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So, last we left off. Belle'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 Lutinus Dileth.

After discovering through a vision that your mother was seemingly captured by Lutinus and being transferred, her abilities and possibly her physical being being transferred and destroyed into Lutinus 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 Ruudis itself, interfaced with the core of that mycelium network and the

kind of hive mind of the Myceet culture,

in 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 exalts 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!

In this moment,

here within the outer layers of the prime pillar,

Ludinus seems to nod with a

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

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

to Martinette Lutanus 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 for 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 tunnel.
Yeah, right down here.

Can I try and just not draw his eye and go explore that tunnel while he chats? Sure, go and make a stealth check for me if you don't mind.

16, 28. 28.

Okay.

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 a the miniature at least is holding a

staff.

He has a staff, yeah. Has he always had that? Yeah.
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 what to context

in context. Well, I mean, there's some truth to it.
We saw what we saw.

And

I'll admit, there are some things I

have shifted around in my head a bit.

But you immediately went to the end of an age. You had to be reminded about the beginning of a new one.

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

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

Read into my words what you wish. This isn't a chess game.
This is a conversation. I have nothing to hide.
I never have.

At every single point I have been nothing but forthright and honest with you and that does not change here in my mom's head

I'm gonna say

how much of that is a lie

I mean as far as I'm aware he

oh gosh I can still talk to her in her head right oh you can but yeah yeah this this is her talking back to you but she's but she's still like

reco she's

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

I mean, that's the trouble, though. I mean, I believe you.

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

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

Yet, we all don't like you.

I think that you can lie by omission. I think he lied when he said he didn't want to take Perdathos himself.
I know you. You proved yourself.
What I was going to ask,

did that plan change?

Plans often change by unexpected circumstances. He looks over towards your mother,

kneeling on the ground, still catching 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, Lunas.

Yeah, you're an altruist.

So, is this the plan? Gonna make a beeline for the core, see who gets there first. Little bit of a race.

I love races, but you don't have to work anymore. You can set it out, and we can just leave now

And go take the spot.

I agree. The gods have to be dealt with.
And do what? Just not you.

That's the trouble. Never you.

Would it change things?

If you wanted

that.

Maybe we have our own plans

of taking on Pradothus.

And what would you do

as the vessel?

Either of you. The beginning of a new age, Ludinus.

Yeah, it would be so amazing. I mean, I would just eat everyone.

And I think Imogen would just. we would just have like all of the snacks and we would start with you

I do not begrudge you for being the children you are

honestly

But here we are

at the edge of destiny, and I think we'll all owe to each other a bit of

openness.

We're being open, yeah.

It's such a short list of people who've called me a child in the last year or so. Weirdly, most of them were gods

at this point.

I think there's something wrong with you now. I think you might have lived too long.
I definitely know that's what's wrong with them.

I don't disagree. I have no aspirations for surviving far beyond this, especially given the context of my temporary

imbuement. I think it looks cool.

But I know it needs to be done, and if a sacrifice must be made,

I will make it myself.

If you truly

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

tyrannical family,

then I would not be in your way either, but I'd walk in very strong lockstep.

Then again,

your bloodline has already proven duplicitous.

Why should I even believe you?

Maybe you shouldn't.

Tell me your hardships.

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

What is it you wish to change?

I want people to have a chance.

To change their fates.

Too often, I feel like

what's been set in motion

can't be undone.

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

we didn't quite get to finish our conversation last time in Aeor,

I kind of ran off,

but I'm curious

in this past

century,

Have you ever thought to just ask the gods yourself?

To what end?

To what end?

You might be surprised. They do answer sometimes.

Sometimes.

A family

once long followed the path of the law-bearer.

a mother and father most devout followers

living in her holy light and divine protection marching to the decrees of guidance and the promised order and peace Alexandria

the divine law

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

Not once.

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

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

The law bearer will see us through.

My family was collateral damage in the battle between the 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 smoldering ruin, they rot.

My conviction was forged that day, and has remained unwavering since. Here, on the precipice of truth and triumph.
No, I do not care for their words, their platitudes.

They only care about them.

I don't understand, Lydnus. 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.

But did you get to say goodbye?

Of course.

Inside check.

Make an inside check.

Do I believe him?

15. 15.

Oh,

it's a whisper.

Can I quickly judge 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 next.

Got a rating system.

His villain market.

I hate this.

Pretty friends of these.

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

Yeah.

This is how I ruin everything.

What were were your parents' names?

Yes, what was your mother's name? Do you remember since it's been so long? And it's very important, as we've learned in the past, to learn

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

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

I cannot believe how much of your story

makes sense to me.

I cannot believe

how

different we both came out. I'm still an asshole, don't get me wrong.

Fuck, what is wrong with you?

Get over it,

grow up.

What began

my journey

was better spock.

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 Call Deater?

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 it being a genie, though.

I don't know. I've never been a god.

I would just like give anybody what they wanted.

When I want it.

So clearly I'm my job.

You'd be the trayer god, wouldn't you? Probably, probably, probably, probably. I probably would not shouldn't be the receptacle for the,

but I'm just, I don't know what I would. I mean, we could have a good time.
I don't know. It could go either way.
It could go either way with this one. And why are you here?

Hmm?

Why are you

here?

I am here.

It's a great question.

Great questions.

Like, what am I doing? What are you doing here?

I'm here because

I'm very curious.

And

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

That I can respect.

What do you want?

What do I want? Yes.

Well.

Imogen was telling the truth.

We've talked about this.

There is merit

to giving a little bit more

fate and destiny back to the people.

I've learned quite a lot over these journeys.

The gods were not the first one here.

Who speaks for them? Who speaks for the Titans? For the Elementals?

Who crafted this

Someone should, even though they're long gone.

But

I'm here.

Really, just because I kept walking through open doors.

As I always have.

Some that have gotten me killed. Twice.

But.

We're here now.

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

Not of you.

Small.

Brave, Ashari.

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

I'd rather just shut up and do.

Your malice is predictable. People have been spilling garbage from their mouths, like yours, for eons.

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

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

In your head, you hear.

I love you so much, Auram.

Now that is forthright honesty.

And it's appreciated.

Go fuck yourself.

And you,

wanderer of the silken sails,

what's your part in all this with these

strange beings of fate and destiny?

What do you want?

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

But now that I'm here,

I feel like

I feel like I want to help steer a little.

Can I ask you a question?

Is it allowed? I feel like there are rules.

I have been nothing but present.

So benevolent.

I know you think you're right.

I don't know, maybe you are, 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, guys, 90% sure. No, no, I don't know if that's accurate.

No, I'm

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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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

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Best you can tell?

None. Okay.
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Hard to tell, and the reason is because as you kind of step into this chamber, there's been that kind of odd periphery kind of buzzing sense, that kind of like low, heavy, heavy sub-woofer bass, like

kind of like sitting underneath the atmosphere here. Where you stand now, it is

loud and it kind of

hits your senses, your sensitive, woven gnomish ears

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

Sorry, Illium.

It is this kind of oppressive, general vibration that you cannot pinpoint that seems to be mucking with your senses

and it seems just getting heavier and heavier the closer you've gotten towards this current boundary and from the opening where I'm at to where

this golden lattice work is how about what's the distance there it's about 130 feet 140 feet maybe from where you currently are I just want

to touch it

I just want to

large pieces of like kind of rock pillars that are kind of pushed out of the ground but kind 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

grog? 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 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 that'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 and make an athlete. 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 the lab.

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 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, solids?

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

an endless fractal of woven glyph-like detail that kind of like shifts together and moves.

like it's you've

you saw patterns like this uh

when

Ira's telescope saw the outer kind of uh

barrier that had set an kind of an illusion uh 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 touch it.

Oh, God.

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

a piece of solid glass or stone that is hotter than your body temperature. So it feels not enough to burn you necessarily, but it has its own kind of unique heat and it just feels solid.
Oh,

that's not so bad. It's not so bad.

We could get through this. Um.

I'll take out a little chisel.

God.

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

just one little hit into it? You do.

The hammer like 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 going to turn around, grab the staff, and start heading back up the walkway toward the rest of the camera.
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.

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

ask her,

do you know

sorry, really? I didn't think it was gonna do that.

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 glaring out.

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

control.

I've studied and mastered the whims of ambition, weaving well-worn paths. I'm gonna miss the 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 fourth? Here we go. Here we go.
Here we go.

16 move.

16.

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

one thing? I'd like to leave

an item at the front of the cavern okay uh and then could i also use uh detect magic just to look in the cavern in case there's anything i'm not seeing seeing sure so you go ahead and cast detect magic

and as as you're kind of running back in the 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 spell craft or an enchantment, but there is, yeah, they have an innate magical essence to them, though alien than any other magic you've encountered.

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

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

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 like 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 back before they 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. Fortunately, nothing can get through the force cage.
Yeah, yeah.

He just made himself invisible. Oram falls in around Imogen, and I'm looking for him.

Is there any

place in this chamber that he could be? Well, you're not in the chamber yet. You're kind of trekking through the tunnel on transit.
So I'll save it.

All right.

I don't know.

They just left.

I'm off somewhere else. What are you doing?

What are you doing? Well, I was going to sit down and pray.

Oh, shit. Well,

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

Well, for instance,

the ball 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.

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

and ask

reach out in this in this moment reach out and and ask uh

uh

at the cusp

at the cusp of the end of my mission

I need guidance

I need renewed faith. I need inspiration.

And I need to speak with you. Okay?

My lord. No!

You're making a click call! Who's your lord?

Witch lord! Witch lord! So, in a little time, why are me here?

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

You know what?

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

What, no?

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

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

what's going on? Wait,

wait, wait.

Oh, God.

What you're gut. Okay.
All right. Do you know something like that?

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 rat right now. I'm going to to ask you in a second who specifically you're praying to.
Sure.

I was just going to say

all right. Okay.

Alright, they left the room.

Breyus.

Who did you pray to?

I'm reaching out

to see if the Lord of Lies,

the King of the Hells,

Lord Asmodeus, will hear my plea for guidance.

Okay.

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

one of the stronger sources of

divine guidance in your recent years

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

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

And in that moment, your vision begins to tunnel

until a flame kind of

burns it back.

And while your vision still remains imperfect and

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

You can smell throughout the

intense sulfur

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

Here in this black and shadowed space,

as

this vision itself forces

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

the shadow peels away

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

as he leans in.

My child,

what is it

that you seek guidance for?

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

I

apologize for disturbing you

in this hour of great import.

But I...

signs from you have been few and far between

and I've been shown

so many other

paths.

None of which I've taken, my lord.

But

in the absence of

clarity, sometimes a mission can become muddled, or

I fear I stand on shaky ground.

I've met

people who

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

for different reasons.

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

For indeed,

through some whim of the threaded fate,

you stand at the cusp of a choice.

Ludenis 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 can. I can.

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 the 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 as such in service to me.

And I'm so proud.

So,

you who work so hard.

You

who now

represent our future.

My future.

What is it you

want, Dumasid?

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

But

I wish for family.

I wish

my family discarded me

when I

when I ruined their name, and

I've been alone for so long

I wish for a family I

and a place to call my own my home

Maybe I could

maybe I could go to to where you dwell and and and and and sit with sweet sweet breas 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 Lewdenus, but do not free Pridathos.

And if it must be freed,

do what you must to bend it to our will.

I know you walk alongside vessels.

I know you've ingratiated yourself to those who

might very well be the crux

of our time

bend them

to us.

What if they won't listen to me?

Then perhaps it needs a vessel

to survive.

And without a vessel still remaining,

your home

will be protected.

I understand.

And you'll bring me to

you?

And so many more things, Braus.

You've only stepped but a little

into these flames and pleasures.

I'm proud of you.

I must confess,

these friends I'm with,

I like them.

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

how will I be strong enough to betray them?

Patience.

You can't give me like a

special spell or a

something?

I'm never far from you, Brains.

And when the moment is right,

we'll strike together.

I look forward to that day.

It might be today,

actually.

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

It is.

Thank you

for seeing in me what others wouldn't.

Thank you

for not abandoning me.

It 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 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?

There they are. We're coming.

Nice jacket.

Are you alive?

I'm like you now.

Brayers got turned into an old geezer.

I got withered.

I like 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 by Virginia. 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 and no way talking about it.

I have a death.

We're too.

That was base combos. It was one of our

foul or conversations. It really was a foul.

Orgasmic therapy.

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

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

So,

coming back to this moment,

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

And you all continue onward through this winding

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

and see what Braus, like, try to gather Braus before we all run. Okay, yeah, you kind of step up and Braus places his hand on the rock and

is just kind of standing there for a second.

Braus, I think it's good.

At that exact moment, like, he put his hand on the rock for but a moment. He pulls his hand back and 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 of you. Frescoes.

That's what they're called. Thank God.
Frescoes? Yes.

People take on rock.

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

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

amongst the various kinds of curved rock.

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

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

I mean, 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 to hit him with a sound. Also, there is a C-pop exclusive limited edition, one of four

on the ground. He has to make a DC wisdom-saving throw.

Distracted.

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.
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 there's going to be a little, as soon as you rush in and the casters have an immediate reaction to go ahead and start.
Stop! All right, so you cast Earthbind.

Seen a strength-saving throw.

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

So his fly speed was reduced to zero for the spell's duration. So he cannot.

Oh, it's on that.

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

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, 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 suck.

He's touching some sort of magical barrier. Cool.
Sorry, man.

But

we just got to get there. He's two hands on, and his staff is what, like, slung somehow.
The staff is just kind of floating to the side of the room. Ooh, floating next to him.
I hate that.

For mine, I'm going to use my action and my movement to sprint toward him to try to get within 30-ish feet. And I'm going to thrust Seedling out and reach a vine out and try to yank that staff.

Okay, your speed is

30. 30 feet.

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

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 Lautna almost there?

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

in the chamber after catching it. I'm running like I'm shooting it.
Okay, just keep dashing.

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.

It's possible. It's on works?

This in here,

you

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

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

so that 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

stick with the group. 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.

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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 exalted. No!

You're son of a friend! He's taking your battle! Bitch Cat, nodding! He's pounding! He is

like floating an inch off the ground. I was like,

oh my gosh.

Look at Cashton'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.

Wait, is the ground flickering? Yeah, the ground is changing. It's the go-bo hitting.

The go-bo hitting Mr. Group.

The ground is changing. 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.

Maybe also 7 and 13 and a half.

Braus Lodna. Rolling.

There's three 16s, I think. Who's the way? Who's all 16?

Breyus, 14.

Let's go.

Three way. One, two, three.

18. Five.
One. Get it out.
Get it out now. All right, so Ash.
Ashen, Ash. No, Brace Lodna.
No, Ash, Braus. Yeah, Breus Lodna Ash.

Okay, Breyus Lodna Ash. Oh, that ruins my whole page.
Dorian

and Richard Ash, Ash, me, Red, Ashton, Dorian, Fern.

Lodna, Ash. No.
You are Les. Ash.
Yeah, I got Last. I rolled a

nine. Oof.
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

guy luteness 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 you can step on the blue do you want to okay I was just moving him forward directly

solid yeah those

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 boat 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 it's a saving term, 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 17.

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

you pull it back into your hand.

Whoa!

I know what you can't do, Matt. I was about to say, most complicated ones.
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.
Alright, 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 the 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

come back out. Okay, sure, no worries.

On the inside and in my pants.

I will step in front of Oram. Okay, movement of

40 feet. 40 feet? Yeah, you can get up here in front of him or here if you want.
And how far away?

5, 10, 15, 20, 25. That's more than 30 feet, right? He's a little more than 30 feet from you, yeah.

How much of my 40 did I use to get in front of Auram? Do I have 10? I 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

a slice it up the side of my leg, and lightning

arcs up and down the side of it.

Awesome. And for my attack, I will...
Fuck it! I'm 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. Let's make a constitution saving throw.

Okay. Of what?

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

Oh, wait. Constitution 14.

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

Sword guy, but there's 48 now. Oh, it's so powerful.

15 feet on the twin.

14. What? Pass down a window of 15 feet and see if we can make that.
7.

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

So it'd be 14. Yes.

All right.

Oh, it's going to do it.

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

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

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

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, my turn!

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

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

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.

What if he's opening it? And he's not within China. 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 nine? What is it?

What is a ravenous void?

You watch as a

mammoth!

A black sphere of lightless destruction just

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

starts pulling towards it. A

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

The two melee guys got this. He's kicking our ass with math

and physics.

Can we roll a save?

At the moment. Shit.
No.

No?

That's going to end his turn.

Are you in the middle of the face? Wait, he's after. Wait, he's after Chad? Wait, nothing happens to us? Nothing happens.
happens to me.

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 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 going to finish his turn. He uses action not on the very don't smirk so much.
Your dimples are killing us.

Stop it.

It's never good. That's his opening move.
It's never good. Ray, it's 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 undimpable.
22. 22 just say.

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,

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 mini golf men.

Oh, that'd be fine. Really nice.
Max Abraus, you are.

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

Save me. Oh, this is fucking falling.

Okay.

I'm making a beeline for y'all.

Look how fucking happy you are.

Okay.

Oh, my God.

Am I within

the bottom of the makeup score?

Am I within 120 feet of him? Yeah.

No, I was was within 120

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

you are

going to spell range. Yeah.

85.

You are about 135 feet from him. Okay.

You can move up. You can get there.
You can do it. 130.
130. Okay.
Beroda's 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. Technically yes.
First, first

bonus action

inspiration.

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

It's my dumpster. I know it.

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

Bringing me within 120 feet of Lewiness. 10.

I will cast

silence

around Lewedness. Okay.

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

Silence? Silence. He's going to go ahead and counterspell.

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

look. This isn't it.

So, so,

not, not with.

It's got to be an attack spell. Not with.

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

Yeah, because that's what it's going to be. 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 counterspell teleport. That's not an attack spell.
No, no, no, no. But counterspell isn't an attack spell.

I think the spell sniper only

from the sniping. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because spell sniper, dude, he wants to do that?

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 Scanlan 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 color, 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.

Is it gonna allow it?

Did I just piss off the DM? No, should I just let this go? I'm making a little adjustment. No, it's good.
Uh. You're gonna kill us fast.
The DM. Your healthy.
Yeah. So silence goes off.

Something else goes off? No, he says silence goes up. Okay.

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

so that I can be within five feet of her. Okay.
And that's it.

Okay.

Okay.

That finishes your turn, Breyus. That's all I can do.
Bonus action. Get away from the duel.
Huh? That means he's got to get away from the duel. I know.
Yeah.

All right. Finishing Breyus's go.
Laudeno, you're up. Ashley.
Bund it. 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 in the radius.

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

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

Spell, this is a spell?

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

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

Okay, so yes, you take half that. Oh, what's that? So 11.

So I would have taken 11 damage. Correct.

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

Wow.

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

Whoa,

oh,

so it's a plus two.

Roll a high bench. That's what that was.
Okay. Don't reload your apps.

That's funny. It's bad.
Well, no, because I did a search to be that those would interact, and it was like, yeah, they 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,

with the. He just succeeded with the 22.
Oh, so you can't get there. And that's with my plus four? Yeah, but make it really.
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 they could only get to 21. It was impossible this time.
Well, he just said you have inspiration, so I rolled it. No, don't get up.

I didn't use it.

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

It's absolutely nothing. It's very mathematically impossible.

Vladna is pulled into the the center of the void and is restrained do we see her is she gone you see her just watch actually you you kind of like hear her next to you but this like blackened void space around you

it's uh

hard to see

for sure

doing the conahank inception no

interstellar cry

yeah so so the sphere itself is like the the density of it you can still see her but now she's like pulled it's almost like this like darkened shadow sphere and as she gets

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

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 walls. Towards the wall? Oh.

I want to.

One.

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

Okay. We're going to have seven.

Um.

What?

It's a 20-foot radio square,

right? Yeah,

it's a bubble.

Um, okay,

form of dread, I'm going to fire off

three of my eldritch blasts. Can I try to aim for the back of his neck?

If you'd like to, yeah. It is

he has a higher AC against that point.

You are restrained, so your attack rolls are disadvantaged.

They're disadvantaged. Correct.

Charles will get sucked into the bubble, so. 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 into a 20.
That's a longer DC. Why weren't you listing 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, I'm coming!

You're so far away from me. God, that is such a fucking easy to say.

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

Ashton is considered a large creature, yeah. Higher DC.

What to do? What to do? Don't even put the back of his neck?

Yeah, I said it. I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna see what happens here

With this advantage. So, this is this sucks.
But here's the Elch Blast. Huh? Yes.
The Elder 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.

That was cocked.

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

Come on.

Come on.

Okay.

29 to hit.

That hit.

Nice.

Let's go. Sucked this up.

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 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

shit

seven damage Plus an additional 8d6 necrotic damage if you don't mind. Go ahead and roll that.
What?

8d6 necrotic damage? For hitting that spot? For hitting that spot? Oh, it's like one of those little cysts that you bust with an encyclopedia.

Who has an encyclopedia? What did you just say? A cyst? A cyst?

Have you ever seen it if I needed to? If I could. With an encyclopedia.
Can I empower this? With a big book. No, because this isn't your actual.

Okay.

11, 12, 12. Then it comes back like a year later.
15 plus. Straight 20.

Uh

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

7? You should roll the 2 plus your 5.

Yes.

I can't take it. Right?

So...

So my phone is out. You fire it off.

Whack hits the back of it. And with the...
impact you see him kind of slump forward against the the wall and this kind of like

burning cis like hiss of

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.
Smell it. 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 all three? Yeah. That's right.
There's only one history. You're right.
All right. So that's your action.

Bonus action form of dread.

Look real creepy in the dark. And I look really creepy, and it's like it's spaghetti vibe.
So that's true.

It's obscene. So we can't see into that.

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.

You 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 it's 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? Yeah, I'm going to 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, no, because she is helping you actually because she's helped.

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 to have happen is he tosses my hands out in the next room and gets stuck talking about shit again.

I don't want us to have us like waste. Alright, here we go.
It's fucked up.

What do we got? Hey!

Fuck yes! He's rolling that concentration chair. So

I am

still stuck in here. I'm going full rainbow sparkle.
I'm surrounded by all sorts of crazy ass, crazy ass sparks coming off. We can't see it, but yeah.
No, you can.

It's like this, like a weird, sad thing. You're the light getting 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 ungrappling 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 mode. You do.

Yeah, your strength modifier. What's your mod there, T?

My mod for my strength modifier is six. Kick ass.

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

strength check.

16

shales, unfortunately.

And I can't move.

What are you trying to do, T? I was trying to let you out, but I did not roll high enough for that to happen.

No, that's not what I had.

I think I'm fucked now. I think that's what I got.

Okay, 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.

What the fuck?

Oh, boy. Movie.
Oh, boy.

You know what?

Form a colony of like 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 redundant.

I can go in there for you guys. No.
do I restrain?

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 Laud now? Where are we, like, since this is a single day? You all got shit.

Like, clam together.

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

Elbows in my tent. This shit sucks.
You want to get out of here? Yes, please. I'm going to cast Dimension Door.
Okay, where are you going? Come on, baby. Let's go.
Let's go.

Is it just movie or? I can't get in on it. No, no, no, it's just

his team's. That's why I asked why why if you were

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 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 though. That's nice.
Out of that 20 feet 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 going to be a bit more.
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 shooting out of the house.

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

go that way? Perception? If you're on like the lowest step, you'd still have eye.

Perception check is not great.

So

your guess is as best as anybody as to how far the actual extension of that gravity is. Yeah.
Between the two of you, if you want to say where you want to be,

is it over here? Is it over here? Where do you 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, 95, 100.
That is outside the eyes. 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 just really does something for my complexion.

So it's your action. You still have your movement.
Use your bonus. That's my bonus.
Oh, no.

No. No, thank you.
No, thank you, sir. I'd like to stay behind that thriller.
I'm good to go. All right.
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? Alright, dude.

Schmatt.

Okay, so

Glutenus, who

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

So he does not need to speak to cast spells.

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

to cast.

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

Can't get close. For now, I can always just

shit it out. Yeah.
If I see him casting spells, I'll just

catch

closer.

He's going to cast. I can fly.
I can fly.

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.
What why? Just roll a d6. What's why?

Just do it. Cough.

Four. Four.
Who? 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

the neck.

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, question.

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. Ashton is out of range.
However, I would like both Auram and Chetney to make dexterity statement cards for me.

No problem.

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

30.

Scatter pop. Hell yeah.

Motor pop.

52 points of lightning damage reduced to 26 to each of you. Okay.
Wow. So it says 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 now.

Let's go, babe!

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

Oh my god! There you go! Fucking

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? Um

I was, I had that. How long does that last for? But it lasts for an hour, I think.
Let me double check, though.

Um

hold down, 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 faded.
That's It'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 is 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 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.
We were talking about it. This exact same idea.
Yeah, that's why we're behind the rock. Who knows?

Okay, well, I just used spell. Fuck.
Okay, so that's the second level. I just use spellbook.

How do you know?

Like, he's gonna.

This is definitely gonna work on him.

I am going.

Yeah,

you 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 had 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. So 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 his 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 have an advantage against spells and other matches. Price must be paid.

Correct. So, do 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 you.

Okay. On your strength? So, yes, the minus two.
This bitch is weak as you. Yes, she.

You didn't know that.

21? Correct. Okay.
And you are restrained.

Ah, ah, ah! You just did 22. You just did 20.
Okay.

What is this? I can't see. I can't see.
Is anyone in here? This hurts? Fuck!

You still have your actions. 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.
You're right. You can see.
It's just intensive.

It's actually shaped 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?

60 feet of lewdness. You are about 120 feet.
Yes, I am. I know.
I figured I was. You have a way of getting out of this.

Dimension door.

Well,

would Mr. still be out?

Because he was in the last fight. Mr.
was in the last fight.

Mister is currently going around and around.

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

What's his help?

How much? Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right.
You're right. Because if he goes in, let me pull him up.
I'm so sorry. Yeah, come on.
He's got grippy toes. Yeah, he got grip toes.

He got toes.

Or he's not quite.

No, we're not there yet. We're not there yet.
No, yeah, exactly. But soon, not too much.
Soon. Mr.
Comeback. Okay, so roll strength signal 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.

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 style or with 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?

Hello, Jennifer Lopez. We have a spirit and each willing creature of your choice.
So technically, Ashton could go too. I'm too big.
Too big. Never mind.
Well,

no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's a touch and dare. Oh,

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,

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. Okay, great.

Because I did my movement, my bonus with mister. Correct.
Okay, so

it's up to you. You must save us.

Sure. You're the only one.
This is a dumb thing. I'm going to try it.
With all my spells.

I'm going to try it. Must be 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 beam.

Yes. So I will do it at.

I'll do it at fifth 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.

Add the d4. 25.
25 just misses. Wait, no, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold on. That's a bad 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.
But you gotta roll the default.

Okay, no, it's lower. I'm very low on the floor.

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,

the people are numbers. And the last one?

Yeah, it hits. So 18 plus 2 plus 3 attacks.

Let's go.

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 16.

Boost.

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?

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

I know. It's like my way of sucking.

That's for

owl. So just roll.
I just pinched my neck with that. Dumbass.

Yeah, well, I like twisted myself, so excited about it. Hope your gap was working.

It was. No, that's not good.

Whatever. Okay.

So he got

to do it.

So multiple attacks give you multiple opportunities.

20 points of damage.

An additional 20 points of damage. 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, it's three different rolls he gets.

We'll save the additional damages on the biggest one, okay? So, the first one,

yeah, no issue 19.

That's fine there.

The last one, yeah,

so

are you rolling your rudeness, rude, rude, rudeness, ruined disease? 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.
Orim, you are up.

Beginning of your turn, make a strength saving throw.

Strength save? Correct. Okay.
Saving through.

That is a

15. 15 is not 16.
Can I use Misty Step in this moment to escape? Seven to the start of your turn before anything happens. Okay.

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

he 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. Amuta.
Wow. Because he would have stayed restrained.

Nobody gets an opportunity to get it. Now he's ready to get 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.

No, two, high. Two, so three.
Where's my real?

Yeah.

Yeah. Who should have that for him? You don't know if it's like, yeah, yeah, and you're like, who made it? And then you're going to check it out and I'm like, because 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. Okay.
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

tricksy movement still, right? Here? Yep. So everything within 100 feet of that sphere is rough terrain.
I will.

Can I use Grasping Vine as an action?

Since it's normally a bonus action, but use my action to use it? I'll 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 it. I'll say that's the end of my turn.
And you don't have any confirmation, right? That finishes your go. Because we won't.

Chetney. You're up.
Getting your turn. 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 or wolf.

Check the bag.

Pretty good.

23. 23 succeeds.
Yes. Yes.

Amazing. I'm gonna.

I'm gonna start walking forward as a wolf.

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

And when I get within 30 feet of him. Alright, so that's

5, 10, 15 feet of movement to get within 30 feet of him. Beautiful.
I'm going to use blood curse of the muddled mind.

Okay. And I'm going to amplify it to

I'm going to drop silence. Damage.
Dropping silence. Okay.

And

Curse of Creature that is concentrating on a spell or feature that requires concentration.

The 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 room.
Okay. Until your next turn.
Yeah. Okay.

Ooh, that's better than it was. That's better better than it was.
Nice.

I'll keep using the rest of my 45 to come. I'll see how close I can get to.

Yeah, 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 going to take two swings with Turmoil.
Let's go. Right in his...

How do melee-targeted attacks work?

You just tell me you want to focus in it, and then I adjust the AC accordingly. Okay, I want to try and make the first one against the knob on the back of the neck.
Okay, go ahead and roll.

Is there an advantage? But if it's not disadvantaged, that's how it goes. That was dog shit.

That was only an 18 to hit.

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

Yeah, that's much better.

25 to night. 25 misses.
It's 26. 26.

That's right.

You go to strike the first time and you feel 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,

isn't.

That is the end of my turn. All right, that finishes Chetney's go.
It is now Ludinus' turn. Gets these 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? Or intelligent saving mind throws.
Mind sliver? Yes, intelligent throw.

This wouldn't be a charmed or frightened martial. It is

not.

You said intelligent saving throw? Correct.

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

I don't think I have it. Hey, I got a hard army.
Just do it again. Just do it again.

Repeat. Oh, so it's not.

Oh my god, it almost

11.

Okay, so you take

15 points of psychic damage

and

the next saving throw you make before the end of Luvenus' next turn, it's 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 fucking insulting.

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 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!

Or more of them. Oh, that'll hit.

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

Well, this isn't aiming at his

room, because this is just a

regular strike. So, um.

Do you have seven?

No, he's gonna shield. I don't

think I'm gonna.

What, it was a 26th then when I hit it regardless. So, yeah, uh, Superman Bush.
Okay, great. 2d6 plus 6, I think.
I just scrolled away from it like a tool.

And the barrier is no longer there? The barrier is still present, but the area where he was touching it seems to become permeable.

Like, the glyphs in that area where he was standing become translucent and he just kind of steps through it. So the boundary isn't broken.

Can we step through it? For a second, 22

points of damage, five of which is lightning.

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

All right, so he needs to DC of 11.

Yeah, he succeeds.

Disadvantage. I only rolled one die.

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

Yes. I forgot to roll an extra D8 for enhanced bond.
Just had to give it to somebody.

I won't receive. I'll take it of damage.
Sorry. Good to die.
That was okay. That was it.

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

He's going to

have a disadvantage on this.

had to now i have disadvantage no you have negative d4 and it's 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 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. Do less.

How do you make strength save with our view, please? Strength, saving, throw.

What is that? What does that say?

14.

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

Thank God you can brag. Good, good.

Okay.

You can still only move half speed.

So it's either cast a spell

or move.

Full sik 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 the spell pole. 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 a red moon beam? Yes.
Yes. Oh, weirdly, on the moon, it's just called beam.

That comes.

That's pretty cool. 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 spells he's advantageous, 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,

Trump succeeds, but he still takes damage. Does he?

What's this?

Half as much. So it's 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 percentage. Where is the d10s?

5 and 8 is 13.

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

that

he does get to 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 take it for that. I'll also say Lavna's.
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.

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.
Too good.

Every inch.

Just double checking.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

Come on.

Let's go to it. 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 gonna just be like, oh God.
So I'm gonna move as much as I can, hugging this edge and try and get lighting it. I'm gonna edge it.
I'm gonna 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 gonna get up here.

Right, that crack there.

And then I'm going to get out up.

Okay.

Secret weapon, pate.

Yes.

Let's get it. You're my nuke, baby.
All right.

He's got a fleshy.

What's going on? What we're 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. Go this way.
Stay away from a hole to get to a hole.

And yes.

It,

you know, double negatives make a whole.

Tiny little.

All right, what's his flight speed 40 40 so from there

Fly into that hole

Can you summon him farther away from you? Can you go behind the crystal?

He can get up there

No, can he get to lubinus to lubiness? 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.

If he flies down. No, if he lies down here,

right there.

Yeah. Yeah.
Is that 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. Yeah.
Uh-huh.

Yeah. Through him, shocking grasp.
Because I can cast spells through Pate. That's true.
You can, yeah.

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

Okay.

Back of his neck. Yeah, I got you.
All right.

So rolled him, right? Yes. So plus 12.

So 14 off.

Oh, wait, wait, wait. I have an advantage for that.
Or I've got inspiration.

How about it? How many? How many? How many?

A wow.

I rolled a 14 plus 9. So that's what I needed.
It was a 14. Because it's plus 12.
What's the total? So 14 12 is 26 plus another 9 because of inspiration. So that is

35. That hits.
Yeah!

Yes!

Destroy Him Ladder! Let's do it! Oh wait, I was back. This is a lot of destroy him laden!

So

as you're like holding on, the winds pulling back, you're like on the cusp of 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.

Fuck, what's this sh? What's going on? Fucking shit.

Okay.

Oh, my God. I think this is the moment.
Correct.

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

Pretty mid-roll. 7, 10, 12.
12 points of damage already.

roll for concentration, DC's 10. But wait, wait, wait, 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 hole.
Yeah, so you 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 this because he rolled a one. That's fair.

That's fine.

Burn, burn the legendary resistance. Damn, man.
I'm one of them trying to knock that thing off so accurately. I know, sure.

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

What did I just say? 14.

15

plus 8 is going to be 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, five.
Six.

67 spells? Oh, man.

Yes!

Awesome!

He's gonna lose a fourth and a third level spell slot on that one. Yeah, baby.
Okay, okay.

That was a great turn. That was a really good turn.

As you cast the shot and grasp through,

Pate is just like chuckling while humping the back of 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 Ludas pulls his hand back and there's like black blood and like a weird, almost like a maple syrup texture, like liquid kind of coming out of where the hell is it? Ew!

Specialty hole, maple syrup. It's not a hole, but

now it is. Now it is, yeah.

Cannon.

But yeah, he'd not appreciate it.

And so

he 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.

So you just moved it in the radius, right?

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

Roll it up. Because 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 toe for Pate.

Come on, Pate. Okay.

It's a five-foot radius all around him. It's just around Ludmus.
And what does it do? It's like a spotlight.

Plus my

spellcasting ability, right? So anybody who's a contact fighter is a little mild.

You can drop it. I think that should be good.
You could 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. Okay.
Since you wouldn't want to hurt your friends. I would definitely.
So don't worry about that for you. 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 actually see Lutinus. He's out of range.
Yeah. But Pate does give you the vision.
Yeah. All right.

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

Nat 20. Yeah.
Yay!

Let's go, baby. You're like right on the cusp of where the radius that is.

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

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

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

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, no I'll take it then I'm yeah I'll just gonna 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 Minjan 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 now. Well from where you are

you can't you all you saw was him like kind of step through it. You saw like the edge of the boundary and he just kind of walked through it and out of your sight.
All right.

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

Pate is just on the outside of where he was.

I denied my movement last time, but

would I be able to have Coriolis scoop me up and use his movement? Oh, Coriolis? He's been with you that's a good one. Yeah, he's still on the board, I guess.
So you've been falling over there.

Coriolis, we'll save his movement. Well, first off, Coriolis make a shrink saving.

Oh, my God, that's right. He's in the pits.

Oh my god.

What was the scientific name, Samper?

Equus

Caballeros? Caballeros.

Swear to saving.

No, I can't. He's in the pit.
Equus. He's in the pit.
That's okay.

That changes it. That's fine.
No, no.

Gotta play it. No!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's in the pits.

He takes Coriolis Tay.

Nobody, Bowie. Nobody.

But he's so 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 movements 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 blue eyes.

Yeah, I think you would just have hindsight.

Okay.

So that's 25 feet there. Okay.

You can see Lewiness 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.

Go ahead and make concentration check for me.

I get advantage to maintain my concentration.

I'm going to do something. Can you just like.
Nope. No, no, no.
No, no. I'm gonna leave him alive for you.

What's this?

Not very good. 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, I think.

It's positioning stuff. Alright, scratch that.
I'll keep that tea 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 a little bit, 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 this.
So we're putting you.

We'll do, uh, yeah. Fourth.
Oh, no, no.

Uh, fuck it. Fifth level.

fifth level lightning bolt until Utah is the left. All righty

Dexterity saving throw 16

He succeeds. Got it

Cool, so he takes half of this correct

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

Say 14,

32, 30, 33. 33.7 takes us 16 points of lightning damage.
Yeah. It strikes through.

He takes the hit to roll for this. DC10.
Maintain concentration.

That is going to be.

That's a fail. He's going to use his secondary legendary resistance.

Damn. Is he burning through those resistance? He's so cool.

Usually three.

Three per turn or

three per turn?

Real?

Usually it's three for the legendary creature for stealing.

So the blast hits him.

And he kind of just

three doubles his concentration and just keeps pushing on the barrier. He's like

more or less

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

march towards what lies beyond. How much damage did you do? The cave.

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

like that.

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

Shabboy 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.
Give me inspiration if you want. No, I'm good.

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

Imagine 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 it. You have advantage on it.

And the DC is lower because you're in between. You're going to tumble your hands through it.

Like an anti-gravity jet.

So, based on your current. Yep.

So the DC is 16 right now. Oh, my God.
Come on.

Still so fucking high.

Jeez.

Wait, did you want to roll this?

No, that's not what I brought.

I didn't mean to roll either.

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

Jesus Christ.

Please give me an instant replay.

They were.

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

I failed.

So you are holding on to the other edge and try and like 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.

We try, we try, we try, we take

four points of health. 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 see.

I'm over 120 feet away from him now.

All right. You are currently, yes.

All right, cool. Awesome.
Swell.

Then I'm going to try and cast

a level five lightning bolt. I'm going to use a distance.

I'm going to double my distance.

Okay. Double the distance, which will definitely hit him.
I mean, definitely be far out of the way. 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.

Right between

the pipples. I'd allow that.

Okay.

You are restrained still. If she was screaming at me, I would also stuff 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.

Natural 19.

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

Okay.

10d6.

Cool. That's gonna be great.

It's gonna make him drop concentration for sure. That's the whole point.
This is gonna do it. But then he's gonna roll a resistance again.
Well, he'll be one more gone. Yeah, exactly.

He's gotten rid of two. Yeah.

10.

Sure.

What am I gonna do?

15, 23, 25,

31 30

three points nice three points that was I rolled though that was nice that would be 16 points lightning damage total

strikes him uh for the DC just a straight roll

uh that would be enough unfortunately succeeds on his concentration check

the the bolt lightning strikes him but you can see like the psychic field kind of reflexively woof appear behind him and the bolt hits it and it seems to ground itself crackle around and still get to him and still shock him but a lot of it's been kind of disseminated into the nearby rock

okay

okay

um

let me just think for a second

i think that's everything i can do

okay tough Does that finish your turn?

Okay. End of your turn.
He's gonna go. He's now getting a little more frustrating kind of like

this makes the race more interesting. He's gonna go ahead and spend two of his legendary actions to do rapid cast.
He's going to cast chain lightning

on you. Oh, I know.
But you're

just so

each target within 30 feet of him. Oh, fuck me.
That's gonna be Chetney. Dang.

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

dang. Oh, my baby boy!

Sorry, guys.

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

suffering.

Please let it sound like that. No!

It's like a Schwarzenegger doing a fucking shit. Those are shitty ass fucking

See the Schwarzenegger reacts and make him roll shit.

It's only 30 points of lightning damage. That could have been a lot higher at 10v8.
Do we get a down? So you got a dexterity saving throw from each of you.

Tex.

Dexie. Okay, for Pate.

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

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

Oh, dog. I did it over the new keeper.

He vanishes and a magical burst of nothing.

He tried to save you, Chen. He tried.

I just did black molasses splatter all over.

I hold so many ones on that.

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

Chen? 25. 25 is success.
You take 15 15 points of lightning damage. Fail.
30 points of lightning damage.

Fuck. 23.

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

Alrighty.

I'm going to add the whole night.

Finishing imagins go.

A shift

of nearby light. Ashton catches your...
Actually, 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 mean to just watch him fade.

Big boy.

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 watched him kind of like, he dimension doors to the opposite side of the chamber.

He's going to go ahead and see, take his spear 40. He's first going to go into his nightmare form as a bonus action.

So you watch as he kind of appears and kind of looks over towards you and once like 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 him behind.

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

And where his black eyes were, now it's just like these white, vacuous orbs. Almost like he turns into a negative version of himself.

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

So 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.

12 or 15 feet, I think. About there.
Is he within 30 feet of luteness? Yeah, 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

steel wind strike.

Steel wind strike. Let's go, buddy.
So he

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

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

vanishes. And you watch him, like, nightclub

teleport around Ludinus in a series of dark flashes.

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

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

That's a natural fucking beacon 20. Oh, I'm not even joking.

Right there.

All right, yeah. Ira coming into fucking 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 end, it's a crit. Let's see what we got.
So.

Alright, so that's 10, 20,

30, 36

times 2. Oh, my God.

That's going to be

72 points of force damage. Oh, beefing.

On Ludinus.

That's, ooh, this is not good.

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

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

So, half of that is going to be he has 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, come on!

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 difficult.

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

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

Ira!

okay

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 30.

That's a natural one on Ira.

Natural 20 to a natural one. That's the way.
So Ira gets pushed 30 feet back. Oh, no.
Yeah.

Okay.

So Ludinus kind of like angrily gets up and

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

like bubble ripple of psychic energy. And Ira gets blasted back and shh 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, he's going to be. Do I need to check to see if I go in? Strength check? Yes, you do.

What is she holding on to?

Okay.

Come on.

What? It's because I'm rolling by. 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

that's the best. Into the void.
Look all the way to the next corner. Smushed against a dinosaur.
Good thing we're like, damn. So useful in this.
Take 27 points of force damage.

27 points of force damage. Perhaps we're going to go.

Okay.

Um,

we're over 120 feet away from him.

Do you have spell sniper?

Narr.

Um, all right.

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.

come back. Well, I'm gonna leave him out there.

Well, I mean, he starts to make it

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

Do flames get natural 20.

Mr. succeeds in the set.

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 could, like, hold your action, and then like boats your bonus action and teleport. Yeah, I'd allow you to like have him move into the radius.

He'll take the damage by moving into the radius if you think he can survive it. Then he could try and teleport you out, and then you could do an action when you're teleporting out.

Wait, how do you do that? 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 she's like,

sorry, it's like dug in the ground.

I'm gonna have him take Imogen out. He can take both of us out, can't 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.

Spirit has

a creature of your choice with me. 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.

And five feet of mister.

Mister can move

half movement to go, but he takes half damage because he's within 10 feet as he

pushes anyway. He's like,

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

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 fighting the gravity is going and walking in on his own terms. Finger it out.

I love this game.

The poop monkey control

triangle.

I've only crossed the event.

He has gone where no money has gone straight. I rolled really good on that damage roll.
It's totally fitting

to have a pet with more than four hit points. I know, right? No, man.

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.
Oh, tough call. Tough call.
I know. It's a rough call.
Think about it.

Bring an animal up here.

And then, could we go towards Brayants?

When we bamp out, Imogen hates horses, confirmed.

Anti-horse girl. Yeah.

Fuck off, horse.

We can get

there. And we'll get you

here.

Team. And 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 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.

Does it move up in the other form?

What? Say again. Does your movement go up in your fire form?

You haven't turned into a fire. I know, I was gonna wait because I have it for an hour, but it's an hour is now

the time. Is it? I didn't rudeness!

There's stuff after this.

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

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

We're gonna find Perdon. Alright, alright.
Scorching Roy.

What level? To Perda. To lewdeness on the flood 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.

It's resembling one now. Sure, yeah.

I guess it is a little punctured. With a little bit of drainage issues.

The little seepage.

Oh, we got seven

hits.

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

Oh, 16.

Oh, but you're, are you get a... Oh, no, 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. You're going to cast.

I was going to say. Shield.

And that's going to affect shh. AC the rest of his

turn. Yeah.
Affect all of it? So as AC's even higher.

So this one is

30.

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

You're not going to hit any of them. That's fine.

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 shields.
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.
one hits guy one hit. I'm gonna change the name finger.
Don't say it like that. That's it.
That's it. This is one hit so roll two d6.
Okay. Oh man

and then

also a d8 for mister right

okay

15 so 15 points of fire damage on him. Okay, great.
Okay. So it gets 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 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 needs to roll a one fail?

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 wasn't a fucking 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.
Did you do that?

Just sounded scary as well. You got it.

Yeah. All right, Fern, to finish your turn.

That.

Does Mr. get to

turn? Mr. does.
He gets to throw some shit.

No,

he did the dimension door thing. Oh, that was his action.
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
All right. So, finishing Fernsko.
Orim, you're up with the chat chef hand back. Top of 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 chef.

Oh, no, I said,

right. No, it's strength.
Strength.

Okay, I failed that. I'm going to use what I should have done before.
I have one Indomitable left. You didn't roll advantage, though, did you? I did not.
Why do I have advantage?

Because 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 i'll 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 and you close your eyes for a second and imagine like the calm winds of zephyr and as you do you kind of bend like a reed with the gravity as it pulls towards you and kind of glide along the outer edge and hold yourself in place.

And you feel confident that you can keep your focus and strength this round. Was 18 the DC? 16.
16 was 16. Okay, I rolled a 10 on that superior.
Yeah, I saw that. So,

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

use my movement to go 15 feet

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

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

next to Ludinus 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

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, I can't believe it.
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 they're reading.

Alright, so that's 85

there.

90, 95, 100. You're just outside of that range.
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 going to try try three attacks with just my claws out? No, uh, no turmoil. Yeah, yeah, just claws.

Uh, first one

is fuck you. Uh, really?

Just forget that. That never happened.
Second one,

that's better. Uh, 28 to hit

amazing.

D8.

Sorry, eight.

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

19 total. Yes.
Alrighty. And the last one.
Let's make this 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.

on lewdeness. 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 against him.

Yes, yes. Natural 20.

Yeah!

Chain, chicken, poke a poke. 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.

So with that,

the DCN is going to be 14. Okay.

That's going to be a 19.

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

Good job, Chat. It's now back to Ludinus' go.

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

And you watch as the next one.

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 a creature enters the spell or starts a turn there, yeah. Constitution save.

That's going to be

16. He gets disadvantaged on Constitution Saves? It was until the end of 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 points.

Take 16 points of radiant damage. You will then roll the 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 fight.

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

Hey, for uh, it just

Auram and Chetney just know that 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 tail connect shove uh 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,

Mossack!

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

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

Next up is Brace with Lodna undone. Oh, Jesus.

I have to save, I assume. Yes, you do.
Come on. This is a D10.
You've crushed it. Let's go.

It's big. What was that? 15? Yeah.
15 plus 9. 20, 24, 24.
Yeah, you're fine. You resist.
Oh, so wrong.

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

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

already have.

Yep.

Shit.

Shit.

Oh,

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 moonbeam? Can you move it forward to like

keep in? Because you move past it. I can move, 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

kickers 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

Fern or

Mr.

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.

I guess I'll just stay put.

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.

D6.

You can still use it next time.

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

That brings us to Laudna's go.

Yes.

okay.

What do I do?

Um

I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 eldritch 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's burned all his auto

his legendary save yeah so let's go and 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? Yes.

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 risk.

If we take off all our clothes, do we get advantage? Are you born far nose?

I hexed it. Don't you finish my photo's accent?

What if we pretend we're shooting a porn? Oh! Let's work before.

Try to check the 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 now.

Okay.

Best as you can get there. Okay.
Got body. He's a sniper guy.
That That finishes your go.

That's so good.

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. It gives you advantage.
Oh, I already have advantage. 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. So 20 feet

out of it. Okay, but I thought I could still, just because

I'm trying to use the ground to not all right, yeah, so you you ignore the yeah, so basically the so you're gonna do that be here five ten fifteen twenty

twenty-five thirty thirty-five.

I can hit him. Oh my god.
Oh, well, this is gonna be fun. Uh, all right, I'm going to use uh

I'm gonna 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 would

making a I'm so sorry I didn't call to the neck did I I meant to but I'm

you did a second ago okay that's fair thank you I actually did thank you that's uh you said you were going to go for it uh it's 20 other 28 times 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

uh, so that's 3d6.

Come on, Barbie, let's go party.

All right, uh, 3d6 damage. Oh,

it's gone, wherever it is. That's okay.
I've got it's got sucked into your penis.

What?

What?

16.

It got sucked in your pleasure. 30 points of damage.

Sorry, I was distracted. No, I totally understand.

What was that again? 30 points of damage. 30 points.

I want to join your fucking guy, Laura.

So they got a kindergarten cop. Actually, it got sucked intod PDA.

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 necrotic damage.

Alright.

Just for you. It's 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 reach. Yeah, it's not quite our damage.
So five.

13, 14, 15. Hello.
Hello, 16, 17, 18.

Especially bad. 120 points of damage.
And we should add another tent,

which would be a failure on its concentration. Whoa!

You are all double 18, so 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, but

finally

and it's a void.

D6 for self-solve, worse

construction piece.

Dang, all right. I should say,

um, I need a uh

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 solid, but it is definitely resisting him as if it was.
Okay.

So if I so if I

grab a skull, 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,

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 gonna move him five feet. Um you can move him just five feet to the like where the to the to the left of me so that he's in the middle of all that bullshit.

Like he's next 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. Love it.

That's 17, 18, 19.

19, 29. Yeah, that's

hits, I assume. 29?

29, 23. Yeah, 32 altogether.
And damage on that is 2d6

plus

2.

Yeah.

Hello, the pre-community.

25 points of damage.

He's looking hurt. Yeah, I'm trying to.
What?

I only get two attacks. It's been a while.
My brain is. Does he have a jewel on his forehead and look like he's made a snow con? No.

I do not get a third attack, if I recall. No.
Okay, how about a fourth or fifth? I'm trying to figure out a thing to do. 17 more attacks.
No, I was just having a lower bailey.

Only backs can do that.

I think.

Shit, I should have done that. That was boats.
I should have done that other thing, but that's okay.

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

Did you do, I missed it, 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 the same 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

eight 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?

Alright.

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

use counterspell at fifth level as well.

So counterspells your counterspell.

And that uses

reaction and a fifth level slot. 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.

Just that.

54 points of lightning damage.

How much? No. 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's 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.
30 20?

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

4. 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.

Oh,

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

As a frustrated retort to that. Alright.

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

Good.

Uh.

Alright. He's now, like, 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.

Pretty metal line. Yeah.

I'm gonna 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 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. That okay? All right.
Are you in Moonbeam? Am I in Moonbeam? You would now be moving into Moonbeam.

Yeah, definitely not gonna do that. All right, I didn't know where the radius was.
Okay, yeah, it's right around this area here.

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

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 safe space within melee.

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

a flutter here.

Actually, if you want to drop into this space here, which there is a little alcove, and 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.
Using your sword ability or are you just straight attacks?

This first one's going to be a straight attack. Everything comes after, depending on the success.

Hey, let's go. Plus a four.
Come on, 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 uh i'm kind of moving i like in the space it's tight but it's making it work was that a neck hit or a body hit that you were going well no he didn't specify yeah i did not specify so i'm working at him uh and then i'm gonna use my blade flourish okay but i'm gonna use uh masters flourish so instead of my 12 i'll use a six okay so uh 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 uh that'd be a five, but because I'm attacking with

Gambo Cleft, I double it for ten. Dang, alrighty.
Yeah.

23 points of damage on one strike. 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 surprising little 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 the wall. I mean, he's turned to

he's like still facing the wall and like kind of

he's having to train on all of you.

I'll try with a little finesse and I'll try to go for the neck. Out of four.
Oh, that is not great.

Fourth of four. Yeah, I don't think it's gonna do it.
No.

Six plus twelve.

Eighteen.

18, unfortunately, does not hit. All right, that's good.
Maddie, Maddie, question for you.

The brand.

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 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 chime, would that have been? No, Orm is five feet from you.

So he would take six damage from that.

So six for each of them?

What's the wording on it? It says, each time the branded creature deals damage to you or another creature, you can see within five feet of you, the branded creature takes six psychic damage each time.

Right. So.

Not per round, but each time.

To you or another creature. Right, to another creature.
So I'll be like. Six, six, six.

Yeah, another eighteen.

Does he have resistance to psychic damage? I don't know.

Stop dying. 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 give it a try. Going for the

terrible. Miss.

I'm in the mix. Hey, man, still.
I will take one success this whole evening. Yeah, 23 points of damage.
Yo, you got Vodna out of there. That's huge.
Yeah, you guys did this huge.

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 run forward as far as I can.

Tom Cruise Round. Wow.

As I run.

Oh god, I hope this works.

Good. She becomes a little bit.
Double the distance with a sorcery point.

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

Come on. And I'm gonna cast power word stun.
Yeah. Power word stun?

This has to be beneath 150 HP.

Okay. It's auto-success, if that's true.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. 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 the 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.
Okay, we got fucking go ham. Go ham.
Wait, we can just hit him and he won't break it.

He's stunned. No.
Fucking stunning, strike, stunned. Stunning, strike.
He's quickly stunned. So, so everything has advantage.

Hits have advantage.

Whoa.

Auto-fail

things like... Doesn't it advert?

Yeah. Doesn't matter.

Attack rolls against an 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.

Okay, this is great. He's losing

baby. You got no range? Shit.

Jesus. 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.

Let's get the neck along. What was the vial? What was the vial? Get the vial.

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 her his shoulder towards you and goes, oh, good girl.

Back into place, the bone 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.

And a d4.

And a d4.

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

Stack him up.

Oh, yeah. Oh,

oh, yeah.

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

That's a 30.

That's a 30. So,

that

hit the patient. Holy shit.

Holy natural. That's okay.

Okay, it'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 points in necrotic damage. 37? Oh, yeah.
Twice?

And that one round from Ira did 74 points of damage in one strike.

26.

Yep. And D6.

Damn.

He's probably

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

So I think everything's gonna have damage.

Oh my god, I got gave a goosebump.

I know.

Yeah, that changed.

And a second level spell for him. 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 wanna 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

can hold your action casting the spell and then appear and then release it within range.

And I am holding...

I am about to shoot out.

Yeah, and that will get you within 60 feet. Great.
Great. Okay, so I'm going to do at fifth level

Flamestrike.

Just so you know, look at the radius of Flamestrike. It's going to hit everybody around.
Each creature in a tenth

It is a wide column of fire and stone.

I'm gonna cast fireballs.

I'm gonna cast flames.

Ashley might have forgotten, but fern knows. Yeah.

Okay, shit.

There's no way... Hold on, hold on.

It's a 10-foot radius. There's no way I can only put that on him somehow.
The flaming sphere, you're saying? The flame strike. That's 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

for him.

It's like a

column that goes like

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 I was going to save.
Okay, so that's alright.

I am going

to cache.

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

I really have that ready to go. No worries.

Give me just a minute. No worries.
We've gone to that accent.

Oh my god, I can't believe it. I mean, I'm going to have to just scorch and grain again.
Do it. Do it.
I mean, I don't really have anything much left. Let's go.

You've been advancing 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.

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 to change. Yes, yes.

So,

a lot of math floating in here. 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.

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, start him down.
However, you want it. Yeah.
His neck is like a third.

neck is a hard one? I'm gonna just do his body. I mean you just 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.

I haven't had it. Okay, sorry.
So the first one has the body, and then. Okay, so you've got two so far.

Advantage.

Okay, so

19.

19 does not hit. Okay.

So now now for the neck

okay

okay

uh 25

it's gonna be a 26 26 is the magic number so we gotta roll 15 or higher if you want to hit the neck

or design for the body either one

neck

come on come on

okay so 27 you got two more rolls two more rolls yeah okay i'm gonna go for the neck oh we one more One more roll. One more roll.
That didn't, that was a one. Come on, 20.
Nah.

Okay, so two to the body, one to the neck. One to the neck.
It should just be 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 I won

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

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

16, 60. 20.

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 nine.

I know they're so small and so annoying. It just helps me.
I don't know why. Okay, so nine plus nine, eighteen

plus seven

to eighteen, twenty-five. Thank you.

Two more? Yeah.

Plus eight

to twenty-five thirty-three.

Alright, thirty-three points to go. Okay, okay.

I win the d6.

And a d6 and a d6. For spells.

For spells? Yeah, to reduce his spell. To reduce his spells.
So the d6 plus one.

Six. Okay.
So that's seven.

He's still losing seven double spell on that. Whoa.
Okay.

Okay. Okay.
Okay. That finishes fern.
Yes, it does. We're at the top of the initiative order.
Auram, you're up with Chetney on deck. Okay.
Come on, baby.

All right, all right, all right, all right. Uh, 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.

Winner ready? 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 that.

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. Okay.
Do it. Do it.

And then I'll just see if the last, I'll just do the last slash, which is not as good, but a d4 still. Correct.

That's what 27 on the body.

Okay, okay.

Come on, baby. Crit first.
Ludovic. Crit first.

Window. 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, 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 one for the. Well, Auram, Savior, Blade of the Tempest.
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 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

I do

falls to the ground, lifeless,

limp

Ira

curls over

like a spider surrounding a wrapped fly

and picks up his head in his hand.

Did that really just happen?

I poke him a little.

Is he dead?

He's dead, dead.

I go up and break his pockets. Yes, I'm just looking through all the pockets.
Ooh, the buddy, steal his vest.

Yeah.

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

Ira is just kind of sitting back and just watching you loot him with a terrible grin.

His

crown that he still has adorned on his brow.

He's just kind of

relishing in this moment of comeuppance in his face.

I'm gonna slowly walk forward

and

drop to my knees next to Auram

and hug him.

What happens now?

I don't know.

But you did it.

We did it.

We did it.

If I look back at this shimmering gate,

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

Can we see through it?

Does it look diminished from when we first entered?

The initial boundaries that the Mississippi 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 gonna use second wind

and stand up and with 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 ourselves,

can you remind us what this does one more time? This fist side blows great. It feels cold and smooth.
It doesn't matter.

When thrown against a hard object with enough force to orb a shatter encircling any creatures within 15 feet with a burst of crafted 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 heal. 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. Spell levels.

That's pretty clutch.

Rested.

He's dead.

Who else is coming?

Where's

your mom?

She's out there. She in the other caverns.
She didn't come running after us.

I'm gonna call to her mentally.

Are you okay out there?

She weekly responds.

I'm all right.

Okay. How about you?

Lewis is dead.

Truly

as

far as we can tell, yeah.

What if we just

don't know what

what if we just

cave this place in some

there's gotta be a way to do that right

cave it in and go no further? I mean Ludinus is gone now is he did he make copies of himself that are around

yeah can we can we drag his kind of body out of the walkway a little bit and just search him for forehead gems, armpit amules?

And a reminder

that his magical staff is where Corey

Coriolis is. Oh, yeah, he could suck it up.

Good.

That's a good definitely. 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 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

this is it. This is all I have.
In one hour, I'm going to be nothing.

I gotta keep going. We don't have any idea.
Even without that, I'm not.

No, that's that method.

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 peeksies 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.

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 you 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 have a moment to change them

Chet what if you like

Grim psychometry the geometry

the membrane yeah

love it

I'll use Grim psychometry on one of the impenetrable membranes roller history check

seventeen

17.

You concentrate here and

the history is

broken and sporadic. You see

civilizations

collapsing

within a rockfall from all sides.

You see

a gathering of divine fear

and you see

something once grand

squeezed to a point of slumber

And for the first time

you feel

this pole

Something beyond that boundary.

You sense something. A will.

Present.

Aware.

Inviting.

Anything?

There's something back there.

But it's old.

maybe

the small super hot warrior is right

maybe we shouldn't

mess with it we could just

make sure no one else tries but didn't the arch heart and the matron both ask us to help them yeah

they did

but

we listened to them as 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

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 to double check. There are several more membranes that we can see right, not just one.
Best you can tell, there's a handful of layers. Yeah.
You can just test one.

We should do it.

I was just kind of sitting back and just watching you walk over a solidarian, 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 Ludena's staff.

and he gently sort of floats it through the air

and drops it in Imogen's hands.

Cool, it's a super awesome staff. Whoa.

Anyone able to tell what the Ira, can you tell what this is?

But also, don't lie to me. Don't take it.

Oh, well, this is a

No, no, I'm holding on to it. Well, show it soon.

It is a delicious artifact.

Quite the prize, really.

You know what I've identified? I think I do, but

I'm pretty sure I do.

What do you think, Ira?

Let chaos rain?

I'm certainly curious what you all decide to do empowered as you are to make this choice

me

I got what I came for

I think I'm

I'm comfortable just watching from the sidelines

So a bunch of slapdicks We're gonna decide the fate of Xandria right now.

Well, it could have actually were here.

Let me see it, staff. A bunch of slaptics

to do anything.

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.

And also worrisome because

that means like some sort of consciousness

lives on.

It could have been warded against such a

thing. So he was ever holding it or was it just always floating there?

I mean he held it at times in camps in the past, but this evening he kind of had it floating at the side. Cool.
While he was focusing on the boundaries. I'm scared he's going to come back.

I'll cut his head off.

I'm going to say while all this is really devolving now.

But I mean, it's

happened

in

shell-shocked 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 the sound of the body. I know, but it's just the ball.

Just for the 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 any

We tried to show all of it. 15 sylvans.

Ira, what away is that?

We've got that.

You turn around.

Ira's not there anymore.

Is the staff?

Okay.

What's the problem? What's before 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 boundary, the barriers that he passed through are unchanged. And the other ones have not beyond have not been breached.
Okay.

That's

the orb.

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 throw it at a brace's crush.

One push.

Shout out to Paint. It's like...

Suddenly, in an instantaneous beat, time slows to an infinite point of stretch and then rapidly seems to jump through some...

It's like being pulled through a violent portal, but you're landing right back where you were.

And you feel somewhat refreshed.

You feel like some of your wounds have healed. You feel like some of your exhaustion has faded.
Some of your awareness is rested.

And there's just left in your mouths the slight little taste of almost like a sweetness.

As this kind of smoke that has emerged and been left to dissipate from the inside of this shattered orb kind of like dissipates in the air around you, you all gain the benefits of a short rest.

You can 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 spend hit dice to heal if you'd like. And then, just to ask, Matt, with Hunter's Vein,

did that disintegration seem like anything

demonic?

Make an Arcana check

for each time you roll. Which I have an advantage on.
You do?

Yeah. I would go like as far as you can.

You go and inspect the remains, and you have quite some experience with fiendish entities and things that delve in that space.

It doesn't seem to be fiendish in nature. It doesn't seem to be tethered.

But

it does appear to be an intentional self-destruction of the remains. Okay.

Meaning, there's no reason why this should have been done, given his means of destruction.

And unless he didn't want his body consumed, or it was an asset,

or unless, yeah, there was he had a kept alive, and

yeah,

or there was something there that he didn't want to get into the wrong hand.

Yeah, I don't like it.

1d4.

There you go.

Eight levels.

Great. Okay.

And then I'm gonna

character.

What slots to restore?

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

Okay. Good boy.

I still have no rages, which is good.

Oh, that's a good one. Aw, I've 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. Fuck.
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

like my sorcery points. I'm going to use sorcery points to recover spells as well, and then use the vial to gain the sorcery points back.
Okay.

There it is. No way to get a rage.

Yeah, that's 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 really.

Like, he could have been bringing it as a defensive measure against Pradathos. Sure.
But even if it is, and you absorb it, you would have that innate ability.

But he also could have done that.

You can just sit there and how long does it take to suck?

An hour? No, a minute?

Sparkling.

There's a reason why

he would have sucked it down if he if it would have helped him already.

Alright.

I'm gonna throw that D4.

Come on. Roll high.

It's okay. Mid.
Mid.

Alright. Plus four.

Uh-oh.

Me?

Okay.

What do I do here?

Oh, my arcana is so bad. You're an archaeologist.

Okay.

You just got a whole weird

pack of those, didn't you? That's awesome.

I have a minus for arcana. So roll out.

Guidance. Guide yourself.
Guide yourself. You're also within.

No, it's good.

You can't even read your stuff.

Guidance.

Weird hands. We have inspiration.
Artificial short rest. Does that mean that you could have attuned to a weapon instantly?

Ten. Do you get the benefits of a short rest? No, probably not.
I would say not. Yeah, then hopefully never mind.

Curious.

I'm going to bring back one metal here. Oh, my two plus.

You got to do it. Yeah.

It's dumping a lot into it, but that's where my disintegrate is.

I will say

very low on Friday.

No,

no, the tent. Does it look like old Arcanum tech 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 like the kind of a 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 arcano shot.

What are we rolling our

proficient or anything like that? I'm proficient in Arcana. What are we trying to go for? The staff.
Figure out something about the staff.

Give it a look-see. Yeah, Yeah, do you want to assist me?

Yeah, and we can look at it together.

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 kanna for me to see if you can ascertain what the nature of it is. Because you can, you can read the runes and they have a

guidance, and she's helping me. So

and guidance, which is plus four, plus four,

I will see. I will say it leans somewhere between transmutation and divination.

Interesting.

Okay, I rolled a 15 and a 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

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 trick

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.

Alright.

If this thing's packed with spells, we did this at the beginning of the

two charges that has

this have been at the beginning of the

bubble.

Could we say we did this before the bubble so that we could attune to it during 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,

you're able to identify it. Man, guys, I have nothing.

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 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

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 it so he can't

do it. It's already been, 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,

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

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 mission. But it takes an hour to suck it up.

It's one minute for

an hour for a creature. Oh.
But

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

you can get the benefit of it being super rare or legendary for whatever's going to happen. Suck it up.
I think we should

do it it right now. But who? Now, you've used it a few times today, too.
Yes. We have.

Fuck it. But I mean, this is the moment, right? I mean, wait, do we need the harness for 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 Ludinus before he turned into sulfur buckets? He didn't have one.
Yes, he did.

He had it on when he was.

Would we have looted it off of him? Where is it?

He would have taken it off when you guys had horse caged him.

But it would have put it in his pocket, right? Or a 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.
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 the

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

And then we roll for it.

But someone, we're like end of days here. Someone will get like

our ruit is formed

here.

We'll get a permanent stat bum. Once a creature gains a benefit from the ray, they cannot benefit from it 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. Chedney,

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 the cone, 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.

Still, but what is he going to do? Go in front of Perdothos 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 he left it behind in the other room no we have we figured he put it in a bag of holding or something

should we suck up that thing into that you did not find a bag of holding on his body when you looted it but he definitely placed it somewhere

should we run back to the fucking room where my mom is and see can you see invisibility or something

for an hour if it's a sound which I had up when we went in but I would maybe it's invisible we are killing time I do not like us to have so if we're going to do this let's do this right can you run run back to the bus?

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 Bludeness 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 this stuff here.

It's pretty close to an hour.

Since I could run back and try and look at it. 47 minutes.
47 minutes. Alright, I'll run back up the tunnel so that I still have the invisibility up.
I haven't even gotten to the point.

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 Ludinus doing.

You put your hands on it, and the minute you kind of put your hands forward, nothing seems to happen. You kind of instinctually kind of let your consciousness expand.
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 Ladna

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.

Yeah, yeah, you can come. It's permeable, right? It's not just you that's able to go through the middle of the middle.
Well, it's 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, yes.
I was holding on to your belt. Maybe we all have to go to the bathroom.
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 cometh 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 watch as 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 ruin and

things that have the essence of temples or

ancient reliefs, but they all look a bit melted or unfinished,

like something

affected their form over time through dreams, and they drift in and out of shape as they have.

Massive

columns of red rock, spires that reach up and around, and in the center of this chamber you can see, much like the last, 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.

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?

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

excitement and it feels half awake

The rest of you as it responds to Imogen you hear its voice in your minds too.

And the red, glowing tether of energy between the two of you is the brightest it's ever been.

And the faintest threads of it reach out to all of you.

And a very dense core of it goes towards this light, which now begins to take the form

of almost a small

child

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 given shape and thought

and just

a vagrant need to feed.

It's like a child

reaching

to suckle what's in here.

Shh, 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, seventeen.

Oh! Do you believe the lies for her?

Happy 2025, everybody.

You don't want to hurt people. Oh, I didn't even

realize your shirt today.

Oh, wow. That's a classic.

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 they feel like they have a like a substance in the room or does it just feel like an energy

light?

You focus on them and the color is different than the red tethers that hold them

the faintest of gold light through them

We we want to help you,

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

I'll bring others.

I can

make more

of my

kin.

The whole room

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

the sentence to Rudisborn.

You both get

proximity of this

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

Hey,

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

it's a little a 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 to 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.

See anything?

No.

I'm going to mirror that step.

We're in the room with something that ate the gods, and I want to get closer.

I'm gonna walk towards the form.

Okay.

Slowly. Hand up.

If I hold my hand out, is there any mirroring of that gesture from this entity?

You notice it stepping towards Fernand Imogen.

Do you want to step to intervene?

No.

I will acknowledge that it's not clocking me.

Warm 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 make the connection that the Rhylorans are definitively the physical 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

up, and it seems to almost grow 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 eat.

We can get you food.

Do you know what you're hungry for?

More images crash through your brain. You see visions of imagery.

Imagery that begins to glow in the various twisted pieces of the structures that you see formed out of this chamber as they kind of twist and move.

The actual interior of this room almost mimicking these flashes of memory. Temples.
symbols. You see images of a star-headed gold-armored entity.

You see the flicker of the moon weavers flowing silks through the air, and in each of these flashes you feel

a burst of that hunger. In each of these entities there is a spark of divine light that burns a color that doesn't exist in language to express.

And as you come out of it,

this entity

just smiles through its

odd, sharpened mouth.

We also

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

just feels cold in your graspy MP zone.

Searching for something sort of

tactile in all these images, I'm gonna

just slowly

nick the tip of my finger with my own knife

to just a tiny little bead of blood forms on my thumb.

And I'm just going to

touch it to the thread that's pulling me toward her

and see if

anything happens.

Touch your thumb to it. As you do that, little kind of golden thread just kind of flashes in proximity.

And you recall at this moment, these faint little threads are very similar to the ones you saw woven through the Matron of Ravens domain.

The threads of fate that bind all of you themselves.

Now quite visible in the presence of an entity that is the antithesis of divinity.

Are you alone here?

Not anymore.

Weren't there like two other gods or something that disappeared? I hate them. That's what we were saying.
Yeah, but if they ate them, what if they

retained the abilities after we ate them, like Ludinus retained the gifts of all the things he's been absorbing?

What if Ludinus took inspiration from Pradathos and created a harness so that he could take in the gifts of magical and arcane creatures like Perdathos did with the deities, that it ate maybe even the former god of death?

Oh, wow.

But we just ate them.

No, Matron said that the former. Oh.

No, Matron said the former god of death she set free. Perdathos didn't get that god.
You believe her?

Yeah.

I have.

Yeah. I don't know.
It's.

Caller.

It's a vacuum. It's nothing.
I don't know.

Remember

it starts to

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.

Nant takes another step towards Kirk.

Hold on just a second.

Continue to intervene.

Yeah, I'll even put a hand out if I have to.

Make a strength-saving throw real fast.

I still have advantage.

16. 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 bludgeoning damage. Okay, okay, okay,

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

You can't do that.

It doesn't seem to righteous.

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 until you say something.

I don't see another way out of this, y'all.

We could fight it.

Yeah, exactly. We could fight it.

Well,

the only way we can probably fight it if it's inside of you two, right?

Start taking up.

I 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.

Do 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 begins to spread throughout.

You feel Perdothos begin to

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

You got advantage because a hero's beast.

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

And

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

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 get it together.

But are you

resisting it coming into her? That moment has passed. What are you trying to do, Fern?

I am trying

to keep

my connection and my threat to Imogen, me, Fern,

so that she remembers

who she is, who we are,

and goes towards that and remembers that.

Okay.

You go ahead and make a wisdom-saving throw for me.

As this

genuinely horrifying transformation of Imogen begins to swell and expand, these shards of crystal that can have floated in the air begin to shh

affix themselves amongst her body like

clusters of spiked armor that pulse with psychic energy. Oh, that's cool.

The bolts of lavender powered

Imogen chucking through her hair. Imagine 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 that.

next

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'm coward.

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.

Yeah.

All right, friends.

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