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So, last we left off with this troop.

As we returned to Belle's Hells, they had come back to the moon Ruidis, escorting, or being escorted by, traveling with, the hidden heroic group known as the Mighty Nine, who have since left on their portion of this plot to go and assail the Arx Creonum citadel that lies built into the prime pillar of this Ruidian capital city.

As they shoved off on their part of the mission, and you were left to prepare for yours,

a sudden vision came to Imogen.

Her mother, seemingly saying her goodbye,

and trying to give you the strength to finish what you've started before she's gone, as you watched her essence being drained by Ludinus Dileth in what appears to be a more modern reconstruction of his quintessence array, surrounded by other exultants holding her in place somewhere

below.

We return to you as that moment fades from your vision and you all still stand laying low within and near the core of the city Kriveris.

They found her out.

They have my mama.

Luden is um...

He's made another harness.

He's...

He's, um...

He's using her.

He's absorbing her.

Oh no.

Let's go then.

How long does it take, Chet?

For a creature, it's a...

Oh.

We have to go.

Yeah.

She was still...

It was happening

as I was watching.

I think it takes an hour.

It takes an hour.

We can get there.

We can get there.

We can get there.

We can get there.

As long as he hasn't souped it up and made a better version that goes quicker.

So let's go.

I'm just saying, let's go.

It's not a trap.

It's clearly a trap.

I'm not saying we don't go.

I'm just saying it's clearly clearly a trap.

We're going there anyway.

Which means when we go in, let's know that they're expecting us.

Let's be smart about it.

She said he knows that he

realized she was.

She was working against him.

And it was real.

It felt real.

Just starting.

Yeah, they were holding her down.

I saw her

falling apart.

Then fucker, we go.

Yeah.

How do we know it's an hour?

That's our harness, right?

If we made a better version, so then we go now.

So we go now, but let's let's not pretend like we have an hour.

Okay.

Okay, let's go then.

How do we navigate this?

It's on the other side of the um the the fuck cores?

No, it's yeah, on the other side of the tower, the core.

Yarsha.

Archer's

The path down is on the other side.

We gotta go.

Oh boy.

I like how long Matt's just letting you twist on the wind.

Yeah, he's like,

they're all winners.

Yeah,

I'm taking notes.

All the shit's going in the next game.

All right, well, you are still under the effects of the seeming spell that was left upon you by the Mighty Nine, that should last quite a while.

So you're you're all still currently under the illusion of being various civilians of Kiberis itself.

Is there anything else you wish to do before you head out into the partially evacuated city and likely the side of the city that has been mostly evacuated?

Even though we've got these disguises, it seems like they're ushering all of the civilians the other direction.

And we have to not be civilians.

Wait, so we're still under seeming, is that right?

We are.

We're covered in seeming.

Has anybody of station been holding anything that would denote like importance or office or station or like a pass or a staff or anything on them that would be like, get out of this person's way if they walk by?

Sure.

Go ahead and make a history check for me.

All right.

14.

17.

17.

I mean, there are...

different types of armor that you've seen that connotate in its level of decoration and quality of its make,

station within the hierarchy of Kriveris and the general like ruity in society.

You've seen a few that seem to be at the head of other groups of,

you know, general soldiers, less so on the surface, but more so in the core of the city.

And you can see there's like intricate craft scolding at the end of their

kind of mantles and armor.

Sometimes they have these, like, a lot of the leaders of various troops, kind of what you imagine being captains in larger groups, have these like long strips of tooled leather that has all manner of designs in it.

The brief time that you, some of you, had come face to face with the general of the Ruidian army,

he had multiple of these dangling from his armor, from Kruth's armor.

But you do know that those bands, those hanging straps across some of the pieces of armor seem to carry some social weight.

Okay.

We can make another illusion if we can put one of us at a higher station who clearly should be here.

Then they can speak for the group, they can usher us through.

No one needs to know who we are.

Did Caleb not make any of us looking at the Widow Gas made Rhylorans and Barmoto for size, but didn't

never specify.

Okay.

Well,

then we just have to make do unless we can find some armor along the way.

Yeah, I mean I think sneaking through the city he pro probably wouldn't have thought that they should look like the elite upper echelon.

I mean

I've got silent image.

I think a few of us have silent image if we need to make something

just might be

a good minor illusion doctor up.

Silent image is a first level spell and has some fair limitations just so you know

it's useful but

I don't think you can travel either.

Yeah.

Alright.

okay let's just do it we gotta go yep all right okay

all right so

just so we're aware I'm keeping tabs on two different clocks as you travel towards

the possible encounter with rudeness and your mother but why though

to see how much time has passed and see if we can save her

and then based based on choices based on successes based on failures I'll be marking one or the other and you will in time, maybe discover what one or both are about.

We don't know which one is the

dead mom clock.

Okay, that's my least favorite.

The clock is our ticket.

One way or the other,

we need to go.

Gotta make sure we do what we need to do.

Okay,

so who is leading the trek to try and locate and head towards the entryway to this secondary tunnel?

Um,

Well,

I can.

I can do it.

I can try.

Try to use my pull

to Kerdathos and see if I can sense where I should go.

I have locate object, but we don't know what the object is, unless it's like the other harness.

We did see it.

You saw it.

And can I try to assist?

But you would know vaguely what it looks like as long as it didn't lead us to our harness.

You could put the image in his head, and then he would know exactly what it looks like if you saw it in your vision.

Vision.

I don't want you around my head, though.

Oh, for fuck's sakes, don't be up.

You put in your head, baby about it.

All right.

I don't know.

Do you want to try that?

I just did.

Ah!

I see it.

Well,

so your vision was strongly on your mother, and you saw details of people and luteness around you.

I'm going to have you roll a perception check to see if you were to pick up enough details of the harness

to have it

be strong enough for this particular spell.

I'm going to say you recognize like the funnel in the back because you have a quintessence array, but the details on this one to be able to

draw the information from somebody else's vision is pretty tough.

Sure.

I'm going to check in on the spell.

Oh, what about the locket?

I gave her the locket.

What locket?

Two halves to make the greater hole.

Have I ever seen this thing before?

I've only known it.

No, but it's that strongly in your head.

That is strongly in your head.

Do you want to do that?

Yeah.

Good idea.

Okay.

It's beautiful and it's craftsmanship.

It's meaningful, too.

Yeah.

I like the chain.

Yeah, it's lovely, isn't it?

Yeah.

Silver.

I can see.

Yeah, obviously.

Okay.

So you cast the spell and begin to concentrate.

Uh, yes, I will do that.

How was the range on the table?

A thousand feet.

So maybe wait till we get closer.

Uh, it also lasts like a hour, right?

We can pass in and

then we wait.

Wait a little bit, let's get it.

How do we know if we're closer?

Because we know what's on the other side of the class.

You've been there before in your previous travel.

You have a general idea of where we're going to go.

We know that the tunnel that they've opened up is on the other side of this core.

Where we went to with Ira

and when we tried to blow it up?

That was the previous tunnel that you had destroyed.

This is a new one that's been built since then to continue to head towards the core of the Prime Pillar.

Okay, okay.

I'm going to walk up to the front.

Are we the everyone taller as Ry Lawrence?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to walk up to the front with to Imogen and just kind of put my hand on in between her shoulder blades and just push her forward to like lead us to go.

And I'm going to go with you.

What's our landscape right now?

So right now you are sitting somewhere deep in the villages, which is kind of the

a dense

residential and in some ways industrial portion of this city.

The clustered walkways and numerous buildings around you kind of pile up at odd heights and you can see the prime pillars to like glowing high and large and the sky kind of pulsing slowly as the energy itself seems to flow.

You are I mean the streets are predominantly empty other than the occasional civilians with their last belongings heading out towards what would be the equivalent of like an eastern direction for looking at an overhead map.

That's where you saw the majority of the busyness of the folk of the city when you had that brief overhead view upon your arrival from the old Volition pass house.

But now we're not above, we're in it.

Correct, you're in the city and you've been kind of hiding in one of these additional kind of hideaway homes that the Volition had used.

And now they've all gone off for their mission.

So you are in a fairly dense part of the city that's not like directly against the core of the pillar, but maybe like

maybe about a 10-minute walk from it to get there.

if you're being careful and stealthy about it probably a little slower

but up to you guys

how so are you going to search for this just using your connection with fordathos using your connection with your mother trying to tap into your kind of rubidusborn essence or are you trying to

yes

okay that so for that

I will say go ahead and roll a D20 and add your charisma modifier.

Can I help assist in any way since I have a moment?

Because you are Reudisborn.

And for the record, now that you've gotten this deep into the city, when the rest of you have a moment to kind of sit, especially with this moment of tension flaring, you can see this like ever-so faint tether of red energy that kind of just drifts between Imogen and Fern pretty much at all times.

It's hard to see at a distance, but when you're like sitting with them for as long as you have been, you kind of like, I mean, you look past them, you can kind of see it gently drifting.

Yeah.

26.

the aura makes me sneeze

i'm gonna pad alongside imogen and look and listen and make sure that nothing springs out at us just any enemies sure uh we'll get that in just a second yeah 26 you added your criso modifier or your saving thrower to that

just kidding

21 21 thank you okay gotcha no worries at all

So as both of you take a moment to kind of focus in,

you let your consciousness expand beyond just your physical bodies for a moment which is a very easy familiar place for you something that you're still kind of getting used to but because you're doing it together you both kind of share a space and as you do you begin to feel like

the pulse of the prime pillar the glass itself the the way the energy flows and it has a from below and up kind of flow to it

and you kind of feel it move through you

As you do, you begin to feel that pull below, ever so faintly.

First time for you maybe, but strong enough for you,

that sense of

on the edge of toppling.

And you feel, as part of that tug, the tug is also trying to draw you there

the best way that it can.

And as it does that, you feel the direction kind of like something's pulling on your clavicle and kind of just slightly dragging you in this direction in the direction of the pillar.

And you're like,

that'll help us get there.

So you follow that?

Yeah.

The rest of you follow suit?

Yep.

Okay.

That's a bad choice wheel.

I feel like it's the bad choice wheel.

Or is it good choice wheel?

What is a good direction?

Left or right sweet?

Don't make us cheer.

Just tell us.

So you begin to beeline with your troop through the streets, the alleys.

Are you going directly or are you going stealthily?

What do you guys think?

We have an hour, but it could be less.

Just go?

Just go.

Yeah.

Just project that under authority and we should be fine.

And if anyone stops...

If anyone tries to stop us, we just bop them on the head and keep going.

We're a bunch of aliens hurrying through an alien city.

And I'm, again, I'm like trying to look and listen to anticipate any problems.

And there's urgency here.

It's not like people are relaxed anyway.

Yeah, there is a palpable intensity to the people you see that still exist in this city.

Many of them are keeping a very strong eye, probably for an imminent volition attack.

So you rolled what, perception?

A natural 20.

Whoa!

And a one.

Let's see if I get two 20s.

That was like

a

one.

Oh, shit.

You're rolling on D12?

It's an instrument.

Oh, that is that is a D12.

D12.

So the 12 got a 1.

Okay, I was like, how'd you get a 20 and a 12?

That one was just a 12, but I got

a Dorian 20.

Well,

the inspiration guiding your eyes true as you begin to tread into the open walkways and the massive streets that carve their way through the villains.

Kind of trying to keep to the side, are you taking more of an import versus a civilian position, right?

Do we look like civilians?

You look like middle ground to civilians.

The illusion did not carry any sort of air of import.

Authorité.

Yes.

Authority?

Do we try to pitch that we're like hurrying to pitch in around the city?

Yeah.

If you walk like you belong somewhere,

almost no one will ever stop.

Do you have a clipboard?

Yeah.

Do we have a clipboard?

Does anyone have a clipboard?

It's just mine clipboard.

It's like a vinyl illusion.

But it also rolls down into like a

scroll.

You have a hard-faced scroll with a ribbon on it and a wax seal.

Ooh.

Only open.

Where did you get wax?

Clipboards that was clear?

Because I always wanted one of those.

Those are always the boards.

I have no response to that.

I pull out the pipe of remembrance to look more distinguished.

Okay.

A fucking pipe.

Okay.

At least it's good.

Does it look

Following

this lead.

Like a bloodhound trying to remain as unfocused on your surroundings so you can keep that kind of essence of where it's pulling you strongly and at the forefront of your mind.

You kind of move from street to street to alley to street.

Aurum, keeping a close eye out to help guide and avoid what look like clusters of soldiers that are heading to meet off with your path and temporarily stopping the troop to let them pass before continuing onward.

It doesn't take you terribly long, under 10 minutes or so, to carve through the streets with both of those rolls to avoid being noticed upon reaching near the opposite end of the Prime Pillar.

It is a massive

central part of this city, and thankfully your expediency allows you to get mostly in that direction within a short period of time.

But you can also see where you're being drawn towards.

There are a number of walls that have been built and constructed.

It looks like you can just make out with your perception roll, not at the base of the pillar itself, almost like either they've carved an additional rock tunnel to coincide the exterior of it that heads down below.

This massive

hole that is burrowed into a piece of rock that kind of rises up against the pillar.

This might actually push into the pillar or at least continue down below alongside it.

But it is about a 20-25 foot wide kind of arch that it looks like it's been burrowed in into shadow below.

You can see there's like risen parts of red rock around and number of

Other Rhyloran and various Ruidian soldiers are kind of walking around and just keeping an eye and a pace on the ground.

At the moment, no.

You do see kind of flanking the entryway on each side are two thought eaters that just kind of like drift, their arms kind of crossed in front as they kind of glow and float.

In the center of it, acting like a goalie, you see a massive armored Rhythorn juggernaut with two glass blades kind of sheathed in its sides.

It kind of sits there for a second and then yawns and kind of keeps an eye out there as other soldiers kind of slowly crisscross.

You get the sense that it's sparse here.

There isn't a lot of density to watching this space, which could mean that, well, for one, a lot of the army has been pushed towards the bloody bridge and is heading towards the

imminent

invasion of Xandria, if you will.

So what's here is is sparse, but likely fairly capable.

Have the explosions gone off that Mighty Nine was setting?

Not yet.

That'll be good when that happens.

Yeah, if it would happen soon.

Well,

it should be happening.

It got any minute

literally any minute.

Because that was one of the first things that happened after they left.

They were above us, right?

They were heading up

the core

to shoot into the tower, and we're at the base of the tower.

Well, you're not in quite a bit.

You know, where they they went necessarily.

They went to a

it comes for us all, Ashley.

Cool.

Cool.

What?

Oh, look, but you.

Oh, good.

No.

Oh, look at that.

Sigurd bean shits in it.

That is Tiger Bean.

That is not true.

I can provide true.

Why are they all on an orange shirt though?

They're not.

They're all different colors.

Okay.

They're not.

That is a burnt orange.

Yeah, fair.

But with your colour tone, though.

So you kind of

carefully kind of situate yourselves within visual distance of the kind of outer wall that's been constructed.

It looks like the stone has been kind of risen up to create the wall.

Not smoothed or

well chiseled by any means, probably as part of a ramshackle resort, given the expediency in which they had to rebuild this entire burrowing endeavor.

You wait 30 seconds more,

a minute more.

They're still walking their patterns.

Do you want to wait for the detonation?

Good.

I have no idea.

We can either try to take these guys down fast and keep going.

Maybe you could bullshit your way through.

We have to walk past the juggernauts, you were saying?

Well, the entryway where this burrowed tunnel that they're very clearly guarding.

and it's two of them there are two thought eaters to each one to each side and one juggernaut that is like heavily armored with glass blade sheathed at its sides that are kind of like all three of them guarding at the front do we have we have our uh red robes though don't we

well we're covered in seeming i know we're covered in seeming but if we don't have the seeming can some of us drop seeming and some of us have robes on so that we look like we've captured part of the part of the

yeah guard of the ruby vanguard because i mean it's the exalts that are heading down there

right

so if we base the deception in a truth it should help us right i don't think i think we can haleb has to receive yeah i don't think we can drop seamir

yeah i don't think

yeah yeah it gets stuck on you

i'd say i'd say if an ally who has the spell effect on you wanted to drop it on themself for whatever reason i wouldn't be against that okay it's more like just feeling that magical tether inside and just like dispelling it internally.

I would allow that.

And we just have to find a spot to change.

The robes are in the back.

It's a bit option amongst bad options.

We could open up the hole really quickly, let someone hop in, use it as a changing room.

Sure.

We could also, are we luring them out?

Just trying to get past?

We're just trying to bullshit our way past.

I think it's bullshit because if we have things that are meant for lewdness and we're taking it to the cage.

Sure.

Okay, let's try it.

They could be the ones that

could be you because you can talk to them.

Yeah.

So I'm still a Rhyloran?

Okay.

I guess, right?

Because we can't talk to them.

Or we just go like balls to the walls and you're just yourself.

That's a bad idea.

I was just like, that's not bad.

You've used it before.

There's no good idea, right?

You being your mom, basically, or trying to pretend you're on your mom?

You could surrender.

Just go out there and say, I'm here to surrender to my mom, and they'll take you in.

We can just follow them.

The opening to

this entrance, this tunnel, it's not covert at all.

Like, it can be seen from, like, if we scrap, everybody in the area is seeing it.

It's not covert.

It is kind of an open walkway, probably a good 50, 60 feet of space between where you are now to

the exterior wall.

And then from the wall to the kind of the rocky base that eventually, you know, the prime pillar emerges from as the the incredibly kind of uh

uh

how was the word i'm looking for

the uh vertigo-inducing scope and scale of the prime pillar from that far base kind of goes above it um that's about 120 to 150 feet from where the wall is built so maybe i can try and phantasmal force him and make him think he sees something that he doesn't to pull him away what are the the thought eaters look are they like they're creatures right they're not the thought eaters are Rylorans.

They tend to be the ones that are more honed for mental prowess, psychic and psionic prowess.

Are they gonna pick up?

And these are clearly thought eaters.

They're gonna kick me up.

They are drifting in a dorn, and there isn't like a

uniform.

I don't think that's a good idea.

I take that back.

I know it hurts to wait, but

we also don't know how long we'd be waiting.

Yeah, yeah.

And if we're going to try and push past having enemy number one as a prisoner and some documents just for lewdness.

Sure.

Let's do it.

Worst case is that we just beat the fuck out of them.

But it doesn't work.

Only problem is we can't speak to them.

I'm the only one that can't even speak in their heads.

Then maybe Fern drops it, and we have Fern.

They know her too.

It's true.

Will they see your tether?

We can see it.

Would we know that?

You're uncertain if they would be able to notice it.

It's only been noticeable by your troop after spending stationary time together.

Yeah.

And it's grown brighter since you've arrived in Cruviris.

Maybe you stay

right behind me.

Yeah, but if you're an

exultant's here,

it would still show for them.

Yep.

Right.

So you drop it and I'll be a Ryloran.

Alright, I'm your prisoner, baby.

Okay.

I'm your prisoner.

All right.

Oh, no.

Do what you will.

Did you want to crap a little bit?

No.

No.

No.

Do you want to hit me?

No, no.

No.

This has to look real.

Alright, let's go.

Let's do it.

Is this the crowd of us going up?

Yeah, let's just go.

We're trying to get down.

Escorting.

Yeah.

We should get in formation, though, like 4x4, 2x2.

Wait, would I be tied up here?

Flying B.

Of course.

Flying B, flying B, flying B.

Love the flying B.

Tie her up.

Someone's got some rope or something?

Pure.

I don't know.

Would they tie you to me?

I don't know.

Do we need rope?

No, I'm out now.

We have mental control over her.

Okay, screw.

Can I actually run into my control?

I think you should, yeah, play it up a little bit.

Okay.

Just put your hands behind her back.

Yeah, exactly.

Just be like, oh no.

All right, we're okay.

I'm going to go like subservient Bormodo next to you just so that you've got a sort of right by you.

All right, we're in formation.

Okay.

So, what is your formation?

Just from the wave.

Oh, two lines.

Are you familiar with

the flying bee?

I am, yeah.

So with Fern at the front?

No, with me at the front and Fern on behind.

Yeah, behind.

She's like in the middle of the V.

Like everybody else is a V and Fern is in the middle of the V.

Right, okay.

Who's to the right and left of Fern?

I'll flank opposite Orum.

Okay.

Yeah, I think I'll go, I think

I'm familiar with the flying V.

Yeah, Lana behind me.

Milu and I'll be behind.

And then maybe Drea's just sitting to block her from going in the middle.

That's good.

Yeah, right there.

Yeah,

we'll like pyramid it.

Yeah, there you go.

Or the flying arrow.

I like it.

That's fine.

Okay, cool.

Or just a clump.

Or just a clump.

Yeah.

You all set yourselves up.

You drop your illusion, and

you.

How do you buy it?

What is your dad's name?

Sarah Laura.

Zathuda.

Atheon Zathuda.

Atheon the Zathuda?

Somebody calls that bitch by his first name.

Yeah.

We're not on a first name basis.

No, no.

You don't have to to use it.

This is just offering.

You killed his rise NPC.

You can't even say his first name.

Just quiet.

We'll do what we want.

It hurts a little, but it's okay.

Summon the dragon.

Summon the dragon.

You built the palace up long ago.

That's true.

Long ago.

So, Fern, you said you're bound by some.

Yes.

What are you bound by?

I am bound by Marshall.

I was bound by my ribbons.

By your round channel,

before we go in,

I just will say to you, Imogen,

this is very important to you, and just remember, your family is important to all of us.

And I'll just give her inspiration.

1d6.

All right.

Okay.

Something.

Something.

I'm going to give you guidance.

Thanks.

Okay.

All right.

With that, you all step from the nearby kind of

structures in shadow and begin to walk briskly across the gap that leads to the exterior wall and the opening, which

at the moment looks like the two patrolling guards that kind of walk back and forth are you kind of wait for a moment where they're both kind of separated.

You step through the wall's entryway into the kind of wider

kind of opening gap where you can see there are like some kind of distant battlements on each side.

Other soldiers are kind of sitting and kind of resting off, keeping an eye up above,

and just kind of beelined towards this entryway.

Two of the nearby soldiers that were kind of part of the patrol notice your rather large cluster of figures entering the space and turn and begin to kind of briskly approach while the two Thought Eaters kind of drift a few inches into the air and acknowledging your presence.

They both look towards the juggernaut who places his hands on the edges of his blades upon your approach.

So now you have two soldiers, the two thought eaters and the juggernaut, all kind of looking upon your troop as you approach.

Not one pair, not two pairs, but four booms.

Forget four booms.

That's fine.

Fair enough, it's fine.

Do you like that movie?

The

right-hand thought eater kind of drifts from the top of his pedestal where he was keeping watch, while the other one kind of hemms down below and kind of waits, keeping about 15 feet back from the one to the right.

And that one you can likely tell based on just that physicality, maybe has a little more presence or station amongst those that are currently here.

The Juggernaut just patiently sits back and keeps its dark, shark-like eyes upon you.

The Thought Eater begins to approach about 60 feet from where you are before you hear in your head, Imogen,

what is it you you bring here?

An escape assultant

called by Ludinus.

She wanted to escape her duty.

Make a deception check.

Let's go.

I'm going to put on a show like I'm trying to.

This is a disaster.

So you're aiding her with this?

No, yes.

Okay, so you can roll one more time.

How dare you!

Well, she was aiding you with this.

Advantage.

Okay.

Okay, well, I'll take the other one.

Was that a one?

That was.

Oh, wow.

Yes.

Happens, man.

Oh, there's no 20!

Yes!

Why?

Why?

He's actually just adding stuff to a grocery list.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, I'll get to this on the way home tonight.

Like, oh, oh, Taco Bell sounds nice.

It kind of cocks its head towards you

and shifts back to you.

And you hear in your head, Fern.

And what makes you so special?

I'm not.

I just, they think, I mean, I am so special.

I'm just that thick bitch.

I'm just

child.

I don't know.

Yes, Zathuda is my father.

Prime prize, then.

I think he would be rather pleased of your acquisition.

Out of the rest of our compatriots.

I'm not telling.

You don't hear it, it's in her head.

You know what?

No, they're expanding your hunches to you because it's more fun.

It's more fun that way.

The rest of our team formed by Lutoness.

Her compatriots.

No.

Escaped.

So then we shall keep an eye out for them.

Lucky bitches got away.

A kicker again.

Ow!

Jerk on the back is like

down.

You don't have to kick her.

Did you say that?

I just sort of look embarrassed.

The Ryloon goes.

We appreciate your aid.

We'll take her to Ludenis ourselves.

It extends its hand this way, and you feel this pull on your wrists forward.

A massive detonation followed

by another one just rocks the interior of this cavern.

Flame and shrapnel just begins to spray out from the opposite side as dust and smoke pours out from the opposite end of the prime pillar, kind of filling the upper kind of cavernscape of this space.

The echoing sound of the explosion bounces around inside, causing this horrible, horrible blasting ring in all of your ears.

And you watch as all the soldiers communally turn and look, the light kind of reflecting briefly off of their various bits of armor and their face adornments.

At which point, suddenly, panic looks start going around as silent commands are being thrown psychically between different Rhylorans.

And you watch as all the various soldiers begin to gather up and rush over to see what has happened.

Others begin to station up at this point.

What are you doing?

I'll look at the thought eater that was talking to us.

We'll move forward with her.

Go, go, quick.

He watches the two thoughts glide off and begin to like scoot around, heading towards it to get a perspective on the market's correlation.

Jim, just keep in the pit.

The juggernaut

pulls its two blades out and begins to like

jog past you all, just trying to follow up from their going, trying to keep a visual on this.

And as it comes by, it just kind of kicks you in the knee a little bit.

Oh!

He was right.

You were doing a bit.

Prisoner would not be respectful.

He's got to die.

He's got to go.

He's got to go.

I hope he lives.

I hope him and Gaz become best friends.

He's the one who eats shit on the

ball cards.

I've got him wrong.

At this point now, like dozens of festicles that were kind of flying in the air or were currently grappled to parts of the cavern and shadow dislodge and start flying and you hear the streaks

kind of echoing throughout the chamber.

this city has suddenly become a war site and you can hear the sounds of also distant explosions and bits of rock falling from the ceiling from just the sheer immensity of the detonation as you're stepping inside the cavern you can hear pieces of the probably like barely loosened bits of rock on the high end took that long to fall from the top of the cavern before

hitting the ground with a heavy crack dust being kicked up around

As you step through the entranceway to this tunnel and just hear the muffled sound of distant action and conflict begin to get quieter and quieter.

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Now,

you have entered the beginnings of this secondary tunnel.

You now get to

figure out how to navigate these caverns and tunnels to try and stay on the tail of the Ruby Vanguard.

Maybe maybe

Maybe now you can use your locate amulet.

I can try.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Lead you on the path.

As a precursor while he's doing that, can I just give a sniff?

Wolf nose and see if it picks up anything that's familiar or that would divine one route from the other.

Yeah, go ahead and make your perception check.

Can you advantage because of the wolf hampers?

Yep, you can.

Double natural 18s for perception check.

20.

20, that's great.

Okay.

Alright, I'll try to locate the object as well.

Okay, so you go ahead and take a moment.

Focus on the image of this locket that you placed within Brace's mind, and as you do, the spell finds no purchase.

Object.

Sorry.

We're sorry.

Which at least lets you know that they're further than the range of that spell, so you may have to travel quite a bit.

You don't know how far down this is or how far down where they're going and where they are might be.

But you do know they've spoken in the past of heading towards the core.

And how long has it been since the vision?

It's been

roughly 15.

15?

Oh my gosh.

15 or so many.

Okay.

But as you step into this chamber, you can see now it doesn't take too long for the prime pillar itself now exposed on the left-hand side of this tunnel.

You can see the extremely dense glass kind of pulsing, giving you a little bit of light.

And you can see now as the tunnel progresses down in a fairly steady incline, elements of the wall that this tunnel has been dug alongside, almost like spiraling around the pillar as it goes, breaking the rock to use it as a light source.

Otherwise, it would be pitch black down here.

There are no brazers, there are no torches, there are no glowing crystal lanterns that you've seen so far.

Just the pulsing light of the occasionally exposed window to the prime pillar, kind of lighting it up.

And as it does, the entire tunnel, as you progress, kind of like brightens and then falls to shadow and then brightens again.

Like the actual tunnel itself almost feels like it's breathing as you continue to descend deeper, deeper within.

You trying to keep a sense This tunnel is pretty

one note and following it along the way, you don't see much in the ways of

any diversions.

The occasional kind of alcove off to the side, you go and investigate quickly and see that this was probably like a rest place where a couple of tossed-aside tools that were part of this dig.

Though you're not quite sure what they do, there aren't like pickaxes necessarily, but you see some

long poles or pipes and things that look like they had some sort of mechanical purpose that have some of them look bent like they were damaged in the process and discarded off to these alcoves, but no sign of any immediate Rhylorin present within this tunnel, which means they are probably far below in the process of digging, or they've already dug.

Continuing to push below,

you do

notice a familiar smell.

This

at first you pick up, it's like a.

It's adjacent to like the faintest kind of a

urine type smell.

And you remember it being not dissimilar from the smell of the breath of the Avadons that were hunting the arrival of the Bloody Bridge.

And it's about that time that you can hear...

Like things that were deeper in the tunnel are now being called up to investigate the source of the detonation.

And so all of you stand here in the middle of this, maybe, I'd say

right now, 25, 30 foot-wide tunnel.

Yeah, it's like it's like burrowed through.

And you hear, now that you point it out, the steadily increasing volume of

Avadon-like creatures approaching.

What would you like to do?

Wait, wait, Avadons, Avadons.

Avadons are the

place they liked to be screeched.

That's right.

Are you going to just

force scritch them?

Listen, I have television.

It was on their back or between their shoulder blades.

I have

snoots or something, I think.

There was one note, Laura Bailey definitely.

And they also don't have eyes, right?

Correct.

Ashton, is there a way to get us into the stone or anything?

There's a way to get me in the stone, and honestly, if it comes to that, it's been a pleasure, all of you.

That would be great.

We have the whole, we do have the scepter that could make a pass wall, which like builds a door into the wall if we could

cover it up somehow, but that's using all the charges, basically.

Yeah.

Which feels like a waste.

There's not invisibility for our smell.

There's banishment, there's no invisibility for the smell.

I can speak with animals.

Oh, man.

I don't think they're animals.

Off of the smell,

can my keen ears pick up

a rough number of Avadons?

Like, does it sound like...

I'd say using that same perception technique

test, you can

bear.

You can assess three at the minimum.

Okay.

What if we throw down the hole and they go over the edge like lemmings into it and then we roll it up?

Sure.

20 feet wide?

No, I'm trying to look up something.

20 feet has started wide and the hole is what, 10?

10.

We can also throw the hole on the side of the wall, right?

Language style?

Does it stick?

No, no.

It's a flat surface.

It needs a flat surface to lie on.

You can't be.

I mean, the 10-foot hole in the middle of the tunnel.

Yeah, and we can also always and then.

Because then it's just five feet on either side.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's do that.

Okay.

Let's do it.

You'll get the hole in the middle of the tunnel.

Will it unfurl properly in the middle of the tunnel?

In the brief moment you have, one of you can search for a spot that can be the flattest.

Yep.

All right.

So perception or investigation.

Perception.

Oh,

20.

20.

Okay.

It gets louder and louder as you see one portion where some like fallen rock made it look rougher, but you can quickly brush it aside and see a space that might work.

Ashton, over here, sir.

It's hard to tell if it's flat enough for

you.

You throw it down.

If you've got one.

Ashton, go ahead and roll a D20 for me.

All right.

On a 10 or higher is flat enough for the surface to function.

You sit it down, and there's a brief moment where you all kind of hold your breath, and then

the familiar spaces it just goes to shadow.

What do you do?

I'll take corner number one for the pipe.

If we're going to be ferreting them through, I'll take the way on the right.

Yeah, I'll take the other side ready to bumper

strays into the hole.

Yep.

Okay.

We'll all back up on the other side and wait for them to approach us, right?

Yeah.

They'll probably try and jump it.

Yeah.

Oh.

All right.

So somebody.

If they notice.

So let's go ahead.

Let's go make a group stealth check then to see if.

Yeah.

Let's stay in the middle and bash them into it.

We're trying to force them into it, yeah?

Yeah.

Oh, wait.

Alright, so starting on this side.

32.

Wow.

32.

14.

Wait.

32.

14.

Okay.

25.

25.

Okay.

Oh, but you was a natural 20?

Yeah, I had a natural 20.

Oh,

that's good name.

In case one of us fucking pivs it.

12.

Oh, that's what it is.

Okay.

14.

14.

Okay.

15.

Okay.

Dirty 20.

Okay.

26.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

You got to balance it.

So,

you hear about this?

You hear about this?

You all kind of like there's an alcove not terribly far that some of you can kind of hide in.

Otherwise, the rest of you are kind of just pressing yourself up against the edge of this carved tunnel that's kind of slowly kind of corkscrewing down along the I say slowly because the width of this pillar you can barely tell that there's a curve

until like it pulses up and you just see it begins to fade like a few hundred feet down.

And so as you kind of pick up to the side, you begin to see the shapes emerge rushing, full, like four-legged pound, like just galloping forward.

Here they come.

You all kind of keep to the sides.

About

it would be

about 60 feet from where you're all hidden.

You know, one of them kind of like

picks up something.

And you recall they have no eyes.

And with many things here that are psychic related in how they were created or how they have developed,

it kind of seems to sense the presence of other minds.

The other two

do not.

And so two of them go rushing past us.

One of them stops and goes,

begins to kind of glance about.

The two rush past and begin to like slow down as they see this kind of open hole in the ground and move around the sides of it.

You two are on the sides?

Yeah.

All right.

I need you both to make shove attacks if you're gonna go ahead and do this.

Oh, I don't need a shove attack.

I can shove with my hammer.

Oh, yeah, yeah, it's true.

Yeah, you can do that.

I was with Orb too.

Tiny Tots on the side.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I'm gonna make a pushing attack.

I'm gonna use a 32.

I'm a strong old ass bitch.

Natural 20.

Yes!

Let's go!

Let's go!

That's the hit, right?

Yep.

Alright.

Go ahead and roll damage.

I'm not even raging.

This is gonna be hilarious.

Don't get cocky.

No, no, no.

C, three.

What'd you roll?

Well, I made a I'm making a battle master pushing attack, so I rolled an 18 to hit.

18 18 hits.

And so it's a strength save DC 19, but maybe if Chetney helps shove on this thing, the DC will raise.

Well, I'm about to say it's like, if this fails, then you'll have one chance to try and shove it in there as well.

This is

a 19.

Meets it beats it.

Yeah.

Well, it'll still hurt, so.

Yeah, still do damage to it.

So

you go ahead and strike it.

Push it back and it kind of like catches itself on the edge of the hole from the side that you and Chetney are on.

You did how much damage?

45 points of damage.

45 points of damage?

It gets hit and then falls into the hole, and you can barely hear it moving.

It is injured.

18?

Yeah, 18 times 2 plus 9.

Yeah, okay.

Okay.

And I did 21 points of damage on my doggy.

Okay.

So it's in 19?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it did not get shoved.

It did not.

It barely catches itself on the edge.

You have one more shot.

Are you doing

Are you taking a shove attack to try and push it in?

Yeah, I think so.

Alright, so for you, that would be an athletics.

Okay.

So that's a bit of my hybrid form.

25.

7.

It rolled a natural two.

Nice, nice.

So it barely holds on.

You

hit it with all of your gnomish might.

For a brief moment, like you, you tap into that the wolven curse in your blood and

drawing on that strength of the beast within for as small you size you are and it's what little room there is to move an unnatural amount of strength comes in your impact on it and it

creaks in and now two of them have dropped inside the hole the one that you hit is it would have had time probably to try and get its way out if it wasn't so injured and is currently now like on the ground barely moving while the other one falls on top of it.

The third one kind of still kind of stops and sees this moment happening and goes

and is rearing back for an attack.

What's everyone else doing?

Oh,

okay.

It did.

It stayed back about 30 feet.

Oh, okay.

Because as soon as it sensed you guys, it kind of slowed down while the others kept going.

But you can pull it closer if you'd like.

Can I just wait

so he'll come a little closer?

Are you trying to

get him in her grasp?

Yeah, dude.

You want to try and draw him towards you?

Get him.

Okay, make a persuasion check.

Would you mind though?

Still thinking that too.

32.

32.

You have successfully taunted it, and as soon as you do that,

like slobber drips from its jaws as its teeth are exposed, and where its head is not present, just an open mouth of teeth and its central shoulders, and it

begins coming after.

As soon as it's close enough, I'm just going to try try to pull it into the hole.

Okay, if it succeeds on this roll, it's going to get a round of attacks on Fern.

Oh, look at it.

That's okay.

Yeah, yeah, I asked for it.

I asked for it.

Alright, so what's the DC?

18.

18.

Alright, I'm going to roll above this.

Natural.

You pull it, and unfortunately, this momentum is so intense that you end up pulling it towards fern as it goes as it clears the hole.

It does rush towards you with a multi-attack.

This massive barbed tongue

whips out of its mouth as it's approaching and leaping in the air towards Fern.

It's going to come at you.

Can I shield?

Oh, it's half mine.

I think I do because of

you.

However, let's see if it hits you or not first.

That would be a 21 to hit you.

Yeah.

That hits you?

Yeah.

Do you want a shield?

It's plus five AC.

It's plus five?

Yeah.

Okay.

Shield.

So only two.

Also, is it going to hurt that much?

You would have wash your shield now.

I don't know.

Oh, is it not going to hurt that much?

No, it's just a reaction.

It's just a reaction, right?

Can you do a shield?

It's only a level.

Oh, Oh, it's a one.

It's a one-level spell spot?

Yeah.

Let's just take it.

Ah.

Up to you.

What are you doing?

Doom it, do it.

You were going to shield yourself.

Shield.

Let's go.

You're still still on the shoe.

So that misses you?

Yes.

That's a 22.

That misses me.

Okay.

So it leaps.

Its tongue tries to grab you, like kind of snap around you and kind of dig in with its barbs.

You put the shield up, boof, and it keeps it at bay.

Instead, it crashes into you and it's trying to make a claw and a bite attack on you simultaneously.

The bite attack is going to be a 23.

Does that hit shield up?

That hits.

Shield is still up.

Oh, great.

Shield still hits.

Shield lasts.

That hits.

That hits, okay.

And the claw attack

is a natural one.

Yes, it can do.

Okay.

So yeah,

so one hit.

The bite does hit you.

17 points of piercing damage.

Okay.

Okay.

And make make a strength saving throw for me.

The shield manages damage, did you say, sir?

17.

17.

Okay.

It's clogged, it's kind of put off to the side, but

the jaws and its shoulders push forward, and the shield

kind of breaks away, and it manages to bite onto the side of your kind of left arm and dig into it.

12.

12.

You are grappled by it currently, it holds you in place.

Now, Lodna, Dorian, Breyus,

what were you plotting to do?

Well, seeing this thing.

So, is Fern on this side of the hole or the other side of the hole?

Fern's on the opposite side.

She's now...

If the hole's here,

right?

Use that napkin.

Yeah, use that one for...

Perfect.

So where it was, in my mind, we had Ashen on this side.

We had

Chetney and Orum on this side.

Probably had Fern trying to draw him over the hole this way.

The rest of you were likely kind of hiding off to the side here.

So it has left over the hole.

Imagine.

Correct.

We'll say

two of them are currently now in the hole,

and one of them has left over it and is now engaged with Fernandazer grapple.

I mean,

I would run up and just try to bash it into the hole if possible.

Okay, so how many?

You have two attacks in the round?

Yeah.

You can make two shove attacks if you'd like to.

All right.

All right.

So you move.

This shove plus my strength or something?

It's your athletics.

Athletics.

It's contested.

Okay.

Here's one.

That's natural 20.

Oh, let's go, Virus.

I mean...

Oh, wow.

I was on five.

You have to treat a woman with respect.

I just learned that, like five minutes ago.

I'm not even joking.

It rolled a natural 20.

I'm not even.

Mine's a plus seven.

Right, it's a plus five, so it still fails.

That's dang.

Wow.

Big good to go.

So it grapples under you.

You rush forward, and describe me how you slam it.

Well, I was going to use my

flail to sort of baseball swing.

Yes.

Crack!

As you hit it on the side of the shoulder, it tears its jaws free from grabbing onto Fern's left arm, and it falls back, tries to catch itself on the hole.

Bring it up!

No,

not with that, Roll.

Not with a three.

And it falls in at this point.

Now all three of them are in there, but the ones below are going to try and get out.

Sure, they are.

What are the rest of your fingers?

Wait, he's in it?

I'm going to mage hand, flip it up.

Nice.

Okay.

Cash handles up.

The hole lifts up, and they are

awesome.

That was a great idea.

We've got a bag of Wolverines.

And then they're a slurry.

How long do they have to breathe, though?

Because they don't have a face.

They might not have to breathe.

It's just a little vagina face.

Yeah, but it's like a void face.

It's a void face.

Do they breathe?

We're going to learn so much about them in like a couple hours.

But that's a couple hours.

Thanks, Mara.

Remote sex is ruined for me.

Yeah.

We start booking it, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Full speed.

Oh, it's on the bottom.

It's a success.

It's a success.

It's a good one for you.

It's a good one.

Look at him front.

Good wheel.

They both look like trivia pursuit pieces.

I don't know what's going on.

I'm using a red marker to color.

No, he's using a blue marker.

He put a blue cap on a red marker to confuse us.

He's a genius.

Oh, look at our napkin.

What?

I just realized we made a napkin with our dog.

Yay.

Actually, you're in a hole.

Really fun.

I'm going to put you right there.

Alvin, Simon, and Theodore.

Theodore.

Do.

do,

do, do, do, do.

We are

old.

You get your sweet ass.

Yeah.

Alrighty.

Just a brief pause of breath as you roll up your hole, which right now is pretty

good.

Our hole is what?

It's pretty.

It's kind of

acapacity.

Yeah.

Lentil soup out for too long.

Fucking

kill me.

That's a foul hole.

Stanky.

Escaping holes.

Isn't it funny when you say that?

Yeah.

You're continuing further and further down the tunnel.

About five minutes of walking and it begins to branch.

You begin to see the tunnel continues downward, but other caverns begin to appear.

Layers of kind of subterranean open spaces, pockets of air that were crafted when this space was crafted.

Long ago.

Just natural

empty

crevasses, different

openings in the rock.

Shadow-filled, no light, except for the occasional bit of glimmering, glowing blue.

And you remember long ago when you gave in to a vision and felt yourself fall through this red moon of ill omen, that below the surface there were many

ancient forgotten locked caverns below.

Did you happen to remember the right one?

No, I just

there was a lot.

It's it's

steep.

Can we tell which one?

Well, the tunnel continues down, which is kind of the first cavern you see off the side.

Okay,

yeah, all just kind of spiraling off.

You're uncertain what might exist there,

good or bad, but you keep your eyes on the prize and follow down the slowly corkscrewing path in the outskirts of the prime pillar.

The pillar itself, too, the further down you go, its exterior grows less smooth and more

root-like.

Parts of the glass kind of push out.

Some seem to almost branch, like tree branches out for three or four feet from the side.

Like the carved bit of rock couldn't quite pierce fully the bit of exposed glass, and they had to like burrow underneath it.

You can see these kind of veins that wrap around where the tunnel had to make a shift in its path and kind of dip below to push beyond that, a thick piece of wooden glass.

You also

begin to pick up a smell:

a uh

an old musty smell

something that reminds you of rot

something that reminds you of

fungus pew chet

and it's about this point

as the you come upon one of these caverns to the side and one of the exposed windows of the Prime Pillar's glass glows, you see see dozens of reflections in the chamber to your right

of

just enough of a reflection to see

eyes, it looks like

in the shattered expanse to your right

within Crystal of Column or in the dark in the cavern to your right.

You're heading down the glasses on the left-hand side as it lights up.

You can see in this one exposed cavern that you're passing by

numerous kind of

reflective

like little like pinpoints in the light or is it like

it's like a bunch of reflections of the glow of the glass

that might be this might be the place i don't know

i'm gonna pass the seed i trust you ashton

you find a place

you watch as something shifts in the shadow do we

recognize the smell you said it was something familiar meaning it smells like rot, decay.

I don't know.

And

you see movement in the shadow as you kind of hand over the seat.

And emerging from the shadow are

three,

six,

twelve

small mice seat.

Kind of stepping out, these little fungal folk, kind of half teetering and some wandering out, their shapes different.

You can see what the reflection would have been, you thought might have been eyes, are

portions of their caps or their exposed fungal bodies that just have kind of like a smooth little knot that itself kind of glistens and reflects.

Some of them have what looks like it might be an eye or eyes in places, but they're all just varying shapes and they all kind of emerge curiously.

Good or bad.

Good or bad.

They're good.

They're candy.

I think they're okay.

We had some nice ones.

We ran into earlier, but who knows?

They could have

been on another side.

So at this moment you look back as you're listening to Fern you look down and one's right there just kind of just like almost ninja cat in front of you and it's kind of looking up at you

Do they speak?

Can I say in their head

Do you know where the group

the people from the blue dream?

Do you know where they are?

You there isn't so much language as there is just kind of a

an odd mixture of emotion and color and you get the sense that it

it knows where things are happening

one of them is in danger we need to help

about two dozen more slowly emerge and they're kind of like filling up the cavern around you all a little nervous about this

minus not minus i speak primordial does any of this sound ancient like am i making out any words or anything like that i speak primordial too you do i would just think if they're an ancient being of some sort, it feels older than I.

I also speak with small beasts.

Are they considered beasts?

They are not considered beasts.

And there isn't a language purely,

but as people that have knowledge of the primordial language,

there are certain sounds and reactions that sound akin to what would be like the common version of yeah, huh?

Sure.

So there is some

sort of an ancient connection in some way to these mice seat and something primordial, likely long ago.

You throw me a little light and ask them if I can plant this real quick and then we can be on our way.

We're in a hurry, Ashton.

Is the vibe okay?

As they are

checking out the innocence?

Yeah.

Pretty good for me.

That's a 20, dirty 20.

Oh!

Whispers!

Yeah, there you go, yeah, yeah.

Whispers!

Guys,

go buy stuff on our store.

Where's your little sheet of paper?

But this is for battles.

I can't tell you what this says.

Celebrating the year 2024.

Last episode.

Yeah, so go buy stuff.

Eat lots of food.

It's the holidays.

Celebrate by buying stuff.

Mold wine.

Happy holidays.

No sun movements.

Yeah.

No, I'm

not going to be.

No, they're just...

I don't know.

They seem curious.

Okay, here's the thing.

But I can't.

Just let's not.

I'm teasing them to the ground and I'm trying to...

Startle him.

Let's not startle him.

Give him a strawberry.

Do I see anything?

We've got some light in there.

Do I see like this is a good place to plant something or is this not?

You light up the chamber that they're coming from, and as you do, more and more chambers open up.

It is just like a sprawling network of caverns throughout that.

Some places have,

it looks like where crystal has been mined from, like the crystal glass, the rooting glass, it looks like there are veins that have been pulled from.

And there are some signs that this area might have been used elsewhere,

if not by them.

It doesn't look as refined as you'd expect from Rylauren work, so perhaps the Mycete themselves, this is one of their hidden cachets.

They're uncertain.

But the smell, that smell, that fungal smell, is faint around them, but it was strong and too strong in the air to be just this group present.

Ladden had a good idea, and Auram squats down and makes a strawberry using Druidcraft appear in his hand.

He holds it out for them.

One of them kind of takes it.

Seven of them gather around and kind of look at it.

They're like,

I'm going to, while they're distracted, tell Pate to go invisible

and then have him seek out that stench in the cavern further into the crevasse.

See if he sees anything.

As soon as Auram says no sudden movements, I'm just going to start quietly humming a familiar tune to myself.

And will continue to for the foreseeable future.

It takes the strawberry and kind of crushes it up in its hand and kind of smears it on top of its cap.

Oh my god, I love him.

Wait, is he a mushroom man wearing a strawberry hat?

Well, it's a mushroom man who's smeared strawberry streaks on the top of its cap.

I love you.

The three other around go like,

don't make them turn evil.

And there's now six other ones that have gathered like expectantly at you.

I give them a blackberry.

That's slowly maybe better.

At least

too.

More and more are starting to approach and gather and towards more of them.

Maybe

that's probably enough.

I start to move

to the side of the entrance to sort of like clear the entrance a little bit in case any of my friends want to no, I want to move on.

Okay, anything from we can just go

is there any significance since I haven't been here to the Ruidian glass that like these veins that you're talking that are sort of like moving through the wall, like do they have a purpose?

It's kind of like part of Pradathos, is what

we think is.

Yeah, okay, amplifies psychic energy.

The lore that that has been conveyed by

various Ruidian allies you've had in the past, Everoa as well.

It is

thought within the study of Ruidas' history from the

Rooting Society that the Rudian glass is the remains of Perdathos' original form when it was defeated by the gods and titans long ago.

And the glass itself still carries a very strong psychic resonance within it.

And it is very difficult to mine and manipulate, but numer weapons and tools that have been made from it have additional properties that are psychically resonant.

Can I really quickly investigate the walls and the area

that's connected to the space that we're in, just really quick, just absentmindedly?

I want to see if there's any

true to their name, like any sort of organic

webbing or mycelium that's in the walls that could be interwoven with the glass.

Psychic perception or investigation.

Okay.

I appreciate the time being spent on this.

I feel like people.

Oh!

Oh!

What?

Natural 21!

What is happening?

With the perception, it's not great.

21.

That's great, though.

Okay.

So as they're having this kind of gathering of mycete that are swarming orem and kind of the odd mixture of like, they're cute and I'm unsettled that is kind of fallen over the troop.

You kind of step past them into the entryway and you see other mycete that are kind of like coming out of the walls.

And you look and there's like the walls are porous in places.

there are like small tunnels little entryways throughout where they're kind of emerging from and you get close to one of the sides there and amongst the rock that's in this space and the occasional little veins of the ruidian glass you do see

some sort of like a soft sticky texture on it and you follow it and there is the faintest bit of like a mycelium

material, like almost like a thin skin membrane that stretch from place to place that seems to embed itself in the rock in places

um

and you go towards one of these openings uh where one of the my seats kind of runs by and you look in and it looks like a tunnel that descends

a tunnel instead

straight to the

they're tiny though right these tunnels are super tiny they're they're they're small they're they're about maybe three foot high, about two and a half feet wide, at least the one that you're looking at now.

And also they're all over the different walls coming from different locations.

So you get the sense that there is a mass network of these little tunnels and a mass network where these mycetes communicate or maneuver throughout these cavernous spaces.

Can I try to communicate with one of them in their head and ask about the tunnel?

Yeah.

Is there a bigger one that leads down

down to the cage?

Perdathos.

The heart.

You put the image in its mind of Perdathos being

a ruitus born, being an entity that has a connection with the very core of this world.

And the Mycete, as it looks towards you, its head

shoots up straight.

Oh.

And it grabs your hand and starts pulling you towards the

end of the day.

I think these are part of Perdathos.

Others kind of begin to gather and look at each other like they're all quietly communicating in an instant.

And all of them begin to kind of swarm up around Imogen and like they get behind her.

Make an inside check.

Inside the fungi.

What are you going to say?

I'm going to say.

Oh, wait, wait.

I got it so excited I broke the chair.

Let's go.

Oh, what's happening?

Is that

it?

I'm 21.

Oh, no.

It's a side.

Oh, boy.

Some whispers are happening.

Whispers?

Fertilizer.

As he whispers, why don't you take this opportunity to buy some shit in in our store?

Enjoy the end of the year.

Enjoy the end of the year.

Make some New Year's resolutions.

Santa, can I have a chair for Christmas?

Oh, it's so close.

I can't support that chair.

It's close.

Oh, yeah.

You snapped the devil.

I'm holding it.

Don't let it pitch your button.

Get up right now.

Yeah.

Oh, boy.

That's broken.

It's okay.

We have it all.

We got excited now.

I got excited.

I think Ashley got right now.

Thank you, Santa.

Thank you, Carol.

This one's going ahead.

Because I always go back like this.

Don't do it.

I know.

I know.

These chairs need.

Maybe at the start of the new year, we can get you chairs.

So the rest of you

are watching these My Seat have all kind of shifted their attention, their kind of scattered curiosity, to all focus on Imogen.

And they're all kind of like pulling her hands and like getting behind and kind of pushing her towards the

tunnel they emerged from.

Already in the room.

They've definitely taken

her back down to the face of the hole.

No, no, they're pushing her towards the

network of caverns that they emerge from.

You've got to get it out.

I'm dying to know what you're about to say.

No, it's okay.

No one's talking.

We're all talking together.

No, Bradney, what is it?

Sorry, I can't.

I've got a cushion on the way.

As they're pulling her, Adorian's going to try to make his way to her and be like,

you know, my father's favorite tutor always had a strange theory.

He told me that he thought all the mushrooms were connected under the ground.

They spoke to the trees.

I think they might be speaking to someone other than the trees.

Yeah, I got that.

Are you okay with this?

Well, it'll get there faster.

Okie-dokie, but.

Oh, boy.

The hole's three by two.

I mean, that's fine for me.

Can you make the hole bigger?

Well, all of us?

Well, that's the one hole that you saw.

There are dozens and dozens.

It looks like a porous rock cavern.

We'll know if this is bad when he marks the red part.

I'm just saying there's a non-zero chance that someone else is listening.

Hang on, pretty tight.

She breaks the entire time.

Is the My Seat pulling her into where Pate went to go figure out what the stench was?

Pate,

as I've flown into this cavern beyond them, and there are like numerous other my seat.

And the caverns like sprawl out.

You can see hundreds of feet into shadow, but beyond his perception, where like the cavern breaks off into two different other caverns that branch off into other caverns,

this could he could be spend hours in here exploring these

glab resume sitting like 50 yeah i told him to look for the for the rotten for the rotten

this

mouth jesus is it my perception

are you starting the downward trend

it is me starting the downward trend

don't do it we don't do it

always suck it's a natural one no it's a no no no no that's a seven that's a seven with their rolls so eight

yeah okay familiars cannot roll uh

Smell's kind of ever-present.

It's not like super strong, but it's definitely ever-present.

But he doesn't see shit.

I don't know.

This is all the big caverns.

Yeah, that tracks.

All right.

Honeycomb.

One day.

One day.

I'm going to focus and use divine sense just to see if there's any good, evil, fiend, undead

things.

You don't pick up any fiend undead celestial presence here.

You don't pick up anything that marks your

personal sense of morality these are mushroom people

they continue to push you further back into the cavern uh you see it branches off into two larger places you can hear like a distant drip of water um that kind of echoes every few seconds off to the right hand side but they're pushing you to the left and eventually like are you lighting up in front as this goes are you like kind of leading your are you letting the shadows take you no i don't want light

Okay.

The chamber that leads you into descends downward.

It's kind of a small, compared to the massive room you were in, a small like 40-foot-wide kind of descending turn that leads to a

round-ish kind of sphere-like alcove where there are five other kind of door-like tunnel entrances.

And as you walk inside the lights, you can see there's that kind of stretched bits of uh like thin fungal film that seems to kind of emerge from some of the holes and they all kind of there's one that will likely fit you and they all kind of go

and start pushing you towards the hole the one's like tugging you like pulling you into it

go down the water

like they're smiling it's fine it's fine are you y'all are coming too

we can drop all on your lead

are we going a different way no fern okay

okay okay okay yeah were we doing this are we doing this

it just dumps us out right into the this gun shoots us shoots and ladders us like right to right to the

usually eight out of ten times when i listen to a mushroom it goes yeah well i'm gonna go to one of the little mushrooms

is there is there is there one for my sack

i don't want to get stuck i get really nervous in small confined spaces

big

big hole i think this is

might be as big of a so i probably shouldn't go

i should stay

Imogen.

You have been pushed towards the entry wave here.

It's about a little over three and a half feet tall, like about Aurum's height-ish and like standing, and about three feet wide.

Kind of mostly circular oval.

The smell is strong of that kind of fungal smell.

And they're all just kind of like,

I'm going to use a sorcery point, and my eyes, as I look down, are just going flare up white and white smoke is gonna pour out of them and I can see invisibility, I can see

anything now that

isn't.

It is the entryway is the size of the tunnel and it progresses into a downward slope.

And what you notice is that kind of

that strange fungal film is all across it.

It's almost like it's a slime.

It glistens ever so faintly.

Slime.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Slide, slide.

Pavement is there.

All right.

I'm going to look back at the.

Slide.

Slide.

I'm going to turn back to the group.

Let's do it.

Let's slide, baby.

Hop in.

You kind of lean down a bit, and before you can even get a moment, the one that's pulling your hand, like, holds you in and kind of vanishes ahead of you.

Another one's kind of you push from behind.

And

you are now cruising and like sliding around, like luging through this lightless space.

Your flicker of lights cannot keep up with the speed you're going, and pretty soon you're just rocketing towards shadow.

Nothing but a sense of

what it's like having

headlights at the front of a black descent into nothing.

You all just watch

image and vanish into darkness.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Yes, go in.

All right, all of you, one by one, begin to push in.

I'd say the two that would have the hardest, if anybody, would be the two of you.

It can fit you.

Sorry, did I say hello?

We do have a potion for you.

You do have a slippy potion.

It takes one minute to apply.

Oh, you have to button yourself up.

It's fine.

I'm totally in a fit.

So the two of you, the ones left.

Is one of you helping the other?

I just like, I take a little bit of the slime and I like shimmy it around my cake.

Like, get her through.

And my toe, toe, and my cake.

Do you want to show?

I'm going to go last.

Oh, you're just going to go?

Yeah.

I was going to go last.

I was like, hearing Marvel.

Now, if you push your head first.

I'm going to go head first.

I share.

It's more streamlined.

All right.

I'm looking to see what I have.

I just sort of

take out my canteen of water and just sort of pour it all over me.

Maybe that'll help.

I don't know how things work.

You dive in.

You all, one after another, are shooting through this black, slick, lightless tube into wherever the depths of ruinous it'll take you.

I need a gun.

It's in my mouth.

It's in my mouth.

Was there like a 16-year-old mice being like, next.

Next.

Next.

There is a moment,

imagine where it

kind of curves and comes to a bit of

a slightly narrower space, and it kind of evens out, and you slow slightly.

Get taken out from behind by Lodna as you both and now are sliding together, going over a steeper ridge,

kind of just shooting down at a very extreme decline.

The rest of you continue through.

I need a group athletics or acrobatics check.

Your choice for the first leg of this slide journey.

Oh, no!

Acrobatics or athletics.

Okay.

You've still got inspiration, young.

I know I used that one.

Oh, you did, actually.

I was about to say, no, I was going to say rage doesn't help with this at all.

Nope.

Athletics.

Sorry.

Not 20.

So that's

29.

Already.

Not 20.

18.

And Auram's using gust to kind of go like

air hockey all the way down.

You got it.

Imogen?

Already.

First.

Four.

Alrighty.

Cool.

12.

15.

15.

Okay.

Robbie.

22.

22.

Alright.

Six.

Squash.

CX 20.

19.

19.

Alright.

These tunnels are slick at first,

and then elements of the walls and ceilings begin to grow more ragged.

Bits of exposed rock like shooting by, and you're all having to kind of adjust as you go.

At a certain point,

you're the the bottom of the tunnel you have such an intense speed and then

just air

And then

you didn't even see what happened, but you left the tunnel for the moment and caught another one.

Oh my gosh.

Is that my seat still in front of me that like pulled me in?

You haven't seen it.

Oh my gosh.

No, it's not.

However, the process does bang up a number of you and knock you around, throw you off course for a bit.

You end up getting stuck and lodged in at one point and having to push through.

And the expediency of this slide ride does unfortunately slow things down a little bit

the dark wheel now we know the dark timer bad wheel eventually

a faint bit of light seems to appear below you when you are traveling at one of your fastest speeds below as you feel the the air rushing past and you see the light get larger and larger and you look like you're about to impact what looks like hard floor

I want to use a key, a sorcery point and a key point and fly.

Okay.

You emerge and kind of arrive into a fairly decently sized subterranean opening, a cavern with slag mites thing from below and the area where you have impacted, you can see the ground itself has a spongy growth where it would be.

The rest of you,

like impact,

feather fall, featherfall,

You could gently tumble into it and kind of bounce before you kind of land onto the rock beyond.

Whoever else would have been in vision, in sight to you would have been the next person.

Five falling creatures in Cologne.

Right?

Well, we know these two were last.

You can skip me if you need to.

And you can skip me if you need to.

I'll

go.

Well, then I'll give it to Chet.

I'll give it to Endlue.

We'll give it to Breas.

I'll maybe give it to Breyus and these two, because I'll be coming in last so I can turn and look at them.

Okay, so I'll say you should do that.

All of you you begin to impact and slowly impact this kind of like spongy cushion of fungus material that kind of like

takes the brunt of your impact and bounces you about 10-15 feet before you kind of land on your feet if you catch yourself in time.

This is awesome.

That was sick.

That was great.

That was so

light up my orbs so we can see that.

And you can see there are the handful of my seat that have probably gone in before you went down.

The one that pulled you in, and then a number

begin emerging from behind where where you were, like

a distribution tunnel that is filling a factory floor.

You just watch as dozens of my seat are now following suit behind them.

They're kind of like piling up at the bottom, almost like filling it up before they begin to disperse a bit and follow.

But you now have like a small cluster of my seat that are kind of following you here.

The smell, that smell that you picked up in the cavern earlier when you began to step over to the side is extremely strong here.

Is Locate Object still up by any chance, or has it it been 10 minutes?

I'd say it's probably been 10 minutes from now since you've cast it last time with all the conversation and investigation with my sea tunnel.

You do also see that kind of stretched

bit of kind of fungal film is much denser here and covers probably about 40 to 50 percent of the exposed rock and glass that exists.

You can see like pulsing bits of the ruidian glass in proximity.

Not actually part of the prime pillar you know of, but kind of pulsing at the same pattern, but are obscured slightly with this film, giving it almost like a

faintly opaqueness to its glow.

And the cavern opens below, you can see there's like a little bit of a pool of some sort of liquid that kind of sits about 20 feet beyond where you all landed.

What would you like to do?

I think this is the place to do it.

Yeah, do that.

Do I need a cooler?

Yeah, cooler.

The weird spongy bit does orm seer here.

Anything lurking?

That is a

it's real high.

That is 20 32.

32.

As they're having this conversation, you see these thin tendrils

of

looks like dangling fungal strips that seem to be swaying and shifting as they slowly snake from the ceiling above you.

Oh no, are these my seed?

Bucking with us?

Do the the seed, do the seed.

I'm doing the seed.

Yeah, I'm drop it in.

Just drop it in.

Yeah, we put the seed in there.

Place the seed into the water.

You put it towards the edge of the water and kind of place it in there as it settles in.

The tendrils

suddenly strengthen an incredible speed, darting towards your hand.

And as the seed leaves your grip into the water, the now what looks like 12 different long, thin, kind of

somewhat tattered-looking tethers tethers of fungus, like shh, all converge and pull the seed from the water where it was, and it kind of just dangles, all and kind of holding it in the middle of the air there.

And you watch it kind of like turn almost like it's inspecting it or shifting it in the air.

Ashton grabbed the seed because it went into the water.

Maybe the water's holy or protected.

Special or something.

How do these tendrils work?

Are these tendrils

in the ceiling, or is there

an entity?

Do you expand your light in the chamber?

Yeah.

Dark vision, 60 feet.

Look up.

I rage.

You look up, there's no singular entity, but you see the entire ceiling is just clusters of this similarly colored fungus as to the mycete.

They're less kind of solid and, you know,

quadrupedal, I guess, or bipedal.

Just kind of all shifting and moving.

And you can see elements of it, like the strips are kind of coming free, like it's unfurling slowly, like vines that are beginning to dangle down, kind of like feelers.

But you don't see a singular source, it continues like these little

clusters of fungus all across the ceiling that are all connected by these long stretched tethers.

We're lit up and they're not extending towards us in any way.

Not at the moment.

Can you move?

Is there an exit to this cavern?

Do you see an exit to the cavern?

Maybe, maybe it's like a zipline system.

Yeah, can you help me, Olivia?

I'm going to go over to the water and just sort of

dip my toe in just to see what will happen.

Okay.

You dip your toe into the water.

Yes.

My hook.

Oh!

Ooh!

Natural twang.

What?

Who doesn't have one?

You guys are rolling

absurd tonight.

Except this is all in the cool, useless rolls.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the thing.

That's happened before, and then when we got to the fight, it went.

Yeah.

You don't have to say that.

You don't have to bad.

You dip your toe into the water, and it feels

cold, like same general temperature as the air here, which is warmer than just outside the cavern.

Like there's the presence of this

fungus kind of gives a bit of a warmth to the air.

What is Protothos is just a big bunch of mushrooms?

This is Protathos.

But nothing seems to react to you touching the water at all.

Don't shoot down and prevent me from touching it.

Okay, so it's specific to the seed.

Yep.

But as the seed's kind of held up, you can see the

tethers are kind of like almost, I'm gonna say caressing it, but like feeling it, like touching it, learning it through touch, almost like it's turning it in its hand.

Where it touched the water, the seed, which would have been kind of a solid, hard object, there's one little expansion where it touched the water, like the tiniest bit of a root or something that had broken through.

I am going to, since I am going to try something, I am going to attempt to take a little bit of water.

What am I going to?

Yeah,

I'm going to try and splash it up and see what happens.

Splash it up?

Onto the seat?

Yeah.

Okay.

Make just an initiative roll for me.

I also might add that I am raging and I have a probability rage right now.

So I've got that.

So that means that I'm a little luckier than I should be.

You also have an advantage on initiative.

I have advantage on initiative.

18.

Okay.

You

watch this happening and all the mycete that have gathered around that are all now focused on whatever it was that is now being held, this seed that they don't fully understand.

It's just being kind of held from this like, you know.

20, 30 feet of extended, stretched, vine-like tethers of fungus kind of holding it and turning it in space.

You reach down, take the water, and splash it just as like the mycetes see you move in that direction and kind of like shift almost to reach for you as they you do.

The water

splashes in the seed and you watch as

these odd capillary like yellow-green roots begin to emerge from it and some kind of like begin to reach up into the tethers.

What are you talking about what am I supposed to do?

Pick up some water and put it on the seed.

Can I

is angry about that?

Well, a little late now.

And while while this is happening, can I take out a bottle of slick shimmer oil and I'm gonna

start, I'm gonna hand it to Breus and be like,

time to lube up, big boy.

Shut up and take it!

Not just to go over and have a lube oil.

Okay, you're putting it on me?

I'll help you put it on yourself.

Okay.

Mostly the boobs.

The udders.

How does this relationship between the seed and the my CMC to be going right now?

Make an insight or nature check.

Yeah, I'm going to hold off on splashing more water until I know.

I am bad for both of these, so I'm going to just let you know how that goes.

Uh-oh, 19.

Okay.

It seems more of a curiosity.

Okay.

A foreign body has been introduced to a long,

you know, balanced ecosystem

and it is inspecting it as it is

suddenly moving in erratic and unexpected ways.

It is cautiously

investigating what you've brought to its home.

Okay,

I'll slow down, although I

still have a little while longer while I've got my wonderful little rainbow sparkle happening.

I have a natural 20 for looking for an exit.

Correct.

I have one more of these.

One more of the slippery seeds.

You can see there are a number of other tunnel escapes from here, much like the one that you took.

At the moment, as the

masses of sealing fungus are inspecting the seed, you watch the holes kind of slowly grow over with fungus.

Like

it's currently closing the exits.

Are we in something's stomach?

Are we being eaten?

She just doesn't like the seed.

It's a little late, man.

Mushrooms are less of a stomach.

My mom dies because you splashed water on it, Cashton.

What's in the pool?

I mean, that would be ridiculous.

What's in the pool?

What's in a pool?

How deep is it?

Want me to go down there?

Can Cow swim?

I'll dive in and see.

Swin.

Swin.

Burned up the other slick sham oil.

Okay.

Got it.

What does that do again?

Makes me real slow.

You get 10 temporary hit points, which would wipe out your other ones and replace them if it was less than 10.

Okay.

And it gives you advantage if you get grappled to break free of it.

As long as the temporary hit points are still there.

Braus, you step into the water and get about waist deep.

Your feet, it's like stepping into a very thick...

like a pond sludge at the edges where the mud itself is very sticky and your boots, especially with your armor, kind of sink in.

And you kind of like find a point where your feet aren't really moving.

and then you feel the ground kind of crawling around your boots and up your armor.

The rest of you watch as Braillus all of a sudden starts lifting out of the water, and you watch as the water begins to like overflow and spill out into the chamber as a

core pillar of this odd purple, red, black fungus seems to like invert out of the center of this pool.

And it's like Braillus is now almost thigh-deep in whatever this is.

Quicksand.

You're now kind of lifted about eight feet in the air at this point before it kind of stops and it kind of just holds you there with little fungus tethers kind of like reaching and slowly crawling, but no exponential rate.

Just kind of feeling.

This whole room is shellact and living organism.

The seed is still kind of turning in.

And you.

The best I can say is right now, whatever's happening, there is judgment being decided.

Okay.

What do you wish to do?

What are the my seat doing?

Right now, they're all just quietly watching.

They're all still and watching.

We should just get the seed back and take it with us.

How big is the seed?

Has the seed grown grown too?

It might not let us

an offering.

Yeah,

the seed's about that big, but now it has like all these splintered out.

Do you think you would want one of those

angry void dogs?

I mean, you might feel less aggressive.

Let's just

roll.

Maybe you want food?

I don't think it's been ten minutes since we went slipping sliding.

Where do we go from here?

Because maybe we can just...

Maybe it'll just let us go.

All of the exits are closed.

Okay.

That's right.

I'm trying really hard to just breathe slowly and stay very still.

Yeah, my grapples are just being held.

I mean, you can't move your legs.

Dorian, are you singing?

You can't say emotions because they don't have emotions.

Let's just, let's just, yeah.

Speak, can it, can it, does it have a mind?

Can I try to sense a mind on it?

You want to open mind?

Could be super dangerous to do.

Tonas to the floor.

I have to speak with plants.

I don't think the fungus is clams.

I don't know.

I know.

That's why I have

a technique.

In the broad spectrum of DD categories,

you can certainly try.

I'll try.

I'll try.

I mean, we're sick of having

it doesn't work.

Okay.

All right, Sam can make another.

I'm just going to just, just

try to step forward to where some of the tendrils are, kind of a little bit closer to Braus, and kind of just like...

hold my hand out.

Okay.

You hold your hand out to where you're kind of brace, it's kind of locked in,

the seed kind of being turned over in front of you, the kind of like the occasional bits of exposed rooting, glass kind of just pulsing and glowing, giving light to the space beyond what you've used to kind of light it from within.

You reach your hand out and you watch as that pillar of

matter,

a pseudopod of it, kind of emerges

and

wraps around your wrist and kind of like

up your forearm a bit.

And you are connected.

You feel a consciousness kind of touch yours

in a different way than how Imogen has spoken into your mind, but you feel like suddenly you

can kind of sense the chamber.

You can sense all the my seat around.

I know, Kung Fu.

And you can sense the whatever you're speaking to isn't here.

It's here.

Hello.

How are you?

I'm fine.

Um, we're just, we're just, we're just passing through.

We don't mean any harm.

We just, the, the, my seats are, our friends, and we were just kind of sliding.

Oh,

from the blues and pinks of kind of curious welcoming to a

questioning yellow,

and

the seed kind of has descended slightly towards you,

and you get the sense

it wants to know why and what

about the seed.

Do you like the seed?

Do you want the seed?

I can take the seed, and we can go away forever.

Why?

What?

Pitch it to him.

Ashton,

he kind of wants to know why you wanted to plant the seed here.

It's a friend who wanted to explore.

Oh.

He was lonely.

A new home.

It was a friend who wanted to explore and see something else.

Um.

Yeah, I'll say that.

This is this is just a friend that's

lonely and wants a home to explore.

Would love to have a new home.

Okay.

From the dream.

Make a persuasion check.

Persuade the mushroom.

Aren't you really persuasive?

Or is that deceptive?

Persuasive.

Don't make that face.

Crush it.

Crush it.

20.

Get your 20.

Oh, you did.

But

that's a 20.

It's a 20, dude.

Yeah.

So that would mean.

That would mean 33.

Jesus Christ.

What?

I mean, that's a 20.

You can read it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, or.

Come on.

Okay.

Good omen, bad omen.

One of the numerous alien consciousnesses that call Ruidis home.

An entity that you can't begin to understand or grasp its history, its longevity, its true capacity for knowledge and communication.

But in this moment, this interconnected moment, you just speak from the mind of something that has known loneliness and convey that memory of your own as the bridge of understanding to this entity.

And it seems that it understands very well what it means to be lonely.

I'll just also try and, with my fingers, just try to like twirl some of the tendrils with as you do all the mice.

He kind of in use and go.

I love that.

You.

It offers back a sense of emotion as well.

A

series of

dark expanses of

misuse,

of

being

taken from its

children.

You see flashes of

the weave mind.

You see flashes of

an odd limbo that it exists between

what is above and what is below.

It is aware of what's below.

You're uncertain if it has any

opinion on it.

But it acknowledges what it is you ask and what it is you offer.

And as its tendril pulls away from you, the seed is lifted up and embraced

within

the fungal tethers and slowly you watch as the

expansion of the seeds green and yellow

root like reaching pseudopods begin to intertwine and weave with

the core of the immediately visible cluster

and then it just comes to a moment of equilibrium.

All the other tunnels that had closed off earlier open up.

Oh, yeah.

Color in that blue reel, baby!

You sexy fucking legend.

Oh, my God.

I apologize.

That was smart.

That was smart.

That was smart.

It was dumb.

It just worked out well.

Just he's gonna owe us so fucking much when we get home.

Okay, I'll take Lucky.

Let's go.

Well, we'll chase it until we go check?

Guys, guys, guys.

I'm still stuck in here.

The minute you start moving,

in almost an apologetic way, like, oh, right.

I'm still sorry.

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

I'm okay.

I'm okay.

All right.

Are there any more

to the mice seat?

To the miceat.

The mice, at this point, the rest of the mice seat continue to grab your arms and fingers and like pull you along to the far end of this chamber.

And as you move, you can watch like the floor kind of spreading aspects of the fungus almost seems to pull away to offer a nicer walking path before, leading you to

one particular larger exit tunnel than the one that you had previously pushed towards.

And as we're moving, is it water that was in this pool, or is it some other kind of viscous liquid?

Make a nature or an investigation check.

Just for a minute on this front, for a 27.

It has the consistency of water, if only slightly thicker.

Best you can tell, it has probably a combination of either condensation or liquid that has been funneled from elsewhere in this cavern network that has been kind of gathered here to maintain a part of this network, a level of moisture that it prefers.

Well, you're gonna lick it?

Just a little taste.

Just a little taste?

Taste a little bit?

It has a metallic taste, not like in

a penny or copper, but almost like a minerally.

Very minerally.

Like water that's been left out a couple months.

Yeah, hard water.

It tastes like the pirates of the Caribbean.

A little bit.

A little bit.

He's out.

Nothing's around.

That seed is going to turn into something we meet in campaign five.

I'm hoping so.

Let's go check out the.

Let's go check out the holes.

Bags Bags.

Although my seat might be...

Yeah, they sent us to one specifically.

Okay.

They were pointing us the direction while you were licking water.

You were the one of the friends.

I keep going.

How much farther can I

communicate with them and try to see how much farther it is along the tunnels?

You can extend your consciousness to it.

And the best you can

ascertain is this tunnel

actually divides a couple of times.

And you get the sense

to go truly down.

Stay to the left.

Okay.

Glad I asked.

Let's go to the left.

Okay.

This one is gradual.

You get in, you have to kind of like scoot yourself a little bit, you know, before it begins to descend.

And as you do,

that similar sort of liquid that you had just tasted almost seems to like, I don't want to say excrete, but it is like funneled into this chamber to kind of make it a little easier to traverse.

Right as you

into like an extreme drop

into darkness.

It kind of widens a little bit, and you feel yourself like normally use your hands and the sides to kind of keep yourself going.

Now it's getting harder to reach the edges.

It's like a much wider surface.

Keep my buddy leaning left so that if it goes, it'll go that direction.

I have to drop it right here.

I would like another group athletics or acrobatics check.

Oh, man, let me not biff it this time, please.

Natural 20.

17.

All right.

29.

25.

Four.

21.

22.

I do have

12.

No, I rolled a two.

All right.

Same roll as this one.

You guys have rolled so good.

This makes up for the zipline, what?

Yeah, no joke.

You scoot

back and forth along it, and at one point it seems to even out, and as it kind of flattens a bit, the slight

kind of chute-like shape of it becomes a little harder to guide your position.

You're just kind of sliding in a direction.

With a brief moment of recognition, you see a divide coming your way where it splits off in two different paths.

Oh, geez.

You push off to the left, the rest of you following her lead and utilizing what light you have trailing behind you and communicating verbally.

One by one, you all manage to get over to the side.

A couple of you kind of like wiggle and like gonna spin off and slide for a second where you have to catch yourself kind of scooting at an angle a little bit.

But you continue down the pathway.

It shh turns into a large corkscrew.

And you leave the path again

into the air.

You're the the one up front.

What do you have to set the light?

I have my light, my globies.

My globies, can I light them up as soon as I hit the air and see what's around?

You can see, like, the path just basically descended quickly below you, and you're kind of about to meet it again, but there is also a massive chasm below that is just empty darkness that this kind of shoots over and across.

And you can see there are stretched, thin tethers of fungus that kind of reach like tightropes, but they are spread out below, and you just see an abyss below you.

You using that light kind of

and a little bit of your psychic power to kind of push yourself to the left and kind of hit what is like a wide portion of that without careening off into the chasm to the right.

Wow.

The rest of you follow suit, kind of catching off to that point.

I would like one more acrobatics level.

Here we go.

This is

acrobatics.

Our other one.

Okay.

Okay.

Starting over here, Ash.

Oh, my God.

That's where'd it go?

17.

17?

14.

14.

9.

Okay.

Same.

4.

Same.

4.

9.

Wow.

17.

Okay.

Okay.

Dirty 20.

Okay.

27.

Okay.

A couple good ones.

Yes.

The last time that happened, we got some bankies.

As you all begin to clear this chasm, and thankfully you all do, but the process of trying to not fall into endless darkness and what horrible death awaits you below, you all kind of scatter on what is now not a chute, but like a smoothed plane of just slightly damp rock.

It's like

you're skidding a bit across it, but you're also kind of spreading out a little bit.

And it takes a moment for you to realize that you're all kind of separating at different points.

You can see other tunnel entries coming your way rapidly, and you all begin to try and arrange it

before you all continue your path on different slides.

This feels like

one of the rooms

in the middle, the middle spaces,

she got those hooves.

Subtraining room is very much the tunnel.

Eventually

the slide comes to a close and you

all kind of

you're in a darkened cavern space

with no light and no doors.

Who rolled lower than a ten?

It's just what do you mean on our last bit?

The three of you emerge together.

Okay,

but it's only you three.

Where's everyone?

The other four of you all kind of end up fading in another

lights.

You see you are at what looks to be some sort of a platform top, almost like where the slide came to an end.

There is a

somewhat oval-like shaped natural like rock pillar top that has like that

that long

mineral deposit sort of buildup on it

where it it has the edges kind of almost like they're wrinkled as they remove.

But you can sense moisture in the air, but a lot of this looks kind of dry where you sit at the moment.

You led Burani and there are other platforms around.

And you kind of step to the edge and you can see the faintest glimmer of

a fairly massive, distant, pulsing part of Prime Pillar glass.

But it's a number of platforms below.

Oh man, like we're going to have to leave that.

The other four of you,

as you begin to take in your sonies, you can see that as well down there.

You also see on another platform about four different

points off,

you can kind of like direct where it is.

You can see Imogen's globules kind of emerge and glow, giving you at least a little bit of a visual beacon to where your friends are, though definitely in a different part of this massive

couple minutes.

Okay, so I still have fly.

Yeah.

So I can float up.

Well, here, I'll tell you what.

Roll a concentration check for me.

Yeah, this is some mini guns.

This is not like casting fly, though, so this is Havoc's embrace.

Okay, well then, yeah, then you still have fly.

It's not a spell.

And maybe how long is she since the previous cavern when we first met our little friends, not the scary cavern?

Uh, since then?

15 minutes or so.

Cool.

And failed roll group is higher than successful role group?

Correct.

Alright.

So we're up, we have to get down.

Yeah, we have to get we have to make it to the bottom.

You have to meet up together, friend.

I can fly, and you can hop on my back.

Can you carry me?

I'm sort of heavy.

Yes, I can carry you.

Shoebill.

And shoebill.

Are they closer in proximity to the faint glow of the pillar?

Down low?

We're further?

Or you're further?

What does that slippery oil do that you put on me?

Select shimmer gives you 10 temporary hit points.

As long as the hit points are there, you you have advantage against being grappled.

You have advantage on any attempt to escape being grappled or restrained as long as the hit points are up.

Okay.

As long as there's 10 temporary hit points there.

Oh, so there's one left.

Does that replace the seven temporary hit points that we had?

Okay.

Yes, so you're.

It doesn't stack.

Yeah.

So the troop of those three are.

Sorry, specify.

The troop of those three are further up

in the Darkened Cavern.

The rest of you are closer to this exposed part of the Prime Pillar Glass.

So we have a better view of it?

You do.

Do we see anything?

Does it look like there's a platform?

Does it look like we're getting close to Perdathos?

To get a little visual range here, like...

Just reaches down next to his chair and grabs the fucking awesome little set piece.

Just down by the chair of Mercer.

Yeah, so did you two just take off?

We're about to.

Yeah.

Whatever lies below the DM screen.

Know what?

A fucking hourglass?

They can see you down there.

It always makes me nervous.

So this might help for a visual

hourglass doom.

So while they get over to us, we gotta figure out the best way to get over there.

So you were all kind of up on top of here, we'll say.

And then the rest of the group is down there below.

And we're trying to get where?

Down over kind of this space.

Oh, so we're closer to it.

Yeah.

From our failed got us.

Sorry, I'm you guys are up top here.

Oh, we are.

Yeah, and then there's a group is down here.

And it's about,

as you take a little bit to move the light globules around to get a better sense of space and gap here,

it's about 60 or so feet from that platform to this one at a downward angle.

All right.

And

yeah, yeah, we'll fly.

So

yeah, we fly.

You'll just roll on the 20th.

We just fly, but the three of us you all get down and we well we fly down to the other group you fly down on the other group

yeah

and then how far is it yeah to get to the other light source uh to where the the pillar light is probably about 200 feet before we do that into darkness 60 feet looking around anything above us any tendrils any creatures make a perception check great disadvantage you have dark vision actually so you're fine registering the roll yeah

at 20

9

11.

11.

Don't really see a ceiling in here.

It's just kind of an open space from what you can make out.

Any, like, can I try the, since I can't see, can I give it anything familiar or totally down?

So with the same roll?

You know,

they're like,

it smells like the intensity of that fungus smell is mostly left at this point.

It still kind of lingers faintly, but it looks like you've probably moved through the layer of the Vruhis's

levels where it was most dense, where it would probably have called it its home.

700 feet.

That prime prime pillar, does it have like a surrounding platform?

Do we see any movement?

How close?

Make perception check for me.

Figuring out how to get about 200 feet across the job.

This one's been doing me good.

So all of us are all over, and we're trying to get all the way over now.

15.

15.

You get a pretty decent view of where the glass glow is, and you can see what looks like just a sheet, but as it kind of pulses, you can see some

variation to texture to where it looks like there are like like branches that kind of push out of the glass almost like a uh

like like like a broken tree branch that kind of pushes outward this way uh at first you didn't notice it was like a solid bit but as you move side to side you can kind of make out that it's kind of stretched loosely in your direction um

that's about as much as you can make are there any bridges from these platforms to each other are they just singular outcropping no they're just singular outcroppings like this and if you look down over the edge of it it's just down into darkness as well yep

that's creepy so we gotta

fly fly have we joined the two groups yes yeah thank you as we fly i'm going to as i hold on to your back i'm gonna pump in

17 points of healing with layon hand

how do we fly well nuzzle past it

do we have enough people who can we can we get everybody across this thing i could uh can't can't Fernie here just

ferry people back and forth?

Yeah.

Well, that's true.

Yeah.

If we can stay in the middle of the forest.

How long does it last?

Right, I've assumed it.

It might take some time.

I can carry you.

I mean, I can carry somebody small.

Yeah.

Dorian can carry it for you.

Five hours.

You have to have cast a fire.

Yeah, and I got one cast to fly on my mandolin.

But she can just ferry people over.

I can carry people.

I've carried her for five hours, whoever needs a ride.

All right, cool.

Let's go back and forth.

Okay.

I'll save it.

It's only 200 feet.

That's not too bad.

I'll grab one.

That's not too bad.

So, cruising around, it takes a few minutes to get everybody over to that point.

Go ahead and roll a D20 for me.

Uh-oh.

One of the good ones.

You said that.

I don't appreciate your tongue.

I don't appreciate your thumbs, sir.

Okay.

It's just for how tasty your snacks are.

But I love you.

And I hate you.

19.

Go ahead.

Jeez.

Yeah.

Navigating this space, even with as dark as it is with your friend's light, it goes pretty quickly.

And indeed, you find like this outstretched, now that you get closer to it, it is stretched a good 30 feet out from the side of the glass, and it has almost like a almost a hand-like look to its protrusion, made of that solid, kind of jagged-looking ruidian glass.

And as it kind of merges in with the wall, the pillar, and as you get next to it, you can see like parts of the the reason only this part is glowing is because a lot of it is still embedded in the wall and there's like almost a marbling to it where

this section of it,

the

rock or the glass is slightly more porous, or maybe it's not as strong as others, where like the prime pillar is like this solid mass.

Here it looks like some of the rock is merged with it, and it looks like some of it has crumbled away.

You do see some nearby kind of tunnel openings where it looks like a

continuation of a burrowed tunnel has come to an abrupt end

and fallen into nothing.

A burrowed tunnel.

Meaning

the size of the tunnel that you guys entered here from.

Okay.

Okay.

So a carved tunnel.

Whatever burrowed the original tunnel through seems to have burrowed out

and dropped or at least just

ends into nothing.

Wow.

So are we just kind of on the edge of a singular pillar with nothing around us?

Looks like a little bit.

So we don't know

where to go.

We're still trying to make our way to

your mom.

But here's a question.

Does anybody who has like an innate, innate sense of direction, I would think like Chetney, like, would

know that we're going...

Because when we had Hohener Hoff, we had an idea of a direction at least.

Now we've been, I mean...

I have

labyrinthine recall.

I always know which direction is north, and I have advantage on any survival check to navigate or track.

Make a survival check for me with advantage.

Okay, okay.

19 plus survival plus one.

For dirty 20.

As you're all looking out into the darkness and looking at this class, from where you are at the end of this, you look at the wall, the solid wall, like the weird, like the texture of where those, that marbling of stone kind of blends in in places, and you kind of step to the right, step to to the left, and you can see there's

it's an it's almost like an illusion where what looks like would be you know striations of cracked glass, there's actually gaps that are overlapping.

There are parts that are closer, parts that are further,

and you go that way, yeah, not just like that.

Um, and you begin to walk along the rest of this glass branch, kind of glowing and pulsing beneath you.

Um, and at this point, at this depth, too, there's like this, every time it pulses, there's this faint like

this like bassy buzz in your mind.

Yeah, I'm just wondering if it, does it give us a weird like

feeling or something?

Not yet.

Not yet, yes.

Okay, we're not a burphy yet.

I'm not a burphy.

But following Breyus along this branch of Rudian glass, you eventually come to the exterior of it.

And indeed, there is like a cavern, like a cleft part of it where glass is either broken or it's been broken.

And it looks like it continues inward.

And at a quick glance, too, there are traces of dirt and rock inside that you like, someone's been here.

Uh-oh.

Okay.

Does it look like we can go down or looks like it goes straight in at the moment, but it like you can only see about 15 or so feet before it winds off.

It's reversible.

I will say if he is if he is trying to absorb your mom, we're about to really, really make him want to leave.

Let's go.

Let's go, huh?

Okay.

Does it feel?

I'm in my...

There's no way I know.

Like, will we know when we're up there when we're getting there?

Are we there yet?

Are we there for Maria?

Are we there for Dathos?

It's me, Imogen.

Following

Breyus's natural instinct to weave through

broken and difficult pathways,

there are parts where these glass pads kind of branch off almost like a hall of mirrors and wherever the, and it's just pulsing around you in all directions.

And it's very hard to kind of grasp what's up and down at certain points.

It's an odd fun house that is not fun at all.

Some branched paths you look over and kind of begin to follow if you want to, just to inspect it, and it kind of eventually just comes to an end, like a pincer point where you would be stuck if you were to push any further and you pull back.

But Breyus feels strongly of a position.

Eventually

emerging from the glass, out of the center of the prime pillar, and back into a cavern.

And you can hear

voices muttering

and a soft,

faint weeping.

Cannot can I tell the like or the rough distance how far away we are?

Make perception check

This is just the echoing of the sounds and the noise in here

That is a

twenty-nine

I love it

Can't be more than a couple hundred feet from where you are right now as it's echoing through the halls What's our play here?

Attack fast quick and jump on take a look at it and then when we're ready I could send the eye go look fast.

It's a good idea.

I'll cast

a trace on us too, just to have it up in case we want to start walking on the bottom.

I'll call it the Chronicle of True Essence and Mr.

Peanut, that shit, and I'll cast an arcane eye to move towards the direction, towards the sound.

Towards the center.

It's invisible and has no limit on its distance.

Maybe you should have this pipe.

It would really go with the aesthetic.

Oh.

It's my

arcane eye operates and your vision pushes into it as it begins to rapid as it can glide through this like weaving rock cavern that emerges from this exterior of the glass pillar and seems to coast around the base exterior of it on the far

far left, kind of following the same spiral pattern you first entered this cavern from.

It doesn't take too long for it to come around the bend, and you can see there is

a fractured tunnel that

looks like it pushes directly into the prime pillar.

Around it, various platforms of broken red and dark rock,

the exposed 30, 40 feet of this kind of cavern space of the Rhodian glass itself just kind of pulsing, its jagged bits kind of pushed up onto it.

On this platform, you see is

a very faint field like a spherical shell that is encasing

a familiar

lutinous dileth

who stands there with his hands together and kind of floating above him like slowly turning

catatonic it seems just quietly whimpering

is the Liana Timold

You see figures standing around it.

Make a perception check for me.

Does the eye have a better modifier than me?

Uh

13.

13.

At a quick glance, you see four figures that are standing around, that are focused on the two of them, wearing

Vanguard attire.

And they themselves, from what you can see along their arms that are exposed from the robes,

reddish-purple, jagged designs faintly glowing up their arms, denoting these likely to be exultants,

helping enable this process.

Liliana, her hair white, her skin pale,

her fingertips

crumbling.

There's at least ten of them in there.

We gotta go if your mom does not look good.

Let's go then.

I start moving forward.

The rest of you follow suit.

Well,

you said we're about 200.

And someone said pass without a trace.

I put up pass without a trace.

Uh, mirror image.

I take off the monocle and

quietly.

Um, and I will also go ahead and form of dread.

Alrighty.

Yeah, right as I get close, I'm gonna activate my robe.

Okay.

There's a scare or something.

Some kind of protective sphere.

But I mean, like, we have a staff that can

wait.

Should we have used that short rest thing?

That's a mid-fight.

That's a mid-fight sort of situation.

Yeah.

Okay.

As you make your preparations and charge in behind Imogen towards I'm gonna bring up Mister as well.

Bring up Mister as well.

I'm gonna

inspire Imogen.

How do you inspire her?

I inspire her by

quickly

taking out my paintbrush and doodling a smiley face on my armor right here.

Take your D6.

From behind us, you'll just, there's just

a faint yellow glow and no sound as Coriolis walks down the path up behind me

and I'll go to Aurum and say, It's up to you.

Do you want to be a mounted fighter?

Oh shit, that's dope.

It's hard to pass up.

Put my hands down like this.

Even though you've got a 30-foot vertical

Oh right, as we're getting close close to it, I'm also gonna

touch touch Chet and cast jump on him.

That gives you

a quick kiss on the cheek as he passes up and over and onto Corio.

Once on each of his turns until the spell ends.

You can jump up to 30 feet by spending 10 feet of movement.

So if something's in the sky, you might be able to get to it.

Anybody got some intelligence resistance shit?

Because that's definitely a place where I will become a problem.

Intelligence.

Didn't somebody give you that?

Did somebody give you that

before?

I'll double-check, but I feel like we did, maybe.

As we're making those preparations, Matt said.

I'll double-check.

As you finish these preparations, you go charging into the chamber

to face the exultants and LudmistEleft himself

in what could very well be the final moments of the Liana tumult.

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So, as you all come charging in from the far hallway, this is the rapid visual of what you see from that perspective.

These four and one fifth member concentrating that was not seen from the perspective of the eye

from behind here.

While the rest of you come charging through that side.

So, what order are you all entering?

I mean, I feel like I'd be leading them in charge.

Flying, of course?

Yeah.

If it's a trap, can I go in front of you?

You can go in front of me.

Okay.

Yeah.

Age before beauty.

Back up.

Alright.

Oh, Rihanna.

I've been doing the whole game.

I'm nervous eating now.

I gotta go when these chips are gone.

So we have the rest of you

all entering from this back tunnel entryway.

We'll say those who move the slowest.

Put me ten in.

Just to smoke them.

Say ten in front?

Yeah.

Just to smoke them if you got it.

Oh, and no.

And we're

going to go.

Oh, that's right, yeah.

Let's go.

So ten in the front there.

The rest of you,

imagine to the front entering as well.

Yeah,

yeah,

probably behind folks.

Okay,

and Imogen seems to be flying, probably up a little closer than other folks.

And then

Coriolis, who will also fly right.

Oh, yeah,

yeah, baby.

Hi, hi,

I would think I would help lead the charge as well.

Yes.

And let's go ahead and make that so just put a pennant flag in the way of charge.

Oh,

that was a dad's move.

Sorry about that.

There we are.

I just wanted attention.

You got it.

You got it.

Okay.

As you all begin to rush into the chamber, Aurim, you also glance out of sight on this side.

It looks to be be

another exultant

right there, with what looks to be like a glass blaze that I just have at the ready.

And as you all come running through, the sound of footsteps does reverberate into the chamber enough where everyone who's concentrating kind of glances over in your direction.

And you hear Ludeness kind of speak out.

Let them not interrupt her judgment.

Her gift shall remain key to freeing us from the tyranny of the divine.

I need everyone to roll initiative.

Her judgment.

Yeah, because she fucking was thought training.

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Alright, 25 to 20.

I biffed it.

21.

Oh, really?

I biffed it.

You did?

Yeah, I rolled a two and a four.

Can you never do that?

Jet, your first one?

Someone like me.

I used all my 20s.

20 to 15.

15.

16.

19.

Okay.

Fern Braus.

Fern Breyus.

Dead one.

Ladna.

Ladna.

Your dexterity is.

Dexterity is.

16.

Alrighty.

15 to 10.

10.

14.

14.

Uh oh, triple.

Rollies.

Triple rollies.

14 and Ashen and.

You got 14 as well?

Yep.

14.

Let's rollies.

Let's go.

Ooh.

Triple rollies.

No, I'm not a rollie.

Just stupid anymore.

Ocean.

Three.

Seven.

Wow.

Okay.

So

Ash.

Dory.

Orange.

Imogen.

Oh, sorry.

Imagine.

Orum.

Orum.

Image.

Wait.

Imogen Orum?

Image Image.

But I've got so much deck.

Okay.

You get on the horse and you're like, yeah.

Stop eating.

Yeah.

Pull up!

Me on the horse.

Come on!

Alright.

So, as the field still kind of slightly shimmers and surrounds Ludinus, who is towards the end of completing

this devouring ritual.

You did, you did.

And that must play into somehow.

But the two that you failed means you have three rounds to set her free.

Damn!

That's it!

Three rounds and then she's dead?

Well, that's

4.3 hours.

Okay, but we assume he's trying to get

a figure.

Yeah, he's

turning her up and then he will be more powerful.

Okay, well that changes

partially.

What is the vibe of that dome, by the way?

Yeah.

The vibe of it?

Yeah.

How does it work?

Who's casting it?

You see,

these five figures are, like, they're all turned towards it and concentrating on it.

Okay.

That's...

And what you can see around them is this kind of like shimmering field.

Yeah, so it's not like it's like a psychic, psychic, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

It's a technical term.

Technical term.

Technical term.

You know what?

Well, he's a little

chutney up first.

Okay.

I'm going to

run in with

40 feet of movement.

15, 20, 25, 30.

Now, remember, you have giant, so you can get another 30 out of a 10-foot.

I'm okay for here.

I'm going to use...

I'm going to check this with the DM real quick.

A blood curse of the muddled mind is a bonus action.

You curse a creature you can see within 30 feet that is concentrating on a spill or a feature that requires concentration.

Curse target is disadvantage of the next con saving throw mix maintain concentration.

Would that work for this Mr.

Fantastic in front of me?

Just guard right there.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I'll do it

bonus action on him.

Okay.

So as you like, explain to me or describe how you curse him with your blood

mechanic.

Yeah,

I'll run forward, and as I head up, I'll say,

Heads up, it's a full moon.

Just get those dulcet tones in his ear as you see my claws come out.

Okay.

You see, like, as you do that, his nose bleeds a little bit, and he's just kind of looking at you.

Keeps his concentration while staring at you.

Alright, so that's your movement, that's your bonus.

You still have an action.

I will.

Can I hit him from here?

How high is the roof of this chamber?

Oh, and Fern, you do have...

I'm not sure.

Mr.

Hatt with you.

The roof of this chamber?

Yeah.

It's about 40 feet up.

Okay.

As high as these guys?

Yeah.

That's about as tight.

Oh, it's got it.

I'm kind of stuck out in the middle of nowhere here.

That was the priority.

I do have just...

I have a base chisel I could just try and throw at him from here.

I could pull from my belt and just try and chunk it at him.

Yeah, you want it?

Yeah, Yeah, I'll try it.

Let's go, roll in time.

Would that just be plus my strength mod?

Yeah, it would be your strength mod and your proficiency mod.

Okay.

Okay.

Yo, kooky.

17 plus 5 is 22 plus 4.

26.

That hits.

Okay, great.

Throwing a wood chisel.

What do you think?

My theory is.

Usually the wood chisel when I swing with it is a plus 10 and a 1d6 plus 9.

So what do you think throwing it might be?

1d6 plus or just 1d6?

No, it's the same.

Oh, it is?

Because it's a thrown weapon you can use and you can use strength or dex as a killer.

That's of

sorry 12 points of slashing damage.

12 points of slashing damage to him.

Takes the chisel, it's like stuck in the side.

And you see it kind of like keeping focused.

It's now like dividing the focus from that and you and is now definitely taking you as an immediate threat.

And because of the muddled mind, does he have to make a

check to maintain his concentration on the spell with disadvantage now because of the curse?

Awesome.

Just a whole point, hopefully.

Dual 14s.

It's a conse.

Sorry, that's natural 14.

Gotcha.

So he probably sunsets.

Would be a 16.

Yeah.

He does.

Awesome.

Cool.

Good deal.

What is the consequence?

Um...

Okay.

Your DC on your hemocraft.

It should be under your blood curses.

I'll find it.

I'm sure.

Your hemocraft DC.

Alright.

So I finished Chen Esco.

Ferns up a Braus on deck.

Okay.

I have something that I...

I have...

I have to spell magic, but cannot...

Is that what...

This isn't magic.

This isn't magic.

We don't know.

I mean, it might be...

I don't know.

Oh, sorry, just makes it.

The orb.

And beaten the orb.

I mean,

actively doing a spell, I think.

Half the damage you're death fair and DC 10 is the minimum.

So what do we never do?

I'm sorry, I was thinking of the DC of the village.

But for concentration, it's half the damage

or 10, whichever's the highest.

Yeah, my fourth are five, but that's I don't have anything higher.

Okay, you know what?

I mean, correct.

Okay, hold on.

But it's roll for each need.

Alright.

What I'm gonna do is

I'm gonna

where to go.

Uh

Scorching Ray

Scorching Ray

at the nearest

There's a guy down there are these two here that are concentrating these three concentrating this one just was noticed

And has a big glass blade.

Okay, so who are you gleaming for?

I'm gonna go to the one that's kind of standing that I can see right there.

Yes, right there that Cheni just threw a chisel into?

Yes.

Oh yeah.

Yes.

Go for it.

So that's three Level two you're doing it?

I am doing it at.

Gotta do my

level three.

I love level three.

So that's.

First one doesn't hit.

Roll another one.

Second one is

28.

28 hits.

Okay.

And that was higher.

That was 19.

That's not 29.

Yep.

Or 30.

You roll three times, or sorry, four times if it's a fourth or a third level, right?

Yes.

17 again.

Okay.

So three hits.

That's 6d6 fire damage.

Yeah.

Okay, so 22, plus because Mr.

Zoud, I get an additional D8.

That's an extra three.

So it's 31 points of fire damage.

Forgets hit his messmate three concentration checks.

It's a

success, early.

Success.

Failure.

So he

takes the hit and like, ugh!

drops for a second and the uh the sphere the sphere itself seems to to like slightly shake and vibrate like it it still maintains itself but currently there is one less person concentrating on at the moment okay okay okay okay um

I'll stay where I am and Mister

will flame will shoot some flame seed at the guy to our left oh to or sorry your right the little guy yes the one that we just noticed oh right there yes okay have mister go ahead and roll an attack against them okay come on mister

Take him out.

17.

17.

As he...

Is this through his flaming shit gun or

fires?

It comes arcing towards this figure, kind of like in a wanted style, like half-arc.

It shouldn't...

quite do that.

But it's magical monkey poo.

What are you going to do?

This figure moves to the side and puts its its arm up, and you see this like psychic shield

kind of operate on its arm, and it scatters across it.

This one looks like it's

dressed a little differently than the other exaltants that are present.

It looks like this one over here has the glass blade in one hand, and it just created a psychic shield, like a buckler on the other hand.

Is he concentrating, or is he there?

He's not concentrating.

Okay, that's my turn.

All right, finishing ferns go.

Brace, you're up with Ladna on deck.

I will run towards the beefy guy.

Okay.

What's your movement?

30.

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

We'll get you right there.

And then I will

Misty step to the guy up there.

Up there?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Nice.

And then I will swing away with my poison pen.

Let's go.

Let's see what we can do.

I'll swing twice.

Do I attack twice?

I attack twice.

Yeah.

I love it.

Okay, one is a a natural 20.

There's yours!

Wow.

And the other was a 19.

19 total?

19 to hit.

Yeah, that hits.

Both hits.

Okay, both hit.

Okay, first one, I'm going to pump in a Divine Smite and also a charge from...

Poison Pen,

which sprays black icker all over the place as it swipes through.

You got it.

This will be...

Ah!

And the mat 20.

So, what do I double?

You double all the dice that you roll for: the pen and the divine smite, which was at a first level?

Yeah, yeah, so you go ahead and roll your first level of divine smite, which is an additional

2d8?

Uh, yeah, yeah, plus your poison pen, uh-huh, plus your weapon, oh my god, and then double those.

So, double everything, yeah, okay, okay, here goes.

So, let me do some math.

Uh, that's all really good.

37

plus

Jesus, another 14

is

51.

51 doubled.

Plus 7.

108.

109.

What?

Yo.

Okay, so what dice are you rolling for the smite?

So

the smite is 2d8.

Correct, yeah.

The weapon is 2d8.

Right, because of your.

And then I did a charge, which is another 3d8.

That's true, yeah.

I just been a charge.

Yeah, that's nasty.

And you rolled really well for that.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, you just.

You teleport up.

As I slipe in, I say, heads up, it's a full moo.

Amazing.

So, as you teleport up, you splatter them, and as you do, like, their body breaks in half.

And where it kind of is bisected,

what would have been blood instead now sprays its black against the rocks.

Changed by the enchantment of your weapon yeah yeah cool that finishes your turn right i mean i have a second attack but no one to attack yeah

so i just swipe it around and i make

cooler cooler shapes hell yeah i love it

it's about there that you notice another one of these figures

right there now that you're within eyeshot of it both of you kind of check off to the right and you see another one with the kind of a psionic bracer that kind of appears or a buckler that appears in their arm and a glass blade to the side.

All right, that finishes brace.

Let's go.

Lodna, you're up.

Okay, um,

so as we ended break and as we entered this battlefield, Lodna starts to crack her bones, and her head flies back, and then she

just leaps onto all fours as she goes into her form of dread and starts like

skeletal dog, like galloping forward

As her mouth is agape with a black void.

Five.

Mouth is agape with the black void.

Five tins.

I'm gonna go here.

Okay.

Can I see these two fuckers far from here?

Are they in my line of sight?

These two, they are indeed.

Okay, and then as I like gallop forward and my jaw opens, the bottom of my jaw unhinges, and I summon forth my hound of ill omen that also leaps from my jaw.

How far

120 feet is what I can summon to.

I want to put it right between those two fucks.

You got it.

Whoa!

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Should he just go on my initiative?

He's technically supposed to roll initiative.

I'll just go on your initiative.

I'll have him go after me.

I got eight players.

A hound.

And that jumps across another hundred feet.

And then, so I'll do him after me.

And then I am going to

stand up and form

a flaming bead right over top of them and

do a fireball right on top of those guys.

Fireball right on top of them?

And because of how they're both next to the hound of ill omen, they get disadvantage.

Nice.

Nice.

So

you can get

those two right there.

Okay.

With a fireball.

Can get.

Can I get him on?

You can get.

Oh, that one's gone.

Never mind.

Can I get him?

You can get with this explosion

either these two or these two.

I'll get the two in the back since we already have the two.

Maybe you can get these three back here if you want to.

Can I?

Actually, no, because the angle you're at, you would strike the shield.

So, yeah, because you're down below?

I would strike the shield.

Meaning it would strike here and explode, and it wouldn't get that far.

6 feet under the hill.

Okay,

whatever you think.

These two?

Yeah, because if you get that one there,

it's not going to get the other one.

So you can shoot either these two or the two that are next to that.

I'll do two in the back because we already have chat up front to those guys.

Those guys are better to reach.

And once again, my...

And I will do this.

Fireball.

Alrighty.

And.

Sorry, sorry.

Okay.

Let me remember.

What level you do?

Fireball.

And base level three is 8d6.

And then it's initial d6 each level thereafter.

An extra d6.

I'll just stick with third level for now.

Yeah.

I'll stick with.

Your mom's not worth anything more than third level.

Future Mother Line Man.

I'm just trying to look and see.

I'll do fourth level.

I'll do fourth level.

Now I'm doing third.

Third level.

Alright, so 8d6 fire damage.

Go ahead and roll that up.

I mean,

pretty great.

Should prep this.

Four, five, six,

seven, eight.

Come on.

Big money.

Perfectly mid.

Three, six,

nine,

twelve,

fourteen,

sixteen,

twenty-five.

Twenty-five points of fire damage, and they have disadvantage on their saving throws because of your hound.

With the disadvantage, one of them gets a four.

Okay.

And the other gets a five.

Great.

They both fail.

That's 25 points of fire damage to each.

Boom, boom.

Alrighty.

And now my dog goggles.

Yes, he does.

Good boy.

Looks a good boy.

There's a lot of animals out here.

We got a steed,

a cow, a wolf,

a dog.

Technically, there's such a thing as a bedrock.

A mountain.

A pawn.

He can move.

Do you need him to move?

A monkey?

We got a monkey.

We got a horse.

We got a dog.

I'll just do a bite attack to the far guide.

Right there?

Yeah, the one, that one.

Yes.

Okay, let's go.

No.

Eight to hit.

That's him, miss.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

Worth a shot.

I finished your go, Lada?

Um, yeah, he...

Technically...

Do you need him to move?

Are you going to go there or something?

I would want to do something there, but I don't want to hurt him.

Don't worry about it.

He's a ghost dog.

Okay.

Don't worry about him.

Okay, that finishes your go?

Yeah.

Alright, the exalted knights are going to go first.

This one's going to go ahead and find one.

No, no.

Oh, no.

Lodna?

Come, I changed my mind.

This one here is going to leap up

and try and avenge the slaughter of my friend.

So it's going to be two attacks against you, Lodna.

Okay.

That's glass blade.

So the first attack is going to be

a 21 to hit.

It.

Let me see if it hits my mirror image.

It's Caleb all over again.

No, I take it.

Okay.

That's going to be 10 points of slashing damage.

Okay.

Oh, wait.

Wait, before we move on too far, both of those fucks in the back have to roll a wisdom save to see if they're afeard of me.

That's true.

And they have to roll to see if they're disadvantage.

Oh, no.

Now they have a disadvantage on all saving throws while they're in five feet of it.

Okay.

Well, or just the next one.

Just spells, I think.

Just spells?

Oh, they're a little bit better.

I think it's all saving throws.

That would be broken.

But also, who knows?

What's it say?

Hound five feet at the target.

The target has disadvantage on saving throws against any spells you cast.

No, it's got it.

I cast.

These are my puppies.

That's going to be 19 on the first one.

That

sorry.

That saves.

Okay.

The other

is not going to make it.

So that one is frightened of you.

Pull that one up here.

Frightened.

What kind of damage did he do to my

fire?

That dude did fire damage.

Wait, who what?

The guy who's slashing at you.

I don't know yet.

Okay.

I'll say that this guy here is frightened of you.

Right there.

Okay.

Okay.

And now concentration checks.

Both have advantage on them.

Maintains.

And

maintains.

Okay.

From the fireball.

Now I'll come back onto your turn.

Thank you for that reminder there.

That first attack was a 21 to hit you.

Yes, I need to.

That hit.

And the next one is going to be a 22.

Just went over it.

Save that one.

From your image.

That one does.

So just one attack.

Alright.

So with that, you take 10 points of slashing damage.

Slashing damage, actually.

And you have disadvantage on intelligent saving throws until your next turn from the glass blade cutting through you its psychic resonance.

It's kind of like causing this part of your brain to kind of sliver open.

Well, shit.

The one that's attacking you, Breyus.

Bring it on.

Oh, that's going to be a 27 hit.

Oh, 27?

Hotly high.

A natural 20.

Talk about vengeance.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

That was his brother's killed.

Wait.

The walk.

Silvery barbs.

60 feet.

I think it's in range.

Just a good smell.

I just make him re-roll.

It's on the edge of glory.

I'm going to say he is.

It's that guy.

Yeah.

Just out of range.

He's 65 feet from you.

That's right on the edge of glory.

Okay.

Okay.

So the first strike against you,

it is a...

Hang on, I'm going to say my friend.

Again, 10 points of slashing damage.

And the crit,

that's going to be 22 points of slashing damage.

Or doubled?

No, that was with the double.

It does crit you.

I'm going to roll to see if this glass blade shatters.

It does not shatter.

Okay.

But you do have disadvantage on intelligent saving throws until it goes next turn.

Okay.

That's going to finish.

There we go.

Ashton, you're up with Dorian on deck.

Okay.

Alright, that's changed.

Oh, you know what?

And at the end of that, guys, you can use his bonus action to pick up concentration from the one that died.

Who it is?

So now that one...

Do it.

They can fill in for each other.

Okay.

Okay, okay.

So,

my

little

cosmic shining head with my little

pocket universe and my hammer being strangely translucent, I'm going to take 35 feet just straight towards me.

Okay.

It's going to be 10 feet, 23, 30, 35.

I'll put you there.

Do I have to go around a thing?

No, that was just straight.

Really?

Yep, because you're right next to Fern.

Okay.

10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35.

Alright, um,

just for safety, I'll take that one last 40, 40.

And while I'm running by,

I'm just going to

make a little...

Come on, over here.

And I am going to attack

with a...

Where did we go?

Wormhole strike.

To which one?

To the one that's bothering Modna?

Bothering Modna.

Let's go.

So that is...

And I'm going to...

In advantage, I'm going to make it.

So...

So?

Over there.

That's a...

I didn't do that well.

That's a 19 to hit.

It's a 19 to hit.

That

just hits.

It's going to use its psychic butler reaction to add...

This turn.

So now...

So you go to strike and it

deflects it off of its psychic butler on the side and then gets itself ready with

the shield at the ready.

That's what I heard me telling.

Psychic buckler.

Oh,

fuck it.

I'm burning a psychic butthole.

Might as well.

I don't like them.

Don't hit me.

Jesus.

Man.

19 to hit.

I have

nothing else uh fun to do.

My god, that totally killed my head cold, killed my theory.

Theory, I'm so sorry.

Never mind.

Finishes Richard Ashton.

Doreen, you're up with an engine on deck.

I'm sure.

I'll engage my winged boots and I'll fly with the homies.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll use a...

I got 40 feet of movement.

Can I get to that rock to the right of Aurum by any chance?

Right here?

Can I fly up there with the fire?

This technically is a ceiling.

Well, it's a ceiling.

Yeah, so you can get...

There it is.

Like next to it, I could say, like, you can get.

Yeah.

Or less.

I'll say.

this

tear up, tear up.

Okay.

Cool.

And what is it you're hoping to do?

In the sky,

out of my pocket, I'll pull out a little tube and I'll crack it, and it's a little iridescent, like glow stick.

And then I'll just kind of just start dancing.

And I'll cast a hypnotic pattern.

I think I got 120 feet.

And they're all like locked in, like looking on that ridge toward lewdness.

I'll try to to put it like in front of that bubble

and try to catch as many of them looking that way as I can.

Maybe those three or a 30-foot cube within range.

Oh, I thought it was 120.

The range is 120 feet, but

it weaves through a space of 30-foot by 30 feet.

Got it, got it, got it.

So you could pretty much put anywhere you want to.

Just maximum visibility for those three concentrators on the ridge.

Right.

You can get.

You can get these two up here.

These two are 35 feet apart.

Oh, I gotcha.

Okay.

I'll take the two on the top then.

I guess if you were to do a cube like this,

yeah, if you were to turn to the side, you could probably get all three.

Now that I think about it, because if you do like diagonals, edge to edge.

Oh, yeah, that'd make us 30 feet.

It's 30 feet cube, so.

Yeah, okay.

So that'll work.

Okay.

Cool.

I dig it.

Wisdom 16 saved for all of them.

You got it.

Alright.

So for these here,

probably three.

30.

Yeah, but...

Oh, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it might be Charisma for Sorcerers, please.

Alrighty.

So

it's wisdom, you said?

Wisdom 16.

You got it.

This one here,

it's going to be a 15.

Okay.

He fails.

He's charmed.

For the purposes of this.

I'm going to go ahead and put the

charm drops when attacked, right?

This charm means they become incapacitated.

Okay.

Yeah, they can't move.

Doesn't mean they break their concentration.

They can't make like deck saves.

They can't.

Correct.

On their term, they don't make any actions.

Awesome.

That is great.

That one there.

Natural one.

Whoa.

This is not going in their favor.

He's scared.

I am charmed.

Yep.

They're pretty sick dancing.

That one there.

That's going to be a 19.

That's like it for gloating.

That's what I get for gloating.

Yeah.

But those two,

as like the beast is there and like nipping at them, they're still focusing and looking to the rest of you.

And you see them like, well, while one part of their mind is focused here, they begin to prepare something else.

Red glow begins to emanate from their bodies, and then both of them kind of

just kind of get lost in this weird kind of shifting pattern of colors and magic and it's like a

2008 like visualizer for like lime wire.

Win ammo.

Visualizer.

Lime wire reference for y'all.

Mama's house.

For the kids.

We're doing great.

We're doing great.

And appealing to a young girl.

That's great.

I think.

Is Laudener within 30 feet?

Probably.

Lauden is far a little further in the river.

Yeah, yeah, okay.

And then I'm done, Zo.

Okay.

That finishes your go.

Imogen, you're up.

Okay.

I am going to

focus my energy towards those two on the ridge as well.

And

right where

our beautiful puppy is,

a storm is going to start swirling.

And I'm going to cast Whirlwind right in between the two of them.

Whirlwind.

Which howls down to a point you can see on the ground within range, it's a 10-foot radius, 30-foot-high cylinder.

Heck yeah.

30-foot radius.

What?

30-foot-high cylinder, 10-foot radius.

10-foot radius.

I'll place this

boobable.

10-foot radius is about this distance.

Okay.

So we'll say this here is the and I'm I'm using a quickened spell on this to cast it as a bonus action.

Got it.

So

whirlwind picks up from that point.

So they have to make dexterity saving throws

when they enter it, which I don't know if they can because they're

incapacitating.

They're incapacitating.

Just double attack on

team attacks.

Inadvertent combo.

Incapacitating means they can't take reactions or actions, but they still technically make deck saves.

Okay.

Double-checking Double that.

Stunned, I think, the automatic.

Got it.

That's what it was.

Okay.

So that is deck save, you said?

Yes.

Okay.

Fail and succeed.

What is 22?

A 23.

Because I have my robe activated.

That's right.

So yeah.

That would be both failure.

Oh.

Oh, my God.

They both take 10d6 bludgeoning damage.

Oh,

you have to roll from the dog, too?

He would, yeah, because he's technically in the space.

He's a dire wolf.

Okay.

I don't think he can actually.

You said 22.

I don't know if I remember.

No, he's got 20.

Okay, so he takes full damage on this too.

Huh?

So he takes the full damage on this.

39 points of bludgeoning damage.

Each of them

is being battered around and they're restrained if they fail a strength save, correct?

Dexterity save creatures

in addition, yeah, they must make a strength saving throw or become restrained.

Both fail.

Okay, so

now I'm gonna use my action.

So they're restrained and they're pulled five feet higher inside of the

lift it up a little bit.

I'm gonna use my action to move the whirlwind

and try to capture, move it 30 feet and try to capture this guy right here

as well.

Cool.

Lady Twister.

Are they down?

I like they borked with their concentration.

We're gonna find out in a second.

They have advantage in their concentration checks here.

So that'd be 30.

That would be

39?

No, that would be

19.

Yeah.

Come on.

A natural 20 and a natural 17.

Okay.

So the first guy succeeds.

Okay.

The other one, a 19.

Okay.

So yeah.

So they're getting

around.

They're getting focused on it.

Okay, and I'm going to try to move my whirlwind with my action and try to gather up this guy right here.

Okay.

Unless, Chet, you want me to aim for the other one?

I think I can get this one with my 30 feet because they were 35 feet away from each other.

Correct.

This one here?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, you go ahead and now all three of them are kind of dragged and lifted up inside this whirlwind.

So, they're closer.

Well, they're like, incapacitated.

Yeah, yeah, so they're just like, oh,

okay, so now he has to make a deck save.

We got cows

as well.

And then good one.

From the original.

Oh, yes.

No.

go.

1990.

Speaking to his unique

tough.

15.

Target.

20.

How bad you fucked that guy up?

25.

Not at all.

30.

36, 38 points of bludgeoning damage.

Alright.

And

that is going to be a 24 something.

So yeah, he's 60.

He's 60s on himself.

What about his concentration?

No, that was 30.

That was his concentration?

Okay, for his strength safe.

Trink, he got he got picked up.

He got picked up.

Okay.

Excellent work.

Oh, no, CB's restrained.

Right.

This is single roll.

No, he fails that.

So he's also...

All three of them are restrained and like

in this like psychic whirlwind that's been summoned and dragged across the stonework.

It's like filled with bits of rock and stone and like shredded glass also like spinning and tearing through them.

Hell yeah.

Does that finish a turn?

She killed him.

Stay put or you want to move?

I'm gonna

do that.

I'm gonna shift so I'm not stacking up with everybody else.

If I can

move to where I'm,

yeah.

Okay, you got it.

She definitely killed him.

Alright, now it's your turn.

It is now the regular exultant's turn.

The one that's next to you, Chet,

is going to go ahead.

Not my brother in tattoos.

Hmm?

Okie, okie.

RTA.

Respect the Asmodeus.

It's going to release a blast of Sematic Static.

Right there.

That is a 10-foot radius.

That's going to be...

It'll get...

everyone below here.

Actually, no, it can get all three of them.

right there.

So it'll get it'll get Lodna, it'll get Fern,

uh, it'll get Mr., and it'll get Orum, and it'll get your uh Steed

Steed.

Yep, I need you all to make intelligence saving throws.

Oh, boy!

I knew he was setting us up for something.

Do any of you have disadvantage for that?

Lodna does, right?

On what?

Intelligence.

Is this a spell or other magic?

It is.

Okay.

Oh, well, no, this technically is a spell, yes.

Okay, okay.

Hmm.

No, wait.

No, it's a seven.

I mean, okay, it's not an actual damage.

So,

Ludner?

Uh,

nine.

It's gonna be 32 points of psychic damage.

Okay.

Uh, and uh 32, you said?

Yes.

And for the next minute,

any rolls, uh

any rolls that you make this attack roll and ability check, as well as a constitution saving throw to maintain concentration, you subtract D6 from it.

Whoa!

D6, definitely.

So Mice D6 to

roll a D6 once and keep that number.

I think it's each time.

Just to keep it part of the roll.

So attacks, saving throws,

pretty much anything.

Not saving throws.

Ability checks.

Attacks, ability checks, and constitution, saving throw to maintain concentration.

Got it.

And cons.

Gotcha.

Alright, Fern?

I rolled a 23, Mr.

rolled a 14.

So Mister takes 32 points of psychic damage.

You take 16.

Okay.

And Orum?

I failed 10.

Okay, so you take 32 points of psychic damage.

And also your attack rolls have disadvantage.

Sorry, minus a D6, not disadvantage.

And Coriolis?

I'll give you the sheet.

Oh, Coriolis.

Slow.

6, maybe?

That is a

minus 4?

Eleven.

Eleven's a failure.

So you take 32 points of psychic damage.

Oh, is he alive?

Who is this?

It is.

Who was this that hit me, by the way?

This one right here.

That's fantastic.

The one that got stabbed by Chutney.

Is he looking rough?

No.

He's looking like he's taking a hit or two, but he's not looking terrible.

I will dump

a hellish rebuke into him.

Let's go.

I can do that, and I never do that.

Okay, in his save.

Oh, he fails with a four.

Great.

That's 3d10.

Damage to

rebuke.

What are dice?

Sweaters, what's a 10?

Here's a 10.

That's also a 10.

That's a 10.

Ooh.

Okay, 10, 15.

Okay, wait.

19, 24.

24 hellish rebuke damage.

Yeah, let's go.

Got a 9, a 10, and a 5.

Now he's starting to look a little hurt.

As you

describe how you describe how you rebuke him.

Hellish.

I think it's like as I feel this intellectual ping in my brain, I get this like tingling jolt of trauma

from feeling that way by Delilah all the time.

And I just, in my form of dread, I instinctually just like lash out and scream at him.

As you scream, he screams in reaction and grabs the sides of his head and like bends forward.

He's going to see if he has to make a concentration truck as well.

Come on.

Natural 17 so he makes it.

Yeah, they're all pretty good.

They're all pretty good.

They also have advantage on their concentration trucks.

Except for that guy, because he has disadvantage now.

Because you cursed him.

On concentration checks.

Disadvantage on concentration.

That's right.

Until the end of my turn.

That's true.

So let me roll for him one dice.

Come on.

Good, good, good, good.

Nope, that'll fail.

Yay!

A plus student.

So now there's

one less concentrating.

One guy picked up the others.

There's still five concentrating on it.

But now there's four at the moment.

Alright.

That finishes your turn.

Oh, sorry, the exultants are still going.

That was that one there.

Two exultants go after me?

Correct.

And the full caboose.

And when did those blady guys go?

When did those blady guys go?

Did those go after

Laudner or Lodnar?

Blade and Right.

Blade.

After Laudner and right before me.

Blade.

Alright.

Okay.

One of the ones inside the Twister, angrily, is going to, still focusing best it can, release Phantasmal Killer in your direction.

Uh-oh.

I need you to go ahead and make an intelligent...

Sorry, a Wisdom Safer throw.

Wisdom save.

I have advantage on those.

I have advantage on those.

Yeah, because of our feast.

We have a hero's feast?

Yeah, we have a hero's speech.

That's what gave us our...

Alright, roll again.

Oh, you got two dice.

Yeah, there's two dice in here.

That's a low.

That's a

13.

I don't know if it's going to beat it, though, with this.

13.

Okay, right on here.

Forget it.

14.

Garbage.

Garbage.

Garbage.

What a fucking waste.

You're the one that made me do it.

That was so intense.

You're when it comes up?

Just a casual game amongst fucking friends.

There you go.

I found him.

I found him.

All right.

So you are now considered frightened.

Oh no.

Wait, she's frightened?

She can't be frightened.

Oh, that's right.

Yay!

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, the GM's mine.

However, you are still affected by this.

Okay, no, see what's

this?

Failed to save time and was frightened for the duration of the end of each of the targets turns.

I'm gonna say that that completely negates that spell, because the whole point of it is it makes you fearful of the illusion that it creates and take damage imaging it, but you're not you're immune to that.

So that's gonna ignore that ability on him.

That's gonna change their tactics, though.

So the other two in there

aren't dead.

One's gonna dissonant whispers.

Third level.

So you make a wisdom saving throw?

I really should not have pulled these guys close to me.

That was maybe not the smartest move advantage because

of Harry's.

Sorry, yeah, Jester came out.

Sometimes he'll come out, he'll come out.

He'll come out, he will come out of the movies and kick my ass

nine.

That's a failure, unfortunately.

Did you take 16 points of psychic damage?

I'm resistant to psychic damage.

Because you take eight?

And you have to use your reaction immediately to move as far away from the target as possible.

What's your speed while flying?

Um

60 feet?

I don't know if it's 60.

Let me check.

Is it in the fly spell?

I don't know if it- is it in the fly spell or would it be in Havoc's embrace?

Havoc's embrace is where it would be.

What then?

Wait for me!

60 feet.

60 feet.

No, wait, no, no, no, that's my fly speed.

It just says gain flying speed equal to walking speed.

Okay, so 30 feet.

Okay.

Um, all right, and then the other one.

I don't think that's telling me.

That's a concentration spell.

Mm-hmm.

Concentration.

Oh, you're right, that is.

Do it!

Do it!

Count it out!

That's why they can

double concentration

because they're

then they would have to roll with no advantage for their concentration safe.

That actually, I think, even dissipated some other penalty, if I recall.

You know what?

It's gonna report

with a hypnotic pattern

using the same tactic against where you are and Lodna at the 30-foot,

we'll say at the at the fair

enough between the two of you.

I'd like both Lodna and Imogen to make wisdom savements.

Really?

Your advantage on

the side.

I know, I know.

I really need to be my wisdom abilities and cons.

Okay.

Plenty of time in the campaign, let's do it.

19.

19, you succeed.

You guys, 19.

Yeah, you both succeed.

For heroes, what you ever was trying to do?

Would you ever try to do that?

Oh, the one down below?

Next to Lawrence.

No, that was all three of those right there.

Alright.

And then.

That guy.

I know he's realizing he's mad at us.

three and a half miles.

No problem.

These legs are just pumping.

Turn one's about to be over.

Okay.

No, they're still caught up in the whirlwind.

However, I do need you to make a concentration check for me.

For that nine points of damage I took?

Correct.

Shouldn't be too hard.

Yes, that's

we say.

But I'm looking for a specific dice.

Oh my god.

Just a concentration check.

Which I get advantage on, which is a 15 plus concentration.

Alright, that's going to finish the exultant scope.

Orum, you're up.

Okay, Aurum

surveying the chaos.

He wants to get and help with the main objective of the season.

Lodna in the thick of it.

He's torn

and then starts to gallop this way, but as he goes, he thrusts Seedling out towards the enemy facing Lodna, and I send Grasping Vine out of it, and I'm going to try to grab

Fisherman grab that character.

Okay.

It's a DC-17.

Dexterity save?

Yes, deck save.

That's going to be a 21.

Oh, geez, that super saves.

Okay.

Well, then I continue on.

I'm going to.

It can fly 90 feet.

That guy's been deck

to here.

I want to fly right down next to

that guy?

Yeah.

Okay.

Equal to.

So flanking with Breyus.

Put you.

This guy.

Shouldn't you be helping your boyfriend?

I don't need you.

I don't need anyone.

Look and ride.

I lean and finally having gotten this equine dragon to fly, I lean close and say, fuck him up, Areolus.

And

Coriolis

doesn't even know much.

So

the first Coriolis will attack, gets one beak, one dragon bite, and then two

hooves.

Let's go.

That is a miss with a mouth unless it 11.

Nah.

Yeah.

Okay, now for the hooves, that is 17.

17 missing.

Come on!

Woo!

20, that is...

This is going to miss two.

That's 16.

I start swinging.

From Coriolis back.

As the hooves come down, they're hitting like just like a buckler.

And then one point the buckler doesn't hit, and as the hook comes down, just looks at it, and like a woof, a field knocks it off.

These

exultant skills and techniques have variability beyond what you've seen before.

Going for a so attacking, three attacks.

First one is a tripping attack.

Flanked.

So that is...

Come on, come on, come on.

27 to hit.

27 does hit.

So that is a strength save.

Listen.

Natural 18.

Natural 18.

Okay.

So 21.

Drink your fucking water.

Okay.

So that is...

2 plus 1 is 11

plus

So just 13 points of damage for that second attack is also a pushing or a tripping attack that is a 25 to hit that hits same DC

that's gonna be uh a 12 12 so he I uh so Auram's swords uh slashes I lean holding onto the webbing of Coriolis's wing and lean down and cut along the back of his leg sending him sprawling onto his back

that is 10 16 points of damage.

Making two con saves.

Maintains concentration.

Yep.

And yeah.

Okay.

And then we'll make the last attack

goading.

The re-roll the one.

That's another one.

So that is.

That's going to miss it.

No, that's a.

11, 20, 25.

25?

Yeah, that hits.

Yeah, that hits.

And he uses the psychic butler against that.

Oh, yeah.

Psychic Butler?

That's their joking burlier.

Because of Odahan's.

I said Butler that time is a joke.

Because of Odahan's blade, that I have

thrown characters taken a d6 of force damage as well.

So that is 5, plus 9 is 14.

The superiority die is 18.

20 points of damage from that.

20 points of damage.

Con safe.

Yeah, natural 16.

He succeeds.

He does?

Yep.

And we need to get her out of there.

Action search.

Okay.

Reroll the one.

That is a 24 to hit.

Yeah.

Prone, so I'm not going to use any more superiority die.

One on something.

Four.

I get one.

I'm going to take inspiration back.

It's 13.

19 for the first.

I get 9.

Yeah, yeah.

You got some bard in your heart of trend.

He got that bard in.

90 points of damage.

Yeah.

Alright.

Just like

literally pressing with my feet against the side of this creature with holding onto the edge of its wing, just sword fighting like Arrow Flames.

That's a 25 to hit.

Hit.

Yeah.

Six.

Another choice of reference for the years.

That was like 100 years.

13, 14 on that.

14.

Maintenance concentration.

Motherfucker, I mean.

A lot of natural 15s that manage.

That's high.

That is 29.

33 to hit.

That'll hit.

There we go.

Let's make it a goading attack.

Alrighty.

Wisdom save?

Yes, three.

That's going to be an 18.

Okay, three,

six is nine.

That's 14.

Come on.

Take this guy out.

And one more

19 points of damage.

19 points of damage.

Nice.

Concentration trick.

Concentration trick.

Dang, that's a beefy boy.

Natural 16 and a natural 19.

Yeah, they're rolling pretty good on that save.

He's looking to hurt.

He's definitely looking to hurt.

Wait, so he got a he's advantage and he got a 19.

That's what that was?

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

Then I am done, so.

All right.

That finishes Orms go.

End of the round is going to be

the left.

He gets to go.

Perspective Vesta.

No.

Well, he rolled like shit, homie.

He rolled really bad initially.

Oh,

let's see.

Muda.

From behind there.

Okay,

okay.

Just lower the dome, dude.

Lower the dome.

You can't do anything from inside an Osha Luke's resilient sphere.

Unless

it's not.

Wait, wait, wait.

He went outside the manual.

Maybe it's like a horse wall that you made into a dome.

Now, here's the interesting point: you can't cast any spells through it.

Oh, so it's

gonna do stuff to

attempt to use his crush will ability.

Oh, was that?

That was once a Liliana ability.

Oh, no, he's already gone to the ability for me!

I mean, you drain the power after just a short time.

It's the hour that takes it permanently.

If he drains her permanently, do you have to call him mom?

I think that legally he does have to.

No!

I mean, technically, he'll be your mom.

Don't say that!

I mean,

I mean,

maybe he makes excellent cookies now.

She never really forgets.

He's gonna he's on his turn he's gonna be like

Maybe you get to watch each other

crumble of his stay and he puts his hand out and he closes his fist towards you

I need you to take an intelligent saving throw please

manage on those are yours No, I'm okay, I'm okay.

I just have no intelligence at all.

I'm real stupid.

Don't talk about Imogen like that.

No, you're simple, you're sweet, you're You're mean.

You should be mamminous or luteny.

30 points of psychic damage.

Reduced to 15.

Reduced to 15.

Indeed.

And you are stunned until the end

of his next turn.

Done.

Stunned.

Oh my god.

You

and feel just like he crushes the core of your mind for the moment and you just hear that

that endless until the end of my next turn the end of his next turn

took a whole turn away from you

all right does the does the whirlwind go away no it stays but you look if they're fucking

up in there up in there

so that was what i was taking it was uh 30 15 points of damage is what i took 15 points yeah so so i rolled a

12 plus seven.

Yeah, you're fine.

Just maintain concentration.

And so he finishes that and just watches you kind of like in the air, barely holding yourself up, the sheer force of the exalted power that courses through you.

That's going to finish his turn.

Chet Nero.

Yeah, I'm going to.

That's a whole turn.

Look, they're caught up in there.

You can still send spells into my whirlwind.

I'll use 10 feet of movement to move up towards Mr.

Incredible.

He really looks like Mr.

Incredible right now.

I don't know what he's wearing, but I just see black and red.

I love it.

And I'll take unarmed strikes, bonus action.

I'm going to rake my claws against my tits.

Hell yeah.

And draw blood.

And I will...

There we go.

Two points.

First one is...

Where the hell did it go?

20 to hit.

20 to hit.

He's going to cast shield.

Woof.

And deflect that.

It's alright.

It's alright.

This one will definitely hit 29 to hit.

Great.

And the third one

is 28 to hit.

Yeah, both of those.

Not on the 198 men.

Great, too.

Great.

Okay.

Well, that was three attacks, but you used your bonus action to use your.

I did.

It should just be two.

It just should be the one.

So one hits.

Yeah, thank you.

No worries.

And

28

plus 6.

14 plus 4 is 18 points of slashing damage.

18 points of slashing damage.

And that's it.

Boy, I was going to use that fucking bonus action, isn't it?

God damn it.

He's looking real

Also, as a note, the first round has completed.

You watch as the tips of Liana's feet begin to crack and begin to crumble into a powder.

Finishing Chetni's go, fern you're up.

We're gonna do another

scorching ray.

Scorching ray.

Wait a minute.

Can we wanna do that?

Everybody, your turn.

What's this called?

Kimmer.

Wait, let me see what level this is.

What level is that?

I'm sorry.

I'm not gonna do that.

Okay, scorching ray and third level again.

Okay, so that's four rays.

Who are you aiming them at?

I'm gonna aim them into Imogen's Whirlwind.

Okay, so which one is

all right?

So one in each guy, and then one hits twice.

Yeah.

Okay.

Exciting.

Go for it.

So they are restrained, so technically you have advantage on the attack walls.

Okay.

Get clumped up in there.

Yeah, we're going to get this all clumpy.

Okay.

Okay.

27 for the first hit.

That hits.

16 for the second.

Misses.

Okay.

28 for the third.

That hits.

and

yeah, 27.

27 for the great, yeah.

So three hits.

So that's uh 2d6, 2d6, and 2d6.

Since they're different targets.

Where are my teeth?

Teeth.

So funny.

And 3d8 against one of them, I recall.

Okay, so how many of those?

Sorry, an additional 1d8 against one of them.

So it's 2d6, 2d6, and 2d6.

Let me know what those numbers are.

Okay.

Ooh.

Okay, so we've got

And then one D8 against one of those rolls.

Oh, I thought that was a seven.

I did too.

Ah, damn.

Okay, so we've got

10, 17.

Shit.

No, it's 2D.

Yeah, 2d6 against each, right?

Yeah.

So there you go.

This is one of them is 10 on one, 10 on another, and 7 on another.

Okay.

Okay, there you go.

Because there's three in there.

Sorry.

I thought there was two in there.

Did you add your extra d8 against one of them?

Because if you just did it, I did.

Okay, cool.

Alright, so for that, each of them has to make a concentration check.

Okay.

Looks like a trouble check

here.

Let's trouble check.

Okay.

Correct.

Alright, so.

First one

fails.

Yay!

And with advantage.

So that's now two of them that currently don't have concentration.

I'm going to mark that here.

Alright, alright, alright.

I'm going to have some surface.

Why did you roll the

concentration?

It's a skimming.

Oh, and Matt.

Yeah, he's on.

Just so you know, on their future turns, they can make strength saves to defeat, to get out of it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay, so yeah, also one of them lost concentration there.

Was it this one that lost concentration?

No, this one lost concentration when you were fighting it, right?

I don't think he did.

Which one was it?

He kept saving the whole time.

That's right.

Yeah, it was one in the maelstrom.

I think it was, yeah.

So there's two in the maelstrom that lost concentration.

Great.

Double check that.

That guy rolled concentration trucks like a champ.

So we have two people concentrating on it right now?

You have

one, two at the moment concentrating, yes.

And the other two have lost their concentration, or three have lost concentration?

This one still has it.

Okay.

This one still has it.

Two in there.

Actually, there's three that have concentration currently.

Yeah.

Okay.

Alright, so finishing Chetney's Go.

I'm sorry, Fern.

Is that any of you trying to move?

I'm also going to roll for Mr.

to throw

some flame and shield.

Do you want to move it all or you want to stay quick?

I think.

I think I'm okay there.

Okay.

Actually, I'm going to move in a little bit

way.

Don't close in.

Don't clump them.

Don't clink both.

I know.

I'm gonna stay where I was at.

I'm gonna go with my first.

Let's go.

Alright.

We're gonna mister.

Let's go.

I don't think that works.

18.

Against.

Against

the one near Chet.

One near Chetney?

He still has shield on, I think.

Never mind.

Wait.

I'm gonna go for this guy right here.

For Flame and Shit.

Which guy?

The guy that's in the ground?

Yeah.

Okay, that's that's gonna be a disadvantage because it's a ranged attack against somebody who's prone.

Um, 17.

17 misses, unfortunately.

Good try.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Alright, finishing your go, brace is up with Law Knott.

That was your whole turn?

That was my turn.

Okay.

Back him up, beefcake.

Okay, I will.

I will finish what you started, Little Warrior.

And I will,

with

the hilt of my, the handle of my flail, which has a sharp tip, I will stab down.

Hell yeah, let's go.

Um, do I get advantage because he's prone?

Yes, you do.

Okay.

Ooh, it's better than that.

Was it a one?

No, it wasn't.

Okay.

Not great.

17.

17 misses.

He, like, rolls out of the waves, slams into the rock.

I will try again with my second attack.

Second attack.

Yeah.

I wonder if I want to do a bonus action

first.

Can I do a bonus action in the middle of the two

actions?

Yeah, I'll do...

He's gonna die if I hit him.

But whatever.

I'll pump in some...

I'll do

Wrathful Smite at level three.

Okay, let's go.

No, I'm sorry, Matt.

I'm just gonna do a level two Divine Smite.

Okay.

Sorry.

One of them is one but is it the lower one

it is the lower one fuck that okay

no no oh yeah re-roll the one you can but it's that's it's a reaction so I've used my reaction to oh well then I don't need to because the the top one was an 11 plus 12 is 23 to hit that will hit okay so that's just 4d8

damage

no it's this turn not this yeah so he doesn't have the shield ability it's it's his carry ability only lasts that turn.

Oh, great.

18

points.

I said Divine Smite level one or two?

Two.

He's level two.

Okay, then one more.

Another seven.

Another seven?

Yeah, 25.

Yeah!

Oh, nice!

I will stab down with my flail, but I will never leave eye contact with Aurum.

Just sort of twisting and twisting and making sure that blood and icker spray on my face in sort of a hot way.

Or I mean it's

hypnotically held.

Pick up.

All right, Brazil.

Do you want to stay where you are, Brazil?

I can't do anything else.

There was a massive whirlwind.

I don't want to go in there.

I'm going to space up here.

I don't want to go in there, so I guess I'll just stay put.

Right?

Okay.

I don't know what else to do.

I can't fling anything.

Are there any pass from the side?

Could you just swing from the

There are three enemies in the Whirlwind.

One here, and then one over there.

Oh, there's three in the whirlwind.

If I go in, do I get hurt?

Is it a hurt yet?

Yes, you do.

Yeah, then they'll take legending damage, right?

They don't want to, right?

Oh, wait.

Cast a spell.

That won't help me.

Wisdom save as pale save as a winner drawn to compels you to divine a man.

Would that help?

That doesn't help.

Does anyone need a healing word?

I wouldn't say no to it.

But I don't know if I'm close enough to you.

Wait, no, it's 60 feet?

I think it's 30.

You haven't used your move yet, though.

I haven't.

You get closer.

Oh, it's 60 feet.

It is 60 feet, right?

I think you're further than 60 feet because you tried to do silver bars before you're done.

I did try to do silver bars.

So you would have to go.

I'll get within 60 feet of her.

That would be.

She needed move.

It's like one.

Great.

And I will healing words her.

What level?

Just do a basic point.

You got it, so 1d4 plus your wisdom.

Okay, great.

Or Christmas.

Sorry.

It's your Christmas.

Or 12.

Okay, six points.

You go six points, Ladna?

Finishing braces, go, Ladna, you're up.

I am uppity up.

The guy in front of me, does he have

metallic armor on?

I think you said earlier that he does.

There are metallic metal?

There are elements of metal, yeah, but the armor,

it's interesting.

When they're attacked, psychic fields tend to block and protect, but they're wearing metal-wise is more ornamental.

In terms of them taking advantage because they have metal on them for a shocking grasp,

okay.

So I'm going to

reach forward and just kind of grab his like metallic bracers with my fucked up face right in front of him.

Shocking grasp.

Let's go.

I have advantage.

And then this is intact, so I'll have to minus a d6, correct?

Correct.

Or low.

Okay, that's good.

So that is going to be

17 plus 12 is going to be 20

not 9.

That definitely hits.

Yeah.

Okay, 29.

3d8 damage.

I've been huh.

I'll just

meh.

Shit.

Shit.

Okay, okay.

Okay, okay.

Let's just not fuck this up.

Okay.

17

damage.

17 electric damage.

Alrighty.

And he cannot take reactions.

Alrighty.

So I'm going to move away from him.

I'm going to go one, two, three,

wait, five, ten, fifteen, twenty,

twenty-five.

Can I kind of tuck on this side?

Yeah, you can do that.

Okay, so I'll go go there.

Okay.

I'm going to.

Yeah.

I'm going to quicken a spell.

Uh-huh.

And I'm going to quicken just some eldritch blasts

and start popping some people off.

Let's go.

You said this guy in front of Chetney is looking real rough, right?

Yeah, he's looking pretty gnarled.

Should have been more if I was in.

Fucking it up.

Nah.

So there's three people concentrating right now.

Correct.

Oh, no, there's two.

Nice question.

Yeah, we're going to like

theoretically, if it's like a spell and they've lost their concentration, potentially when it comes back around, they could choose to spend their action to re-engage concentration.

Concentration.

Their bonus action.

Gotta kill him.

Alright, this guy in front of chat.

Oh, God.

That misses.

With what?

First one, I rolled a two.

That had a chance.

It does not.

What the fuck?

That's better.

That's better.

Jeez, Louise.

That's all that's going to do.

That hits.

That's a little bit of something.

15 points of damage.

How do you want to do that?

That's something.

That's something.

I'm applauding for my shirt, not the move.

Because my mouth is so like unhinged

from my jaw, I just kind of go like,

shoot eldritch blast from somehow.

He's like concentrating and looking at Chetney.

Here's how it always goes,

you know, like those Alatine Halloween skills.

And just

blasted against the rock and crumples into a pile.

Okay.

Have you guys heard my benefit five cover bands?

That's pretty good.

Yeah, no, no, it keeps that coming up.

Yeah, so that finishes my tour.

The exaltant knight that's still standing is going to go ahead and start

by

taking his glass blade and he throws it and psychically it shh fires up towards you.

Towards who?

Imagine the 40 foot.

40 foot range.

Yes.

Take it.

It does.

Okay.

Okay, that's going to be 25 to hit.

That hits.

Alright.

And another hit coming at you

with advantage, a natural one and a natural two.

Oh, okay.

That's gonna be a...

Alright, it's only gonna be a 12.

So only one of them hits you.

Okay.

You take

eight points of slashing damage.

Okay.

And

the...

You have disadvantage on intelligence saving throws until it's next turn.

And then it's gonna go ahead and run 5, 10, 15, 24, 25, 30.

And it's gonna use this bonus action to begin concentrating to hold the shield.

Finishing, there goes Ashton.

You're up with Dorian on deck.

How far away is that

fucking ninja motherfucker for me?

Is it within 40 feet?

Point on this one here?

Yeah, the one that just ran away.

That little bit.

He's about 50 or so feet from you, through the rock.

I'm gonna walk out to the other side of the rock.

Okay.

Just that far, yeah.

And uh.

Actually, I'll be up and get that.

That's okay.

Is that as little as I can move right there, or is that?

That is 10 feet there.

Okay, so like five feet wouldn't do it if you get a visual one.

You can, but he'll be considered half cover.

I mean, never mind that.

Alright.

Giving this another go.

Motherfucker, get over here.

And I'm doing another.

Goddamn.

I'm burning another Chaos Burst

and taking my advantage and it's a wormhole strike all right come on don't be a dick let's go that's 24 to hit 24

yeah that'll hit

okay

he takes

okay let's see chaos burst me range attack okay so that's

uh

19 points of damage.

Okay.

And...

Natural 16 maintains concentration.

That's okay, because as that happens,

as the hammer comes and smacks him from the side of the rock, he suddenly falls through a portal and is now directly behind that rock over there.

15, like I'm just tossing him over there using the

scattering blow.

Okay.

So he just finds himself suddenly stumbling out of

all the way in the back.

15 feet away from me.

Okay, right here.

Yep.

Does that break concentration?

Is that break his face?

It is, yeah.

No, he's still concentrating.

And then I'm just going to walk up and perhaps I didn't fucking make myself clear.

And I'm taking another shot.

Oh, guys.

Come on, come on.

Get him in the face.

21.

Break his face.

Brain him.

21.

He is going to use his reaction to psychic buckler and add five to his ACs.

All right.

Sh okay,

I'm right up in front of him.

I'm also, that will push him five feet away from me too, is just the shove.

No, I have to do damage, never mind.

Okay, fair.

Alright, that finishes your turn, Ashton.

I'm pretty good.

Alright, Doreen, you're up with Imogen.

Stand on deck.

Since I flew straight up with her, I think, right next to her, I'd like to fly directly over to Imogen if I can.

Use my movement to get to her.

And like, I want to try to reach out for her, and I know it, but I want to just kind of like shake her and see how she's doing, like, put hands on her.

And she's just out of it right yeah her eyes are kind of rolling back and you can see like there's like a little bit of blood from the ears but she's upright too right I'm up I'm just stunned yeah her flying is like kind of erratic and kind of hovering more than anything

I'm gonna grab I'm gonna grab your her hand and hold it tight and just say

I love my mom too

And then I'm gonna cast a fifth level lightning bolt straight down the chute at all those guys.

Oh, these guys here?

200 feet.

Yeah.

It's five feet wide, so I think I should

catch all three of them.

The way they're sit right there, yeah.

Billiards.

So, and as I do it, you know, Imogen's got this beautiful purple lightning, and mine's just yellow, like this guy.

And as he sends it out to him, there's just like a little purple sparkle to it.

If you're my stun, you just put a little bit of squeeze on your hand.

Come on, it's all right.

Come on, it's 12, 13.

10, better, 19, 19,

21, 23 could be better 24 24 they do have disadvantage on dexterity saves because they are restrained within the tornado

24 you said 24 okay some of them have already been hurt yeah

that one's gonna fail

he's looking real bad

over here

uh succeeds takes 12 yep and the last guy

uh natural one no fails yes

one of them is deeply wrecked the other two look pretty hurt um that's awesome

uh yeah and then uh

uh for my bonus action i'll i'll i'll say

get up and i'll give her bardic inspiration

yeah

you've you kind of see all this through the fugue haze and the static you hear his voice you see the flash of light and kind of hear the distant psychic screams of the other exaltant connected to you via the tethers of Perdathos.

And you begin to

call yourself back.

So

you turn stunned, but you're starting to bring your consciousness back.

Finishing that go, it's now the Exaltant's turn.

As a bonus action, they're all gonna maintain concentration.

Gotta kill them all.

Gotta kill them.

Let me see.

I was assuming I yelled loud enough that you know I got one back here, by the way.

Okay, so it doesn't they don't keep taking damage when they're in it.

They just it's from the initial pickup.

Um

okay,

so with that

one One of them is gonna cast

hypnotic pattern on both an Aurum, Coriolis, and Breyus.

I need you three to make wisdom saving throws, please.

At advantage because of our hero's feet.

Correct.

Oh,

god damn it.

Ten.

Are you within

five feet of me?

Five feet?

Still probably not going to help you get a plus four.

Five feet?

Are you within five feet?

No, no.

That's real tight.

Oops.

Ooh, I rolled two.

That was the wisdom save you just did?

They're no longer...

I'm going to use Indomitable and roll again.

Okay, let's go.

Where is it?

Where is it?

I'm sure this is good enough.

17 for me.

17 succeeds.

Oh!

Come on.

Better.

Way better.

20.

20.

Okay.

The next one.

Let's go try it again.

Oh!

Okay.

Oh, man.

Both roll again.

Okay, what wisdom?

Shouting to each other in in the middle of the one.

Hold it!

Hold it!

They're close!

21.

21?

16.

16 just fails.

Mayus is charmed and currently.

Oh my god.

Wait, wait.

Wait, wait.

Don't worry.

Wait.

He moved closer, too.

How does that depend?

How does the joke never die?

It's so old.

No.

Oh, it died.

We just keep going.

We just keep going there.

Don't know how to to stop.

No, I didn't pop it off.

Never mind.

Nope.

Sorry, Braus.

It's fine.

I know you don't really like me.

No one resolves.

Jesus.

No one respects me.

Does Coriolis have to make a save?

I respect yourself.

But he has two other saves, right?

Yes.

You're the only one.

He did not eat the hero's feast.

First one is

minus stuff.

That's an 11

first

and a one.

Which he can re-roll because he's within five feet.

No, I could get my reaction to him, but the first one already made shit.

So yeah, so Coriolis is now no longer moving and it's just kind of in place floating looking at this beautiful light.

Don't you have to be above a certain intelligence level to have hypnotic gaze?

Or horse.

Him and your dog are just hanging out.

How intelligence is Coilis?

Coriolis has an intelligence of two.

Two.

Let me see.

Coriolis plummets to the ground.

No, that's only on Smile Effects.

But no, good looking out, though.

Good looking out.

Alright.

Alright.

So.

Last one is going to go ahead and cast

Phantasmal killer on you.

Oh, cool.

What?

So I need you to make

another wisdom save on me.

You're immune to fear, too.

Because of our hero's feast.

That's right, no, we agreed to that.

Never mind.

I'm going to hold that back then.

Instead.

Hero's feast, man.

I have it in mine and then I forget it when I build some of these things.

But that's how it would work, too.

It's not like I want to build to try and get around when you guys prepared for.

So this is working out great for you.

No, it's okay.

I'm going to be honest.

We forgot two for a few minutes, so that works out.

You know what?

One of them is going to go ahead and drop concentration to Castile Kinesis.

Whoa!

Yeah.

Whoa.

And it's going to

cast it on you.

No!

Sophie!

I need you

to make a strength check.

Okay.

Not a saving throw, but just a strength check, right?

Yep, so just add it.

Roll you 20 and add your strength.

Roll high.

That was fine.

No.

Walls.

Double fives.

Nine.

Nine.

As you're there in wolf form, suddenly,

you feel yourself bound by an invisible force that pushes you 30 feet back and holds you aloft in the air.

That is unbelievable.

Let's do that again.

Don't remember.

You are now.

Being held up in the air right there.

Restrained and unable to pull free.

On your turn, you can try and break free if you'd like to.

But now you are currently held there.

Alright, that's gonna finish their turn.

Finish these ultimates.

Orim, you're up.

I uh scooch the side of Coriolis's head and say, I'll be back, boy.

And I am going to leap and pinball off of this rock down to where I hear Ashton yelling.

Live, Coriolis.

Okay, but leap down to where boom down.

And look at that.

It's almost as if I tried to set it up.

Set him him up.

Knock him down.

Let's go.

Okay.

Attack!

That is a...

That's good.

That is a 29 to hit.

Yeah.

Let's make it...

Nope, I'm just going to save it.

I'm going to save it.

So it's not going to be a huge hit.

That is 9 points of damage.

Okay.

Second is a 26 to hit.

That hits.

That is

14 points of damage.

Okay.

last one I re-roll my own one

that is a 24 to hit okay that hits

and that is 13 points of damage so I just crisscross really fast across this character's back you got it before they turn around

first one succeeds I'm hitting concentration second one uh natural 20.

Jesus

guys

third one with yeah so it succeeds each each hit their DC is 10 yeah yeah and they get add their con their concentration saving 30 seconds yes yeah um we'll take

that one but he's starting to look a little hurt

a little hurt that finishes your go autumn one good crit moves into that

yeah that's it okay

damn we have one more turn it's now ludeness's turn see if he gets that back he does not

Is the ninja the only one holding concentration?

So he

there's two now because one dropped

there's two in there that have concentration up

and this guy that you guys are attacking.

So there's three.

He is going to mind sliver.

We just

extended range.

So almost we're dropping the ship.

He's going to sit there.

Maybe there's still a chance.

Show me how well you can endure.

Oh, fuck.

We'll see whose right this is.

He's gonna do mind sliver on you.

So you make an intelligent saving throw.

That does advantage.

A disadvantage because you were hit with the blade last time.

I gave you guidance earlier.

So that should help you in this moment.

I did use it.

You did, huh?

I did use it.

Four.

That's gonna be...

15 points of psychic damage.

Okay.

Reduced to seven since your resistance.

and your next saving throw before the end of the next turn subtracts a d4.

Okay,

as he kind of as he does this to you, he kind of reaches up and pats the side of Liliana's face as she's

gasping for breath.

Soon you'll rest.

If I'm stunned, can I say anything?

It's the end of the turn, you're no longer stunned.

You can.

Oh, that's right.

No longer stunned.

It's the end of his turn.

Fuck you.

Yeah.

You're gonna die here.

I know.

Not before I finish everything I've wanted to do for so long.

Top of the ramp.

Shut the air up.

I love them.

Uh, yes.

Burn your undeck.

I'm going to.

I'm restrained, right?

We could try and break free of it.

You can, yeah.

I'm going.

No, you don't have slippery juice.

No slippery juice for me.

I'm going to try and misty step out of it.

Yeah, that will

pass.

all right all right

yes you can spend an action to try and break free of the uh things you want to do that's my bonus action to oh sorry misty step yeah you can totally do that uh great misty step uh 60 30 feet 30 feet towards the horrible bubble that'll put you pretty much right back on where you were so

amazing there uh and then can i spend uh 30 more feet of movement to run towards the boobo?

30 more feet?

Go into the booboo?

15, 20, 25.

I don't think 30.

They all need to die.

That'll get you right there.

Did you want to go into the bubble?

Well, I was just...

I have claws and sharp things.

Then you should have misty-stepped towards the orange bubble.

I think he misty-stepped you towards the blue bubble.

Oh, I misunderstood.

So you could have

been further there.

And then 30 feet of movement would get you into the boobool.

Yeah, you would be there.

And 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

30 would get you within range of one of them.

Yeah, and then I'll use jump with the last 10 feet of my movement to jump in and start swinging.

But jump into the bounce house with a bunch of knives.

You go, you enter it.

I need you to make a dexterity saving throw as you leap into the whirlwind.

Shoo!

You've picked up with it and spinning.

Who cares?

This is great.

Hell yes.

Good time.

And

27.

Okay, good.

You resist it.

So you'll take half damage.

And you take half of that because it is bludgeoning.

Yeah.

Yeah, that worked really well, too.

Wow, yeah.

See, this is the fun bit.

You're like, what can I endure?

Yeah, we're not here to come out of the squeaky corner.

26, 30.

The terms for saving were 36.

That's correct.

Yeah.

34, 39 points of bludgeoning.

To half to half to 10.

Down the psychics.

Yeah.

So 40 to 20, 19, 19.

10?

8.

No, I think you go down, or 9 because

19, half.

19 would be half that would be nine.

So nine points bludgeoning damage, and uh

and then make a strength-saving throw.

Okay,

do I have advantage of that?

You do in wolf form, yeah.

Uh, natural 20.

Oh, yeah, you're

fine.

So you are not restrained, your attacks go through fine.

They are, so you have advantage on your attacks against

them.

Get them out of the way.

I'll take

three swings.

Oh, no, just two swings at one of them.

You got it.

Wow, 17.

27 to hit.

That hits.

That's 6 plus.

12.

16, 17 points of slashing damage.

6 points of lightning for the...

Blah, blah, blah.

What's it called?

Crimson.

Thank you.

You got it.

So nice is rolling in arcs of lightning as this wolf is like spinning up into it and slashing into one of them.

Sec.

Wolf Storm.

25 to hit.

That hits.

And.

9, 10, 11, plus 5.

16 points of slashing, 5 of which are lightning.

How do you want to raise it?

Yeah!

I literally run in, jump, I hit the fucking typhoon, it spins me all around, I just go...

So there's, you guys watch the Whirlwind spins, and you see these arcs of lightning.

You watch his blood just like

sprays out across bits of it and watch as like an arm like hits the ground with like a vanguard sleeve on it's actually

so that should be all right finishing check needs to go fern you're up okay so you're in that bubble now that's right rocket the one he just killed wasn't the one danger close danger close concentrating on me uh no yeah two of them are still concentrating in there okay you know what go ahead and roll roll a d6 for me on a one or two you killed one of the ones that was concentrating.

Oh, on a one or two?

One!

Yay!

There we go.

So now there's currently one concentrating there.

And the other is concentrating on me.

Or on the hypnotic pattern.

Yeah, who's got that?

Correct, yeah.

Okay.

So we have two dudes concentrating on the sphere.

Oh, wait, so one was concentrating on hypnotic pattern, and one was concentrating on telekinesis.

So there's only one guy concentrating on the pattern.

Right, the telekinesis guy would have been killed then.

And that's how.

Yeah, you're right.

So the one that was, you don't know which one's concentrating, so the one that you killed was the one that was holding you then.

Cool.

Okay.

So, we've got we've got one of the guys pinned down here.

So, if anyone wants to kill him,

yes.

Okay.

Two dudes are concentrating.

What does the shield look like?

Is it like

our guy?

It's

still holding, but with each death, you watch lack of concentration.

You watch it kind of like shrink slightly,

shrink slightly.

And we've got to incapacitate Ludo or kill him before he ever takes a turn.

Because when he takes his next turn,

round three is over.

You can never take a turn or it's over for you, bomb.

Yeah, this is it.

We haven't even taken a shot at the bubble, right?

We're just assuming.

I won't have a turn unless you can't.

We don't want unless you disable it.

And remember, we need our motherfucker too in the back.

The two in the bubble at the end of the morning.

Are they looking pretty rough?

I mean, it's hard to tell.

They're being thrown through a whirlwind.

Okay.

What I'm going to do is.

That's thought I wasn't doing a little bit of a chit though.

Do it.

Fuck up all the time.

It doesn't matter.

Okay.

I was thinking,

I want to shoot wall of fire, but you can do it as a ring.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I was thinking of making the ring.

It's a 20-foot radius.

Is there any way I can do it and not like just have Chet like?

Unfortunately in the whirlwind,

because they're all being rolled around.

I'll say it'll hit all of them.

Make it a fire funnel.

Just kind of fire it.

Which you can totally do.

Just

Chetney is in a line of fire.

So if that's what you want to do, you can't concentrate it when they're all being dragged through a world.

I can do that or I can try to scorching ray them and try to get them down.

Okay, okay.

They're both restrained.

So if you scorching ray, you do have advantage in the attacks because they're restrained in there.

So it's up to you.

What's the damage?

Whatever does more damage.

Okay, so wall of fire just happens and it's 5d8.

And then scorching is 3.

And it's a dexterity scorching rays or 2d6.

But you do three scorching rays.

Three scorching rays.

But wall of fire, you can hit technically.

It's 50 66 versus 5d8, right?

But also wall of fire, can't you control what side the fire comes off of?

Couldn't you put it between?

You can, yeah.

So you can't see it.

They're all in a whirlwind.

They're all in.

Okay.

You gotta do the wall of fire.

Okay, okay.

We'll do the wall of fire.

It becomes like a 20.

We'll make it a ring, a ring of fire.

Then it will.

A scorching.

It just happens.

Dexterity saving throws of 19.

A whirlwind of power.

Which they have disadvantage on, which they have disadvantage on.

But Chet has

not, yeah, he's not restrained.

Okay, make the ring go for it.

Yeah, ring go up to 20 feet in diameter.

Yeah, so you can go ahead and like

make the ring go through here, essentially.

Yeah.

So it like just tears through that edge there.

And so the whirlwind kind of like

you watch as the spiral of wind and debris now becomes a spiral of burning red and orange flame.

It was just the shadows of figures screaming as the world up within.

So go ahead and roll your damage.

5d8 fire damage.

Come on.

Too much shit.

What's happening?

No, there's too much shit on me.

Okay, so it's 5d8 and then one additional d8 because of

me score.

Okay, so we've got

okay seven

plus

five is 12.

20 dias roll four

plus additional seven

that's nineteen but this is six eighths shit.

Okay, that's fine.

That's fine.

So 19 points of damage.

That's it.

I thought you said you got 5d8.

5d8.

Yeah.

Plus an additional d8, so 68.

Yeah.

6.

19.

19.

Points of damage.

That's really shitty.

Did you roll?

It's just super nice.

Shitty, really low.

Alright, so over here, that's

that's going to be a 20.

So

what's your DC?

19.

Okay, so it's going to take 9 points of fire damage on that.

Me too.

I rolled 26.

Okay, so nine points of fire damage.

It's a good one.

It was good.

How do you wanna do this?

They were both, they were both, they were both on the edge.

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

Okay,

I'm just gonna look up at Imogen and I'm gonna say, we're gonna get her, Imogen!

It's okay!

We got this!

And then I'm just gonna step forward and try to just, like, you know, make it happen.

As that massive flame tornado consumes those inside, you hear the screams of the assaultants within that are then silenced as a flaming werewolf is now just being lobbed around on the other side of the bed.

With that, the charm fades from Braeus.

Perfect butterfly timing.

Okay, good timing because he's next.

Fuck.

We need people

where we are.

So that finishes Fern's turn.

Braeus, you're up at lunch.

No, I'm dead.

Dude, take him down, Breyus.

Can you get there?

There's this one.

We got the last one.

Oh, my goodness.

One last part.

Oh my god, I can't.

I'm a long way.

I'm a long way away.

Do you want to get right up on

Luda and hold?

I could.

Oh, I got a good idea.

You can get close enough that once it goes down, you could hit him.

Next to him?

I mean, that's it.

You can get next to the bubble.

You said the bubble has been slowly decreasing.

Yeah.

I mean, it's like, you know, you can get probably within five feet of him there.

Yeah.

And then I can hit him.

If you want to get him.

And then the bubble goes down.

Okay.

I will move to him and

I can

do one attack or both attacks.

Goals is written.

It's a single attack.

I think it's bullshit.

So I just do.

If you hold an action, you can do both of your attacks, but enemies can do it.

Okay, we gotta get it.

We're first to go figure out how to get there.

Right.

There's only one guy.

Okay, so we got behind there.

Yeah.

So you guys can hit it.

Well, we really need it.

He's hard to hit.

Yeah, absolutely.

How do I get on your horse?

He's our homie.

How does this work?

I forgot to go for Mister.

Can Mister take two flame seeds with the guy right here?

Sure.

Mr.

Have to move to see him.

How?

What?

I could just say that he...

Well, Matt could say that he doesn't go on my turn anymore as soon as has a new

He'll do whatever I said.

I'd say, I'd say because we were going your turn, it's still your turn.

So he wanted to get hold an action on him, have him move it somewhere in position, and then jump over there and still do things.

I can get over there.

Yeah, jump over there.

It depends on what you're trying to do.

If you want to get next to Ludinus, we got a way to get there.

But we're shooting a flame seed over here.

Can you leap, leap, get to the nine points of damage?

Hold on, did it hit?

It did hit.

It was 16 plus.

Where's the thingy?

Yeah, metal hit.

Okay.

So nine points of damage?

Yard.

Okay.

You're going to hold it till the shin drops.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty badass.

Yeah, do it.

What you doing, Brace?

I got to get over there.

It's more than 30 feet of movement, right?

I mean, you can try and jump it.

Can you jump down and do like an acrobatics check and jump from the crystal to the...

It would be an athletics check to try and do like a full jump from this point.

Is that my action?

No,

but if you fail, it's going to cut your movement down.

Sure.

And you'll like stumble onto the ground.

So it's a little risky, risky, but...

Okay.

I will try it.

I will jump and hopefully try to use the speed of the whirlwind to sort of propel me over.

I love it.

Alright, go ahead and roll an athletics stream.

Even if it hurts.

Here's what I'll say.

Okay.

If you want to take the damage from the whirlwind, I'll give you an advantage in that role.

I will take that.

I will take that, yes.

Okay.

Awful.

What is this, athletics?

Athletics.

Ugh, 14.

That's not terrible.

14's not terrible.

So, go ahead and roll the damage from your whirlwind.

Oh, God, the whole thing?

He said he wanted to use it.

Yeah, man.

Yeah, get over there.

It's a rocket jump.

Okay, I rolled low on that.

11,

15, 16, 18.

Make a deck save, friends.

20, 25.

Oh, no, 27.

So, yeah.

So, what's that?

27.

27.

So you take 13 points of bludgeoning damage.

Great.

And the extra whisp from woof shoves you over to this side, and you stop landing right in front of the field where Lutinus is now kind of just staring at you through it.

And

may I do a bonus action and then hold action, or the bonus action is holding my action?

No, you can.

Your action's held.

You can bonus action and do something else.

Okay, the bonus action I will do is

Shining Smite

at level three.

Okay.

And then I'll hold my action to strike.

Okay.

And that's it.

Alright, so as you stand there that way, Brace and finishes go, Lauden, you're up.

How fuck does this guy look over here?

He's looking like he's taking a few hits.

Okay.

He's not fucking damned.

He's on death's door.

Okay, that answers my question.

Yeah, that's right.

I'm going to move.

My full move: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Third, I think that's.

Yeah, 30's about there, yeah.

5, 10.

Yeah, this should be good.

I'm going to

uh God my heart is racing right now.

Um

let me double check something real quick.

Actually, I should be I know I can hang on hang on void puppet void puppet.

I think void puppet is a bonus action

bonus action, okay

I'm gonna bonus action void puppet

right next to that guy.

It's gonna take the form of his fucking friend that I just killed when I'm exalted.

And he like comes out of the rock face and goes, like, we have cursed the world.

And then,

um,

so he gets disadvantage on saving throws.

Correct.

I am then going to,

because hopefully we can get it back with our little sphere that Caleb gave us.

Six level spell, disintegrate.

Yo.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

That training spanning was at level four, by the way.

Okay.

Okay.

I tell Ashton and just say, duck!

And just a drip, all the dripping black void from my fingertips congeals into like a straight fucking ray.

The disadvantage on that saving throw is a natural 19

and then a five.

So

go ahead and give me duck.

Holy shit.

Yes.

Go ahead and roll damage as you just like barely duck out of the way of

this odd pale beam.

Four, five, I'll do this twice.

It's 10d6.

Come on, big money.

10d6 plus 40.

Actually, I'm going to do something.

It is 10d6 plus 40.

That's amazing.

I lied to this.

Wow.

That's an all-or-nothing spell.

7-9.

If he succeeds, nothing.

Nothing.

10, 11.

One more.

13.

Actually, hang on.

2.

Two,

three.

Five.

Depending on how this goes here.

Okay.

Okay.

Hang on a second.

Sorry.

Twelve,

fourteen, sixteen,

seven, eighteen,

ninety, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two,

twenty-eight

plus four is thirty-two 32 plus 40.

What is that?

That's a two.

That's a two.

Jesus.

I can, before you call this,

spend a point to empower the spell and re-roll some of these ones.

Why, why, why fuck around?

Just because

we still have a lot of shit to do.

I know.

That's fair.

He said he's taken some hits.

Not as many as we'd like.

Leave no doubt.

Okay.

Spinning a.

Spinning a sorcery point since you're here to empower the spell.

Luckily, it's just one sorcery point to do that, so I'm going to re-roll.

I can re-roll up to one, two, three, four, five.

So I'm going to re-roll these ones and twos.

Keep these off the side.

I'm sorry.

Love it.

Hell yeah.

Great call.

Better.

Okay.

So 6, 12, 18.

Da da da da.

21.

18, right?

19, 20 21

plus

4

is 29 plus 3 is 32

36

37 38 39

plus 4 is 40

3 plus 40 so that's 80

3 points of necrotic damage I think nice please kill him please how do you want to do that

Okay.

Yeah, like I said,

my void puppet that I just made reaches out from the rock and grabs him by the head and like slams it up against the rock and keeps him there as I just beam him with a black

beast.

And just atomizes into dark dust onto the ground.

Yes, yeah,

that's my turn.

I swing for her mom.

We knew it was coming!

I've been inevitable on the trail!

The shield drops, and Ludeness is still staring at you.

As it drops, he goes, Hmm.

Take your attacks.

Okay, the herald of Asmodeus brings word from the hells.

Oh no.

A two.

Quarto love.

fourteen.

That's gonna miss.

Okay.

Second attack.

Oh five.

No.

For a total of 17.

That's gonna miss.

Oh my god.

You strike towards him.

Each time you strike,

you bring your weapon back.

These little lightning-like veins

up his neck.

Not unlike those you've seen on Imogen.

And your brain kind of like blurs for a second and you swing and he's your swing went wider than it ever should have.

Angrily you swing with the other one and he focuses in once more.

They flash and

in your mind and you swing, completely miss him again.

He's like, what's wrong?

Having a hard time concentrating on.

Jesus.

Oh no.

Now she's still floating up there and is still being pulled in.

Just the shield's down.

That's gonna finish Lodna's go.

There's no more enemies left.

Oh no.

Ashton, you're up with Dorian on deck.

How close can I get to the fucking yellow bubbles?

I want to run I want to run as fast as I can, as close as I can get to the yellow bubble.

I'm not sure which is the best way to go.

And I can I can ignore difficult earth turns.

She's not selling.

I'm only going 40 feet, so I'm gonna go 40 feet towards it as far as I can go.

Okay.

I can't get over there.

And I don't think Ashton can either.

35, 30, 35, 40 is right there.

40 is right there?

Mm-hmm.

Oh

right.

Hold on.

Sorry.

I'm figuring out my shit.

After me is Dorian Imogen Orum.

If only someone had inspired me.

I wanna.

Wow.

I wanna keep a little tighter towards it because I want to curl around that way, if that's

me through there.

Alright.

That'll do.

Okay, I'm taking

one of my chaos bursts and I'm making attack on Lunanus.

Okay.

From where you're standing.

That's 60 feet, right?

I thought while I was rolling by.

That's 40 feet is what you wanted to do?

Yeah, I might have to go around the other way, actually.

I was trying to figure out the

other way, yeah.

You'll be able to see it.

Yeah, that'll be easier.

That's better.

That's much better.

Okay.

All right, he does have half cover because of where the angle is and brace in the way, kind of that whole thing right there.

He has half cover.

So he just gives plus two to his AC.

There we go.

Are you rolling with advantage?

Yeah, I'm rolling with advantage.

We don't have time for this shit.

26 to hit.

26 hits?

Okay.

Okay, that's awesome.

So, oh, this is better than something.

You know what?

He's gonna

use his butler.

Alfred!

Get him in his butler.

Mr.

Better, yeah.

Go ahead and roll

your roll.

How are you rolling?

I don't know.

It was a three and then what would you roll for the actual one?

No, it was a I think it was a

seven and a...

It would have been seven and a

seven and a sixteen, I want to say.

Okay, he's going to silver barbs.

Roll one more dice?

Roll one more dice.

Yes.

He gets to pick which one he wants.

11.

22.

He's going to pick the seven.

No, uh okay, obviously.

Of the three?

Yeah.

Okay, so he would have picked the.

Okay, yeah, it didn't matter unless unless it went lower.

So that's a miss no matter what.

Well, no,

what's your bonus onto the seven?

Oh, that would have been 11.

So that would have been 18.

18 misses.

So he silvery barbs you and your miss just goes wide.

Okay, so it just keeps my lowest roll no matter what.

Well, he gets to pick which one.

What a bullshit spell.

I know, I know.

Wait, hold on.

You rolled at advantage.

I've rolled at advantage.

Do I get to re-roll both of those then?

No, you just rolled away.

He picks one.

Okay, that makes sense.

Well, shit.

Wait, you rolled at advantage, so it would have gone with the higher number.

And then you roll a second one

and use the lower roll as the spell.

Of the two.

Of the three.

Of the three?

Yeah.

So you re-roll one, essentially.

Oh, I would have re-rolled the seven then.

One plus one plus two plus one.

This does work differently than the

elective.

Sorry, I don't get to use silvery mouse very often, you guys.

It's a great spell.

It is a great spell.

I was kind of curious of like, why am I re-rolling?

Because he just picked the low one.

No, so it'd be- So 11 was the other one you rolled then, right?

No, it would have been it would have been 11 and the higher one would have been uh uh

i want to say 16 yeah like well surreal creature must re-roll the d20 okay he would have you re-roll the high one which would have been 11 so you keep the seven so it's killing it that works um so yeah so you

you swing it wide to go ahead and and portal the attack through with the hammer as it operates next to him He like casts something with his fingers.

Now the shield is down and now his spells are not being kept at bay from the the field.

Anything else?

He just does a mark through the air and you watch a rune appear and it strikes the rune and the hammer just stops before returning through the hold back to you.

That got rid of his reaction though.

It did.

And I'm also

just for weirdness, I'm going to.

I have to use a bonus action to drop rage, right?

I can't just drop it at this point.

No, you drop it.

Okay, I'm going to wait then for...

Alright, I'm...

I'm going to use my bonus action to shift rages then.

Okay, so you drop it and then re-rage.

Yep.

Go for it.

Come on, do it for me.

Nope, nothing changed.

Oh, well.

Okay.

Just fate.

That finishes your goal.

Yeah.

Dorian, you're up with me, Janon deck.

Shit.

I want to turn to him, Jen.

Fuck him up.

This has to be your choice.

I have an idea.

Can you get your mom?

I can try.

Alright, I'll use all of my movement.

I'll fly over sort of to the right.

60 feet?

Yeah,

no, only 40.

Because it's my walking speed with the rights.

And

over here.

Fuck, it's never worked this entire fucking campaign.

Come on.

I don't care.

I'm going to try to cast

Force Cage

on Ludiness.

Force cage.

No magic can get in or out.

And as I'm prepared.

It's separating them.

It's not going to do her anything.

It is separating them.

might come in there with the corner.

There's a way to do it.

If you just think of the box and loot is in the corner.

I think it's up to

10 by 10.

It's up to 10 by 10.

Yeah.

Or is it 10 just 10 by 10?

I mean, there's two different versions of it.

The smaller, tighter, wizard-proof one is 10 by 10.

And he could still teleport out, but it's a chance.

A prison in the shape of a box can be up to 10 feet on the side, creating a separate barrier.

Up to.

Okay.

So, where are you placing your force cage?

I want to try to put him directly in the corner.

Yeah, get him

to get it up to 10 feet, so it can be smaller.

You can just do it as humanly possible.

You sure you don't want to trap me in there with him?

It's an hour, and I can't drop it.

He will.

I need to.

Alright, so you were trying this, essentially.

That is the goal.

Okay.

But I mean, yeah,

a five-foot-there is no save on this it just happened and I'm preparing it I'm like pulling the rope he just uses reaction he did so he cannot counterce cage appears

the tether from his harness is severed and Liliana

you still have to get her because he can get out he can roll to get out Yeah, yeah.

So it's never worked except when it matters.

It's because last time I've always been doing this.

This time I did it like LeBron.

As it appears around him, he goes,

Oh man, all right.

That's a movement in action.

All right,

Imogen, you're up.

Okay, I'm gonna fly forward 30 feet.

And I'm gonna drop my um, I like that Ladnose coming with me.

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry.

Drop the whirlwind, okay,

and I'm gonna um cast telekinesis and pull my mom to me.

Yes,

let's go.

Do I get an attack of opportunity?

Oh, Samoa!

You pull your mother out of the grasp on the top, and as you drift, can I pull her forward?

She is

fragile, like made of paper.

She's wafish and gaunt, and on the cusp of expiration, but still here.

Can I use my um

bonus action to pour my

my cure cure wounds into her

healing person into her.

If you want to.

The chonky boy?

That's what I got.

That makes sense.

Let's go.

Of course, she could be something else.

Fish pressure.

That's a lot of force.

Be careful where you step.

Wow.

That resin is so cool looking.

I'm so happy.

When do you do stuff like that, man?

Is that like in your kitchen?

Are you in your kitchen doing that?

Well, for resin, I do outside.

Because it has fields.

Yeah,

but a lot of things I just do on our like game table.

4, 6, 8,

30,

32, 35.

Jews, this is a huge potion.

It's shaped like a heart.

40,

45 plus.

Plus one for every guy that's there.

Plus 16.

Yeah.

40 plus 60.

61.

Wow.

61 points of healing.

Wow, that's a big healing.

Yeah, that's a...

That's great.

That's

a power of love.

She like

comes to and kind of coughs.

Now, now, you're in the air still.

Yeah, yeah, I'm holding her up.

I had her telemagnetically up at me.

She just looks back at you.

How?

You're okay now.

You're okay.

She likes puts her arms over your shoulders, and it's

can barely feel the strength as they do, but she just kind of holds you there for a second and hangs in your grip.

She gets close to your ear and just whispers,

I don't deserve you, but I'm so glad you're here.

Does that finish your turn?

Um

I'm like a little nervous about it for some reason.

I feel weird about this.

Um, I just feel like you're trying to trick me.

Trick me.

That's called trauma.

Um

with my essence of the red moon, can I feel a red tether to her?

At the moment, no.

Okay.

Okay.

That's your mom, right?

Yeah, so if I tried to give her some of my

essence.

You can certainly try.

You guys feel weird about it?

What do you mean you're gonna give her some of your essence?

We're just gonna

try to

three of my sorcery points.

Okay.

Does it work?

It does not work.

Okay.

Oh, boy.

She just kind of holds over and pulls you in as tight as she can, but that

exalted connection is gone.

Yeah, and he had to complete it for it to become permanent, right?

Correct.

But it's still

something

that will be like a bad thing.

He's going to be

Yeah.

Not that he wasn't like it already.

But was that taken from her forever or just for a duration?

They prevented it from being forever and prevented it from destroying her.

Okay.

But if it's anywhere near the quintessence array that you have, that you know of its abilities,

24 hours.

How long is Force K to stay out?

One hour.

Too bad.

How many times can you cast Force K?

One time.

It's past seven slot.

It's gone.

Yeah.

So it's pretty high level one, too.

It's your turn.

Yeah.

Aurum comes running out onto the movement.

5, 10, 15.

He's going to vine up onto Coriolis.

Oh, he's got the gooey on him.

Oh gosh, I'm scared to do it.

That's okay.

I'm going to do it.

So I'm not returning.

I got it.

That's good.

Merger's got those doctor's hands.

Here they are.

Surgeon's hands.

And I'm going to fly Coriolis up and hover directly in front of the Temults so that I'm within striking range if any wizards or anything were to suddenly appear.

I will attack anything that comes within either melee range or seedling's

air slicing range, which is 15 feet.

If any threat comes that close, I will attack them.

And I want.

I think I know the answer to this already, but I'm going to check anyway.

If staring at Ludinus, this is definitely not a snow cone, right?

Make a perception check.

Are we gonna insight check?

I mean, sorry.

Insight?

Oh, those are shitty rolls.

No, I had to drop it to get her.

Yeah, to make it insight.

It is just a temporary.

You were already on the ground, they had to restrain you.

The investigation tells there's no gem in the forehead.

Yeah, and he wouldn't be putting the power to a snowman.

But since it was a free action, I'm poised, ready to protect the temples.

No god.

Finishing your turn or it comes to Ludinus.

Just puts his

right hand in front and kind of plays with his fingers for a second while his black withered hand with its gold tips kind of clicks at his side.

He goes.

Well, it seems for the time being

we have a moment to chat.

I figure why not take a bit of time and

pontificate amongst ourselves before the end, huh?

And that's where we'll pick it up.

That was

so disrespectful.

I may have dropped the nugget.

There's so much camera.

Ashley, careful.

All right, so we'll pick up here from this

fascinating little

breath

in 2025.

Y'all gotta wait for this chatty chat.

It's the year of cage.

Yay!

Oh, my goodness.

Nicholas Morris Gabe.

But of course, don't forget to watch the Dagger Heart Curtain Miss Show.

That'll be

whatever I said at the beginning.

For those who haven't seen any of the materials for it, if you're familiar with our original intro to Campaign 2, might be a little familiar in some ways.

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