Welcome back to the epic crossover of from Afar, discount us and know your
roll. Last we left off, our party of miscreates had a massive blood
array brawl inside the tavern known as the Thundering Ukulele. However, the festivities
were cut short by the leader of the storm Breakers, Killian, revealing the
news that din the Eye of the Storm, the true Head had betrayed the
Guild and slaughtered many allies and France. We pick up as Killian turns on
his heel and says, war room ten minutes, storm Guardians, glancing over
his shoulder, the rest of you to your stations now quickly. The clips
of his boots on the stone floor of the end bill that go into the
distance. Anger clear on every motion. Okay, party, how are you
responding to the news. Oh no, dear, oh dear, this is
not good. For once. Sebastian is a little speechless, doesn't know what
to do with this. Yeah, Woozy's pacing. Holden is trying to drink
any unfinished glass of water he can. He needs to sober up very quickly,
and he's just trying to get himself pumped. You notice that all of
the glasses of water are dying red fuck fuck, oh god, Okay,
I just slaped myself in the face a couple of times, and I will
spot over all these dyed glasses of water. And I would like to do
presidditation, I guess, because it's like you can clean or taste, so
i'll i'll like clean one into water and hand it over. Oh, you'll
be able to mask the blood taste, but it is inherently mixed in.
You need purify water to get rid of something like that. I'll just lie
so here. This is a fresh glass bps everyone molden, very trusting.
It takes him down and doesn't really notice. Honestly, there you are,
and I just slap him one. Thank thank you, thank you. Oh
well, I suppose we should make our way to the war room. I
don't know if this has ever happened before, Woozy, is this has this
happened? No, not in my time, not in anyone's time. Leader
turning on the guild is unprecedented. I need to go gather some documents.
I'll see you all in the wall room. Noachi would have without missing a
be I have already gone to his room and gotten all this stuff and headed
to the war room. Cut in Nowachi dragging a canoe down the hall.
Can I bring this? I'm just going to bring this to be safe.
Oh yeah, Holden runs and grabs his He straps on his tank of restoration
and is ready to go. Look like it goes Buster. You marched down
the hall towards a war room in slow motion, but everyone else is a
normal motion. He's just very old and very drunk, and I like the
best friend of the Ghostbusters eat a whole bunch of hot dogs. Na I
think takes a silent moment to with eyes closed, meditate for a second,
just to get her thoughts in order, and then she puts down her tray
of granola, takes off her oven mits lays them down very nate, nice,
neatly, and I don't think she really need to go get anything.
So she makes her way towards the war room, seeing if anyone else is
walking that way, and joins them. Faye has been very quiet the entire
time and says nothing and kind of goes to her room. The only implication
of how upset she is is Umbra would be able to tell because she's carrying
Umbra's her hands are shaking. She has never you know, had to deal
with such a you know, an issue inside the guilt, So she's very
upset about this. You know. I kind of looked up to, you
know, the order and leadership in the guilt and now has to face the
fact that the new head just portrayed everyone. So is everything okay? No,
I'm not okay, this is this is bad, this is I don't
know how to handle this. Well. I suggest we handle it together like
we do most everything. Yeah, you're right, You're right. I'll be
here with you, and I'm very very grateful for that. Yeah, we
can do this. We don't know what's going on exactly, but we can
figure this out. You're right. Is anyone else taking time to discuss with
other members of their elite order or everyone sombly heading to the war room at
this point, I'm going to go straight to the war room, very somber.
I have my things and I'm just ready to be brief. Okay,
anyone else, I'm definitely headed towards the war room. I don't think Noachi's
particularly broken up about this. Obviously, I hail allegiance to the guild,
but the politics of it are kind of over my head. Because I'm a
dummy. So all I've heard is we gotta go kill some stuff. I'm
not overly concerned with the fact that it's the guild leader is a good hymbo.
Yeah, okay. So eventually you all meet up in the Grand card
Or that leads to the War Room, the place of honor and sanctuary amongst
the Guild. You pass through two large wooden doors of lightning scarred oak and
step into a large room. It's glass magically enchanted to give a full pamoronic
view of the sky in the clouds, and the upper echelon is the dome
of this room. You see statues one for every leader past, as well
as a trophy of their greatest accomplishment right known as the hunt. They would
seek out a dangerous monster of legend and slay it as the final initiation into
their post. But more harassed than that. The table that sits in front
in the center of the room, circular Nature, seats over thirty. It
seems to pulse with power, an ancient, deep rooted thing that fills anyone
who views it with pride. What would be its head? Sits killian a
major at his right, a massive half work you know as one tusk gurdon.
But you notice very few of the elite members are here. Only you
and a handful of others. Maybe a little more than half the total night
of the Storm Guardians is present in this room. Finally, your eyes,
after adjusting to the night sky, you can see, like any war room,
scrolls, maps, and other various implements of planning mark and fill the
shelves of the room in various areas. Welcome Storm Guardians. I apologize for
the lateness of the hour and the grimness of the news. Woozy comes bustling
in late, overladen with documents and papers so that you can barely see him,
and then he dumps him on the table. Sorry, mate, I
brought some stuff. Tillian simply nods as he pushes out of the chair and
stands tall, clearly trying to draw attension and bring everything into a formal meeting.
Once again, I apologize for the lateness of the hour and the grimness
of the conversation. To calm, as you know, part of the celebration
we've been enjoying us that of Din's hunt. He sought out a great beast
on a local island not too far from where our current position sky is less
than ten days ago. We were going to pick him up upon completion of
this, but we received a frantic message from the retinue that had accompanied him,
one of panic and death, sitting, betrayal, and ascension. We
believe something is attempting to achieve God these aisles. I'm not a master of
magic or the arcane, so I passed it off to my patriot for more
details of alves will be facing the mass a half work stands easily as tall
as Holden, maybe more. You see him pull out of thing of glasses
and put it to his nose, that tense kind of adjustment. Well,
actually what was? He as far more skilled than I, But unfortunately it's
I don't mind. It's made him in effective as the new understandings of fairy
or geometry and similar functionalities from the revention. You shut up, I might
works just fine. I could a quick glance to sorry as I was saying,
that's ndiometry is at play here quite context and hunt to explain. In
fact, even the commune spells and edge and laws, we're not truly able
to enlighten us other than that three fissures have been created. Maybe a fourth
they can be disrupted with spell and anti rituals, but we won't know until
we get there. There's also a chance that teleportation might not be effective,
so we might have to rely on more mundane methods of entry into comments.
Unfortunately, you don't have much more at this point, but trying to answer
any questions you may have to the best of my ability as it takes a
seat. So something is trying to attain godhood? Do we know what this
creature is? Killian speaks up. Untiant of eyes is what densid he was
hunting, but giving them out feast since we face now the accuracy of this
is dubious. Now do we have an idea of where the fishers are located
on this island? Unfortunately a new but given the magnitudes of the matrics needed
to be detected, and it will leged to be very obvious once we are
in visual range, perhaps four hours out from the eyelets. Now, Noachi
raises his hand. Yes, I'm watching. Can I bring my canoe?
You see? Killium pause for a second. Given that we do not know
the trade you're entering, it could be useful, though I can't say with
certainty, especially since Our specialty is aerial insertions. But no, on your
strength, you can at least break it over someone's head if which comes to
shove. Thank you certain, no further questions. I'm just gonna pat Noachi
on the shoulder and be like, hey, if you can carry it,
I don't see any reason why not. That's what I was thinking exactly now.
Could it be possible that Dan is just merely being controlled? To the
best of our knowledge, you know, stored Guardian or IENs phone has ever
been manipulated by the mind. The eyes usually carries items that prevent such things.
They should having a fortitude that is unquestionable and unbreaking. That's true.
Pardon me, but just because it's never happened before doesn't mean that it could
never happen, Sebastian, what you're implying is terrifying. If this creature can
control Din, I don't want to think about what it could do to us.
True, Oh there's a dangerous thing right now. The save something operadors
Din turned to his own will. It would also explain the missing items in
our caall verse missing items? Which items? What's missing? I didn't check
the records? Did someone check it out? No? Over the last few
days, I've grown suspicious, and he pulls out a log book. There's
discrepancies and some of the keepings of our magical items and goals. It's even
possible some of our records were plundered. What's missing, lots of ancients law
regarding the foundation of the guilds, some of the interesting extra plane of creatures
we have banished, some common magic items that have been sitting in the troll
over a few decades and obviously wouldn't be noticed. And some ten thousand different
fifty thousand gold. You're telling me that Dinn took out books from my library,
it would appear so using as well as my personal collection and a few
others. That is unforgivable. How many magical items did he take? Given
the magnitude of this weird doing with her immatory little staff, we cannot spare
as we man our battle stations for whatever may come our way. I'll take
a few days to know the full scope of what was lost, but I'd
assume it was at least twenty to thirty items of some power. It appears
nothing that would be easily missed was taken. That's strange that one person would
need twenty to thirty magical items. I wonder what you would be using those
for twenty fingers and toes lots of rains. This is where I need to
have an open conversation. These are the moments that I miss these things.
Thank you early half work goes. We have usually such item store a great
amount of magic to make sure this permanent didn't usually without a constant rate.
Breaking that down could help ari chair the very finicky barriers of our brain in
world, and they were likely consumed just you of the rituals before they started
sustaining themselves with clean energy, so they were used as catalysts in some strange
reaction. That's our currentsumption. Nachi raises his hand again. Holden also has
his hand up. So if these items were stolen to initiate some kind of
ritual, could it be possible that didn't himself has chosen to ascend to godhood
in places this? I think that's a been very abstract thinking, Nachi,
I don't even really know what I'm talking about. I just put some words
together in a sentence. Did I crack it? You might have cracked him?
It is possible, I suppose. But the requirements for deification are hard,
even for mortal has extended their potentials. It's true. I went through
a phase myself. Once you woozy, I get a big smile on my
face and I just go, I don't think I've ever killed a god before
the first time for everything, Hell yeah, I think Holden had a question.
Oh yes, your grace kill you in your grace God on, thank
you for having me here with you. We're looking a little light. Where's
everybody else? Are they gonna come and meet us? Sir? What's going
on? Out of the twenty five of our member myself included, about twelve
are already missing. Six were sent withd in to prevent potential assassinations while in
his hunt. Well, things can tangle with our leader betrayer. At this
point, it's not worth the risk all the whiles. After the initial distress
calls were received, we said a band of three to four to scout what
happened. They've not been heard from Shiite, leaving a total of fourteen The
Storm Guardians. Well, I feel like it needs to be said, Gillian.
The Guild will need strong leadership during this time. I think it might
be best if we made it official, all right, I'll do it.
What are you proposing, Woozy, I think you know you want me to
take the mental leadership. Maybe officially we could wait until we know more concrete,
but yeah, the other members of the guild will need someone to look
to, you know, so like I think you're right, I will shoulder
the mental will quote can be taken and the depth of the tritles understood.
If that is agreeable to all the room. This is head and understood.
Are there any objections? I think that would be best. I don't see
why not. It does make the most sense. Losey spectral little dwarf wizard
is writing out the minutes of the meeting in the book. After about two
minutes of silence and various murmuring, but no draft objections, killing a nods,
then I take them mantel of the eye. I thank you for the
honor and wishes for much more joyous reasons. We will continue to try gaffin
Intel and we'll arrive in about four hours. Rest up, collect your gear,
and think about what needs to be done. You're all dismissed. I'll
summon you to the teleportation chambers shortly. No, actually, just like mutters
under his breath man, I didn't even have to bring the canoe yet.
Pick picks it up and like be grudgingly tracks it behind him back to his
room. Yeah, DMS, is there like a storm Guardian salute thing that
we could all do? I feel like ending a meeting. Yeah, you
use both your hands, Um, you reach over, grab your ankles and
your knees. It's a it's a double face palm. I mean, we've
been seeing Chris do it all all set. That's the salute. Dave.
Did you come up with a salute or anything like that? I think we
just did. I think I think we did. We talked about it,
but I think Christian you have something in mind. I don't know. I
was gonna say, like it feels like after Killian dismisses the group, there
should be like a resounding like oh hell the or you know or something like
that. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, And if any of you
guys, I mean, I love the idea of the shared narrative bringing a
little bit of that that from a far flavor in here. If any of
you guys have any ideas just to throw it out there and like what this
might look like, feel free to just jump in with with something from from
an audio editing standpoint, Could I get all of us to say that,
like like all hail the eye or something like that, and then I can
edit it all to like sync up or at David can in the in the
post. Sure, let's do it all right right on three one two three?
Oh? That was cool. I got chills. Right. I feel
like that was bringing it in, bringing it in with your voices echoing through
the chamber. Plea nods confirming the dismissal. Nawatchee has stated, begrudgeally dragging
the canoe back out of the room, you have a few moments a quiet
contemplation amainst the bustle of the anvil. You hear the weapons being geared into
place, the smithy's on high alert, the banging echoing through halls despite the
distance, footsteps constantly pounding on the stone. Holden's just like punching a big
slab of meat back in the kitchen, just kind of while also chewing on
it. Get okay, So, Dortan's four hours. You're free to use
your hit ice to heal the minor wounds you perceived. You're free to do
a little RP. I will kind of Cutton switch as necessary. Okay,
all right, okay, I think uh Woozy and whoever wants to join him,
and I guess this little scene, he'll go to the tavern, the
taverns on the anvil, right, yes, okay, yeah, he'd go
to the tavern and just sit down at the bar for a little bit,
kind of like taking a little momentum. I think Najima would seek out Sebastian
if if vera, if you're down for this, and then Nage would walk
up to Sebastian and be like, oh, Sebastian, I I was wondering
if you could do me a favor. Listen, I'm all here for this
bff. Oh yes, Nagima, what can I do for you? Nag
might think like gets down on she cross legs, sits on the floor and
like kind of opens up her pouches since this fight might prove permanent in some
regard, I was wondering if you could tell me a story, And she
kind of sits there like waiting. Oh, and he kind of puts a
hand to his chest. He likes he's a little a little touch and he
is also going to sit down cross legged with you, kind of adopt the
same posture, and he'd just be like, well, what kind of tail
would you like to hear? Something daring or wraps something more touching, you
know, And he's just kind of like getting into the performer's groove. Una
might think, you know, she's very serious, very somber. I think
she'd be like maybe something personal for Sebastian, and that as she says,
I think she kind of like starts like, you know, pulsating her hand,
and sand starts flowing out of the pouch and starts like drifting around her
and starts to like swirl, and the sand is kind of like sparkling a
little bit. Person hmm doesn't normally get asked that that oft on Um.
He pulls out of the performer persona a little bit and he rubs his chin,
and then he says, well, did you know that I didn't learn
how to swim until I was fourteen? Yeah, she chuckles a little bit.
Not to cut you off, Andy, but let's leave it there,
Fay woozy holding to watches or anything you're doing during this time before I go
back to Andy and Sebastian, I could do a little thing Woozy sitting at
the bar, and he has a drink that he probably ordered from Ma if
she was around, just a short like two finger pour some whiskey. It's
very unlike him, but the occasion calls for it. He um Also in
front of him, he's just kind of staring down at this old piece of
parchment. It's a letter H and it's written in dwarfish, and he just
kind of under his breath is kind of talking to himself, and he just
says, old friend, I wish you were here. This feels like old
times a little bit, and he kind of glances to the side, and
then in a puff of astral smoke, the little dwarf wizard that has been
like his companion as a part of his awakened spell book appears there, and
he just kind of looks at it somberly and then takes a sip of the
drink and uh, yeah, that's the end of that. Anyone else,
Yeah, Noachi would be in his room. I think I have an immovable
rod in the middle of the room that I used to do like upside down
sit ups and pull ups on and stuff. So I'm doing doing some of
that fantastic And while while I'm doing my upside down sit ups. I'm reading
the letter that I got in our sort of like pre session zero thing.
I'm reading that's kind of looking it over, thinking about what we're about to
walk into, and I start drafting my own letter to Noel, who is
the giant who raised me, and I have not written to her in a
long time, and I just tell her, like very simple, I'm not
no. Actually's not one for word. It's just like, no, I
think I'm gonna go kill a god. I might have already killed a god.
I'm not sure. I want to come home and visit you after if
I can, so save your best cuts of meat from the butcher's shop,
and hopefully I'll see you soon. And I go wherever I have to go
to send that off. Okay, Wow, cut back to holding still punching
me and just and just and just yelling. He's trying to will himself sober,
so he's just every time he's hitting to me, he's like, super,
super you are sober, so you're doing that? Was it Rocky five
or something like that? Yeah, No, no, no, I had
it was one of the reason ones where he was like sixty years old and
he's taking like little drugs like banging roun the ground. Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, you have kel nipass your shots so you can't hit far us.
You gotta hit like a trucky Shine. Mom's just staring at you,
just she's so heartbroken having basically helped raison in. She's not even yelling at
ely she usually what about messing up the cuts of beef in her kitchen.
She's just like, you can see a tear in the corner of her eye,
and she's nods and kind of tries smiling at you. It's it's it's
not ruining the meat. He's tenderizing it's getting even better. And then Holden
looks Overbosas, don't worry, ma, I will kill the ship out of
that guy for you. I don't know how she would react back. She
just take sekulele off her back and goes come him one upside ahead from me.
No way, I'm adding this to my inventory. Oh okay, that's
a Yes. There was two things I wanted to do. One was I
wanted to quickly do a quick prayer to the my God. Um, I'm
gonna try to pronounce this name Eno Posis. Did I say it right?
No? Fuck you. Then the God of time and passes that Fay worships
just a quick prayer that is simply it to kind of calm her nerves.
And then I think she would honestly go join Woozy in the bar and probably
take a drink of something very strong. When she approaches the bar, he
quickly like folds the letter up and puts it back in his pocket. Yeah,
and Faye, you're drink quickly served by mom who's distracted cleaning. You
can see that her eyes are wet and her senior Chieklelely is no one on
her back. We'll cut back to Sebastian and Najima if you could finish up
that story really think and move back into the narrative. Yeah, of course,
I was just going to tell a story about I can do it in
care character, or we can just see what Najima wanted to do. I
think Najima is just there. She's just she's just listening and she you see,
and as you tell the story, the sand swirls and it creates a
nebula around you, guys, around us, and then it starts like pulsating
like kind of with the words that you're saying it's beautiful. Yeah. Uh.
Sebastian says, I actually didn't know how to swim into let. It
was about fourteen now. Since then, I've been all over the ocean.
I love the smell of the sea. But where I'm from there wasn't any
water deeper than the nearest creek and the well. But I had no reason
to be in the well, so I never learned how to swim. But
one day when I was traveling, I fell into a lake. And drowning
is not pleasant, Nagima, It is, honestly, I think, one
of the worst things I have ever experienced. And I thought that it had
truly been for me until I found a light and a pressure and I could
breathe again, and I opened my eyes to see this beautiful woman. She
had brought me back, and she had breathed life back into my lungs,
and Najima, I don't think I've ever stopped loving that angel. We never
got close, and in that way, she was a married woman, and
I respect that, but a part of me will always picture her face when
I think about bringing life to others. To ensure that I pass along the
gift that she has given me. I pass her face, her kindness onto
every you, every one of you, to make sure that the gift of
life moves on through all of us. And with those final words, you
hear a voice echo throughout the end. Bill Stern Guardians who in the Talipartation
Team pars Storm Guardians to Colipartation Team, ra that that that's our que Let's
go. Can I can I bump into them in the hallway on the way,
You guys can bump into each other however you want. I want to
specifically bump into Sebastian and Naji on the way and be like, oh all
right, hey guys, you ready to go. I don't know if this
will come in handy at all, but I can breathe underwater. That just
popped into my head. Just wanted to out there. Let's have a good
time out there. Now, you, I think, shares a look with
Sebashihit and just is like, oh okay, how nice for you. Very
useful talent. Never take it for granted. Also, Vera, that was
incredible, Now, that was fantastic. Wow, I made it up,
believable, well done. Faye would turn to Woozy at the bar and say,
shall we go Old friend, let's do this. And at that point
I feel like Fay specifically would feel like kind of a warmth spread like over
her mind. Not that has nothing to do with the drink that she just
drank. This is a feeling that you you know very well, and it's
like the best umbre can do for like a hug. And she says.
Then she says this out loud to so Woozy can shoot here, and she
says, nope, I'm not gonna say that. She says, of course,
friends, I'm here to protect you and I'm here to fight to the
end with you. Let's go. So she all assemble in the hallway,
marching and epic fashion music in your head swelling. You come to the teleportation
chamber, owing to see it in chaos. This ritual circles for the teleportation,
echoing in black purple, and she cracked in the ruins May just going
everywhere in panic and fear and explosions. The room is ripped and racks finger
now fearings as the controls and everything is just fry. Killing is rescuing people
left and right, dragging away from explosions, getting kind of battered here and
there, Everyone back to what the room now seal its off as quickly as
possible. We're going Manuel, Thank god, the thing always makes me puke.
No wat, she agreed time for the rain. That sounds cool.
I don't know what that means, only woozy in fair old enough to remember
what this is, okay, so I do know. So you are led
to a side chamber and you see racks of these stone opal vests. I
seem to crackle with the energy of the storm contained within. You see shoots
at the sides. You see peoples and other members of the guild already in
them, and they go through the tubes disappearing. We're fucking parachuting down.
Oh my fucking god, we're parachizing. Did you guys suit up? Yeah?
I mean I want to point towards the chat. Verreau's saying, if
they can give a ten minute that aspiring speech, real time, real time,
Could we just say that was part of our preparation. Sure that's fair,
And you've taken your time to tell stories. The story walks in the
corridors, et cetera, et cetera. So you are good and golden awesome.
Everybody give yourselves twenty one ten So as you suit onto these weird arcane
vests and whatnot. Killian looks at you, and he looks towards the chefs
through those portals, by the front lines of the abhorrent Beholder and our treacherous
I didn't you. The storm Guardians, the elite of our guild, are
the breaking storm that will cleanse din sin from the annuals for honor and glory.
Sally forth, and you take your step through the shoots, fighting yourselves
on a metal plate which magnetizes you to it and leans you over, setting
you screeching down. You feel dropping as the anvil drops with you breaking free.
You see the anvil crashing through the clouds above a giant pyramid. Wind
rushes and pelts you as you streak towards the ground, seeing four major points,
one a giant pyramid of gold encapsulated and a greenish arcane barrier. You
see a storm Guardian flying directly towards it. You see three beams angled towards
it, one of purplish black magenta pulsing with great ne chronic force, another
of pure white, and you can almost hear the extream of consciens coming through
the air as you gaze at it. And another of muddy brown flex with
fire and wind in water all colliding into this shield being funneled towards something.
As you descend the wind run, you can feel energy charging around the vests,
and finally the storm guardian you notice smashes into the pyramid, obliterated or
impact with a resounding pop as you hear a thunderous crack, and with that
the ground opens up. Bolts of magic lightning from the ship's stones, everything
crashing in the air. You see monsters launched forth from the beaches. Which
direction are you headed? Are you guys going towards the magenta beam, the
clear beam or the muddy beam? Oh? Oh damn? Are we like
falling through the air? Yeah? Yeah, you guys are fortnighting into this
one, all right. Sebastian is going to the nearest person and cling to
them. I do have an important point of clarification to make it sure.
Was I able to bring my canoe? Yes in your ark? Okay,
well, I do see that one of these points is in the water,
so I do sort of feel drawn to that. Najuma would not like that.
I'm saying, yeah, you're gonna be all alone there. Okay,
that's fine, I did prepare water walking, So y'all be okay if need
be, if we need to walk on some water. Oh okay, I
imagine Najuma would like see them like like see us all kind of careening towards
that. Did you start screaming at fame you like, did you prepare water
walking? Okay? So you guys are headed towards the magenta beam in the
water. Okay, Yeah, I'm down with that. Yeah, we gotta
make use of this canoe. This is also important. Yes, this is
This is check Off's canoe. If you introduce a canoe in the first act,
it has to go off by the second. So you begin to see
skyboard ships rising towards you, circling in around the anvil as it's cantons of
lightning whipped forth into the sky to cover your descent. You have one action
during the descent, starting with beans. What do you do as you lance
forwards this beam at full speed? I know, I'm like not far after
you, being so frantically looking at All I can do is attack things with
an act. So I feel like I don't want to do anything yet?
Are there? There are there are enemies, right, there's monsters like coming
towards us, or yeah, you see from the beaches, the beach,
you see maybe you see creatures heading towards the air. One of the note
around the Clear Bean is this massive dragonic appearing creatures circling it in a defensive
perimeter. Okay, so there's just like a shit ton of enemies and monsters
just everywhere right now. Yeah, you see from the four Islands nickas the
map up. Yes, yeah, from these towers you see Eldrick's beings of
green and Purple launching the two hundred and forty feet into the air, just
pelting twelve bursts of them. You're literally flying through anti aircraft fire and these
monsters leap up. You have the lists and bolts up at the at you
and others as the rest of the storm guardian and people that are assaulting the
beaches coming down. You see storm guardians similar to you, but lower rank,
just getting pelted in the chest by multiple bolts and dying. You see
one or two hit the beach and the vest fail for whatever reason as their
bodies break up on the sands. Oh no, these are all So is
there any creature or enemy that's within my range to attack? Can I fall
into anybody, Yes, all right, then I'm finding that's finding someone,
and I'm gonna swing at the nearest boy. You see this massive bat like
creature with a stunted face, a barbed tail, screeching. Is that flies
up towards You give me two attacks. That's a thirty three for the first
one. Oh, it's a nineteen. Never mind, that's a crib okay,
roll your second one. Yeah, and then that's a twenty one for
the second one. Both hits. You cleave the wings of the creature,
slashing gets throw in the same motion. When your first strike, his body
flies out of the ways. You are axes over your shoulder, almost like
a flying lunch towards the ground. Is this raised coral reef again? White
comes closer and closer. You see hordes of zombies milling about. Who's next
in line? Believe it's a woozy. Yeah, yeah, okay, so
woozy. While he's flying through the air, his little spectral friend flying very
seriously alongside him, they're going in tactical but he pulls off. He has
like a pendant hanging around his neck and the sign of the Stormbreakers, which
I believe is two set of horns, minotaur horns or heads like intertwined horns,
right, with one made of lightning and thunder, the other made of
cloud or something very similar. Yes, okay, So he rips that off
of like a terrible sort of thing around his neck and speaks the appropriate word
and then kind of like lets it go as it warps and changes into a
lesser thunder. You say your words as the namies a crackle and with lightning,
its form shifting as it grows solider and bigger, with a screech like
a thunderous eagle. The form swoops under your feet, landing on it's charged
feathers. This bluish gray bird takes to the sky, lending you towards the
ground. It's screeches dispersing flying creatures around you. Can I retroactively say that
Woozy looked really badass when he didn't take a vest. Sure, because now
he's just standing on this thunderbird while he's flying next to everyone. That is
very cool. It's like some Albus Dumbledore shit. Right. Yeah. Next
is Joe. What you do in Joe? You say, we have one
action during this time? I would it be prudent to use that to prepare
myself to like land in this canoe in some way you can land on something
with the canoe. Well, but I don't want to break it. I
mean we're gonna land or presumably gonna land in the water. Well, I
don't want to break Joe. You can see that as you get closer target,
you see that the bead is coming from a risen bed of broken and
dead coral. Oh okay, fuck that. Then I'm gonna go into a
rage. Okay, that's you still cannot you have have flying creatures? You
want to send lightning bolts out of these things? Yes, I want to.
I want to shield everyone with me to lightning damage and direct my lightning
beam to whatever's closest. I will say you can choose two of your members
in this falling things. You'll get a ten foot orror. I'll let you
decide who's closest to me. Well, knowing you, that's definitely Holden.
Yeah, and let's say Sebastian. Okay, yeah, I was actually thinking
that because they did say Sebastian was going to cling onto somebody, so that
let's say that was me. Okay, I'm sure we've fallen through the air
a lot but that doesn't make it any less scary. Every yeah, so
yeah, I will I will try to target some some nearby creature with that
storm or a very cool So this bizarre three headed bird flying up at you,
you look at it and let forth your war crashing out around you,
protecting your friends in the launching, bursting the little small burden to nothing?
Is you plumb it towards the same island holding next to you, Sebastian on
your back can under one arm, sword in the other. Okay, uh
faye, what you're doing? Damn? Was that resistance you gave me?
Yeah, resistance to lightning damage? Okay, yeah, well I'm screaming on
your back. We'll get through this together. A little buddy on his side
that because this parachute does have to deploy, sweity you get launched back up
to me. Faye is going to have umber at the ready and um take
a swing at anything that decides to get close enough to her. Okay,
you see these two winged humanoid creatures flying towards you, lancing these bretsit you
please make a dexterity save for me. You got it. That's a seventeen
you made the save slashing out with umber. Give me an attack role with
advantage. You got it, that's an eighteen. Okay, we'll call that
a christ. Are you smiting? Nah? I'll save my smites for something
that actually deserves it. Okay. So as you do, you swing in
tworl fay walking the screeching bolts, flicking one's head off, backing around,
you cut off the other's leg as you sail forth towards this island in the
order, and that leaves us with Najima. So I imagine Nagua is falling
very graceful. She's a very graceful person. And then as she is falling,
I think she's gonna summon her complete astral self. Okay, So on
your attorney, it spend ten key points. As bonus action is summon the
arms, visage, and body of your astral self for ten minutes. The
spectral body covers your form like a suit of armor, connecting with the arms
and visage you determined to appearance based on the qualities of your character. So,
as she's falling, I think she kind of like like sticks her arms
out in not like a wingspan. But then the sand is drawing from her
pouch and starting to cover her body in this like nebula like body as it
creates these huge arms with like claws and this like mane of an astral lion.
As she's falling through the air, I'm just like the wind, the
wind ruffling, and then then let's out like a like a more as she
hits the nearest things. Okay, roll me two attacks. That's a sixteen
hit, all right in the role. Don't worry about damage on this one.
Just worry if you hit or not. Oh, then and then roll
another one, he said, Roll two attacks, two hit. So as
you form that nebula around you in the shape of this flavor flowing line to
fly, you're just coming at you the sand claws and paws of your visual
natural self slashed through them as you descend with great speed. Now I need
every one of you to make dexterity saving thirst for me. Wait, I
didn't get to do my one action, oh right, So that ship I
got to scream and panic. So while I am screaming, I am just
going to clutch at this pendant I have around my neck and I basically scream
out, please protect my friends and their lives so that they can live loaned
and I will do a little spin. Are you doing a spin on Niachi's
body? Like with my hand? Okay? And I will point at fay
N, Giema and Woozy and you all feel this warmth in your chest and
you each your hit points and your current hit points increase by five. Very
nice for the next eight hours. So the next eight hours, you guys
have plus five. Oh, you can be healed up to those additional five.
Okay. This isn't temp HP. This is so domiz HP. Right.
Yeah, and that's five, you said, Okay, because you guys
are the ones I'm worried about dying the mode. Yeah, I could give
you guys more HP, but I don't. I want to save my spell
slots. That's fair, thank you. Right, Yeah, that's that's great.
I now need with started with beans. Make it nexterity saving for a
for me? Sure thing? But ten okay, Christian, your next use
the birds stats to leave his plus three to the savings throw okay, thirteen
Okay, Joe, are we within ten feet of Faye? Don't we get
a We'll say Nashima is within ten feet of Fae and so is Christian.
Okay, so then maybe a fifteen for you Christian? Yeah, fifteen?
Is this an effect? I can see? Yes, you can see these
blasting balls coming up from the island. Oh, I can see it too,
Can I roll again? I have that too. I didn't ask if
I could see it. Okay, I'll let your roll beans. I got
an eleven, so billy seventh. No sashould pick the wrong person nebula,
I mean not gonna la fee dat me um. That's a nineteen. Okay's
exceed najima? All right? Dexterity saving throw? Oh no, it's it's
a natural one. Oh do you want to burn a point of kademie roll
it? Yeah? I will use my Is it diamond soult? No?
No, no, what just what's the name of it I keep forgetting?
Yeah, diamond Soul. Whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you
can spend one key point to reroll and take the second resolve. Definitely.
You could also burn a storm guardians resolve noise. So that's a twenty seven.
Okay, So I now need Oh do I gain? Can I regain
key points from those two things? I killed? You were past that,
damn it? All right? Just remember that next step. They were beneath
you anyway, Najima not even worth the key, that's true, Okay,
Sebastian Europe. Okay one is this magical? Or am I just trying not
to die? You're trying not You're trying to avoid the anti aircraft fire coming
up? Okay, cool, cool, cooling? And then I don't get
the plus two from Fay. Is that correct? Correct? All right?
Then here we go, Oh that twenty so you die it. So it
looks like only the two barbarians get hit the big lugs. How do I
avoid getting hit? When I was clinging to one of the barbarians? You
have a let go, just like kick flip off of me. That is
exactly right, and then continue to scream. I could see the fire and
I'm like, what, I accidentally kicked him into it? Hold it.
As you're screeching down towards the thing, this giant ballista bolt strikes you in
the pet, piercing through the other side of you, but you just still
momentum pulling you down towards the ground. Going through it, you take sixteen
points of piercing damage. Joe, As you are raging to your utmost,
this bolt of magical four strikes you in the jaw, but you search through
it, heading towards the ground, and with all of you except for Woozy,
who has I think to keep him flying crashed down on the island a
broken coral. Just before you do so, you feel as if this great
air pressure is building around your chest as this armor begins to hum and vibe
violently as you slam down, letting out a thunderous impact, shattering broken bodies
in the ground on a thunderous war is a shop wave emanates from all of
you as you impact the race. Carl reef. Hell yeah, that's hot.
Nice And just just to be sure, I'd take the same amount sixty
Yes, okay, nothing but good vibes here literally just vibing right now.
Let me good vibes present. Okay, quick mechanic touch base your goal and
the ritual by any means, okay, it understood, skill checks, uses,
spell slots, etc. All viable options and ending this encounter how you
attempt it, who attempts it is always up to you. Guys. Cool,
But because your epic level, the kid's gloves are all off, I
am going to do my absolute worst to stop you. I will go all
out an attempt to kill you during these I'm just making that clear, so
Jesse you can. I know you guys really like your character, so I
just want to be honest and blood. We need to dive back into this.
Everyone ready, ye? No, okay? So stepping back in,
you land on what was once the bed of a coral reef, somewhere below
the surface of the churning sea around you. Because this is a circle like
choppy water the apex, you see a black magenta beam like the void birthed
as individuals are being shoved into it. There's screams at booming across the island
as dead bodies rushed down towards You're gathered the pulverized remains of many under your
feet from the landing. What do you guys do? Are we in combat?
We are in combat? We start with whistle of what you doing?
Buddy? Oh I'm at first? Okay, shit, Just so, from
my under standing, are the crowds of things like mobs or just the three
tokens the only things that we're supposed to focus on. So see those like
zombies on the map, the zombie Hords. Because of your level and because
of the egg effects that many you have are essentially non existent threats. Okay,
cool, So Lucy's gonna fly on the back. He's still standing up
straight on the back of the thunderbird, and he's gonna fly over some of
the trees and crystals on the islands, swooping, getting a little bit closer
to some of the hordes of monsters below, and then he's going to cast
magic missile from his staff of power. So he's going to take his wooden
staff and kind of as he's flying by these mobs, just kind of point
it down and like he's just gonna fire off, say six charges. Okay,
So your bolts smashed through zombie testines and heads, spending many to the
ground, some lurching back up as necromatic energy off a beam seemed to re
invigorate fallen bodies. Okay, fay, you're up, all right. I'm
going to move towards the horde and stop short and I can do destroy undead
correct. Correct, I would like to destroy undead of the zombie Horde that
is about twenty feet in front of me, and just be like nope,
not today. So as you channel fourth the energy of Corona Ephorus, the
bodies almost seemed to rapidly speed in time, flesh decaying from rock to liquid
to dust. In an instant, you obliterate the entire Horde in a single
presentation of your holy symbol. Oh yeah, that's my girl. Begone,
thought o, buddy, which should do in holding? Is gonna run around
these little cacti. He's gonna fall in right next to fay. Okay,
now that she's cleared that path, he's he's gonna go with her, you
see, despite the hordes and somebody's rising again. You see, hegis with
captives near that five fingered into the thing, with them willingly walking themselves towards
the being. Occasionally a single person managed to break cree. But this massive
infuse m you can literally see the nicronic energy pulsing at its muscles, grabs
them and forces them back into the bean. I'm gonna fly into a regular
rage. Okay, just a normal rage, just your standard rage, Najima
Europe. Awesome meg, What does your or to do? If you're intent
fee to me? You get plus two all saving throws, and then you
also get plus two melee weapon damage roles. Oh only if they're fiends are
undead, do they get the damaged bonus? Oh? Thank you sorry,
fiends are undead, So this is actually I'm glad we're finding all these unos.
I think na she's gonna, she's gonna, um man, let's get
in there. I'm gonna, I'm gonna trust that my team can can can
help me. So she has her complete actual self summoned. So I think
she's gonna almost like gallop. She's gonna like lion run lion gallop through the
sand, using her astral arms as the front locomotor's locomotor. Pretty bad dressage.
I think she will move seventy sixty five feet and get into the base
of the palm of this hand in the middle of this battle map, and
come up to this large zombie. I'm assuming there's a large undead zombie.
Yes, as you do, you see it being closer to the beam.
It's one eyed monstrosity changing in the tongue you can't understand. It's long arms
ending in three digits that split into six claws. It's script cage pushed out
and skin pull tight. It glances over at you. Hell yeah, now
I can continue with your turn. Awesome, So Nauma then um comes to
a stop in front of this this monstrosity and attacks with her astral sand arms,
and it is radiant damage. It is radiant um An eighteen will hit
awesome and I will spend a key point to make it a stunning strike.
It is stunned. Hell yeah, So your next attacks have advantage and then
so we'll roll the damage for that one that is fourteen, and I will
also use my once per re turn on my attack. I can use my
martial arts dye as damage. Eight second attack has advantage. Um adds a
rip two D ten plus five. All right, that was the lowest I
could have rolled a one and the two. It's no big deal coming out
to eight damage. So yeah, and then that's the first two attacks.
I think she'll just try to dispatch this guy as fast as possible and hopes
to stop the chanting and the ritual. So let's go again another crit.
So she I imagine she's coming in and it's like primal and the sand that's
making up this arm and this lion astral nebula that's surrounding her is sparkling and
his pulsating, and also I think Sebastian, just for flavor, you'd noticed
there's another another star in there. After you told her that that story,
and she is just slashing and going kind of kind of lying crazy. So
do this critical hit another two? Oh that's better, that's fifteen On that
last one. Sebastian just sees her kicking Sebassim's just like, that's muggirl,
you've done oh fifty seven. Next in lie is Sebastian spite Sebastian, you
know, he just sees Najima come in there and kick some loyal fucking ass.
That's my girl, and is now that his feet are firmly on the
ground, he's kind of got himself set and so he's gonna run dodging through
all these cacti and stuff, and he is just going to run by Faye
kind of have her flank, and then he still wants to kind of hold
his cards close to his chest. He's not sure what they're facing just yet,
so he is just going to brandish my shield and basically shout out,
ruth adel strike them down. And I am going to do Sacred flame.
Are you targeting the horns? Is it just the one zombie? Brady Flame
only hits one zombie, Okay, then I'm gonna set fire to the dude.
Nan gumus fighting. Yeah, help, help is welcome, So roll
your four D eight then, Sebastian, Yeah, hell yeah. And just
as you guys are continuing to do this, because I wanted to make sure
it wasn't lost in the translation when Chris was describing the horde of zombies are
different from the flow of what looked like captive prisoners that are each emerging from
the cages in a line towards the beam. Okay, that's how it's like
replenishing. Yes, got it. So I just wanted to make sure we
were all in the same theater of the mind. Around the tip of each
finger of the hand rising from the ground, there are cages that human prisoners
are flowing into the palm yep, and you can see that the horses zombie
are trying to protect that flow. So we want to possibly disrupt that flow
anymore. I ruled really well, and it's going to be taking twenty six
points of read. You can see that it's it's flesh is almost entirely gone,
leaving only like suit win in skeleton remaining, but it's still stand.
Nauma starts to drool, thinking about all the all that key She's now,
do you have to kill it to get the key, or does it just
need to die adjacent tee? It needs to die within ten feet of me?
Okay, cool, cool, click because I don't want to steal your
your your key. No kill this motherfucker having himself a nice old juicy keywee.
Okay, back to the initiative order. You see that priest not muf
He looks right at you. Wow. As his eye glows, you can
see that it is this arrow glass shape with a double pupil. I need
you to make a constitution saving throw, all right. Thirteen? Do you
want to order a suiced or reroll using key your choice? I have no
idea what he's doing right correct? Do you just see his eye flash from
the chronic energies he stares at you. I'm I'm a spend a key point,
okay, and so I'll just click it again, all right? So
thirteen, this necrotic thing fuses into your soul and you you can feel your
skin girl hollow, and I then need our lovely holding to make a constitution
saving grow as well. You get plus two holding. Yep, that's why
I'm standing next to my best friend Nach. A single tier comes out of
Nawachi's eye. You feel this force trying to like pinge your soul, but
phase hate and your race shove it aside as you wore, just like flexing
too hard, flexing so hard a lot, not let it get in there.
So Najima, this preess, He slowly walks towards you, his chance
still going, his claw rends upward with his insane reach. Twenty four.
Uh, my ac is twenty four. Wow, Jesus Christ, you will
take seventeen twenty one necronic damage. But however, this thing that affects your
soul, that gaze, it doubles the damage, is rips even more into
huge yea for a total of forty two points. All right, so get
rid of that there tempage p Yeah, and they take one more. Okay,
She's like, oh, but I mean she's still stated, every little
man help exactly. Okay, watch your up. Okay. I'm trying to
wrap my head around the functionality of these cages. And maybe maybe don't explain
it to me because Noachi's an idiot, But I do want to. I
do have enough movement to get to you can see that almost like these hypnotized
people, various races traiton elf toward hafling are walking through these cages towards this
big black magenta beam that's streaking towards the pramid and willingly feeding themselves to this
beam by way of the cage somehow their house in the cage. They're walking
out of the cage towards the ritual to be consumed. Okay, so destroying
the cage would probably not help, It would kill the tea. Well,
you want you want them to stop leaving the cage, okay, all right,
yes, yes, yes, okay. I have among my equipment a
lot of shit. I have a pair of manacles. Can I use that
to try and shut the door? Yes, you can quite easily. In
fact, so you see the doors kind of being propped open, but you
like wrap your venicle around and think of yourself some little extra leverage, rip
it closed, like knocking some neck into the cage, wrap it around and
reclick it on itself. And the doors held shut, and the bodies are
just kind of pressing against it trying to get out, but they're completely unable
to do so. That is, however, your action for the term.
Nice okay um, I have like five feet of movement left, can I
just scooch a little and try and grab this horde as my bonus action,
try and zap them. Yeah, sure, you men. You set a
bolt into those zombie. Its head explodes, but it's still fambling. That
goes against all zombie lore. I know that is it for me. Nice
text guy, He's going to move storedes that and do nothing else trying to
protect the remaining cages. Okay, we're back to the top, Woozy.
Okay, I want to do something a little fun here, Chris, Oh,
okay. I want to use Bigbie's hand, and then I want to
use forceful hand, and I want the hand to appear underneath the priest's zombie
so I can launch him. And I calculated it with it's a five feet
plus the number of feet equal to five times your spellcasting ability modifier, so
it would be five times for twenty plus five is twenty five cool. So
I want to try and launch the priest zombie twenty five feet into the air
so that the thunderbird can then swoop up while he's in the air and talent
attack him before he goes back down. Okay, well, I believe you
have to make an athletic check with the hand to push. Okay, that's
a pretty good role. So I would just add strength and p No,
no, you're using Bigbie's hand to push. Oh so it's not the thunderbird.
That's right, just the hand. It's got a strength of twenty six.
You add eight to the role. Okay, so then that is going
to be twenty six. Yeah, I will say you can launch him about
fifteen seventeen feet up in the air. Okay. So then as he gets
launched up into the air by this glowing green big bee hand, Loosey's swooping
down cocin or thundering, I don't know why, screeching, screeching, and
then he is going to do his attack multi attacks, So it's beacon talent
that's gonna that's not great. That's a nine that'll miss, that'll miss miss.
Is that talent's coming in? That is a twenty three if that will
hit? Okay, nine damage? Okay, so he takes nine thunder damage.
Feel the thunder He's going to use his reaction to try and grab the
bird. She's falling and he does. Oh no, yep, so he's
not fall back down. Okay, is he still chanting? Have I interrupted
any kind of a ritual. He's still chanting justifying. Okay, okay,
you're up. So the guy's hanging. How far in the air is he
hanging? He'd be fifteen feet up in the air currently. Well, that
doesn't really okay. Fay is going to now run up to where Najima is
and I'm going to just take a swipe at him with um umbra. The
the big ugly zombie gentleman who want to just uh, okay attack him,
give us some ombra voice acting when you when you hit something. Oh oh
that was my face. Um that was an eighteen to attack. Oh right,
you have advantage, by the way, since it is still stung.
Okay, let me just roll again to see it by chrit. Uh nope,
it was a fifteen, So okay, so just one D ten plus
six. Yes, that is a thirteen. Okay, it still stands.
Yeah, you's have a second attack though. Okay, I'll take another umbra
swipe at him. That was a fifteen that just hit, I believe,
Yes, that just hits. So yer damage fifteen? Nice? Oh can
I add plus two? Since it was in the aura of hate, that's
automatically concluded. That's why you're plus six and not plus four to the damage.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Sorry, Umbro's face slashes
right through its heart and its body goes limp as you easily parted like butter,
and it slumps to the ground. Nag was about to about to eat
and think, okay, Rod six five, nice, nice. I really
hate killing zombies. They taste so bad. Sorry, I owe you,
Yeah you do, holding eu up? Okay, um, is this little
palm terrain anything I have to get? Can I get to? Can I
get together? It'll cost you a little exture, but not enough to really
be a big deal. I have climbed over into the palm of the hand
across like the thumb and uh and I've gotten right next to I don't know
what this creature is. It's a humanoid looking zomb eights. Oh yeah,
force like it's tendon's pulsing. It has one eyes and glares at you,
moaning. All right, I'm gonna take a two big old owning the golden
oldies. And as it does that, you see the zombie hordes begin pushing
down more and mords towards you, trying to fourish force you from the ritual
site as you can begin to feel psychologically to press of bodies against you.
Okay, well go with this guy, going with this guy hard. So
I'm gonna take a swing. I guess I'll take two swings with my great
ax. Are you going reckless or not? No? Are you going great
weapon Maaster? Go ahead of that. Sure, I'm pretty sure you do
well, great weapon Maaster. Just to clarify that, he takes minus five
from his role, right, but if he hits, he adds ten.
Yep, dummy thick, all right, that's a thirty two. Well you
know if you subtract five from that, it's only a twenty seven. Oh
yeah, twenty seven ahead, Chris, I'm not gonna do it. This
means I'm you as you like, line it up like a baseball swing and
taking my sweet time. I'm just like I Actually, no, you do
not have great weapon Messes, You only have grappler. My mistake, I
didn't think I did. Yea, So it's a thirty two. Yeah,
that hits excellent, and that'll be eighteen okay, and then once more,
not reckless. That's a twenty six to hit means what weapon is holding us?
Again? He's a great acts nice. So twenty three boys, Yeah,
twenty three damage your premium value Walmart brand? Great acts. Oh absolutely
not, Mama, Na, mama, Okay, I think I think Najima.
No, I don't think I know that's right? Can she jump and
use her astral arms to try to grab the foot of the zombie boy?
That's like hanging from the bird. What's your strength score? It's plus one?
I do have a plus ten reach with my hands. Sure you're gonna
try it with disadvantage, okay? Okay in athletics or is it an athletics,
it'll be athletics fifteen. That'll still do it. As you manage you
grab it's leg. That'll cost you one of your attacks to grapple. Okay?
Oh can I Can I use my next attack to restrain or do I
have to have the grapple feet like like hold in hand? Now, there's
no there's nothing for you to restrain it against currently. Okay, if hanging
on the bird and you're hanging onto its, that's true. There's not like
you could hug it. You can't really like press it against the ground or
restrain it in any capacity. Could I use this action then this entire action
to encase him in my astral sand to like restrain him. Then no,
whoa damn it, damara coffin there um just for flavor. Could like one
of the sand arms be like kind of like attached to him and I use
the other one to hit him? Actually, Woozy, I need you to
have the thunderbird make a athletics check for me. No, Naguma only eats
granola, so she's about thirty five pounds. Not all right, So that's
a nine. The bird begins to plummet towards the ground. There's just too
much weight on it. I was gonna say on less phase ten foot reaches,
but I don't think it's it's fifteen feet in the year. So no,
with that fail and how bad it failed by I need everyone, Woozie,
the bird, Najima, and the monster to me get sterity saving throws
as they fall to the ground. Can I reaction cast feather fall? Yeah?
She can, all right, So I'm gonna do that. Can I
do it on someone else? Or is it only one person? It's up
to six people that you see, Okay, so I'm gonna cast that Jim
and the bird as well, but not not the other guy. You actually
increase his gravity and he just he just he just plummets faster as you guys
are at the fifteen feet mark. Guys flutter to the ground as he slips
into the stone, growing in pain as he begins to kind of right himself
almost instantly like a weebel wobble, just kind of like planning his feet.
He's like one of those like punching like inflatable thing. They just come straight
back up. Yeah, we wobble. Yeah, yeah, he said it,
dude, I guess is it so my turn? Sure, we gotta
start speaking this up that we're kind of getting all yeah, and then as
she lands softly in front of him, she'll just swipe left and right at
him. Just give him the big old one two. First one is a
twenty I take it that hits. Second one is a twenty six hits.
So the first one is eight. I'm gonna add my marshall die to that
one nine, and the second one will be a twelve, so twenty nine
damage total. Yass. Okay, we're moving on, and you guys do
see that more of ole bids. You're getting sacrifice and the hoards are growing
and growing as you just kind of sit here trying to engage in combat.
I don't like I don't like that language, Chris. Yeah, well you'll
be happy to know that. I wanted to do an ar kana check to
see if I can kind of interpret the source of this ritual, and I
already rolled in advance. So I rolled like a nineteen because I want to
see if it is within my power to cast dispel magic on whatever is causing
this. As you look and try to read the waves of the weave and
the terrors and the reality, you do know it can be dispelled. But
looking at the hate, anger and death in it and the evil pulsing from
it, dispel magic is not the spell you think will work, Okay,
So it's probably going to be something like dispel evil is what I'm thinking,
okay, And that is your action to study the ray oh man, that
took my entire action. Well yeah, okay, Well fine, I at
least in going to run up a little closer to my friends, okay,
Okay, dodge through this cacti and get a little closer to the action.
Okay, So that's what I'm gonna do. I'm kind of bob and weep
through here, and that I guess that's my turn. Oh wait, I've
always got a bonus action. Yeah, I was just about to say I
can do a bonus action, So I'm going to bonus action. Healing word
on my girl. Okaygima, what level? I am? Just she doesn't
look to beat up. She got wailed pretty good, but I know she's
made of stern stuff. So I'm only gonna do I'm just only gonna bolster
up a little bit with a first level, and that is going to be
twelve. Hell yeah, you getting six back, not twelve. Damn it.
As you see Sebashian this or as you heal and you go, okay,
this should be more. It just you see a lot of it space
all in the ether. Is only a little bit of the healing energy actually
enters. Nache must have men the wounds. Does it look like it's a
result of her proximity to the ritual or does it look like a response to
something that happened. You can't get that much information just from the quick glance
you get. I throw my spy glass to Sebastian, say look look harder,
faster, looks stronger. The towering, napic like skeleton glares at Woozy
and Najima, I need you both make constitutions saving throws forming not fantastic again.
Alright twenty four Okay, you managed to resist the effect, but you
notice that it's the previous one is still lingering within you. And what was
your role, Woozie thirteen? You feel, Woozies, do you feel this
ne chadic pulls within you? And it reaches out once at each of you?
So that will just miss you then and then Woozy, the claw hits
you for a total of twenty one. Okay, I goes that temp HP
thank you semestion, so I believe it hits you. So that is twenty
two new chronic damage doubled to forty four. Okay, so that's in addition
to the claw. Now that is the claw, that's the entire everything,
it's all in a chronic damage. Oh okay, so you take forty four
points of damage total? Cool? Cool? How's how's our boy looking?
He's looking all right. And actually, as you take that damage, Woozy,
I need you to make a charisma deception check for me. All right,
You're gonna have to explain to me how to add that that's a natural
one Okay, So the novelati eyes gaze deep into you and you feel this
vision come before your eyes of death of you falling at the top of the
pyramid. You have disadvantage on your next saving throw, and this is until
you roll or until someone hast removed curse on you. Oh shit, and
I do I know that I'm cursed, so I can request that if it's
possible. You just feel this. You get this quick vision and feel this
dread sense of mortality upon you. But you're kind of in a tight combat.
You have a lot going on, so afterwards, I'll let you make
an our candia check. But right now you just have this sense upon you.
You don't know for certain you're cursed. Okay, n watch you're up,
buddy. Okay, did I get a sense for whether or not me
locking up this cage had any effect on the speed of the ritual? You
saw the other people coming out with greater speed. Okay, So it looks
like, yeah, you had you increase the tech book from the other cage
just by locking one off. Interesting, and you can tell that this screens
are becoming more painful with each passing stecond. Okay, I see another cage
in front of me, and there's a mob of zombies between myself and the
cage, and those zombies are essentially difficult to rain. That do you a
little bit of damage to you? Okay? I just want to make sure
I'm absolutely clear. So do I think I've sped up the ritual by locking
that off? You have to give me an our candid check. But all
you do is the world's like one person lopping forward out of the cage.
Do you see like two people lopping out each time? Okay, I'll rule
our kind of it's going to be trash. Don't doubt yourself, friend,
you can do this. That's a six. You just say, oh more
people are trying to kill themselves. We'll see all Righteps. Then I am
going to I have to pass this hord, regardless whether I want to attack
with holden or if I want to go to the next cage. So I
am going to try and clear that hord. So you said difficult to rain,
yep, And you'll take six points of blood geting damage. It's various
calls and one script three you just bodyingly tackle things stop one phases through it.
I think given that like Nachi's too dumb to realize to understand if what
he had helped or not, and as bloodthirsty. So I am I am
going to shoe the second casion instead engage with this big zombie that hold on
his fighting. Okay, so you use your action to do the art Canada
check? Can I can I bonus action? Bonus action lightning him? Sure?
Yeah, samean for Oh nope, it fails. Okay, twelve lightning
damage. We can see a skin bird in black and his light strikes it.
However, holding is what really has tension currently. Yeah, as it
takes its two fists in it, we reaches out through bludgeon the raging barbarian.
I'm pretty sure twelves miss all around. So both of his ACKs just
are offended. Why is it is deflected with the axe cutting into the wrists
back to the top. Woozy, you're up? Okay, woozy uh sort
of like feeling this sense of impending doom. Looks up from where he just
got smashed by this dude with his claws raked across, and then he's going
to point up with his finger while looking at him, and then Bigbie's hand
is gonna come smack straight down okay, guy, make an attack roll Okay,
that is going to be eighteen eighteen hits. Oh it hits. Okay,
great, So I'm gonna roll forty eight rolling rolling rolling rara, So
that is eighteen four damage. Ouch, you smash him Bard, he's still
like standing beak and see wounds are starting to finally add up on the on
this individual. Okay, as a bonus action, he's going to quickly send
out his manifest mind the bigbie hands on turns are the bonus action. Oh,
it is the bonus action. Okay, so never mind on that.
But then for the thunderbird, it's gonna sort of like pick itself up,
shake its feathers, and then let out a thunderous screech as it goes beak
and talon. It's on the ground, so it can only beat this turn
Beacon sixteen to hit just hits. That is going to be ten lightning damage
for the first beak attack it only get. Oh it does great, so
then ten light damage. Okay, so that's all you're doing this turn woozy,
or you still have an action. Oh, I still have an action.
As the biggie hands with the bonus action, I'm going to do a
chromatic orb cast at third level. Okay, because of proximity, you have
this avenge on the attackle but it shouldn't really matter much. Okay, and
I get to choose the damage type right correct as you cast it. Yeah,
I'm gonna choose fire damage as I'm casting it. I'm gonna roll for
that. That's a nineteen to hit. That's that with the disadvantage. Oh
right, we're right, sixteen sixteen will hit. He said this was third
level. Yes, at leave, it's five D eight and that is going
to be nineteen fire damage. As it begins to catch on fire, it
is very beaten. It's chanting is faltering but still remaining. But instead of
it being as consistent and powerful as it's more like, Okay, Woozy's gonna
yell out focus the priest. He's channeling the ritual. Okay, that's your
reaction for the turn. Okay, next is fae phase. Here's that and
says on it, I cast a third level branding smite. Yes, going
to rush up and slash this guy with umbra oka twenty one. That hits
brutally. So that is a D ten plus six plus a lot of D
sixes a lot of D sixes, so three, so I'll roll for umbra.
For us, I'll roll my my D ten um that is a seven
for umbroso plus six is thirteen thirteen, and then roll my three D sixes
twelve plus two plus uh so seventeen. So seventeen plus thirteen is thirty thirty
thirty one. Yeah, that is enough to How do you want to finish
them off? How do you want to do this? That is trademarked.
Okay rushes forward and jumps in the air and swipes down, hoping to split
this guy straight down the middle. And you do just literally head Through's what
I You can see the biscus kind of jumping out through the spines. His
vocal cords is shattered, and the chanting stuffs through the sternumins already broken,
the organs filling free through the crotch. It's fully bisected and steps to the
ground in a small v You see a squick falter in the ritual, but
the beam remains strong, being self sufficient. As the zombies grown out in
unison and begin to descend in mass. That key tastes, Yeah, Key's
going to taste real noise, just for flavor. What if like the body
is it's following like turns to sand and it like slow and it starts to
flow into my sand and like gives me that good? You don't want it
being part of your sand, trust me, replied, have to curse the
everloing funk out of you? All right? Well then then maybe like there's
like an energy or some kind of like whatever key would look like just flowing
into me. Sure fair enough as Fae does that, Fae, you kind
of feel like bomber like sort of turn her attention to you whatever way that
is, like with the with the branding smite that like powered through the scythe
you just hear her say in your head says, oh wow, I love
you. That's it. You still have one more tax fa unless you want
to try something else AND's fo is dead. But you have used your bonus
action part of your movement. I would like to now that I see the
zombies are moving in mass, I would like to try to rush back and
take a swipe out one of them, trying to slow them down a little
bit. Sure it hits, and you managed this slate one in half of
now and much issue. But you can see it's two body half start crolling
ground towards you. God damn it, I hate zombies. Holding you're up,
buddy, all right, Time to get to swinging on this bad boy,
all right. First attack is a thirty one the battle hit bad roll.
That'd be fourteen damage. Okay, one more twenty eight it's even worse,
thirteen damage. You can reroll the two if you want, with your
great weapon, matt, great fighting style. Yeah, you know what,
Let's do it, all right, twenty three damage much better, much better.
As you bisect one of its arms from his body. It's still still
standing, but very bloody. Anything else you want to do with yourturney but
bon to sanction and movement? Yeah, but I can't do anything. Yeah,
I'll just I'll stay here. I see this guy getting rough, and
I'm I'm hoping Noachi and I can finish him off, So let's go.
Okay, Najima, you're out. I think. Once the priest fell,
Najima looks at Woozy and then immediately bolts to the farthest cage and tries to
close the door and leverage it shut with a spear. I think she has
a spear in her inventory. I don't know if she brought that. We'll
just say it. But she's trying to close it and keep it shut.
Okay, So you image managed to shoulder something back into the cave ramming it
shuts. There's like a cage door. You can take rope or anything like
that and just tie it off. Awesome. Give me a sleight of hand
check to make sure get the knot right. Yeah, and just to describe
that for listeners. So I run over the palm of the hand and start
dipping. I'm assuming you avoid the beam coming out of the ground. Oh
yeah, Nasuma is ducking and weaving gallt like, what's it called when a
lion runs on all fours? Is that galloping? That's just running for them.
We've been We've been over this. It's a lion gallop, all right.
So she lion gallops through the zombies and in between the ring and middle
finger to curl around and get in front of the furthest cage of the six
that are there. She shuts it, and I believe I have rope.
I'm positive you have broke your inventory. So you tie it off, like
I said, give me a slight of hand check to make sure you get
nice and good thing Najma is very deceptive with her hands, a flaccid twenty
discount discount. I don't know, I don't know. There's there's twenty speaking
for itself. Okay, so you tie it off nice and tight, no
problems. That is your action for the turnbow and uh, Chris, I've
just been adding these red spell tokens to indicate the cages that they have effectively
closed. Sounds good? Could I then effectively is my movement over? How
much did you move? So? So from the dead priest to the farthest
cage is about forty five feet if he went straight, what have they go
around with? Beans, So let's tack on ten feet just to be safe
to fifty five save ten ten feet left? Okay? Would that be enough
to get to the cage on the side. I'll get you within range for
next turn. Yeah. Cool? And then she then starts darting towards the
next cage in lime. Gun. Okay, Sebastian, you're up all right.
So Sebastian is just like he's been debating with these cages. He's been
trying to figure out what to do with this and ritual, and he's like,
I don't like this but then he's just going to start rushing towards the
palm and just be like excuse me, potting me out of my way.
And it's find he's not going to stand on where the light is, but
he's gonna be as close to it as he feels safe. And then he's
going to direct the narrowest part of the beam. So you can see the
ritual circlett it is coming out him. You can see this very tiny black
dot and you can tell you can feel the negative energy surging forth like a
fullood into this beam. I lift up my shield and I say for life
uthidel and I slam my quarter staff down and I do turn undead to have
the zombies like backwing. They are obliterated. Just see the surge of light
hit the beam and it wavers ever so slightly. But He's bobbies are literally
hit and consumed an ash. As the light fade, you see little patches
of fresh grass where the bodies once were beautiful. How from where are you
from? Me? A GiMA because she's the one who's taken the most beating
and you currently can't see her. She's blocked by the finger took a big
slash Woozi got her. Okay, then I am going to use my bonus
action to throw another healing words, So take another twelve hit points, so
that is six times, okay six healing to me? Yes? Is that
I hers is still in effect? So again you can see that there's something
that pushes off some of the healing. Yeah, Sebastian just kind of scrambled
into the palm under the hand. Excuse me, pardon me, excuse me,
and then slams is quarterstack down, calling out to uth Adel and blows
away these undead and then turns to Woozy and it's just like be healed.
No, thank you? Okay, no, watch Europe buddy, I am
are you role playing as Woozy? What? Yeah? I'm gonna I'm just
gonna swing at this remaining big old yucky zombie. Go for it. Do
I want to go reckless? Though? I will. I'll go reckless.
So let me roll two time, two time. So a thirty one to
hit. Thirty one hits is a critical, is it? No, it's
not a crit for me. Okay. Um, So that's fifteen damage on
the first hit. Okay, let's see if it goes down. So you
see this clea and you cleave right in your body and it starts to wobble,
but it kind of keeps itself up, hanging on by this Fritish fievel
of necrotic energy. Okay, yeah, second attack, I'm gonna go again.
That is a twenty seven to hit, hits eighteen damage and it goes
down as you finished bicy game with that string. Yeah, bonus action.
Fire off another beam at another zombie. You pop one through the trust that
it goes down, But you can actually see more bodies of past animals and
skeletons crawling forth from the seabed. Fishes, flopping sharks, flailing dead humans
crawling out as the ritual is feeding the ground with the chronic energy. So
I do have some movement if I move away from this horde. Is that
opportunity from them? They're training features remembers, and do I tax the opportunity?
Then I Am going to just move a little bit away from them.
There's another cage very nearbyy to me, near the pointer finger. I'm just
going to position myself there for my next turn. Okay, we're back up
the woozy. Okay, how do we stop this thing? Woozy? So
there's another group of zombies correct over in between the pointer finger and middle finger
at the top of the hand. Yes, I didn't blow those guys away.
They're new. Oh so woozy. Then is going to dismiss big his
hand with a wave of his hand whistle and hot back on the thunderbird as
they launch back into the sky. He's going to before he does that,
though, passing phase is going to be like, Okay, remember we practiced
this one a few years ago, Let's give it another shot. And he's
going to bonus action, touch her and cast dragon's breath. Doesn't that targret
only yourself? I thought you touch one willing creature and imbue it with the
power to spew magical energy from its mouth. Then yeah, and he's going
to give you fire fire breath. Then he hops on the bird, shoots
off into the sky, and then is going to cast a fireball down Bardy
cast spells higher the first level. Oh sorry, I'm new to big spell
caster, so I don't know all those rules. So what could I do?
You can do a can trip. You can make it our kind of
check against the thing. You can take the dodge action. Can I say
I'm going to do firebolt. Yeah. Ten, So maybe I can take
out like try to take out four zones these or something that is twenty four
to hit. That'll burst a zombieto. Ash cool, and that'll be my
turn. Okay, Fay, you're up. Fay will move towards Versabastian is
at closer to the center of the giant hand. Can I I want to
attack this beam? But can I attack it with word of radiance? I
mean your can trip? Yeah, my cantrip. I mean the second book
and the storm light. No, no, don't throw that book. I
was just RADI it. Yet you can certainly cast spells at it. Okay,
I will, I will cast word of radiance. Um, so I
make an attack roll on it. Maybe it's something a little stronger. This
thing looks pretty big, pretty powerful. Maybe we should trying to dispel it
somehow. I'm not I'm not entirely sure. I'm just a safe I don't
have to spell right now prepared. I'm a bad clerk. No, no,
no, you're fine, You're fine, You fine, you fine,
your I'm pretty sure you do have something that has dispelling his name equipped which,
Nope, you don't have it. No, remind I do said that
out loud. Maybe we should try something bigger than everyone. This thing looks
pretty evil to me. Um, actually, can I do ready to help
action to help Sebastian with this? Actually, do to help action? Give
me a ar candid check me. I know you got it, spashion,
say that I have something stronger and you I'll help roll our candid for me.
That's a twenty four. You can see the weaves and death and you
will give me how luke you are to think and you realize that dispelling good
evil will break this. Also, any type of high power, top tier
positive energy chills being will disrupt it. And you also sit there as your
God whispers into your head a verse a way to control the being. That's
information you can reveal if you want to. So maybe you could do a
high love, divine thing to disrupt it. That's how I'm interpreting what yeah,
Chris said. Yeah, but also like we can control it. I'm
trying to think, shit, what of my magical spells like implies that I
could potentially control it. It's not a magical spell. It's a skill set
that will I control it? And you know the verse in your head if
you just have to say it now if you want to, all right,
I'm gonna try to control it, okay. So you hear Faye chit deeply
as her God channels through her, and you see the beam waiver and bend
to her will. That's phase turn. Holding your up looks like no one's
taking care of the zombies up at the top of the hand between the middle
and index fingers. So holding it's just going to hold his great axe out
and just start spinning and walking towards them. Go for it. You to
turn yourself into a whirl and a death hewing through party marts and whatnot.
That is your action for the term. And I'll have you roll something once
you're done twirling. We'll give me one second. I'm not done twirling,
and I'm okay now I'm done. I'm ready to ready to do whatever do
you have me do. We'll have it at the end of this. No,
Gmail, you're up, and you can hear Sebastian readying arcane power,
and you hear Fae chanting this deep verse in a celestial tongue, and the
beam seems to be responding to her. I think she hears that, and
she doesn't really know how to respond to it. So she's going to keep
closing these doors. Does she have more rope? Like would she only use
part of the rope on the last one or yeah, I'm assuming you would
have cut it down as necessary. So I think that kind of went without
saying. You know, he's the whole fifty feet of rope to so she
does that as well. She and then you neither side of hand check Yes,
please, wonderful natural one. N I given a tension to the pace
it holds for now and you just kind of you think, yeah, nice
and time just like the last one. Would she know that it's bad?
Like would she know to use like can I use diamond mind or narratively or
diamond solder? That's always he saves, not skills checks. Oh no,
she's like she like stands back but her actual arms on her hips and like
nods and goes to the next cage. Yes, very good, wonderful Sebastian
ere up. All right, well here I go. Um so I'm going
to do dispel evil and good and I'm going to spin my I was inspired
by holding and I'm going to spin my quarters staff in a twirl. And
I'm going to once again this time. Stab it into the ground again and
in vocuthadel and cast dispel evil and good. You see the beam crack and
splinter pleases, it splits off into an uncongealed mass as your magic starts to
break it down, but it's not there yet. Do I need to cast
it again? Okay? No response? No watch you're up. Yeah.
So if it's me, I actually don't have rope, but I do still
have in my inventory a bit and bridle for a horse, which I think
I could jerry rag into another sort of clasp for this door. So that
is what I'm going to do. Give me a sch okay, do I'll
make it strength as you have to force this stork. Okay, well,
with strength then it would be a ten. That's good enough to hold it
inflation. Yeah, you get it nice and tight. It is the ugliest
thing you've ever done, but it works. Yeah, shoddy work, but
I'm not exactly an artisan, So so yeah, I do close up the
door to this remaining cage. And assuming that's an action, just bonus action.
Zaba zombie. Okay, another zombie goes down to the lightning storm.
Perhaps we manifests around you. Woozy, you're back up. Okay, So
we have two cages that are open. We got one crowd of zombie.
You have seen the beat. You've seen that Ana cast Wow, Sebastian cast
a spell and the beam splitched. And here fake controlling the beam with a
very celestial arcane. Check and there is one? Is there just one last
crowd of zombies? Yes? And you see Holden in the center of it.
Good, no, good, noe. Instead of that, Louzy's going
to I wonder if I could do this bonus actions send out his like he's
still kind of like hovering circling around the battlefield on the thunderbird, but he's
going to send his spectral little dwarf friend to float down to the other one
and then using his order describe ability, teleport down and switch places with it.
Okay, just a little bit of a little bit, little bit of
style stunting on him. I was gonna close that one and use some rope
from his one of his many pockets. Give me a dexterity check for me
slate of hands to tie that all is going to be eighteen. That ties
it off. Faye, you're up. I'm going to attempt to still control
this thing and hopefully stop it the beam. Give me an intelligence slate of
hand check okay, which for you would be plus one plus two total.
It is a seventeen. You manage to pull the beab in just making it.
You're seeking all your energy to manipulate the weave with umber and one handerge.
You chant deep, and you can see the beam beginning to coal as
smaller and smaller and smaller. It looks like it's about to collapse in on
itself and be ended. Can I free action? Put a hand on Umbra's
shoulder? Does Umbra have shoulder? Don't? Don't? Don't touch me holding.
Do you wish to continue spinning or do you wish to stop? I'm
still spinning baby in the end. Yeah, I'm still just spinning my axe
around. Willie Nilly, give me a con saving. You're gonna make me
dizzy, aren't you? You assholes our dungeon man. That's You're not dizzy
yet, buddy, Yeah, eat that. But the bunniest the bunnies,
all right, excellent. Hey Najima, you hear this voice, you guys,
you hear a Killions voice in your ear. It's really crackled and beating
up whatever you're doing continuously. You see cracks forming, and you can hear
the sounds of like bombs and explosions and magic going off in the distance.
You look off, you see five ships have can have converge onto and it
earned circling the anvil. It is being bombarded on all sides. It fires
back trying to me tain his position, but it's had you drift away from
the pyramid in um. Yeah, Najima is going to use their some more
rope. She's she's thinking, she's like an expert, not tire, because
she's like, I got this um so slid the hand that's a twenty two.
She's gonna make sure that door never opens. It is sealed off.
And she sees Woozy at the the other cage, the one that has not
been tied. Wait, Andy, tie that one. They should all be
tied, right, Yeah, sorry, I forgot the token on that one.
Christian, Oh good, can I get a token from my spectral guy?
Also? Sorry? Is he's he a tiny or normal? So?
Yeah, he's tiny, he's tiny. He's very tiny. Six inches six
inches is average? Hey, a lot of people say it's above average everyone,
a lot of people, so nausea. Here's what he's gonna run to
some zombies, use her bonus action to spend a key point and smack some
zombies around and then steal some You can only make use that bonus actually,
if you take the attack action on your turn, you used to actually tie
it off. Well, I think in Cannon she kind of thought, Yeah,
I thought that would happen. Didn't happen. Go okay, Sebastian Europe.
All right, I'm going to blow another fifth level spell slot because it
seems to be the most effective thing that I can do. So, lifting
up the staff, the quarter staff, and slamming it again, you sho
pass tm TM. As you strike the beam once more, you hear it
solidify, the energy crystallizing instantly as the ritual peters out, Zombies collapsing to
the ground instantly, the people on the cage instantly falling asleep, as whatever
magical they called them has drained them so utterly. And in the sky you
see this black crystal shard about three feet of the length being in the form
and crashed into the site. The ritual is over. Yeah, Now,
would you describe these zombies as dying within ten feet of me? No?
They simply fade as no magic is able to sustain them any longer. Nice
try. I feel like that's semantics for dying. I feel assuming we're out
of combat, I feel like Noachi would have been making his way around to
the back of the group of zombies that holding his WI and start spinning and
then realize that they're already all dead, and I lose out on that moment
of bonding with my best friends. Heay just kind of drops to her knees
and it's just like holy shit. Woozy comes up behind her and says,
you all right, you're doing okay everyone? How's everyone doing? And as
you're having these nice quiets, you hear this sound of shattering glass. It
ets for a mile, drawing your attendry too the dome, and you see
around the central pyramid where the beans were collection, the bean gone. You
see these massive spider cracks forming in it, in the in the shield around
the pyramid that you saw when you descended. Got it all right, everyone,
we still need to keep moving. Let's not delhi dai. Guess we're
gonna neet that canoe. Canoe you say, nas gonna start sprinting on top
of the water. I would have left my canoe on the shore and it
does fit six Nice Jesus, that's a yacht, my friend, that's not
a canoe. Hey, man, throw that bit and bridle on nausea front.
I was about to say, printing at approximately one hundred miles an hour
right now, I'm almost positive that's guys. Hold on, Nick, please
put up the ritual, man, Okay, it is okay. You do
see that there are five ships now anchored in the sea, cannibals rating things
down on the shores. You can see those ships in chaos happening in the
skies. Boarding parties are taking place, and you can hear just the sounds
of war blasts, spells, clashings. Everything is echoing everywhere. You can
see the clear beam still is going strong, as well as that money beam
that sparks of fire and wind. They appear to each be about three thousand
feet from your current location. Which one do you strike at? Next?
Quick question? Are these boats that are attacking their warships warships? Are they
with us or against us? Against you? Okay, well that's good to
know, all right, everyone, what are we thinking? I have two
options, Like I said, the one ritual. You can still see this
creature in the sky circling the beam. It's wings iconic as its tail laps
in the sky. Which one is that? That is the clear beam?
It is the red down element? Okay, okay, okay, I feel
like he's hinting that we should go for that one, or that we're going
to be really if we're fighting a goddamn dragon. Oh yeah, Stu it
can I take one other person on the thunderbird with me? Meet me one
other person who? Okay, you can do you also see like random elemental
creatures bursting forth from the end the other ritual, only to be reabsorbed back
in. Okay, yeah, Louzy will take Sebastian up and say, what
do you think? Well, I feel like these are all different. This
was mostly undead, that one might be elemental, and who knows, maybe
the other one might be infernal. I have no idea. Good guesses,
though, good guesses. Let's go down to the others. Just a reminder,
time check, so make your decisions quickly. Remember this is supposed to
be taking clock. Okay. I would just point at the dragon and be
like, I can see something there, so I want to kill that.
Okay, I think that's good enough for me. Yeah, basically, if
I'm going with if you guys want to go there, I'll go with you.
All right, everyone, let's move storm guardians, let's fight Italian.
So the ritual down, this pulsating dark sharp now laying amongst you as you
discuss your next course of action. No, watch you noticing how that this
this dragon light features circling one of the beans, breathing this golden light down
from the sky. In the five minutes that we have heading towards this next
ritual, Is there a way I could keel some of our injured buddies here,
Yes, if you want to, okay, ooze hurt and how badly
I've taken one damage. I feel like we're kind of decent right now.
It might be good to hold onto them. Yeah, holdings at two h
eight, So I think we're five for the moment. It's hurting real bad,
guys, it's almost double t all right, then we're good. We
may proceed. So as you make your way across the water and hit the
land and begin, you're mad dashed towards the next rishual, the sky exploding
around you, you hear rippling exclusions. One of the ships that was attacking
the Anville begins to plummet towards the ground to breathe, and fire slamming up
the front of you. I mean, everyone's please give me dexterity saving throws.
Okay, hey, you're all in ten feet of me, so not
me and Woozy. Oh that's right. No, yeah, we're in the
know. You guys are on the land now at this point, you're on
the main island. Oh do you want us to not ride the bird anymore?
Is that what you're saying? No, you can ride the bird,
but you'll be moving at the paces of everyone else. Yeah. So then
I was going to ask, should I do the dexterity save throw it for
the bird dodging the stuff? Yeah? The burbo will count for all three
of you since you're writing it, all right, so let's do that.
That is sixteen sixteen for holding as well, wonderful fifteen good? Okay,
cool, that's a big old six there you go, buddy. Okay,
So, as you guys are running, you hear this explosion above, pieces
of showering down holding Fay non nimbly dodging out of it, Confused by your
rage to watch, you feel this, this wail on your head. Is
you take this huge timber to the to the noggin for a whopping before you
say the number. If I were to use my storm guardians resolve, when
would I need to do that? You use a reaction upon failing? Okay,
so you would have to tell me the number. First, I have
to tell you if you succeed or fail? Did I did I fail?
You did fail? You fail? Uh? Yeah, I'm gonna use it.
Let's say use the first one. As you manage to the quarter,
I push your perception to the max. You see this being, you just
grab it and splincture it. Hits sharking forward. However, those of you
that are more aware your surroundings here screams. Is you see people falling from
the debris, plumbing towards the ground. A few of them faces you recognize.
Oh no, no, you see July Kumalov, Roscoe Yazani, all
plummeting, screaming towards the ground as they're being battered by flaming debris. You
see a few other bodies of conscious of falling. What do you guys do?
Can I cast feather fall on them? As many of them as I
can Yes, you managed to catch six of your falling comrades with your feather
fall. Unfortunately, for more plummet amongst your mits, breaking bones and necks.
It's not enough, and I do spare the dying on the ones that
hit the ground. How much time you're gonna take, You're gonna stop and
do each one that you see, because remember you're running towards this ritual.
Explosions are happening everywhere. How much time are you willing to sacrifice to save
these people? Not enough time? All right, I'll keep moving towards the
ritual. That's the main goal. So no, I won't. I will
not take any time for square of the dying. Okay. I think I
would actually look to the group and just be like, we don't have time.
We're gonna lose some men today. We need to keep moving. He's
right, Let's keep going, nidgement nods and number nuts. As you guys
are charging through the grass and the brushing the scrub land on this island,
off the corner of your eye, you see another battle, two giants battering
down or hombreads about two hundred feet away. Do you push through or do
you age your flagging allies is there? You see one crushed under a club.
I would encourage the group to push through. I would. I would
just look back again and just say eyes forward, Yeah, yeah, holdings
NAWATCHI. As you say that, you notice Paw facing down the giant,
two bloody ladles in hand, raging. As he's just wailing on this giant.
Toe gets kicked and you can all see this as you're just warning past
the fight. Oh boy, I think it would stop me in my tracks
for a second. But how far away is this fight from us? Two
hundred feet? It's off to your your northwest. Can I do something?
Can I cast a spell? Really quick? Wait? How many feet away?
Did you say? Remember you do have flyings? Need to close that?
Now? That's true because I'm okay so seeing that, since we have
a little bit more mobility than them, come on, come on, we
gotta make your decision now. Okay, So I'm gonna use the charge on
my staff of powder, cast rave and feeblement on one of the giants.
As you swoo through it, you cast and you can see it's muscles go
slack as Pau is able to die. It would have been a lethal stomp,
but it's too much for that one's felt to really change anything. It
would take an actual diversion to truly tip the tide of this battle. You
can see three of these misshapen giants with massive cloves and glaring eyes and wailing
on about six people. As you circle above, you recognize two new faced
little kids that just recently enjoined the guild. Oh no, it was one
of them, the one from the pit. Yeah. Oh wait a second,
Chris, Is that one the one that was getting everyone's autograph? I
see down there? Oh man, I think it is. Yeah, you're
such assholes. You see uh that little kid, that halfling that was getting
all this as U Tartan weeping as his leg is shattered in one place.
Jesus Mom could pick me up. I don't like this game anymore. Whose
name is Lore fighting defending the down to Halfling his greatest Mike. But it's
just not enough. You guys each have one more action. It's either move
or intervene. Those are your choices. Make it now, Beans, He's
gonna make beans age. In real life, this is unbelievable. So holding
is still very much like following everyone else, So I don't think he would
even be able to make that decision. He's like he's trying to go.
Holding's going where everyone else is going. A good deflection. I mean,
that's that's that's what Holding would do. That's your decision. You're you're you're
following the group. I'll follow us. I'll follow whatever everybody else does,
the majority. And my next yes, okay, Wuzzy's gonna call out our
battle is with a god, and then he's gonna shoot forward on the thunderbird.
Okay, so you leave them in your wake, your spells still in
affect, wozi Okay. Next, Yeah, Noachi is gonna look towards that
battle and just try and like catch eye contact with Pa and the rest of
the group and just say, hey, tears streaming down my face, just
say you better stay alive or I'll kill you. And then I'm gonna charge
your head to the next ritual. Fay. Fay knows Pap can take care
of himself or he'll die frying, So she's gonna keep moving forward to the
rituals. Najima, God, Yeah, Najima understands that this is not easy,
this is not easy choice. So I think she follows, like if
you could hear and feel the tension in sorrow in your voices. Shut up,
Chris, this is what do you feel? The sorrow that I've created
at my own place, Then you would be just as happy as I am
right now? Is it my turn? Yes? Awesome vomittery gene voice boons
up to three times as loud as normal for one minute. Sebastian kindness straightens
up on the bird and he says all hale yea, all yea, and
you hear a cheer as Pa is just wailing even harder with the ladles now
the half line kind of surging up on his one good leg only to be
smashed in the temple. This and sprawling with a mace as it's the last
thing you see. God, Oh, I did what I could, all
right, But Pa, Pa still seems okay for now. Let's just run.
Don't even look back. Don't even look back. I don't want to
know what happened just lately. The tearful scene of your allies and adare straits
behind you. You charge forward, tears in your eyes, towards your nest
task, and ahead of you, after a few more minutes of travel,
you see an open glade with thin bushes edging around it, only a few
trees visible. A white beam lances forth from an earthen forge in the center
of it. Piles of books, scrolls and other resources of knowledge, a
few coins, gems, and weapons of magical nature like litter on the ground,
slowly drifting towards the beam and being consumed. You see and the sky
as you enter the glade, that's black vential dragonoid creature less passed you.
It's golden breath streaming over you. As this creature stands in the center of
the field, hands raise the sky, chanting deep in his throat. I
need all of you to make dexterity, saving for his for me, as
this golden light sears your skin. You're all within ten feet a face,
so please remember your plus two bonus. Do we see it, Chris,
you feel it? So yes, I do get advantage, all right.
This is a magical effect. It is a breath weapon. So yeah,
I'll give you magic. Yeah sure. Got hold of gun of nineteen twenty
seven for twenty two for Nuachi twenty two, twenty one for eleven for Loozy
No boy, dear, whoever roll under sixteen will take full damage. Every
one that rolled over sixteen will take half of this? I will take nine,
fifteen, eighteen, twenty, twenty four, twenty seven, twenty eight
radiant damage as the searing meme sears all not only flesh but soul, don't
you guys, my soul. So it was how much damage total? Eight
if you on a fail fourteen on a success forgot I took half. So
I'm actually at one ninety four. You guys, don't worry. I still
have my tenth. Yeah, oh dang damn, you'll rag about it all
right. Let's smack this dragon booty. And there's the gold, and the
gems are flowing into the beam, right, yeah, it looks like they're
being lifted by some magical force. So there's this giant dragon creature. And
then there's this beam that is sucking up all the gold, magic knowledge,
m And there's a fellow over here. What is this? What do we
see? What is this? You are not you're close enough to get a
full description of it. I said it was a humanoid feature with his hands
outstretched. Chris is he's ruthless, got it? Ruthless? He's ruthless.
He ain't got no ruth you know what I mean? So the dragon is
currently flying holding europe buddy. Okay, dragon is on the ground, I
assume, No, it's in the air. What the fuck? Okay,
all right, well, I'm gonna run right up to this other creature to
get a good look at it. What's it look like? Thank you?
You see? It has this black shard like armor upon it, translucent skin.
It's one eye staring at you. It's teeth wide and deep, the
same double pupil and aarrow glass appearance. It cocks his head at you.
I cock I cock my head better because ah, you've come to worship as
for God now, Neil and I need you Holden to make a wisdom saving
throw. I'm sorry, you just fail. As your eyes go cross side,
you feel this weird sensation. You don't feel person anymore. You feel
like a puppy, and you begin panting and drop to all fours. Oh
no, oh, loly shit. Okay, um, Chris, can you
clarify for our listeners and our fellow party members? Does he act really change
into you? The rest of the party see Holden charging with this creature and
then suddenly dropped all fours, his tongue out painting. But Holden believes he's
a dog. Jesus the fuck. All right, I can I bite their
ankle or something. You're charred by it and you see it as your master.
All right, Well, I guess that's it, Chris. Okay,
Faye, you're next. Fay is going to move about twenty feet closer,
just out of reach and kind of genitally is like rushing in. But then
like sees Holden like turn into you know, start acting like a dog and
kind of stops in her tracks and says, okay, let's not get up
close. And I cast um fourth level ray of sickness on the humanoid figure.
It fails. So since it is a fourth level, I roll five
D eighth. That was really good. Um, seventeen plus thirteen is thirty
on five D eight. Damn yeah, I rolled hot on that one.
I got like three seven's, a six and a twoble girl. Okay,
that's your turn. Oh but how how fortunate for you? Now it's the
dragons fuck me so uh woozy and smithe I need to make wisdom saving throws
for me. Okay, that's fine, I've got advantage. That's a twenty
one. Okay, plus you said wisdom mm hmmm plus two from Fay.
You're not in your fae. You know I'm not near fare. You need
to move your token over with me from the bird. D Okay, so
it's just going to be twenty two. You feel this malevolent or pierce your
mind, but push it aside as the dragon now begins its physical assault upon
the beast which carries you. Oh the dragon picked me up. No,
it goes after the bird that your guys are carrying on. Oh okay,
okay, okay, cool, cool, cool cool A KRIT for one of
them, and I'm pretty sure twenty two hits probably, so the first one
does. It's eleven thirteen plus seven. The first the non krit does a
solid twenty points of slashing damage to it and krit which that's twelve fourteen,
sixteen, seventeen twenty eight total. Okay, So it's down. Your bird
screeches, it reverts back into its form, and you as might begin to
plummet the grown. Roll me a featherfall, Roll me a D six.
First, see how high up you are? Okay five, So you're fifty
feet up in the air when this happens. Okay, As you go for
your featherball, you see its tail which out and strike at you, Woozy
only at sixteen. I think that misses you. No, my acs fifteen.
Then the tail plaques you side the head as you begin to catch your
spell. It still goes off, but you take a total of fifteen points
of bludgeoning damage. Okay, I am feather flying now yeah, and Smith,
you're now up. Okay, I am falling through the air. Is
that correct? You're gliding towards the brown because of Woozy's magic. I'm assuming
he targeted you with featherfall. Yeah, all right, cool, all right?
So is everybody within thirty of me? I can show you holderness that
is a thirty foot radius around fantastic, So that's everybody, all right,
Sebastian kind of gloss. He looks around at all his allies and mentally tries
to configure where they all are, and then he tries to glide to till
that he's equidistant from everybody. And after sensing what that dragon did to him,
he uh basically closes his eyes and clenches a fist, and he shines
as a beacon of hope. And so for the duration, everybody has advantage
on wisdom, saving throws and death saving throws. What level are you casting
it? At Beacon of Hope? I thought it was only a third level,
okay, but as you go to Kassie, you feel that light shudder
insides you as the darkest and bleak is the thoughts manifests in you, and
the spell is crushed and canceled. Eat my ass? Wow, fuck you
counterspell you? Well that was my action. Can I tell what quash my
spell? You can see it as the figure that has hold in painting as
a dog by his feet. I take one look at him and I say,
I'm taking you down, and that's that's it. I don't have any
bonus actions. Okay, Woozy Woozy's up, all right? So I imagine
Woozy's floating but also maybe flying a little bit through the air from that tailwinch,
and as he's sort of rotating, he says, all right, it's
time for old Woozy to pull his weight around here, and I'm going to
cast my ninth level spell. Holy shit, fuck up. So I'm casting
shape change and I want to change into a silver dragon. Oh oh,
what is this? Actually? You can change into something up to CR seventeen.
I'm not sure, adult silver dragon is cur sixteen. Okay, you
meet the requirements. Yeah. Can I also still have my beard and wizard
hat. All worn items are absorbed in so you can't hear your hat,
but you can't have like a scaly beard form. Hell, yes, I'll
take it. Ask for a mile, get an inch or six or average
amount, which is obviously six. So that's my action. I'm sure you're
you're gonna do some awesome descripting of that. But my only other thing is
I'm just gonna like move in to engage. I guess I don't really know
what should I look at for what I can do as a dragon? I
guess I just changed you. Can you do a quick look at your character?
Sheep? You should. You should be able to see all the things
that as an adult silver dragon can do. Oh very cool. Can I
still cast spells and stuff? Technically? Yes and no, because you're not
used to a dragon and he's no longer hyper components on you verbal components the
on I think you can currently cast? Okay, that's that's totally fine.
And you also cannot use legendary actions or layer actions as as a shape changed
creature. Okay, and you do have legendary resistance. Sweet all right,
yeah, sorry for all that a lot of time, but yeah, I'm
just gonna move into with him, woozy. As you touch down, you
pull out from your robes the jade crown and place it upon your head as
you whisper those words, your body gaining scales and a bixploding quickly in size.
You dig into the ground, becoming four legged, wings routing and cause
a conversed wing the dragging head roaring inmagic triumph visions. Flap your wings and
enter the sky to engage the beast to Yeah, well this is amazing.
Yeah, I feel cool. Literally a dragon fight. I'm I'm here for
this. I am so here for scott Zilla versus a magic Najma. Not
just gonna go and knock this man. Hin fuck them up, sweetie.
Whoa, she's like no granola for you. Hits them with her arms of
the astral self. That's twenty one, missus. What what? What second
hit is a twenty six that will hit awesome? She is gonna do a
stunning strike. It has no effect, right and then so rolling of the
demage, so it's thirteen and then rolling the D ten two. So it's
fifteen now and then she's gonna hit again. Natural one. That's why I
like to see Sasia three attacks and how much did you do when they have
one hit? Fifteen? Yeah? Um, and then I am going to
flurry of blows and do two more attacks. She's coming in hot, charging
in there, just jumping at him. There's two more points of key going,
one for the stunning strike and one for the flurry blows. Oh yeah,
yeah yeah. All right, So first act twenty eight hit. So
did I like, was it like he passed the stunning strike or the stunning
strike just wasn't even a do you hit? I mean you went through trying
to work into the magical network within the side of him, and it just
resisted it very strongly. All right, so I may not I'd think I
may need to save my key then. So first one was a twenty eight,
second one fifteen fuck ah man, another eight damage. I need more,
I need more power. And that's it. I mean, that's yeah,
that's that's about it. Um, that's it. That's it. Okay,
that right watch Europe. Okay, can you brief me on the mechanics
of how grappling hook would work in this universe on a person poorly. I'm
not concerned about the humanoid. What about a giant metal dragon. It would
take your action to throw it in, being an attacked role against their ACA
to hook in one's it's hooked in, It'll be treated just rappling the target,
allowing you to climb. I would like to do that please. Okay,
since it is fifty feet in the air, you have disadvantage on the
attack. So but it is strength based. Oh nice, with proficiency or
without. I'm gonna say this improvised. So just a strength okay at disadvantage.
Oh wait, are you raging Joe? Yes, still act so it
should balance out them. Yeah, you have advantage. So just a flat
just a flat strength role. Seventeen You Jeff, managed to ground onto it's
okay? Yeah, I would like to try and climb up to it.
Give me an athletics check. Okay, this is amazing. I love this.
That's a seventeen again? Okay, dragon board? Are you again?
I am a Blue Raven Nite dragon board. So you climb at half speed,
so you get twenty feet up the road, you still thirty feet to
go, But that's your term. Basically, that's so epic. Oh my
gosh. Okay, so you see the beam pulsing is more and more books
are being sucked and absorbed into it, and you can see the bruises that
you hit it with. Not Jamal begin to heal the fuck as it now
takes its turn. Najima, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw
for me. Yummy, you resist this urge to drop down to your knees
to start panting and praise God like I am a cat not a dog.
Dare you? As you do that, you see him reach out his hands.
The giant arcing force begins to come down to flatten you on me.
Yes, I need you to make an athletics check natural one, baby.
The hand grapples and crushes you. Can I use my diamonds on this one?
Or do you want to use the storm guardians. It's not a saving
throw, it is an ability check. I'm sorry. So as you do
that, it grips you and lifts you up into the sky and pushes you
into the beam ship. As your face infirm begin to enter this other realm,
you can feel thought invading you constantly. I need you to do nothing
currently, thank you. It's my favorite thing. To do. Wait,
who's being put into the beam? You're my girl, my girl? Damn
it? Are there any Are there any delectable tidbits of information I can blean
from these thoughts, like um, granola recipes on your next turn. If
you want to make an insight check, I'll let you find out. Holding
you get hat on the head, I got puppy being petted and he points
to uh, your lovely Sebastian. Ah, you've come. You were told
to sick Sebastian and that means pounce upon. And I suppose I have to
do that. Chris, so cool? Do you tell me Master from Lord
Savior you're gonna try to grapple, So please make an athletics check with advantage
because no, you're not raging. So just a straight athletic check versus Sebastian's
athletic check. All right, and you get a plus too, because hey,
you're in my aura. You're well that's her saving throws, not for
ability checks. God damn it, I'm trying. I'm gonna just keep talking
to you. That's why you're distracted. Oh not a great role, Holden,
got a seventeen. I'm trying to see if I have anything else I
can do to kind of help me, but I cannot because it's just a
fourteen. You are knocked prone, you have a grappler feat so your rest
of your action is to now no Sebastian to the ground. Yeah. I
like to think that Holden has Sebastian in like the figure four leg lock and
it's just come in here. You're a little fun. Okay, hey,
you're up. You see Holden lot past you and pained and as he's panting
over Sebastian as he's painting over him, Um, greater restoration. Will that
cure Holden potentially of his charm? You can certainly try. I will try
to restoration on fab will approach back up, kind of turn around and pat
Holden on the head like, hey, good job, buddy, And he's
got to remove the charm. Hopefully you are no longer charmed. Nice.
You can hear Killian's voice coming up. Bring it down, those rituals.
We can't keep this up. As you can hear explosions in the background.
If you look to the sky, you can see towers of the Annabelle crumbling
under the weight of fire. So you said, Holden is no longer charm.
Correct, Is Sebastian still pinned? Or can I just go Bob,
what the fuck up? I'm sorry, he's currently paid. He's pained until
the until you're a charm where you can get off of him. Fuck me,
Okay, I'm a happy man. So yeah, I like the idea
that I'm aware that I have, and I'm like, I'm so sorry,
but I can't do anything great. Then need another six seconds. As you
fly up, the Charlotne Dragon begins to engage the now silver dragon. First,
Woozy, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw for me.
Okay, I have advantage on those, So that is twenty You no longer
had advantage because all your items are inside the dragon. Oh that, but
it's a racial ability of his. I believe he is no longer known though
he's a dragon. Oh okay, okay, so then that's twenty four instead.
Okay, that's still succeeds. Cool, I am wise. Now the
beatdown comes, Oh boy, first with the double clause that is a hit
and a miss, and then the tail. The tail is definitely a hit
first strike. It's a whopping seven twelve nineteen points of damage. Please give
me a concentration saving throw and what do I it's con oh boy, which
is really good for you because you're in dragon form. Oh okay, so
how do I do that? So it's it's like plus twelve. You should
be able to click on the constitution um button and shard. That's not the
plus seven but the plus twelve below that O twenty. You managed to keep
the concentration on the Thank god, that would be the worst. And then
the tale watch you for a total of thirteen. So I need to make
another one another twenty. Okay, so you make that as well. So
you've taken um So what was the total damage you've taken? That was thirteen
and nineteen thirty two? And I will update your hit points. Yeah,
yeah, christians had a whopping fucking two hundred and forty something HP. Is
this drap? Fuck? Yes? So that's up what you gonna do?
But all right, well holding has got me right now. I am really
worried about my friend Najima. She's being held in the beam by the humanoid
or by the dragon, by the humanoid, by the humanoid the dragon.
There's a dragon on dragon kaiju fight going on. Speaking of which, Nawachi,
please give me a strength saving throw. I was hoping you were going
to forget that I was hanging there. You're getting swung back and ward of
these two duly beasts of the sky are on each other. You manage to
hold onto that robe and the grapple stays into this metal pleats of its skin,
and you're just kind of twisting and turning in the wind. Thank fuck.
Okay, now, Sebastian, what's you doing? I am going to
do a hell Mary, and I am going to do banish on both the
humanoid and the dragon. Okay, actually, no way do I have a
fifth So I'm just gonna do banishment on the humanoid at fourth the basic one.
What should you see? My DC is a nineteen total total twenty one.
Okay, that was closed, So I did. I did my banishment.
I am going to bonus action and you've already cast a spell of fourth
level, so you get castler spell. Okay, old debt off me help
that GM up. That was that was almost really cool. I'm sorry,
Okay, Europe, all right, woozy. The dragon is going to uh
swoop down and kind of like get at an under angle and then he's going
to use his breath attack at sort of like an upper night, so he's
not going to hit nachi on hanging below him, but shutting it kind of
up into the sky. But at the dragon, the metal dragon. Thank
you for clarifying that, because I know if you hadn't, Chris would have
made me get fucked. Christian. Can you just clarify which breath are you
using? Because I know he has two breaths, the cold breath natural twenty
on the scene, No so does so he does take half though, right,
Yeah, I mean you notice that the metal is heated by an internal
sun that falls and around it, so it only takes a quarter damage,
so it takes fifteen and that is your action. Christian. What was what
was the element of the breath weapon? It was ice cool and it's got
a son inside. So it's so I chose the wrong dragon, is what
I'm Basically, it's resistant to cold. Yeah, I thought a fire dragon
would not, you know, I didn't. I also kind of figure out
what these guys aren't resistant too. Yeah, it's saved and as or just
resistant to cold is what I've got. Oh yeah, okay, So Najima,
I need you to make a d C thirty wisdom saving throw good.
If only my beacon of hope work, I need a nineteen or a twenty.
Let me just take a look real quick before I rolled the dice.
Hey, don't forget. You've got your storm Guardians resolved too. Oh oh,
that's true. This would be a great time to use it. This
is probably the most effective use of that. I am going to roll and
just see what I get and then we'll see what happens. Yep, I'm
going to use that Storm Guardians boom. So you take Okay, I roll,
pretty crappy. That's ten. You take sixteen points of psychic damage and
no other effect. Now you can try breaking the grapple if you want.
So you are restraining grappled up in this air, so your best option is
trying to break free of it. It okay, um, And I'm going
to be using wisdom in place of strength because I got my arms yalloway.
It is still an athletics check though, So yeah, you would be plus
eleven to this alright, So it's a thirty. Nice you do break free,
and because you are a monk and do not take any fall damage.
Whoa hell? Yeah? Right? Nice for clarification, Chris so is he
still in the beam? I would say he's smart enough to try the lending
outside of it. Yeah, okay, so let's figured. I just wanted
to like busts those knuckles out and in like you know, arching her back
and like throwing her elbows down. It's like and she falls. Okay,
so we'll move you just outside of the beam, and that is your action
for the term. No, watch, it's your turn. Yes, what
I need to do to climb onto this dragon? Give me another athletics check?
Okay, Okay, that is a man seventeen lots of seventeens. So
you get up last that's twenty feet, ten more feet is like you're closing
up to his body. Give me thatxterity check to actually mount it. Okay,
that's not my best skill. Could could you do? And could you
argue that this could be an athletics check because he's trying to like leap up.
Well, he's already he's already using all his athletics to hold onto a
swinging rope. So this is like hooking your foot in the right place.
Yeah, I appreciate you. Nick. I rolled a night, so you
you're kind of like, oh, but if you want to. I'll let
you drop onto Woozy. Oh do it because he is underneath him? Yes,
can I would. I would like to do that to secure my footing.
I assume you're going to handle that movement stuff as an action. No,
you just let go and you fall onto his h chest as he's kind
of like swinging around, Woozy, you paint him so it doesn't fall as
you spin past. Yeah, and I would try to then, you know,
move my arm so he can climb up onto the back. Yeah,
I'll give you an action. Try jumping onto the dragon's back. Okay,
Okay, so I would not be able to attack on this turn. No,
because you've you used to remove the climb up and you almost got there,
and I was loving you kind of like try jumping on. Okay,
you missed that, but then you're like, oh right, the dragon frit
below me. You dropped onto Woozy and he spun around and is trying to
drop you onto the dragons and you can jump. Oh and Joe, not
that I would want to encourage you to use any resources, but you do
have an action surge as it's due to your fighter abilities. I do Okay,
Okay, so hold on so nice having this like clippy person. I
see her trying to hit the dragon. Can I help you? I want
to make sure I understand where I'm at. I'm under the dragon on top
of Woozy. Correct. Correct, So you can try putting all your force
in jumping from Woozy since this is a closer distance than the rope. But
I'm not if I were to action surge, I would still not be enraged
in range to do a melee attack. Is that what you're saying. We
want to say you'd have to use your action right now to get onto the
dragon. But it's going to be an athyl It's going to be an athletic
check to try to mounting this moving object. Okay, I will Nick,
thank you for pointing that out. I can't think of a better time to
use an action surge, So I will go ahead and do that to try
and roll athletics to climate you already? Have you still have your action for
the term. When Nick is saying is that if you make your athletics check
to jump on the dragon, you can attack it. Oh? I see
yes, okaying, gotcha? All right? Here comes to my athletics role.
That is a yucky twenty. Yeah, that would be enough. You
man to shoo hook onto the plates and pull yourself up. But you're gonna
you can't get onto us back directly right now? So like you probably really
strike with one r hand okay, Yeah, I'll go ahead and do that
one hand due okay, So it will be a disadvantage and you'll deal half
damage because you don't have the proper force and leverage with it. Okay,
I see, are you raging? He hasn't stopped raging, but he can
still reckless if he wants to. Yes, So I don't think it matters
because I rolled a one on my first roll, So even if I were
to cancel out the disadvantage, it would still be a one, right,
okay, So I miss? Okay, so you still got a second attack,
and are you going reckless on this once? Because it matters? If
it matters, if you will be having it, someone will have advantage against
you next her. So I went reckless on the first hit. Doesn't that
only apply to my first hit? No applies all tacks you make. I
just needed to make sure you went reckless. Oh I did so, But
I wouldn't roll advantage on the second hit, right, correct, it would
still be straight dice okay, okay, yes, yes, that's a nineteen
that will hit. Oh and that's a crip for me. I actually need
to read your magic item now to see if it'll warp on this creature.
Yeah, it depends on if he's under one hundred age. Yeah, that's
the only thing. Uh No, he even with your damage, will not
drop him under a hundred all right, So I will do double damage and
brutal critical. So I think I'm rolling sixty six plus seven sixty six.
So how do you want me to do the math on that? So basically
what I'm looking at is it would be sixty six plus a lot. Yeah,
I'll be sixty six. You'll roll that, and then half of that
is what you'll deal is damage and then have it. Okay, got it.
It's basically resistance to this attack, all right. So it would be
thirty seven, So thirties half thirty seven is eighteen. And also because you
have the slasher feet, it would decrease its movement by ten feet okay,
and it has disadvantage on its next attack rolls. Yes, we go back
to the top now, and it is no longer six. I need to
elete this fuh okay, I need hold in to make another wisdom saving throw
for me. Eighteen you make it all right? Cool? Is it my
turn now? No? I need Najima. This is his bonus action for
the turn to make a athletics check. All right, so I'm adding eleven
not seven seventeen. You manage you hodge the hand is it tries to grapple
you. However, as you do that, you see missiles pop out and
just pepper into you a magic missile at oh, I can use my reaction
to reduce this, well you were you will reduce one missiles to each one's
an individual hits and you get hit with a total of third level would be
five. So you take forty four worth of damage. Now was not how's
nag my looking? I'll reduce one what is entirely gone, and then four
pierced three to hit you. Okay, so that's five six, eight plus
four is twelve points of four damage to naim up Oh. I heard forty
four, but you were saying the four dice that were four sighted. I
was like, yeah, why yeah, okay, so what was it twelve?
You said, yes, you take twelve? I aredy just you her
points. Oh no, no, you should be at one away, damn
it. Okay, now it is Holden's turn holding you get off of Anna.
That costs half your movements. They have twenty feet left sabatsbah yeah,
wow, I too much? Do you discount? But you see all of
these things just flying into the rituals. It's pulsing stronger and stronger and stronger.
Okay. So half of my movement was to get up and you know,
dust, to bashion off and apologize, and then I'm gonna move I'm
gonna, first of me, use my bonus action to go into a frenzy
rage, frenzied rage, okay. And then I'm going to move up close
to the humanoid that charted me before, and I'm gonna say no one turns
me into a dog, and I'm gonna take a couple of swings kick his
ass, going reckless or not not going reckless. That's a grip, baby
man. Just slice them it off. Okay, roll your next attack,
Roll the next attack, shaything, shareything, and that's a seventeen on the
second one. Seventeen will all right? So I'm going sixty eight right,
sixty twelve right, now plus five D twelve five plus delicious eleven. Alright,
so thirty eight damage. Wow, he cuts deep into his torso your
attack being deflected by his mystical armor. He looks hurt. Okay, yeah,
but it does. And I'm gonna use my frenzy attack as my bonus
bonus action was to rage this turn you get your friends. Oh yeah,
right, all right? Uh in that in that case, I'm gonna action
search and take another action. Yeah, this fuck this guy, this wichard
guy has a look of regret after making this man into the dog. First
attack is another curt baby man for a year to get to your front door.
Turned him into a dome. You can't do that. And that is
and that is on the dice. That is twenty one twenty four and twenty
nine thirty four. That is forty five damage. Oh wait, that's slashing
damage too. Right, Yeah, he's vulnerable. That that's page and it's
worth mentioning. I took another action, so I get one more attack on
this asshole. I mean he's dead, but have fun. Oh no,
no, in that case, you know you know what, I'm gonna swing
again at his dead body. That's five points of damage and Yeah, means
I'm gonna need a little bit of a narrative of what just happened, because
this guy you just didn't. So I just ramped this guy and I am
just like just swinging wildly. I'm not even like my eyes are closed and
he's dead after the second hit, but I'm still just swinging at his dead
right now. Yeah, I am more. Who's the dog now making guaccafoli
right now? With this guy's body? What does this do to the ritual?
It's still going. As you see all the stuff just slowly floating into
the beams. Still, the beam crescendoing is more and more and more and
more. Everybody's picking up faster and faster and faster and faster. Fay,
you're up, alrighty. I am going to approach the ritual site like before,
um, and I'm going to cast um. Honestly, let's let's see
if I can fucking smash this thing. Uh. I'm going to do a
sixth level ray of sickness on the ritual site. I'm hoping to destroy it.
It has no effect. As you calm your fourth this dark green energy
and throw it into the beam, it just is absorbed and paint it for
a quick second before it's pure white again. God damn it is there like
a base to the beam? Yeah, you see it's coming out of this
earthen forge. Do it? I mean, I can't do anything else in
my turn. Correct? That is correct? All right? Well someone else
go. The dragon is going to give Woozy an attack of opportunity, so
you can make a claw attack. Law attack sounds good. Thirty three to
hit it's a crid. That was a crid. Yeah you rolled a twenty
Oh that's true, Yeah you did, yep. Okay, all right,
So then if that was a critical hit, then I'll hit the table,
hit button right and double the dice. Ye, twenty five, have to
twelve. As you graze against it, you get it, I truly tell
you. Black. But it's still the metal just resists a good chunk of
your claws. What is this man rest like? Not resistant? Literally everything?
As it spins around, Joe, I need you to make a strength
saving throw. Yes, sir, do you have advantage since you're raging?
Okay, that's that's what I was about to ask. Okay, so that's
a twenty one. You hold on as it's whipping through the air. It's
wait, it's members wings flapping as it does a barrel role to try to
knock him off with the grappling hook in one hand and the blade, you
know, the wedge in flaate you managed to stay on, but its breadth
streaks as its mouth opens wide. It's vent and it hits. I need
hold in Faye and Najima to make dexterity saving for us forming uh seventeen,
you'll make it. That was an eight. So I am going to use
my storm guardian. Well, remember you can use your reaction and the charge
off Fay to make it at a success. Oh awful, Umbra, Yes,
then I will actually instead, I will use that for Umbra to make
it a success. Okay, and hold in? How much do you take?
Chris up to you? Did I see this coming? I know it's
from behind you. Okay, that's a fucking four? Is twenty four twenty
nine thirty thirty five points of radiant damage? All right? Fair enough?
Faye will take half, Nagama will take half. Holding takes full. Okay,
do I you've used your reaction to block the missile this turn. If
you're raging, make sure you only you still only take half not from raiding.
He digs vault. Oh shit, because he's not a bear totem,
so yeah, yeah, yeah, he confused me, Nick, what was
the damage, radiant? Do I need to I don't need to use my
reaction to just have evasion. I thought evasion was just something you have,
Oh right, evasion something of you, So you take none, and then
I need the three of you to also make wisdom, saving for us for
me thirty not Juma resists its holding seven, holding dozen o seventeen Okay,
so oh right, holding your immune to charm. This has no effect on
you. Yeah, but because he's frenzied range it was was my dragon given
him eyes or something. It was a molific presence that forces everyone to fight
and charms into his attacking his enemies. But Holding doesn't care because he's just
yeah, I'm still like he blasted me as I was still just chopping up
the guy I just killed, So it took some damnage train I was like,
fuck it, I'm just gonna keep chopping. Okay. That brings us
to Sebastian. Europe Buddy. Sebastian just sees all his friends get fucked up,
and then he scrabbles over to the to the ritual site, and uh,
he is going to cast dispel? What level I am going to Yeah,
let's do sixth. You're right, let's try six It has no effect.
Motherfucker fuck, he says. I feel so bad for our casters right
now. Waste of a snoodle. Sorry, So okay, it's not your
fault, Chris. You're the one who's readily casting spells that without checking what
might work. We're trying. Okay, it's a fucking ritual. It's a
magic thing. It's evil, it's bad. So whose train is it?
Uh? It is Woozi's out, Okay, so if it's Woozy's tune,
all right, Woozy. The dragon is going to fly over to where the
metal Dragon went, flying around the beam so as to not pass through it,
and when he gets there, he is going to do his multi attack
so the dragon can use its frightful presence first. So that's a it's immune
to frightened. So you're it's fine, so okay, so just don't even
worry about it, all right. And then I'm going to make three attacks,
one with my bite, two with my claws. Roll your bite first,
please, sir, twenty seven hits all right, damage is twenty one.
Damn. Then the claw comes in the first claw it's a fourteen missus
all right, second claw? Actually reroll that again. Please For the second
claw, you got a twenty one. Okay. So you as your your
bite turns aside, you go to claw. You expose Nawatchi all the one
and rake into him. Roll damage against Nawatchi. What you did? You
krip failed on that last Oh I did? Yeah, that is the weird
part about it. Okay, So damage and watch sixteen sowatche takes eight.
Okay. So then now for the second claw eighteen that hits. Okay,
and fifteen as you see the dragons jewel in the sky, you're up.
I'd like to do an ar Cana check. She gets out her her glasses.
Okay, roll me in our Canada check. Oh boy, the knowledge
of the sand come on, not twenty big roll seven by. You sit
there and go, okay, the spell didn't work. Making sick didn't work.
And putting these contexts those together, you think you have to disrupt the
curt but you don't know how what spells to use. But like that idea
comes to your mind that like brute forcing. This isn't going to work.
It needs to be like reverse the curt needs to be like think because you
were in it, so actually you were in it, so roll it.
Roll that again for me seven you were you were in it for two mind,
Najima, while you're in it, you realize that it was like a
river, so it has to be damned or the current has to be reversed.
Oh, I don't know why, I'm voices everybody. It's like a
river. Everyone's like, oh great Najima with your metaphors as a river flow.
Surely um And then I guess getting that Naja would say that then would
run and grab this boulder. Okay, that's your that's your turret. Now
that's a that's a scroll and grab this chest. Okay, nawatche Is,
you're flying on this dragon, half latched on by the still ancient silver being
next to you. What do you do? All right? So yeah,
kind of can you remind me kind of how I'm on this thing? I
really want to get a two handed attack off on this thing, and I'm
not sure how. So you have the rope now wrapped around your arm with
a graph of can you have your blade embedded in it. You can pull
it out with that and kind of slash down. Okay, but still a
one handed hand. No, no, I'll give you the two handeds.
It's like you have a kind of wraped around your forearm now like yeah,
okay, so you can kind to go down. I love that visual.
Yeah, I like that a lot, can I? I would like to
go reckless on it, go for it, okay. So boy, So
twenty eight that hits okay, fourteen damage. Okay, and your blade now
that your proper leverage slashes still new problem, all right, and I'm gonna
try and slash them again. Okay, roll with advantage, oh advantage?
Okay. So twenty two that hits fourteen, it started to look pretty shaved,
him beating as plates are starting to kind of crush stick around. Okay.
I would like to like surge my rage a little bit and get him
with a little extra lightning damage. Okay, it'll make if I can sure,
it'll make a dexterity saving grow it fails, nice, Okay, So
that's gonna be three D six lightning, which comes to just seven. Okay,
we're back to the holding. Okay, shit, what can I even
do? Um, can holding just go and like sit in and like block
it with his strong body. I would not do you want to enter the
beam, Holden? No, I know you too well already, Chris.
I'm not sitting at the beam. Um Do I see anything around me that
could plug up this hole? I'm just seeing scroll, nothing of that kind
of mask. It would either be physically destroying the ford, which you don't
know if you can do, or in your frenzy state, trying to physically
rustle the beam. That sounds I mean that sounds like something a grapple master
would do, but it also grappled lightly bad. Do you guys want me
to die because I will grapple beans trying destroying the forge? Yeah? Yeah,
I will. Just I will go up. And the only thing Holden
knows how to do is just hit things. So he's just gonna run up
to it, just and just hit the forge with his ax. Yeah,
that does seem like the most Holden thing to do. Yeah. Sorry,
you just rarely wail into it. You feel the earth almost like it's actually
metal instead of clay bending into the blows. You can see it pinching the
top. A little bit of the being strays but it's still going. It's
but I feel a lot of work to close it like this. All right,
Well, he's just gonna keep doing that, maybe somewhat frenzy. We're
going with a play at b where I just destroy it. If anybody else
can use their smarts to figure something else out, great, But until that
holder is just gonna keep swaget. You're up face just gonna be like real
sorry umbra and just gonna as the opposite and take the blunt in with the
skull and start ramming on it, trying to also help hold and pinch it
off. Are you going? Are you going to be smiting while you're at
this? I'm gonna like this thing. Let's what smite are you using?
I will I will do a fourth level smite, and you just on both
strikes are just one, just the first strike. I'm just gonna smite on
the first strike. So you feel it, Ben, the being pinches a
little bit more. I've never felt so alive. So you're just wailing on
this thing, closing the tip of the fORCH up with brute strength. It
seems like the very Guardians of the Storm kind of way to do it.
Yeah. Yeah, they both looked around, We're like fuck it, and
then just started, Hey, it's way better. Then you're trying to grapple
the beat the true claws against the dragon both well hits. Okay, first
one is eleven, twelve, nineteen points of slashing damage, and so give
me a concentration saving for a please right thirteen. That's a natural one though,
and so you're not great when shape falls and if you begin the fall,
the next claw whales into you, slashing the actual Woozy for eighteen points
of damage, and then the tail whips you. Has been the realist in
this fight gets hit the face Jesus as you begin to plumb it and you
take a whopping fourteen points from the tail. Okay, do I hit the
ground? Do you want to use the reaction to feather fall? I see
if I can, I can, so, I will very battered and bruised.
Oh, just barely get it off before I hit the ground. There's
nothing left of you. So you just float down like a piece of paper.
Uh Nawatchia needs you to make another strength saving throw with advantage will do
as the dragon's rocking back and forth. Do you see Woozy plummet to the
ground as just formed the magic. He shrinks back down. There was no
myself, the second claw crushing him in the in the chests, and the
tail smacking him across the face, turning tail of retail and smashing always on
the ground. At the last minute, Woozy cass for the billowing thing of
air and left himself to kind of slide to the ground, landing on his
feet. Beaten, what are you out of hip points? Out of curiosity,
Woozy seventeen And it was a twenty one on my seven throw. You
manage to still hold on to that dragon with the combination of your sword and
the grapple that's impaled in its place. Sebastian, you're up, okay,
Sebastian, will what happened to Najima when they jumped in there? They had
to take a wisdom saving throw. You just saw her face like kind of
getting like pelted by like a kind of like almost like speed was pushing past
her. Okay, right, and she said, it's like a flowing river.
I am going to cast resistance on my cell and then I'm going to
take my shield, which is a spell guard shield, and I am going
to jump up and try to slamp my shield down to stop stop the flow,
give me a wisdom saving throw. That is why I chose resistance.
Super cool, all right cool, And because of a spell guard shield I
got admit. Nineteen is the first rule, seven second rules and tie,
so it would be nineteen. And then with my rest and you got the
plus from a fag that's nineteen plus two is twenty one plus another two is
twenty three. And then my wisdom is a twelve, so in be twenty
three plus twelve. So like thirty five, you take fourteen, sixteen,
seventeen, twenty two points of psychic damage. But with a pinching you push
the beam eight and you can feel it pushing against you, your brain slightly
thaying, your eyes bloodshot as you're holding it with all your weight and it's
beginning to lift you up. Woozy, what's you're doing? As you can
see the dam has been pushed back into the forge with the entire mite of
your team Sebastian barely holding it in place, is about to push him out
of the way. What do you do, Woozy? Very battered? It
stands up as straight as he can, as defiant as he can, and
then he's going to look over and see all of them, and he's going
to point his staff of power over at it and use it to cast wall
of force. So essentially you an invisible wall of force springs into existence at
a point you choose. It's any orientation I want. So I'm going to
put it like flat across it underneath the shield that Sebastian's pushing down on.
Well, it's a point you can see, so you can. You would
have to put it above Sebastian's you can't see under the shield. Oh okay,
so then yeah, I'll put it like right above him or whatever makes
the most sense to cut off them. So you've now pinned Sebastian into the
tiny hole which has your action for the turn. Okay wait no, Juba
europe um. So So as a reminder, the forge does have four right
four entrances to it. So he just blocked off like the chimney part of
it. So can Yeah, the beam is spreading out towards the sides.
Now okay, I didn't know that either, Can I sorry? Can I
change what I'm gonna? Wait? You can actually force the way you can
make a wall forces, you can actually shut off all the entrances and trap
the Eve inside of it. How because you can you can decide what the
shape of the wall is. Yeah, you can create a box. You
can create a dome with the wall of force you want, which would basically
encompasse the force, but that traps Sebastian in there sea. I mean you
could free action and yell Sebastian get out of the way and then hold your
head. Well, that would unleash the beam. Oh hey, I have
actually wait a minute, I just read something that maybe I can convince you
of. So if the wall cuts through a creature's space, when it appears,
the creature is pushed to one side of the wall, your choice.
Can I have the dome cut through Sebastian and have him pop out on the
top. You would then be only getting half the forge? Sure? Fine,
yeah, I'll do that. So I need Faye and holding to make
saving for us to be pushed out. Okay, am I do I see
this? It's an invisible wall. So no, oh good? Sixteen fifteen
for fays adding your your plus two. Oh I guess I guess eighteen because
I'm right next to Faye just picturing, you know, Sebastian Captain America writing
on his shield. It is very epic. Sold On. I'm just pulling
a wall of force real quick. Essentially, the only thing that can destroy
it is a disintegrate spell. I don't have that spell. I'm sorry.
Okay, So you can actually push Faye and all them out if you want
to Woozy basic when I can see. Okay, yeah, that's what I
would like, can I? So? Yeah, you just tell me what
happens. Okay, So you conjure forth your thing. Sebastian pain with his
shield into the heart of the forge, the beans coming out, the sides,
final the back in. We have Faye and holding pushed out from this
barrier that they cannot see. Its shimmering Sebastian holding on for dear life.
As the ritual begins to build and build, the pressure inside the wall goes,
goes and goes. Unfortunately, our dear Sebastian. After about a minute
of this pressure building is blinding white light blinking out everything. All of you
guys. Have you revert your eyes from the shield. You feel the ground
itself rupture and explode. As there's Sebastian's body and the clear pulsing crystal in
the ground, the forge annihilated within the wall. I need you, Sebastian
to make a d C thirty death saving throat. What do you have your
thunderbird legendary like he does? He does, just do it. I haven't
used it, so it might be the time. Now is the time to
use my store. I was so scared and then see happy. Yeah I
don't. I've been using D and D beyond on my end, but if
you want to knock that off on Shard for me. So what you guys
all see is after that eruption, you see your cleric's body limp in the
explosion, the crystal pulsing under his unmoving form, and all this chaos.
I totally forgot about this thing. So we're gonna need this places in Nawache.
It's your curve. You need to fight the dragon. We got so
up that we forgot. The dragon is sill flying around. I really wanted
to kill it, Joe on only two attacks of the a betae. I'm
presuming you're going reckless, Yes, yes, I'm going reckless. Okay,
So as this tense scene is going, you can see your allies desperately fighting
to contain this beat woozy with the tear in his eye, pinning tobashion against
the force, the dragon getting ready to strife again. You strike out,
roll your tax for me. Yes, indeed, that is a thirty.
That's not a crip though, right, No, it's not. Okay,
roll your damage, right, that's gonna be fifteen. You cut through the
wing and it's starting to use this altitude the next strike, that is a
crip. Okay, Yeah, I'm gonna I want to go up to its
neck and just get that use my use one of my nine lives charge and
just slice its whole fucking head off. Yeah. Yeah, So you actually
says you want to walk up this thing, give me a strength saving throw.
That is a twenty seventy. You against the wind, the pressure in
the speed surged forth, splashing through his wings and its dots, giving you
enough step to step up its neck, exposed, your great sword in the
shape of a butcher's hammer, slashing thin metal plate, and its head goes,
creating wide the mouth of it, absorbing the light inside, mixing with
the black and act and sucking in like a vortex, and then shutting off
the body, going limp inspiring head overhead or a cute into the ground and
smashing. I need you to give me a dexterity saving throw dope as the
seventeenth head. It's fifty air, fifteen points of bludgeting damage. Is a
Bolls flighting to stay and not get crushed. As you kind of eventually comes
to an edge, you surmount it, bruised, breathing hard, staying on
top of the dragon. As you see that scene unfolding again, everyone helpless
as the pressure builds inside the wall of force. And that is where we
will end.