C3 E118 The Hallowed Cage

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And welcome back.

So, last we left off.

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

head towards the depths of Ruidis,

trying to follow the footprints and current aspirations of the Ruby Vanguard and Ludinus Dileth.

After discovering through a vision that your mother was seemingly captured by Ludinus and being transferred, her abilities and possibly her physical being being transferred and destroyed into Ludinus through a newly constructed quintessence array.

You raced through the subterranean tunnels, befriended a number of the mycetes and the strange fungal culture that exists within the lower layers of Rudis itself, interfaced with the core of that mycelium network and the

kind of hive mind of the mycete culture,

which you also granted the seed of the all-minds burn to whatever end that might be.

Trekking further on,

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.

There,

you came upon a troop of exultant 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 you then quickly sprang into action defeating and

dispelling and disrupting the concentration of these exultants until one by one they fell with the last one crumbling the shield was absolved and destroyed 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. Let's go!

Sorry, sir.

In this moment,

here within the outer layers of the prime pillar,

Ludinus seems to nod with a 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 Liliana's exultant ruidous born gift being transferred albeit temporarily

to

martinette luteness deleth

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, Ludinus 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 right down here above us yeah can I try and just not draw his eye and go explore that tunnel while he chats sure go make a stealth check for me if you don't mind.

Uh 16, 28. 28.

Okay.

Everyone's kind of

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

You kind of quietly 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 moment.

I also have a question. Yes.

He's got the miniature at least is holding

a staff.

He has a staff.

Has he always had that? Yeah. What's that look like?

It is 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, but context

and contact. 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 laugh?

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.

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.
Juicy is like.

I mean, I had no reason to doubt 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, 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 you can lie by omission. I think he lied when he said he didn't want to take Berdathos 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 her breath.

Leliona 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 job, Lulux.

Yeah, you're an altruist.

So, is this the plan? Gonna make a beeline for the core,

see who gets first. Little bit of a race.

I love races. You don't have to work anymore.

You can set 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 lunis

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 lockstep.

Then again,

your bloodline is already proven duplicitous.

Why should I even 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

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?

You might be surprised. They do answer sometimes.

Sometimes.

My family,

once long followed the path of the law-bearer.

My mother and father, the 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 law bearer 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 smouldering ruin, they rocked.

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...

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. Good time.

But did you get to say goodbye?

Of course not.

Inside check.

Make an inside check.

Do I believe him?

Fifteen. Fifteen?

Oh!

He's a 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? It could go up to a seven, depending on what happens.

Look at a rating system.

His villain mind.

I hate this.

Pretty frenzied.

I'm... No, no, no, no, what'd you mark? Nothing.

Yeah,

this is how they 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 Petersbark.

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 being a genie though

I don't know

what God I would be so

I would just like give anybody what they want

when I want it

so clearly I'd make a job

the trade god wouldn't 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 it would. No, I mean, we could have a chance.
I don't know. It could go either way.
It could go either way with this one. And why are you here?

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.

I'm here because

I'm very curious.

And

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

That 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.

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 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.

And you're heading here.

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, but

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 this. I'm 90% sure.
No.

I don't know if that's accurate.

No, I'm.

Am I a villain?

Pretty messy.

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

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...

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?

I feel like he's stalling. Let's look around a little bit.

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Meanwhile,

she was a show girl.

Meanwhile, Chetney,

you've kind of moved through this other, maybe at times 10 foot wide, at times maybe only six foot wide, sometimes a little wider, this kind of zigzagging kind of crevasse where part of the glass is kind of split up the top and kind of leads to this

strangely like arcing point at the top, this kind of glass cavern with bits of rock that break through and it transitions into more stone with like the waves of glass coming, these kind of odd marbled striations of the sedimentary layers, essentially of ruitus moving inward, deeper into the pillar.

You've been following this for quite a bit, and it opens up into a smaller sub-chamber that then has nowhere other real exit other than across the way where it kind of splinters off into another path.

like some sort of ancient exhaust or something pushed through here to create this opening that still remains.

But about now, you come into one kind of larger,

I want to say, almost triangular chamber that kind of opens up from where you are outward and then comes to a large glass wall deeper in the pillar.

In this space, you can see like bits of rock jutting up from it and other glass pillars that kind of hit from the ceiling to floor.

But where the glass is, the

broken kind of opening that leads deep within

is

obscured with multiple layers of barely visible

golden geometry

like lattice patterns of some sort of extremely detailed glyph-like barrier multitudes of layers of it sitting densely one beneath the next

big red button you guys

jump in.

Okay, um.

First of all, while we've been walking, has there been any sort of tracks on the ground? Does this seem like treaded ground? Make an investigation check for it. Investigation or survival, your choice.

So excited by that. Dirty 20.
Dirty 20.

Best you can tell,

none. Okay.
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 subwoofer 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

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

I should be a team player. I should go back and tell the others.

It's the only that could die young.

But I'm that guy. I'm Nikki going into the room.

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

make an investigation check for

mine

check for traps

uh 21 21

you do not see any traps you do not see any laid glyphs you don't see any

like

wires or lines

um it's just this kind of open stretch of this this chamber that eventually comes to this opening with the boundaries there from 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 work, can I stone, skip, like wing it like a frisbee

into the wall? Yeah, go ahead and make an athletic check together. Did Chet 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 17. This one's already in Glaf.

26.

You chuck it, it kind of

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 hit 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 a...

an endless fractal of woven glyph-like detail that 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 an kind of an illusion boundary around Rubatus

this has some semblance to the 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 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.

Yep, but no, I've been running for a while. I'm gonna turn around, grab the staff, and start heading back up the walkway to where the rest of the world is.
Okay. While you're heading back,

I'm turning to the chamber.

Oh, yeah, you were

asking me.

That was just the perfect segue.

It's also true. Yeah.
Can I, in my mom's head, while Ludinus is monologuing,

ask her,

Do you know

sorry,

I didn't think it was gonna do that,

yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know that was gonna be

do you know how

Ludinus planned on you getting through

on you becoming the vessel?

We hadn't gotten this far before, but 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 Ruotus Born.

To come back to this home and

usher it beyond its cage.

Okay.

Ludiness is kind of looking over your troop a bit as you wander off and you're all kind of still flaring 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 step to 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 force rate? Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go.

16 move. Oh, that's it.
You all watch. 16.
I know. Ludeness Dileth kind of like sighs, watching Imogen vanish and kind of like

his hair begins to float up. The energy in his body 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 on the first try.
We just have it.

Done that short rest ball. Could I, yes, as I get to the cavern, could I turn around and use

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.

And 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 spellcraft 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.

Being 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 the kind of early entrance to the tunnel that you would come through, right running in your direction. The rest of you kind of give into a quick run behind her.
Oh, hey, I was.

There's a whole lattice work thing out there. Yeah, I'm going.
Just go, go, go. What do you mean, go? Where's Ludeness?

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

By the time, like, you're almost 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. they just made himself uh orum falls in around imogen and i'm looking for him uh is there any

place in this chamber that he could be well you're not in the chamber yet you're kind of trekking trekking through the tunnel on transit so i'll save him

all right

i don't know i i they just left

i'm off somewhere else what are you doing what are you doing well i was gonna sit down and pray but well sorry everybody just left and i don't know that they did Well,

for instance,

we'd make a roll is still there. Here's what we'll do.
Because you said off, you said you're gonna have to pray, and then everyone else is talking for a bit before this happens.

Yeah, 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 gonna take out my paints,

my poison paints, and I was gonna just quickly splatter a symbol on the rock

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 of the end of my mission.

I need guidance.

I need renewed faith. I need

And I need to speak with you. Okay.

My lord. No!

You're making a click call! Who's your lord? Witch lord, witchlord! Witch lord! Witch lord! Witch lord! So in a little timey-whymy 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.

What? No. Punzies.

Did you know you were going to do that? You know you were going to kick that off? All right. Wait.

We're out. I'm leaving.
Wait,

wait, wait.

Oh, shit.

What did you do?

Okay.

Just step out into the kitchen.

Don't listen. If he says to kill us all,

don't listen to him. Oh, boy.
I wish I had a a rat right now. I'm going to ask you in a second who specifically you're praying to.
Sure.

I was just going to say.

All right.

All right, they left the room.

Reyes.

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 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 i kneel um and lower my head uh 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, Ludinus Deleth,

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.

Udinis 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. Oh, okay.

If you cannot do this,

Then perhaps

no no I 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

I thought my life was over and

you were there.

You sent a guide

to guide me, 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

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

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, Braith?

I'm in no position to ask you

for anything, my lord.

You're in every position to ask, Breyus.

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, Doom Seed?

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 to where you dwell and and and and and sit with sweet sweet Breyes 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 lewdness, but do not free Pradathos.

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, Breyus.

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

How will I be strong enough to betray them?

Patience

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 are back inside the chamber with your hand on 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.

Then 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?

We're coming. There they are.

Nice jacket.

Are you alive?

I'm like you now.

Bray has got turned into an old geezer.

I got withered.

I liked it.

Oh, no, are you? Nobody believed it.

Robbie, what? Is that yours? Oh, I'm good. Thank you so much.
It is, but I'm switched beverages.

Okay, I'll take them both. Now I got two.
Yeah, you got two, man. Did you open a gate to hell? Sure.
We were strategizing out there. We used the time-wise in no way talking about the fault.

That was the most base combos. It was one of our

foul or combinations. It was really both owl.

Orgasmic therapy.

Huh? Well, damn, we were in the wrong game.

Man, 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. I actually hadn't taken off yet.
Okay, seriously. I think I would turn around

and see what Breyus

tried to gather Breus before we all run. Okay, yeah, you kind of step up, and Breyus places his hand on the rock, and

it's just kind of standing there for a second.

Breus, 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 he 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? Well, people.
Oh, they went running off, I think, to fight Ludenist. Oh, God.
Okay.

So we should go. Yes, yes, yes.

Let's go.

Okay.

So the rest rest of you. Frescoes.

That's what we're talking about. Thank God.
Frescoes? Yes.

People paint on rock.

Well, that's good. Thank you.
The rest of you go

rushing to the entryway to this long chamber, this kind of triangular-shaped chamber,

amongst the various kind of curved rock.

points and pillars that rise up, the columns of glass across the way, you can see what Chetni 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 fucking what's the range on psychic lance? 120 feet. Okay, so you step in within 120 feet.

Can I do it? How soon would I be able to see it?

You guys all step into the chamber. It's he's probably like 140 feet from where you first step in there.
Oh, okay.

So you like move in, and right as soon as you get in range, you can try him with a single. Also, there is a C-pop exclusive limited edition, one of four on the ground.

He has to make a DC wisdom saving throw.

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 worthy shot.
Leave it on the floor. It's not yours.

But it was worth the shot. That was awesome.
He's too cool. 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.

I would like to cast Earthbind on him.

Sure. Okay, we'll be

do the order of operations here.

Earthbind. Yeah, I rang 300 feet.
We 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 zivalita, as soon as you rush in and the casters have an immediate reaction to go ahead and start. Stop! Alright, so you cast Earthbind.

Seen a strength-saving throw.

That's going to be a 16. 19.
Alright.

So his fly speed was reduced to zero for the spell's duration. So he forgot.

Oh, it's on that flies. God dang.

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 arcanom 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, no, 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 barrier cool sorry man

but

we just gotta 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

for mine i'm gonna 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 enter the chamber.

So he would be, so you could move to 110 to 80 on a dash in a move.

So you're halfway across the chamber.

So you moved 60 feet

at that point. That's where we're easy.
Alright, so you've closed, you're 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 it's okay he's not going anywhere

I take care of it imagine are you are you moving further in the chamber after catching I'm running like I'm shooting it okay just keep dashing so so so note these numbers you are

60 feet into the chamber okay 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 you're 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

doing that and diving underground as we go. Yeah, it's possible.
It's on works?

This in here,

you

can 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

chitney. Yeah.

I'm just trying to stay close to the furthest person, which is Orm. 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 the break. Oh, and I will set

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

So, yeah, we've had some late breaks. Now, some early breaks.
We have an early break. We'll be here in a few minutes to see where this takes us.
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And welcome back. Concluding the team, come back to the table, and we can go ahead and jump into this chaos here.

It's Christmas!

Whoa, whoa.

Whoa! How does the ground look like that? The miniature has changed.

The miniature has changed. Wait, wait, is that actually? Wait, he already changed? He already changed? Yeah, he's wait, who changed? Is that me? Luda? No.
No, is that him wig boy? No. That's Luda.

Luda as the exalt.

No!

You're son of a bad chicken!

Bitch Cap, nodding! He's pounding! He is

like floating an inch off the ground. I don't go anywhere, you guys.

Oh my gosh. Look at Ashton's mini.
What the fuck?

I went, I powered up. So wait, does that mean there's four?

One, two, three. Have you never seen my favourite? Are there all that many layers of wards we have to

never mind? We can't know this yet, can we? There are

multiple wards through the hallowed cage.

Oh man. This is going to be easy.
Wait, is the ground flickering? Yeah, the ground is changing. It's the go-bo hitting the go-bo hitting Mr.
Magic's magic!

The

These parts are so

he's got an extra card in his red jacket.

It's a string. You can see the string.

Well, friends,

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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.
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on.

Maybe also 7 and 13 and a half.

Braus Lodna. Rolling.

There's three 16s at the time. Who's the way? Who's all 16?

Let's go.

One, two, three.

18. 5.
1. Get it out.
Get it out now. Alright, so Ashon.
Ashton. Ash.
No, Brace Lodna. No, Ashton.
Yeah, Breus Lodna Ash.

Okay, Breas Lodna Ash. Oh, that ruins my whole page.
Dorian. Uh-huh.
Imogen,

me,

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, Braus, Lodna, Ashton, Dorian,

Imogen, Fern,

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

Ludiness now focused on the first boundary barrier right there

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 run 30 feet forward. Okay.

What was I avoiding? A rock there? I can't step on the blue. Is that the one? You can step on the blue.
Do you want to? Okay. I was just moving him 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. 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. We'll just try to grab it.
So try and grab it and pull it with

the psychic power that is emanating from

the recently temporarily exaltant Ludinus Galeth is going to attempt to hold it in place. Mama had a lot of spells.
So

we're going to competitively roll off.

Okay.

Or is it a saving trove, isn't it? So it's a save. I don't have a

spell. Well, no, in this one, it would be a

the sword lists a spell save DC of 17. Okay, 17.
So I'll go ahead and roll

and add his spell casting modifier and try and get it.

This modifier is like 7 p.m.

That's going to fail. Whoa! So the staff,

you pull it back into your hand.

I know, no, what? You can't do math? I was about to say, most complicated one. Yeah, it's done.
Well, dog has caught the car. Currently,

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 run up to protector!

All right,

15 feet together. 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

move

and come back out. Okay, sure, no worries.

I will step in front of Oram. 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 of my 40 did I use to get in front of Auram? Do I have 10? There 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 the leg.

Awesome. And for my attack, I will.
Fuck it! I'm gonna cast a shatter

towards lewdness with

constitution saving throw?

It is, as soon as I pull it up,

I'm sure it's something really high, like a

constitution must make a constitution saving throw.

Okay. Of what?

The DC should be on the weapon. It really should.

Oh, wait. Constitution 14.

25.

It takes half damage, so you can go ahead and roll damage on that. 3D.

Sword got it. 48 now.
Oh, it's so powerful.

15 feet on this thing.

14. What? Pass down a member of 15 feet and see if we can seven.

23. So 29 points of thunder damage.
Reduced to half. To half.

So that'd be 14. Yes.

Alright.

Oh,

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 like echo, and you hear the sound of the blast of this arcane detonation kind of echo down the hall behind where you came from.

Ludinus 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.

All right, finishing Chetnisco. It is now Ludinus' turn.
Ah, fuck that.

So, Ludinus, who is facing the edge of this, is going to

turn around.

Come on, baby.

Let's go.

We really could have worked together. But for now, just watch.
And he snaps his fingers. No.

And as 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 a while.

And he goes,

no, not within reach.

Even the voids of old are still hungry. And is he? 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 geometry. He casts a ninth level ravenous void.

Did you say night? What is it?

What is a ravenous void?

You watch as a

mama!

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.

Let's go, Orman, I got this, you guys.

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 middle of the face? Wait, he's after. Wait, he's after Chad? Wait, nothing happens to him? Nothing has fears him.

It opens up in that space. Oh my god.
And all of you feel like just this extreme gravity begin pulling you towards it.

And he turns back around and starts like putting his energy back towards the chamber there. He's also going to like 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 added to his former ability.

That's gonna 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 change.

I knew it. I knew it.

I can't beat this.

No, I'm not going to beat it either. How with that attitude, you undip it? 22.
22, just says.

You feel the gravity pulling you in and you hunker down. Oh, hi.

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

100 feet? The map.

Yeah. The whole map.
Well,

sucked into this fox. It's going to be

about up to

here.

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

Yeah. This is not many golf lands.
Oh, that'd be fine. That's a really nice.
Max Abraus, you are.

You can still take your turn. You're not moved or anywhere.
You basically hunkered down, but your movement is halved while you're within the radius of the spear.

Save me. Oh, this is fucking bogged.

Okay.

I'm making a feeling of y'all.

Look how fucking happy you are.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Am I within 101?

Am I within 120 feet of him? Yeah.

No, I was within 120

where I wa, right? Before you walked in. So

you are,

let's see here. You're just going along.

Yeah.

85.

You are about 135 feet from him. Okay.

You can move up. You can get there.
You can get 130.

130. Okay.
Brutus born 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 move.

Yes.

First, first.

Yes.

Bonus action

inspiration.

You've got this. Oh, shit.
You've got this dead one. My image is strength.

I know it.

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

Bringing me within 120 feet of Ludinus. 10.

I will cast

silence

around Lewinus. Okay.

In case he has any verbal components of spells, right? Maybe that will take some away.

That's silence. Silence.
He's going to go ahead and counter spell.

He can't. He's far too far away.
With spell sniper, it doubles the range. Oh,

this isn't it.

So, so

not, not with.

You try to beat an attack spell. Not with.

Let me see. Not with counterspell.
I don't have spell spells.

I do. Unless the base.
Because my counterspell, I also have spell sniper, is 60 feet.

But he's also lutinous. But he's also ludinous.

Which means he may have a feet that already doubles his. Well, we'll see.

I mean,

teleport is not an attack spell, and we all know. Oh, my God, we're getting has a book.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But look what a pretty book it is.

This is a pretty one.

Scanlan counter spell teleport. That's not an attack spell.
No, no, no, no. But counter spell isn't an attack spell.

I think the spell sniper only

from the sniping. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because spell sniper, you know. He wants to dash for it.
That's for it.

Also, whatever, man. It's ludiness.
So, whatever. I know, but I just want to clarify.

Wow, that's crunchy rule. I thought it was

come up and

one when Scanlad 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.

The book and the phone. Yeah, 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, I, okay.

I remember.

Here's your inspiration.

Okay.

Seeing that allowed.

Did I just piss off the DM? No. Should I just let this go? I'll make it a little adjustment.
No, it's good.

You're going to kill us fast. The DM.

Your healthy. Yeah.
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.

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.

All Alright.

Finishing Breyus's go. Laudeno, you're up.
Ashley. Blanet, make a strength-saving throw for me.

Well, actually, you start your turn within the radius of the sphere. So first, you immediately take 5d10 force damage.
Wait, did I take? I didn't take that. You were not the radius.

She's in it. She's right over 5d10.

You take 22 points of force damage and make a strength saving throw for me. Hold on, Raider.

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 of that. Oh, what's up? So, 11.

So, I would have taken 11 damage. Correct.

And that's force damage, you said? Force damage, yes. Wow, wow.

Okay, and now I now want a strength saving throw. Yes, but anyone within five feet of me has plus four to their saving throws.

Whoa,

so it's a plus two.

Roll a high base. 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 surely do. I just realized it's Google's AI that, once again, absolutely wrong.
Fuck AI.

Always wrong. So does he counter spell it? No, he does not.
Okay.

15.

15 families. Wait, with the inspiration? Oh, well,

within within. 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.

If you're 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 this time.
Well, he just said you have inspiration, so I rolled it. No, don't you

use it?

I'm not going to be able to use it in the abyssal void.

It's absolutely mathematically impossible. Vladna is pulled into the center of the void and is restrained.

Do we see her?

Is she gone? 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, Miss Buggy. It's

hard to see

for sure.

Doing the McConaughey conception. 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 darkened shadow sphere, and as she gets

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

it. You still take your turn.

I can still take my turn.

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

This is magical darkness. That's right.
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 wall. Towards the wall? Oh.
I want to.

One.

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

Okay.

Seven.

Um.

What?

It's a 20-foot radio square. Yes, 2007,

it's a bubbly.

Okay.

Form of Dren. 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.

don't think. Charles will get sucked under the bubble.

Okay, okay. But mind you, you can take an action to make a strength check against the DC to break free.
That's what your action's. 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 I'm rolling 20.
That's a longer DC. Why weren't you listening in 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 their action to try and get strength.

You're so far away from

that.

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? You want to put 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 the Elch Blast, huh? Yes. The Elge Blast? Elch 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,

it's cocked.

That's going to be 21 to hit. Misses.

Come on.

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay.

29 to hit.

That hit.

Nice.

Let's go. Sucked this out.

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 yeah, 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 and it's like

who has an encyclopedia? What did you just say?

Assist?

Have you ever seen if I needed to? If I could with an encyclopedia, can I empower this with a big book? No, because this isn't your action.

Okay,

it's

gross. 11, 12, 12.
Then it comes back like a year later. 15 plus straight

Uh

15, 25, 26 damage. Necrotic damage on top of that 7.

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

Yes.

I can't take cash.

So.

So my phone is here. 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

a weird arcane smoke drifts in the back of his neck, and he like,

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

Let me see if he maintains concentration. Get some advantage on this.

That is going to be, yeah, I think that's that's more than enough. Oh, fuck.

So those were

two,

right?

Three. That's three.
Those are three? Yeah. That's right.
There's only one S3. You're right.
Alright. So that's your action.

Bonus action form of dread. I

look real creepy in the dark. And I look really creepy, and it's like it's spaghettified.
So that's true. It's like

a dark. 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 Lodna is currently sitting, there's like this black, crushing singularity.
Okay.

That finishes your turn. Yeah, man.
Ashton,

start your turn. Make a strength save your turn.

Okay. Can't even bamp out of this.
Strength save.

Come on, don't suck on me.

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, yet as a failure, you

get back onto the center block. Cool.
There, you are restrained, and you take five. I'm not restrained, I believe, actually.
Hold on.

Did you take

it?

25 points of force damage. That's fine, one second.
You're not going to take it.

No, I'm restrained. It's not prone or grapple.
Okay. But so as his action on his turn,

can he throw Lauden 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 her 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, no, because

she is helping me in action because she's held.

But I can break her and leave myself in there.

You can.

Okay.

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

what I don't want

what I don't want to have happen is he tosses my hands out and then next room I get stuck talking again

I don't want us to have us like waste all right here we got us fucked up what do we got hey

fuck yes he's rolling that concentration chair so

um I am

still stuck in here I'm going full rainbow sparkle I'm

surrounded by all sorts of crazy ass uh crazy ass uh sparks coming off. We can't see it, but yeah.
No, you can. It's like this, like a weird, sad thing.
Your light gets sucked into black holes.

I know.

Debatable.

Okay, so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to try and

is it worth ungrapping you or ungrappling me first? I'm trying to figure that out. I'm going to ungrapple you.

So that's a strength check.

If I recall,

strength check to ungrapple her to get her out of the

saving power or just regular.

No, this is a strength check.

Okay, so I have advantage on strength checks. 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

strength check.

16

shales, unfortunately. 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.

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.

Whale?

Oh, boy. Movie.
Oh, boy.

You know what?

Form a colony of a life raft of ants.

Yes, there's float on the water.

Hold on. Dorian,

you take six.

23 points of force damage. Cool.

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

reduced. I can go in there for you guys.
No, you are restrained.

I mean,

what does your god tell you to do, bro?

Boy,

everything's going according,

yeah. Anyone want to get us the fuck out of here? That'd be great.
Oh, boy.

All right.

So, in the thick of it, restrained 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 Laude now? Where are we like, since this is a single there? You all got shit.

I'm gonna just, if I can't. I'm touching her.
I guess technically I'm touching her shoulder to shoulder. She's gonna go.
Elbows in my tent. This cap sucks.
You wanna get out of here? Yes, please.

I'm gonna cast Dimension Door. Okay, where are you going? Come on, baby.
Let's go. Let's go.

Is it just two of you like you? I can't get in on that.

And it's better. He has one of these teams.
That's why I asked why if you were,

well, that's because of you. They'll let me know if you're a bigan or not.
I'm all good.

Yeah.

Beep's whip, out of trouble.

Up, up and away. I got 500 feet.

Can you put us on

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.

Okay. Oh, okay.
Neither of you are restrained now. That's nice.
Out of that 20 foot out 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 one's a good one.
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 short. Yeah,

right, straight.

out of his range, but inside of ours. So maybe like around here, you think, right? Yeah.
On those other rocks. What check did you do? Yeah, on the eye go that way? Perception?

If you're on like the lowest step, you'd still have eyes. Perception check.

Perception check is not great.

Okay. 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 get it? Do you want to do like right around here? Yeah, I mean, that's a similar angle of what I was looking at. Like, 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 the side.

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 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 fucking cool. Wow.

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're not within the gravitational pull.

Save for now.

You saved us. Ah, no.
Save the day again. We saved us.

You look great, by the way. Inspiration.
Oh,

no.

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

So it's your action, you still have your movement. Use your bonus.
Uh, that's my bonus. Oh, no, uh

no, no, thank you. No, thank you, sir.
I'd like to stay behind that pillar. I'm good to go.
Alright. Yeah.

At the end of your turn.

Let's see here. You're done.
Grappled. I can't be grappled, but I can be restrained.
Okay. Silence within an.

Oh, God. Who put silence with me? Alright, dude.

Schmatt.

Okay, so Ludinus, who,

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

So he does not need to speak to cast spells.

And in his turn, he's 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 do that at myself. Yes, has

closer. I can fly.

He's going to cast

a magic ball.

Yeah, so we can go ahead and cast lightning bolt at six level. Oh, we're in a line.

Oh, I trap. Roll a d6 for me, please.
But why? Just roll a d6.

Just do it. Cough.

Four. Four.

Can't hear you.

I'm sorry, I can't.

He does lose some spell levels when you hit him there. So I'm just keeping taps on that.
Oh,

hitting the wound. Oh, don't.
Hit the cyst. Good to see you.

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 clutched in.

I mean, you did call it a race, didn't you? And looks, glances 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 Auram and Chetney to make dexterity statement curves for me.

No problem.

24 for me. Okay, okay.
Dang. Natural 20.

30.

Scatter pop. Hell yeah.
Scatterpop. Motor pop.

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

Legendary actions on that one.

Wow.

Alright. And then Ben finishing

that turn there for Dorian Imogen. Beginning of your turn, you should make strength saving there for me, please.

You got this. Unless I roll 20.

Come on, Immo.

20.

Natural 20!

Oh, wow, I'm taking the fucking picture

to the movie! Let's go, babe!

Let's go, babe! Unless it's a cat!

Oh my god!

Fucking babe roots.

Yes.

If you 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.

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?

You didn't need.

I was. I had that one.
How long did 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.

Talk to him for about 15, maybe most.

10 minutes. It only lasts for 10 minutes.
Okay, so that would have have faded. That's gone.
Well, the ground is rough terrain because of the gravitational pull. Then, 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 gravity.
Oh, shit.

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, five, ten, fifteen.

But

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. The tension.

I know. Yeah, we have to do it.
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 think?

Like, he's gonna.

This is definitely gonna work on him.

I am going. Just the.
Yeah, you just gotta, you gotta nag your own roles.

That's the case. 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.

26.

He succeeds. Okay.
I have the feeling that was a low row. Oh, yeah.
Low. Was it? Was it a low roll? It was a 12.
Okay.

A 12. A 12 got him a 26.

Okay.

Oh, 14. Is that what it does? Plus 14.
Okay.

Okay. All right.
Great. Great.
Okay. Cool, cool.
Okay, so you're going to be. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
That's all I can do. I finished your turn.
Okay.

Fern, at the end 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 had an advantage against spells and other matches. Price must be paid.

Correct.

So I get an advantage? Okay. Yeah.

Gravity Fisher's a bitch.

Gravity broke your pen. Gravity broke my pen.
No.

Come on.

12.

Unfortunately, that's a failure.

You want a negative 12? That was a plus. Oh, no.
Naubby, though. You're even weaker than minus two.

Okay. On your strength? So, yes, a minus two.
She's a bitch as weak as you. Yes, she is.

You didn't

So you were taking 21 points of force damage. 21? Correct.
Okay. You are restrained.

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. You dressed up for Ashton.
I still have it. Oh, hi.

Got an idea? Any idea? Yes, but I can't see. I can't see right here.
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, 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.

Am I within 60 feet? Yeah,

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,

Mister still be out?

He was in the last fight. Mr.
was in the last fight.

Mr. is currently going around and around.
Yeah.

Yeah, he's trying to grab him each time. Making sure he's sitting there for Mister.
Oh, okay. Him strong.

What's his health?

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.

Well, he's not quite.

there yet. We're not there yet.
No, yeah, exactly. But soon, not too much.
Soon. Mr.
Comeback. Okay, so roll strength sick and throw for Mister.

Oh, okay. Well, he's got.

Come on, Mister.

Oh, no.

Oh, no. That's a two.

Oh,

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? Yeah.
Yeah, he's pulled right next to me. Poor Beth.
All three of us. All right.
So,

as a bonus action, can I dimension door out with him? Do you have a dimension door spell? Or your ability? No, I can't go. I 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. Okay.

Let's see here. Jennifer Lopez, dude.
Jennifer Lopez. Hello? One night.
Oh, okay. Hello, Jennifer Lopez.
We had a spirit and each willing creature of your choice. So technically, Ashton could go too.

I'm too big. I'm too big.
Never mind. Well, no,

it's a good thing.

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 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 other side.

So you

appear there.

But maybe Ashton can pull you out easily.

He's not restrained.

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. Okay, okay, so he's not restricted.
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.
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 try it.
With all my spells.

I might 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 do it. I'm just going to do this.
Yeah, I'm going to do my scorching ray.

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

Yes. So I will do it at.

I'll do it at feet level. Fifth level? Okay.

That'd be

three, four, five. That's six different attacks you get with it.
And you get a D4. Come on, come on.
Add a D4. Why do I get a D4? 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

roll the d4.

Great. 14.

No, the d4. 25.
25 just misses. Wait, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Okay, that's about your number.

13. What if I told you it was 25? Yes, it was 25.

Okay, so that misses. Do I do the four again? It's a very, very small spot on the back of his neck, so it's a combination of

chaos and lower weight. We gotta roll the default.
Okay, no, it's lower. I'm very low on the floor.

Yeah,

it's really drunk and cold. Okay, that hits, that hits.
17.

That's uh, that's a 28. 28 hits.
Yeah, that's one hit. 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, I'm playing.

The people are numbers. And the last one?

Yeah. That hits.
So 18 plus 2 plus 1. Three attacks.

Let's go, bitch. So let's go.
Roll a 3D six. I rolled six.
Yeah, that 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

five

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?

It just if he gets hit during that turn he takes the damage. Oh, I love you guys

I know almost like my way suck at

just roll I just pinched my neck with that dumbass too excited. Yeah, Yeah, well, I like twisted myself so excited about it.
I hope your gap was worth it.

It was. No, that's not true.

Okay.

Let's see.

I think we have

the attack on this.

So multiple attacks give you multiple opportunities.

20 points of damage.

An additional 20 points. Okay.

Makes a save on each of those. First against the first.

Actually, I'm going to roll these out front because it's fun.

So that was three hits on against him, right? So that's three different rolls he gets out.

We'll save the additional damages on the biggest one. Okay.
So the first one.

Yeah.

No issue.

That's fine there.

The last one. Yeah.

So

are you rolling your rudeness?

Rudeness.

I'm rolling my rudest dice and my beacon dice.

Oh, and they're really treating you well. They are.

Glad you made those. Yeah.
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.
Orum, you are up.

Beginning of your turn, make a strength saving through.

Strength save? Correct. Okay.
Saving three.

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 Orm is behind you and almost tries to reach for you, Chetney

gets pulled off of his feet.

Wow.

Center?

All the way? Whoa. All the way?

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

You are restrained, Orum. Amutate.
Wow. Because he would have stayed restrained.

Nobody gets an opportunity to get it. Now he's doing 8.4 damage.
Okay.

Shit. Yeah, dude.
Shit, shit, shit. Halfling fly.

Elijah, you're not the one. Oh, roll a d6 for me, please.
See how many spell slots Luden is through. Roll a six, roll a six.

Roll high.

Or spell levels, yeah.

Two, high. Two, so three.
Where's my real?

Yeah. Yeah, who should use it for the future? You don't want to say that.
Yeah, yeah, and you're like, who made it? And then I'm like,

that's not a thing. So now it's my turn.
Now it's your turn.

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

Damage 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 it's kind of just held there in the middle of 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 like if I run out in the middle, I'll just get pulled again. At the beginning of your next turn.

There's, I have no ranged attacks. That's a good head turn, actually.

Honestly.

Poor was so.

I will

use so that was bonus action. I will and I'm and it's it's a

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

you have 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 a stone

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

and that's I'll say that's the end of my turn. And we don't have any confirmation, right? That finishes your go because we won't uh chetney.

Can you return? Please make a shrink save and throw for me, please. He's got advantage, you got advantage because you're in your wolf form.
It's wolf, you're wolf.

Check the bag.

Pretty good. Uh, 23.
23 succeeds. Yes.
Yeah.

Amazing. Uh, I'm gonna

start walking forward as a wolf.

As a wolf. Then I'm going to 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.

Dropping silence. Okay.

And

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

The curse 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 on 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 it was that's better than it was nice

i'll keep using the rest of my uh 45 to come i'll see if i see how close i can get to

your movement is 40 40 40 that was 15 20 25 30 35

40. gets you right into melee with him i love that okay i'm gonna take two swings with the turmoil let's go right in his uh

how do melee targeted attacks work you just tell me you want to focus in it and then i adjust the AC ac accordingly.

Okay, I want to try and make the first one against the knob on the back of the neck. Okay, go ahead and roll.
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 gonna do it for the second one, too. Okay.
Fuck it.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's much better.

25 to night. 25 misses.
It's 26 missing. 26.
That's 26. That's right.

You go to strike the first time and you feel like the gravity punk, like even though you're not quite in the radius of the spell, it's almost like 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,

he isn't.

That is the end of my turn. All right, it finishes Chetney's go.
It is now Ludenus' turn. It gets his legendary actions back.

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?

Intelligent saving throws.

Mind sliver? Yes. Yes.

This wouldn't be a charmed or frightened.

It is

not.

You said intelligent saving throw? Right.

advantage. I don't think I was supposed to.
Wait. It was a natural choice for that.

Yes, I did.

I don't think I have it.

Just do it again. Just do it again.

Repeat. Oh, so it's not.
It almost did.

Oh, my God.

Okay, so you take

15 points of psychic damage,

and

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

Reduced by D4. Yes, on the next action.

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 insane.

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

outward

you kind of come back to and you watch as as 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!

Oh, that'll hit.

20. That's exactly a 26.
Natural 17.

Well, this isn't aiming at his

room, because this this is just a reaction. This is just a regular strike.
So, um...

Do you have Send me?

No, he's going to shield. I don't.
I really don't.

I don't remember who it has. What, it was a 26th though when I hit him regardless.
So, yeah, so we got to move 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 in that area where he was standing become translucent and he just kind of steps through it. So the boundary isn't broken.
But can we step through it? For a second, 22

points of damage, five of which is lightning.

Because the creature is made of blood. It is.
Okay, 22. 22.
Points damaged.

All right, so it needs to DC of 11.

Yeah, he succeeds.

Disadvantage. I only rolled one die.

Oh, that's right. That's a straight roll.

I forgot to roll an extra D8 for enhanced bond. Just had to give it to somebody.
Oh, the fire? The fire says an extra d5. I won't receive.
I'll take it of damage. Sorry.

That was it.

Alrighty. That finishes your go-chet.
Yes, it does. Or no, that's alright.
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.
No, no, no, no.

He's going to

have disadvantage on this now i had to now disadvantage no you have negative c4 minus d4 on it and do i roll the d4 as well you do yeah okay

uh 10 strength uh 17. 17.

you get shoved 10 feet back away from him

okay

okay okay okay i thought i was going back i did too

oh my god did you drop silence you do feel you did you're you're not quite sure yet and we'll measure it when it comes around to it but you are on on the cusp of the tug of the distant, ravenous void.

I always like being on the cusp of the tug.

I walked into that.

All right,

he confirmed it. Don't try so hard.

Brace. You're up.
You're up. Do you less?

How do you make sure you save with her, please? Strength, saving, throw.

Do plus. What is that?

Let's say.

14.

That's good. 14 plus 9 is 23.
23. You resist the pull of the spell and you can.
You're such a fucking badass. You can keep it.
You are such a badass. My god.
It's gonna suck when I can't.

Thank God you can brand. Good, good.

Okay.

You can still only move half speed.

So it's either cast a spell

or move.

Full sixty. 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 pool. Like, rocks and things from up here are like

god damn it.

God damn it.

We need to hit this guy.

And our speed is halved?

Our speed is halved within 100 feet. 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

fourth level. Shove it in.
Moonbeam at fourth level. 120-foot range.
That'll definitely get him. Is it Road Moonbeam? Yes.
Yes. Oh, weirdly, on the moon, it's just called Beam.

That's pretty dumb. I love it.
Oh, he has to save against it. It's not a

back roll. It's a

Constitution 18.

Okay. Which he has disadvantage on, but against Spellthe has advantage.
So it's a straight roll. That would have been an.
Well, here, I'll roll it in front then.

That would be 21. Oh,

he succeeds, but he still takes damage. Does he? Did he see here? What's this?

Half as much. So it'd be 2d10, but you cast it at fourth level, so it beats 4d10 radiant damage.
Yeah. Where is my d10s?

I never use these.

I'll use the percentile. Where is the d10s?

5 and 8 is 13,

but he's got like an RT. Plus 7 and 2 is 22.

11 points of range.

He does get the save against it. It's a DC 10.

Yeah, Nash 19.

Jesus.

That's just a single roll, right? And bonus action, I will inspire. Let's get the stack.

Boy, who needs it?

Who's weaker? You're weak.

I mean,

I'll also say Lavna's a bitch. I don't even 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 of the hair. Yeah, they've got curls on top of the hair.

It's curly hair. Perfectly curled.
All right, to finish your turn, break. Yep, yep.
All right, Lavna, 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.
So you're good.

Don't second piss yourself. For every inch.
Every inch.

Just double-checking.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

Come on.

We've got 40. Let's go down.
Here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to skirt this line

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 lighting it. I'm going to edge it.

I'm going to cuss it. One, two, three.

Can I get like up here? You can. 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, that crack there.

And then I'm going going to get out of there.

Okay.

Secret weapon of 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.
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 away.

Go. He has a fly speed of four.

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

this way. Stay away from a hole to get to a hole.

And yes.

It,

you know, double negatives make a whole battery here, did they?

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 give him to get to 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.

He flies down. No, if he lies down here, he's right.
Right there.

Yeah.

Is that up against him? That isn't melee, yes. Okay.

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

And I want to do a touch spell

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 got you.
All right.

So

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?

A 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 nine because of inspiration. So that is

35. That hits.
Yeah!

Yes!

Destroy Himlada! Let's do it! Oh wait, I was making it. Destroy Himladus!

So

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

I've waited for this so long.

What's that? And the show's like just humping him from behind.

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.

Good boy. Roll for concentration.
DC's 10. But what do I get my necrotic? You got a natural one.

He 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 8 to D6 necrotic damage. So wouldn't we add that to the total for his concentration sake? It would, yeah.

But he automatically auto-save it because he rolled a one. That's fair.

That's fine.

Burn the legendary resistance. Damn, it.
I'm trying to knock that thing off so fast. I know her.

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

What did I just say? 14.

15

plus 8 is going to be 203 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. Well, six.

six

seven spells oh man

yes

he's gonna lose a fourth and a third level spell slot on that yeah baby okay okay

that was a great turn that was a really good turn as as as you cast the shot and grasp through uh uh Pate is just like chuckling while humping the back of Ludovic's head

you just fucked it and like reaches back just as like

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

Oh, worth it!

And like, Ludis sinks down as Ludis 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 hell is it.

Out of a splechie hole, maple syrup. It's not a hole, but

now it is how it is, yeah.

Cannon, but yeah, he'd not appreciate it.

And so so

he spiked

Pate against the rock?

Yeah, he just, I mean, just narratively, just threw him against the rock. Pate's still right there now.
He's still there.

I

technically, Pate might take a bunch of moonbeam damage.

He just moved into the radius, right?

Okay, let's go ahead and roll it up.

Roll it up. 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 saving throw for Pate.

Come on, Pat. Okay.

It's around him. It's just around ludeness.
And what does it do? It's like a spotlight. Just a burn.
Plus my

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.

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,

so that it would hit him, it wouldn't hit the radius around. I'll allow that nice.
Yes. I'll allow that.
Okay. Since you wouldn't want to hurt your friend.
I would definitely.

So don't worry about that for me. Okay, good, good, okay.

But if you don't move it and Lutinus moves in closer, then it would be

an issue.

Does that finish your turn, Levna?

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out if I want to quicken a spell.

Up to you.

I think I'll stay there. I'm trying to conserve points

for better or for worse. Okay.
Because where you are right now standing, you cannot cannot actually see Lutinus. He's out of range.
But Pate does give you the vision. Yeah.
All right.

So with that finished, Ashton, you're up. Make a shift to saving throw for me, please.

Nat 20. Yeah.
Yay!

Let's go.

You're like right on the cusp of where the radius is

kind of gliding through the rock and glass best you can.

Let's go, Stone. So do I feel the same pull? My legs are,

if I sink them down, do I feel the same gravitational pull underneath the ground that I do?

It still pulls on you, but you're a slightly better anchored. I would give you an advantage if you didn't already have it on the saving throws.
Okay, yeah, I just have it.

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 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. Fucking in.
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

80 feet towards Ladna.

80 feet towards Ladna? You got it.

So from there 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 worries about it.
Then I'll... Well, no, I'll take it.
Then I'm... Yeah, I'll...

I'm just going to sit there. That's your move in your action.

So you dash there. Yeah.
Okay, cool. All good.
That finishes your go. All right, finishing Ashton's go.
Dorian, you're up with him, Ninja on deck. Can I ask a question about how the

Pate event unfolded? You said, did he walk forward through the first barrier?

I just want to know what his relationship to the barriers are, right? Well, from where you are, the outer layer.

All you saw was him 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 he was

I denied my movement last time, but would I

would I be able to have Coriolis scoop me up and use his movement? Oh Coriolis has been with you that's yeah, he's still on the board I guess so you've been falling over there

Coriolis will save his movement well first off Coriolis make a shrink saving oh oh my god that's right he's in the pits.

Oh, my God.

What was the scientific name, Samper?

Equus

Caballeros? Caballeros.

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, Bowie. No way.

But he should be cute.

7, 12, 13.

21 points of four standards.

He's still alive

for now.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, Cole, touching me. Alright, then he's out of the picture.
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 things.

Just be careful. Don't get sucked into Ashton's Beautiful move.

Aye.

Yeah, I think you just have eyesight.

Okay.

So it's 25 feet there. Okay.

You can see Lutenus 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 you can't hip it up.

Go ahead and make concentration check for me.

I get advantage to maintain my concentration. That's all you need.
I'm going to do something. Can you you just like.
Nope. No, no, no.
No, no. I'm gonna leave him alive for you.

What's this?

Not very good. What's the cloth 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.

It's positioning stuff. Alright, scratch that.
I'll keep Pete alive.

I'll use the rest of my turn. I'll use another 40 feet, use my winged 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 them. 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.
All right, I'll do that. Okay, let's do that.
You got

badoo.

We'll do uh, yeah, fourth. Oh, no, no.
Uh, fuck it. Fifth level,

Fifth level lightning bolt until Uttan's the left. Alrighty.

Dexterity saving throw. 16.

He succeeds. Got it.

Cool. So he takes half of this? Correct.

14. How many is it? 10?

106? For a fifth level? Fifth level? Yeah. 10 d6.
Yeah, okay.

Say

32 30 33 33 points so it takes us 16 points of lightning damage yeah it strikes through

it takes the hit to roll for this dc10 maintain concentration uh that is going to be

that's a fail he's going to use secondary legendary resistance

damn

burning through those resistance he's so cool

usually three usually Three per turn or

three per turn?

Real? Usually it's three

legendary creatures.

So the blast hits him.

And he kind of just

redoubles 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

the cave.

Matt Tallison said he's going home for his turns.

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

She boy again, and I'll use Healing Word.

Healing Word, you can't cast two spells. Oh, two spells! It's not a cancer.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Never mind. I'm out.
I'm out. Do you need inspiration if you want? No, I'm good.

We got one left. You got it.
All right, finishing your turn, Dorian.

Imaging, 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 test. You are.
Make a strength saving for a while. 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 job.

So, based on your current. Yep.

So the DC is 16 right now. Oh,

come on.

It's still so fucking high.

Jeez.

Wait, did you want to roll that?

No, that's not what I really did.

I didn't mean to roll either of those

account.

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

Jesus Christ.

Please give me an instant replay right now.

They were.

But it doesn't matter. They would have failed either way.
So

I failed.

So you are holding onto the other edge and try and figure out what to do.

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

over the top.

Well, 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 before.

We try, we try, we try, we try. I'm gonna give you four points at home.
That's not too bad. Take 20 points of force damage.
Okay, well, every little bit.

I felt

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

Okay,

so

what I'm gonna 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 us.

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 the distance. Which will definitely hit him.
I mean, definitely be far out. It will be.
Fern is

right in the way.

Okay, well, I don't want to hit Fern. We are.
Oh, come on. I'll tell you what, you got pulled over this way.

You could aim through the right between

the pipples. I'd allow that.

Okay.

You are restrained still.

She was screaming at me. I would also stop me.
No, I get it.

Sorry. Sorry.
I should have. No, it's okay.
All right, so that's a deck save. 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 going to do it. But then he's going to roll a resistance again.
Well. He'll do one more gone.
Yeah, exactly.

He's gotten rid of two. Yeah.

10.

Sure.

10, 17. 19.

What am I going to do?

15, 23, 25,

31, 30,

three points. Nice.

That was I rolled though. That was nice.
Wax, that would be 16 points lightning damage total.

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 like 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.

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.

I guess this will make the race more interesting. He's going to 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. You're just a guy.
I am

the guy right now.

Each target within 30 feet of him. Oh, fuck me.
That's going to be Chetney. Dang.

Wow. It's going to be be Ashton, and it's gonna be Ladna.
Yeah,

dang. Oh, my baby boy!

Sorry, guys.

You're the son of that. If Patay jumps directly in front of me,

suffering.

Please let it sound like that.

No!

It's like a Schwarzenegger joint. Those are just shitty ass fucking.

See the Swords Niger reacts and make him roll shit.

It's only 30 points of lightning damage. That could have been a lot higher at 108.
Did we get a down? So you got a dexterity saving throw from each of you.

Dex.

Okay, for Pate.

Nine. 30 points of lightning damage to Pate.
Okay. Does he survive? He does survive.
Poof.

Pate's chopping. No.
How many points? No, he does not survive. I'm sorry.
I was looking at his fly speed. He goes poof-poofs.

I did it all for the new keeper.

And a magical burst of nothing.

He tried to save you, Chen. He tried.

I just did black molasses splatter all over.

I've hold so many ones on that.

18 for me. 18 failed.
So 30 points of lightning damage.

25. 25 is success.
So you take 15 points of lightning damage. Fail.
30 points lightning damage dighting damage. Fuck.
23.

And 23, success. So 15 points of lightning damage.

Alrighty.

Finishing imagins 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'm here to just watch him fade.

Big boy. Anyone want to know what that blue thing does?

That's right.

Took him a minute. Okay.
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 you watch him kind of like he dimension doors to the opposite side of the chamber.

He's gonna go ahead and see, take his spear. 40.
He's first gonna 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 once like one, one of his giant black eyes 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 it 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 as hell.
12 or 15 feet, I think. About there.
Is he within 30 feet of luteness? Yeah, he's tall.

He is

within 30 feet of luteness, right at the edge.

Is he within 10 feet of me still? He, no, he's unfortunately 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, kind of lands right on the edge of where Ludinus is. Ludiness 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 you at first glance, he's like, teleports in that kind of in-between space. So there is a permeability to it currently that's been unlocked by Ludinus.

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 in to fucking help here at the end.
Thanks, Laura. So that's 6d10 force damage.
Doubled. 610.

Okay. So 60-ish.
12. That's a 60-ish.
Let's go. All right.
Just because it's on your own, 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 there for a second, then

she kind of takes all the hits at once, and then crumples to a knee. Um, so half of that is gonna be he has DC of 36, he has to make on this check.
Come on, how

36!

Can't, so he'll use his last legendary resistance.

Come on now,

legendary resistance,

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. Half of that 72, right? Ludeness did.
Ludeness only took half of it. But it wasn't too bad.

No, he took all of it. It was a crit, but the DC is half the damage Torvenge taken.
I got it, I got it.

So that's going to finish Ira's turn, Fern Europe. Wow.
Okay. All right.

Ira!

Hey!

Very cool, Ira.

Actually, you know what? Sorry, at the end of. Sorry, I didn't mean to 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 lewdness 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.

Uh, Ira's gonna go ahead and try and make that save,

which is gonna be plus three.

That's a natural one. Oh,

natural 20 to a natural one. That's the way.
So

Ira gets pushed 30 feet back. Oh, no.
Yeah.

All right.

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, no, no, no, no, no.

Do I need to check to see if I go in? Strength check? Yes, you do. All right.

What is she holding on to?

Okay.

Come on.

What? It's because I'm wrong. I'm standing diagonal up.
I know.

Okay. Let me use this.

I feel like it's like a

novelty joke dice.

We didn't get the memo.

I mean, I'm holding onto the rock so hard. I'm sure.

So.

15.

15's not gonna happen.

I love the option, but I know

there's anything out there

into the void.

Smushed against a dinosaur. Good thing we're like, damn.
So useful in it. Take 27 points of force damage.
27 points of force damage?

Okay.

Shit! 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 out?

Well at the beginning of your turn, make a shrink suck, save for Mister. If he takes the damage, he's gonna shut him up.
there.

Well, I'm gonna leave him out there.

Well, I mean, he starts to make it

heavens automatically if you start your turn. He's a flame, though.

Do flames get natural 20!

Mr. succeeds in his thing.

So,

if I can, 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 boat's your bonus action to 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 do you get out? I just don't know how hurt 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 just 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 you? He can take us all out.
Can he also take a Coriolis? Yeah, he can take all willing creatures.

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

Stand

by your men. When does he take the damage?

When he enters the radius.

Spirits. When he enters the creature of your choice, radius, is he within 10 feet of me?

He would be.

So he will get resistance to the damage. That's good to know.

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

Five feet of mister.

Mister can move

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

pushes anyway. He's like,

Don't worry, small monkey friend, you've got this.

Like, like as all the fur on 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 is going and walking in on his own terms

taking

i love this game

control

i've won he's crossed the amount of 29 minutes force damage have

he has gone

where no money has gone

on that damage rolling

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

steps Steps up into there.

Okay, but once you 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 that animal up.

And then when we go towards Brayants,

when we bamp out, Imogen hates horses, confirms. Fuck off, horse.

We can get

there, and we'll get you

here

and Imogen Imogen

out of the way. Neither you are restrained.
That was the bravest thing I've ever seen, young monkey friend.

You have the strength of a cow.

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, you can't move.

You can't move a little bit. It's just 15 feet.

I still can't. Okay.

Then scorch and ray 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.

Oh, 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 really need to do it. Does it go up in the other form.

What? Say again. Does your movement go up in your fire form? I don't think it does go up.

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? I deludeness.

There's stuff after this.

We still have to put Perdamos. No, let her do what she wants to do.
Yeah.

No, it doesn't move. You don't need extra.

We're going to find Perdamos. Alright, alright.
Scorching Roy.

What level? To

lewdness on that foot at sixth level.

Sixth level? Okay. Shoot it in his

hole in his neck. You got it.

Okay. It's not a hole, but it's coming and go.

So

it's resembling one now. Sure, yeah.

I guess it is a little punctured. With a little bit of drainage issues.
But that's a little seepage. Or wedge.
Oh, we got seven

hits. Well, it's three, and then you said it casting at sixth level? Yeah.
Right. So that would be seven attacks.
Yes. Okay.

Oh, sixteen?

Oh, but you're. Are you you get a...
Oh, no, you're not standing next to Ashton, so you don't get a plus four. No.
Okay, so.

Are you going for his hole? Going for his hole. 16 plus.

What? 27? Needs to. So that one hits? 27 hits.
He's going to cast.

I was going to say. Shield.

And that's going to affect AC the rest of the

turn. Yeah.
Affect all of it? So his AC is even higher. Needs to go.
So this one is

30.

That'll do it. 30? Miss.
It's just mad.

You're not going to hit any of them. That's five.
So just stop aiming for the hole and just hit him. Just hit his fence.
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 johns. Just a 26.
You got to

actually fucking Johnson. No.
You don't have four more.

No, 22. Three more.

No. Two more.

Ah? Okay. 26.
Oh, one hit, Sky. One hit.
I'm going to change the name.

Don't say it like that. That's it.
That's it. Is it one hit? So roll 2d6.
Okay. Oh, man.

This is it. You're a huge battery.
And then

also a d8 for mister.

Right.

Okay.

Is that his Evans?

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. Constant.
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 eight on his roll.
So he needed to roll a one bail?

Oh.

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.

All right. That 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.
Yeah. Mike.
Can you do that? Sunstein? Just sounded scary as well.

Yeah. Alright, Fern, so 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 junk.
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Alright, so finishing Fernsko. Orim, you're up with the checkman deck.
Top and 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 chat.

Oh, no, I said that.

No, 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 oh because of the rock because you're behind it barely second one is barely different so this is the indomitable indomitable

indomitable

i'm gonna use i have one last superiority dot i'm gonna use zephyr and heart and try to boost it okay

18. i roll 18 succeed

so as you clutch onto the side you feel the gravity kind of tugging at you the side and you just kind of hold in you close your eyes for a second and imagine like the calm winds of zephyr then 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 super yeah i saw that so uh what i'm gonna do i can't do much still is

i'm gonna

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

and then I've still got like the grasping vine spell up so I am going to shoot the stone

next to lewdness 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 right that's nice right that finishes your turn you're down and you can feel the pull of the gravity the ravenous void is no longer trained on you.

Yeah. So you're beyond the radius of the spell.
Great. Chetney, you're up.
Do I have to make a save against the anus hole? You? Let's see what it really.

You're just outside of that.

Amazing.

40 feet.

Can I try to

walk,

use my speed to reach where Ludnis 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,

no turmoil. Yeah, yeah.
Just claws.

First one

is fuck you.

Really?

Just forget that. That never happened.
Second one,

that's better.

28 to hit. 28 hits.
Amazing.

X plus

D8.

Sorry, 8.

Yep, okay, that's 13 points of slashing damage with 6 points of.

19 total? Yes. Alrighty.
And the last one. 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 per short rest, I'm going to use brand of castigation.

Okay. Lewedness.
Okay.

And as I slash him

just below 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, he has to like roll that check.

Okay, guys. Yes.
Natural 20.

Yeah!

Shaden, chinney, poke a pop. 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 minus.

With that,

the DCN is going to be 14. Okay.

That's going to be a 19.

That's a good one. Awesome.
That's a good try. Good deal.
Finished turn. That's a good job around.
Good job.

It's now back to Ludinus's go.

Ludinus gets his legendary actions back. He's going to go ahead and focus on the next boundary.

And you watch as the next one.

Fuck!

Oh, at the start of his turn?

Let me see. Oh, the moonbeam? Yeah.
Is it the start of my turn? Start of his turn? Let me see here. 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

50-16. He gets disadvantaged on Constitution Saves? It was until the end of...
It 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 that damage. 4D, 10 radiant damage.
10 radiant damage.

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. Go ahead.

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 five.

How many boundaries are going to go? We don't know that.

Hey, for

it, just

Auram and Chetney, just 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

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

on you.

Chetney, go ahead and make a shrink-saving throw for me. Come on, Chet.
Strong. Strong!

Because I'm strong enough.

That's not a 20.

La,

14. 14.
You pushed back 10 feet to there.

That's bonus action. Actually, that finishes his turn.

Next up is Brace with Lodna on Dunk. 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 resisted.
Oh, so wrong!

Where are you? Every time. So wrong.
Can you just pick us up and walk? Resaves. Can I?

If you want to try and force movement on somebody else that's an ally, it's half your movement. So you already have.

Yep.

Shit.

Kind of stupid.

Boy.

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 stayed 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.

Does he still have moonbeams? Can you move it forward to like hit him? 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

five feet

or ten feet or whatever it takes to get just in front of it. Right, it'll move.
You probably have to move it in the corner this way. It does not move past the barrier.
So it 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 over there, like I guess, behind uh

fern or

mister, or I just 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.
If no, you want to 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,

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

Put it up.

D6.

You can still use it next time.

And that's it. All right, that finishes your turn.

And 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 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 Eltrich Blasts

Actually, I'm gonna bonus action hex

him out of there

I pull him out. I don't think if I can attack him

first level spell 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

burned all his auto

his legendary save

I don't have it these are just straight rolls correct

Correct,

yeah, but even at a double distance, I can reach 26 with telekinesis. I thought 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 because I want him to save.

Uh, no,

no, unfortunately,

no

last one

worse

all bad all bad

It's bad in here, it's really bad in here

It is bad in here that was take off all your clothes If we take off all our clothes Do we get advantage? Are you born off our nose?

I hexed

what if we pretend we're shooting a porn

Bring it back. One for one.
Okay, Matt, can I use my last little bit of movement to just kind 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.

She's constantly. Okay.

Best as you can get there. Okay.
Got body.

it. That finishes your go.

That's...

Ashton, you're up.

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

Are you within the radius?

40 feet is what I got. You are within the radius.
Yeah,

the terrain is 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.
Go hit the squishy parts.

Here we go.

And I don't suppose being inside the rock is going to help at all. Oh, it 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 feet? Okay, so.

10 to 20 feet. No, I get 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

B here. 5, 10, 15, 20,

25, 30, 35.

Yeah, you can get

him right up. I can hit him.
Oh, my God. Oh, well, this is going to be fun.

Alright, I'm going to use...

So you can swing away. I'm going to use my

belt, and

I'm making a.

I don't know if I have to do reckless or otherwise, but I'm making a shot. Here we go.
Please roll well.

That's 18.

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

I meant to, but I'm not. 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.

All right.

3d6 damage. Oh.

It's gone. Wherever it is.
That's okay. I've got it.
It's got sucked into your penis.

What? Whoa.

And what?

You got to justify that to your senior.

16. It got sucked.

Please. 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 guy, Laura.

Suddenly I got a kindergarten cop.

Actually, it got sucked in touch on PDM.

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.

Alright.

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 redo it. Yeah, it's not your damage.
So five.

15, 14.

17 18

special attacks

of damage and uh should add another 10 to that which would be a failure on its concentration whoa

you are 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 take it off and it's avoiding

D6 for self-solve.

6-7. Dang.
All right. You should think about it.

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 some.

But it is definitely resisting him as if it was. Okay.
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, back? Like, it would go.

It would be technically, it would be 15 feet, it would be technically directly away from me. Which would be into the wall.
Guys, what if he 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 the

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 move him

five feet

to the left of me so that he's in the middle of all that bullshit.

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.

For my next attack.

That's 17, 18, 19.

1929 yeah that's yeah that hits I assume 29 uh uh uh 29

yeah 32 altogether and damage on that is 2d6

plus

2

yeah uh 15

25 points of damage

he's looking hurt yeah I'm trying to what I don't care I only get two attacks. It's been a while.
My brain just. Does he have a jewel on his forehead and look like he's made a snow code? No.

I do not get a third 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 having

a bad thing.

Only Max can do that.

I think

we can do here. Shit, I should have done that.

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

I'm good. All right, finishing Ashton's go.

Did you hit him back in the neck?

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

I'm just shooting for exactly. Okay.
End of your turn, he's going to go ahead and angrily use two of his legendary actions to rapid cast.

Beam up. He's going to drop.

He's going to drop another chain lightning. Cool.
That's your blast six level spell.

So with that, that's going to be 78 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?

Fifth level? All right.

I hope this isn't a mistake. Please go ahead and

use counterspell at fifth level as well. So, counterspells are counterspell.

And that uses

damage.

Silvery ball.

That's a much better name control than I was. Shut it down.

Is that the hole on the back of his neck? Yeah.

54 points of lightning damage.

How much now? 54 points of lightning damage. To everyone in 30 feet?

So deck saves to.

Oh, God. Okay, I did very well.

Oh, are you within 10 feet of me? And a D4. Okay, I am.
So I rolled it. Deck save.
That's all of us, right? Everyone who's within 30 feet of Dorian. For max 24.

24? Yeah, so you take. What is happening?

26.

What's happening?

Alright, Dorian? Not one.

That's the worst I've ever rolled. 54 points of lightning damage.

Yeah. Dirty 20.
Dirty 20?

No. 54 points of lightning damage.
Oh my god.

D4.

33. So if you take 26 points of lightning damage.

Ashton?

Deck save, right? Correct.

18. 18.
54 points of lightning damage.

Correct.

And then Ira

on this.

He succeeds with an Astro 17.

Letter. 6 minus 26.

Ow.

Alright.

That's his legendary action on that. That's not

a frustrated retort to that. Alright.

That finishes. Ashton's got.
Dorian, you're up with the Midgard on deck.

Good.

Alright. He's now turning around a little bit and like, if you're going to be this obnoxious, then sure, step into the chipper.
We'll sit back and watch.

Damn. Wall.

Pretty metal line. Yeah.

I'm going to fly

over

him. Like, how high can I get above? I don't know how the 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

drop down right behind him in that space that Astron created between the wall and

is there enough room there? I mean, 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.

All right. Are you in Moonbeam? Am I in Moonbeam? You would now be moving into Moonbeam.

Yeah, definitely not going to do that. Alright, I didn't know where the radius was.
That's 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

you flash damage here if you want to. If you wanted to fly, like, up

right about there. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. My goal is to kind of like drop in behind a safe space within melee.

You can make your feet just within melee of him. Just

fluttering.

Actually, if you want to drop into this space here, which there 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 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. At a D4.
Yeah. Okay.
Are you using your short 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, Zach. Fuck you.
19 plus 12.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sweets.

Yeah, okay.

Redemption. So we're getting there.

First whack, perfect. Six and seven.
Max. Oh my God.
Why am I stupid right now? 13.

And then, so I'll take that first swing at him and then I will do

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're going well no he didn't specify yeah I did not specify so I'm working at him

and then I'm gonna use my blade flourish okay but I'm gonna use masters flourish so instead of my 12 I'll use a six okay so

I'm pretty sure that's automatic right yes like yeah okay yeah masters I do yeah yeah yeah I haven't just get 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 10. Dang, alrighty.
Yeah.

So that's 23 points of damage on one strike. Shhh, carving through on the one hit.

Like, unexpected, you draw the blade and he's kind of like taken aback by it, and you carve across the front, like the blood going under the ground. He's like, hmm.

You have a surprise in your motley crew of bullshitters.

I got more. I got nervous.

I have a second. I'm able to do a second strike.
Yeah. So we'll do it again.
I'm going to take a swing for it. Neck or body?

Let's go for the neck as exposed.

He's turned to face. I mean, he's turned.

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. 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 on that last big chemeh, 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, another 18 and I don't take psychic damage. Does he have resistance to psychic damage? I don't know.
Yeah, and we don't.

One more. Good to follow up on that.
And then for my bonus action, I'll use two weapon fighting.

Second third time? Yeah, but I got to pull up my little baby little sidearm. That's okay.

Let's get it a try. Dark Romo attack or

terrible. Miss.

I'm in the mix. Hey, man, so I will take one success this whole evening.
Yeah, 23 points of damage on my own. Yo, you got Lagna out of there.
That's huge. Yeah, you guys did just a little bit.

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

corrections.

Ira 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.
Wow.

As I run.

Oh, God. I hope this works.

Good. She becomes aware.
Double the distance with a sorcery point.

And in Ludeness's head, I'm going to just scream as loud as I can.

And say, enough!

Come on. And I'm going to cast Power Word Stun.
Yeah. Power word stun?

This has to be beneath 150 HP. Okay, and it's auto success, if that's true.

You 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 got fucking go ham. Go ham.
Wait, we can just hit him and he won't break it.

He's stunned. No.
Fuck. Stunned, stunning, stunned, stunned.
Stunning, strike.

So, so everything has advantage

hits have advantage

whoa

auto fail

things like

attack rolls against 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. It's stunned until the beginning of my next turn the end of my next turn.
End of your next turn, yeah. So we have one full last round here.

We have a full last round. Okay.

He's losing.

You got no range? Shit.

What level was that?

Eight.

Eight. That's my.

Yeah, baby.

I just had to get fucking within 120 feet of him. I couldn't get 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 gotta.

We're gotta chop it. Let's get the nickel off.
What was the vial? What was the vial? Get the vial. Let's go.
Hell potion. Hell pile.

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.
Cons do not. Ira is going to spend a second fifth level slot to

steal wind to strike. As soon as he sees the scream, sees him collapsing, Ira's head kind of like

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

Back into place, the bones snap of his head sips in, and then he like his shattered form kind of

vanishes again.

Kind of teleports all around Ludinus, and then shh 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. Has advantage on the attack and a d4.

And a d4.

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

Stack him up.

Oh,

yeah.

That's a natural 17 plus 4 is 21.

Plus 9.

That's a 30.

That's a 30. So,

holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy mark. That's okay.

Okay, that's 6d10.

Alright, so that's gonna be

15, 20,

36,

37 points of force damage on him

plus

8d6.

Yep.

10, 20,

5.

35, 25. 37 points in necrotic damage.
37? Oh, yeah. Twice?

And that one round from Ira did 74 points of damage in one strike. Let's go.

Yep. And a d6.

Damn.

74.

He's probably

all normal now. He's six.
Because of a twiddled a ring at the top and skin shirt all over and then faded.

So I think everything's gonna have damage.

Oh my god, I got a goosebump. That's right.
I know.

Yeah, that changed.

I know.

Second level spell burn. Alright, so his spells are starting to get eaten up.
That was sick. Okay, so that finishes that go.

Iris turns in. Fern, you're up.
Okay.

Alright, so I'm gonna 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.

30? 35. 35 would be about there.
Okay, great. Am I within 60 feet of him? You are with

me.

I don't think so.

Unfortunately, no.

Okay.

What if Mr. was running with you? Could he bamp you another? 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 zip level

Flamestrike.

Just so you know, look at the radius of Flamestrike. It's going to hit everybody in the room.
You should create your your own attention.

Screw upset.

It is a wide column of fire and stone.

That's very clear. I'm going to cast fireballs.

I'm going to cast Flamestone. Fire sphere.

Ashley might have forgotten, but Fern knows. Yeah.
Fern knows. 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 flamestrike. That was for you.

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

a

column that goes like.

Okay.

To help you visualize it,

imagine how many little bits. This 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 right.

I am going strength saves. Chicaged.

It's within 30 feet. Shit.
Shit. I'm so sorry, you guys.

I really had 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 going to have to just score some grain again.
Do it. Do it.
I mean, I don't really have anything much left. Let's go.
Chip away.

Give a good 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. All right, that's six levels.

Well, no, it's three normally at second level. So it's third, fourth, fifth.
Okay. Yeah, it was six.
It is drag.

And they're each an advantage, did you? Yes, yes.

So, uh.

A lot of math floating in here. Yes.
Yes. Okay, so.
18 plus 29.

29 hits.

27.

Okay. Are these normally hits? Are these to the.
Oh, wait, I get advantage on that. We didn't specify, did you? 27 once.
Say again, specify. 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,

however you want it. Yeah.
His neck is like if they're. different things doing that.
His neck is a hard one. I'm gonna just do his body.
I mean, you go

do that body. You get advantage.

All these attacks of 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.

Haven't had a sick. 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.

Uh, 25.

It's gonna be a 26. 26 is the magic number, so we gotta go 15 or higher if you wanna hit the neck.

Or design for the body. Either one.

Neck.

Come on. Come on.

No!

Okay, so 27. You got two more rolls? Two more rolls? Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna go for the neck. Oh, we one more.
One more roll. One more roll.
That didn't, that was a one. Come on, 20.

Okay, so two to the body, one to the neck. One to the neck.

You just need one to the neck. So 46 fire damage.
46 fire damage.

Oh, three hits, so 66. Sorry.
66 fire damage, and then he takes an additional 8.6. Okay, and

a D8 because of the stir. Because you can only take that damage to the neck.

Right.

So once you hit it, then you're hit the body.

16,

27.

Okay.

Mineral 8d6 necrotic damage. 8d6 necrotic damage.
Okay, okay.

I'm so nervous right now. I know.

Okay, so we've got...

That's 9.

I know, they're so small and so annoying, but it just helps me. I don't know why.
Okay, so 9 plus 9, 18.

Uh, plus 7

to 18. 25.
Thank you.

Two more? Yeah.

Um, plus eight

to

twenty-five, thirty-three.

Alright, thirty-three points to go. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
I win the d6

and a d6. For spells.

For spells? Yeah, to reduce his spells. To reduce his spells.

Plus one.

Six. Okay.
So that's seven.

He still going to lose his seventh double spell on that. Whoa.
Okay.

Okay. Okay.
Okay. That finishes fern.
Let's go. Yes, it does.
We're at the top of the initiative order. Orim, 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 gate. He fails his save automatically because he's stunned, so shh, 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. He's at 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 to get a D4 on that?

Yes, I'm right next to you. Okay, so add that D4 to about 10.

Come on.

By the way, the second one's going to be a crit. That's a 25.
That's a missing.

The second roll at advantage, I got a 20, which is a 34 to hit. Correct.

That's on the neck.

Correct.

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 about 27 on the body.

Okay, okay.

Come on, baby. Crit first.
Loot crit. Crit first.

Wind out. 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 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.

Okay.

I just wanna... I got 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, Auram, Savior blade of the tempest.

Warrior of Zephyr.

How do you want to do this?

Yes! I have to back it up. Aurum 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. dully absorbed

the blade

falls to the ground, lifeless,

limp

Ira

curls over

like a spider surrounding a wrapped fly

and picks up his 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 opened breaked his pockets. Yes,

I'm just looking through all the pockets. The buddies steal his vest.

I'm standing by the portal entrance, and I'm keeping an eye on 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.

If I look back at this shimmering gate,

what do I make of it? Like, is it...

can we see through it?

Does it look diminished from when we first entered?

The initial boundaries that the Mr. 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 look solid still.

I look around at the group over image and shoulder. I'm going to use second wind.

And stand up and have my back to the barrier

Do we go?

I mean, this is it, right?

Perdothos is through there,

yeah.

This could be a good time

for a refresher.

Oh,

yeah.

If we're going to do that, yeah, if we all gather up within

the camera, this is the door. the curve, can you remind us what this does one more time? This fist side blows

feels cold and smooth. It doesn't matter.

When thrown against a hard object with enough force, 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 one d4 plus four 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 speed. 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

1d4 plus 4. Do each of us roll individually 1d4 plus 4, or do we roll 1d4 once?

Individually.

And we regain 1d4 plus 4

spells. Spell slots.

Spell levels of slots.

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 immediately responds.

I'm all right.

Okay. How about you?

Lewis is dead,

truly

far as we can tell, yeah.

What if we just

cave this place in?

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 is.

Oh, yeah, I could suck it up.

Good.

That thing might have teleport on it, too. Like, it might have some useful.
Can we look at least for that vial of glowing liquid that he was reaching for? Yeah.

It was the healing potion.

A good one, I bet. It's a pretty good 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 ideas.
Even without that, I'm not.

No, that's that my favorite. We gotta use that ball and

big assumptions. I have almost nothing left, but

maybe with a short rest, it

to what?

To a chance, do

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

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 pixies in there

well, we'd still have to get those membranes down. Yeah, but girls can do it.
That seems to be a good thing.

I think we could walk through them, Imogen.

I think that was why he was trying to drain your mother.

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 am 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

Chin, what if you like

Grim Psychometry, the geometry

the membrane, yeah,

I'd love it

I'll use Grim Psychometry on one of the impenetrable membranes roller history checks

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 Yeah.

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

if 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 Perdathos 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.
And 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' 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.

Imogen,

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 a 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 Iraq is Iris we get like sucked in though

we should do it or run like the crew Irish is kind of sitting back and just watching you walk over a solid

sickly grin fingers intertwined knees kind of folded up on the sides just

Dorian

sends out a little melodic whistle to command Coriolis to scoop up Ludinus

staff. And he gently sort of floats it through the air

and drops it in Imogen's hands.

Cool. It's a super awesome staff.
Whoa.

Anybody be 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.

while to show it's home.

It is a delicious artifact indeed.

Quite the prize, really.

You know, I've identified. I think I do, but

I'm pretty sure I do.

What do you think, Ira?

Let chaos reign?

I'm certainly curious what you will 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 have, but if they actually were here.

Let me see the staff. A bunch of slaptics.

That's a big decision.

Oh, I know, but we can't agree on anything.

It's odd. The staff rejects your identify spell.

Oh, what? 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 that and also worrisome because

that means like some sort of consciousness could just lives on

such a

Yeah, so he wasn't just 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 gonna come back.

I'll cut his head off.

I'm gonna say while all this is really devolving now,

but I mean it's

happening

in shell-shock mode.

He's not talking anymore and he's

sort of like

slumped down onto a rock and is listening to all the debating at this point.

He doesn't know what to do.

Like he's been so sure for so long and just doesn't know what to do and

going in feels so wrong to him but he hears the logic

that it's only a 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 to me

just for the record record, Breyus did.

This is what I mean. Like,

it's a ball. No, no, no.
We're using the ball. We're using this fucking ball.
An acidic kind of caustic chemical smell, and you turn back to the bubbling liquid that was once Ludinus' corpse.

It has seemingly disintegrated.

Were you able to loot the body before that happened? You kept saying you were looting the body. He had a ring.
He had his super potion. Do we take anything?

I tried to show all of it. 15 silver.

Ira, what's the problem? Cut away.

We've got that.

You turn around.

Ira's not there anymore.

Is the staff?

I'm going

to go to the next one. What's the point? When something 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 did the very, very beginning and the dudes

that were going after Bertrand? Didn't they have some like dissolve-y situations?

The barriers that he passed through are unchanged. And the other ones have not

been breached. Okay.

That's cool. Baldwin.

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.

One point.

Shout out to Paint and it's like...

You said something hard.

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 of a short rest and can spend hit dice to heal.

Do you automatically get half of our hit dice of healing for this that you said? Roll?

Well, no, no, you any hit dice you've already used, you gain back, and then you can expend hit dice to heal if you'd like. And then, just to ask, Matt, with Hunter's Vein,

did that disintegration seem like anything from

demonic or make an Arcana check

for each time you rolled I had an advantage on you do

you

it up to yeah i would go like as far as you can

you go and inspect the remains and you've had quite some experience with fiendish entities and uh things that delve in that space

it doesn't seem to be fiendish in nature it doesn't seem to be tethered um

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.

Unless he didn't want his body consumed or it was an asset.

Or unless, yeah, there was

kept alive and

he didn't want to get into the wrong hand.

Yeah, I don't like it either.

1d4.

Four. I rolled four.
There you go.

Eight levels.

Great.

Okay.

And then I'm gonna

character.

What slots to restore?

So if you were a seven, it would be like one level seven spell or seven level ones, basically. Okay.
Or a three, a two, then a one, and another one.

Okay. Good boy.

I still have no rages, which is good.

Oh, that's a good one. Aw, I rolled a one.
Wow. Three nines in a row.
So

this is the best part of the show, right here. Yep.

Any level, you just get back that many amount.

Like, if you, what did you 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.

Should we try to

suck that

staff?

That's dangerous. No, I wouldn't do that.

Boy, I sure want to.

You want to? Well, yeah. I want to know how to hold on to the bottom.
I'm going to use the vial to get

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 for me.
Okay.

There it is. No way to get a rage.
Right.

Yeah. That's okay.

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.
I'm really. Oh, thank you.

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 for splintering. You didn't just sit there and how long does it take to suck? An hour? No, a minute?

Sparkling.

There's a reason why if he would have sucked it down if he if it would have helped him already.

All right.

I'm gonna go that D4.

Come on. Roll high.

That's okay. Mid.
Mid. Alright.

Plus Plus four. Yeah.
We're gonna make an arcana check. Uh-oh.

Me?

Okay.

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

guidance. Guide yourself.
Guide yourself. You're also within.
I guess you can't do that. No, it's good.

all of it.

You can't even read your stuff.

Guidance.

We are having a lot of time. We have inspiration.
Artificial short rest. Does that mean that you could have attuned to a weapon instantly?

Ten. So you get the benefits of a short rest.
No, probably not. I would say not.
Yeah, then I'll never mind. Um, curious.

I'm gonna bring back one level here.

Two plus.

Yeah, I'm dumping a lot into it, but that's where my disintegrate is.

I will say

very low.

No.

No, the tent. Does it look like

old Arcanum tech, the 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 the kind of lattice between it. Two forking points.

Does it feel fae-ish at all?

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.

If you can glean anything else from it,

what are we rolling Arcana? 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 a look-see. Yeah, do you want to assist me? Yeah, and we can look at it together.
There's no inscription or

there's no inscription on it, 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 kana 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, which is plus four.

I will say four. 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

way of

masquerading itself, okay, okay, okay. Anyone else want to hit it? You want me to give it another go? Reveal your secrets.

Well, I mean,

it's first level, but

worth it.

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

If this is packed with spells, we did this at the beginning of the

two charges that has

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 attune.
Got it. Yeah, I was poking that.
Oh, wow, wow, wow. Yeah.

Man, got us. I have nothing.
Not a lot of spells left for our next fight. It is a staff of soulbind relay

that has been expended.

Shit. Meaning it was meant to extend the the range of some sort of spell.

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 still gotta go.
So now we know we have to go because he's gonna fucking

go. That was fucking worth it.
That was fucking worth it. That gives us answers.

Okay, motherfucker.

Before we go. If Delilah has fucking clones, he definitely

should we should we destroy destroy it so he can't,

but it can't be used again, right? It was thrown in a bag of holding or something.

Well,

unless we want to. Because what you intimated was that it had expelled the...
Don't look at me. Correct.

Not the soul shot. I mean, I don't know, but that's not what DM said.
DM. It's possible because he had it so far away from him when he died that he wasn't able to use it.

Just a reminder, if it's very rare, 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 wearer's ability scores is permanently increased by two. Depends if we suck it up.
As does your medicine. But it takes an hour to suck it up.

It's one minute for a minute.

Oh.

But

bodies don't just bubble into sulfur for no reason. Yeah, but if you use this for soul binding,

you have the benefit of it being super rare or legendary for whatever's going to happen. Suck it up.
I think we should. suck it up do it right now

you've used it a few times today too yes we have

it but i mean this is the moment right i mean wait do we the harness for prodathos

do we need the harness for prodathos we don't know i don't know and we didn't get the did we get the harness off of ludenus before we turned into sulfur buckets he didn't have one yes he did he had it on when he was uh would we have looted it off of him

he would have taken it off when you guys had force 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.

You might need it for Perdathos. How else do you get it inside your body? Well, is it by telling him

get on and maybe you just have to bone him?

Maybe you got wow. 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 go to the bottom.
What's our roll app right now? What do we have to not roll

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 that

as rules, as written, do we still get the benefit even if it breaks? Or if it breaks?

And and then we roll for it,

right? But someone, we're like end of days here. Someone will get like something or a ruit is porno here, will get a permanent stat bum.

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 48-24-hour period, there's a cumulative 20% chance each additional use. 40% chance that it would

break after this use.

Okay,

pretty high. Chetney,

this could be our last chance to smoke that foot.

You really gonna

get high before we go buy Perdethos?

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

to be

an exultant. 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, but

still, but what is he going to do? Go in front of her doth 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.

But you still have

to see if you're not. 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 this?

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?

Can you see invisibility or something?

For an hour,

which I had up when we went in.

I would

have told you that 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.
Can you run back to the business? 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 in the cavern where lewdness was put in the force gate? 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 the stuff here.

It's pretty close to an hour.

Since I could run back and try and and look at 47 minutes. 47 minutes.
Alright, I'll run back up the tunnel since I still have the 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.

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 Ludnus 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.
Rubber belt loop.

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 Lodna.

I think he's hitting on me.

Should I be jealous?

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 tether between the two of you that causes it to weaken and give way.

And you push to the next one.

There's each boundary. Yeah, yeah, you can come.
It's permeable, right? It's not just you that's able to go. Well, is it turning permeable like it was for Ludinus? That's what I'm saying.

Is it going down or I don't know? Are you guys come with me? Yes, yeah,

Each step you all also traverse the boundary, these

barricades, these kind of divine boundaries becoming permeable as

Ruitus 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

a 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 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 that reach up and around, and in the center of this chamber you can see, much like the last, these 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.

And in the very center of this small chamber

is a soft

glowing

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 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 to this chamber.

How would you like to do it?

Can I reach my mind out there?

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 a an excitement and it feels half awake.

The rest of you, as it responds to Imogen, 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

of 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 Leubnis?

He was the first to reach me.

What did he promise you?

He came to me in my dreams

and promised to set me free.

And now you're here.

I'm so hungry.

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

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 the lies for her?

Happy 2025, everybody.

You don't want to hurt people. Oh, I didn't even realize that I did it.
I didn't even realize your shirt today.

Oh, wow. That's a classic little itty-witty baby.

The fifth element is love.

Sleeveless. I remember that haircut.
Listen.

These uh these strands that are that are connected to us, that are like pulling us in, do they

feel like they have a

substance in the room, or does it just feel like an energy of

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 want to help you,

but if we can't, what will you do?

Well,

I'll bring others

I can

make more

of my

kin.

The whole room

begins begins to quake, and you feel the essence of Ruidis 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.

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

this ends. Terudis born.
You both get

proximity of this

24 temporary hit points. Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay.
Whoa.

Juicing.

Hey,

when you do that, it kind of hurts. It kind of feels good, though.
Not gonna

it's a little a little little

pleasure with the pressure. 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 in the room with something that ate the gods, and I want to get closer.

I'm gonna walk towards the form.

Okay.

Slowly. And 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 Do you want to step to intervene?

No.

I will acknowledge that it's not clocking me.

Worm does, though. It's very childlike, right?

You intervene? I do.

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.

I must stay.

We can get you food.

But 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.

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?

As Brey has said that

Ladna is just gonna reach down and kind of

run her fingers

along the outline of the Matron of Raven

mask.

On her belt,

do I get any type of feeling?

It just feels cold in your grasp.

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, and and 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

like two other gods or something that disappeared

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 Pradathos 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 I don't know it's

a vacuum it's nothing I don't know

remember it starts to nothing continue to move around you or I'm 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 at this point. Do you continue to intervene or do you let it circumvent you? 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.

Nintendo step towards me.

Hold on just a second. Continue to 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.

You put your hand out and you watch as Chutney

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 of bludgeoning damage. Okay, okay.

It just doesn't, it doesn't even bother with you. That's our friend.

You can't do that.

It doesn't seem to righteous.

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.

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 actually 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 two, right?

Start taking up.

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?

Okay.

As you all acknowledge this moment, you watch as the light accelerates

and

just seems to

be thinking about it.

It only needed one of you to fuck. No, no, no, no, no, no.

I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that to her.
Erner.

Erner.

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 a bit. 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. Shhh! 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 crimson begins to spread throughout.

You feel Perdothos begin to

overtake you. Can I fight that? Do you wish to fight? Can I try to suppress it? Yeah.
Make a wisdom save. Come on.

You got advantage because a hero's beast.

That's true. It's like Poochie the dog just skateboarded.

And

I have an inspiration from somebody. No, I don't.

We'd have only left for 10 minutes, so

I think that was for me.

Oh, that sucks.

DC's probably like 10.

Probably. It's fake.
12.

12?

It's probably really low. It's a wisdom save.
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 them is so high that I can help.
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 gonna fit 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.

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 power

Imogen. Chucking through her hair.

28. 28.

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 Renan.

Now we have to wait till 2026 for the

first time. Oh shit, Phoenix.
Jesus, a whole year.

That's how we do it. That's how we do it.
It's not a 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.

Yeah.

All right, friends,

we'll pick up from there next time. Thank you all so much for joining us.
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