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Belle's Hells, with the aid of two other disparate groups of heroes, have managed to

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bypassing some challenges, stumbling past others, eventually you came to the outer depths of the prime pillar, whereupon a fissure in the thick glass led you deeper within, the tree trunk-like ringed layers of stone and glass revealing themselves as you began to wind deeper into the central pillar that represents, it seems to be, a path to the core of the moon.

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you came upon a troop of exalant that had surrounded Ludinus, keeping him contained within some sort of a psychic shell, while he was on the cusp of absorbing the remnants of your mother.

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dispelling and disrupting the concentration of these exultants until one by one they fell.

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A rapid series of actions pulled your mother, Liana, from the jaws of destruction and ash.

And your resident blue bard here immediately locked Ludinus within a dense force cage spell.

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In this moment,

here within the outer layers of the prime pillar,

Lutinus seems to nod with a

strange bit of approval to what has just transpired, as you see the

arching, flaring veins of purplish, exultant energy crawling up around his neck and his arms, his hair beginning to float and flow around him, the essence of Lilianus' exultant, ruitus-born gift being transferred, albeit temporarily,

to Marshmanet Lutinus the Leth.

And here, as you all stand at the immediate end of an intense conflict, you catch your breath and look face to face with what looks to be a very calm and smug

villain.

As you all stand there, Lutinus kind of paces back and forth within the cage, like a calm lion tiger, just kind of looking about the rest of your troop.

A liger, if you will.

A liger, if you will.

Awesome.

Very well.

I suppose you have your mother back.

That's one thing before

the end, I suppose.

If it is to be an end.

What do you think?

I thought that's not what you wanted.

Well, it's an end of something.

End of an age.

But there's so much potential, so much possibility of what's to come.

Wouldn't you agree?

You all wear the weathered scars of experience and

challenge disaster on your face since even the last time we met.

There's a dark wisdom in being more worldly

and with each step you take I dain to take a guess that perhaps you see things a little bit

closer to the way I do

DM while he's starting to talk can I start to slink to the right

maybe stealthily but not entirely concerned I want to try and

there seems to be a tunnel over here right right there is a yeah right down here

can I try and just not draw his eye and go explore that tunnel while he chats sure go and make a stealth check for me if you don't mind

16 28 28

okay

as everyone's kind of

having this moment of listening to what seems to be his opening to a conversation.

You kind of quietly kind of delve out of the edge of his periphery and begin to ever so carefully head down this little pathway so we'll come to you in a little bit

i also have a question yes he's got a the miniature at least is holding a uh a staff

he has a staff yeah has he always had that yeah yeah what's that look like

uh it is a uh a long thin kind of brass and gold looking staff it's like tightly wrapped towards the center of where he grips it and it kind of separates off into two prongs with like an elvish lattice work that seems to weave between them almost like a strange golden two-pronged fork of magical attuned energy.

Thank you.

Great for catching fish.

Yeah.

It's a big camper.

He slipped just now.

What?

He slipped.

I don't even think he heard it.

I don't think I heard it.

I know what to context and Context.

Well, I mean, there's some truth to it.

We saw what we saw.

And

I'll admit, there are some things I

have shifted around in my head a bit.

But you immediately went to the end of an age.

You had to be reminded about the beginning of a new one.

That tells me a lot about where you're at.

I love when the insolence of youth tends to believe it knows far more than it can.

Read into my words what you wish.

This isn't a chess game, this is a conversation.

I have nothing to hide.

I never have.

At every single point, I have been nothing but forthright and honest with you.

And that does not change here.

In my mom's head.

I'm gonna say

how much of that is a lie.

I mean, as far as I'm aware, he

oh gosh, I can still talk to her in her head, right?

Oh, you can, yeah, but yeah, yeah, this is her talking back to you, but she's but she's still like

recover, she's

barely holding.

She's much healthier thanks to the potion, but like she's still significantly drained.

I mean, I had no reason to doubt him.

him.

His methods and means are

obfuscated and twisted in all manner of ways, but

I mean, I followed him because I

believed him.

For better or for worse, I still do.

For worse, Mama.

Check out the odds.

I mean, that's the trouble, though.

I mean, I believe you.

I don't think you've been lying at all.

I don't honestly think any of us really think you're lying.

Yet we all don't like you.

I think that you can lie by omission.

I think he lied when he said he didn't want to take Perdathos himself.

I know you.

You proved yourself.

What I was going to ask.

Did that plan change?

Plans often change by unexpected circumstances.

He looks over towards your mother,

kneeling on the ground, still catching catching her breath.

Liliana was to be the vessel from the beginning.

But

as a person as I, who survived as long as I have, you have

a number of contingencies in case things don't pan out.

And upon discovering a

not altogether unexpected deceit,

I'd resort to um doing it yourself.

Yeah,

you're always gonna be the best man for the the job Lou Lives.

Yeah, you're an altruist.

So, is this the plan?

Gonna make a beeline for the core.

See who gets there first.

Little bit of a race.

I love races.

But you don't have to work anymore.

You can sit it out.

We can just leave now

and go take the spot.

I agree.

The gods have to be dealt with.

And do what?

Just not you.

That's the trouble.

Never you.

Would it change things

if you wanted

that?

Maybe we have our own plans

of taking on Pradothus?

And what would you do

as the vessel?

Either of you.

The beginning of a new age, Ludinus.

Yeah, it would be so amazing.

I mean, I would just eat everyone.

And I think Imogen would just we would just have like all of the snacks.

And we would start with you.

I do not begrudge you for being the children you are,

honestly.

But here we are

at the edge of destiny.

And I think we'll all owe to each other a bit of

openness.

We're being open.

Yeah.

It's such a short list of people who've called me a child in the last year or so.

Weirdly, most of them were gods

at this point.

I think there's something wrong with you now.

I think you might have lived too long.

I definitely know that's what's wrong with them.

I don't disagree.

I have no aspirations for surviving far beyond this, especially given the context of my temporary

imbuement.

I think it looks cool.

But I know it needs to be done.

And if a sacrifice must be made,

I will make it myself.

If you truly intend to align with my goals and become the vessel to the destruction of this

tyrannical family,

then I would not be in your way either.

But I'd walk in very strong lock step.

Then again,

your bloodline has already proven duplicitous.

Why should I even believe you?

Maybe you should.

Tell me your hardships.

What are the things that drive you to survive here to the ends of the ruddy moonville omen?

What is it you wish to change?

I want people to have a chance

To change their fates.

Too often I feel like

what's been set in motion

can't be undone.

And I think that's in part due to the gods.

I do.

We didn't quite get to finish our conversation last time in Aeor.

I kind of ran off.

But I'm curious

in this past

century,

have you ever thought to just ask the gods yourself?

To what end?

To what end?

You might be surprised.

They do answer sometimes.

Sometimes.

A family

once long followed the path of the law-bearer.

A mother and father, most devout followers.

Living in her holy light and divine protection, marching to the decrees of guidance and the promised order and peace.

Alexandria.

The divine law.

Through all the terror and destruction of the calamity, they never wavered in their faith.

Not once.

My earliest memories still ring with their words, she will protect us.

Our love and devotion is stronger than any magic, burns brighter than any fire.

The law bearer will see us through.

My family was collateral damage in the battle between the lawbearer and the crawling being that destroyed our home city of Azana.

Words of remembrance from the lips of a foreign priest was all I was given in recompense.

The fallen, forgotten, abandoned, when their gods stepped away from the smoldering ruin, they rot.

My conviction was forged that day, and has remained unwavering since.

Here, on the precipice of truth and triumph.

No, I do not care for their words, their platitudes.

They only care about them.

I don't understand, Lydnis.

You

said over and over again that sacrifices must be made.

Would you have rather let the law bearer have the crawling king free, loose on the world?

You don't have to have faith in the gods.

But what about faith in your mother?

What do you think she would make of all of this?

You

know

nothing

of my mother.

What did you do

afterwards?

Where did you go?

What happened?

How did this happen?

I wondered.

I met many survivors, others who were seeking a meaning to all of it,

looking to their

great and wondrous, glorious golden gods for direction.

For an apology.

For comfort, for direction.

And in that silence, one by one, they all walked away.

So yes,

sometimes sacrifices must be made.

But the good remember those who made that sacrifice.

I remember them when others do not.

why did the gods walk away do you think

truly you've seen it

I saw what I saw

they fear their children

they fear we have

too much ambition maybe they feared the collateral damage they were wreaking upon the world

some maybe

but it's very easy for even the best to be spoiled.

What happened to your to your family?

I literally just told you.

They died.

But did you get to say goodbye?

Of course not.

Inside check.

Make an inside check.

Do I believe him?

15.

15?

Oh!

He's a rating.

Whisper.

Can I quickly judge so far?

So far, pretty good.

Yeah.

Pretty good speech.

Pretty decent speech.

Is that a six or a nine?

Are you holding it upside down?

Could go up to a seven, depending on what happens.

Got a rating system.

His villain marker.

I hate this.

Why did I do this?

Pretty friends with these.

I'm.

No, no, no, no, what'd you mark?

Nothing.

Oh.

Yeah.

This is how I ruin everything.

What were your parents' names?

Yes, what was your mother's name?

Do you remember since it's been so long?

And it's very important, as we've learned in the past, to learn

the names of people's parents.

I haven't known, I didn't know the names of mine until very recently.

As someone whose parents had faith and died and I was cast into the middle of nowhere and blamed the gods and was left without anything.

I cannot believe how much of your story

makes sense to me.

I cannot believe

how

different we both came out.

I'm still an asshole.

Don't get me wrong.

Fuck.

What is wrong with you?

Get over it.

Grow up.

What began

my journey

was better spark.

And there are many more stories to tell that have made me who I am today.

But what of you, she who sits between many thrones?

What would you do with the power of the God Eater?

I would probably

I would probably like make sure all of my friends have like everything they want

like get them all like a nice house

like whatever kind of food they want

I don't think it's like a being a genie though

I don't know I've never been a gun if God I would be so I would just like give anybody what they wanted

when I want it.

So clearly I'm

a job.

You'd be the trailer God, wouldn't you?

Probably, probably, probably, probably.

I probably would not shouldn't be the receptacle for the.

But I'm just, I don't know what I would.

No, I mean, we could have it.

I don't know.

It could go either way.

It could go either way with this one.

And why are you here?

Hmm?

Why are you

here?

I am here.

It's a great question.

Great questions.

Like, what am I doing?

What are you doing here?

I'm here because

I'm very curious.

And

if the world is going to burn, I would like to have a front rose.

That's I can respect.

What do you want?

What do I want?

Yes.

Well.

Imogen was telling the truth.

We've talked about this.

There is merit to giving a little bit more.

Fate and destiny.

Back to the people.

I've learned quite a lot over these journeys.

The gods were not the first one here.

Who speaks for them?

Who speaks for the Titans?

For the Elementals?

Who crafted this earth?

Someone should, even though they're long gone.

But

I'm here

really just because I kept walking through open doors

as I always have

some that have gotten me killed twice.

But

we're here now.

Someone has to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.

Not of you.

Small.

Brave, Ashari.

I don't know that there's much I need to talk about.

I'd rather just shut up and do.

Your malice is predictable.

People have been spilling garbage from their mouths, like yours, for eons.

There's nothing new about you other than the scale.

The left.

Honestly, I can't wait for you to come out of that box.

In your head, you hear.

I love you so much, Auram.

Now that is forthright honesty.

And it's appreciated.

Go fuck yourself.

And you,

wanderer of the silken sails,

what's your part in all this with these

strange beings of fate and destiny?

What do you want?

I've always just been in it for the ride.

But now that I'm here...

I feel like...

I feel like I want to help steer a little.

Can I ask you a question?

Is it allowed?

I feel like there are rules.

I have been nothing but present.

So benevolent.

I know you think you're right.

I don't know, maybe you are,

Do you think what you're doing is

good?

Do you think

that what you're doing is

good?

In your mind's eye, do you think you're

right?

Not everything I've done is good,

but it's all been to serve what I know to be right.

Ha, gotcha.

It's perfect.

The best villains always think they're right.

Wait,

we think we're right too.

Don't think too hard about it.

Okay.

Look at guys.

I'm 90% sure.

No.

I don't know if that's accurate.

No, I'm.

At least we don't have illusions that this is a means to an end.

That's what makes a villain.

What makes a villain is opposing perspective.

That's all it is.

That's all it's ever been.

And you,

fiendling in training.

You're a strange outlying thread in this motley crew.

What is it you want?

They wish the gods to perhaps be gone.

Perhaps our goals are aligned in different ways.

But you,

you are a conundrum.

I.

I must admit I share some of your

distinct history with the gods

and

have lost faith as well.

I also,

although everybody here, including me, thinks you're an asshole,

I'm sorry about your family.

I know that that's rough and can change a person.

Frankly, I

don't know what I want,

and

I feel like being around people

who do

can help

guide a person.

But you're alone

and have no one to guide you

and haven't for a long time.

That must be very hard.

I'm sorry.

And I'm gonna just sort of walk away from him and walk to

a different corner of the room.

Okay.

After he walks away, I've got my arms crossed.

I'm just gonna shoot two fingers at Imogen and send a message.

Whisper to myself, for her,

hey, that thing doesn't last forever.

And he can get out if he tries.

What are we doing here?

I don't know.

Should we, uh...

I feel like he's stalling.

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No dust disturbed.

Okay.

Cool, cool, cool.

Can I give a smell to the air and use a little hunter's bane?

Is there any indication of a living or undead type of creature in this room, this cavern, this triangular?

Perception check.

That was total shit.

Six.

Six.

Hard to tell.

And the reason is because as you kind of step into this chamber, there's been that kind of odd periphery, kind of buzzing sense, that kind of like low, heavy, heavy, sub-woofer bass, like

kind of like sitting underneath the atmosphere here.

Where you stand now, it is

loud and it kind of

hits your senses, your sensitive, woven, gnomish ears

in a way where you can feel like your eardrums are perpetually flickering, like they're just kind of twitching.

Sorry, Illium.

It is this kind of oppressive, general vibration that you cannot pinpoint.

that seems to be mucking with your senses

and it seems just getting heavier and heavier the closer you've gotten towards this current boundary.

And from the opening where I'm at to where this golden lattice work is, how about what's the distance there?

It's about 130 feet, 140 feet maybe, from where you currently are.

I just want to touch it.

I just want to

see large pieces of rock pillars that are kind of pushed out of the ground, but kind of at an odd angle, almost like some sort of force long ago kind of blasted them back and kind of caused them to arc and freeze in place.

It should be a team player.

I should go back and tell the others.

It's the only the good die young.

But I'm not good.

I'm Nikki going into the room.

God.

And can I look for any sort of

in case this has been scoured before?

Any kind of traps or wards or anything that would ensnare somebody trying to cross to this exposed

sure make a good rogue?

Make an investigation check for anything, but then

check for traps.

Uh 21.

21.

You do not see any traps.

You do not see any laid glyphs.

You don't see any

wires or lines.

It's just this kind of open stretch of this chamber that eventually comes to this opening with the boundaries there.

Some raised platforms.

Glowing pulsing glass, but that's...

Can I cautiously cross the room about halfway, maybe 50, 60, 70-ish feet, and I'll take out one of the wooden discs.

It's a C-pop industries exclusive.

And looking at

the golden lattice, where can I stone, skip, like wing it like a frisbee

into the wall?

Yes.

Go ahead and make an athletic check for it.

Did Chetne invent pogs?

It's been a mainstay of my toy business for decades.

You have to make sure he dies.

It comes in and out of style, but Chetney never does.

I win, I get your slammer.

Natural 18.

This one's already in glass.

26.

You chuck it and go,

arcs a bit, hits it.

There's a little like, just a blast of kind of arcane spark, a subtle kind of gold-tinted kind of like flash, and it just kind of like skips off and hits the ground and comes to rest.

Can I go?

I'm going to get closer and go pick it up and inspect it.

Is it singed or burned or just kind of broken?

Just kind of like it hits something hard

As I get closer,

I'd like to get within like 15 to 10 feet of this.

Is it moving, static, solid?

As you approach and you get closer look at it, the faint kind of golden energy and light that's emanating from it, it is

an endless fractal of woven

glyph-like detail that like kind of like shifts together and moves.

Like, kind of like it's you've

you saw patterns like this

when

Ira's telescope saw the outer kind of

barrier that had set kind of an illusion boundary around Ruitus.

This has some semblance to the

weave of the divine gate.

And it is just like you get close and you can see the larger glyphs that kind of shift and move and weave and as you look in they're made up of smaller glyphs that are made up of smaller glyphs and it's just this kind of endless fractal to an infinitesimal point.

And the multiple layers kind of move in different directions beneath each one, and you're not even sure how many there are.

I'm going to take out the staff of Dark Odyssey that I've been entrusted to safe, keep, and protect from the group.

Put it on the ground behind me.

And fuck it, I'm going to reach out and touch it.

Oh, God.

Your finger touches it, and it's an immediate kind of like a resistance that is warm.

It's like pressing your finger against a

piece of solid glass or stone that is hotter than your body temperature.

So it feels not enough to burn you necessarily, but it has its own kind of unique heat and it just feels solid.

Oh,

that's not so bad.

It's not so bad.

We could get through this.

Um.

I'll take out a little chisel.

God.

With all my centuries of craftsmanship, can I give it a

just one little hit into it?

You do.

The hammer bounces back, almost like it seems to be repelling it with an equal or close to equal amount of force that was put into it.

Okay, fuck you.

Okay, cool.

Not for me.

Yeah, but no.

I've been running for a while.

I'm going to turn around, grab the staff, and start heading heading back up the walkway to where the rest of the ends.

While you're heading back,

I'm turning to the chamber.

Um,

oh, yeah, you were

asking me,

just the perfect segue.

It's also true.

Yeah,

can I, in my mom's head, while Ludinus is monologuing,

um,

ask her,

Do you know

sorry,

I didn't think it was gonna do that?

Yeah, yeah, you know that.

I didn't know that was gonna be that.

Do you know how

Ludnis planned on you getting through

on you becoming the vessel?

We hadn't gotten this far before, but it through both of our visions, as far as I know, it requires

someone

carrying the

mark of Perdathos to press through the boundaries from this side, to temporarily leave them traversable.

Okay.

It was the...

From what he said, the true purpose of the Ruidus Born.

To come back to this home and

usher it beyond its cage.

Okay.

Ludeness is kind of looking over your troop a bit as you wander off, and you're all kind of still glaring out.

So I've devoted my life to knowledge, patterns, control.

I've studied and mastered the whims of ambition, weaving well-worn paths.

I'm gonna misty step to the tunnel.

Misty's step of the tunnel.

To the mouth of the tunnel.

Okay.

And take off running.

Children are so

impatient.

I'm listening.

I'm listening.

I was ready to hear the whole thing.

Okay.

What's the DC on your fourth?

Here we go.

Here we go.

Here we go.

16 move.

16.

You all watch.

16.

I know.

Ludeness Deleth kind of like sighs, watching Imogen vanish and kind of like

his hair.

Begins to float up.

The energy in his body shh begins to spark up brighter.

You watch his eyes go to like a bright violet-white coloration as he lifts off the ground.

His very

outfit seems to flicker and burn red with the energy that's glowing off of him.

And then

he's gone.

Vanished from sight.

First try.

We need to take off after Imogen.

Done that short rest ball.

Could I, yes, as I get to the cavern, could I turn around and use

one thing?

I'd like to leave

an item at the front of the cavern.

Okay.

And then could I also use detect magic just to look in the cavern in case there's anything I'm not

seeing?

Sure.

So you go ahead and cast detect magic.

And as you're kind of running back down the hallway and you cast the spell as you're kind of trekking along, your vision clarifies.

As you do, the bits of glass that are in the rock around you gives a faint magical aura, but it's not of a woven spell craft or an enchantment, but there is

yeah, they have an innate magical essence to them, though alien than any other magic you've encountered.

Whereas normally with the tech magic, you can kind of gather a sense of which kind of school of magic it's related to.

This kind of sits weirdly out of it.

It's like looking at ultraviolet color that's beyond the color spectrum that you're familiar with.

Meaning like, that's, I recognize that that's a color, but I don't know how to describe it.

You know, it's that kind of a vibe to it.

It doesn't take too long before, as you're kind of rushing back, you hear footsteps, and Imogen kind of apparates at at the kind of early entrance to the tunnel that you would come through, running your direction.

The rest of you kind of give into a quick run behind her.

Oh, hey, I was.

I there's a whole like lattice work thing out there.

Yeah, I'm going.

Just go, go, go.

What do you mean, go?

Where's Ludenis?

He left.

He left?

He might be there.

Go.

But he didn't come through.

Can I look back at the lattice work?

Is he anywhere in the tunnel?

You've gone a bit into the tunnel to kind of catch up with them.

By the time, like, you're almost back before they arrive.

Well, shit.

Don't worry, I left something waiting for him.

Okay, did you?

A trap of deadly magnitude, unheard of.

Magic can't get through that force cage, right?

No.

I'm assuming that would include a counterspell.

You think he just made himself invisible?

No, we teleported out.

No, I think he teleported out.

I'm just wondering if I could have counterspelled it, but I don't know.

Unfortunately, nothing can get through the force cage.

Yeah, yeah.

He just made himself involved.

Auram falls in around Imogen, and I'm looking for him.

Is there any

place in this chamber that he could be?

Well, you're not in the chamber yet.

You're kind of trekking through the tunnel on transit.

So I'll save him.

All right.

I don't know.

They just left.

I'm off somewhere else.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Well, I was going to sit down and pray.

Oh, shit.

Well, sorry.

Everybody just left, and I don't know that they did.

Did they

not?

Well, for instance,

the rule is still there.

Here's what we'll do.

Because you said off, you said you're going to have to pray, and then everyone else is talking for a bit before this happens.

So you said you wanted to pray to your deity?

I wanted to sit down sort of like next to a face of rock of some sort, and I was going to take out my paints,

my poison paints, and I was going to just quickly splatter a symbol.

on the rock in in poison paint and then touch it with my hand even if it burns a little and

ask,

reach out

in this moment, reach out and ask

at the cusp

at the cusp of the end of my mission.

I need guidance.

I need

I need renewed faith.

I need inspiration.

And I need to speak with you.

Okay.

My Lord.

No!

Witch lord, witch lord.

Witch lord!

Witch lord!

Witch lord!

So in a little time you wire me here.

While all this has been happening right before it did, Braitz had stepped off to attempt to reach out to a source of divine inspiration.

You know what?

Let's have all the rest of you leave the table if you don't mind.

Woo!

What no one?

Did you know you were gonna do that?

You didn't know you were gonna kick that off?

All right, wait,

we're out and leaving.

I wish you'd be afraid of

the dynamite.

What do you got?

Okay, all right.

Did you know something like that?

Just step out into the kitchen.

All right, all right, all right.

Don't listen if he says to kill us all.

Don't listen to him.

Oh boy.

I wish I had a rat right now.

I'm gonna ask you in a second who specifically you're praying for.

Sure.

I was just gonna say

all right.

All right, they left the room.

Braeus.

Who did you pray to?

I'm reaching out

to see if the Lord of lies,

the king of the hells,

Lord Asmodeus,

will hear my plea for guidance.

Okay.

As you place your hand upon this symbol and reach out to

one of the stronger sources of

divine guidance in your recent years

You feel that buzzing sound at the edge of your vision.

Begin to shake.

Your vision seems to vibrate as all shapes and the painted symbol that you put upon the rock seems to change and move.

And in that moment, your vision begins to tunnel

until a flame kind of

burns it back.

And while your vision still remains imperfect and

blurred and unfocused amongst the shadows you look in front of you, an onyx throne that curves up in all manner of what look like horns or clawed fingers.

You can smell throughout the

intense sulfur

and burned bone that seems to cultivate this darkened space with a sense of horror and belonging.

Here in this black and shadowed space,

as this vision itself forces itself to fight through this region where divinity is kept at bay,

the shadow peels away,

and you see the beautiful face of your fallen angelic lord in his black and red robes

as he leans in,

my child,

what is it

that you seek guidance for?

If I'm not kneeling, I kneel and lower my head in reverence.

I

apologize for disturbing you

in this hour of great import

But I.

Signs from you have been few and far between.

And I've been shown

so many other

paths,

none of which I've taken, my lord.

But

in the absence of

clarity, sometimes a mission can become muddled, or

I fear I stand on shaky ground.

I've met

people who

consider me their ally, and who have goals aligned with ours, but

for different reasons.

And now I've just spoken with our enemy, Lutonistileth.

whose history and story

actually sounds remarkably like my own,

and it shook me.

I just want to make sure that

I'm doing the right thing.

I'm following your path, and I'm

not confusing your orders.

It is good of you to check in, Braith.

For indeed,

Through some whim of the threaded fates

You stand at the cusp of a choice

Ludinus may be a tragic figure, but deeply misguided

Such beings might need

renewed direction

or if their

goals are in opposition to our personal interests, they must be erased.

He's too far gone.

Destroy him.

But.

Podathos cannot be set free.

Cannot be set free.

Okay.

If you cannot do this.

Then perhaps.

no, no, I can.

I can.

I.

I've accomplished much.

Who do you walk with, Breyus?

Who do I walk with?

I walk with you, my lord.

I.

When I was at my lowest, when tragedy befell me,

I thought about

ending it all.

I thought about.

thought my life was over and

you were there.

You sent a guide

to guide me, to

to tell me I had something to live for, that I was special, that I didn't need

the approval of the prime deities or a temple or

anyone.

That I was strong enough on my own

when you commanded me to

destroy that first guide,

Stanley.

I did.

I did as you commanded me.

And I've done much more since.

Using the knowledge you've given me and the abilities that you've granted me, I've...

I've made allies with important people.

I've met the heads of churches and temples and kingdoms.

I've

I've found this group that considers me their ally and have brought me all over the world.

I've even found

that

I've gotten this armor, this armor.

This comes from the platinum...

the platinum dragon himself.

Oh, I can greatly recognize it.

My lord, they just gave it to me.

And I have another boon, too.

One that I can use to help you.

But

how will I know if the time is right?

And

what will happen if I succeed?

Will I.

What do you want, Breyus?

I'm in no position to ask you

for anything, my lord.

You're in every position to ask, Breyas.

You've already done so much.

You who was abandoned by those who could not see this spark of potential within you.

You who was lost and adrift, because you spent a life in service to others who cared little.

But now you live in service to yourself.

And that's such in service to me.

And I'm so proud.

So,

you who work so hard.

You

who now represent our future.

My future.

What is it you

want,

Dumasid?

Well, first and foremost, to please you, my lord.

But

I wish for family.

I wish

my family discarded me

when I

when I ruined their name and

I've been alone for so long

I wish for a family.

I...

And a place to call my own my home.

Maybe I could...

Maybe I could go to where you dwell and

sit with...

Sweet, sweet Breus.

His...

Clawed fingers cup your chin as he leans forward and looks into your eyes.

You already have a family

and a home.

And it will be yours

forever.

You just need to protect it.

Protect it?

Yes.

Destroy Lewdeness, but do not free Pridathos.

And if it must be freed,

do what you must to bend it to our will.

I know you walk alongside vessels.

I know you've ingratiated yourself to those who

might very well be the crux

of our time.

bend them

to us.

What if they won't listen to me?

Then perhaps it needs a vessel

to survive.

And without a vessel still remaining,

your home

will be protected.

I understand.

And you'll bring me to

you?

And so many more things, Braus.

You've only stepped but a little into these flames and pleasures.

I'm proud of you.

I must confess,

these friends I'm with,

I like them.

I don't know if I'll be strong enough to

how will I be strong enough to betray them.

Patience.

You can't give me like a

special spell or a.

something

I'm never far from you, Brains.

And when the moment is right,

we'll strike together.

I look forward to that day.

It might be today,

actually.

Time is always of the essence, isn't it?

It is.

Thank you

for seeing in me what others wouldn't.

Thank you

for not abandoning me.

He just kind of looks over at you with a soft smile.

You've always been special.

Now show the rest of the world why.

The flames wreath your vision,

and you're back inside the chamber with your hand on the symbol as you pull away.

You watch as the paint burns into ash, leaving the rock face clean as it was before you started.

In that moment,

you see the rest of your friends suddenly notice Imogen vanish off elsewhere, Ludinus vanish, and they all begin to charge into a tunnel.

We can go ahead and call the rest of the troop in if you don't mind.

I'm gonna go ahead and

we should hide, you and me.

Let's do it, just hide.

Shit, they went to like

Glendale or something.

I know, right?

There they are.

Nice jacket.

Are you live?

I'm like you now.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, this is the best.

I got withered.

I got good.

I like it.

Oh, no, are you?

Nobody believes me.

Is this yours?

Robbie, what?

Is that yours?

Oh, I'm good.

Thank you so much.

It is, but I'm twitched red versions.

Okay, I'll take them both.

Now I got two.

Yeah, I got two, man.

Did you open a gate to hell?

Sure.

We were strategizing out there.

We used the time-wise and in no way talking about it.

That's painful.

That was nice.

Or two.

That was a most nice conversation.

It was one of our

vowel or conversations.

Asthmic therapy.

Huh?

Well, damn.

We were in the wrong game.

I mean, when you lay it out, what a weird conversation we all just had.

So,

coming back to this moment,

the troop of you has begun to run into the tunnel after where Imogen had misty-stepped and began to run, where you encounter Chetney, who is returning from doing a bit of intel.

And you all continue onward through this winding,

cavernous tunnel.

actually hadn't taken off yet.

Okay, seriously.

I think I would turn around and see what Braus like try to gather Braus before we all run.

Okay, yeah, you you kind of step up and Braus places his hand on the rock and

is just kind of standing there for a second.

Braus, I think it's good.

At that exact moment, like he put his hand on the rock for but a moment, he pulls his hand back and you watches this like splash of paint kind of like just burns into ash.

Were you doing art?

I was, but it doesn't

doesn't seem to.

I think I need canvas or paper, so this doesn't seem to be the right surface for medium for the.

Where is everybody?

What people?

Oh, they went running off, I think, to fight lewdness.

Oh, god, okay.

So we should go.

Yes, yes, yes.

Let's go.

Okay.

So the rest of you.

Frescoes.

That's what they're off.

Thank God.

Frescoes?

Yes.

People paint on rock.

Well, that's good.

Thank you.

The rest of you go rushing into the entryway to this long chamber, this kind of triangular-shaped chamber,

amongst the various kinds of curved rock points and pillars that rise up the columns of glass across the way.

You can see what Chetney has already encountered: the layers and layers of some sort of divine barrier across the chasm or

the chamber opening.

and there you see at it

kind of floating and glowing red violet with energy Luden is facing away with both hands on the boundary as the glyphs and golden script is alighting around his hands

I am going to psychic glance him oh shit we're just doing this let's talk what's the range on psychic glance 120 feet okay so you step him within 120 feet and I do it how soon would I be able to see him

you guys all step into the chamber it's he's probably like 140 feet from where you first step in there.

Oh, okay.

Do you like move in and right?

Because as soon as you get in range, you can try him with a sound.

Also, there is a C-pop exclusive limited edition, one of four

on the ground.

He has to make a DC wisdom-saving throw.

Don't distract him.

It's a 15 wisdom save, but something

amazing.

I want this to work so bad.

That's going to be a 19.

Oh, God.

Sorry.

But it was a a worthy shot.

Leave it on the floor.

It's not yours.

Magic fits.

But it was worth a shot.

That was awesome.

There's no joy in his heart.

All right.

So, Second Lance, is that a saving throw on his point?

Yes, it is an intelligence.

Intelligence saving throw.

That's going to be a 26.

Yeah.

I would like to cast Earthbind on him.

Sure.

Okay, well, the

do the order of operations here.

Yeah, range 300 feet, you can definitely do that.

And there's a lot of distance between us, but there's no like yawning chasm or anything that's hard to cross or anything.

It's just distance.

It's just distance.

So the zero, as soon as you rush in and the casters have an immediate reaction to go ahead and start.

Stop!

All right, so you cast Earthbind.

Seen a strength-saving throw.

That's going to be a 16.

19.

Alright.

So his fly speed is reduced to zero for the spell's duration.

Oh, it's on that.

God damn.

He keeps doing that every time.

But didn't that work?

It worked once.

It worked with Delilah.

We can see what he's doing.

We can see what he's doing.

He's touching the first layer of the barrier, is that right?

Correct.

Does it seem...

Damn it.

By looking, if we can see the effect, does it seem like there's like a dissipating effect as he's trying to do what he's doing?

Or is there like a visual cue?

Make an uncomment check if you'd like to.

Uh-oh.

From this distance, it'll be your action to do this.

All of you are getting like one round before he gets any sort of reaction right now.

Okay.

Okay, okay, okay.

All right.

I want that to be my thing.

Okay.

Natural, natural.

Oh, no.

It's a natural one.

Yeah, but I want to take a look.

What's he doing over there?

He didn't suffer.

He's touching some sort of magical barrier.

Cool.

Sorry, man.

Cool.

Dice, baby.

But

we just got to get there.

He's two hands-on, and his staff is what, like, slung somehow.

The staff is just kind of floating to the side of him.

Floating next to him.

I hate that.

For mine, I'm going to use my action and my movement to sprint toward him to try to get within 30-ish feet.

And I'm going to thrust Seedling out and reach a vine out and try to yank that staff.

Okay, your speed is

30.

30 feet.

So, and he is 140 feet from where you guys are.

He's too far away.

So he would be.

So you you could go to 110 to 80 on a dash and a move.

So, you're halfway across the chamber.

So you've moved 60 feet

at that point.

All right, so you've closed your 80 feet from him.

We should stick with Orm.

Stay with Orm.

Stay close.

Keep running.

Keep running.

Are me and Lauchna almost there?

You've kind of entered now behind a bit, so you guys don't get an action this round, but you're at the front of the chamber.

It's okay, he's not going anywhere.

I take care of it.

Imjan, are you moving further in the chamber after catching?

I'm running like I'm shooting it.

Just keep dashing.

So note these numbers.

You are

60 feet into the chamber.

You are 30 feet into the chamber.

Both of them are at the entrance.

Are you moving closer?

I'm running with everybody else.

Okay, so you're also 30 feet into the chamber.

Are you moving as well?

Yeah.

30 feet into the chamber.

I'm moving and hitting and activating the shard of Kimor as well.

So I'm okay.

I'm doing that and diving underground as we go.

It's possible.

It's on works?

This in here,

you

and get partway down, and the glass that is all throughout this chamber is preventing you from fully submerging.

Gotcha.

So

since this is all kind of, and as soon as you get in there, you realize it's like this almost like a cinnamon roll type marbling of the glass and the stonework throughout.

So it isn't just raw rock and stone.

So you cannot quite fully immerse yourself.

That's fine.

And we should stay close because if he does get it down, we can.

So I'm sticking with the group.

Chetney?

Yeah.

I'm just trying to stay close to the furthest person, which is Oram.

Seems like a terrible god eater.

Actually, a cinnamon roll.

It could be.

Okay, for the ease of setting up what this will look like,

let's go ahead and show it a break.

Oh, and I will

an early break because I need to go ahead and set what this looks like.

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Hopefully an early break, we'll be here in a few minutes to see where this takes us.

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And welcome back.

Including the team, come back to the table, and we can go ahead and jump into this chaos here.

Whoa, whoa.

Whoa!

How does the ground look like that?

The miniature has changed.

The miniature has changed.

Wait, wait.

Is that actually changed?

Wait, he already changed?

he already changed yeah he's wait who changed is that me luda no no no is that him wig boy no that's luda

as the exalt no

you son of a bitch he's changing my bitch cat naughty he's grounding he is

he's like floating an inch off the ground

oh my gosh look at questions mini what the fuck i went and i went i i i powered up so wait does that mean there's four pha one two have you never seen are there all that many layers of wards we have to

never mind we can't know this yet can we there are multiple multiple wards through the hallowed cage okay

is the ground flickering yeah the ground is changing but it's the gobo it's the gobo hitting the magic magic

these parts are sick

he's got an extra card in his red jacket

It's a string.

You can see the string.

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25 to 20.

Natural 20 for 25.

Damn.

21.

So aurum first.

Tiny's first.

Lead the way.

Okay, go by height.

Up from there.

Burn your last

20 to 15.

16.

16.

16.

17.

Okay, hold on, hold on.

Maybe also 7 and 13 and a half.

Breyus, Lodna.

Rolling.

Blah, blah, blah.

There's three 16s.

Who's waiting?

Who's all 16?

Let's go.

Threeway, Rolling.

One, two, three.

18.

Five.

One.

Get it out.

Get it out now.

All right, so Ash.

Ashton, Ash.

No, Brace Lodna.

No, Ashton.

Brace.

Yeah, Breus Lodna Ash.

Okay, Breyus Lodna Ash.

Oh, that ruins my whole page.

Dorian.

Image.

Sorry, Ashton, Dorian, Fern.

Lodna, Ash.

No.

You are less.

Ash.

Yeah, I got less.

I rolled a

nine.

This is the most classic ash.

Yes, it is.

All right, and then Fern, what'd you get?

I got a nine.

Gotcha.

So Orm, Chet, Breyus, Lodna, Ashton, Dorian,

Imogen, Fern,

well, top of this round, we have Orm with Chet on deck.

So, with

Ludeness now focused on the first boundary barrier right there, Boundary!

The footsteps of you all approaching into the chamber and kind of coordinating quickly as you rush in, kind of like just barely acknowledges you from behind.

What are you doing?

I think I want to honor what I said before when I thought I was closer.

I'll go.

I'll run 30 feet forward.

Okay.

What was I?

Avoiding a rock there?

I can't step on the blue.

Is that the one?

No, you can't step on the blue.

Do you want to?

Okay.

I'll just move it in forward directly.

You're just trying to do solid.

Yeah,

those are veins of the glass.

Pretty.

This is sick.

It's really pretty.

So

I'm going to go another, I'm going to use my action now to move a little closer.

I'll go get a little closer.

15, maybe.

And with a bone using seedling, I will thrust the sword out and a vine will shoot out towards that staff.

And I'm going to attempt to yank it the fuck out of his hand.

Okay.

Well, it's floating in the air next to him.

I will just try to grab it.

So try and grab it and pull it with airs.

The psychic power that is emanating from

the recently temporarily exaltant Ludinus Galeth is going to attempt to hold it in place.

Mama has a lot of spells.

So we're going to competitively roll off.

Okay.

Or say it's a saving trove, isn't it?

So it's a save.

I don't have a spell.

Well, no, it's in this one, it would be a...

The sword lists a spell save DC of 17.

Okay, 17.

So it'll go ahead as I'll roll

and add his spellcasting modifier and try and get him to

modifier's like 17.

That's going to fail.

Whoa.

So the staff,

you pull it back into your hand.

I know, no one.

Can't you, Matt?

I was about to say most companies.

Yeah, it's done.

Well, dog has caught the car.

Currently, you have 90% less options, but he could also yank it back.

So

that was movement, then action.

And then I'm out of gas.

I've got like half of my movement left.

I'll dance back 15 feet the direction that I came.

All right, cool.

Actually, I will go on a diagonal this way instead.

This way?

Okay, there you go.

Dance with the can.

All right, that finishes your go.

Check me, you're up.

Fuck it.

He just walked up and aced his fucking spear the first move.

Shit!

I ran up the protector!

Y'all running.

All right,

15 feet to go.

But I think in the time that's passed, I don't think I'm a werewolf anymore, but I can do it twice a day, so I'll

and come back out of the way.

Okay, sure, no worries.

I'm just

gonna go on the inside and in my pants.

That's all I'm gonna do.

I will step in front of Orum.

Okay, movement of

40 feet, please.

40 feet?

Yeah, you can get up here in front of him or here if you want.

And how far away?

5, 10, 13, 20, 25.

That's more than 30 feet, right?

He's a little more than 30 feet from you, yeah.

How much of my 40 did I use to get in front of Orum?

Do I have 10?

Either would have been 35 to get there, so you can do 40 and get there.

I don't think that'll put me within 30 of Luda, though.

It might, it might.

That might be within 30.

It's okay.

I'm going to

take out the

turmoil, the scythe, and I'm going to use my bonus action to create,

slice it up the side of my leg, and lightning

arcs up and down the side of it.

Awesome.

And for my attack, I will.

Fuck it.

I'm going to cast a shatter

towards lewdness with...

Constitution saving throw?

It is.

As soon as I pull it out...

I'm sure it's something really high,

like a...

Constitution.

Let's make a Constitution saving throw.

Okay.

Of what?

The DC should be on the weapon.

It really should.

Oh, wait.

Constitution 14.

25.

So he said, it takes half damage.

So you can go ahead and roll damage on that.

3D.

Sorry, God, but it's a good thing.

48 now.

Oh, it's so powerful.

15 feet on this wing.

14.

Pass down the window of 15 feet and see if we can.

Seven.

230.

So 29 points of thunder damage.

Reduced to half.

To half.

So that'd be 14.

Yes.

All right.

Oh, you're going to do it.

This massive sound of like cracking air detonates in this space, and you watch as bits of nearby

kind of frayed and jagged glass at the edges of this kind of interior layer of the pillar kind of splinters off and sends shards and bits of rock flying everywhere.

Parts of the nearby rock columns kind of crack at the impact, and it can echo, and you hear the sound of the blast of this arcane detonation kind of echo down the hall behind where you came from.

Lunis kind of like takes the brunt of it and just keeps looking straight ahead.

Amazing.

Any non-magical items in the area also take

damage, but I don't think he has any of those.

Yeah, he kind of rolls a lot of magic items.

Fair enough, return!

Alright, finishing Chetneys go.

It is now Ludinus' turn.

Ah, fuck.

So, Ludinus, who is facing the edge of this, he's gonna

turn around.

Oh, come on, baby.

Let's go.

We really could have worked together.

But for now, just watch.

And he snaps his fingers.

And as he he snaps his fingers, you watch this kind of like faint, grayish, magical energy kind of shh flicker around his hand.

Almost like a starscape seemed to spill some sort of

Cerberus has been studying it for about an hour.

What if he's open?

No, I'm not within reach.

Even the voids of old are still hungry, and his eyes are not a little bit of a single.

Wasn't that enough time for us to move out of the way of something within stalking?

No, we're enraptured by his words.

He's opening the game.

He's opening the geometry.

She casts a level ravenous void.

Did you say nine?

What is it?

What is a ravenous void?

You watch as

a black sphere of lightless destruction just

operates in the back chamber, and all of the air in the room

starts pulling towards it.

A.

Singularity is conjured across the edge of this room, and you watch as anything untethered in the area immediately gets pulled across and annihilated within its dark lightless expanse.

The two melee guys got this.

He's kicking our ass with math.

And physics!

Can we roll a save?

At the moment.

Shit.

No.

No?

That's going to end his turn.

Are you in the street?

Wait, he's after.

Wait, he's after Chad?

Wait, nothing happens to us?

Nothing happens.

It opens up in that space.

Oh, my God.

And all all of you feel like just this extreme gravity begin pulling you towards it.

And he turns back around and starts putting his energy back towards the chamber there.

He's also going to

run his thumb along a ring on his hand.

And as it does, it flashes.

And you watch as his exposed skin suddenly glows with a series of glyphs and runes.

And his skin seems to almost take like a darker obsidian.

look for a second before it fades back into his skin and he has some sort of protective

sense that's added to his

that's going to fend his, that's going to finish his turn.

He uses action not on the very don't smirk so much.

Your dimples are killing us.

Stop it.

It's never good.

That's his opening move.

It's never good.

Reyes, beginning of your turn.

Make a strength to act.

I knew it.

I knew it.

I can't beat.

No, I'm not going to beat it either.

Now, with that attitude, you undip.

22.

22 just says.

You feel the gravity pulling you in and you hunker down.

Oh, Oh my god,

all terrain within 100 feet of the sphere is considered rough terrain.

100 feet?

The map.

Yeah.

The whole map.

Well,

it's going to be

about up to

here.

Yeah.

Maybe it accidentally takes us to the other side of the lattice work.

Yeah.

This is not many golf men.

Oh, that'd be fun.

That'd be really nice.

Maxabraeus, you are.

You can still take your turn.

You're not moved or anywhere.

You basically hunker down, but your movement is halved while you're within the radius of the sphere.

Wow.

Save me.

This is a fucking volume.

Okay.

I'm making a beeline for y'all.

Look how fucking happy you are.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Am I within 120?

Am I within 120 feet of him?

Yeah.

No, I was within 120

where I was, right?

Before you walked in.

So

you are...

Let's see here.

You're just going to go.

Yeah.

85.

You are about 135 feet from him.

Okay.

You can move up.

Yeah, you can get it.

130.

130.

Okay.

Berotasporn are in 120.

Yes.

But my speed is halved.

Correct.

Wow.

So I can only move 15 feet.

Wow.

10 forward, 5 back.

If I move 10 forward, do something, and then move 5 back, will I be 5 feet within Lodna?

Yes, you would.

Okay.

Okay, I will...

Help.

Yes.

First,

first.

Bonus action

inspiration.

You've got this.

Oh, shit.

You've got this dead one.

I immediately strength

is my dumpstat.

I know it.

Then I will walk 10 feet forward, because that's all I can walk.

Bringing me within 120 feet of ludiness.

10.

I will cast

silence

around ludiness.

Okay.

In case he has any verbal components of spells, right?

Maybe that will take some away.

You've got silence?

Silence.

He's gonna go ahead and counterspell.

He can't.

He's far too far away.

With spell sniper, it doubles the range.

Oh

this isn't it.

Not with 40.

Not without it being attack spell.

Not with.

Let me see.

Not with counterspell.

I don't have spell sniper, do I?

I do.

Unless the base.

Because my counterspell, I also have spell sniper is 60 feet.

But he's also ludinous.

But he's also ludinous.

Which means he may have a feet that already doubles his.

Well,

that's what that's.

I mean, but even doubles.

Teleport is not an attack spell, and we all.

Oh my god, we're getting out the book.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But look what a pretty book it is.

This is the pretty one.

Scanlon counterspell teleport.

That's not an attack spell.

No, no, no, no.

But counterspell isn't an attack spell.

So it's a attack spell.

I think the spell sniper only

from the sniping.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because spell sniper, you know.

He wants to dash for it.

Sam.

Also, whatever, man.

It's ludinous.

So, whatever.

I know, but I just want to clarify.

Wow, that's crunchy roll.

I thought it was

come up and

one when Scandless.

When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell's range is doubled.

Your range spell attacks, ignore half cover, and

three covers quarter.

The required

three-quarters cover.

Fuck me.

Wow.

Oh, boy.

That's either.

The book and the phone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

That's some

nickname.

I didn't mean to throw us off.

No, it's good.

I.

I.

Okay.

I remember.

Here's your inspiration.

Okay.

Did I just piss off the DM?

No.

Should I just let this go?

I'm making that.

I'm looking adjustment.

No, it's good.

You're going to kill us now.

The DM.

Your health.

So silence goes up.

Something else goes off?

No, he says silence goes up.

Okay.

Then I will use my remaining movement to walk back towards Laudna

so that I can be within five feet of her.

Okay.

And that's it.

Okay.

Okay.

That finishes your turn, Breyus.

That's all I can do.

Bonus action.

Get away from the duel.

Huh?

That means he's got to get away from the duel.

I know.

Yeah.

Alright.

Finishing Breus's go.

Lauden, you're up.

Ashley, find it.

Make a string signal throw for me.

Well, actually, you start your turn within the radius of the sphere.

So, first, you merely take 5d10 force damage.

Wait, did I take I didn't take that?

You were not on the radius.

She's in it.

She's right over 5d10.

You'll take 22 points of force damage and make a strength-saving throw for me.

Hold on, Bray.

Spell, this is a spell?

I mean, this is the radius of the spell, yeah.

Anyone within 10 feet of me is resistant to spell damage.

Okay, so yes, you take half that.

Oh,

what's

up?

So 11.

So down to 11.

22, so I would have taken 11 damage.

Correct.

And that's force damage, you said?

Force damage, yes.

Wow, wow, wow.

Wow.

Okay, and now I now strength saving throw.

Yes, but anyone within five feet of me has plus four to their saving throws.

Thousand girls.

Whoa,

plus two.

Oh.

So it's a plus two.

Roll a high bench.

That's what that was.

Okay.

Don't reload your apps.

That's funny.

It's bad.

Well, no, because

I did a search to be that those would interact, and it was like, yeah, they really do.

I just realized it's Google's AI that, once again, absolutely wrong.

Fuck AI.

Always wrong.

So does he counterspell it?

No, he does not.

Okay.

15.

15 fans.

Wait, with the inspiration?

Oh, well.

With it with the he just succeeded with the 22.

Oh, so you can't get there.

And that's with my plus four?

Yeah, but make it really hurt.

I have minus two to my strength.

Make it really hurt.

Just roll a six and make it really hurt.

Then you're fine.

No.

No.

No.

17.

No, save the inspiration for later.

Yeah, because it was a 22, so then you could only get to 21.

It was impossible to save.

Well, he just said you have inspiration, so I rolled it.

No, don't use that.

I didn't use it.

I won't be able to use it in the episode.

It's absolutely impressive.

It's very mathematically impossible.

Vladna is pulled into the center of the void and is restrained.

Do we see her?

Is she gone?

You You see her just watch.

Actually, you kind of like hear her next to you, but this like blackened void space around you.

Shit, fuck.

It's uh

for sure.

Doing the Conahague inception.

No.

Interstellar cry.

Yeah, so the sphere itself is like the density of it.

You can still see her, but now she's like pulled.

It's almost like this like darkened shadow sphere.

And as she gets

into the center, you can barely see her now being crushed into

your hot.

You just can't get out of the sphere, and you take 5d10 force damage every time you.

This is magical darkness.

I have dark vision.

Can I see through this?

Yeah, I can.

Yeah.

Okay, so I can see Ludinus.

Yes.

Which direction is he facing?

Yeah.

Towards me?

Or is he facing towards the wall?

He's facing towards the walls.

Towards the wall?

Oh.

I want to.

One.

I'm going to do my form of dread to gain back some temporary hip hugs here.

Okay.

We're going to hit seven.

How many feet?

What?

It's a 20-foot radio square.

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

It's a bubbly.

Um, okay.

Form of dread, I'm going to fire off

three of my eldritch blasts.

Can I try to aim for the back of his neck?

If you'd like to, yeah.

It is.

He has a higher AC against that point.

And you are restrained, so your attack rolls are disadvantaged.

They're disadvantaged.

Correct.

Which also sucked in the bubble, so

remind you, you can take an action to make a strength check against the DC to break free.

That's what your action sucks.

My strength sucks ass.

I can't get out of this.

Did he just make it at a 22?

Does it matter?

He just made it at a 22.

Yeah, there's literally no way.

Unless we're rolling it into a 20.

That's a bummer.

What is he doing?

Why aren't you lifting him between session bars?

I'm made of paper.

We know this.

By the way, a creature can spend its action to try and make that safe to help itself or another creature break free of the gravity.

Okay.

So if somebody else wanted to go next to Lodna and then use use their action to try and make that strength.

You're so far

easy to say.

Matt, because of reasons, is Ashton considered a large creature right now.

Ashton is considered a large creature, yeah.

Higher DC.

What to do?

What to do?

Do you want to even move at the back of his neck?

Yeah.

I said it.

I'm going to do it.

I'm going to see what happens here.

With this advantage.

So this is this sucks.

But here's.

Elch Blast.

Huh?

Yes.

The Eldritch Blast.

Eldritch Blast.

Okay.

Okay.

So, once again, first hit is going to be.

Jesus, my brain tonight.

18.

Thank you.

First one misses.

Second one.

That one's cocked.

Oh,

that one's cocked.

That's going to be 21 to hit.

Misses.

Come on.

Come on.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

Okay.

Uh, 29 to hit.

That hit.

Way!

Nice!

Let's go!

Sucked into the ball.

As he's faced away and concentrating on these barricades towards the back of where

the energy is currently crawling up the back of his neck, his hair kind of blowing it in the air.

You get just this momentary flash of what looks like some sort of a dark, knotted bit of flesh at the base of his neck and skull.

right around the place where the quintessence array would be.

Okay, he's got an extra.

So, yes, I can feel like my bones crushing against the gravity, but I'm just gonna try and embrace it and let it steady myself as I fire.

And I will do

fucking weak ass.

Oh, shit.

Seven damage.

Plus an additional 8d6 necrotic damage, if you don't mind.

Go ahead and roll that.

What?

8d6 necrotic damage?

For hitting that spot?

For hitting that spot?

Oh, it's like one of those little cysts that you bust with an encyclopedia.

Who has an encyclopedia?

What did you just say?

A cyst?

A cyst?

Have you ever seen if I needed to?

If I could.

With an encyclopedia.

Can I empower this?

No, because this isn't your actual.

This is

a book.

Okay.

It's hurt.

Gross.

11, 12, 12.

Then it comes back like a year later.

15 plus.

Straight to

15, 25, 26 damage.

Necrotic damage.

On top of that, 7.

7, you'll roll the 2 plus your 5.

Yes.

So.

So my bonus action.

You fire it off.

Whack hits the back of it.

And with the impact, you see him kind of slump forward against the wall.

And this kind of like

burning cis, like hiss of

like a weird arcane smoke drifts from the back of his neck.

And he like, ah!

Woo!

rubs it for a second and looks back at you furious for a second.

Oh, nice.

Let me see if he maintains concentration.

Gets him advantage on this.

That is going to be, yeah, that's more than enough.

So those were

two,

right?

Three.

That was three.

Those all three?

Yeah.

That's right.

Because only one is three.

You're right.

All right.

So that's your action.

Bonus action form of dread.

I

look real creepy in the dark.

And I look really creepy as I get spaghettified.

So

I see that.

So we can't see into that right now.

You can see into it.

It's very heavily shadowed, but you can still see the shapes in there.

And right where Lauden is currently sitting, there's like black, crushing singularity.

Okay.

That finishes your turn.

Yeah, man.

Ashton,

start your turn.

Make a strength saving turn.

Okay.

Came and bamp out of this.

Strength save.

Come on, don't suck.

18?

No.

Are you raging?

Not yet, because I needed to have.

Because we started with this, but I'm about to be raging.

Unfortunately, that is a failure.

You

get back into the center of the line.

Cool.

There, you are restrained, and you take it.

I'm not restrained, I believe, actually.

Hold on.

You take.

Yeah, I'm going to take it.

25 points of force damage.

That's fine.

One second.

You're not going to take it.

There's no.

Sorry, I'm trying to find a thing.

No, I'm restrained.

It's not prone to grapple.

Okay.

But so as his action on his turn,

can he throw Lodna out of there?

Or no?

Or hold her while he tries to get out?

Well, he right now, he can't move.

So he can spend his action to try and free himself from this form and then run out, or he can use his action to try and free her from it, and on her next turn, she can...

But can he free her if he's not free?

He can.

He just has disadvantage over because he's restrained.

But he got sucked in.

Was he on the edge?

You can help somebody while you're drowning, too.

Yeah, that's true.

So if I break free,

can I grab her and run if I break it

with my action?

Well,

she is.

Because she's helped.

But I can break her and leave myself in there.

You can't.

Okay.

All right, first of all, let's rage.

What I don't want to happen is he he tosses my ass out in an extra stop talking about shit again.

I don't want us to have us like waste my time.

All right, here we go.

It's fucked up.

What do we got?

Hey!

Fuck yes!

He's rolling that concentration chair.

So close.

I am

still stuck in here.

I'm going full rainbow sparkle.

I'm

surrounded by...

All sorts of crazy ass, crazy ass sparks coming off.

We can't see it, but no, you can.

It's like this like a weird, sad thing.

You're the like getting sucked into black holes i know

debatable yeah

um okay so the first thing i'm gonna do is i'm going to try and uh is it worth ungrappling you or ungrappling me first i'm trying to figure that out i'm gonna ungrapple you

um so that's a strength check

if i recall

strength check to ungrapple her to get her out of the correct yeah okay so that's

regular

No, this is a strength check.

Okay, so I have advantage on strength mode.

You do.

Yeah, your strength modifier.

What's your mod there, T?

My mod for my strength modifier is six.

Kick ass.

And then I'm just saying, okay, no, okay, this won't work for that yet.

So, rolling.

Let's do a strength check.

16

shales, unfortunately.

And I can't move.

What are you trying to do, T?

I was trying to let you out, but I did not roll high enough for that to happen.

No, that's not what I had.

I think I'm fucked now.

I think that's what I got.

Yeah, that's your turn.

That's my turn.

Okay.

Dorian, you're up with Imagine on deck.

Beginning of your turn, make a strength saving throw for me, Dorian.

Strength saving throw?

Oh, boy.

Come on, dude.

Come on, big boy.

Fuck.

Male.

What the fuck?

11.

Oh, boy.

Movie.

Oh, boy.

You know what?

Form a colony of a life raft of ants.

Yeah, yes.

Just float on the water.

Hold on.

You're in.

You take.

Six.

23 points of force damage.

Cool.

If only Breyus had been pulled in there, we all would have been.

I can go in there for you guys.

No.

Do I restrict?

I mean,

what does your god tell you you to do, bro?

Boy, why can't you?

Everything's going according

Yeah, anyone want to get us the fuck out of here, that'd be great.

Oh boy,

all right, so when they think of it, restrain just means I can't move, right?

I can still like take action and stuff like that.

Yeah, okay.

Uh

man, man, oh man.

Uh

am I within

reach of Laud now, or are we like, since this is a single?

I'm going to just, if I can't, I'm touching her.

I guess technically I'm touching her shoulder, shoulder.

She's going to go.

Elbows in my tent.

This party sucks.

You want to get out of here?

Yes, please.

I'm going to cast Dimension Door.

Okay, where are you going?

Come on, baby.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Is it just two of you?

I can't get in on it.

No, no, no.

And it's better.

He has to be his team's.

That's why I asked why if you were,

that's because of you.

They'll let me know if you're a biggin or not.

I'm all good.

Yeah.

Beep Zwip out of trouble.

Up up and away.

I got 500 feet.

Can you put us up?

But within spell range.

Can you put us up on that pillar within range of Luda?

Can you put us up high?

Luda.

Tippy Toppies.

I think the tippy toppies is the top of the cavern.

Oh, it's like that's the top of the cavern.

Oh, okay.

Neither of you are restrained now.

That's nice.

Out of that 20 foot of the top.

So can you just sneak us behind that back pillar right there, that glowing one?

Right here?

Yeah, oh no, a little further front.

Just the pillar itself?

The glowing one?

Here's a good question.

Yeah, that works.

Let's make sure you're more than 20 feet out.

Yeah, from silence.

Yeah, because

20 feet out from silence.

And how far does it look like things are getting pulled into the black hole?

You know what?

Make a perception.

Yeah, 100 feet from the outside of the radius.

So you have to be

so

square.

Right, straight.

It's out of his range, but inside of ours.

So maybe like around here, you think, right?

Yeah.

On those?

What check did you do?

Yeah, on the other rock.

Perception.

If you're on like the lowest step, you'd still have a high perception check.

Okay.

A perception check is not great.

So

your guess is as best as anybody as to how far the actual extension of that gravity is.

Yeah.

Between the two of you, if you want to say where you want to be.

Is it over here?

Is it over here?

Where do you go?

Do you want to do like right around here?

Yeah, I mean, that's a similar angle of what I was looking at on that side.

Yeah, but

when we were pulled in, we were like physically pulled in, right?

Yeah, like an extreme source of gravity was right behind you and just like yanked you off your feet and pulled you into it.

I know it sounds crazy, but can we be like, like here, like, like so that the rock is between us and the hole?

Maybe we'll be plastered to a rock, but better than plaster.

Yeah, let's go.

Let's check out that radius.

Oh, no,

I got bad perceptions.

Come on, that's 85.

Eyes without 90, 95, 100.

That is outside.

Oh, my God.

That was so good.

Pusse.

Wow.

Oh, no, gay.

Drop down behind, and you're like, just, you can feel like the wind kind of in the chamber being pulled towards that direction, but you are not within the gravitational pull.

Aha!

Safe for now.

You saved us.

Ah, no.

You saved the day again.

We saved us.

You look great, by the way.

Inspiration.

Oh, God.

Thank you.

You know, I really feel like this dry moon dusty air just really does something for my complexion.

So that's your action.

You still have your movement.

Use your bonus.

That's my bonus.

Oh, no.

No.

No, thank you.

No, thank you, sir.

I'd like to stay behind that pillar.

I'm good to go.

All right.

Yeah.

At the end of your turn.

Let's see here.

Grappled.

I can't be grappled, but I can be restrained.

Okay, silence within an.

Oh, God.

Who put silence?

My dude.

Schmott.

Okay, so

Ludinus, who

with the exultant features gained from your mother, includes silence and skill spell.

So he does not need to speak to cast spells.

And his turn is going to go ahead and use two of his legendary actions

to cast.

So it just means that our spellcaster is not the shit.

Can't get close.

For now, I can always just

shit it out.

Yeah.

If I see him casting spells, I'll just

go closer.

I can fly.

He's going to cast.

I can fly.

Yeah, it's gonna go ahead and cast lightning bolt at six level.

Oh, we're in a line.

Yeah.

Oh, I trap.

Roll a d6 for me, please.

What why?

Just roll a d6.

What why?

What why?

Just do it.

What?

Four?

Four.

Can't hear you.

I'm sorry, I can't.

He does lose.

He does lose some spell levels when you hit him there.

So I'm just keeping taps on him.

Oh,

hitting the wound.

Oh, don't.

Hit the cyst.

Good to see you.

I don't know.

So he's going to go ahead and like, from behind, now that he's focused back on it, turns back at the two of you, Chetney and Aurum, and it's going to like

see the staff that you have questioned.

I mean, you did call it a race, didn't you?

And looks, clances over in your direction without breaking eye in contact with you.

Releases this bolt of extremely bright crackling lightning.

Out that way.

It's going to, from this direction here,

100,

the range of the lightning bolt, I believe, is 100 feet.

Let me double-check.

So we're just out of range.

Correct.

So, no, you're fine.

Ashen is out of range.

However, I would like both Aurum and Chetney to make dexterity saving cards.

No problem.

24 for me.

Okay, okay.

Dang.

Natural 20.

30.

Scatter pop.

Hell yeah.

Good.

Scatter pop.

52 points of lightning damage reduced to 26 to each of you.

Okay.

Wow.

That was his legendary actions on that one.

Wow.

Alright.

And then been finishing

that turn there for Dorian Imogen.

Beginning of your turn, each and make sure you save me through for me, please.

You got this.

Unless I roll a 20.

Come on, Immo.

20.

Natural 20!

Let's go, babe!

Fucking babe bruce!

Yes!

Resist

the intense gravity of the ravenous void.

Your turn is yours.

Oh, God, I fully thought I was going to get sucked in.

Now I got to think about what I'm going to do.

Here is our time.

Birthday girl smashing the ball at the bar.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Okay.

I should move to try to get out of this space as much as I can.

So I'm going to head that way.

Are you flying still?

I was.

I had that.

How long does that last for?

But it lasts for an hour, I think.

Let me double check, though.

Fuck.

Hold on, let me lose.

You weren't talking to Ludinus for an hour.

Not quite an hour.

Oh, far less than that.

You guys.

It's like 20 minutes to talk about.

Talk to them for about 15 maybe at most.

10 minutes.

It only lasts for 10 minutes.

Okay.

So that would have faded.

It's gone.

Well, the ground is rough terrain because of the gravitational pull.

Then in in that case, I'm going to

bonus action and float up in the air.

Okay.

And the gravity still pulls.

Like, everything is rough terrain, even the air around it, because the ground pulls it.

So, it's up to you.

Oh.

Even underground.

Okay, wait, maybe I don't do that.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Okay, so I can get 15 feet, right?

So I'm gonna move 15 feet that way.

Okay, 5, 10, 15.

15, but that's that's farther than 30 feet away from me.

I'm gonna Misty step here

so that it, like, if it pulls me towards it, it's at least pulling me against this rock and it doesn't suck me in, right?

We'll find out.

Potentially.

I know we're talking about it.

Yeah, we have a lot of people.

This is the exact same idea.

Yeah, that's why we're behind the rock.

Who knows?

Okay, well, I just used spell.

Fuck.

Okay, so that's

the second level.

I just use spellbook.

How do you know?

Like, he's gonna.

This is definitely gonna work on him.

I am going.

Yeah, you just gotta nag your own roles.

That's the key.

That's what it takes.

I'm going to

use a sorcery point to double my distance of mind sliver okay even though i know he's very intelligent maybe he'll roll low and that is an intelligence saving throw you got it

oh well uh 26.

he succeeds okay i had the feeling that was a low row oh yeah low was it was it a low roll it was a 12.

A 12.

A 12 got him a 26.

Okay.

Plus 14.

So it gets plus 14.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Great.

Great.

Okay.

Cool.

Cool.

Okay, so

that's all I can do.

That finishes your turn.

Okay.

Fern, at the beginning of your turn, please make a strength-saving throw.

Okay.

Let's go, Fernie.

It's no problem.

I broke my pen.

My match.

Wait, I have advantage against spells and other matches.

Price must be paid.

Correct.

So I get advantage?

Okay.

Yeah.

Gravity fissures.

A bitch.

Gravity broke your pen.

Gravity broke my pen.

No.

Come on.

12.

Unfortunately, that's a failure.

You want a negative total?

That was a plot.

Oh, no.

Nah, B, you're even weaker than you.

Minus two.

Okay.

On your strength?

So, yes, a minus two.

Is your bitch as weak as you?

Yes, she is.

We didn't know that.

You were taking 21 points of force damage.

21?

Correct.

Okay.

And you are restrained.

Ah, ah, ah!

You just did 22.

You just did 20.

Okay.

What is this?

I can't see.

I can't see.

Is anyone in here?

This hurts?

Fuck!

You still have your actions.

So you pressed on Ashton.

I still have it.

Oh, hi.

Got an idea?

Any idea?

Yes, but I can't see.

I can't see, right?

You can see.

It's actually shaded by the intensity of the gravitational pull there, but it's more like the singularity where you're pulled to is like this sphere of intense, just rending gravity.

I'm gonna hard on you.

Oh god, okay, then I'm gonna do it.

I'm gonna let it rip.

You know what I'm gonna do?

I am going to try to just aim.

How am I within 60 feet?

Yeah, I do this.

60 feet of lewdness.

You are about 120 feet.

Yes, I am.

I know.

I figured I was.

You have a way of getting out of this.

Dimension door.

Well,

would Mr.

still be out?

Because he was in the last fight.

Mr.

was in the last fight.

Mr.

is currently going around and around.

Yeah, he's trying to grab him each time.

Make a string signal there for Mister.

Oh, okay.

Him strong.

What's his health in this?

How much?

Oh, yeah, you're right.

You're right, you're right.

Because if he goes in, let me pull him up.

I'm so sorry.

Yeah, come on.

He's got grippy toes.

Yeah, he got grip toes.

He got toes.

Or he's not quite.

We're not there, yeah.

We're not there yet.

Oh, yeah,

but soon.

Not too much.

Soon.

Mister, come back.

Okay, so roll strength sign there for Mister.

Oh, okay.

Well, he's got.

Come on, Mister.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

That's a two.

Baby boy.

That's so bad.

Mister takes.

Yeah.

That's a lot of math.

28 points of force damage.

Oh no.

He's still up.

Is he?

Yeah, he is.

Like just being.

He's next to me.

I mean, is he?

He is.

Yeah, he's pulled right next to me.

Poor Bethlehem.

Hello.

All three of us.

All right.

So,

as a bonus action, can I dimension door out with him?

Do you have a dimension door style or are you using your ability?

No, I can't go.

You can't go because you're big.

It's his.

Let me pull it up here.

Is it 30 feet?

Sorry.

I think it's only.

I think it's only 15 feet.

Okay.

Okay.

Let's see here.

Jennifer Lopez, dude.

Jennifer Lopez.

Hello?

Hello?

Jennifer Lopez.

Okay, the spirit and each willing creature of your choice.

So technically, Ashton could go too.

I'm too big.

Too big.

Never mind.

Well,

no, no, willing creature of your choice within five feet of it.

Teleport.

Teleport up to 15 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see.

15 feet is as big as...

So you're teleporting yourself or another creature?

I can do both.

The spirit and and each willing creature of your choice.

Oh, yeah.

So you could teleport yourself to the edge.

Ashton, you'd be able to teleport him just out of the radius.

I'm going to teleport Ashton out.

And then hold on to the stock.

So you yourself

appear there.

But maybe Ashton can pull you out easily.

Well, he's not restrained now.

You are not restrained because you pulled away from the center, which holds you there.

Oh, oh, okay.

That's good.

So get pushed out of the circle.

Okay,

okay,

good.

Which means you can run.

Good.

And

100 feet.

Yeah, can you run now?

Well, you can get far enough away.

I don't think it can pull you all the way in.

That's why I got fucked.

Can I get out of it and get within 60 feet of him?

Just put it down.

Well, you can move 15 feet from where you are now.

Okay.

Move out of it.

Which would put you...

5, 10, 15.

That's your movement right there.

Hold on to the rock.

He is over here.

Okay, great.

So that's why.

Hey, nobody's in the thing.

All right, so now I have my action.

Correct.

Because I did my movement, my bonus with Mr.

Correct.

Okay, so.

It's up to you.

You must save us.

Sure.

You're the only one.

This is a dumb thing.

And Chad.

With all my spells.

I'm going to try it.

But this is within 60 feet as well.

Never mind.

Fuck.

What do you have that's a long range?

Okay, you have to.

I'm just going to do this.

Yeah, I'm going to do my scorching ray.

There were two things I wanted to do.

Okay, so scorching ray.

I'm going to do scorching ray, and I'm going to try to aim for

the back of the neck.

For his

quintessence root.

Yes.

Yes, you may.

Now, what level are you casting it?

Because remember, every level above two, you get an additional B.

Yes.

So I will do it at...

I'll do it at fifth level.

Fifth level?

Okay.

And then B3.

70,

3, 4, 5, 6 different attacks you get with it.

And you get a D4.

Come on, come on.

Add a D4.

Why do I get this one?

Because you're right next to me.

Because you're standing next to me, and I'm a probability engineer.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, you rolled that for your age?

Yes, I did.

Let's see how many hit.

Okay, hit number one is.

Add the D4.

Roll the D4.

Great.

14.

No, D4.

25.

25 just misses.

Wait, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Okay, that's a badge.

Number four.

12.

13.

What if I told you it was 25?

Yes, it's 25.

Okay, so that misses.

Did I do the four again?

It's a very, very small spot on the back of his neck, so it's a combination of just a chaos and animals.

Okay, no, it's lower.

Very level high.

Okay, I'm gonna do that.

Yeah,

it's really drunk and calm.

Okay, that hits, that hits.

That's uh, that's a 28.

28 hits.

Yeah,

that's out of three.

Yep, you have three more rolls to make.

Great, that hits.

That hits.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's a yeah.

No.

That doesn't hit.

Okay,

The people of the numbers.

And the last one.

Yeah.

It hits.

So 18 plus 2 plus 1.

Three attacks.

Let's go, bitch.

Let's go.

Roll a 3D six.

I rolled six.

The other one was six.

Those you got three attacks on him.

Okay.

So, all right, so

one hit will be.

Here come the baby teeth.

So seven plus

pew pew.

Um, nice.

Plus nine.

So sixteen.

5.

Those are the three attacks?

Those are the three attacks.

Okay, got you.

Now roll an additional 8d6 necrotic damage.

Would it be 8d6 for each hit?

If he gets hit during that turn, he takes the damage.

Oh, I love you guys.

I know.

It's like my way.

It's not bad.

That's for

Al.

So we just roll.

I just finished my neck with the dumbass too.

Yeah, well, I like Tristan myself because I was excited about it.

Hope your cat was working.

It was.

No, that's not good.

Okay.

So we got.

I think I'll kill

the attack.

So multiple attacks give you multiple opportunities.

I now have 20 points of damage.

Okay.

Makes a save on each of those.

First against the first.

I should want to roll these out front because it's fun.

So that was three hits on against him, right?

So that's three different rolls.

It gets

We'll say the additional damage is on the biggest one.

Okay.

So the first one

Yeah, no issue 19

That's fine there

Last one.

Yeah

I'm rolling my rudest dice and my beacon dice

treating you well.

They are

glad you made those

but

he takes the hit and kind of shrugs it off a little bit.

Just keeps focusing.

That finishes the round up at the top.

Aurum, you are up.

Beginning of your turn, mega-strength saving through.

Strength save?

Correct.

Okay.

Saving through.

That is a

15.

15 is not 16.

Can I use Misty Step in this moment to escape?

Sevens at the start of your turn before anything happens.

Okay.

So as Aurum is behind you and almost tries to reach for you, Chetney.

he gets pulled off of his feet.

Wow,

all the way in.

Center?

Center.

All the way?

Whoa.

All the way?

Oh, that's true.

That's a black hole.

That's a singularity in the middle of the battle map.

You are restrained, Orum.

And you take

because he would have stayed restrained.

Nobody gets an opportunity

to 28 points damage.

Okay.

Bip!

Shit.

Yeah, dude.

Shit, shit, shit.

Half-link fly.

Elijah, you're not the one to do it.

Oh, roll a d6 for me, please.

See how many spell slots Luvenus.

Roll a six, roll a six.

Roll high.

Or spell levels, yeah.

Two high.

Where's my?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who is it?

If you don't know, yeah, you're like, me, image, and I'm like, because that's a lot of things.

So now it's my turn.

Now it's your turn.

Technically, but then everyone was like, don't use it there.

Okay.

Image it.

So I'm going to.

The staff I just let drop into the center of this black hole.

Yeah, it's like you're there in the middle, and you let the staff go, and like,

and it's kind of just held there in the middle, spinning around in the space where you're kind of like

kind of spinning around it in the area.

Also, as he, with his high perception, flew backwards, I looked at the train as I flew by.

I'm now going to bonus action Misty step 30 feet to this side of this rock.

Which means you are no longer restrained.

Okay, so I have that

at my back at least.

But this pull is still going no matter what.

So, So, like, if I run out into the middle, I'll just get pulled again.

At the beginning of your next turn.

I have no ranged attacks.

That's a good head turn, actually.

Honestly.

Poor was soap.

I will

use.

So that was bonus action.

I will, and I'm, and it's, it's a

tricksy movement still, right?

Here?

Yep.

So everything within 100 feet of that sphere is rough terrain.

I will.

Can I use Grasping Vine as an action?

Since it's normally a bonus action, but use my action to use it?

I'll.

Yeah.

If you haven't used it yet, I wouldn't let you use it twice in the same round, but

I've got your action to do it.

So I will send out a vine to this and drag myself forward, and then I will just end my turn by falling down with

stone

here, I guess, so that I can press against the rock and not get sucked backward.

Okay.

And I'll say that's the end of my turn.

And you don't have any confirmation, right?

That finishes your go.

Because we won't be able to.

Chutney, you're up.

Beginning of your turn, please make a shrink save your joke for me, please.

He's got advantage.

You got advantage because you're in your wolf form.

Wolf or wolf.

Shut that shit.

Check the time.

Pretty good.

23.

23 succeeds.

Yes.

Yes.

Just a gun.

Compole of the ravenous void.

Amazing.

I'm gonna.

I'm gonna start walking forward as a wolf.

As a wolf.

Then I'm gonna use a curse like a wolf.

Like a wolf.

And when I get within 30 feet of him.

Alright, so that's

5, 10, 15 feet of movement to get within 30 feet of him.

Beautiful.

I'm going to use blood curse of the muddled mind.

Okay.

And I'm going to amplify it to...

I'm going to drop silence.

Damage.

Dropping silence.

Okay.

And

curse of creature that is concentrating on a spell or feature that requires concentration.

The cursed target has disadvantage on the next constitution-saving throw it makes to maintain concentration before the end of the turn.

Now he has disadvantage on all constitution-saving throws until the end of my next turn.

Okay.

Sweet.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let's see if that helps.

So he has advantage in concentration checks.

This just means it's a straight check.

Straight rules.

Okay.

Until your next turn.

Yeah.

Okay.

Ooh, that's better than it was.

That's better than it was.

Nice.

I'll keep using the rest of my 45 to come.

I'll

see how close I can get to it.

I love that 40.

Your movement is 40.

40, 40.

So it's 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.

40.

Gets you right into melee with him.

Okay, I'm gonna take two swings with turmoil.

Let's go.

Right in his...

How do melee-targeted attacks work?

You just tell me you want to focus in it, and then I adjust the AC accordingly.

Okay, I want to try and make the first one against the knob on the back of the neck.

Okay,

is there an advantage?

But if it's not disadvantaged, let's see how it goes.

That was dog shit.

That was only an 18 to hit.

I'm going to do it for the second one, too.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's much better.

25 to hit.

25 misses.

It's 26.

26.

That's right.

You go to strike the first time and you feel like the gravity pull, like even though you're not quite in the radius of the spell, it's almost like you it pulls your arm back just slightly, and you're like, the gravity shouldn't affect me.

And you realize it's because the psychic force around him is kind of repelling you.

And you go to strike a second time, and you feel like something invisible

grab your hand in the middle of the air.

And Ludinus kind of just glances over his shoulder and goes,

oh,

there you are.

Oh, is he hitting on?

He's a little look back.

I mean,

isn't.

That is the end of my turn.

All right, that finishes Chetney's go.

It is now Ludinus' turn.

It gets his legendary action.

Sorry.

You know what?

Actually,

at the end of your turn, Chetney's going to use his last legendary action

to compliment me on my

mind sliver.

So

I need you to go ahead and make.

Is it an intelligent saving throw?

Mind sliver?

What?

Intelligence saving.

Mind sliver.

Mind sliver?

Yes, yes.

This wouldn't be a charmed or frightened speech.

It is

not.

You said intelligent saving throw?

Correct.

Wait, I rolled that with advantage.

I don't think I was supposed to.

Wait.

It was a natural 20s that I was going to do.

I don't think I have it.

Just do it again.

Just do it again.

Just do it in 20.

Repeat.

Oh, so it's not.

Oh my god, it almost.

Oh, 11.

Okay, so you take

15 points of psychic damage

and

the next saving throw you make before the end of Ludeness's next turn, you reduce it by D4.

Reduced by D4.

Yes, on the next exactly.

Now at the end of your turn, he regains his legendary actions.

Ludinus

is going to spend his action ignoring you and focusing on the barrier.

That's just that's fucking involved.

As he does, you watch as the energy kind of flicker up his body and that kind of heavy

buzzing static sound

gets extremely strong and concentrated.

Your vision up close kind of like seems to like double triple over, almost like you're seeing multiple channels on a TV overlapping for a second.

And with that, you see this like white flash, a smaller version of that one time that Imogen,

in your first fight with Odohan, kind of ended up annihilating a city block and teleporting everyone.

And as soon as it's shh, the white flash, whoosh outward,

you kind of come back to and you watch as the the first boundaries tethers kind of

you watch they don't shatter but it's almost like it just kind of becomes permeable.

The glyphs become more translucent, and he

steps through it.

You can take an attack opportunity if you'd like.

Oh, sure, yeah.

Do it.

Oh, those move.

I don't have fucking details.

Oh, that'll hit.

20.

That's exactly a 26.

Set of natural 17.

Well, this isn't aiming at his

room, because this is just a real

regular starter.

So,

do you have Simon?

No, he's gonna shield.

I don't.

I don't remember who it has.

What was it?

26, though, I hit it, regardless.

So, yeah, so go double damage.

Okay, great.

2d6 plus 6, I think.

I just scrolled away from it like a tool.

And the barrier is no longer there?

The barrier is still present, but the area where he was touching it seems to become permeable.

Like the glyphs in that area where he was standing become translucent, and he just kind of steps through it.

So the boundary isn't broken.

Can we step through it for a second?

22

points of damage, five of which is lightning.

We're not going to be able to do it.

Because the creature is made of blood.

It is.

Okay, 22.

22.

Points of damage.

All right.

So it needs to DC of 11.

Yeah, he succeeds.

Disadvantage.

I only rolled one die.

Darn it.

Oh, that's right.

That's a straight roll.

Yes.

I forgot to roll an extra D8 for enhanced bond.

Just had to give it to somebody.

I Oh, perceive all take it.

Of damage.

Sorry.

Good to die.

That's okay.

That was it.

Alrighty.

That finished your go-chet?

Yes, it does.

Or no, sorry, that was him moving forward.

That finishes his turn.

As a bonus action,

he kind of steps through it and then turns back again and goes, go play with your friends.

And flicks his hand.

Make a strength saving throw for me.

He's going to

have disadvantage on this.

Oh no.

Disadvantage?

No, you have negative D4 and it's minus D4 on it.

And do I roll roll the d4 as well?

You do, yeah.

Okay.

10 strength.

17.

17.

You get shoved 10 feet back away from him.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

I thought I was going back to the bottom.

I did too.

Oh, my God.

Did you drop silence?

You do feel.

You did.

You're not quite sure yet, and we'll measure it when it comes around to it, but you are on the cusp of the tug of the distant, ravenous void.

I always like being on the the cusp of the tug.

I walked into that.

All right,

he confirmed that.

Don't try so hard.

Brace.

You're up.

Two less.

How do you make strength saving throw please?

Strength, saving, throw!

Do plus.

What is that?

What does that say?

14.

That's good.

14 plus 9 is 23.

23.

You resist the pull of the spell spell, and you can.

You're such a fucking badass.

You are such a badass.

My god.

It's gonna suck my piss.

Thank God you can burn.

Good, good beat.

Okay.

You can still only move half speed.

So it's either cast a spell

or move.

Full six.

If I used everything to get 60 feet, I'd still be within the pole, right?

It looks like it's quite a large radius of a spell pole.

Like rocks and things from up here are like

god damn it.

God damn it.

We need to hit this guy.

Fucking bamboo, he's up.

And our speed is halved?

Your speed is halved within 100 feet, yeah.

Okay.

Do I get close or do I hurt him?

I will hurt him.

I'll move 15 feet, because that's what I can move.

If you are within 10 feet of me, you get a D4 to your attack, by the way.

Which you are within 10 feet of me.

Great.

And then I will cast.

Silence.

Moonbeam.

Okay.

At

third level?

Get it.

Get it up there.

Fourth level.

Hurt this guy.

Fourth level.

Moonbeam at fourth level, 120-foot range.

That'll definitely get him.

Is it red moonbeam?

Yes.

Yes.

oh weirdly on the moon it's just called beam

that was pretty dumb i love it oh he has to save against it it's not a

straight roll it's a

constitution 18 okay which he has

Disadvantage on but against Bellsy's advantage so straight roll that would have been well here I'll roll it in front then

that would be 21

Good seeds, but he still takes damage.

Does he?

Half as much.

So it'd be 2d10, but you cast it at fourth level, so it means 4d10 radiant damage.

Yeah, where is my d10s?

I never use these.

I always use the percentage.

Where is the d10s?

5 and 8 is 13.

But he's got like an RT.

Plus 7 and 2 is 22.

So

that.

11 points of radiant damage.

He does get to save against it.

So DC 10.

Yeah, National 19.

Jesus hat.

That's just the single roll, right?

And bonus action, I will inspire.

He's got the stack.

Wait, who needs it?

Who's weaker?

You're weak.

I mean,

I'll get it for Donna.

I'll also say Logan is.

I don't know where she is.

I'm on the other side of this rack.

I think I'm too far from you.

I will inspire you, Fern.

Okay.

I'll just sort of

show you, like, a little bit of chest.

Whoa!

Look at those curls coming out the top.

Yeah, they've got curls on the top of the hair.

It's curly hair.

Perfect.

Perfectly curled.

All right.

So finish your turn, break.

Yep, yep.

All right, Lodna, you're up with Ashton on deck.

Okay.

I need you to make.

No, you're.

Haha.

They're out of it.

We're going to measure now.

Yep.

Again, just to recall.

They were out of it.

They were out of it.

You measured already.

They are.

Cheer it.

Stop.

Stop.

Don't look.

Don't look.

Oh, you have to fight for every inch.

Every inch.

Just double-checking.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

Come on.

Let's go down.

Here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to skirt this line

wherever wherever I see

little pebbles and stuff getting sucked away.

I'm going to just be like, oh God.

So I'm going to move as much as I can, hugging this edge and try and get lodging it.

I'm going to edge it.

I'm going to cusp it.

One, two, three.

Can I get like up here?

You can.

So it'll take all your movement to get up there.

That's okay.

You can do that.

I'm going to get up here.

Right.

And then I'm going to get out pate.

Okay.

Secret weapon, pate.

Yes.

Let's get it.

You're my nuke, baby.

All right.

He's got a fleshy.

What's going on?

What are we doing?

Alright, here's what I need you to do.

Yeah, tell me.

Listen very carefully.

Yeah, listen.

So he's got a fleshy hole in the back of his neck.

Gross.

So gross.

I love it.

I need you to go and like

latch on to the back of his neck.

Oh?

Cool.

Just like

your bony little fingers and latch on to his fleshy hole.

Just like,

go.

He has a place to be to focus.

No, no, no.

Focus.

He's right there.

Okay.

Focus.

Okay.

In Pate.

Stay.

Stay this way so you don't get sucked into a black hole.

So go, go this way.

Stay away from a hole to get to a hole.

Yes.

It, you know, double negatives make a positive.

Tiny bit.

All right, what's his flight speed?

40.

40.

So from there.

Fly into that hole.

Can you summon him farther away from you?

Can you go behind the crystal?

He can get up there.

No, can he get to Ludinus?

To Ludinus?

Yeah, I want to get him to get to touch his neck.

Right.

40 feet

to get around, he would not be able to.

He'd get

most of the weight.

Let's see here.

He goes down.

He can't fly kind of cut across.

Let me see.

If he flies down.

No, No, if he lies down, he'll be near right there.

Yeah.

Is that up against him?

That is other than melee, yes.

Okay.

I want him to latch onto the back of his neck.

And I want to do a touch spell.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Through him, shocking grasp.

Because I can cast spells through Pate.

That's true.

You can, yeah.

Is Pate on the back of his neck?

Pate is reaching for the back of his neck, yeah.

Okay.

Back of his neck.

Yeah, I I got you.

All right.

Here we go.

So it's a roll to hit him, right?

Yes.

So plus 12.

So 14 off.

Oh, wait, wait, wait.

I have an advantage for that.

Or I've got inspiration.

How about it?

How many?

How many hit?

How many?

Oh, whoa.

I rolled a 14 plus 9.

So that's what I needed.

It was a 14.

Because it's plus 12.

What's the total?

So 14.

12 is 26 plus another 9 because I'm inspiration.

So, that is

35.

That hits.

Yeah!

Yes!

Destroy him, Lada!

Oh, wait, I was back.

Destroy Himlada!

So,

Darlin!

Yeah,

my kites.

As you're like holding on, the wind's pulling back, like on the cusp of falling back into the spell, and you see, like, Ludinus like step to the boundary and this, like, like, soft chuckle.

Like,

I've waited for this so long.

And the show's like just humping him from behind me.

What the sh- What's going on?

Fucking shit!

Oh my god, I think this is the moment.

Okay, so it's 3d8 for shocking grasp.

Pretty mid-roll.

7, 10, 12.

12 points of damage already.

Google.

Roll for concentration.

DC's 10.

Wait, do I get my anchor?

You got a natural one!

You will spend a legendary resistance to succeed.

So that's his third.

But you also get what I hit as holes.

Yeah,

so you do an additional 8d6 necrotic damage.

So, wouldn't we add that to the total for his concentration save?

It would, yeah.

But he automatically

auto-saved it.

He rolled a one.

That's fair.

That's fine.

Burn the legendary resistance.

Yeah, man.

I'm going to try and knock that thing off so accurately.

I know, sure.

Okay, three, six, nine, fourteen for more.

What did I just say?

14.

15

plus 8 is going to be 20.

3 plus another 3, 26.

26.

All right, additional 26 damage on that.

And roll a d6 for me.

To take his spells away.

Oh, right, right, right.

Six.

Six.

Yes!

67 spells.

Oh, man.

Yes!

Awesome!

Awesome!

He's going to lose a fourth and a third level spell slot on that one.

Yeah, baby.

Okay, okay.

That was a great turn.

That was a really good turn.

As you cast the shot and grasp through,

Pate is just like chuckling while humping the back of Ludis' head.

He's like,

You just...

And like reaches back, just is like,

tears him from the back and like throws Pate into the rock.

Oh, worth it.

And like when it sinks down as Ludas pulls his hand back and there's like black blood and like a weird, almost like a maple syrup texture, like liquid kind of coming out of where the

fleshy hole, maple syrup.

It's not a hole, but

that's how it is, yeah.

Cannon.

But yeah, he'd not appreciate it.

And so wait, what he spiked

Pate against the rock?

Yeah, he just, I I mean, just narratively, just threw him against the rock.

How do he still right there now?

He's still there.

Um.

I.

God.

Technically, Pate might take a bunch of moonbeam damage.

They just moved in the radius, right?

Okay.

Let's go ahead and roll it up.

Roll it lit.

What's the radius of the moonbeam?

It's a five-foot radius on him.

So Pate rushes in, does this, and then go ahead and roll a constitution savings over Pate.

Come on, Pate.

Okay.

it's a five feet radius all around just around ludiness and what does it do it's like a spotlight

around him spell casting ability right so anybody who's a contact fighter is a little mild you can drop it i think that should be good you also move it five feet inward too

i can if you

put it this way if you wanted to center it in a way where it kind of aimed towards where the barrier was sure so that it would hit him it wouldn't hit the radius around that would be nice yes i'll allow that okay since you wouldn't want to hurt your friends i would definitely so don't worry about that for you okay good okay but if you don't move it and luteness moves in closer then it would be

an issue um so i finished your turn ladna

yeah i'm trying to figure out if i want to like quicken a spell but up to you i i i i think i'll stay there i'm trying to conserve points okay for better or for worse okay because where you are right now standing you cannot actually see luteness he's out of range yeah but pate does give you the vision yeah all right so with that finished ashton you're up make a short saving throw for me please

um nap 20.

yeah yay let's go

like right on the cusp of where the radius that is

kind of gliding through the rock and glass best you can let's go stone so do i feel the same pull my my legs are are if i sink them down do i feel the same gravitational pull underneath the ground that i do uh

it still pulls on you but you're slightly better anchored i would give you advantage if you didn't already have it on the saving throws okay yeah i just have Okay, so like, but like, my speed is not going to be affected by this.

Uh, because you're gliding, I will say no.

You are, you, you can move your normal speed because you are not affected by rough terrain and the tug on this because you are actually gliding through the ground.

Okay, and all right, in your form, I'll allow that.

Awesome.

Uh, in that case, uh, what's the best way to do this?

Um,

I'm

going to head

punk rock, come on, 80 feet towards Ladna.

80 feet towards Ladna.

You got it.

So from where you are right there.

And we'll move.

I'll drop under the ground for that because I think there's five feet.

So can I get like my whole body underneath the ground for that?

Or no?

Roll a D4 for me.

Done.

On a four to six.

Four.

Four.

You cannot get completely under the ground, but you can halfway get in there.

Okay, well, then no, no worries about it.

Then I'll...

Well, no, I'll take it.

Then I'm, yeah, I'll

just sit there.

That's your move in your ass now.

So you dash there.

Yeah, okay, cool.

All good that finishes your go.

All right finishing Ashton's go Dorian you're up with a manjin on deck.

Can I ask a question about how the no the Pate event unfolded?

You said did he walk forward through the first barrier?

Like, I just want to know what his relationship to the barriers are right now.

Well, from where you are, the outer layer you can't, you all you saw was him like kind of step through it.

You saw like the edge of the boundary and he just kind of walked through it and out of your sight.

All right.

Pate seemed to be able to pass through it as well.

Pate is just on the outside of where it was.

I denied my movement last time, but

would I be able to have Coriolis scoop me up and use his movement?

Oh, Coriolis has been with you that's a good one.

Yeah, he's still on the board, I guess.

So you've been falling over there.

Coriolis, we'll say his movement.

Well, first off, Coriolis make a shrink-saving.

Oh my god, that's right.

He's in the pits.

Oh, my God.

What was the scientific name, Sam?

Equus

Caballeros.

Caballeroos.

Swear to saving.

No, I can't.

He's in the pit.

Equus.

He's in the pit.

That's okay.

That changes it.

That's fine.

No, no.

Gotta play it.

No!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's in the pits.

He takes Coriolis Tay.

Nobody, boy.

No.

But he should be cute.

7, 12, 13.

21 points of four standards.

He's still alive.

for now.

Whereas his restraint at the moment.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much,

all right.

Then he's out of the picture.

Uh, I'll use my movement to

cut straight in, like in front of Ashton, like 40 feet.

Just be careful.

Don't get sucked in.

Yeah, kind of the same thing.

Just be careful.

Don't get sucked in with Ashton's beautiful blue eyes.

Yeah, I think you just have eyesight.

Okay.

So that's 25 feet there.

Okay.

You can see Ludinus from where you are, and you still have more movement if you like.

I want to use it all to get as close as possible, I guess.

Okay.

Yeah.

35, 30.

I have 40.

Yeah.

35

40 gets you right there.

Cool.

I'm going to wing a

lightning bolt at him.

From where you are,

to get him with a lightning bolt, you will likely also hit Pate.

Well,

is he still earthbound?

He would be.

He would be because.

You've maintained concentration?

Well, I haven't rolled for it.

Sorry, because I can't pick it up.

Go ahead and make concentration check for me.

I get advantage to maintain my concentration.

I'm gonna do something.

Can you just like.

Nope.

No, no, no.

No, no.

I'm gonna leave him alive for you.

what's this

not very good the clock test

12

12 you didn't take more than 25 damage i think on any of those so i think you're okay okay okay no idea okay it's positioning stuff all right uh scratch that i'll keep pette alive uh i'll use i'll use the rest of my turn i'll use another 40 feet use my wing boots actually

yeah if you want to use your winged boots as part of this you could fly up a little bit yeah and then there you would have an angle to hit him okay if you wanted to

That's still such a threat.

Who's still in threat of the.

All of us.

Everybody's still at a threat?

Alright, I'll do that.

Okay.

Let's do that.

So we're putting you.

We'll do, uh, yeah.

Fourth.

No, no, no.

Uh, fuck it.

Fifth level.

Fifth level lightning bolt until Utas the left.

Alrighty.

Dexterity saving throw.

16.

He succeeds.

Got it.

Cool.

So he takes half of this?

Correct.

19.

14.

How many is it?

10?

106?

For a fifth level?

Fifth level?

Yeah, 106.

Yeah, okay.

Say 14, 24.

What about that?

32, 30, 33.

33 points on takes us 16 points of lightning damage.

Yeah.

It strikes through.

Shhh.

He takes the hit to roll for this.

DC10.

Maintain concentration.

That is going to be.

That's a fail.

He's going to...

This is secondary legendary resistance.

Damn.

He's burning through those resistance.

He's so cool.

Usually three.

Three per turn or

three per turn.

Realm.

Usually it's three

legendary creature falls to the legal.

So

the blast hits him.

And he kind of just

three doubles his concentration and just keeps pushing on the barrier.

He's like

more or less

swatting you off like flies and just keeping focused on his continued

march towards what lies beyond.

How much damage did you just do?

The cave.

16.

Matt Tallison said he's going home and for his turn.

For my bonus action, I'll just turn Zalad and I'll say, oh, so close.

Shaboy again.

And I'll use Healing Word.

Healing Word can't cast two spells.

Oh, two spells.

It's not a cancer.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah, yeah.

Never mind.

I'm out.

I'm out.

You need inspiration if you want to.

No.

I'm good.

I've only got one left.

You got it.

All right, finishing your turn.

Dorian, Imogen, you're up.

Good luck.

Okay.

Does that do anything for you?

Well, I don't know.

Does it?

Do I go?

Sorry, your turn.

But I'm on the other side of this.

Oh, we're doing the tasks.

You are.

Make a string saving for you.

You have advantage on it.

And the DC is lower because you're in between.

You're going to tumble your hands through it.

Like an anti-gravity jet.

So, based on your current.

Yep.

So the DC is 16 right now.

Okay.

Come on.

Still so fucking high.

Jeez.

Holy shit.

Wait, wait, did you want to roll that?

No, that's not what I mean.

I didn't mean to roll either.

Did it count?

If you didn't mean to roll it, re-roll it.

Okay.

So

Jesus Christ.

Please give me an instant replay.

They're worse.

They're worse.

But it doesn't matter.

They would have failed either way.

So

I failed.

So you are holding on to the other edge and trying like figure out what to do.

Your feet begin to lift lift up off the ground and you lose your hold against it as you tumble

over the top.

I'll try a spell, man.

Since I'm next, can I try to use my action

to try to put my staff out or something so she doesn't go in there?

That would be a reaction.

That would be to hold your action to try and do that beforehand.

Yeah.

We try, we try, we try, we try, we try.

We'll give you four points of health.

That's not too bad.

Take 20 points force damage.

Okay, cool.

Every little bit.

Oh, so good for just a second when I didn't get in there before.

Okay.

So,

what I'm going to do

from where I am now.

This is a great.

Yeah.

I'm over 120 feet away from him now.

All right.

You are currently, yes.

All right, cool.

Awesome.

Swell.

Then I'm going to try and cast

a level five lightning bolt.

I'm going to use a distance.

I'm going to double my distance.

Okay.

Double my distance.

Which will definitely hit him.

I mean, definitely be far away.

It will be.

Fern is

right in the way.

Okay, well, I don't want to hit Fern.

We are on.

Oh, come on.

I'll tell you what, you got pulled over this way.

Break between

you could aim through this.

right between

pipples.

I'd allow that.

Okay.

You are restrained still.

If she was screaming at me, I would also stuff maybe.

No, I get it.

Sorry, sorry.

I should have.

No, it's okay.

All right, so that's a deck save on his point there.

National 19.

So he succeeds, but go ahead and roll your damage for this.

Okay.

10d6.

Cool.

That's going to be great.

It's going to make him drop concentration for sure.

That's the whole point.

This is gonna do it.

But then he's gonna roll a resistance again.

Well, he'll be one more gone.

Yeah, exactly.

He's gotten rid of two?

Yeah.

10.

Which is pretty good.

17.

19.

What am I gonna do?

15, 23, 25,

31,

30,

3 points.

Nice.

Three points to me.

That was I rolled though.

That was nice.

Wax.

That would be 16 points lightning damage total.

Which strikes him for the DC.

Just a straight roll.

That would be enough, unfortunately.

Succeeds on his concentration check.

The bolt lightning strikes him, but you can see the psychic field kind of reflexively

appear behind him, and the bolt hits it, and it seems to ground itself, crackle around, and still get to him and still shock him.

But a lot of it's been kind of disseminated into the nearby rock.

Okay.

Okay.

Um.

Let me just think for a second.

I think that's everything I can do.

Okay.

Tough.

Does that finish your turn?

Okay.

End of your turn.

He's gonna go.

He's now getting a little more frustrating kind of.

I guess this makes the race more interesting.

He's gonna go ahead and spend two of his legendary actions to do rapid cast.

He's going to cast chain lightning

on you.

Oh, I know.

But you're

just so

right now.

He's a little guy.

Each target within 30 feet of him.

Oh, fuck me.

That's gonna be Chetney.

Dang.

Wow.

It's gonna be Ashton.

And it's gonna be Lavna.

Yeah.

Oh, dang.

My baby boy!

Sorry, guys.

You're the son of that.

If Pate jumps directly in front of me,

suffering.

Please let it sound like that.

No!

It's like a Schwarzenegger doing

shitty ass fucking

Schwarzenegger reacts and make them raw shit.

So it's only 30 points of lightning damage.

That could have been a lot higher at 10d8.

Do we get a down?

So yeah, 30 savings throw from each of you.

X?

Okay, for Pate.

Nine.

30 points of lightning damage to Pate.

Does he survive?

He does survive.

Poof.

Pate's chilling.

No.

How many points?

No, he does not survive.

I'm sorry.

I was looking at his fly speed.

He goes poof-poofs.

Oh, dog.

Vanishes.

He tried to save you, Chen.

He tried.

I just did black molasses splatter all over.

I hold so many ones on that.

18 for me.

18 failed.

So 30 points of lightning damage.

25.

25 is success.

You take 15 points lightning damage.

Fail.

30 points lightning damage.

Flight damage.

Fuck.

23.

That's 20 points.

And 23?

Success.

So 15 points of lightning damage.

Sorry.

Alrighty.

The whole night.

Finishing imagines go.

A shift

of nearby light.

Ashton catches your.

Actually, it catches Lodna and Ashton's and Dorian's eye.

Reinforcements.

As around the edge of this, a shimmer of light seems to emerge.

And a familiar form peeks around the corner.

I need to just watch him fade.

Anyone know what that blue thing did?

Took him a minute.

Okay.

And was like, let you all go in first, see how it goes and then cruise around best you can after dimension dooring to that side.

But you watch him kind of like, he dimension doors to the opposite side of the chamber.

He's going to go ahead and let's see, take his spear 40.

He's first going to go into his nightmare form as a bonus action.

So you watch as he kind of appears

and kind of looks over towards you and

one of his giant black eyes just kind of like winks.

But when it closes, it kind of like folds into itself and you watch as his skin seems to almost tear off, leaving like a black shadow version of him behind.

He now looks like a scattered, like blackened, kind of jagged shadow version of himself, where even his clothing and his tails are kind of like flickering and like made of just black energy and darkness.

And where his black eyes were, now it's just like these white, vacuous orbs.

Almost like he turns into a negative version of himself.

In my form of dread, where I have like just eye sockets, no eyes, I also wink, and a little bit of black kind of splurts out.

I'm like, yeah.

Okay.

And then he is going to leap

this way.

Yeah.

This way.

How tall is he?

He's going to get there.

Same every time.

12 or 15 feet, I think.

About there.

Is he within 30 feet of luteness?

Yeah, he's tall.

He's like a shit.

He is

taller.

Within 30 feet of luteness, right at the edge.

Is he within 10 feet of me still?

No, he's unfortunately at 15 feet from you.

He is going to cast.

Damn, damn, damn.

Steel wind strike.

Steel wind strike.

Let's go, buddy.

So he

gets low, and his claws extend out into these like long, black, blade-like fingers.

And he leaps into the air with like a spinning flourish, shh, and then

vanishes.

And you watch him, like, nightclub

teleport around Ludinus in a series of dark flashes.

And then at the end of the teleport, it kind of lands right on the edge of where Ludinus is.

Ludinus has to go ahead and make a...

And is Ludinus still in the inside of that first membrane layer?

Yeah.

So he went inside there and came back out.

Yeah.

Wow, cool.

Okay.

So

at first glance, he teleports in that kind of in-between space.

So there is a permeability to it currently that's been unlocked by Lutenus.

So he has to make an attack roll against him with this.

That's a natural fucking beacon 20.

Oh, I'm not even joking.

Right there.

All right.

Yeah.

Ira coming into fucking health here at the end.

Thanks, Laura.

So that's 6d10 force damage.

Doubled.

6d10.

Okay.

So 60-ish.

12.

That's a 60-ish.

Let's go.

All right.

Just because it's on your right, it's a crit.

Let's see what we got.

So.

All right, so that's 10, 20, 30, 36

times 2.

Oh, my God.

That's going to be

72 points of force damage.

Oh, beefy.

On Ludinus.

That's, ooh, this is not good.

All these teleporting slashes before shh landing, and Ludinus kind of like struck it for a second, then

kind of takes all the hits at once, and then crumples to a knee.

So, half of that is going to be he has a DC of 36.

He has to make on this check.

Come on!

How?

36!

He can't!

Can't.

So, he'll use his last legendary resistance.

Hold on now, Muslim.

Hold on,

legendary resistance also.

Okay, okay.

As Ludinus kind of like,

of course, you'd be here.

And Ira, now at this point, just kind of flickering shadows.

Like, it's all I've wanted for years to watch you fail.

It's like black smoke pours out the sides of his mouth.

Heady-ass bullshit, let's go.

Ludeness did?

Ludeness only took half of it.

But it was the two of his all.

No, he took all of it.

It was a crit, but the DC is half the damage total damage taken.

I got it, I got it.

So that's going to finish Ira's turn, fern you're up.

Wow.

Okay.

All right.

Ira!

Hey!

Be cool, Fern, be cool.

Actually, you know what?

Sorry, at the end of...

Sorry, I mean, cut you off there.

No, you're fine.

At the end of Ira's turn, he's gonna use his last legendary action to do psychic blast.

All creatures within five feet of Ludenus have to make a DC22 strength saving throw.

That's gonna be just Ira, but he's like, no, get the fuck out of here.

Ira's gonna go ahead and try and make that save.

Which is gonna be plus 30.

That's a natural one

on Ira.

Natural 20 to a natural one.

That's the way.

So Ira gets pushed 30 feet back.

Oh, no.

yeah,

okay.

So,

Ludinus kind of like angrily gets up and

shouts, put his arms out, and there's this

like bubble ripple of psychic energy.

And Ira gets blasted back and catches himself on the ground.

Right as he starts to stand up, you see him like scooting back, slightly starting to push towards the spell in the back.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he's gonna be a little bit more.

Do I need to check to see if I go in?

Strength check, yes, you do.

Spanish.

What is she holding on to?

Hmm.

Okay.

Come on.

What?

It's because I'm rolling my hand.

I'm standing diagonal up

marble.

Okay.

I feel like it's like a novelty joke dice.

We didn't get the memo.

I mean, I'm holding on to the rock so hard.

I'm sure.

So

15.

15's not gonna happen.

I love the option.

I know.

I am

out.

Into the void

for you to get this corner.

Smushed against a dinosaur.

Good thing we're like, damn.

So useful in this.

Take 27 points of force damage.

27 points of force damage?

Could have been pointed out.

Now you can do your damage.

Okay.

we're over 120 feet away from him.

Do you have spell sniper?

Narr.

Um, alright.

Well, I just gotta try to try to I mean, can

would I have mister with me, or he would just be on Mr.

Well, at the beginning of your turn, make a shrink suck save for mister.

If he takes the damage, he's gonna

come back.

Well, I'm gonna leave him out there.

Well, I mean, he's like to make it

It happens automatically at the start of your turn.

He's a flame, though.

Do flames?

Natural 20.

Mr.

Succeeds in the same

later.

So

if I can...

So would he be with me or would he be where he was?

No, he's right where he is.

Okay.

So if you wanted to, in theory, like...

Because you can like hold your action and then like boats your bonus action and teleport.

Yeah.

I'd allow you to like have him move into the radius.

He'll take the damage by moving into the radius.

If you think he can survive it, then he could try and teleport you out, and then you could do an action when you're teleporting out.

Wait, how did you get out?

I just don't know how hard he is.

He might be able to make it.

Hold on, I think he has like 28 points left.

No, he's got 37 points.

Oh, okay.

Okay, I'm gonna have him come in.

Okay, so it's like,

sorry.

It's like dug in the ground.

I'm gonna have him take Imogen out.

He can take both of us out, can't he?

He can take us all out.

Can he also take a Coriolis?

Yeah, he he can take all willing creatures.

He can take all willing creatures that are in five feet of you or him.

Stand.

When does he take the damage?

When he enters the radius.

When he enters the creature of your choice.

Radius, is he within 10 feet of me?

He would be, yeah.

So he will get resistance to the damage.

That's good.

Okay, so it's each willing creature of your choice within five feet of it.

And five feet of Mr.

Mister can move

half movement to go, but he takes half damage because he's within ten feet as he's great.

He pushes into

small monkey friend, you've got this.

Like, like, as all the fur in his body and the flame is being pulled inward, where every instinct in him is to try and run away, he just kind of looks at you and

crawls in towards, like, like fighting the gravity as walking in on his own terms.

taking

i love this game

monkey

i've walked he's crossed the event

points damage have he has gone

where no monkey has gone i rolled really good on that damage rolling

to have a pet with more than four hit points i know right now man

steps steps up into the air like okay if he wants to get within five feet of it then either you have to choose coriolis or imogen okay I'll call it.

Tough call.

Tough call.

I know, it's a rough call.

Think about it.

Bring an animal up.

And then, yeah, yeah.

And then, could we go towards Brand?

When we bamp out, Imogen hates horses, confirm.

Auntie, horse girl.

Yeah.

Fuck off, horse.

We can get

there,

and we'll get you

here

and Imogen

out of the way.

Neither of you are restrained.

That was the bravest thing I've ever ever seen, young monkey friend.

You have the strength of a cow.

I suppose.

Oh, no.

All right.

Get this thing down before our turns are up.

So.

Trying.

I still can't fucking move.

No, you're no longer restrained.

He teleported you out of it.

Okay.

I can't move.

You can move.

A little bit.

It's just 15 feet.

I still can't.

Okay.

Then scorch and ray it it is.

Are you going to move beforehand or?

I am going to, yes, I am.

I would like to get somewhere where I would have, hopefully have a little more cover.

Well, that's not really going to happen from where you're standing, unfortunately.

It's fine.

It doesn't matter.

It is what it is.

This is the puzzle of the encounter.

Scorching Ray.

And I'm going to do that.

Oh, God, guys.

I just don't have any shells.

Does it go up in the other form?

What?

Say again.

Does your movement go up in your fire form?

Yeah.

You haven't turned into a fire.

I know.

I was going to wait because I have it for an hour, but.

It's an hour is now's the time.

Is it?

There's stuff after this.

Yeah, we still have to Perdakos.

No, let her do what she wants to do.

Yeah.

No, it doesn't move.

It died.

I don't know extra.

We're going to find Perdato.

Alright, alright.

Scorching Roy.

What level?

To lewdeness on the foot at sixth level.

Sixth level?

Okay.

Shoot it in his

neck?

A hole in his neck.

You got it.

Okay.

It's not a hole, but it's coming off.

It's resembling one now.

Sure.

Yeah.

I guess it is a little punctured.

With a little bit of drainage issues.

It's a little stupid.

Seven

hits.

Well, it's three, and then you said it casting at six level.

Yeah.

Right.

So that would be seven attacks.

Yes.

Okay.

Oh, 16?

Oh, but you're, are you get a...

Oh, no, you're not standing next to Ashton, so you don't get a plus board.

No.

Okay, so are you going for his hole?

Going for his hole.

16 plus.

27?

Needs to.

So that one here.

27 hits.

You're going to cast.

I was going to say.

Shield.

And that's going to affect shh.

AC the rest of the turn

affect all of it?

So this one is

30.

That'll do it.

30?

Miss.

It's just missing.

You're not going to hit any of them.

That's why.

So just stop aiming for the hole and just hit him.

Just hit his fence.

Just try to break the spell.

Fucking...

Yeah.

Alright, so I'll just hit his body.

Okay, so the first two hits miss.

Yeah.

The third you can go for.

And this is just a 26 now because of the shield.

What a Johnson.

This is a 26.

You got to.

You're actually fucking Johnson.

No.

You don't have four more.

No, 22.

Three more.

No.

Two more.

Ah?

Okay.

26.

Oh, one hits, guys.

At one hit, I'm going to change the number.

Don't finger.

Don't say it like that.

That's it.

That's it.

That's it.

One hit.

So roll 2d6.

Okay.

Oh, man.

This is it.

You're a fan of the middle.

And then fucking Johnson.

Also a d8 for mister.

Right.

Okay.

Is that a seven?

So say 15.

So 15 points of fire damage on him.

Okay, great.

Okay.

So it gets hit just like in the shoulder or the back.

Sixth fucking level.

So it's a 10 DC.

It's just a concentration check on the 10 DC.

He only has a straight roll.

But he has a plus eight or something.

He rolled a two!

Two.

So what does that mean?

Brings it a 10.

It's a plus 8 on his roll.

So he needed to roll a one fail.

I hate lewdness

so much.

Oh, he's a good wizard.

Where'd you go, Bubba?

He's a good wizard.

I'm gone.

No, he's a bad wizard.

Okay.

Worst wizard.

All right.

That wasn't a fucking waste.

No, it wasn't.

No, it wasn't.

It's all worth it at this point.

What's that mean?

No, meaning

everything helps burn through and push towards the goal.

Yeah.

Mike.

Did you do that?

It just sounded scary as well.

You know.

Yeah.

All right, Fern, to finish your turn.

That.

Does Mr.

get to

turn?

Mr.

Does?

He gets to throw some shit.

No, he did the dimension door thing.

Oh, that was his actual going.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

All right, so finishing Fern's go.

Orim, you're up with the checkman deck.

Top on the round.

I have to save or get pulled back into the hole again, right?

Yes.

Currently,

yes.

Yeah.

So you have,

the DC is going to be a 16 on this.

Take this out.

But you do have advantage on the check.

Oh,

right.

No, it's strength.

Strength.

Okay, I failed that.

I'm going to use what I should have done before.

I have one Indomitable left.

You didn't roll advantage, though, did you?

I did not.

Why do I have advantage?

Because you're different.

Oh, because of the rock.

Because you're behind it.

Barely have it.

Second one is barely different.

So this is the Indomitable Indomitabidabo.

Indomitabidabo.

I'm going to use, I have one last superiority dot.

I'm going to use Zephyrin Heart.

I'll try to boost it.

Okay.

18.

I rolled 18.

18.

Woo!

So as you clutch onto the side, you feel the gravity kind of tugging at you at the side, and you just kind of hold in and you close your eyes for a second and imagine like the calm winds of Zephyr.

And as you do, you kind of bend like a reed with the gravity as it pulls towards you and kind of glide along the outer edge and hold yourself in place and you feel confident that you can keep your focus and strength this round.

Was 18 the DC?

16.

16 was 16.

Okay, I rolled a 10 on that.

Yeah, I saw that.

So

what I'm gonna do, I can't do much still, is I'm gonna

use my movement to go 15 feet

on a diagonal and then use my action to go another 15, so a full 30.

And then I've still got

the grasping vine spell up, so I am going to shoot the stone

next to Lewedness and yank myself past Chetney.

I'm completely out of gas, but I just get low to the ground and bring the sword down, twist it in my hand, and stare at him.

And that's the end of my turn.

Nice.

That's right.

That finishes your turn.

You're done.

And you can feel the pull of the gravity, the ravenous void, is no longer trained on you.

Yeah.

Unless you're beyond the radius and spell.

Great.

Chetney, you're up.

Do I have to make a save against the anus hole?

You?

Let's see what the reaction is.

All right, so that's 85

there.

90, 95, 100.

You're just outside of that.

Amazing.

40 feet.

Can I try to

walk,

use my speed to reach where Lugnis is?

Yeah, you can get right up to him.

Great.

Can I make

I'm gonna try three attacks with just my claws out?

No, uh, no turmoil.

Yeah, yeah, just claws.

Uh, first one

is fuck you.

Huh, really?

Just forget that.

That never happened.

Second one,

that's better.

Uh, 28 to hit.

28 hits.

Amazing.

D8.

Sorry, eight.

Yep, okay, that's 13 points of slashing damage with six points of

19 total.

Yes.

Alrighty.

And the last one.

Come on.

Let's make a concentration check.

He's just a straight roll.

Oh, yes.

Come on.

Yeah, he succeeds.

Amazing.

And with that hit, with one more remaining, once for short rest, I'm going to use brand of castigation

on lewdness.

Okay.

And as I slash him

just below his his neck hole

like a rear clavicle,

there is going to be an amazing C-pop Industries brand that

sears right on the back of the base of his neck.

I can taste it.

He's like just focused forward.

Amazing.

And the last one, it allows me to track him.

And if he tries to teleport away, that he has to roll that check just in.

Yes, yes.

Natural 20.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Shaden, chiny, po-pa-po.

Okay, 1d8.

So that's...

Come on, big money.

Big money.

714

plus

6 is 20.

Oh, this just says, so 24.

Double that.

28 total.

28 damage.

Nice.

If we get right through.

So, with that,

the DC in this is going to be 14.

Okay.

That's going to be a 19.

God!

That's a good one.

Awesome.

It's a good try.

Good deal.

Finished turn.

That's it.

Good job around.

Good job, chat.

It's now back to Ludinus's go.

Ludin's gets his legendary actions back.

He's gonna go ahead and focus on the next boundary.

And you watch as the next one.

Oh, at the start of his turn?

Let me look.

Let me see.

Oh, the moonbeam?

Yeah.

Is it the start of my turn?

Start of his turn?

Let me see here.

It might be the start of his turn, I think.

On each of your turns,

when the creature enters the spell or starts a turn there.

Yeah.

Constitution save.

That's going to be

16.

He gets disadvantage on Constitution Saves?

It was until the end of...

It was his turn.

Too bad.

Doesn't matter.

He didn't pass it.

Yeah, so that's a success.

So go ahead and roll the damage.

4D, 10 radiant damage.

10 radiant damage.

Radiant, baby.

3.

That's 10.

Oh, never mind.

16.

Just 16 points?

That's so

16.

16 radiant.

Take 16 points of radiant damage.

You will then roll to save.

Natural 20.

Good.

I also took four points, too.

Okay.

So that begins his turn.

He dispels that next boundary there.

He's going to move forward ever so slightly.

I love this device.

How many boundary?

No, we don't know.

We don't know that.

Hey, for

it just...

Oram and Chetney, just know that there's like a cylinder of flame in front of you that you might have to just walk around if you're gonna follow him in there.

Sure.

Okay.

Keep saying it.

As a bonus action, he's going to cast a teleconnect shove

on you.

Chetney, go ahead and make a strength saving trip for me.

Come on, Chet.

Strong.

Strong.

Strong.

Because I'm strong enough.

That's not a 20.

It looks like a 12.

La, Mossack.

14.

14.

You get pushed back 10 feet to there.

That's bonus action.

Actually, that finishes his turn.

Next up is Brace with Laudna on Death.

Oh, Jesus.

I have to save, I assume.

Yes, you do.

Come on.

This is a D10.

You've crushed it.

Let's go.

It's big.

What was that?

15?

Yeah.

15 plus 9.

20, 24.

24.

Yeah, you're fine.

You resist.

Oh, so wrong!

Where are you?

Every time.

So rough.

Can you just pick us up and what?

Resaves.

Can I?

If you want to try and force move into somebody else that's an ally, it's half your movement.

So you're

already half.

Seven feet.

Yep.

Shit.

Kind of stupid.

He just keeps rolling super high, and now he's got advantage again.

This is so tricky because even if I used all my movement and my action to move, you still get sucked in.

I'm still in,

but if I stay near you guys, at least I can help

mitigate our damage.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So maybe I should just stay put.

Moonbeam is a fucking concentration spell, so I can't do anything with that.

No.

Does he still have moonbeam?

Can you move it forward to like hit keep in?

Because you move past it.

I can move it forward, yeah.

Still be good to hit him.

What a terrible turn

yeah i will use my action to move moonbeam a little further out five feet

or ten feet or whatever it takes to get just in front of it right it'll move you'll probably have to move it in the corner this way it does not move past the barrier so it kind of kind of

kitty corners off to the side so it's hitting him but leaving this arc of him open to your friends

and i'll just scoot just just over there like i guess behind uh

Fern or?

Mr.

or I just...

I want to be within...

In case they get sucked in again, I want to be within 10 feet of the edge of the...

Of the...

I guess I'll just stay put.

No, you...

More, like, move.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, close to there, so I'll reduce their damage if they get sucked in.

Okay.

Can you put your arm around my waist?

If the lady...

Consents.

In case I get sucked in, it gives me a little bit of a.

I will put my three-fingered hand on the small of your back and I will inspire you.

D6.

You can still use it next time.

And that's it.

Alright, that finishes your turn.

That brings us to Laudna's go.

Yes.

Okay.

What do I do?

I'm going to keep

kind of scooting around the edge and move.

Can I kind of get down a little bit underneath where

Dorian is?

5,

10, 15, 20.

You could get there if you want to.

And we're...

On the edge of the hole, right?

Yep.

Okay, I'm going to kind of use this pillar for cover

and kind of peek around around this conference.

He doesn't still have his shield up, correct?

The shield lasts until the next turn.

The start of his next turn.

Which he lost.

So yeah, it's gone.

It is gone.

Okay.

Yeah, I mean, I'm just gonna...

I'm gonna do this again.

I'm gonna just three eldritch blasts.

Actually, I'm gonna bonus action.

Hex.

Is there anything they can set?

I'm gonna hex him over there.

I pull him out.

I don't think if I can attack him.

Yank him.

First level spell.

But it's hard.

Okay.

Could we?

But I don't even know if I can get there in this round because I didn't run correctly.

He's burned all his auto.

His legendary save.

Yeah.

So

I don't have it.

These are just straight rolls, correct?

Correct.

Yeah, but even at a double distance, I can hit reach.

26 with telekinesis of thumb.

26 to hit the back of his neck.

All right.

Here we go.

Bread and butter.

I know.

I'm afraid to do anything else I want him to save.

Uh, no.

No, unfortunately.

No.

Last one.

Worse.

Uh.

All bad.

All bad.

It's bad in here.

It's really bad in here.

It is bad in here.

That was risky.

If we take off all our clothes, do we get advantage?

Are you born off our nose?

I hexed it.

Don't be as many photos at that fast.

What if we pretend we're shooting a porn?

Oh!

It's wild, physically fast.

Bring it back.

One for one.

Okay, Matt, can I use my last little bit of movement to just kind of of tuck behind this pillar and try and hide as much as I can?

Sure.

Go ahead.

Over there.

What's it feel like to have movement?

Actually, you know what?

She's wedged between a rock, so probably.

I take that back.

I want to use it as three-quarters cover, but I still want to be able to see him in case I need to cower myself.

Okay.

Best as you can get there.

Okay.

Got it.

He's a sniper drink.

That finishes your go.

That's so good.

Ashton.

You're at the station.

I cannot make it to him right this round, can I?

Uh, are you within the radius?

40 feet is what I got.

You are within the radius.

Yeah,

the terrain has rough terrain up to here.

Okay, so, well, I mean, okay, so I have to make a roll to save.

I'm just talking about getting to him.

Don't hit the squishy parts.

Here we go.

And I don't suppose being inside the rock is gonna help at all.

Oh, he gives you advantage.

Oh, I already have advantage.

Yeah.

He has a large hole in his neck.

Hit it.

Yes,

20, 30.

You're fine, yeah.

Jesus Christ.

Very big.

Are you going for the hole?

Yeah, of course.

I don't think I can make it, though.

40, 40 feet?

Okay, so.

10 to 20 feet out of it.

Okay, but I thought I could still, just because

I'm trying to use the ground to not.

Alright, yeah, so you ignore the.

Yeah, so basically

ignorant that'd be here five ten fifteen twenty

twenty five thirty thirty five

yeah you can get you can hit him right up on him i can hit him oh my god oh well this is gonna be fun uh all right i'm going to use uh so you can swing away i'm gonna use my

my

belt and i'm making a i'm making a uh i don't know if i have to do reckless or otherwise but i'm i'm making the shot here we go please roll well ah That's 18.

I would.

I'm making a.

I'm so sorry I didn't call to the neck.

Did I?

I meant to, but I'm not.

Oh, you did a second ago.

Okay, that's fair.

Thank you.

I actually did.

Thank you.

You said you were going to go for it.

It's 20 other 28.

That's like 33, 34 to hit.

That'll hit.

Okay.

Come on, baby.

So I use my belt, which also means that I added D6 to this damage.

Okay.

So that's 3d6.

Come on, Barbie.

Let's go party.

Alright,

3d6 damage.

Oh.

It's gone.

Wherever it is.

That's okay.

I've got it.

It's got sucked into your penis.

What?

What?

The fight is making us lose our friends.

You got lost if I got to your side.

16.

It got sucked into your penis.

30 points of damage.

Sorry, I was distracted.

No, I totally understand.

What was that again?

30 points of damage.

30 points of damage.

I want to join your fucking dive.

I got a kindergarten cop.

Actually, it got sucked inside your PD.

So good.

30 points of damage.

30 points of damage to DC 15.

Yeah, double tens.

Well,

here's some other fun stuff.

Well, actually, that's double tens, and then you hit the

neck.

Yeah.

So go ahead and roll

HD6 necrodic damage.

No.

All right.

Just for you.

It was just for you.

Do I get to re-roll ones and twos on this?

But it's not my damage, is it?

So I don't get to reroll it.

Yeah, it's not quite my damage.

So five,

eleven.

Hold on.

Especially bad.

778 points of damage.

And we should add another 10 to that, which would be a failure on its concentration.

Whoa!

You're all double 18s, but because that first hit was the extra damage on that one, it brought the DC up an additional 10.

Yes!

Which, yeah, for the gravity.

So with that.

Yeah.

Finally,

Venus Void.

G6 for Cell Software.

construction paper.

Average.

6-7.

Dang.

Alright.

You should say that.

I need a.

So he's kind of trying to get through what is a solid wall right now.

More or less.

So if I tried to move something.

But it is definitely resisting him as if it was.

Okay.

So.

So if I

also pushed him 15 feet away from me,

I think it would...

I don't know what that would quite do.

Well, do you want to try?

15 feet away, what, back, but back.

Like, it would go.

It would be technically, it would be 15 feet, it would be technically directly away from me.

It should be into the wall.

Guys, what if you beamed him through the last three?

That would be hilarious.

But

I can also move somebody five feet in any direction I want.

So

that wouldn't be possible to move him and then have the throw him.

No, no.

Okay.

So the push and then

what do you want to do?

I'm going to hold the shove and I'm just going to move him five feet.

You can even move him

five feet to the like where the to the to the left of me, so that he's in the middle of all that bullshit.

Uh, like he's next to me fortunately, there's no room to move him more than that, okay, because you're big and he's big, so you're like occupying the space for my next attack, okay.

That's 17, 18, 19,

uh,

uh,

nineteen, uh, twenty one, yeah, that's yeah, that hits, I've seen.

29?

Uh uh uh 29

yeah 32 altogether.

And damage on that is 26

plus

2

yeah.

Uh

I love the pre-college.

25 points of damage.

He's looking hurt.

Yeah, I'm trying to.

What?

I don't get attacked.

I only get two attacks.

It's been a while.

My brain is like a drink.

Does he have a jewel on his forehead and look like he's made a snow code?

No.

I do not get a third attack, if I recall.

No.

Okay, how about a fourth or fifth?

I'm trying to figure out a thing to do.

17 more attacks.

No, I was just.

No, Laura Bailey.

Only Max can do that.

I think.

Shit,

I should have done that other thing, but that's okay.

I'm good.

All right, finishing Ashton's go.

Wait, did you do, I missed it, did you hit him in the back of the neck?

It wouldn't have mattered for the second hit, but I did anyway just because I rolled this anger thing.

I'm just shooting for it.

Okay.

End of your turn, he's going to go ahead and angrily use two of his legendary actions to rapid cast.

He's going to drop him.

He's going to drop into the chain lightning.

Cool.

That's your last six-level spell.

So with that, that's going to be 28 lightning damage.

That's going to be once again targeting you, Dorian.

Yeah.

And it's going to just

sparkle off into

all of you.

Counterspell.

Oh.

Counterspell?

Wait, fifth level?

I hope this isn't a mistake.

Counterspell at fifth level as well.

So, counterspells your counterspell.

And that uses wizards.

You're supposed to use

this reaction and a fifth level slot.

Silvery ball.

That's a much better damage roller.

Shut it up.

Is that the hole on the back of his neck?

Yeah.

Take those numbers.

54 points of lightning damage.

How much now?

54 points of lightning damage.

To everyone in 30 feet?

With everyone with saves?

So deck saves to.

Oh, God.

Okay, I did very well.

Oh, are you within 10 feet of me?

Add a D4.

Okay, I am.

So I roll back on.

Deck save.

That's all of us, right?

Everyone who's within 30 feet of Dorian.

Provides 24.

24?

Yeah, so you take...

What's happening?

26.

26.

What's happening?

Alright, Dorian?

Not one.

That's the worst I've ever rolled.

54 points of lightning damage.

Yeah.

Dirty 20.

30 20?

No.

54 points of lightning damage.

4.

33.

So if you take 26 points of lightning damage.

Ashton?

Dexave, right?

Correct.

18.

18.

54 points of lightning damage.

4.

Correct.

And then Iraq on this.

He succeeds with the National 17.

Letters.

26.

Ow.

Oh,

all right.

That's his legendary action on that.

That's not

a frustrated retort to that.

All right.

That finishes.

Ashley's got Dorian.

You're up with the Minjar on deck.

Glad.

He's now like turning around a little bit and they're like if you're going to be this obnoxious then

sure step into the chipper or sit back and watch

damn

pretty metal line.

Yeah,

I'm gonna fly

over

him like how high can I get above?

I don't know how that high the ceiling here probably get about 60 or so feet up.

Okay, well not that high up.

Okay.

Like, I want to be like 10 feet above him and then and then drop down right behind him in that space that Astron created between the wall and that.

Is there enough room there?

I mean, if there's enough room to move next to him, but he got moved in a way where he's still against the wall.

You would just both be against the wall now.

Okay.

Is that okay?

All right.

Are you in Moonbeam?

Am I in Moonbeam?

You would now be moving into Moonbeam.

Oh, boy.

Won't do that.

Yeah, definitely not going to do that.

All right.

I didn't know know where the radius was.

Okay, yeah.

It's right around this area here.

So, like, it's pretty much impossible to engage with melee with him right now and not get

here if you want to.

If you wanted to fly, like, up

right about there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

My goal was to kind of like drop in behind safe space within melee.

You can make your feet just within melee of him.

Just because you're fluttering over there.

Actually, if you want to drop into this space here, which there is a little alcove, and it's kind of hard for you to see from your perspective, but there's a little space right there beside.

That will be outside of the moon moon beam radius.

Okay, great.

So he's like,

and I'm going to kind of like land soft on my knees and pop up behind him and put

big, I'm hurt.

Put my arm on his shoulder and go, force cage.

Just kidding.

And

I'm going to pull out my sword and take a whack at him.

Great.

Yeah, it's time.

Got a D4.

Yeah.

Okay.

Are you using your sword ability or are you just straight attacks?

This first one's going to be a straight attack.

Everything comes after, depending on the success

hey let's go plus a four come on

you 19 plus 12

uh yeah yeah yeah

sweets uh yeah okay redemption so we're getting there uh first whack perfect six and seven max uh oh my god why am i stupid right now 13.

and then uh so i'll take that first swing at him and then i will do uh i'm kind of moving i like in the space it's tight but it's making it work.

Was that a neck hit or a body hit that you were going to?

Well, well, he didn't specify.

Yeah, I did not specify.

So I'm working at him.

And then I'm going to use my blade flourish.

Okay.

But I'm going to use Masters Flourish.

So instead of my 12, I'll use a 6.

Okay.

So

I'm pretty sure that's automatic, right?

Yes.

Like, yeah, okay.

Yeah.

Your masters?

I do.

Wow.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I haven't just got a chance to use it.

Let's scrap.

Yeah.

Okay.

That'd be a five, but because I'm attacking with

Gambo cleft I double it for ten dang alrighty.

Yeah

23 points of damage on one strike

carving through on the one hit like unexpected you draw the blade and he's kind of like taken aback by it and you shh carve across the front like the blood going

under the ground.

He's like hmm.

It is surprising you motley crew of bullshitters

I got more I got nervous.

Well I have a second I'm able to do a second strike.

Yeah.

So we'll do it again.

I'm gonna take a swing for it.

Neck or body?

Let's go for the neck as exposed.

He's turned to face me.

I mean, he's turned

to...

He's like still facing the wall and like kind of...

He's having to train on all of you.

I'll try with a little finesse and I'll try to go for the neck.

Out of four.

Oh, that is not great.

Fourth of four.

Yeah, I don't think it's going to do it.

No.

Six plus twelve.

Eighteen.

18, unfortunately, does not hit it.

All right, that's good.

Maddie, question for you.

With the brand.

Each time a creature, the branded creature deals damage to you or another creature you can see within five feet of you, the branded creature takes six points of psychic damage.

Correct.

So I think that's only me and maybe Ashton?

Because Orm's not five feet away from me, right?

Correct.

So in that last big chime, would that have been...

No, Orm is five feet from you.

So he would take six damage from that.

So six for each of them?

What's the wording on it?

It says, each time the branded creature deals damage to you or another creature you can see within five feet of you, the branded creature takes six psychic damage each time

right so

not per round but each time

to you or another creature right to another creature so i'll be like six six six

yeah

does he have resistance to psychic damage i don't know yeah

one good to follow up on that and then for uh my bonus action i'll use two weapon fighting and uh third time yeah uh and i but i gotta pull out my little baby little sidearm.

That's okay.

Let's give it a try.

Dark normal attack or

terrible miss.

Yeah.

I'm in the mix.

Hey, man,

I will take one success this whole evening.

Yeah, 23 points of damage.

No, you got Lodna out of there.

That's huge.

Yeah, you guys did just

kind of really shift.

Seriously, you guys would have been fucked the same way that we have been the last

corrections.

What's your rule?

I rather than Fern on deck.

Shackles off.

Come on.

I'm going to run forward as far as I can.

5, 10, 15, 20.

Tom Cruise Round

As I run

this work

Good I'm gonna double the distance with a sorcery point

And in Ludeness's head I'm gonna just scream as loud as I can and say enough

Come on and I'm gonna cast power word stun yeah Power word stun?

This has to be beneath 150 HP.

Okay, it's auto success, if that's true.

He said he was looking rough.

That doesn't usually happen.

Automatic.

He is not immune to sun

and he is under 150 HP.

Oh my god.

It's at this moment that you notice him reaching into his pocket for what looks to be a rather vibrant glass vial

But he doesn't get to do it.

But he doesn't get a chance to do it because as you take all of the rage and loss and tattered conversations

and throw it right back into the core of his psyche,

your scream resonates in his head and he begins to scream as well and grabs at his face, his fingers drawing down across his cheeks and that kind of dark thick liquid that had been kind of seeping from his

quintessence root in the back of his neck.

You can see it now also pouring out of his ears as he is stunned.

This is it.

This is it.

We're gonna fucking go ham.

Go ham.

Wait, we can just hit him and he won't break it?

He's stunned.

No.

Fucking stunning.

Strike, stunned.

Stunning, strike.

So, so everything has advantage.

Hits have advantage.

Whoa.

Auto fails things like.

Yeah.

Does it mm-hmm?

Attack rolls against it at advantage, automatically fails strength and dexterity saving throws, and it

can't move, can speak falteringly, and

for how long?

Incapacitated, so it doesn't get its action or bonus action.

Stunned until the beginning of my next turn, the end of my next turn.

Yeah.

So we have one full last round here.

We have a full last round.

Okay.

This is okay.

This is great.

He's losing.

You got no range?

Shit.

all right what level is that

eight

eight that's my

yeah baby

i just had to get fucking within 120 feet

can we chop the tree for less than 150 can we do 150 in a round let's go yeah i mean we're gonna we gotta

leave the neck along what was the vial what was the vial get the vial

potion

baby or some other

haste potion who fucking knows does that finish your turn

i mean if he's stunned, if someone's close enough, they could go up and grab that shit out of his hand.

Ira.

You could just pickpocket him.

So wait, strength and deck checks fail automatically?

Yes.

Amazing.

Okay.

But cons do not.

Tons do not.

Ira is going to spend a second fifth level slot to

steal when to strike.

As soon as he sees the scream, sees him collapsing, Ira's head kind of like

cranes back over her shoulder towards you and goes, oh, good girl.

Back into place, the bones snap of his head slips in, and then he, like, his shattered form kind of vanishes again.

Kind of teleports all around Ludinus and then vanishes.

There's like this pause where nothing happens before.

From on top, he just claws downward, striking and carving down the back of Ludinus' body in hopes of going for

the back of his neck.

Okay.

Oh my gosh.

And a d4.

And a d4.

I'm going to roll this in front because it's fun.

Stack them up.

Oh, yeah.

Oh.

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

That's that's a natural 17 plus 4 is 21 plus plus 9.

Oh, yeah.

That's a 30.

That's a 30.

So, taking my 3 shit.

Holy shit.

Mark them.

Holy nice.

That's okay.

Okay, that's 6d10.

This can't be gank a gank.

Alright, so that's going to be 15, 20,

37 points of force damage on him

plus

8d6.

Necrotic damage.

Yep.

10, 20,

5.

35, 37 points of necrotic damage.

37?

Yeah.

Twice?

Yeah.

And that one round of Ira did 74 points of damage.

That one strike.

That's both

for fun.

Yep.

And it's easy.

Dale.

74.

He's probably

vulnerable right now.

He's 6.

Because of a twiddled a ring at the top and skin shimmered all over and then faded.

So I think everything's going to have damage.

Oh my god, I got gave a a goosebump.

I know.

Yeah, that changed.

I know.

Second level spell for him.

Alright, yeah, so his spells are starting to get eaten up there.

That was sick.

Okay, so that finishes that go.

Iris turns on, Fern, you're up.

Okay.

Alright, so I'm going to take my...

This does not bode well for...

I want to take my full movement, but just a little bit that way so I can have full range of shooting him.

20, 25, 30.

35.

35 would be about there.

Okay, great.

Am I within 60 feet of him?

You are.

I don't think so, girl.

Unfortunately, no.

Okay.

What if Mr.

was running with you?

Could he bamp you another way?

You could hold your action and have Mr.

Oh, great.

Let's do that.

So.

Thank you.

So can he.

You can hold your action casting the spell and then appear and then release it within range.

And I am holding,

I am about to shoot out.

Yeah, and that will get you within 60 feet.

Great.

Great.

Okay, so I'm going to do at fifth level

Flamestrike.

Just so you know, look at the radius of Flamestrike.

It's going to hit everybody around.

Here's a crazy round of 10th first set.

So it is a wide column of fire and stone.

I'm gonna cast fireball.

I'm gonna cast flames.

Ashley might have forgotten, but fern knows.

Yeah.

Okay, shit.

There's no way.

Hold on, hold on.

It's a 10-foot radius.

There's no way I can only put that on him somehow.

The flaming sphere, you're saying?

The the flame flamestrike.

That was 40.

Flamestrike is a 10-foot radius, which means it's about 20 feet across.

So if you put it on him, it'll still hit.

Oh, I understand what you mean.

It's like a column that goes like.

Okay.

To help you visualize it,

like this.

Imagine how many little bits here is a 10-foot radius, so it's like a column.

Yeah, okay.

I'm so sorry.

It's okay.

Not a worry.

Then.

Damn.

I really wanted to do that because we're going to strengthen save.

Okay, so that's alright.

I am going

to cache.

That's 130 feet.

Shit.

Shit.

I'm so sorry, you guys.

I really have that ready to go.

No worries.

Give me just a minute.

No worries.

We've gone to that accent.

Oh my god, I can't believe it.

I mean, I'm gonna have to just

scourging rain again.

Do it.

I mean, I won't really have anything much left.

Let's go.

Chip away.

You've been advantage in all the hits.

Chip away.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So that'll be

fifth level.

It's my last fifth level.

All right, so let's go.

That's six.

Well, no, it's three normally at second level.

So it's third, fourth, fifth.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm a six.

It is drag.

And they're each at advantage, did you say?

Yes, okay.

So

a lot of math floating in here.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay,

18 plus 29.

29 hits.

Uh, 27.

Okay.

Are these normally hits or are these to the oh wait, I get advantage on that?

You didn't specify, did you?

27 was saying I didn't specify that.

So the first two hit.

Okay.

Do you want to hit the neck or red?

Oh, we're just hitting him, right?

Yeah.

Hit the neck, yeah.

I mean, shoot.

However, you want it.

Yeah.

His neck is like a 30.

His neck is a hot.

I'm going to just do his body.

I mean, you go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do that body.

You get advantage.

If you're not going to be able to do that,

all these attacks have advantage because he's stunned.

It's harder to hit.

But the neck is going to be harder to hit.

It's harder to hit, but if you hit him at least once, he takes a bunch of extra damage.

Yeah, I get 76 points of damage.

I haven't had 66.

So the first one is the body, and then.

Okay, so you've got two so far.

Advantage.

Okay, so

19.

19

does not hit.

Okay.

So now for the neck.

Okay.

Okay.

Uh, 25.

It's gonna be a 26.

26 is the magic number.

We gotta roll 15 or higher if you want to hit the neck.

Damn it, damn it, damn it.

Or just aim for the body.

Either one.

Neck.

Come on.

Come on.

Okay, so 27.

You got two more rolls?

Two more rolls?

Yeah.

Okay, I'm gonna go for the neck.

Oh, wait, one more.

One more roll.

One more roll.

That didn't.

That was a one.

Come on.

20.

Nah.

Okay, so so two to the body, one to the next.

But one to the next because you just need one to the next.

So 4d6 fire damage.

46 fire damage.

Oh, three hits, so 6d6.

Sorry.

6d6 fire damage.

And then he takes an additional 86.

Okay, and a one.

A d8 because mister.

Because you can only take that damage to the next point.

Right, correct.

It always has that effect.

Once you hit it, then you pipe that body.

16, 16, 20.

27.

Okay.

Um mineral 8d6 necrotic damage.

8d6 necrotic damage.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm so nervous right now.

I know.

Um um

okay, so we've got

that's nine

I know they're so small and so annoying.

It just helps me.

I don't know why.

Okay, so nine plus nine, eighteen

plus seven

to eighteen.

Twenty-five.

Thank you.

Two more?

Yeah.

Um, plus eight

to twenty-five.

Thirty-three.

Alright, thirty-three points of death.

Okay.

Oh, and the d6?

And a d6 and a d6?

For spells.

For spells?

Yeah, to reduce his spell.

To reduce his spells.

Plus one.

Six.

Okay, so that's seven.

He still loses seven little spell on that.

Whoa.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

That finishes ferns go.

Yes, it does.

We're at the top of the initiative order.

Oram, you're up with Chetney on deck.

Okay.

Come on, baby.

All right, all right, all right, all right.

Oram's gonna step backward 10 feet and extend seedling out, and vines will shoot out and wrap around Ludinus' chest.

Hopefully, I'm gonna attempt to pull him toward me away from the gates.

He fails his save automatically because he's stunned.

So he gets yanked past.

Amazing.

And then I'm going to, Oram's going to sprint and skid under his legs and slide so that I'm helping form a wall in front of the gates.

Okay.

So he's got Ash and Orum and Dorian

in the way.

And then I will

kick off the stone so that I spring up into the air.

And I'll take three quick slashes

starting at the back of the neck.

It's an advantage because he's stunned, right?

Correct.

That's a 24.

24 missing.

I was going to say, actually, are you close enough to me that you get a D4 D4 on that?

Yes, I'm right next to you.

Okay, so add that D4 at about 10.

Come on.

By the way, the second one's going to be a crit.

That's a 25.

That's a miss.

Second roll at advantage, I got a 20, which is a 34 to hit.

Correct.

That hits.

That's on the neck.

Correct.

Okay.

Do it.

Do it.

And then I'll just see if the last, I'll just do the last slash, which is not as good, but a d4 still.

Correct.

That's a 27 on the body.

That hits.

Okay.

Okay.

Come on, baby.

Crit first.

Loot.

Crit first.

One double.

Terrible roll.

Two.

I have no fighter stuff left, so that is an 11 for the damage from seedling.

Okay.

And then is there damage for the neck hit?

You double your dice.

Double dice.

Yeah.

So there's no thing for the back of the neck.

Not for original.

No, it doesn't crit double no.

It's just if the impact he takes on top of that.

So roll 8d6.

That's what I was asking.

That's what I was asking.

8d6.

2.

I just wanna...

I got it.

I got it.

8d6.

So that's 6, 7, 10, 16,

20, 22,

28,

32.

32 for that.

Okay, 32 damage?

Yeah.

And then is it a d6 plus 1 for the...

Well, Aurum, Savior Blade of the Tempest.

Warrior of Zephyr.

how do you want to end

I have to back it up oram

was

pressed and losing hope and then saw across the field of battle Imogen clutch her hand out and saw him lock up fire streak out across the cavern slamming into him

so he took his moment yanked him out slid under spinning him around and leaving his neck bare and

slashes once across the neck and it begins to spurt out the back.

And then he just drops around front so I can see him.

And I stick it up

under his chin into his neck and say,

So much pride,

so much plotting.

And I don't say another word.

And I just stare at him, eyes open

until he's gone.

as

a millennia

of sheer will

and drive

comes to a single

trickling end point

He smiles

Finish what must be done

Please.

And his eyes drift unfocused

as his arms fall to his sides

and hang limply.

The bolts of energy dull.

Oh shh, shit, should we absorb him?

Do you withdraw the blade?

I do.

Falls to the ground, lifeless,

limp.

Ira

curls over

like a spider surrounding a wrapped fly

picks up its head in his hand.

I needed that.

Did that really just happen?

I poke him a little.

Is he dead?

He's dead, dead.

I go up and break his pockets.

Yes, I'm just looking through all the pockets.

Ooh, the buddies, steal his vest.

I'm standing by the portal entrance and I'm keeping an eye on fucking Ira.

Ira is just kind of sitting back and just watching you loot him with a terrible grin.

His

crown that he still has adorned on his brow.

He's just kind of

relishing in this moment of comeuppance in his face.

I'm gonna slowly walk forward

and

drop to my knees next to Aurim

and hug him.

What happens now?

I don't know.

But you did it.

We did it.

We did it.

If I look back at this shimmering gate,

what do I make of it?

Like, is

can we see through it?

Does it look diminished from when we first entered?

The initial boundaries that the Mississauga put through

themselves appear to be permeable.

There's an area about his shape where the runic lattice itself is almost immaterial, faintly present.

And there are a few boundaries beyond that.

Two or so.

That looks solid still.

I look around at the group over image and shoulder.

I'm going to use second wind.

And stand up and with my back to the barrier.

Do we go?

Do we keep going?

I mean, this is it, right?

Perdothos is through there?

Yeah.

This could be a good time.

Any refresher?

Oh.

Oh, yeah.

If we're going to do that.

Yeah, if we all gather up within

the city.

Can you remind us what this does one more time?

This fist side blooms really great.

It feels cold and smooth.

It doesn't matter.

When thrown against a hard object with an aforous orb, a shatter encircling any creatures within 15 feet with a burst of craft and dunamis.

All creatures affected by the orb regain immediately half of their expended hit dice rounded up.

Spellcasters regain 1d4 plus 4 spell slots of their choice and gain the benefits of a short rest.

Okay, so we gain the benefits of a short rest, meaning we can spend hit dice to spell.

You can spend hit dice to heal if you'd like.

We can spend hit dice to heal and we could.

Any abilities that recover on a short rest, you regain...

Okay.

1d4 plus 4.

Do each of us roll individually 1d4 plus 4, or do we roll 1d4 once?

Individually.

Can we regain 1d4 plus 4

spells?

Spells slots.

Spell levels of slots.

Spell levels.

That's pretty clutch.

Rested.

He's dead.

Who else is coming?

Where's

your mom?

She's out there.

She in the other caverns.

She didn't come running after us.

I'm gonna

call to her mentally.

Are you okay out there?

She weakly responds.

I'm all right.

Okay.

How about you?

Ludeness is dead.

Truly

as

far as we can tell, yeah.

What if we just

I don't know what

What if we just...

cave this place in?

Some.

There's gotta be a way to do that, right?

Cave it in and go no further?

I mean, Ludinus is gone now.

Is he?

Did he make copies of himself that are around?

Maybe.

Probably.

Probably.

Yeah, can we...

Can we drag his kind of body out of the walkway a little bit and just search him for forehead gems, armpit amules,

and a reminder

that his magical staff is where Corey

Coriolis is.

Oh, yeah, he could suck it up.

Good.

That thing might have teleport on it, too.

Like, it might have some useful thing.

Can we look at least for that vial of glowing liquid that he was reaching for?

Yeah.

It was a healing potion.

A good one, I bet.

It's a pretty good one.

What do y'all think?

It feels too good to be true to just be able to sit here for an hour and wait.

I feel like I'm sitting here for an hour and wait.

This is it.

This is all I have.

In one hour, I'm going to be nothing.

I'm.

I gotta keep going.

We don't have any idea.

Even without that, I'm not.

We gotta use that.

No, that's that method.

We gotta use that ball and

we've got big assumptions.

I have almost nothing left, but

maybe with a short rest, it

to what

to a chance to

what

this man has been planning

for Millennia.

I don't want us to rest on our laurels on this victory.

Who knows what can come around the corner at any moment?

The race isn't over, in my opinion.

He might have made more of himself, or

but if he sure he did, but if he didn't, we'd just be releasing Pradathos on a what-if

right

that's not

but also, like, we're so close, we should we should just like take a little peeksy something.

Well, we'd still have to get those membranes down, yeah, but girls can do it.

That's damn good.

I think

we could walk through an image.

I think that was why he was trying to drain your mouth.

I think he couldn't walk through it and he didn't get enough.

And

you don't have to trust me, and I know you don't, but

he was right.

This is the beginning of a new age.

And

a new age, it belongs to children.

I'm tired

of thousand-year-old.

I'm tired of being lorded over by people who think they know better.

And I'm not.

I don't want to kill anybody.

I don't want to hurt anybody.

But I think things have got to change, and we have.

We have a moment to change them.

Chet, what if you like

Grim Psychometry, the geometry?

The membrane?

Yeah.

Love it.

I'll use Grim Psychometry on one of the impenetrable membranes.

Roll a history check.

Uh, seventeen.

Seventeen.

You concentrate here and

the history is

broken and sporadic.

You see

civilizations

collapsing

within a rockfall from all sides.

You see

a gathering of divine fear

and you see

something once grand

squeezed to a point of slumber.

And for the first time,

you feel

this pole,

something beyond that boundary.

You sense something.

A will.

Present.

Aware.

Inviting.

Anything?

There's something back there.

But it's old.

Maybe the small, super hot warrior is right.

Maybe we shouldn't

mess with it.

We could just

make sure no one else tries.

But didn't the Archheart and the Matron both ask us to help them?

Yeah.

They did.

But why do we listen to them instead of the others?

Who...

How do we keep this safe?

Why does it have to be one or the other?

Why...

Why can't we

why can't we try to do something about Pradathos to

to keep it from

feasting?

Maybe it doesn't.

We still don't know.

We're still on the precipice

of discovery.

But in my opinion,

Ludinus unraveled this thread.

I agree with Ashton.

How are we supposed to keep this safe?

We can't stay here forever.

I think it's coming one way or the other.

And it's either us or someone else.

Especially now that people are aware that it can be done.

Yeah.

If the vessel is the only form of control over it, I would rather it be one of us.

There are hundreds of people

who are privy to Ludinus's plans.

There's an entire planet right now of angry people on this moon who were promised something they're not gonna have, and

at least not yet, until we can do something.

Imagine

what if we just put our hand on it and see what happens.

I don't want to do that until we've at least used that ball.

Okay.

There's just to double-check, there are several more membranes that we can see right, not just one.

Best you can tell, there's a handful of layers.

Yeah, you can just test one.

Is Ira?

Is Iris?

Well, but we should do it.

Irish just kind of sitting back and just watching you walk towards Jerry.

Sickly grinned, fingers intertwined, knees kind of folded up on the sides.

Just

Dorian

sends out a little melodic whistle to command Coriolis to scoop up Ludena's

staff.

And he gently sort of floats it through the air

and drops it in Imogen's hands.

Cool.

It's a super awesome stuff.

Whoa.

Anybody able to tell what the Ira, can you tell what this is?

But also, don't lie to me.

Don't take it.

Ooh, well, this is a.

No, no, I'm holding on to it.

Well, the show is home.

It is a delicious artifact.

Quite the prize, really.

You know what I've identified?

I think I do, but

I'm pretty sure I do.

What do you think, Ira?

Like Chaos Rain?

I'm certainly curious what you all decide to do, empowered as you are to make this choice.

Me?

I got what I came for.

I think I'm

comfortable just watching from the sidelines.

So a bunch of slapdicks are gonna decide the fate of Xandria right now.

Well, it could, but if they actually were here.

Let me see it, staff.

A bunch of slapdicks.

That's a big decision.

I know, but we can't agree on anything.

It's odd.

The staff rejects your identify spell.

It repels your intent to learn of its enchantment.

Like itself is attempting to prevent you from using what it is capable of.

That's new.

And also worrisome because

that means like some sort of consciousness lives on.

Yeah, it could have been warded against such a

thing.

Yeah.

Was Ludenus ever holding it or was it just always floating there?

I mean, he held it at times encounters in the past, but this evening he kind of had it floating at the side while he was focusing on the boundaries.

I'm scared he's going to come back.

I'll cut his head off.

I'm going to say while all this is really devolving now,

while all this is happening,

Shell-shocked mode.

He's not talking anymore, and he's going to go sort of like

slumped down onto a rock and is listening to all the debating at this point.

Yeah, we should use it.

He doesn't know what to do.

Like, he's been so sure for so long and just doesn't know what to do.

Going in feels so wrong to him, but he hears the logic

that it's only a matter matter of time before someone or something

a day from now a year from now six months from now

and just lets them figure it out because he's

took all his energy to make it to this point

I'm just afraid like a fucking sandworm could just explain

the fucking ball ball and like we're all about to die just for the record uh

strange sulfurous smell begins to come to the air This is what I mean.

Like,

an acidic kind of caustic chemical smell, and you turn back to the bubbling liquid that was once Ludinus's corpse.

It has seemingly disintegrated.

Were you able to loot the body before that happened?

You kept saying you're away the body.

Do we take anything?

I tried to destroy all of it.

15 sulfur.

Ira, what cutaway is that?

Got that?

You turn around.

Ira's not there anymore.

You

is the staff?

I'm going.

What's the

dissolves and goes away, but it was more like something from the abyss, right?

Like, was he a demon?

Wait, was that when

the Bertrand at the very, very beginning, and the dudes

that were were going after Burchan, didn't they have some like dissolve-y situations?

The boundary, the barriers that he passed through are unchanged.

And the other ones have not beyond have not been breached.

Okay.

Let's

orb unless it needs to be crashed against something hard, right?

Do it on my pecs.

And everyone is

all I can do is squeeze.

Everybody gets close.

15 feet.

And I just throw it at Brace's crush.

This should be done.

You shout in pain, and it's like...

Suddenly, in an instantaneous beat, time slows to an infinite point of stretch and then rapidly seems to jump through some.

It's like being pulled through a violent portal, but you're landing right back where you were.

And you feel somewhat refreshed.

You feel like some of your wounds have healed.

You feel like some of your exhaustion has faded.

Some of your awareness is rested.

And there's just left in your mouths the slight little taste of almost like a sweetness.

As this kind of smoke that has emerged and been left to dissipate from the inside of this shattered orb kind of like dissipates in the air around you, you all gain the benefits of a short rest and can spend hit dice to heal.

Do you automatically get half of our hit dice of healing for this?

You said?

Roll hit dice.

Well, no, no.

Any hit dice you've already used, you gain back, and then you can spend hit dice to heal if you'd like.

And then, just to ask, Matt, with Hunter's Vane,

did that disintegration seem like anything

demonic or make an arcana check

for each time you roll.

I had an advantage on.

You do?

You straighten it.

Yeah.

I would go like as far as you can.

You go and inspect the remains, and you have quite some experience with fiendish entities and things that delve in that space.

It doesn't seem to be fiendish in nature.

It doesn't seem to be tethered.

But

it does appear to be an intentional self-destruction of the remains.

Okay.

Meaning, there's no reason why this should have been done, given his means of destruction.

And unless he didn't want his body consumed, or it was an asset,

or unless, yeah, there was he had it kept alive and

yeah,

or there was something there that he didn't want to get into the wrong hand.

Yeah, I don't like it.

Oh, my hand die.

1d4.

plus 2.

I rolled four.

There you go.

Eight levels.

Great.

Okay.

And then I'm gonna

calculate here.

What slots to restore?

So if you roll a seven, it would be like one level seven spell or seven level ones, basically.

Okay.

Or a three a two yeah one and another one

okay good boy i still have no rages which is good

oh that's awesome i rolled a one wow three nines in a row so

this is the best part of the show right here yep sorry

if you get back any spells any level you just get back that many amount

like if you what did you roll i roll i rolled a one.

So you get five slots

worth spells.

So you can gain five first levels, or one fifth level, or a second and a third.

Whatever adds up to five.

Fuck.

Should we try to

try to suck that

staff?

That's dangerous.

No, I wouldn't do that.

Or I sure want to.

You want to?

Well, yeah.

I want to know how to hold on to it.

I'm going to use the vial to get

like my sorcery points.

I'm going to use sorcery points to recover spells as well, and then use the vial to gain the sorcery points back.

Okay.

There it is.

No way to get a rage.

Yeah.

That's a damn.

But you can maintain the rage that you have for as long as you'd like.

Oh, that's right, because I've got the...

Hold it until I drop it.

Not really.

Like, he could have been bringing it as a defensive measure against Pradathos.

Sure.

But even if it is, and you absorb it, you would have that innate ability.

But he also could have done that.

You didn't just sit there and how long does this seat just suck?

An hour?

You know, a minute?

Sparkling.

There's a reason why he would have sucked it down if he if it would have helped him already.

All right.

I'm gonna throw that D4.

Come on.

Roll high.

It's okay.

Mid.

Mid.

All right.

That's four.

Yeah.

We're making our content check.

Uh-oh.

Me?

Okay.

What do I do here?

Oh.

Oh.

My arcana is so bad.

You're an archaeologist.

Okay.

You just got a whole weird

pack of those, didn't you?

That's awesome.

I have a minus for arcana.

So roll out.

Guidance.

Guide yourself.

Guide yourself.

You're also within

yourself.

You can't even read your touch.

Guidance.

We have inspiration.

Artificial short rest.

Does that mean that you could have attuned to a weapon instantly?

Ten.

Did you get the benefits of a short rest?

No, probably not.

I would say no.

No, no.

Never mind.

Curious.

I'm going to bring back one metal here.

Only two plus

it.

I'm going to do it.

Yeah.

I'm just dumping a lot into it, but that's where my disintegrate is.

I will say

very low on first record.

No, the tent.

Does it look like old Arcanum tech, this staff, or does it look just like a very fancy elven?

It looks of elven make

for the most part.

It just has like the two kind of like forking points and kind of the lattice between it.

Two forking points.

Does it feel fae-ish at all?

It It doesn't necessarily feel fae.

Does it feel like attunement?

Like it's a tuning thing for a plane?

Did you already ask that?

Someone else would like to make an arcana chop on it.

I don't know if we're basically going to glean anything else from it.

What are we rolling our?

I can try.

I've got...

I'm not proficient or anything like that.

I'm proficient in Arcana.

What are we trying to go for?

The staff.

Figure out something about the staff.

Give it a look-see.

Yeah, do you want to assist me?

Yeah, and we can look at it together.

Yeah.

There's no inscription on, but there are arcane runes across it.

Oh.

Eyes of the Roomkeeper.

Oh.

Yeah.

Okay.

Glancing at the details of the staff,

it looks like

the basis behind the script upon it is...

Roll a conno for me to see if you can ascertain what the nature of it is.

Because you can read the runes, and they have a

guidance, and she's helping me.

So, and guidance.

And guidance, which is plus four.

I will see.

I will say it leans somewhere between transmutation and divination.

Interesting.

Okay, I rolled a 15 and 14.

Plus, so 15.

Ooh, that's good.

15, 18 plus 6, so 24.

24.

What you can learn looking at this beyond the enchantment, is there is a slight,

like a dullness to a handful of runes that sparked when she tried to identify it that have not recharged yet.

Meaning, you gather that whatever prevented you from identifying it

can only do that once every period of time.

Oh, so if you try again, it has a counterspell inside it, or something like that.

A brief try, a brief way of

masquerading itself.

Okay, okay, okay.

Anyone else want to hit it?

You want me to give it another go?

Reveal Reveal your secrets.

Well, I mean,

it's first level, but

worth it.

Forget it.

Yeah.

Worth it.

Alright.

If this thing's packed with spells.

If we did this at the beginning of the...

Or we're just using the two charges that has it.

Would this have been at the beginning of the?

Could we say we did this before the bubble so that we could attune to it during that short rest?

Because the short rest is the benefits of it.

It doesn't necessarily include spending time with the item to a tune got it yeah i was poking that oh wow wow yeah

she's identifying

man guys i have nothing not a lot of spells left for a nice fight it is a staff of soul bind relay

that has been expended

meaning it was meant to extend the range of some sort of spell

it it's meant to be a relay of some sort of enchantment that has something to do with the binding of a soul.

Oh my god, he still shot his soul into a clone somewhere.

Fucking motherfucker's still gotta go.

So now we know we have to go because he's gonna fucking get back into it.

That was fucking worth it.

That was fucking worth it.

That gives us answers.

Okay, motherfucker.

Before we go.

Delilah has fucking clones.

He definitely has to be.

Well,

should we destroy it so we can't know it's already been used.

It's already been, but it can't be used again, right?

Let's throw it in the bag of holding or something well

unless we want to see because what you intimated was that it had expelled the don't look at me correct quality not the soul shot i mean i don't know but that's not what dm said dm it's possible because it had it so far away from him when he died that he wasn't able to use it and just a reminder if it's if it's very rare uh the wearer's hit point maximum increases by five all attack rolls saving throws and ability checks have advantage until they complete a long rest or if it's legendary, one of the wearers' ability scores is permanently increased by two.

Depending on if we suck it up, as does your mission.

But it takes an hour to suck it up.

It's one minute for

an hour for a creature.

Oh.

Bodies don't just bubble into sulfur for no reason.

Yeah, but if you use this for soul binding,

you can have the benefit of it being super rare or legendary for whatever's going to happen.

Suck it up.

I think we should

do it right now.

Now, you've used it a few times today, too.

Yes.

We have.

Fuck it.

But I mean, this is the moment, right?

I mean, wait, do we need the harness for Perdathos?

Do we need the harness for Perdathos?

We don't know.

I don't know.

We didn't get the did we get the harness off of Ludinus before we turned into sulfur buckets?

He didn't have one.

Yes, he did.

He had it on when he was.

Would we have looted it off of him?

Where is it?

He would have taken it off when you guys had horse caged him.

But it would have put it in his pocket, right?

Or a bag of holding or something.

Does he have a bag of holding?

Which is gone.

Do we need it for Perdothos?

I mean, at night.

That's a lot of possessing and soul swapping, and there's a tool that's like a relay that allows you to do it at a distance.

Sounds useful.

I might need it for Perdathos.

How else do you get it inside your body?

Well, is it by telling him

to get on and maybe just have to bone him?

Maybe you got

this is my call.

You're made to be the vessel.

Let's put the staff in the bag of holding.

We'll keep the harness free just in case we need it, and we should go.

We should have a break.

What's like our roll app right now?

What do we have to not roll for this for the harness?

For the harness.

Make it break.

It's at 40%.

I think it's at 40% if you do it again.

Yeah.

Would we still get the,

as rules, as written, do we still get the benefit even if it breaks?

Or if it breaks?

We do, but then it's breakfast.

And then we roll for it.

Right.

But someone, we're like end of days here.

Someone Someone will get like

a ruitous porn

chugger not here.

We'll get a permanent stat bomb.

Once a creature gains a benefit from the ray, they cannot benefit from again until they complete a long rest.

If this item is used more than once within a 40-24-hour period, there's a cumulative 20% chance each initial.

40% chance that it would break after this use.

Okay.

Pretty high.

Chetney.

This could be our last chance to smoke that Fusaka.

Are you really gonna gonna get high before we go back for Deathos?

When would be a better time than now?

After.

After.

Fair.

Convincingly made.

What the fuck have you done to me?

I was fun once.

Oh, God.

Just to logic this out one more time.

Because I was also originally like, what if we need the, what if we need the cone, the sucky cone.

But Ludinus was using the sucky cone

to suck in

Liliana.

My mom to be

an insultant.

He didn't have it here when he was trying to get in.

Yeah.

And he didn't have.

Well, he would have put it up.

What was he doing?

Still, but what is he going to do?

Go in front of her daughters and then put it on?

Like, come on.

Does mom have any more insight than what we have?

She didn't.

She just knew that we'd be able to get through these gates.

Okay.

Wait.

But you still have me to see if he left it behind in the other room?

No, we figured he put it in a bag of holding or something.

It wasn't.

Should we suck up that thing into it?

You did not find a bag of holding on his body when you looted it, but he definitely placed it somewhere.

Should we run back to the fucking room where my mom is and see if he can't see?

Can you see invisibility or something?

For an hour.

If it's a signal, which I got up when we went in.

Maybe it's invisible.

We are killing time.

I do not like us to have, so if we're going to do this, let's do this right now.

Hey, can you run back to the ship?

Maybe you should chill.

Maybe you should smoke some Fusaka.

Calm your nerves a little bit.

Matt, would you say it's been an hour since we first went into the cavern where ludeness was put in the force cage?

I don't know.

It's been an hour.

I think from then, it's probably been about

all the conversation, rushing through, you guys recovering, looting all this stuff here.

It's pretty close to an hour.

Since I could run back and try and like 47 minutes.

47 minutes.

All right, I'll run back up the tunnel since I still have C invisibility up.

I haven't even gotten it.

I got 12 minutes before I'm a problem.

And just see if there was anything where the force cage was.

You do not.

I returned.

How's my mom?

Did you check on her?

I killed her.

Alright.

There's probably a little bit more.

Then I'm going to walk over to the fucking barrier.

Oh, it's time!

Let's do this shit.

Okay.

So you walk up to the next unbreached barrier.

Yeah.

And put my hands on it like I saw Ludinus doing.

You put your hands on it, and the minute you kind of put your hands forward, nothing seems to happen.

You kind of instinctually kind of let your consciousness expand slightly.

And you feel

a familiar presence from the other side meet your energy.

Like two hands reaching across a threshold.

And when

they join,

the boundary

gives, and you just kind of step through

I Look back at Ladna.

I think he's hitting on me

Should I be James

Step to the next one the next boundary

And once more you feel the consciousness of Perdathos

Reach out to meet yours on opposite sides of this

divine barricade.

And it's that little tether between the two of you that causes it to weaken and give way.

And you push through the next one.

Each boundary.

Yeah, yeah, you can come.

It's permeable, right?

It's not just you that's able to go through the body.

Well, it's just turning permeable like it was for Ludinus.

That's what I'm saying.

Is it going down?

I don't know.

Are you guys come with me?

Yeah, let's go.

I was holding on to your belt.

Each step, you all also traverse the boundary.

These

barricades, these kind of divine boundaries becoming permeable as

Ruodis Born leads you through them.

The fifth boundary gives way,

the final boundary gives way,

and that tether that you reached out to

to give you and your friends passage

remains.

Your handhold.

Strong.

You can't help but feel in your proximity.

It comes through, imagine into you.

And there's just a sense of belonging.

It's the strongest deja vu you've ever experienced in your life.

You know you've never been here, but you've always been working to get here.

And you can't help

but feel butterflies of excitement, but not quite sure why the logic conflicts with the instinct

and what you feel beyond.

That draws you both further in this tunnel.

Itself feels excited.

the rest of you watches you two friends here smile and look to each other

and you all begin to walk into

the widening

core

to this moon

A somewhat spherical, massive chamber where the walls themselves are all manner of crystalline

spikes and obelisks and natural structures built here at the center of the prime pillar.

What rock does exist here in places seems like it's been changed or twisted, altered

to resemble structures.

You see ruin and

things that have essence of temples or ancient reliefs, but they all look a bit melted or unfinished.

Like something

affected their form over time through dreams and they drift in and out of shape as they have.

Massive

columns of red rock, spires that reach up and around and in the center of this chamber you can see much like the last

massive, curved spires,

like the remnants of something detonating in the center of this room.

And in that flash, the room's given form, locked and frozen:

a crystal and red stone womb.

In the very center of this small chamber

is a soft,

teal

white

light

just a little light

floating or resting on something

it from near distance here you can't quite make out shape it's just kind of this unfocused

moat

You don't have enough depth at the entry point, which is quite a distance distance of 80 or so feet from it, to really see any sort of scope, but the two of you stand at the precipice of the entry point of this chamber.

How would you like to do?

Can I reach my mind out through it?

Is that you?

You're here.

The voice that was once muddled and deep and echoing and distant and...

It's almost childlike.

It has an innocence and a

sadness and an

excitement.

And it feels half awake.

The rest of you, as it responds to Imogen, you hear its voice in your minds too.

And the red, glowing tether of energy between the two of you is the brightest it's ever been.

And the faintest threads of it reach out to all of you.

And a very dense core of it goes towards this light, which now begins to take the form

of almost a small

child

with glowing life.

you came

Are we free to go?

We

caused a lot of trouble, you know.

I want to wake up.

A lot of people are scaring you.

I'm so hungry.

I want to wake up.

Did you talk to Ludnis?

He was the first to reach me.

What did he promise you?

He came to me in my dreams,

promised to set me free.

And now you are here.

And so I'm very

can you hear him now?

No,

I can only hear my

children.

How did you get here?

Flashes of images in your mind.

I was in too deep.

Flashes of heated rock,

of volcanic cataclysmic destruction.

Of seas boiling and mountains falling, and gods encircling, and titans pouncing

and being lost to darkness alone.

Shh, you pull out.

And you look at this light, and in those images, as you pull out this little light,

you

really grasp for the first time that this is

a shadow of its true self.

And who knows how expansive its true self could be.

Can we go?

What?

Do you want to go where

do you want to go where you came from?

Where did you come from?

I don't know.

More flashes through your minds.

Distant star scapes.

Cosmic clouds where stars are born and die.

Strange celestial towers of possibility.

Blackened clouds of nothing, even shape and thought,

and just

a vagrant need

to feed

it's like a child

reaching

to suckle what's near.

Those are the only

flashes of clear memory.

We want to help you,

But you'll hurt people.

That's what happened before,

isn't it?

I don't understand.

Inside check.

Inside check a god

high for me, 17.

Oh, do you believe that lies to a friend?

Happy 2025, everybody.

You don't want to hurt each other.

Oh,

I didn't even realize your shirt today.

Oh, wow.

That's a classic.

The fifth element is love.

Sleeveless.

I'm turning that haircut.

Listen.

These strands that

are connected to us that are like pulling us in do they do they feel like they have a like a substance in the room or does it just feel like an energy

light?

You focus on them and the color is different than the red tethers that hold them

the faintest of gold light through them

We we want to help you

but if we can't what will you you do?

I'll bring others.

I can

make

more

of my

kin.

The whole room

begins to quake and you feel the essence of Rudis begin to shift.

All the crystals begin to brighten.

The rock itself begins to brighten.

And you realize you are in the epicenter of a Ruidian flare.

The room becomes so bright, you all have to clasp your eyes closed for fear of going blind, and your eyelids do nothing.

It's like with me.

Your head burns, your consciousness burns.

And here, in a flash of moment, you have a thought that this might be the end

before it

the sentence to Rudisborn.

You both get

proximity of this

24 temporary hit points.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay.

Whoa.

Juicen.

Hey, when you do that, it kind of hurts.

It kind of feels good, though.

Not gonna lie.

It's a little

pleasure.

What are you doing?

Making more of you.

Oh

wow.

Yeah.

What do you what do you what do you

what are you making more for?

To come find me.

We're here.

We found you.

Can we go?

What does that pull feel like in here?

Does it feel like

I want to

step forward and embrace?

That's the closest way you could possibly

conceive what that means.

It's odd.

All of these feelings are both as natural as any impulse you've had through your life.

An instinct that feels so primal and yet

alien.

The light

steps closer.

I just instinctually kind of look over my shoulder and out through the passage that we came.

You see anything?

No.

I'm going to mirror that step.

We're in the room with something that ate the gods, and I want to get closer.

I'm gonna walk towards the form.

Okay,

slowly, hand up.

If I hold my hand out, is there any mirroring of that gesture from this entity?

You notice it stepping towards Fernand Imogen.

Do you want to step to intervene?

No.

I will acknowledge that it's not clocking me.

Morrim does, though.

It's very childlike, right?

You intervene?

I do.

It's.

It moves forward.

And you watch as it steps closer, like the glow, you can make out a little more of its shape.

And it looks

kind of humanoid.

Its limbs

long and thin.

Its head has a crest.

You've...

You make the connection that the Rhylorans are definitively the physical children born in the image of what this

Pradathos entity is.

As you see the

almost gray alien-like thin small body just kind of drift.

It steps, but the step is the mimicking of a shape that it's trying to read off of you as its feet don't really touch the ground.

Its head crest is wide.

And it seems to almost grow larger as it approaches with each mimicked

pulse forward as you intervene.

My small size.

Wait.

I'm afraid

of

the trouble

and the pain

that you leaving here might bring.

Would you leave?

You came from somewhere else.

You could go again.

But I must stay.

We can get you food.

Do you know what you're hungry for?

More images crash through your brain.

You see visions of imagery.

Imagery that begins to glow in the various twisted pieces of the structures that you see formed out of this chamber as they kind of twist and move.

The actual interior of this room almost mimicking these flashes of memory.

Temples, symbols.

You see images of a star-headed gold-armored entity.

You see the flicker of the moon weavers flowing silks through the air and in each of these flashes you feel

a burst of that hunger.

In each of these entities there is a spark of divine light that burns

a color that doesn't exist in language to express

and as you come out of it

this entity

just smiles through its

odd sharpened mouth

we also then

some of some of those

are friends of ours

would you

would you hold off on

would you do us a favor and spare some of them?

I need to eat.

As Breya said that

Ladna is just gonna reach down and kind of

run her fingers

along the outline of the Matron of Raven

masks.

Oh, geez, that's right.

God, we still have that on her belt.

Do I get any type of feeling?

Yeah, it just feels cold in your grasp.

We're in my goddamn p zone.

Searching for something sort of

tactile in all these images, I'm gonna

just slowly

nick the tip of my finger with my own knife

to just a tiny little bead of blood forms on my thumb

and I'm just going to

touch it to the thread that's pulling me toward her

and see if

anything happens

you touch your thumb to it as you do that little kind of golden thread just kind of flashes in proximity.

And you recall at this moment these faint little threads are very similar to the ones you saw woven through the Matron of Ravens domain.

The threads of fate that bind all of you themselves.

Now quite visible in the presence of an entity that is the antithesis of divinity.

Are you alone here?

Not anymore.

Weren't there like two other gods or something that disappeared?

Ate them, that's what we were just saying.

Yeah, but if we ate them, what if they

retained the abilities after we ate them, like Ludinus retained the gifts of all the things he's been absorbing?

What if Ludinus took inspiration from Pradathos and created a harness so that he could take in the gifts of magical and arcane creatures, like Perdathos did with the deities, that it ate maybe even the former god of death.

Oh, wow.

But we just ate them.

No, Matron said that the former.

Oh,

no, Matron said the former god of death she set free.

Perdathos didn't get that god.

You believe her?

Yeah.

I have.

Yeah.

yeah, I don't know it's

it's a vacuum it's nothing I don't know

remember

it starts to nothing continue to move around you or him to head towards the two of them

what do I do do I put this fucking mask on do I do it now do I do it later

we don't even know what it does we don't know what it does what is later it was just weird

do you continue to intervene or do you let it circumvent you that's That's serious.

I mean, he's not so reckless that he's gonna like throw himself at it, but I am

for a moment at least will

walk alongside and try to stay between

Image Infern and it.

I'll mirror too, but I will try to intervene.

Okay.

Okay, so it mirrors you, continues to move, kind of cocks its head curiously at you,

and you go to intervene.

Slow down.

Can we go?

I step forward.

What would you have us do?

Wake me.

And it takes another step towards free.

Hold on just a second.

Can you intervene?

Yeah, I'll even put a hand out if I have to.

Okay.

Make a strength saving throw real fast.

I still have advantage.

16.

16.

You put your hand out and you watch as Chetney

gets shunted off in an incredible speed

into a pile of rubble and rock by.

It just nudges you aside.

Hey!

You take

eight points of bludgeoning damage.

Okay, okay.

Okay.

And just doesn't it doesn't even bother with you.

That's our friend.

You can't do that.

It doesn't seem to raise us.

Can we

go?

I'm gonna hold your hand, Vern.

Listen, listen, listen.

We have a choice here to let you go.

Oh, no.

Go.

Don't let it touch you.

No.

Wait.

So,

you feel that tether reaching between the two of you.

Do you allow it, or do you resist it?

Game on.

This is a choice for both of you.

I know what I want to do.

I don't know until you say something.

I don't see another way out of this, y'all.

We could fight it.

Yeah, exactly.

We could fight it.

Well,

the only way we can probably fight it if it's inside of you, too, right?

Start taking up you.

I mean, I'm sorry.

I trust you.

Both.

Implicitly.

I'm gonna hold your hand and I'm gonna reach out.

What are you doing, Fernie?

You allow it?

Yes?

As you all acknowledge this moment, you watch as the light accelerates

and

just seems to be a little bit more.

I'm thinking about it.

It only needed one of you to explore.

No, no, no, no, no.

I'm not gonna do that.

I'm not gonna do that to her.

You feel this

churning?

It's like a storm inside you.

It's overwhelming.

The tunnel begins to shift.

The vertigo overtakes you, and your friends become faceless shadows.

The room itself seems to twist and bend, becomes an enclosed space of nothing, and then expands.

But you fall backward, but you're still standing and you're spinning.

You're spinning.

The rest of you watch

as Imogen begins to rise.

The crystals clusters in the round,

crack, and shift.

kind of drifting in the air

and you can see like her skin now her body taking

this deep red crimson scale form her limbs begin to extend and shift you see her eyes glowing bright where those veins of lightning were they now are where this crimson begins to spread throughout.

You feel Perdathos begin to

overtake you.

Can I fight that?

Do you wish to fight?

Can I try to suppress it?

Yeah.

Make a wisdom decision.

Come on.

You've got advantage because a hero's beast.

That's true.

It's like Fuchi the dog just skateboarded in.

And

I have an inspiration from somebody.

No, I don't.

Do you like it?

Would it only last for 10 minutes?

So

I think that was from me.

Dow, that sucks.

DC's probably like 10.

Probably.

It's fake.

12.

12?

I have a lot of things.

That's probably really low.

It's a charisma save.

I can help, but it's a wisdom save, and I suck it.

Can I try to assist and try to resist as well?

Like, feeling that she's trying to resist.

Wisdom is so high that

it's good for you to do.

In this particular instance,

the choice has been made for the vessel.

Okay.

The tether's still there.

I thought I was going to get it together.

But are you

resisting it coming into her?

That moment has passed.

What are you trying to do, Fern?

I am trying

to keep

my connection and my threat to Imogen, me, Fern,

so that she remembers

who she is, who we are,

and goes towards that and remembers that.

Okay.

You go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw for me.

Advantage because of your husband's morning.

As this

genuinely horrifying transformation of Imogen begins to swell and expand.

These shards of crystal that kind of floated in the air begin to shh

affix themselves amongst her body like

clusters of spiked armor that pulse with psychic energy.

Oh, that's cool.

The bolts of lavender powered

Imogen.

Chucking through her hair, imagine

You feel yourself begin to disappear into that shadow.

And for a brief moment, you forget who you are and what you're doing.

And in the middle of that shadow, you see a point of red light and you hear Fern call out, Imogen!

And that's where Nan.

Great.

Now we have to wait till 2026 for

Phoenix.

Jesus, a whole whole year.

That's how we do it.

That's how we do it.

It's one year.

Wow.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

We'll hop into that next time.

I don't know.

I don't know what I thought was going to happen there.

Well, if you didn't go into it, it was going to probably force you to save it.

Save the Per CR cooldowns.

Yeah.

I'll be there.

All right, friends.

We'll pick up from there next time.

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