration of the spell, it is all difficult terrain, and you take an added minus four to perception checks. So you all take 11 points of cold damage. Excuse me, 11 points of bludgeoning and eight points of cold. No points of cold.

Did you take any damage? One point. Yeah, so I'm going to have to roll a concentration. That doesn't go. That got stopped by the stone skin, though, right? Well, it took 11,. One point. So I'm going to have to roll a concentration. That doesn't go... That gets stopped by the stone skin, though, right? It took 11, so one point. Oh, right. I took one point of damage, so I guess I have to roll

concentration. You sure do. Ten plus one plus the spell level. Oh, don't you roll a natural one? Oh, no. It's a 17. What's the spell level? I don't know, Troy. What's the spell level? Oh, it's your spell level. Oh. What's the spell level? I don't know, Troy. What's the spell level? Oh, I thought it's your spell level.

It's your spell. Oh, it's my spell level? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not a six. Oh, then I'm fine. Yeah. Okay. It would have to be a seventh level spell for that.

So Sarazza, the ice rocks fall down on her, but she dips and dives. It gets pelted a little bit, but still keeps casting, still keeps moving her hands around and chanting. It gets pelted a little bit, but still keeps casting, still keeps moving her hands around and chanting. I'm going to go ahead and put a rock right on where Dalgrath is and throw a radius of 20 feet. That is all going to be difficult terrain. Gotcha. It is now Pembroke's turn. Okay, so they're in the air right now?

Yeah, they are floating just slightly above the ground. The ceilings are only 20 feet high, and you are now all surrounded by difficult terrain. Okay, so I wanted to cast Fire Snake. Fire Snake! Yeah. Ride the snake, ride the snake. I don't, I'm'm not 100 sure if it can affect creatures in the air or not i don't know how that works yeah fire snake why is that for it runs along the ground well it doesn't specifically say that oh okay it says five foot squares which one would assume

would mean the ground but i mean if you could stack them on top of each other and like reach something in the air like a snake like rising up from there yeah I like that yeah yeah like a cobra yeah yeah I'm reading this and it doesn't make any sense why you wouldn't be able to use it they're basically taking up a five foot square it's not like you

can shoot through it multiple times so yeah go ahead. Which one, the left or the right? Well, that's the thing. It would affect them both. So I'm going to fly. Oh, because you can shoot it across them? It's what it is.

It's a 60-foot-long sinuous trail of flame that emanates from me, starts in my square. It goes like 60 feet. They all have to be consecutive squares. square it goes like 60 feet they all have to be consecutive squares so i was going to fly over uh in to get past my colleagues into the open uh and i was going to start it at me and run it through both of them so yeah like over your friends you can shape it up into the air no i'm going to fly over past their front line so i'm clear oh of them. Oh, wow. Okay. And I can't find the map here. I don't

know what happened to it. Okay, but that's alright. It's going to affect both of them. Do I get a save? That is a DC... Just one... Make me sure. That is a DC 21 reflex save. DC 21

reflex save for half. That's fair. That's fair. 22, sorry. 22. The left one, 20 failed. Cool. And the right one, the one that's already taken a hit,

passed with a 23. Okay. Should I roll separately for each? Yes. This one, we're going to hit one and then hit the other. First one takes 49 points of fire damage. Okay. And so it's a corporeal source, so it would...

That's energy, though. It's halved. Still halved. It's still... Oh, it is. No, you're right. All right. So 24 points of damage.

And the second one takes 44 points. That's quartered? 44 points. So that's... So 11 44 so 11 points 11 points of damage and then I'm going to do a swift action with the metamagic rod

a magic missile on the one that's that I damaged more and that is a 22 more points of force damage and force damage that's a 22 more points of force damage. Awesome. That's huge. On that thing, yeah. And force damage, that's clean. Okay, 22.

Nice. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, they seemed to scream out at the fire damage. Hell yeah. You don't like that, do you? I'm going to have a fire, scarecrow. And you don't need a 20% mischance for that.

Just making sure everything's right. Yeah, you're good. So now it is round two, and it is Dalgrith's turn. Yeah, Dalgrith is out of his element here. I'm out of my element! I can't fight these creatures! I need to get some space! Use the crossbow!

He's going to try to get back. He'll pull back 10 feet. Yeah, difficult terrain, so that's all his movement. Yeah. Oh, jeez. Just wind's buffeting you. Snowflakes. He can only move back 5 feet because that's a second diagonal.

That's really annoying and stupid. I just hate that the orientation of a hallway on a given map means that it's 15 feet. It's not 15 feet. That's why we need hex grids. Exactly. Yeah, that sucks. There's a really unfortunate part of the tunnel

that you just happen to be in. Yeah, so he'll move five feet and load the crossbow. Chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug, chug. And it is... Baron's turn. Baron is going to fire at the sad... Hold on a second. Getting a look at these things, I mean, can I tell if they're undead?

As opposed to incorporeally whatever? Do you have knowledge of religion? I do. Roll an odds of religion. 18. They are undead. Yeah. They're undead. Have you got something that They are undead. Yeah. They're undead.

Have you got something that hurts the undead? Yes. That's why I've got to rely on the crossbow for the moment. Well spotted, Dalgrief. And then he turns to Baron in the wind. Find out if they're evil. Let me know if they're evil. That takes a standard action.

I won't do that. I won't do that over my dead body. I'm so mad it was DC-19. It will be a dead body! But I gave it to you. Yeah, so it is undead. Baron, what are you going to do? Baron. This guy. Baron!

He's real into, first off, activating Bane as a swift action against the undead. Actually, I would have passed. You would have passed? Because I have a trait that gives me plus two on knowledge religion checks to identify undead monsters. That would have kept me up all night. So it's all good. I knew it

would have. I'm sick. I wanted to make sure you slept. My brain is sick. Grant, what do you got? We're going to take a full round of tag action against the sad, incorporeal snow woman to the upper side, the left side, the one that Pembroke hurt more. We can call them up and down now. Up and down. So the up the left side, the one that Pembroke hurt more. We can call them up and down now.

Up and down. So the up one, that's the one that Pembroke has hurt more. Okay, fire one. Fire one. Oh, my God, it's a 19 on the die. Oh, no, it's a 31. Don't forget, you got a minus four, but 20% mischance as well.

So roll that. Oh, right, the 20% mischance. And always a minus four. I subtracted the minus four from what I told you. Eight. It's not 800. It's 108.

So that's a miss. Oh, bear, bear. So that's a, sorry, 18. That's a miss. Oh, my God. Final attack. Come on.

That's a 15. 15. Oh, no. Not a misfire, though, right? 17. No, no, no. Oh, okay. Fire and bullets blindly into the wind.

Oh, my God. Find their alliance. Kill it. Burn. Why don't you kill it? Pop, pop, pop. As a public service announcement, remember, you all have spider climb. I know.

I don't know how that would affect my ability. Spider Climb allows you to use... You still have to roll better, Grant, but you can still get out. Does Spider Climb allow you to stand on a wall without your hands holding there and reload a crossbow, for example? Yes. Look that up. Matthew, it's your turn. Faraz's turn.

It's Faraz's turn. And first of all, a lightning storm appears. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Oh, baby. And so a lightning bolt will strike down. You've been. Hold on a second. Are we going to get some bonuses here?

No, no bonuses. You don't get a bonus on lightning storm if it's in a storm? We're not in an outside area. Oh, we're not. We're not outdoors and in a stormy area. I had to take a shot. Game of the system. Game of the system, O'Brien.

Yeah, imagine that. Who does that? You. Yeah. All the time. If it didn't say if you were outdoors, I would have made the case. But it says outdoors and in a stormy area. That ain't rain, sucker.

All right, what do I do? What do I have to roll? I'm going to call down a little bit. As part of the spell's casting, a lightning bolt streaks down to hit the one that Joe did not hit. That could be anybody. Was that lefty or righty? No, that's the north. We'll call him up and down now.

Up and down. He did not hit up. Okay, at up, I roll a reflex save. Reflex save. Which you'll probably make. A. I rolled a 19. All right, so this is going to be quarter damage.

Give it to me Are you adding the bonus from your headband bro? Yeah it's just 5d6 of damage I thought to the save maybe it would change No You rolled a natural 19 19 total You think I would just give you the die roll?

You do that all the time when you roll a natural 19 I would say I think that's exactly a pass maybe Let me clean out your ears Capitacasa It is No it's a fail Alright Yeah

Awesome Beautiful Damn it I want an apology I'm sorry Grant Good time Skint Okay And then Faraza

Oh this is risky This is really risky Do it So that spell wasn't your turn Good timing, Skid. Okay, and then Faraza. Oh, this is risky. This is really risky. Do it. So that spell wasn't your turn? No, that was the completion of my previous turn. Okay. When the casting time is one full action,

it completes right before your next turn. It's a full round action that completes right before your next turn. For some reason, I feel like you're getting two turns, but go ahead. It's like Summon Monster. But Summon Monster is different. No, he summoned the bolts. The bolts just don't become combatants. My first turn, I spent a full round action summoning.

No, I know you didn't. That continued until right before my turn. For some reason, it seems weird to me, but I trust you. I mean, I'm reading from the rules. I know that's how it works with summoning. I never trust your reading of anything. Read from the rules. No, I'm sure that's fine. I know that's how it works with summoned creatures, but

does that make sense? Yeah, I mean you're summoning, yeah. It's got a casting time of one action or one full round action, what's it called? A casting time of one round. Like a summoning. Joe, your thoughts? You have to use the whole round and then right at the end you get a free bolt.

And then for the rest of the time, it's a standard action. You're not supposed to call a bolt. But it doesn't complete until right before my next turn. Correct. So I have to wait until my next turn. That's why I had to roll all those concentration rounds. So you get a free bolt, and you could cast a spell this round. Yes.

You could also cast a spell and then shoot the bolt. In fact, I am going to cast a spell. Oh. You said it was a gun. Weakness to lightning. Faraz is going to be... She could do her laundry. She could do anything. I could do anything. She's choosing to cast a spell. Faraz Oh. Weakness to lightning. She could do her laundry. She could do anything.

She's choosing to cast a spell. Farazza will begin summoning. Begin summoning. Okay. Okay. Interesting. And call bolt. Call bolt. I can't do both. Oh no, but you already called one bolt.

Yes. Yeah. Alright. What do you got, LaValley? All right. All right, then. Just interrupt this casting real quick. I'm going to, you know, that Resistant Cold is really smart. Really, really smart. It's huge.

Thank God we didn't rest. I'm going to try something here, and we've never quite got the rules on this correct. We won't this time either. The first one, the one that Dalgray first attacked, who we're now calling Down, begins a gaze at all of you. Oh, yeah. Don't you look at me like that.

And so the way it works, at the beginning of your turn, you roll the save against the gaze. But you can choose to wear a blindfold, which then gives the creature total concealment from you. It already has partial concealment. Or you can avert your eyes, and then you get a 50% chance to avoid having to make the saving throw. But then that creature gets concealment against you. So, a couple interesting options. Usually I just make you guys roll the save

right away, but having read a little bit more about the supernatural gaze ability, it is a standard action to cast it, and you get to make the decision on your turn. So that's what that one does. The other one unleashes a cone of cold on all of you again. So everyone roll reflex.

Come on, Dalgrave. Come on, right before you have to avert your gaze. Dodge it. Yes. That is a 26. 26. 21. Fail.

Really? I failed also. Fail. Natural to 13. Fail. Brutal. Oh, man. up fail really i failed also fail natural 213 oh brutal oh man oh baby six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen and then eleven twenty nine points of damage divided up or it's all cold or it's all cold. Ice Storm was the bludgeoning. So zero points of damage.

Zero points of damage and you take zero as well. So Code of Cold, 10d6, mind you. Wow. And it just eats it. You were right on average for that roll. 29 points. That's about what it should be.

If you rolled 6s on every die, we would have really been in trouble. You would have really been hurt. Are we doing resist energy right, Joe? Yeah, the value of the energy resistance granted increases to 20 points at 7th level and to a maximum of 30 points at 11th level. 30 points. This is how I've always done resist energy. The spell protects the recipient's equipment as well.

All right. In case you were interested. That's great. All right. Those T-bone steaks Great. That's great. All right. Those T-bone steaks I have in my bag aren't frostbite. I mean, it is just the only and exact cancellation to go cold. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, that could be a party wipe if you don't have that up. Totally. We'd have to run from this fight. Yeah. 60 points of damage. I'd be dead already. Yeah. I'd be dead.

All right. You'll be dead. It is. damage. I'd be dead already. I'd be dead. All right. You'll be dead. It is Pembroke's turn. Pembroke, you have a decision you have to make here. Do you want to avert your eyes? Do you want to take a standard action to whip out a blindfold? Or do you want to just roll? I don't have a blindfold handy.

I'm going to avert my eyes. You're going to avert your eyes. So roll a D100. I'm going to avert my eyes. You're going to avert your eyes. So roll a D100. 51 or higher, you have to roll. Actually, no. For you, you want good. So 50 or lower, you don't have to roll to save.

Okay. 51 or higher, you don't have to roll to save. Yes, 51 or higher, you don't have to roll. So I want to roll over 50. Yes. Yes, exactly. That's what you want. 23. Oh. Yes. Exactly. That's what you want. 23. Oh.

Oh. All right. Roll a... Oh, man. This is so bad. Roll a will save. These are character killers, man. This is going to be bad.

Don't fail. Yeah, that's bad. 15. And are you flying? Yeah. We'll see you next week. Oh, no! Oh, God!

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