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Eventually you came to the outer depths of the Prime Pillar, whereupon a fissure in the thick glass led you deeper within the tree trunk. Like ringed layers of stone and glass revealing themselves as you began to wind deeper into the central pillar that represents, it seems to be, a path to the core of the moon. There you came upon a troop of exultant that had surrounded Ludinus, keeping him contained within some sort of a psychic shell. While he was on the cusp of absorbing the remnants of your mother. You then quickly sprang into action, defeating and dispelling and disrupting the concentration of these exaltants, until one by one, they fell. With the last one crumbling, the shield was absolved and destroyed. A rapid series of actions pulled your mother, Liana from the jaws of destruction and Ash and your resident Blue Bard here immediately locked Ludinus within a dense force cage spell. Let's go. Sorry, sir. In this moment, here within the outer layers of the Prime Pillar, Ludinus seems to nod with a strange bit of approval to what has just transpired. As you see the arching, flaring veins of purplish, exultant energy crawling up around his neck and his arms, his hair beginning to fly, float and flow around him. The essence of Liliana's exultant Ruidus born gift being transferred, albeit temporarily, to martinet Ludinus dileth here, as you all stand at the immediate end of an intense conflict, you catch your breath and look face to face with a very calm and smug villain. As you all stand there, Ludinus paces back and forth within the cage like a calm lion tiger, just looking about the rest of your troop. A liger, if you will. A liger, if you will. Awesome. Very well. I suppose you have your mother back. That's one thing before the end. I suppose. If it is to be an end. What do you think? I thought that's not what you wanted. Well, it's an end of something, end of an age. But there's so much potential, so much possibility for what's to come. Wouldn't you agree? You all wear the weathered scars of experience and challenge disaster on your face since even the last time we met. There's a dark wisdom in being more worldly with each step you take. I deign to take a guess that perhaps you see things a little bit closer to the way I do. Dm, while he's starting to talk, can I start to slink to the right? Maybe stealthily, but not entirely concerned. I want to try and there seems to be a tunnel over here. Right? There is a right down here. Can I try and just not draw his eye and go explore that tunnel while he chats? Sure, go ahead and make a stealth check for me, if you don't mind. 16, 28. 28. Okay. As everyone's having this moment of listening to what seems to be his opening to a conversation, you quietly delve out of the edge of his periphery and begin to ever so carefully head down this little pathway. So we'll come to you in a little bit. I also have a question. Yes? He's got the miniature. At least is holding a staff. He has a staff? Yeah. Has he always had that? Yeah. Yeah. What's that look like? It is a long, thin brass and gold looking staff. It's tightly wrapped towards the center of where he grips it. And it separates off into two prongs with an elvish lattice work that seems to weave between them almost like a strange golden, two pronged fork of magical, attuned energy. Thank you. Great for catching fish. Yeah. Yeah, it's a big camper. He slipped just now. What? He slipped. I don't even think he heard it. I think I heard it. I know, but context, Ashton, context. Well, I mean, there's some truth to it. We saw what we saw. And I'll admit there are some things I. I've shifted around in my head a bit. But you immediately went to the end of an age you had to be reminded about the beginning of a new one. That tells me a lot about where you're at. I love when the insolence of youth tends to believe it knows far more than it can. Read into my words what you wish. This isn't a chess game. This is a conversation. I have nothing to hide. I never have. At every single point, I have been nothing but forthright and honest with you. And that does not change here in my mom's head, I'm gonna say. How much of that is a lie? I mean, as far as I'm aware. Oh, gosh. I can still talk to her. In her head. You can? Yeah. Yeah. This is her talking back to you. But she's still. She's barely holding. She's much healthier thanks to the potion, but she's still significantly drained. She hears. I mean, I had no reason to doubt him. His methods and means are obfuscated and twisted in all manner of ways. But, I mean, I followed him because I believed him. For better or for worse. I still do. For worse, Mama, that's your kind of odds. I'm. I mean, that's the trouble, though. I mean, I believe you. I don't think you've been lying at all. I don't honestly think any of us really think you're lying. I do. Yet we all don't like you. I think you can lie by omission. I think he lied when he said he didn't want to take Predathos himself. I know. You proved yourself. What I was going to ask, did that plan change? Plans often change by unexpected circumstances. He looks over towards your mother, kneeling on the ground, still catching her breath. Leliana was to be the vessel from the beginning. But as a person, as I, who survived as long as I have. You have a number of contingents in case things don't pan out. And upon discovering a not altogether unexpected deceit, I had to resort to doing it yourself. Yeah. You're always going to be the best man for the job, Luna. Yeah. You're an altruist. So is this the plan? Gonna make a beeline for the core, see who gets there first? A little bit of a race. I love races. You don't have to work anymore. You can sit it out. We can just leave now and go take the spot. I agree. The gods have to be dealt with. And do what? Just not you. That's the trouble. Never you. Would it change things if you wanted that? Maybe. We have our own plans of taking on Predathos. And what would you do as the vessel? Either of you? The beginning of a new age, Ludinus. Yeah, it would be so amazing. I mean, I would just eat everyone and I think Imogen would just. We would just have like all of the snacks. And we would start with you. I do not begrudge you for being the children you are. Honestly. But here we are at the edge of destiny. And I think we'll all owe to each other a bit of openness. We're being open. Yeah. It's such a short list of people who've called me a child in the last year or so. Weirdly, most of them were gods at this point. I think there's something wrong with you now. I think you might have lived too long. I definitely know that's what's wrong with them. I don't disagree. I have no aspirations for survival far beyond this. Especially given the context of my temporary imbuement. I think it looks cool. But I know it needs to be done. And if a sacrifice must be made, I will make it myself. If you truly intend to align with my goals and become the vessel to the destruction of this a tyrannical family. Then I would not be in your way either. But I'd walk in very strong lockstep. Then again, your bloodline has already proven duplicitous. Why should I even believe? Maybe you should tell me your hardships. What are the things that drive you to survive here to the ends of the ruddy Moonville omen? What is it you wish to change? I want people to have a chance to change their fate. Too often I feel like what's been set in motion can't be undone. And I think that's in part due to the gods. I do. We take him. Quite good to finish our conversation. Last time in Aeor, I kind of ran off. But I'm curious. In this past century, have you ever thought to just ask the gods yourself? To what end? To what end? You might be surprised. I do answer sometimes. Sometimes? My family once long followed the path of the Law Bearer. My mother and father, most devout followers, living in her holy light and divine protection. Marching to the decrees of guidance and the promised order and peace of Exandria. The Divine Law through all the terror and destruction of the calamity. They never wavered in their faith. And once my earliest memories still ring with their words. She will protect us. Our love and devotion are stronger than any magic, but is brighter than any fire. The Lawbearer will see us through. My family was collateral damage in a battle between the Lord Bearer and the crawling being that destroyed our home city of Azzana. Words of remembrance in the lips of a foreign priest was all I was given in recompense. The fallen, forgotten, abandoned when their gods stepped away from the smoldering ruin. They rot. My conviction was forged that day and has remained unwavering since. Here on the precipice of truth and triumph. No. I do not care for their words, their platitudes. They only care about them. I don't understand. Lidnus. You. You said over and over again that sacrifices must be made. Would you have rather let the Law Bearer have the Crawling King free, loose on the world? You don't have to have faith in the gods. But what about faith in your mother? What do you think she would make of all of this? You know nothing of my mother, Button. What did you do afterwards? Where did you go? What happened? How did this happen? I wandered. I met many survivors. Others who were seeking a meaning to all of it. Looking to their great and wondrous glorious golden gods for direction. For an apology. For comfort. For direction. And in that silence. One by one, they all walked away. So yes, sometimes sacrifices must be made. But the good remember those who made that sacrifice. I remember them when others do not. Why did the gods walk away, do you think? Truly, you've seen it? I saw what I saw. They fear their children. They fear we have too much ambition. Maybe they feared the collateral damage they were wreaking upon the world. Some, maybe. But it's very easy for even the best to be spoiled. What happened to your. To your family? I literally just told you. They died, but. They died. But did you get to say goodbye? Of course not. Inside check. Make an inside check. Do I believe him? 15. 15. Oh, he's hovering. Whisper a whisper for lewdness. Can I quickly judge so far? So far, pretty good. Yeah, pretty good speech. Pretty decent speech. Is that a 6 or a 9 or are you holding it upside down? It could go up to a seven, depending on what happens next. Got a rating system? His villain mind. For real. I hate this. With friends of these, I'm. Oh, no, no. What'd you mark? Nothing. Oh, yeah. This is how I ruin everything. What were your parents names? Yes. What was your mother's name? Do you remember since it's been so long and it's very important, as we've learned in the past, to learn the names of people's parents. I haven't known. I didn't know the names of mine until. Until very recently. As someone whose parents had faith and died and I was cast into the middle of nowhere and blamed the gods and was left without anything. I cannot believe how much of your story makes sense to me. I cannot believe how different we both came out. I'm still an asshole. Don't get me wrong. It's true. Fuck. What is wrong with you? Get over it. Grow up. What's beginning? My journey was Bella Spark. And there are many more stories to tell that have made me who I am today. But what of you, she who sits between many thrones? What would you do with the power of the God eater? I would probably. I would probably like make sure all of my friends have like everything they want. Like get them all like a nice house, like whatever kind of food they want. I don't think it's like being a genie though. I don't know. I've never been a God. I've never been a God. I would be okay. I would just like give anybody what they wanted when I want it. So clearly I'm in the job. You'd be a betrayer God, wouldn't you? Probably Probably. Probably. Probably. I probably would not. It shouldn't be the receptacle for the. But I'm just. I don't know what I would do. I don't know. I mean, we get a. I don't know. It could go either way. It could go either way with this one. And. Why are you here? H. Why are you here? I am here. That's a great question. Great questions. Like what am I doing? What am I doing here? I. Hey. I'm here because I'm very curious. And if the world is going to burn, I would like to have a front row seat. Hmm. That I can respect. What do you want? What do I want? Yes. Well. Imogen was telling the truth. We've talked about this. There is merit to giving. A little bit more fate and destiny back to the people. Learned quite a lot over these journeys. The gods were not the first one here who speaks for them. Who speaks for the Titans, for the elementals who crafted this Earth? Someone should. Even though they're long gone. But I'm here. Really? Just because I kept walking through open doors, as I always have. Some that have gotten me killed twice. But we're here now. Someone has to speak for those who can't speak for themselves. Lots of you. Small, brave Ashari. I don't know that there's much I need to talk about. I'd rather just shut up and do. Your malice is predictable. People have been spilling garbage from their mouths like yours for eons. There's nothing new about you other than the scale d'laith. Honestly, I can't wait for you to come out of that box and your head. You hear? I love you so much, Orym. Now that is forthright honesty. And it's appreciated. Go fuck yourself. And you, wanderer of the silken sails. What's your part in all this? With these strange beasts of fate and destiny. What do you want? I've always just been in it for the ride. But now that I'm here, I feel like. I feel like I want to help steer a little. Can I ask you a question? Is it allowed? I feel like there are rules. I have been nothing but present. So benevolent. I know you think you're right. I don't know. Maybe you are. But do you think what you're doing is good? Do you think that what you're doing is good? In your mind's eye, do you think you're right? Not everything I've done is good. But it's all been to serve what I know to be right. Ha. Gotcha. It's perfect. The best villains always think they're right. Wait, we think we're right, too. Don't think too hard about it. Okay, guys, I'm 90% sure. No, I don't know if that's accurate. No, I mean, Maya villain. Pretty messy. At least we don't have illusions that this is a means to an end. That's what makes a villain. What makes a villain is opposing perspective. That's all it is. That's all it's ever been. And you, fiendling in training, you're a strange outlying thread in this motley crew. What is it you want? They wish the gods to perhaps be gone. Perhaps our goals are aligned in different ways. But you. You are a conundrum. I. I must admit I share some of your distinct history with the gods and have lost faith as well. I also. Although everybody here, including me, thinks you're an asshole. I'm sorry about your family. I know that that's rough and can change a person. Frankly, I. I don't know what I want. And I feel like being around people who do can help guide a person. But you're alone and have no one to guide you and haven't for a long time. That must be very hard. I'm sorry. And I'm going to just sort of walk away from him and walk a different corner of the room. Okay. After he walks away, I've got my arms crossed. I'm just going to shoot two fingers at Imogen and send a message. Whisper to myself for her. Hey, that thing doesn't last forever. And he can get out if he tries. 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You've been following this for quite a bit. And it opens up into a smaller subchamber that then has nowhere other real exit other than across the way, where it splinters off into a another path. Like some sort of ancient exhaust or something pushed through here to create this opening that still remains. But about now you come into one larger, almost triangular chamber that opens up from where you are outward and then comes to a large glass wall deeper in the pillar. In this space, you can see bits of rock jutting up from it and other glass pillars that hit from the ceiling to floor. But where the glass is, the broken opening that leads deep within is obscured with multiple layers of barely visible golden geometry, like lattice patterns of some sort of extremely detailed glyph like barrier, multitudes of layers of it sitting densely one beneath the next big red button. You guys, I'm sorry, Just jump in, jump into it. You know what's happening. Okay, first of all, while we've been walking, has there been any sort of tracks on the ground? Does it seem like treaded ground? Make an investigation check for me. Investigation or survival, Your choice. So excited by this. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. Best you can tell, none. Okay, no dust disturbed. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Can I give a smell to the air and use a little hunter's bane? Is there any indication of a living or undead type of creature in this room, this cavern, this triangular perception check? That was total shit. Six, Six. Hard to tell. And the reason is because as you step into this chamber. There's been that odd periphery buzzing sense, that low, heavy, heavy subwoofer bass sitting underneath the atmosphere here where you stand now, it is loud and it kind of. It hits your senses, your sensitive wolven gnomish ears in a way where you can feel like your eardrums are perpetually flickering, like they're just kind of twitching. Sorry, Liam. It is this kind of oppressive general vibration that you cannot pinpoint that seems to be mucking with your senses. And it seems to just getting heavier and heavier the closer you've gotten towards this current boundary. And from the opening where I'm at to where this golden lattice work is, what's the distance there? It's about 130ft, 140ft maybe from where you currently are. I just want to touch it. I just want to go back and tell you. Large pieces of rock, pillars that are pushed out of the ground at an odd angle. Some sort of force long ago blasted them back and caused them to arc and freeze in place. I should be a team player. I should go back and tell the others. Only the good die young. But I'm not good. I'm Nikki going into the room. And can I look for any sort of. In case this has been scoured before. Any kind of traps or wards or anything that would ensnare somebody trying to cross to this exposed. Sure. Make a good rogue. Make an investigation. Check for truth. Don't mind. Check for traps. 21. 21. You do not see any traps. You do not see any laid glyphs. You don't see any wires or lines. It's just this open stretch of this chamber that eventually comes to this opening with the boundaries there. Some raised platforms, glowing, pulsing glass. But that's. Can I cautiously cross the room about halfway, maybe 50, 60, 70ish feet. And I'll take out one of the wooden discs. It's a C Pop Industries exclusive. And looking at the golden lattice, where can I stone skip? Like wing it like a frisbee into the wall? Yeah, go ahead and make an athletic check for me. Chet invent pogs. It's been a mainstay of my toy business for decades. You have to make sure he dies. It comes in and out of style, but Chetney never does. I win. I get your slammer natural. This one's rudy in glass. 26. You chuck it, it arcs a bit, hits it. There's a little blast of arcane spark, a subtle gold tinted flash and it just skips off and hits the ground and comes to Rest. Can I go? I'm going to get closer and go pick it up and inspect it. Is it singed or burned or just kind of broken? Just kind of like it hit something hard? As I get closer, I'd like to get within 15 to 10ft of this. Is it moving static, solid? As you approach and you get closer, look at it. The faint golden energy and light that's emanating from it. It is an endless fractal of woven glyph like detail that shifts together and moves. You saw patterns like this when Aira's telescope saw the outer barrier that had set an illusion boundary around Ruidus. This has some semblance to the weave of the Divine Gate. And it is just like. You get close and you can see larger glyphs that shift and move and weave, and as you look in, they're made up of smaller glyphs that are made up of smaller glyphs. And it's just this endless fractal to an infinitesimal point, and multiple layers move in different directions beneath each one, and you're not even sure how many there are. I'm going to take out the Staff of Dark Odyssey that I've been entrusted to safe, keep and protect from the group, put it on the ground behind me, and. Fuck it. I'm going to reach out and touch it. Oh, God. Your finger touches it and it's an immediate kind of like a resistance that is warm. It's like pressing your finger against a piece of solid glass or stone that is hotter than your body temperature. So it feels not enough to burn you necessarily, but it has its own unique heat and it just feels solid. Oh, that's not so bad. It's not so bad. We could get through this. I'll take out a little chisel. God, with all my centuries of craftsmanship. Can I give it a. Just one little hit into it? You do. The hammer bounces back, almost like it seems to be repelling it with an equal or close to equal amount of force that was put into it. Okay. Fuck you. Okay, cool. Not for me. Yeah. But no. I've been running for a while. I'm going to turn around, grab the staff and start heading back up the walkway to where the rest is while you're heading back and turning to the chamber. Oh, yeah. You were asking me. That was just the perfect segue. That's also true. Yeah. Can I in my mom's head while Ludinus is monologuing? Ask her. Do you know? Sorry. Really? I didn't think it was going to do that. I did know that was going to be. Do you know how Ludinus planned on you getting through? On you becoming the vessel? We hadn't gotten this far before, but through both of our visions. As far as I know, it requires someone carrying the Mark of Predathos to press through the boundaries from this side. To temporarily leave them traversable. Okay. It was, from what he said, the true purpose of the Ruidus born. To come back to this home and usher it beyond its cage. Okay. Ludinus is looking over your truth a bit as you wander off, and you're all still glaring at it. So. I've devoted my life to knowledge, patterns, control. I've studied and mastered the whims of ambition, weaving well worn pathways. I'm going to Misty step to the tunnel. Miss you at the tunnel to the mouth of the tunnel. Okay. And take off running. Children are so impatient. I'm listening. I'm listening. I was ready to hear the whole thing. Okay. What's the DC on your force base? Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. 16. Move. Oh, that's it. You all watch 16. I know Ludinus to left. Kind of like sighs watching Imogen vanish. And his hair begins to float up. The energy in his body begins to spark up brighter. You watch his eyes go to a bright violet white coloration. As he lifts off the ground, his very outfit seems to flicker and burn red with the energy that's glowing off of him. And then he's gone. Vanished from sight. First try to take off after him. Done that short rest ball. Could I. Yes. As I get to the cavern, could I turn around and use. Well, one thing. I'd like to leave an item at the front of the cavern. Okay. And then could I also use detect magic just to look in the cavern in case there's anything I'm not seeing? Sure. So you go ahead and cast detect magic. And as you were running back in the down the hallway and you cast the spell as you're trekking along, your vision clarifies as you do, the bits of glass that are in the rock around you. Gives a faint magical aura, but it's not of a woven spellcraft or an enchantment. But there is innate. Yeah, they have an innate magical essence to them, though alien than any other magic you've encountered. Whereas normally with detect magic, you can gather a sense of which kind of school of magic it's related to, this kind of sits weirdly out of it. It's like looking at ultraviolet color that's beyond the color spectrum that you're familiar with. Being like, that's. I recognize that that's a color, but I don't know how to describe it. It's that kind of a vibe to it. It doesn't take too long before as you're rushing back, you hear footsteps and Imogen apparates at the early entrance to the tunnel that you would come through, rendering your direction. The rest of you given to a quick run behind her. Oh, hey, I was. I. There's a whole, like lattice work thing. Yeah. I'm going. Just go. Go. Go. What do you mean go? Where's Lewdness? He left. He left. He might be there. Go. But he didn't come through. Can I look back at the lattice work? Is he anywhere? You've come quite a bit into the tunnel to kind of catch up with them by the time like, you're almost back before they got it arrive. Well, don't worry. I left something waiting for him. Okay. Did you? A trap of deadly magnitude. Unheard of magic can't get through that force cage, right? No. I'm assuming that would include a counter spell. You think he just made himself invisible? No, we teleported out. No, I think he teleported out. I'm just wondering if I could have counterspelled it. But unfortunately nothing can get through the force cage. Yeah. Yeah, he just made himself. Orym falls in around him. Imogen. And I'm looking for him. Is there any place in this chamber that he could be? Well, you're not in the chamber yet. You're kind of checking through the tunnel on transit, so. I'll save it. All right. I don't know. They just left. They didn't do that. I'm off somewhere else. What are you doing? What are you doing? Well, I was gonna sit down and pray. Everybody just left. And I don't know that they did. Well, for instance, here's what we'll do because you said, obviously you're gonna have to pray. And then everyone else was talking for a bit before this happens. So you said you wanted to pray to your deity. I wanted to sit down sort of like next to a face of rock of some sort. And I was gonna take out my paints, my poison paints. And I was gonna just quickly splatter a symbol on the rock in poison paint and then touch it with my hand, even if it burns a little, and ask. Reach out in this moment. Reach out and ask. At the cusp. At the cusp of the end of my mission. I need guidance I need renewed faith. I need inspiration. And I need to speak with you. Okay. My Lord. No, you're gonna collect coal. Who's your Lord? Which Lord? Which Lord? So, in a little timey wimey here, as it reaches, while all this has been happening, right before it did, Breitz had stepped off to attempt to reach out to a source of divine inspiration. You know what? Let's have all the rest of you leave the table, if you don't mind. What? Bunsies? Did you know you were going to do that? You knew you was going to kick that off? All right, wait. Let's go. It's happening. God. Okay, just step. Just step out into the kitchen. All right, all right, all right. Don't listen. If he says to kill us all, don't listen to him. Oh, boy, I wish I had a rat. Right, I'm going to ask you in a second who specifically you're praying to. So I was just going to say. All right. Okay. Okay. All right. They left the room. Reyes, who did you pray to? I'm reaching out to see if the Lord of Lies, the King of the Hells, Lord Asmodeus, will hear my plea for guidance. Okay. As you place your hand upon this symbol and reach out to one of the stronger sources of divine guidance in your recent years, you feel that buzzing sound at the edge of your vision begin to shake. Your vision seems to vibrate as all shapes and the painted symbol that you put upon the rock seems to change and move. In that moment, your vision begins to tunnel until a flame burns it back. While your vision still remains imperfect and blurred and unfocused amongst the shadows, you look in front of you, an onyx throne that curves up in all manner of horns or clawed fingers. You can smell throughout the intense sulfur and burned bones that seems to cultivate this darkened space with a sense of horror and belonging here on this black and shadowed space. As this vision itself forces itself to fight through this region where divinity is kept at bay, the shadow peels away, and you see the beautiful face of your fallen angelic lord in his black and red robes as he leans in. My child, what is it that you seek out? If I'm not kneeling, I kneel and lower my head in reverence. I apologize for disturbing you in this hour of great import, but I signs from you have been few and far between. And I've been shown so many other paths, none of which I've taken, my lord. But in the absence of clarity, sometimes a mission can become muddled. Or I fear I Stand on shaky ground. I've met people who consider me their ally, who have goals aligned with ours, but for different reasons. And now I've just spoken with our enemy, Ludinus d'Alethe, whose history and story actually sounds remarkably like my own. And it shook me. I just want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing. I'm following your path and I'm not confusing your orders. It is good of you to check in breath. For indeed, through some whim of the threaded fate, you stand at the cusp of a choice. Ludinus may be a tragic figure, but deeply no misguided. Such beings might need a new direction. Or if their goals are in opposition to our personal interests, they must be erased. He's too far gone. Destroy him. But. But. Cannot be set free. Cannot be set. Oh, okay. If you cannot do this, then perhaps. No, no, I can. I can. I've accomplished much in my walk with Breus. Who do I walk with? I walk with you, my lord. I. When I was at my lowest, when tragedy befell me, I thought about ending it all. I thought about. I thought my life was over. And you were there. You sent a guide to guide me. To tell me I had something to live for. That I was special. That I didn't need the approval of the prime deities or a temple or anyone. That I was strong enough on my own. When you commanded me to destroy that first guide, Stanley, I did. I did as you commanded me. And I've done much more since. Using the knowledge you've given me and the abilities that you've granted me, I've made allies with important people. I've met the heads of churches and temples and kingdoms. I found this group that considers me their ally and have brought me all over the world. I've even found that I have gotten this armor. This armor. This comes from the Platinum Dragon himself. I greatly recognize it, my lord. They just gave it to me. And I have another boon too. One that I can use to help you. But how will I know if the time is right and. And what will happen if I succeed? Will I? What do you want, Breus? I'm in no position to ask you for anything, my lord. Aleph. You're in every position to ask, Breus. You've already done so much. You, who was abandoned by those who could not see the. This spark of potential within you. You, who was lost and adrift because you spent a life in service to others who cared a little. But now you live in service to yourself. And as such, in Service to me. And I'm so proud. So you who work so hard, you who now represent our future. My future. What is it you want, Doomseed? Well, first and foremost, to please you, my lord. But I wish for family. I wish my family discarded me when I. When I ruined their name. And I've been alone for so long. I wish for a family and a place to call my own. My home. Maybe I could. Maybe I could go to where you dwell and sit with sweet, sweet Breas. His clawed fingers cup your chin as he leans forward and looks into your eyes. You already have a family and a home. And it will be yours forever. You just need to protect it. Protect it? Yeah. Destroy Ludinus. But do not free Predathos. And if it must be freed, do what you must to bend it to our will. I know you walk alongside vessels. I know you've ingratiated yourself to those who might very well be the crux of our time. Bend them to us. What if they won't listen to me? Then perhaps it needs a vessel to survive. And without a vessel still remaining, your home will be protected. I understand. And you'll bring me to you. And so many more things. Brayus. You've only stepped but a little into these flames and pleasures. I'm proud of you. I must confess. These friends I'm with, I like them. I don't know if I'll be strong enough to. How will I be strong enough to betray them? Patience. You can't give me, like, a special spell or a. Something. I'm never far from you, Brains. And when the moment is right, we'll strike together. I look forward to that day. It might be today, actually. Time. Wisdom is always of the essence, isn't it? It is. Thank you for seeing in me what others wouldn't. Thank you for not abandoning. Abandoning me? He just kind of looks over at you with a soft smile. You've always been special. Now show the rest of the world why the flames wreath your vision and you are back inside the chamber with your hand on the symbol. As you pull away, you watch as the paint burns into ash, leaving the rock face clean as it was before you started. In that moment, you see the rest of your friends suddenly notice Imogen vanish off elsewhere. Ludinus vanish. And they all begin to charge into a tunnel. We can go ahead and call the rest of the troop in, if you don't mind. I'm going to go ahead. And we should hide, you and me. Let's do it. Just hide. They went to Like Glendale or something. I know, right? There they are. We're going. Nice jacket. Are you live? I'm like you now. Brave. Got turned into an old geezer. I like all the lights sucked out. Oh, no. Nobody believes Robbie. Robbie. What? Yours? Oh, I'm good. Thank you so much. It is. But I'm switched beverages. Okay, I'll take them both. Now I got two. Now you got two. Did you open a gate to hell? We were strategizing out there. We used the time wisely. In no way talking about. Not talking about that was the most bas. One of our. It was one of our foul or comments really was foul. Orgasmic therapy, huh? Well, dang it. We were in the wrong game. Man, when you lay it out, what a weird conversation we all just had. So, coming back to this moment, the troop of you has begun to run into the tunnel after where Imogen had misty stepped and began to run. Where you encounter Chetney, who is returning from doing a bit of intel. And you all continue onward through this winding cavernous tunnel. I actually hadn't taken off yet. Okay. Seriously, I think I would turn around and see what Brayus try to gather Brayus before we all run. Okay. Yeah. You step up and Breus places his hand on the rock and is just standing there for a second. Bryas. I think it's go time. At that exact moment, he put his hand on the rock for but a moment. He pulls his hand back and you watch as this splash of paint burns into ash. Were you doing art? I was, but it doesn't seem to. I think I need canvas or paper. So this doesn't seem to be the right surface for medium for. Where is everybody? Oh, they went running off, I think to fight Ludinus. Oh, God. Okay, so we should go. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Let's go. Okay. So the rest of you, frescoes, that's what they're called? Prescos. Yes. People paint on rock. That's good. Yeah. Thank you. The rest of you go rushing into the entryway to this long chamber, this triangular shaped chamber amongst the various curved rock points and pillars that rise up the columns of glass across the way. You can see what Chetney has already encountered. The layers and layers of some sort of divine barrier across the chasm or the chamber opening. And there you see at it floating and glowing red violet with energy. Luden is facing away with both hands on the boundary as the glyphs and golden script is alighting around his hands. I am going to psychic glance him. Oh, shit. We're just doing Things. Let's fucking go. What's the range on psychic Lance? 120ft. Okay, so you step in within 120ft. Can I do it? How soon would I be able to see it? You guys all step into the chamber. He's probably like, 140ft from where you first step in there. Oh, okay. So you move in and. Right. As soon as you get in range, you can try and hit him as well. Also, there is a C Pop exclusive, limited edition, one of four on the ground. He has to make a DC wisdom saving throw. Distract. It's a 15 wisdom save, but something amazing. I want this to work so bad. That's going to be a 19. Sorry. But it was a worthy shot. Magic. But it was worth a shot. That was awesome. He's too cold. There's no joy in his heart. All right, so second glance, is that a saving throw on his point? Yes, it is an intelligence saving throw. Intelligence saving throw. That's gonna be a 26. I would like to cast Earthbind on him. Sure. Okay, well, if I could do the order of operations here. Yeah. Range 300ft. You can definitely do that. And there's a lot of distance between us, but there's no, like, yawning chasm or anything that's hard to cross or anything. It's just distance. It's just distance. So there's people that, as soon as you rush in and the casters have an immediate reaction to go ahead and start, stop. All right, so you cast Earth bind. Seen a strength saving throw. That's going to be a 16. 19. All right, so his fly speed was reduced to zero for the spell's duration. So he cannot. Oh, it's flies. God dang. He keeps doing that every time. But didn't that work? It worked once. It worked with Delilah. We can see what he's. We can see what he's doing. He's touching the first layer of the barrier. Is that right? Correct. Does it seem. Damn it. By looking. If we can see the effect, does it seem like there's a dissipating effect as he's trying to do what he's doing? Or is there a visual cue? Make an arcana check if you'd like to. From this distance. It'll be your action to do this. All of you are getting one round before he gets any sort of reaction right now. Okay, okay, okay, okay. All right. I want that to be my thing. Okay. Natural. It's a natural one. Yeah, but I want to take a look. What's he doing? Over there. He did suffer. He's. He's touching some sort of magical barrier. Cool. Sorry, man. Dice maybe. But we just gotta get there. He's too hands on. And his staff is what, like slung Somehow the staff is just kind of floating to the side of him. Floating next to him. I hate that. For mine, I'm going to use my action and my movement to sprint toward him to try to get within 30ish feet. And I'm going to thrust Seedling out and reach a vine out and try to yank that staff. Okay. Your speed is 30. 30ft. So. And he is 140ft from where you guys entered the chamber. He's too far away. So he would be. So you could move to 110 to 80 on a dash and a move. So you're halfway across the chamber. So you move 60ft at that point. All right. So you're close to your 80ft from him. We should stick with Orym. Stay with Orym. Stay close. Keep running. Keep running. Are me and Lauchna almost there? You've entered now behind a bit. So you guys don't get an action this round. But you're at the front of the chamber. It's okay. He's not going anywhere. I scare of it. Imjin, are you moving further in the chamber after capturing. I'm running like I'm shooting it. Just keep dashing. So note these numbers. You are 60ft into the chamber. You are 30ft into the chamber. Both of them are at the entrance. Are you moving closer? Yeah, I'm running with everybody else. Okay. So you're also 30ft into the chamber. Are you moving as well? Yeah, 30ft into the chamber. I'm moving in and hitting and activating the Shard of Kamort as well. So I'm doing that and diving underground as we go. Yeah, it's possible. It's on. Work this in here. You can get partway down. And the glass that is all throughout this chamber is preventing you from fully submerging. Gotcha. Since this is all kind of. And as soon as you get in there, you realize it's like this. Almost like a cinnamon roll type marbling of the glass and the stonework throughout. So it isn't just raw rock and stone. So you cannot quite fully immerse yourself. That's fine. And we should stay close because if he does get it down, we can. I'm sticking with the group. Chetney. Yeah, I'm just trying to stay close to the furthest person, which is Orym. Seems like a terrible God Eater. Actually, a cinnamon roll could be okay for the ease of setting up what this will look like. Let's go ahead and show it a break and I will. Yeah, an early break, because I need to go ahead and set what this looks like. So, yeah, we've had some late breaks, some early breaks, early break. We'll be here in a few minutes to see where this takes us. So see y'all here in a second. We interrupt this Critical Role podcast network broadcast to bring you news of dangerous treasures that lie sealed within the Critical Role shops. Only the hardiest of adventurers should dare seek them out. In all seriousness, though, I'm Matthew Mercer and we've made some very cool things that we really like and hope you will to. If you'd like to support the show, please consider visiting any of our Critical Role online shops through the shop tab@critrole.com and see if anything catches your eye. Okay, back to the show and welcome back. Including the team. Come back to the table and we can go ahead and jump into this chaos here. Whoa. How does the ground look like that miniature has changed. The miniature has changed. Wait, wait, is that actually. Wait, he already changed. He already changed. Yeah, he's. Wait, who changed? Is that Luda? No, no. Is that wig boy? No, that's Luda as the exalt. No, he's like floating an inch off the ground. Oh, my gosh. Look at Justin's mini. What the fuck? I went. I. I powered up. So wait, does that mean there's 4, 5, 1, 2? Have you never seen my. Are there all that many layers of wards? We have to. Never mind. We can't know this yet, can we? There are multiple. Multiple wards through the. The hallowed cage. Okay, is the ground. Oh, man, this is going to be easy. Wait, is the ground flickering? Yeah, the ground is changing. It's the go. It's the gobo hitting. Ground is changing. These parts are. He's got an extra card in his sleeve. Red jacket. It's a string. You can see the string. Well, friends, let's go ahead and roll initiation. We're rolling for initiative already. We're rolling for initiative. Brought to you by Wizkids and their Tastes of Exandria charms available for pre Order now. Discover some of Exandria's tastiest treats. 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So with we killing this guy, Ludinus now focused on the first boundary barrier right there. Boundary. The footsteps of you all approaching into the chamber and coordinating quickly as you rush in just barely acknowledges you from behind. What are you doing? I think I want to honor what I said before when I thought I was closer. So I'll run 30ft forward. Okay. What was I avoiding a rock there? I can't step on the blue. Is that. No, you can step on the blue if you want to. Okay. I was just moving them more direct lines I was trying to do solid. Yeah, those are veins of the glass through glass. Pretty matt. This is sick. It's really pretty. So I'm gonna go another. I'm gonna use my action now to move a little closer. I'll go get a little closer. 15 maybe. And with a bone, using seedling, I will thrust the sword out and I vine will shoot out towards that staff and I'm going to attempt to yank it the fuck out of his hand. Okay, well, it's floating in the air next to him. We'll just try to grab it. So try and grab it and pull it there. The psychic power that is emanating from the recently temporarily exultant Ludinus Dileth is going to attempt to hold it in place. Mama had a lot of spells, so we're going to compare competitively. Roll off. Okay. Or it's a saving throw, isn't it? So it's a save. I don't have a spell. Well, no, see in this one it would be a. I think the sword lists a spell Save DC of 17. Okay, 17. So what I'll go has. I'll roll and add his spell casting modifier and try. And this modifier's like 17. That's going to fail. Whoa. So the staff, you pull it back into your hand. I know now what you can't do. Max. I was about to say most compounds. Yeah, it's done. Well, the dog has caught the car currently options. But he could also yank it back. So that was movement, then action. And then I'm out of gas. I've got like half of my movement left. I'll dance back 15ft the direction that I came. All right, cool. Actually, I will go on a diagonal this way instead. This way. Okay. There you go. Dance with the king. All right. That finishes your go. Check me. You're up. He just walked up and aced his spear. The first move we need, I run up to Protector. Y'all remember 15ft together. But I think in the time that's passed, I don't think I'm a werewolf anymore more. But I can do it twice a day. So I'll and come back out. Okay, sure. No worries. On the inside and in my pants. I will step in front of. Okay. Movement of 40ft. 40ft? Yeah. You can get up here in front of him or here if you want. And how far away? 5, 10, 15. 20. 25. That's more than 30ft, right? He's a little more than 30ft from you. Yeah. How much of my 40 did I use to get in front of Orym? Do I have 1035 to get there? So you can do 40 and get there. I don't think that'll put me within 30 of Luda though. It might. It might. That might be within 30. It's okay. I'm going to take out the turmoil, the scythe and I'm going to use my bonus action to create slice it up the side of my leg and lightning arc came down the side of it. Awesome. And for my attack, I will. Fuck it. I'm gonna cast a shatter towards Ludinus with constitution saving. There it is. As soon as I pull it up, I'm sure it's something really high. Like make a constitution. Must make a constitution saving throw. Okay. Of what the DC should be on the weapon. It really should. Oh, wait. Constitution 1425. So it succeeds. It takes half damage. So you can go ahead and roll damage on that 3D. Swear to God. 48 now. Oh, it's so powerful. 15ft on this thing. 15 what? Pass down the render of 15ft and see if we can 7, 23. 29 points of thunder Damage reduced To half. To half. So that'd be 14. Yes. All right. This massive sound of like cracking air detonates in this. And you watch as bits of nearby frayed and jagged glass at the edges of this interior layer of the pillar splinters off and sends shards and bits of rock flying everywhere. Parts of the nearby rock columns crack at the impact. And it echoes. And you hear the sound of the blast of this arcane detonation echo down the hall behind where you came from. Ludinus takes the brunt of it and keeps looking straight ahead. Amazing. Any non magical items in the area also take damage, but I don't think he has any of those. Yeah, he kind of rolls a lot of magic items. Fair. Let's return. All right. Finishing Chetney's go. It is now Ludinus. Ah, fuck. No. Good enough. So Ludinus, who is facing the the edge of this, is going to turn around. Come on, baby, let's go. We really could have worked together. But for now, just watch. And he snaps his fingers. No. And as he snaps his fingers, you watch this faint grayish magical energy flicker around his hand. Almost like a starscape scene of spill. Some sort of duty Mancy. Cerberus has been studying it for. What if he's open? No, I'm not with Enrique. Even the voids of old are still hungry. And his Eve. Wasn't that enough time for us to move out of the way of something with his talking? No, we're enraptured by his words. He's opening geometry. He casts ninth level ravenous void. Did you say knee? What is a ravenous void? You watch as a Mathew. A black sphere of lightless destruction just apparates in the back chamber. And all. All of the air in the room starts pulling towards it. A singularity is conjured across the edge of this room. And you watch as anything untethered in the area immediately gets pulled across and annihilated within its dark, lightless expanse. It's cool. Orbit. I got this, you guys. The two melee guys got this. He's kicking our ass with math and physics. Can we roll a save at the moment? Holy shit. No, no. That's going to end his turn. Oh, are you in? Wait, he's after. Wait, he's after Chad. Wait. Nothing happens to us. Jet is gonna do it. It opens up in that space. Oh my God. And all of you feel like just this extreme gravity begin pulling you towards it. And he turns back around and starts like putting his energy back towards the chamber there. He's also Going to run his thumb along a ring on his hand. And as it does, it flashes. And you watch as his exposed skin suddenly glows with a series of glyphs and runes. And his skin seems to almost take a darker obsidian look for a second before it fades back into his skin. And he has some sort of protective. God, I hate it. That's going to finish his turn. He used his action. Not on the barrier. Don't smirk so much. Your dimples are killing us. Stop it. That's never good. That's his opening move. It's never good. Brave beginning of your turn. Make a strange. I knew it. I knew it immediately. I can't beat this. I'm going to. No, I'm not going to beat it either. How? With that attitude. You undid 22. 22. Just say you feel the gravity pulling you in and you hunker down. Strength. All terrain within 100ft of the. The sphere is considered rough terrain. 100ft. The map? Yeah, the whole map. Well, most sucked into this fucking spot. About up to here. Yeah. Maybe it accidentally takes us to the other side of the lattice work. Yeah, it's just not mini golf, man. That'd be fun. Really nice. Max. A brus. You. You are. You wanted to continue. You can still take your turn. You're not moved or anywhere. You basically hunker down. But movement is halved while you're within the radius of the sphere. Save me. Okay. I'm making a feline for y'all. Look how happy you are. Okay. Oh, my God. Am I within 100? Make him squir. Am I. Am I within 120ft of him? Yeah. No, I would. Within 120 where I was right before you walked in. So you are. Let's see here. Just going to spell range. Yeah. 85. You are about 135ft from him. Okay. You can move up 130. 130. Okay. Brutus born are in 120. Yes, but my speed is halved. Correct. Wow. So I can only move 15ft. Wow. 10 forward, 5 back. If I move 10 forward, do something and then move 5 back, will I be 5ft within laudna? Yes, you would. Okay. Okay. I will help. Yes. Technically. First. First. Yes. Bonus Action. Inspiration. You've got this. Oh, shit. You've got this dead one. I am lose. Your strength is my dump stat. I know it. Then I will walk 10ft forward because that's all I can walk bringing me within 120ft of Ludinus 10. I will cast silence around Ludinus Okay. In case he has any verbal components of spells. Right. Maybe that will take some away. Cast silence. Silence. He's gonna go ahead and counterspell. He can't. He's far too far away. With spell Sniper. It doubles the range. Not with. It's got to be an attack spell. Not with, let me see. Not with counter spell. You have spell sniper, don't you? I do. Unless the base. Because my counter spell. I also have spell sniper is 60ft. But he's also Ludinus. But he's also Ludinus, which means he may have a feet that already doubles his. Well, I mean, teleport is not an attack spell and we all. Oh my God, we're getting out the book. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But look at a pretty booger. This is the pretty one you scan counter spell Teleport. That's not an attack spell. No, no, no. But counter spell isn't an attack spell. I think the spell sniper. Oh, from the sniping. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cuz Spell sniper, he wants for it. Sam. Also whatever. Mad it ludinous. So whatever. But I, I just want to clarify. Wow, that's crunchy Rule. I thought it was. Come up in scroll. When you pain one when scan. When you cast a spell that requires you to make an attack roll, the spell's range is doubled. Your range spell attacks ignore half cover and three color three covers. Quarter require. Oh, three, four. Cover me. Wow. My boy. The boy book and the phone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's some nick. I didn't mean to throw us off. No, it's good. I, I, I. Okay. I'm using my action to be. Here's your inspiration, by the way. Okay, thank you. Is he singing out loud? Is he singing? Did I just piss off the dm? No. Should I just let this go? No, I'm making, I'm making adjustment. No, it's good. He's gonna kill us now. DM your health. Yeah. So silence goes up. Something else goes off. No, he says silence goes up. Okay. Then I will use my remaining movement to walk back towards Laudna so that I can be within five feet of her. Okay. And that's it. Okay. Okay. That finishes your turn bracelet. That's all I can do. Bonus action. Get away from the door. Huh? That means he's got to get away from the door. I know. Yeah. All right. Finishing Brayus. Go Laudna. You're up. Ashlane. Bonnet, make a strength saving throw for me. Well, actually, you start your turn within the radius of the sphere, so first, you immediately take 5d10 force damage. Wait, did I take. I didn't take that. You were not in the radius. She's in it. You take 22 points of force damage and make a strength saving throw for me. Hold on, wait, this is a spell. I mean, this is the radius of the spell. Yeah. Anyone within 10ft of me is resistant to spell damage. Okay, so yes, you take half. That's 22. So I would have taken 11 damage. Correct. And that's force damage. You said force damage. Yes. Wow. Wow. Good to know. Okay, and now I now a strength saving throw. Yes. But anyone within five feet of me has plus four to their saving throws. Oh, so it's a plus two. Roll high. Oh, that's what that was. Okay, don't reload your apps. That's funny. It's bad. Well, no, because I did a search to be let those interact, and it was like, yeah, they surely do. I just realized it's Google's AI that once again, absolutely wrong. Fuck AI. Always wrong. So does he counterspell it? No, he does not. Okay, 15. 15. Wait, with the inspiration. Oh, well, he just succeeded with the 22. Oh, so you can't get there. And that's with my plus four. Yeah, but make it. I have minus two to my strength. Make it really hurt. Just roll a six and make it really hurt. Then you're fine. No, no, no, 17th. No, save the inspiration for later. Yeah, because it was a 22, so they could only get to 21. It was impossible. Well, he just said you have inspiration, so I rolled it. No, don't use it. All right. I won't be able to use it. In the abyssal void, it's absolutely mass matter. Laudna is pulled into the center of the void and is restrained. Do we see her? Is she gone? You see her? Just watch. Actually, you kind of hear her next to you, but this blackened void space around you, it's hard to see. Stretching for sure. Doing the McConaughey inception. No interstellar cry. So the sphere itself is like the density of it. You can still see her, but now she's pulled. It's almost like this darkened shadow sphere. And as she gets pulled into the center, you can barely see her. Now, being crushed into it hurts. You still take your turn. I can still take my turn. Smoke him if you're gonna. You just can't get out of the sphere, and you take 5d10 force damage every time you. This is magical darkness. I have dark vision. Can I see through this? Yeah, I can. Yeah. Okay, so I can see Ludinus. Yes. Which direction is he facing? Towards me. Or is he facing towards the wall? He's facing towards the wall. Towards the wall. I want to. 1. I'm gonna do my form of dread to gain back some temporary hit points here. Okay. Seven. How many feet? What? It's a 20 foot radius. Yeah, it's a bubbly. Okay. Form of dread. I'm going to fire off three of my Eldritch blasts. Can I try to aim for the back of his neck? If you'd like to. Yeah, it is. He has a higher AC against that point and you are restrained. So your attack rolls are disadvantaged. They're disadvantaged. Correct. But you're also sucked into this bubble. So. Okay. Okay. Remind you, you can take an action to make a strength, check against the DC to break free, but your actions. My strength sucks ass. I can't get out of this. Did he just make it to 22? Does it matter? He said he just made it a 22. Just me? Yeah. There's literally no way. Unless. A roll of natural 20. That's a bummer. Why weren't you lifting in between sessions? Bro, I'm made of paper. We know this by the way. A creature can spend its action to try and make that safe to help itself or another creature break free of the gravity. Okay, so if somebody else wanted to go next to Laudna and then use their action to try and pull her out. I'm coming. You're so far away. God, that is such a easy to say, Matt, because of reasons. Is Ashton considered a large creature right now? Ashton is considered a large creature. Yeah. Higher dc. What to do, what to do? Do you want to aim at the back of his neck? Yeah, I said it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna see what happens here with the disadvantage. So this sucks, but here we go. This is the Eldritch blast, huh? Yeah, this is the eldritch blast. Eldritch blast. Okay. Okay. So once again, first hit is going to be. Ugh, Jesus. My brain tonight. 18. Thank you. First one misses. Second one. That one's cocked. That's gonna be 21 to hit. Misses. Come on, come on. Okay, 29 to hit. That hit. Let's go. Sucked into the board and concentrating on these barricades towards the back of where the energy is currently crawling up the back of his neck, his hair, blowing it in the air. You get this momentary flash of what looks like some sort of a dark knotted bit of flesh at the base of his neck and skull, right around the place where the quintessence array would be. Okay, so, yeah, I can feel my bones crushing against the gravity, but I'm just going to try and embrace it and let it steady myself as I fire. And I will do weak ass 7 damage, plus an additional 8d6 necrotic damage. If you don't mind. Go ahead and roll that. What? 8d6 necrotic damage for hitting that spot? For hitting that spot. Oh, it's like one of those little cysts that you bust with an encyclopedia. Just like. Who has an encyclopedia? What did you just say? A assist. Haven't you ever seen. If I needed to. If I can I empower this with a big book? No, because this isn't yours. Gross. 11. 12. And then it comes back like a year later. 15 plus 15. 25. 26 damage. Necrotic damage on top of that. 7. 7. She rolled a two plus your five. Yes. So my phone is. You fire it off. Whack. Hits the back of it. And with the impact, you see him kind of slump forward against the wall and this burning hiss, like a weird arcane smoke drifts in the back of his neck. And he like rubs it for a second and looks back at you, furious for a second. Oh, nice. Let me see if he maintains concentration. That's an advantage on this. Fail it. That is going to be. Yeah, I think that's more than enough. So those were two, right? Three. Those three. Those all three. Yeah, that's right. There's only one. You're right. All right, so that's your action. Bonus action form of dread. You look real creepy in the dark, and I look really creepy as I get spaghettified. That's true. So we can't see into that right now. You can see into it. It's very heavily shadowed, but you can still see the shapes in there. And right where Laudna is currently sitting, there's like this black crushing singularity. Okay, that finishes your turn. Yeah, man. Ashton, start your turn. Make a strength saving throw here. Okay. Can't even BAMF out of this strength save. Come on, don't suck. 18. No. Are you raging? Not yet, because I needed to have. Because we started with this, but I'm about to be raging. Unfortunately, that is a failure. You get pulled back to the center with luck there. You are restrained and you take five. I'm not restrained. I believe, actually. Hold on. Do take. Yeah, I'm going to take it. 25 points of force damage. That's fine. One second. You're not going to take it? Sorry. No, I'm restrained. It's not prone or grapple. Okay. But as. So as his action on his turn, can he throw Laudna out of there or no. Or hold her while he tries to get out? Well, he, right now he can't move. So he can spend his action to try and free himself from this form and then run out, or he can use his action to try and free her from it. And on her next turn. She can. But can he free her if he's not free? He can. He just has disadvantage. But he got sucked in. Was he on the edge? You can help somebody while you're drowning too. Yeah, that's true. So if I break free, can I grab her and run if I, if I break it, If I break it with my action? Well, no, she is held action version. So she's held, but I can break her and leave myself in there. You can. Okay. All right, first of all, let's rage. What I don't want, what I don't want to have happen is he tosses my hands out and then extra gets stuck right back. I don't want us to have us like waste. All right, here we go. This up. What do we got? Hey. Yes, she's rolling a concentration check. So I am still stuck in here. I'm going full rainbow sparkle. I'm surrounded by all sorts of crazy ass, crazy ass sparks coming off. We can't see it, but. Yeah, no, you can. It's like this, like a weird sad thing. You're the light, get sucked into black holes. I know. Debatable. Yeah. Okay, so the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to try and. Is it worth ungrappling you or ungrappling me first? I'm trying to figure that out. I'm gonna ungroup you all day. So that's a strength check, if I recall. Strength check to ungrapple her to get her out of Correct. Yeah. Okay, so that's saving throw or just regular. No, this is a strength check. Okay. So I have advantage on strength. You do you add your strength modifier. What's your mod there, T? My mod for my strength modifier is six kick ass. And then I'm just seeing. Okay. No. Okay, this won't work for that yet. So rolling 16. 16 jails, unfortunately. And I can't move. What are you trying to do, T? I was trying to let you out, but I did not roll high enough for that to happen. No, that's not what I had. I think I'm fucked now. I Think that's what I got. I think that's your turn. That's my turn. Okay. With his fellows. Dorian, you're up with Iman on deck. Beginning of your turn. Make a strength saving throw for me, Dorian. Strength saving throw. Oh boy. Correct. Come on D. Come on big boy. Well, what the 11. Oh boy. Movie. Oh boy. You know what? Form a colony of like a. Like a life raft of ants. Yeah. Yes. This float on the water. Water. Hold on, Dorian. You take sick. 23 points of force damage. Cool. If only brass had been pulled in there, we all would have been reduced. I can go in there for you guys. No. Do I restrain? I mean what does your God tell you to do, Br boy? Work. Everything's going accordingly. Yeah. Anyone want to get us the fuck out of here? That'd be great. Oh boy. All right. So in the thick of the restrained just means I can't move, right? I can still like take action and stuff like that. Yeah. Okay. Man. Man, oh man. Am I within reach of Laudna. Where are we? Like since this is a singularity, you all got shyest together. Like I'm going to just. If I can't. I'm. I'm touching her. I guess I'm technically I'm touching her shoulder. Shoulder. Elbows in my tent. This party sucks. You want to get out of here? Yes, please. I'm going to cast dimension door. Okay. Where are you going? Come on baby. Let's go. Let's go. Is it just the two of you? I. I can't get in on that, can I? That's why I asked why? If you were you all, that's because of you. That let me know if you're a big and or not. I'm all good. Yeah. Beep zwip. Out of trouble. Up, up and away. I got 500ft. Can you put us on but within spell range. Can you put us up on that pillar? Within range of Luda? Can you put us up high tippy toppies? I think the tippy toppies is the top of the cavern. Oh, it's like that's the top. Okay. Oh, okay. Neither of you are restrained now. That's nice. Out of that 20 foot. So can you just sneak us behind that back pillar right there? That glowing one right here? Yeah. Oh no, a little further front. Just the pillar itself. The glowing one. Here's a good question. Yeah, that works. Make sure you're more than 20ft out from silence. Yeah, because. Oh right. 20ft out from silence. And how far does it look like things are getting Pulled into the black hole. You know what make a perception. Yeah. 100ft from the outside of the radius. So you have to be from the outside, from the side. So we should go diagonal, Right. Straight out of his range, but inside of ours. So maybe like around here, you think? Yeah. On those other rocks. What? Check. Did you diagonal that way? Perception. If you're on, like, the lowest step, you'd still have eyes. Perception checkness. Perception check is not great. So your. Your guest is. Your guess is as best as anybody as to how far the actual extension of that gravity is. Yeah. Between the two of you, if you want to say where you want to be. Is it over here? Is it over here? Where do you want to be? Like, right in here. Yeah. I mean, that's a similar angle of what I was looking at on that side. Yeah. But whenever. When we were pulled in, we were, like, physically pulled in, right? Yeah. Like an extreme source of gravity was right behind you and just, like, yanked you off your feet and pulled you into the side. I know it sounds crazy, but can we be, like, here so that the rock is between us and the hole? If you'd like to, maybe. We'll be plastered to a rock, but better than plaster. Yeah, that's fair. Let's check out that radiation. Oh, no, I got bad perceptions. Come on. That's 85 eyes without 90. 95. 100. That is outside. Oh, my God. That was so cool. Wow. Drop down behind, and you're like, just. You can feel like the wind kind of in the chamber being pulled towards that direction, but you are not within the gravitational pull. Save for now. You saved us. Ah, no. Saved the day again. We saved us. You look great, by the way. Inspiration. You know, I really feel like this dry moon, dusty air just really does something for my complexion. So it's your action. You still have your movement. Use your bonus. That's my bonus. Oh, no, no, no. Thank you. No, thank you, sir. I'd like to stay behind that pillar. I'm good to go. All right. Yeah. At the end of your turn. Let's see here. You're dead grappled. I can't be grappled, but I can be restricted Silence within. Oh, God. Who played silence, schmot? Okay, so Ludinus, who with the exultant features gained from your mother, includes silence and still spell, so he does not need to speak to cast spell at the end of his turn, is going to go ahead and use two of his legendary actions to cast Son of a Beach. Son of a Beach. So it Just means that our spellcaster is not the one. Can't get close for now. I can always just. He's fine to shit it out. Yeah. If I see him casting spells, I'll do it. I'm a bad boy. So closer. I can fly. He's going to cast. I can fly. He's going to go ahead and cast. Lightning bolt at six level. Oh, we're in a line. Yeah. Oh, I. Roll a D6 for me, please. What? Why? Just roll a D6. What? Why? Just do it. What? Where? Four. Four. Can't hear you. I'm sorry, I can't. He does lose. He does lose some spell levels when you hit him there. So I'm just keeping taps on him. Oh, hitting the wound. Hit the cyst. Good. So he's gonna go ahead and like from behind now that he's like focused back on it, turns back at the two of you, Chetney and Orym, and is gonna like, see the staff that you have clutched in. I mean, you did call it a race, didn't you? It looks. Glances over in your direction without breaking eye contact with you, releases this bolt of extremely bright crackling lightning out that way. It's going to from this direction here. The range of the lightning bolt, I believe, is 100ft. Let me double check. So we're just out of range. Correct. So no, you're fine. Ashton is out of rank. However, I would like both Orym and Chetney to make dexterity saving her. No problem. 24 for me. Okay. Okay. Dang. Natural 20. Scatter pop. Hell yeah. Scatter pop. 52 points of lightning damage reduced to 26 to each of you. Okay. Wow, that was his legendary actions on that one. Wow. All right. And then been finishing that turn there for Dorian. Imogen, beginning of your turn. I need you to make strength saving through for me, please. You got this. Unless I roll a 20. 20 natural. Come on, Mo. 20 natural. 20. Call it out. I'm taking a picture of that. To the moon. Let's go. Let's go, babe. Babe Ruth. Yeah. Yes. If you resist the intense gravity of the ravenous void, your turn is yours. Oh, God. I fully thought I was gonna get sucked in. Now I gotta think about what I'm gonna do. So here is our time. Birthday girl smashing the ball at the barn. Oh, my God. Okay, I should move to try to get out of this space as much as I can. So I'm gonna head that way. Are you flying still? I was. I had. How long does that last for? But it lasts for an hour. I think. Let me double check though. Ho down. Let me lose. You weren't talking to Ludinus for an hour? Not quite an hour. Oh, far less than that. You guys, like 20 minutes. Talked to him for about. Yeah, 15 maybe most. 10 minutes. It only lasts for 10 minutes. Okay, so that would have faded. It's gone. Well, the ground is rough terrain because of the gravitational pull. Then in that case, I'm going to bonus action and float up in the air. Okay. And the gravity still pulls. Like everything is rough terrain, even the air around it, because the gravity is full. So it's up to you. Oh, even underground. Okay, wait, maybe I don't do that. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, so I can get 15ft, right? So I'm gonna move 15ft that way. Okay. 5, 10. 15. 15. But that's, that's farther than 30ft away. I'm gonna misty step here so that it, like if it pulls me towards it, it's at least pulling me against this rock and it doesn't suck me in, right? We'll find out. Potentially it's the exact same idea. Yeah. That's why we're behind the rock. Who knows? Okay, well, I just used spell fuck. Okay. So that's the second level. I just use bell fuck. Hold on. Like he's gonna. This is definitely gonna work on him. I am going. Yeah, you just gotta. You gotta neg your own rolls. That's the key. That's what it takes. I'm going to pull this mortal mage. I'm going use a sorcery point to double my distance of mind sliver. Okay. Even though I know he's varying intelligent, maybe he'll roll low. And that is an intelligence saving throw. You got it. Oh, well. 26. He succeeds. Okay, I had the feeling that was a low row. Low. Was it? Was it a low roll? It was a 12. A 12. Got him a 26. Okay, I. Plus 13. Is that what it does? Plus 14. Okay, okay. All right, great, great. Okay, cool, cool. Okay. Okay, okay. That's all I can do. That finishes your turn. Okay, Fern, end of your turn. Please make a strength saving throw. Okay, let's go, Fernie. It's no problem. I broke my pen. Wait. I have advantage against spells and other magic. The price must be paid. Correct? So, yeah. So I get advantage. Okay, yeah. Gravity fissure's a bitch. Gravity broke your pen. Gravity broke my pen. No. Come on. 12. Unfortunately, that's a failure. I'm sorry. Sorry. You have a negative 2. I thought it was A. Oh, no. B, that's you're even weaker than N. Okay. On your strength. So. Yes. Minus too. This bitch as weak as you? Yeah, she is. Know that. I thought you were taking 21 points of force damage. 21. Correct. Okay, you are restrained. You just did 22. You just did 20. Okay. What is this? I can't see. I can't see. Is anyone in here? This hurts. You still have your actions dressed up to Ashton. I still have. Oh, hi. Got an idea? Any idea? Yes, but I can't see. I can't see. Right. You can see. It's like shaded by the intensity of the gravitational pull there. But it's more like the singularity where you're pulled to is like this sphere of intense just rending gravity. I'm gonna fart on you. Oh, God. Okay, I'm do it. I'm gonna let it rip. Here it comes. You know what I'm gonna do? I am going to try to just aim. AM I within 60ft? 60ft of. Of lewdness. You are about 120ft. Yes, I am. I know. I figured I was. Do you have a way of getting out of this dimension door? Well, what? Would. Would. Would Mr. Still be out? He was in the last fight. Mr. Was in the last fight. Mr. Is currently going around and around. Yeah, he's trying to grab him each time. Make a string sitting there for Mr. Oh, oh, okay. Him strong. What's his health? Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right, you're right. Let me pull him up. I'm so sorry. Yeah, come on. He's got grippy toes. Yeah, he got grip toes. He got this or he's not quite. We're not there yet. We're not there yet. Not a little bit. Not too much. Su. Mr. Come back. Okay, so roll strength saving pair for Mr. Oh, okay. Well, he's got. Come on, Mr. Oh, don't. Oh, no. That's a two, baby. So fast. Mr. Takes. Yeah, that's a lot of math. 28 points force damage. Oh, no. He's still up. Is he? Yeah, he is. He's next to me. I mean, is he? Yeah, he's pulled right next to me. Poor Beth. All three of us. All right, so as a bonus action, can I dimension door out with him? Do you have a dimension door spell or you use your ability. No, I can't go. You can't go. Cause you're big. Because I'm freaking big. This is his. Let me pull it up here. Is it 30ft. Sorry, I think it's only. I think it's only 15. Okay, let's see here. Jennifer Lopez, do. Jennifer Lopez. Hello. I know. Hello. Okay. The spirit and each willing creature of your choice. So technically, Ashton could go too. I'm too big. Too big. Never mind. Willing creature of your choice, within 5ft of it, teleport up to 15ft to an unoccupied space that you can see. 15ft is as big as the. So you're teleporting yourself or another creature? I can do both. The spirit and each willing creature of your choice. Oh, yeah. So you could teleport yourself to the edge. Ashton, you'd be able to teleport him just out of the radius. I'm going to teleport Ashton out and then hold on to yourself, appear there. But maybe Ashton can pull you out. Well, he's not restrained now. Are. You are restrained because you pulled away from the. The center which holds you there. Oh. Oh, okay, that's good. Also get pushed out. Okay. Okay, he's not restrained. Good. Which means you can run good. And 100ft. Yeah. Can you run now? Well, you can get far enough away. I don't think he can pull you all the way in. That's why I got. Can I get out of it and get within 60ft of him? Just, just. Well, you can move 15ft from where you are now. Okay. Move out of it. Okay. Which would put you 5, 10, 15. That's your movement right there. Hold on to the rock. He is over here. Okay, great. So that's. Hey, nobody's in the thing. All right, so now I have my action. Correct. Because I did my movement, my bonus with Mr. Correct. Okay? So it's up to you. He must save us. Sure. You're the only one. This is a dumb thing. And I'm gonna try it. With all my spells. I'm gonna try it. We tried the arch mage, but this is within 60ft as well. Never mind. What do you have? What do you have? That's a long range. Okay, you have. I'm just gonna do this. Yeah, I'm gonna do my Scorching ray. I was gonna. There were two things I wanted to do. Okay, I'm gonna do Scorching Ray. And I'm gonna try the neck for his. His. Yeah, the quintessence root. Yes, yes, you may. So now what level are you casting it, cuz? Remember, every. Every level above two, you get an additional B. Yes. So I will do it at. I'll do it at fifth level. Fifth Level. Okay. That be three, four, five. That's six different attacks. You get with it and you get a D4. Come on. Come on. Out of D4. Because you're right next to me. Because you're standing next to me. And I'm a. I am. I'm a probability engine. Oh. Oh, yeah. Oh, you rolled that for your age? Yes, I did. We'll see how many hit. Okay, hit number one is. Add the D4. D4. Great. 14. 5. 25, chest misses. 13. What if I told you it was 26? 25. Okay, so that misses. It's a very, very small spot on the back of his neck. So it's a combination, but you gotta roll the D4. Okay. No, it's lower. Very little. Yeah, it's really drunk. And caught. Okay, that hits. That hits. That's 28. 28 hits? Yeah. That's one hit. That's out of three. Yep. You have three more rolls to make. Great. That hits. That hits. Okay. Yeah. Okay. That's a. Yeah. No, that doesn't hit. Okay, but numbers. And the last one. Yeah, it hits. So 18. Plus two, plus three attacks. Let's go, bitch. So let's go. Roll three. D six. I rolled six. Yeah, those are six. Those. You got three attacks on him. Okay, so. All right, so one hit will be. Here come the baby keys. So seven plus. Nice. Plus nine. So 16. Five. Those are the three attacks. Those are the three attacks. Okay, got you. Now roll an additional eight. D six. Necrotic damage. Would it be 86 for each hit? It just. If he gets hit during that turn, he takes the damage. I love you guys. I know. That's four owls. I just pinched my neck with it. Just. Dumbass. I was excited about it. It was. No, that's not good. Okay. I think so. Multiple attacks give you multiple opportunities. 20 points of damage makes a save on each of those. First against the first. Actually, I'm gonna roll these out front because it's fun. So that was three hits on. Against him. Right. So that's three different roles against. We'll save the additional damage is on the biggest one. Okay, so the first one. Yeah. No, issue 19. That's fine there. Last one. Yeah. So are you rolling your rudeness Ruidus? I'm rolling my ruidus dice and my beacon dice. And they're really treating you well. They are. Glad you made those. Yep. But he takes the hit and kind of shrugs it off a little bit. Just keeps focusing. That finishes the round. Up at the top, Orym, you are up beginning of your turn. Mega strength. Saving throw from me here. Strength save. Correct. Okay. Saving throw. That is a 15. 15 is not successful. Can I use Misty Step in this moment to escape? This happens at the start of your turn before anything happens. Okay, so as Orym is behind you and almost tries to reach for you. Chetney. He gets pulled off of his feet. Wow. All the way in center. All the way. All the way. Motherfucking staff with me. Oh, that's true. That's a black hole. That's a singularity. In the middle of the battle map, you are restrained, Orym. Wow. Because he would have stayed restrained. Nobody gets an opportunity. Eight points for damage. Okay, that's great. Shit. Shit. Halfling flag. Elijah, you're not the one that's going. Roll a D6 for me, please. See what? How many spell slots Loot in this league? Roll a six. Roll a six. Roll high or spell levels? Yeah. Two. Two. So three. Where's my. Yeah. Yeah. That's not a thing. So now it's my turn. And now it's your turn. Okay. Technically. But then everyone was like, okay, so I'm going to the staff I just let drop into the center of this black hole. Yeah. It's like you're there in the middle and you like, let the staff go. And it's kind of just held there in the middle. Yeah. Spinning around in the space where you're kind of like, oh, gee, cross him. Spinning around it in the area. Also, as he with his high perception flew backwards. I looked at the train as I flew by. I'm now going to bonus action. Misty step 30ft to this side of this rock, which means you are no longer restrained. Okay. So I have that at my back at least. But this. This pull is still going no matter what. So, like, if I run out in the middle, I'll just get pulled again at the beginning of your next turn. There's. I have no range to attacks. That's a good head turn. Actually pour with. So I will use. So that was bonus action. I will. And I'm. And it's tricksy movement still right here. Yep. Everything within 100ft of that sphere is rough terrain. I will. Can I use grasping vine as an action? Since it's normally a bonus bonus action. But use my action to use it. I'll allow it. Yeah. If you haven't used it yet, I wouldn't let you use it twice in the same round. But I spend your action to do it. So I will send out a vine to this and drag myself forward and Then I will just end my turn by falling down with stone here, I guess so that I can press against the rock and not get sucked backward. Okay. And I'll say that's the end of my turn. And you don't have any confirmation that finishes your go. Because we won't. Chetney, you're up. Getting your turn. Please make a shrink saving throw for me, please. He's got advantage. You do have advantage because you're in your wolf form. Wolf. Your wolf spine. Was gonna shove that shit. Pretty good. 23. 23 succeeds. Yes. Yes. Of the ravenous void. Amazing. I'm gonna start walking forward. As a wolf. As a wolf. Then I'm gonna use a curse. Like a wolf. Like a wolf. And when I get within 30ft of him. All right, so that's 5, 10, 15ft of movement to get within 30ft of him. Beautiful. I'm going to use blood. Curse of the muddled mind. Okay. And I'm going to amplify it to. I'm gonna drop silence Damage dropping sounds. Okay. And curse a creature that is concentrating on a spell or future that requires concentration. The curse target has disadvantage on the next constitution saving throw. It makes to maintain concentration before the end of the turn. Now he has disadvantage on all constitution saving throws until the end of my next turn. Okay. Sweet. Okay. Okay. Let's see if that helps. So he has advantage concentration checks. This just make means it's a straight check, straight roll. Okay. Until your next turn. Yeah. Okay. Ooh, that's better than it was. That's better than Pretty slick. I'll keep using the rest of my 45 to come. I'll see if I see how close I can get to. I love that 40. Yeah. Your movement is 40. 40, 40. That was 15. 20. 25. 30. 35. 40 gets you right into melee with him. I love it. Okay, I'm going to take two swinging swings with turmoil. Let's go right in his. How do melee targeted attacks work? You just tell me you want to focus in it and then I adjust the AC accordingly. Okay. I want to try and make the first one against the knob on the back of the neck. Okay. Go ahead and roll. Is there an advantage? But if it's not disadvantage. That was dog. Oh. That was only an 18 to hit. I'm going to do it for the second one too. Okay. It one. Yeah. Yeah, that's much better. 24. 25. Nice. 25 misses. It's 26. 26. 26. That's right. You go to strike the first time and you feel, like, the gravity pull, like, even though you're not quite in the radius of the spell, it's almost like you. It pulls your arm back just slightly, and you're like, the gravity shouldn't affect me. And you realize it's because the psychic force around is repelling you. And you go to strike a second time, and you feel like something invisible grab your hand in the middle of the air, and Ludinus glances over his shoulder and goes, oh, there you are. Ooh, is he hitting on you? He's a little. Look back. I mean, who isn't? That is the end of my turn. All right. Finishes Chetney's go. It is now Ludinus's turn gets his legendary actions back. I'm sorry? You know, actually, at the end of. At the end of your turn chat, he's gonna use his last legendary action, actually, to compliment me on my. To try to get intentionality. So I need you to go ahead and make. Is it an intelligence saving throw? Mindsliver? Intelligence saving throw? What? Minds sliver. This wouldn't be a charmed or frightening smart. It is not. You said intelligent saving throw, correct? Wait, I rolled that with advantage. I don't think I was supposed to wait. It was a natural 20. I don't think I have it. Just do it again. Repeat. Oh, my God. 11. 11. Okay, so you take 15 points of psychic damage, and the next saving throw you make before the end of Ludinus's next turn, it's. You reduce it by D4. Reduced by D4. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Now, at the end of your turn, he regains his legendary actions. Ludinus is going to spend his action ignoring you and focusing on the barrier. That's just. That's fucking insulting. Rude. As he does, you watch as. As the energy flicker up his body and that heavy, buzzing static sound gets extremely strong and concentrated. Your vision up close seems to double, triple over. Almost like you're seeing multiple channels on a tv overlapping for a second. And with that, you see this white flash, a smaller version of that one time that Imogen, in your first fight with Otohan, ended up annihilating a city block and teleporting everyone. And as soon as it's the white flash outward, you come back to and you watch as the first boundary's tethers. You watch. They don't shatter, but it's almost like it just becomes permeable. The glyphs become more translucent, and he steps through it. You can take an attack opportunity if you'd like. Oh, sure. Yeah, do it. Oh, those moves. Oh, that'll hit 20. That's exactly a 26. So natural. 17. This isn't aiming at his. Because this is just a reaction, just a regular strike. So, no, he's gonna shield. But it was 26, though. I hit him regardless. So. Yeah. So you got null damage. Okay, great. 2D six plus six. I think I just scrolled away from it like a tool. And the barrier is no longer there. The barrier is still present, but the area where he was touching it seems to become permeable. Like the glyphs in that area where he was. He was standing become translucent. And he just kind of steps through it. So the boundary isn't broken. But can we. We step through it for a second? 22 points of damage, five of which is lightning, but we're not going to the creatures made of blood. It is. Okay, 22. 22 points of damage. All right, so he needs to DC of 11. Yeah, he succeeds. Disadvantage. I only rolled one die. That's right. It's a straight roll. Matt. Yes. I forgot to roll an extra D8 for enhanced bond wand. Just had to give it to somebody over the fire. So it's an extra I will receive. I'll take it. Of damage. Sorry. Good to know. That's okay. That was it. All righty. That finishes your go, Chet. Yes, it does. Or no? That's right. That was him moving forward. That finishes his turn. As a bonus action, he kind of steps through it and then turns back again and goes. Go play with your friends. And flicks his hand. Make a strength saving throw for me. No. Calm. He's going to. He's going, going to. Oh, no. You have disadvantage on this. Now I. Now I disadvantage. No, you have negative D4 on it, minus D4 on it. And do I roll the D4 as well? You do. Yeah. Okay. 10 strength 17. 17. You get shoved 10ft back away from him. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thought I was going back. I did, too. Yeah. Bowling. Oh, my God. Did you drop. Silence. You do feel you did. You're not quite sure yet. And we'll measure it when it comes around to it, but you are on the cusp of the tug of the distant, ravenous void. I always like being on the cusp of the tug. I walked into that. I'm cusping. All right. Don't try so hard. Brace. Yep. You're up. I'm. Yes, please. Strength, saving throw. What is that say 14. That's. That's good. 14 plus 9 is 23. 23. You resist the pull of the spell and you can. Badass. You are such a badass. My God, it's going to suck when I kill you. Thank God you can. Good. Good. Yeah. Okay. I can still only move half speed. So it's either cast a spell or move. There's nothing to be done. If I used everything to get 60ft, I'd still be within the pull. Right. It looks like it's quite a large radius of the spell pool. Like rocks and things from up here are like. God damn it. God damn it. We need to hit this guy. And our speed is halved. Your speed is half within 100ft. Yeah. Okay. Do I get close or do I hurt him? I will hurt him. I'll move 15ft because that's what I can move. If you are within 10ft of me, you get a D4 to your attack, by the way, which you are within 10ft. Great. And then I will cast Silence moonbeam. Okay. At third level. Get it. Get it up there. Fourth level. Shove it in. Moonbeam is fourth level. 120 foot range. That'll definitely get him. Is it red beam? Yes, yes. Oh, weirdly, on the moon it's just called beam. That's pretty dumb. I love it. Oh, he has to save against it. It's not a roll. It's a constitution 18. Okay. Which he has disadvantage on. But against spells advantage. It was a straight roll. That would have been. Well, here, I'll roll it in front then that would be 21 succeeds. But he still takes damage. Does he? You can see here. What's it say? Half as much so it be. It's 2D10, but you cast it at fourth level, so it's 4D10 radiant damage. Yeah. Where is my D10s? I never use these. I'll use the 5 and 8 is 13, but he's got like an RT. Plus 7 and 2 is 22. 11 points of radiant damage. He does get the save against it. DC 10. Yeah. Natural 19. Jesus. Hot DM tonight. Hot DM. It's just a single roll, right? And bonus action. Action. I will inspire. It's got the stack boy. Who needs it? Who's weaker? You're weak. I mean, I'll also say Laudna's about to know where she is. I'm on the other side of this rack. I think I'm too far from you. I will inspire you, Fearne. Okay. I'll just sort of show you, like a little bit of chest. Whoa. Look at those curls coming out the top of the hair. Yeah, they've got curls on top of the hair. It's curly hair, perfectly curled. All right, to finish your trim, Bridge. Yep, yep. All right, Laudna, you're up with Ashton on deck. Okay. I need you to make. No, you are. They're out of it. We're gonna measure now. Yep. Again, just to recall. They were out of it. They were out of it. You measured already? Yeah, they are. So you're good. Put it away. Stop, stop. Don't look, don't look. Fighting for every inch. Every inch. Put the ruler away. Just double checking, okay? Yes. Okay, Come on, let's go. Here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to skirt this line. Wherever I see little pebbles and stuff getting sucked away, I'm gonna just be like, oh, God. So I'm gonna move as much as I can, hugging this edge and try and get ledging it. I'm gonna edge it. I'm gonna cut. Can I get, like, up here? You can. It'll take all your movement to get up there. That's okay. You can do that. I'm gonna get up here, right in that crack there. And then I'm going to get out pate. Okay. Secret weapon. Yes. This is what's gonna. You're my nuke, baby. All right, he's gonna find. Hey, Mace, what's going on? What we're doing? All right, here's what I need you to do. Yeah, tell me. Listen very carefully. Yeah, listen. He's got a fleshy hole in the back of his neck. Gross. He's so gross. I love it. I need you to go and, like, latch onto the back of his neck. Oh, cool. Just like your bony little fingers. Latch onto his fleshy horn. Just like, go. He has a fly speed of force. What's that over there? No, no, no, focus. He's right. Okay. Focus. Okay. In pate. Stay. Stay this way so you don't get sucked into a black hole. So go. Go this way. Stay away from a hole. To get to a hole. Yes. You know, double negatives make a positive tiny little. All right, what's his fly speed? 40. 40. So from there, fly into that hole. Can you summon him farther away from you? Can you go behind the crystal? He can get up there. No. Can he get to Ludinus? To Ludinus, Yeah. I want him to get to touch his neck, right? 40ft to get around. He would not be able to. He would get most of the weight. Let's see. Here he goes down. He can't fly. Kind of cut across if he Flies down. No, if he lies down here. Right there. Yeah, yeah. Is that up against him? That isn't the melee. Yes. Okay. I want him to latch onto the back of his neck and I want to do a touch spell. Yeah. I think I stinked. Yeah. Through him. Shocking grasp. Because I can cast spells through pate. That's true. You can. Yeah. Is pate on his. The back of his neck? Pate is reaching for the back of his neck. Yeah. Okay. Back of his neck. Yeah, I got you. All right, so it's a roll to hit him, right? Yes. So plus 12. So 14 off. Oh, wait, wait, wait. I have an advantage for them. Or I've got. I've got inspiration. Oh, wow. I rolled a 14 plus 9, so that's what I needed was a 14 C plus 12. What's the total? So 1412 is 26 plus another 9 because of inspiration. So that is 35. That hits. Yes. Yes. Oh, wait, I was back. This is his last. Destroy him. Laudna, darlin. Yeah. As you're holding on, the wind's pulling back on the cusp of falling back into the spell. And you see Ludinus step through the boundary and this soft chuckle. I've waited for this for so long. And it starts like, just humping him from behind. Right. What the sh. What's going on somewhere? Oh, my God. This is the moment. Correct. Okay, so 3D8 for shock and grasp. Pretty mid roll. 7, 10. 12. 12 points of damage already. Okay, good boy. Roll for concentration. D.C. is 10. Wait, do I get my necrotic? You got a natural one. Evil spin. The legendary resistance to succeed. So that's his third. But you also get. But I hit his hole. Yeah, so. So you do an additional 8d6 necrotic damage. So wouldn't we add that to the total? For his concentration sake? It would. Yeah, but he didn't. He automatically auto saved it because he failed it. That's fine. Burn. Burn. The legendary. God damn it. I want to try and knock that thing off so bad. I know. Sure. Okay. 3, 6, 9, 14. Four more. What did I just say? 1415 plus 8 is going to be 20. 23 plus another 3. 26. 26. All right. Additional 26 damage on that. And roll a D6 for me to take his spells away. Oh, right, right, right. Six spell slide. Six, seven spells. Oh, man. Yes. Awesome. He's gonna lose a fourth and a third level spell slot on that one. Yeah, baby. Okay. Okay, that was a great turn. That was a really good turn. As you cast the shocking grasp Through. Pate is just, like, chuckling while humping the back of Ludus head. He's like, you just. And, like, reaches back just as, like, tears him from the back and, like, throws Pate into the rock. Oh. Worth it. Like, when it sinks down as Ludus pulls his hand back and there's like black blood and like a weird. Almost like a maple syrup texture, like liquid coming out of where? Out hole. Fleshy hole. Maple syrup. It's not a hole. But now it is. Now it is. Yeah. Canon, but, yeah, he did not appreciate it. Tasty. And so he spiked Patagon's. The rock. Yeah, he just. I mean, just narratively just threw him against the rock. How'd he still. Right there? He's still there. I. Technically, Pate might take a bunch of moonbeam damage, so you just moved it in the radius. Right? Okay, let's go ahead and roll it up. Roll it up. What's the radius of the moonbeam? It's a five foot radius on him. So Pate rushes in, does this, and then go ahead and roll a constitution Saving throw for Pate. Come on, Pate. Okay, wait. It's a 5ft radius all around it. It's just a round, Lubinus. And what does it do? It's a good spotlight just burn spell casting ability. Right. So anybody who's a contact fighter is a little mild. You can drop it. I think that should be good. You also move it five feet inward too. I can. If you put this way. If you wanted to center it in a way where it kind of aimed towards where the barrier was. Sure. So that it would hit him. It wouldn't hit the radius round. That would be nice. Yes, I'll allow that. Okay. Since you wouldn't want to hurt your friend, I would. So don't worry about that. Okay, good, good, good. But if you don't move it and Ludinus moves in closer, then it would become an issue. So finish your turn, Ludna. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out if I want to, like, quicken a spell, but up to you. I think I'll stay there. I'm trying to conserve points, or better or for worse. Okay, so where you are right now standing, you cannot actually see Ludinus. He's out of range. But pass Tay does give you the vision. Yeah. All right, so with that finished. Ashton, you're up. Make a saving throw for me, please. Nat. 20. Yeah. Let's go, baby. You're, like, right on the cusp of where the radius, that is kind of gliding through the rock and glass best you can. Let's go, stone. So do I feel the same pull my legs are if I sink them down? Do I feel the same gravitational pull underneath the ground that I do? It still pulls on you, but you're slightly better anchored. I would give you advantage if you didn't already have it on the saving throws. Okay, yeah, I just have. Okay, so, like. But like, my speed is not going to be affected by this because you're gliding. I will say no. You can move your normal speed because you are not affected by rough terrain. And the tug on this because you're actually gliding through the ground. Fucking in. All right. In your form, I'll allow that. Awesome. In that case, what's the best way to do this? I'm going to head. Let's go, Punk rock. Come on. 80ft towards laudna. 80ft towards laudna. You got it. So from where you are right there and we'll move. I'll drop under the ground for that because I think there's five feet. So can I get my whole body underneath the ground for that or. No, roll a D4 for me. Done on a 4 to 6. 4. 4. You cannot get completely under the ground, but you can halfway get in there. Okay, well, then no worries about it then. I'll. Well, no, I'll take it then. I'm. Yeah, I'll. I'm just gonna sit. That's your move in your dash there. Yeah. Okay, cool. All good. That finishes your go. All right, finishing Ashton's go. Dorian, you're up with a minion on deck. Can I ask a question about how the. No. The pate event on folded, you said, did he walk forward through the first barrier? I just want to know what his relationship to the barriers are. Right, well, from where you are, the outer layer, all you saw was him kind of step through it. You saw the edge of the boundary and he just kind of walked through it and out of your sight. All right. Pate seemed to be able to pass through it as well. Pate is just on the outside of where he was. I denied my movement last time, but would I. Would I be able to have Coriolis scoop me up and use his movement? Oh, Coriolis has been with you? Yeah, he's still on the board, I guess. So you've been following over there. Coriolis will say his movement. Well, first off, Coriolis make a strength saving. Oh. Oh, my God. That's right. He's in the pits. Oh, my goodness. What was the scientific name, Sam EQUUS. Cabela. Caballeros. Where's the saving. No, I can't. He's in the pit. He's in the pit. That changes it. That's fine. No, no. Gotta play it. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's in the pits. He takes Coriolis Tay. Nobody boy. No, but 7, 12, 13, 21 points of force damage. Oh, he's still alive for now. Is restrained at the moment. Okay, thank you so much. Thank you so much for touching me. All right, then he's out of the picture. I'll use my movements to cut straight in. Like in front of Ashton. Like 40ft. Just be careful. Don't get sucked in. Yeah, kind of same things. Just careful, don't get sucked into Ashton's beautiful blue eyes. Eye. Yeah, I think you just have line of sight. Okay. So that's 25ft there. Okay. You can see Ludinus from where you are. And you still have more movement if you like. I want to use it all to get as close as possible, I guess. Okay. Yeah. 5, 30. Not scared. Should have voice. I have 40. Yeah, 30. 35, 40 gets you right there. Cool. I'm gonna wing a lightning bolt at him from where you are to get him with a lightning bolt, you will likely also hit pate. Well, is he still earthbound? He would be. He would be because you've maintained concentration. Well, I haven't rolled for it. Hip it up. Go ahead. Make concentration. Check for I get advantage to maintain my concentration. So tiny. I'm going to do something. Can you just like. Nope. No, no, no, no. I'm going to leave him alive for you. What's this? Not very good. It's the cough test. 1212. You didn't take more than 25 damage, I think, on any of those. So I think you're okay. Okay, okay. No. Okay. Positioning stuff. All right, scratch that. I'll keep that tail alive. I'll use. I'll use the rest of my turn. I'll use another 40ft. Use my wing boots. Actually, yeah. If you want to use your wing boots as part of this, you could fly up a little bit and then there you would have an angle to hit him. Okay. If you wanted to. That's still such a threat. Who's still in threat of the. All of us? Yes. Everybody's still at a threat. All right, I'll do that. Okay, let's do that. You got. So we're putting you. We'll do. Yeah. Fourth. No, no, no, it. Fifth level. Fifth level. Lightning bolt until losing the left. All righty. Dexterity saving throw. 16. He succeeds. Got it. Cool. So he takes half of this. Correct. How many is it? 10. 10d6 for fifth level. Fifth level? Yeah. 10d6. Yeah. Okay. 14. 20. 32. 30. 33. 33 points down. Takes us 16 points of lightning damage. Yeah. It strikes through. He takes the hit to roll for this DC10. Maintain concentration. That is going to be. That's a fail. He's going to use his secondary legendary resistance. Damn, he's burning through those resistances. He's so cool. Usually three. Three per turn or three, three per turn? Usually it's three legendary creatures. The blast hits him and he three doubles his concentration and just keeps pushing on the barrier. He's like more or less swatting you off like flies and just keeping focused on his continued more or less march towards what lies beyond. How much damage? You just do the cage. 16. 16. Matt Towson said he's going home. And for his turn, for my bonus action, I'll just turn Zolote and I'll say so close, boy again. And I'll use healing word. Healing word. You can't cast two spells. Oh, two spells? It's not a cantri. Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah, yeah. Never mind. I'm out. I'm out. Did you get inspiration if you want. No, I'm good. Only got one, though. You got it. All right. Finishing your turn, Dorian. Im you're up. Good luck. Okay. Does that do anything for you? Well, I don't know. Does it? Do I start? Your turn, but I'm on the other side of this. We're doing the test. You are make a string saving throw. You have advantage on it. And the DC is lower because you're in between. You're going to Tumblr like a anti gravity jet. So based on your current. Yep. So the DC is 16 right now. Okay. Come on. Still so high. Jeez. Okay. Did you roll? No, that's not what I want. You didn't mean to. I didn't mean to roll either. So if you didn't mean to roll it. Re. Roll it. Okay. Jesus Christ. Please give me an instant replay. They're worse. They're worse, but it doesn't matter. They would have failed either way. So I fail. So you are holding onto the other edge and to try and figure out what to do. Your feet begin to lift up off the ground and you lose your hold against it as you tumble over the top. I'll try a spell, man. Since I'm. Can I try to use my action to try to, like, put my staff out or something so she doesn't go in there. That would be a reaction. That would be to hold your action to try and do that beforehand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We try, we try, we try, we try. Give you four points of health. That's not too bad. Take 20 points of force damage. Okay, cool. Every little bit. I felt so good for just a second when I didn't get in there before. Okay, so what I'm gonna do. Yeah. From where I am now, this is a great suit. Yeah, I see. I'm over 120ft away from him now. You are currently us. All right, cool. Awesome. Swell. Then I'm gonna try and cast a level five lightning bolt. I'm gonna use a distance. I'm gonna just double my distance. Okay. Which will definitely hit him. I mean, definitely be far. It will be. Fern is right in the way. Okay, well, I don't want to hit Fern. I'll tell you what. You got pulled over this way, so the angle would put you technically about break a few. You could aim through this right between. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd allow that. Okay. You are restrained still. But she was screaming at me. I would also just stuff me. No, I get it. Sorry, sorry. I should have. No, it's okay. All right, so, Hugh, that's a deck save on his point there. Natural 19. So he succeeds. But go ahead and roll your damage for this. Okay, 10D6. Cool. That's gonna be great. It's gonna make him drop concentration for sure. That's the hope. This is gonna do it. But then he's gonna roll a resistance again. Well, it'll be one more gone. Yeah, exactly. He's gotten rid of 17. What am I gonna do? 31. 33 points. Nice. Three points. That was. I rolled low wax. That would be 16 points. Lightning damage total strikes them for the DC. Just a straight roll. That would be enough. Unfortunately, succeeds on his concentration. Check the bolt. Lightning strikes him, but you can see the psychic field reflexively appear behind him. And the bolt hits it, and it seems to ground itself, crackle around, and still get to him and still shock him. But a lot of it's been disseminated into the nearby rock. Okay, okay. Let me just think for a second. I think that's everything I can do. Okay, Tough. Does that finish your turn? Okay, end of your turn. He's gonna go. He's now getting a little more frustrated. I guess this will make the race more interesting. He's going to go ahead and spend two of his legendary actions to do rapid cast. He's going to cast chain lightning on you. Oh, I know. Just so you're just a guy. Each target within 30ft of him. Oh me. That's going to be Chetney. Dang. Wow. It's going to be Ashton and it's going to be Laudna. Yeah, technically Pate as well. My baby boy. Sorry guys. If Pate jumps heroically in front of me suffering. Please let it sound like that. No shitty ass. See the sword snow your reacts make them roll. Listen, it's only 30 points of lightning damage. That could have been a lot higher at 10d8. Do we get a so you got dexterity saving throw from each of you. Dex. Dexy. Okay. For Pate 9. 30 points lightning damage to Pate. Okay. Does he survive? He does survive. Poof. No. How many points? No, he does not survive. I'm sorry, I was looking at his fly speed. He goes poof. Poofs. Oh dawg, I did it over. The new game vanishes into a magical burst of nothing. He tried to save you, Jen. He tried. I just get black molasses splatter all over. I rolled so many ones on that. 18 for me. 18 fails. So 30 points lightning damage. Chetney. 25. 25 is success. So you take 15 points lightning damage. Fail. 30 points lightning damage. Fuck. 23 and 23 success. So 15 points of lightning damage. Sorry. All right, you don't want to add the whole night finishing Imogens. Go. Face shift of nearby light. Ashton catches your. She catches Laudna and Ashton's and Dorian's eye reinforcements as around the edge of this a shimmer of light seems to emerge and a familiar form peeks around the corner. Say it could be I'm here to just watch him fail. Come on, big boy. Now you want to know what that blue thing. That's right. Took him a minute. Okay. And was like let you all go in first, see how it goes and then cruise around best you can after dimension dooring to that side. But you watch him kind of like he dimension doors to the opposite side of the chamber. He's gonna go ahead and let's see, take his. He's first gonna go into his nightmare form as a bonus action. So you watch as he kind of appears and kind of looks over towards you and one of his giant black eyes winks. But when it closes, it folds into itself and you watch as his skin seems to almost tear off, leaving a black shadow version of him behind. He now looks like a scattered, blackened, jagged shadow version of himself or even and his clothing and his tails are kind of like, flickering and made of just black energy and darkness. And where his black eyes were, now, it's just like these white vacuous orbs. Almost like he turns into a negative version of himself. In my form of dread, where I have just eye sockets, no eyes, I also wink, and a little bit of black kind of splurts out. So I'm like, yeah, okay. And then he is going to leap this way. Yeah, this way. How tall is he? He's gonna get there 12 or 15ft. I think about there. See? Within 30ft of Ludinus. Yeah, he's tall within 30ft of Ludinus. Right at the edge. Is he within 10ft of me still? He. No, he's unfortunately, at 15ft from you. He is going to cast. Damn, damn, damn. Steel wind strike. Steel wind strike. Let's go, buddy. So he. Let's go. Gets low, and his claws extend out into these long black blade like fingers, and he leaps into the air with a spinning flourish and then vanishes. And you watch him, like, nightclub teleport around Ludinus. A series of dark flashes, and then at the end of the teleport, lands right on the edge of where Ludinus is. Ludinus has to go ahead and make a. And is Ludinus still on the inside of that first membrane layer? Yeah. So he went inside there and came back out. Yeah. Wow, cool. Okay, so at first glance, he teleports in that kind of in between space. So there is a permeability to it currently that's been unlocked by Ludinus. Oh, fuck it. So he has to make an attack roll against him with this. That's a natural fucking beacon. 20. I'm not even joking right there. All right. Yeah. Ira coming in to help here at the end. Thanks, Laura. So that's 6D10 force damage doubled. 60. Okay, so 60 ish. 12. That's a 60 ish hit. Go. All right. Just because it's on your end, it's a crit. Let's see what we got. So. All right, so that's 10, 20, 30, 36 times. Times two. Oh, my God. That's gonna be 70. 72 points of force damage. Oh, beefy on Ludinus. That's. Oh, this is not good. All these, like, teleporting slashes before landing. And Ludinus is kind of, like, struck it for a second, then kind of takes all the hits at once and then crumples to a knee. So half of that, it's gonna be. He has a DC of 36. He has to. To make on this check. Come on. How? 36 can't. So he'll use his last legendary resistance. It's all gone now. Legendary resistance as Ludinus kind of like, of course you'd be here. And Ira now at this point, is flickering. Shadow is like. It's all I've wanted for years to watch you as, like, black smoke pours at the sides of his mouth. Heady ass bullshit. Let's go. Half of that 72 rightness did. Ludinus only took half. But it was. No, he took all of it. It was a crit, but he. But the DC Is half the damage taken. I got it. I got it. So that's going to finish Ira's turn. Fern, you're up. Wow. Okay. All right, Ira. Hey, be cool. Be cool. Actually, you know what? Sorry. At the end of. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off there. No, you're fine. At the end of Ira's turn, he's gonna use his last legendary action to do psychic blast. All creatures within five feet of lewdness have to make a DC22 strength saving throw. That's gonna be just Ira. But he's like, no, get the fuck out of here. Ira's gonna go ahead and try and make that save, which is gonna be plus three. That's a natural one. Natural 20 to a natural one. That's the way. So Ira gets pushed 30ft back. Oh, no. Yeah. Okay, so Ludinus kind of like angrily gets up and shouts, put his arms out. And there's this bubble ripple of psychic energy, and Ira gets blasted back and catches himself on the ground. Right as he starts to stand up, you see him scooting back slightly, starting to push towards the spell in the back. No. No. All right. Do I need to check to see if I go in strength? Check. Yes, you do. All right. Advantage is she holding on to. Okay, come on. What? It's. Cuz. I'm standing diagonal up marble. Okay. Use this. It's a. It's. I feel like it's like a. It's a novelty joke. Dice we didn't get the Momo. I mean, I'm holding on to the rock so hard. I'm sure 15. 15's not gonna. I love the optimism. Into the void. Smushed against a dinosaur. Good thing we're, like, so useful in this. Take 27 points of force damage. 27 points of force damage. Yeah. Now you can be. Okay, we're over 120ft away from him. Do you have spell sniper? Gnarly. All right, well, I just gotta try to. Try to. I mean, can. Would I have Mr. With me, or he would just be out? Well, at the beginning of your turn, make a shrink sec, save for Mr. If he takes the damage, he's gonna die. Well, I'm gonna leave him out there. Well, I mean, he still has to make it. Oh, it happens automatically at the start of your turn. He's a flame, though. Do flames. Natural 20. Mr. Succeeds in this thing. So if I can. If I can. So would he be with me, or would he be where he was? No, he's right where he is. Okay. So if you wanted to, in theory, like, because you can, like, hold your action and then, like, boats, your bonus action, and teleport. Yeah. I'd allow you to, like, have him move into the radius. He'll take the damage by moving into the radius. If you think he can survive it, then he can try and teleport you out, and then you can do an action when you're teleporting out. Wait, how? I just don't know how hurt he is. He might be able to make it. Hold on. I think he has, like, 28 points left. No, he's got 37 points. Oh, okay. Okay, I'm gonna have him come in. Okay. So he's, like. Sorry, like, dug in the ground. Like, I'm gonna have him take Imogen out. He can take Imogen both of us out. Can you? He can take us all out. Can he also take a Coriolis? Yeah, he can take all willing creatures. He can take all willing creatures that are within five feet of you or him. Stand by your man. When does he take the damage? When he enters the radius. When he enters the radius. Is he within 10ft of me? He would be, yeah. So he will get resistance to the damage. That's good. Okay, so it's each willing creature of your choice. Within five feet of it. Five feet of Mr. Mr. Can move half movement to go, but he takes half damage because he's within 10ft. As he pushes, he pushes into. He's like. He's like, don't worry, small monkey friend. You've got this. As all the fur on his body and the flame is being pulled inward where every instinct in him is to try and run away. He just kind of looks at you and. Yeah. And crawls in towards, like, fighting the gravity is going. Is walking in on his own terms. Fingernails. I love this game. Poop monkey crawling into a black hole. He's crossed the Imaginary nine points of force damage. Have he has gone. Well, no monkey has gone. I rolled really good on that damage roll. It's only fitting to have a pet with more than four headphones. I know, right? Oh, man. Steps up into there like. Okay, if he wants to get within five feet of it, then either you have to choose Coriolis or Imagin. Okay, Tough call. Tough call. I know it's a rough call. Think about it. And then could we go towards Brayan? I don't. When we bamf out. Imogen hates horses. Confirmed. Anti horse girl. Yeah, fuck off, horse there and we'll get you here. And Imogen out of the way. Neither of you are restrained. That was the bravest thing I've ever seen. Young monkey friend, you have the strength of a cow. All right, get this thing down before our turns are up. So trying. I still can't fucking move. That's still can't fucking. No, you're no longer restrained. He teleported you out of it. Okay. He can't move. You can move. No. A little bit. It's just 15ft. I still can't. Okay, then. Scorch and Ray it is. Are you gonna move beforehand or. I am going to. Yes, I am. I would like to get somewhere where I would have hopefully have a little more cover. Oh, that's not really gonna happen from where you're standing, unfortunately. It's fine. It doesn't matter. It is what it is. Girl can dream. This is the puzzle of the encounter. Scorching Ray. And I'm gonna do that. Oh, God. Guys, I just don't have anything else. Does it go up into other form? What? Say again? Does your movement go up in your fire form? You haven't turned into a fire. I know. I was gonna wait because I have it for an hour, but it's an hour. Is now's the time? Is it fighting Ludinus? There's stuff after this. We still have to predophos. Let her do what she wants to do. Yeah. No, it doesn't move. Die. You don't extra. We're gonna find production. Okay. All right. All right. Scorching Ray, what level to product to Ludinous. I'm going to do it at six level. Six level. Okay. Shoot it at his neck. Hole in his neck. You got it. Okay. It's not a hole, but it's so resembling one now. Sure. Yeah, it's. I guess it is a little puncture with a little bit of drainage issues. So that's a little seepage, wedge shape. Seven hits. Well, it's three. And then you see that casting at six level. Right? So that would be seven attacks. Yes. Okay. Oh, 16. But you're. Are you get a. Oh, no, you're not standing next to Ashton. So you don't get a plus four. No. Okay, so are you going for his hole? Going for his hole. 16 plus 27. Needs to. So that one hit. 27 hits. I was going to say sealed. And that's going to affect AC the rest of this turn. Yeah, affect all of it. Those AC is even higher. Needs to go. So this one is 30. That'll do it. 30 misses. Just shields. You're not going to hit any of them. That's fine. So. So just stop aiming for the hole and just hit him. Just hit the his. Yeah, just try to break the spell. Yeah. All right, so I'll just hit his body. Okay, so the first two hits miss. Yeah. The third you can go for. And this is just a 26 now because of the shield. What a job. 26. You got to Ashley Johnson. No, you don't have four more. No, 22. Three more. No. Two more. Huh? Okay, 26. One hits, guys. At one hit. I'm. I'm going to change the number finger. Don't say it like that. That's it. That's it. Does it. One hit to roll two. D6. Okay. Oh, man. You're Johnson. Also a D8 for Mr. Right. Okay, is that a 7? Was a 15. So 15 points of fire damage on him. Okay, great. Okay, so gets hit just like in the shoulder, the back, sixth level. So it's a 10 DC constant. It's just a concentration check on the 10 DC. He only has a straight roll, but he has a plus eight or something quick. You rolled a two two. So what does that mean? Brings it a ten. It's a plus eight on his roll, so he needed to roll a one. I hate Ludinus I it so much. Oh, he's a good wizard. Where'd you go, bubba? He's a good wizard. I'm gone. No, he's a bad wizard. Okay, Worst wizard. All right. That was a waste. No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't. It's all. It's all worth it at this point. What's that mean? No, meaning every. Everything helps burn through and push towards the goal. Yeah, yeah. Can you do that for. Just sounded scary as all. No, I can't. All right, Fern, to finish your turn. That. Does Mr. Get to my turn? Mr. Does he gets to throw some? No, he did The. He did the dimension door thing. Oh, that was his action. Okay. All right, so, finishing Ferns. Go Orym. You're up at the Chetmian deck. Top of the round. I know, right? I have to save or get pulled back into the hole again, right? Yes, currently, yes. Yeah. So you have. The DC is going to be a 16 on this. Take this out. You do have advantage on the chest, right? No. Strength. Strength. Okay. I failed that. I'm going to use. Use what I should have done before. I have one indomitable left. You didn't roll advantage, though, did you? I did not. Why do I have advantage? Because you're. Oh. Because of the rock. Because you're behind. Barely. Second one is barely different. So this is the indomitable. Indomitable I'm gonna use. I have one last superiority dot. Use Zephyr and Heart. I'll try to boost it. Okay. 18. I rolled 18. Succeed. So as you clutch onto the side, you feel the gravity tugging at you to the side, and you just hold in. You close your eyes for a second and imagine the calm winds of Zephrah. Then as you do, you bend like a reed with the gravity as it pulls towards you and glide along the outer edge and hold yourself in place, and you feel confident that you can keep your focus and strength. This round was 18. The DC 16. 16 was 16. Okay. I rolled a 10 on that success. Yeah, I saw that. So what I'm gonna do, I can't do much. Still is I'm gonna use my movement to go 15ft on a diagonal and then use my action to go another 15. So a full 30. And then I've still got the grasping vine spell up, so I'm going to shoot the stone next to Ludinus and yank myself past Chetney. I'm completely out of gas, but I just get low to the ground and bring the sword down, twist it in my hand and stare at him, and that's the end of my turn. That finishes your turn. You're done. And you can feel the pull of the gravity. The ravenous void is no longer trained on you. Yeah. Unless you are beyond the radius of the spell. Great. Chetney, you're up. Do I have to make a save against the anus hole? You. Let's see what the radius. All right, so that's 85 there. 90. 95. 100. You are just outside of that amazing 40ft. Can I try to. Can I try to walk? Use my speed to reach where Ludness is. Yeah, you can. You can get right up to him. Great. Can I make. I'm gonna try three attacks with just my clothes. Claws out. No, no turmoil. Yeah, yeah. Just claws. Damn it. First one is you. Ah, really, just forget that. That never happened. Second one. That's better. 28 to hit. 28 hits. Amazing. Six plus D. Eight. Sorry, eight. Yep. Okay, that's 13 points of slashing damage with six points of. For 19 total. Yes. All righty. And the last one. Let's make this concentration check. A straight roll. Oh, yes. Come on. Yeah. He succeeds. Amazing. And with that hit with one more remaining. Yeah, once for short rest, I'm gonna use brand of castigation. Ludinus. Okay. And as I slash him just below his. His neck hole like a rear clavicle, there is gonna be an amazing C Pop Industries brand. That's Sears right on the back of base of his neck. I can taste it. He's like, just focused forward. Amazing. And the last one, it allows me to track him and if he tries to teleport away, that he has to like, roll a check against him. Yes. Natural 20 Pokemon a pup. Okay. 1 D8. So that's. Come on, big money, big money. 7. 14 plus 6 is 20 plus. Oh, this just says so. 24 double that. 28 total. 28 damage. So with that, the D, the DC is going to be 14. Okay, that's gonna be a 19. God. Awesome. That's a good try. Good deal. Finish. Turn around. Good job, Chat. It's now back to Ludinus's go. Ludinus gets his legendary actions back. He's gonna go ahead and focus on the next boundary. And you watch as the next one. Fuck. Oh, at the start of his turn. Let me look. Let me see. Oh, the moon beam. Yeah. Is it the start of my turn? Start of his turn. Let me see here. Might be the start of his turn, I think on each of your turns, when the creature enters the spell or starts a turn there. Yeah. Constitution save. That's going to be 16. He gets disadvantage on constitution saves. It was until the end of. It was his turn. Too bad. Doesn't matter. He didn't. He didn't pass my. It didn't pass it. Yeah. So that's a success. So go ahead and roll a damage 4D. 10 radiant damage. 10. Radiant damage radiate, baby. That's 10. Oh, never mind. 16. Just 16 points. That's so 1. 16. 16 radiant automatic. Take 16 points of radiant ammo. You will then roll to save natural. 20. Go ahead. I also took four points too. Okay, so that begins his turn. He Dispels that next boundary there. He's gonna move forward ever so slightly. I love this fight. How many boundaries have we got? We don't know that. Two more. Hey. For just Orym and Chetney. Just know that there's like a cylinder of flame in front of you that you might have to just walk around if you're gonna follow him in there. Sure. Okay. As a bonus action, he's going to cast telknegg. Shove on you, Chetney. Go ahead and make a strength saving throw for me. Come on, Chet. Strong. Strong. Cause I'm strong enough. That's not a 20 ball. Suck. 14. 14. You get pushed back 10ft to there. That's bonus action. Action. That finishes his turn. Next up is Brave with Laudna undone. Oh, Jesus. I have to save, I assume. Yes, you do. Come on. This is a D10. You've crushed it. Let's go. It's big. What was that? 15. Yeah. 15 plus 9. 20. 24. 24. Yeah. You're fine. You resisted. Where are you? Every time. So rough. Can you just pick us up and walk? Resaves. Can I? If you want to try and force move into somebody else, that's an ally. It's half your movement. So you already have. So seven feet. Yep. Do some kind of stupid concentration. He just keeps rolling super high and now he's got advantage again. This is so tricky because even if I used all my movement and my action to move, you still get sucked in. I'm still in. But if I stayed near you guys, at least I can help mitigate our damage. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe I should just stay put. Moonbeam is a concentration spell, so I can't do anything with that. Does he still have Moonbeam? Can you move it forward to like keep in? Cuz you move past it. I can move. I can move it forward. Yeah. Still be good to hit him. Boy, what a terrible turn. No. Yeah. I will use my action to move Moonbeam a little further in 5ft or 10ft or whatever it takes to get just in front of him. Right. It'll move. You probably have to move it in the corner this way. It does not move past the barrier. So it kind of kitty corners off to the side. So it's hitting him. But leaving this arc of him open to your friends. And I'll just scoot just over there, I guess behind Fearne or Oba. Mr. Or. I want to be within in case they get sucked in again. I want to be within 10ft of the edge of the. Of the. I guess I'll Just stay put. No, you want to move? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Close to there. So I'll reduce their damage if they get sucked in. Okay. Can you put your arm around my waist? If the lady consents, in case I get sucked in, Gives me a little bit of a bump. I will. I will put my three fingered hand on the small of your back and I will inspire you. Oh, look at that. D6. Wow. You can still use it next time. And that's it. All right, that finishes your turn. And that brings us to Laudna's go. Yes. Okay, what do I do? I'm gonna keep kind of scooting around the edge and move. Can I kind of get down a little bit underneath where Dorian is? 5, 10, 15, 20. You could get there if you want to. And we're on the edge of the hole, right? Yep. Okay. I'm gonna kind of use this for cover and kind of peek around this cover. He doesn't still have his shield up. Correct. The shield build lasts until the next start of his next turn, which he lost. So. Yeah, it's gone. It is gone. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I'm just gonna. I'm gonna do this again. I'm gonna just. Three Eldritch blasts, actually. I'm gonna. Bonus action hex. Is there anything they can send him? I'm going to hex him out of there. Pull him out. I don't think if I can attack him. I can first level spell, but it's hard. Okay, could we. But I don't even know if I can get there in this round cuz I didn't run correctly. He's burned all his auto. His legendary save. Right. So I don't have. These are just straight rolls, correct? Correct. Yeah, but even at a double distance, I can't reach with telekinesis of thought. 26 to hit the back of his neck. All right, here we go. Bread and butter. Did you just do eye? I know it's 21 to hit him. I'm afraid to do anything else. I want him to save. No. Your eyes. No, unfortunately, no. Last one. Worse. All bad. All bad. It's bad in here. It's really bad in here. It is bad in here. That was risky. If we take off all our clothes, do we get advantage? Are you bothering right now? I hexed. I don't think he has many photos actually. What if we pretend we're shooting a porn? Oh, it's worked before. Try to bring it back one for one. Okay. Matt, can I use my like, last little bit of movement? To just kind of tuck behind this pillar and try and hide as much as I can. Sure. Go ahead and over there. What's it feel like to have movement? Actually, you know what? She's wedged between a rock, so. So probably I take that back. I want to use it as 3/4 cover, but I still want to be able to see him in case I need to cower self best as you can get there. Okay. He's a sniper. That finishes your go. That's so good. Ashton, you're on. Ashton, I cannot make it to him right this round, can I? Are you within the radius? 40ft is what I got. You are within the radius? Yeah. The terrain has rough terrain up to here. Okay, so. Well, I mean. Okay, so I have to make a roll to save. I'm just talking about getting to him. Go hit the squishy parts. Here we go. And I don't suppose being inside the rock is gonna help at all. It gives you advantage. Oh, I already have advantage. He has a large hole in his neck. Hit it. Yes. 20, 32, you're fine. Yeah. Jesus Christ. Very big. Are you going for the hole? Yeah, of course. I don't think I can make it though. 40. 40ft. Okay, so 10. So 20 to get out of it. Okay, but I. I thought I could still. Just because I'm. I'm. I'm trying to use the. The ground to not. All right. Yeah, so you ignore the. Yeah. So basically. So you wanted that B. Here. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. 30. 35. Yeah. You could get. You can hit him? Yeah, I can hit him. Oh my God. Oh, well, this is gonna be fun. All right, I'm going to use. See? And swing away. I'm going to use my. My belt. And I'm making a. I'm making a. I don't know if I have to do reckless or other, otherwise, but I'm. I'm making the shot. Here we go. Please roll. Well, ah, that's 18. I would. I'm making it. I'm so sorry. I didn't call to the neck, did I? I meant to, but I'm. Oh, you did a second ago. Okay, that's fair. Thank you. I actually did. Thank you. I said you were going to go for it. It's 20 other 28 times. That's like 33, 34 to hit. That'll hit. Okay. Come on, baby. So I use my belt, which also means that I added D6 to this damage. Okay. So that's three. D6. Come on, Barbie. Let's go party. All right. Three D6 damage. It's gone, wherever it is. That's okay. I've got one. It's got sucked into your penis. What fight is making us lose our fight? 16. 30 points of damage. Sorry, I was distracted. No, I totally understand. What Was that again? 30 points of damage. What to join your D. Like something at a kindergarten cop? Actually, it got some. So good. All right, 30 points of damage. 30 points of damage to DC15. Yeah. Double 10. Well, here's some other fun stuff. Well, actually, that's double tens, and then you hit the neck. Yeah. So go ahead and roll. 8. D6. Necrotic damage. No, that. All right. Just for you. It was just for you. Just for you. Do I get to reroll ones and twos on this? But it's not my damage, is it? So I don't get. This is. Yeah, it's not about damage. So 5, 11 special bad points of damage. And we should add another 10 to that, which would be a failure on its concentration. Whoa. Double 18s. But because that first hit was the extra damage on that one, it brought the DC up an additional 10. Yes. Which. Yeah. For the gravity. So with that. Yeah. Finally. Ominous void. Oh, my ash. Let's go. D6 for. For stealth. Worst construction. Six, seven. Dang. All right. It gets worse. Gonna bleed. I need a. So he's kind of trying to get through what is a solid wall right now, more or less. So if I tried to move some. But it is definitely resisting him. As if it was. Okay, so if I. So if I grab a skull. Also pushed him 15ft away from me. I think it would. I don't know what that would quite do. Well, do you want to try 15ft away? What back like it would go? It would be technically. It would be 15ft. It would be technically directly away from me, which would be into the wall. Guys. What if he beaned him through the last three? That be hilarious. But I can also. I can also move somebody five feet in any direction I want. So would it. That wouldn't be possible to move him and then have the throw? No. Okay, so the push and then what do you want to do? I'm going to hold the shove, and I'm just going to move him five feet. Can you move him just five feet to the left of me so that he's in the middle of all that bullshit. Like, he's next. Unfortunately, there's no room to move him more than that. Okay. Because you're big and he's big, so you're not occupying the space for my next attack. Okay. Or my next attack. That's 17, 18, 19. 19. 29. Yeah, that's. Yeah. That hits, I assume 29. 29. Yeah. 32 altogether. And damage on that is 2D6 plus 2 2. Yeah. I love the pre com. 20. 25 points of damage. He's looking hurt. Yeah, I'm trying to. What? I don't. I only get two attacks. It's been a while. My brain is like. Does he have a jewel on his forehead and look like he's made a snuck off? No. I do not get a third. A third attack, if I recall. No. Okay, how about a fourth or fifth? I'm trying to figure out a thing. 17 more attacks. No, I was just. No, Laura Bailey. Only Vax can do that. I think I have to do here. Shit, I should have done that other thing. That's okay. I'm good. All right. Finishing Ashton's go. Wait, did you do. I missed it? Did you hit him back in the neck? It wouldn't have mattered for the second hit, but I did anyway. Just because I rolled the same thing. I'm just shooting for. Exactly. End of your turn. He's going to go ahead and angrily use two of his legendary actions to rapid cast. He's going to drop. He's going to drop another chain lightning. Cool. That's his last six level spell. So with that, that's going to be lightning damage. That's going to be once again targeting you, Dorian. Going to just sparkle off into all of you. Counter spell. Oh, counter spell. Wait, fifth level. All right. I hope this isn't a mistake. Counter spell at fifth level as well. So counter spells. Your counter spell that uses wizards, that uses reaction and a fifth level slot. Silvery ball. Oh, that's a much better damage. Roll in earlier. Shit, I don't have 20. Is that the hole? Is that the hole on the back of his neck? Yeah, those numbers. 54 points of lightning damage. How much now? 54 points of lightning damage to everyone in 30ft. So Dex saves to loses. Oh God. Okay. I did very well. Oh, are you. Are you within 10ft of me at a D4? Okay, I am. As all of us. Right. Everyone who's within 30ft of Dorian. For me it's 24. 24. Yeah. So you take. What is happening? 26. What's happening? All right. Dorian. NAT1. This is the worst I've ever rolled. 54 points of lightning damage. Yeah, dirty 20. Dirty 20. No. 54 points of lightning damage. Oh my God. 33. 26 points of lightning damage. Ashton Dex save, right? Correct. 18. 18. 54 points of lightning damage. Correct. And then Ira done this. He succeeds with the natural 17 letters. Takes minus 26. Ow. All right. Yeah, that's his legendary action on that. That's not attack shit. As a frustrated retort to that. All right, that finishes. Ashton's got Dorian. You're up with a midget on deck. Oh, my God. All right, he's now turning around a little bit. And, like, if you're going to be this obnoxious, then, sure, step in into the chipper or sit back and watch. Damn. Whoa. Pretty metal line. Yeah. I'm going to fly over him. Like, how high can I get above? I don't know how the high. The ceiling here probably get about 60 or so feet up. Okay, well, not that high up. Okay. Like, I want to be like, 10ft above him and then drop down right behind him. In that space that Astron created between the wall and that, is there enough room? There's enough room to move next to him, but he got moved in a way where he's still against the wall. You would just both be against the wall now. Okay. Third gun. All right. Are you in Moonbeam? Am I in Moonbeam? You would now be moving into Moonbeam. Yeah, definitely not gonna do that. All right. I didn't know where the radius was. Okay. Yeah, it's right around this area here. So, like, it's pretty much impossible to engage with melee with him right now and not get that one more time here. If you want to. If you wanted to fly, like, up right about there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My goal was to kind of like drop in behind him in a safe space within melee. You can make your feet just within melee of him. You want to drop into this space here, which there is a little alcove. And it's kind of hard for you to see from your perspective, but there's a little space right there. Yes. The side that will be outside of the moonbeam radius. Okay, great. So he's like. And I'm gonna kind of, like, land, soften my knees and pop up behind him and put big. I'm hurt. Put my arm on his shoulder and go. Force gauge. Just kidding. And I'm gonna pull out my sword and take a whack at him. Great. Yeah. It's time. Add a D4. Do it. Okay. Using your sword ability or are you just straight attacks? This first one's gonna be a straight attack. Everything comes after depending on the success of it. Hey, let's go. Plus a four come on. That's you. 19 plus 12. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sweet. Yeah. Okay. Redemption. So we're getting there first. Whack. Perfect. Six and seven, max. Oh, my God. Why am I stupid right now? 13. And then. So I'll take that first swing at him and then I will do. I'm kind of moving. I like in the space. It's tight, but it's making it work. Was that a neck hit or a body hit? That you're going. Well, he didn't specify. Yeah, I did not specify. So I'm working at him. And then I'm gonna use my blade flourish. Okay. But I'm gonna use master's flourish. So instead of my 12, I'll use a six. Okay. So I'm pretty sure that's automatic, right? Yes. Like the. Okay. Yeah. Oh, you're masters. I do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't just get a chance to use it. Let's scrap. Yeah. Okay. That'd be a five. But because I'm attacking with Gambo cleft, I Double it for 10. Dang. Alrighty. Yeah. 23 points of damage on one strike. Carving through on the one hit. Unexpected. You draw the blade and he's taken aback by it, and you carve across the front. The blood going onto the ground. And he's like, never surprising you motley crew of bullshitters. I got more. I have a second. I'm able to do a second strike. So we'll do it again. I'm gonna take a swing for it. Neck or body? Let's go for the neck. Is it exposed? He's turned to face. I mean, he's turned. He's, like, still facing the wall. And, like, kind of. He's having to train on all of. Yeah. So it's a lot. I'll try with a little finesse. And I'll try to go for the neck. Out of four. Oh, that is not great with a four. Yeah, I don't think it's gonna do it. No. Six plus 12. 18. 18, unfortunately, does not hit. All right, that's good. Matty, question for you or the brand? Each time a creature, the branded creature deals damage to you or another creature you can see within five feet of you. The branded creature takes six points of psychic damage. Correct. So I think that's only me and maybe Ashton. Cuz Orm's not five feet away from me, right? Correct. So on that last big sh. Would that have been. No, Orm is five feet from you. So. Yeah. So he would take six damage from that. From six for each of Them. What's the wording on it? It says each time the branded creature deals damage to you or another creature, you can see within five feet of you. The branded creature takes six psychic damage each time. Right. So not per round, but each time to you or another creature. Right, to you or another creature. So I'll be like 666. Psychic damage. Does he have resistance to psychic damage? Good to follow up on that. And then for my bonus action, I'll use two weapon fighting and a third time. Yeah. And. But I gotta pull up my little baby little sidearm. Special game. Let's give it a try. Going for normal attack or terrible miss. I'm in the mix. Hey, man. I will take one success this whole evening. Yeah. 23 points of damage. No. You got Laudna out of there. That's huge. Yeah, kind of really shifted. Seriously, you guys would have been the same way that we have been the last imaging Ira than Fern on deck. Shackles off. I'm going to run forward as far as I can. Tom Cruise run. Wow. As I run. Oh, God, I hope this works. Oh, good. Double the distance with a sorcery point. And in Ludinus's head, I'm gonna just scream as loud as I can and say enough. Come on. And I'm gonna cast. Power word stun. Yeah, Power word stun. This has to be beneath. Okay. And it's auto success. If that's true. Go, go, go, go, go. He said he was looking rough. That usually happens automatic. He is not immune to sun. And he is under 150. Oh my God. It's at this moment that you notice him reaching into his pocket for what looks to be a rather vibrant glass vial. But he doesn't get to take. But he doesn't get a chance to do it. Because as you take all of the rage and loss and tattered conversations and throw it right back into the core of his psyche, your scream resonates in his head. And he begins to scream as well. And grabs at his face. His fingers drawing down across his cheeks and that dark, thick liquid that had been seeping from his quintessence root in the back of his neck. You can see it now also pouring out of his ears as he is stunned. Holy shit. This is it. This is it. We're fucking. Go Ham. Go Ham. Wait, we can just hit him and he won't break it. He's stunned. No. So. So everything has advantage. Hits have advantage. Whoa. Auto fails. Things like. Does it hurt? Yeah. Does it hurt? Attack Rolls against an advantage automatically Fails strength and dexterity. Saving throws. And it can't move. Can speak falteringly. And for how long? Incapacitated. So it doesn't get its action or bonus action. It's done until you're next to. Until the beginning of my next. The end of my next turn. Next turn. Yeah. So we have one full ass round here. We have a full last round. Okay. Okay. This is great. He's losing. You got no range. What level is that? Eight. Eight. That's my yeah baby spell. I just had to get within 120ft of him. I couldn't get within 120ft of him. Chop the tree for less than 150. Can we do 150 in a round? Let's go. Yeah. What was the vial? What was the vial? Get the vial. Potion or some other haste potion. Who knows does that finish your turn? I mean, if he's stunned, if someone's close enough, they could go up and grab that out of his hand. You could just pickpocket him. So wait. Strength and dex checks fail automatically. Yes. Amazing. Okay, but cons do not. Cons do not. Ira is going to spend a second fifth level slot to. Come on, Ira. Steel wind strike. As soon as he sees the scream, sees him collapsing, Ira's head cranes back over her shoulder towards you and goes. Oh, good girl. Back into place. The bones snap of his head slips in and then his shattered form vanishes again. Teleports all around Ludinus and then vanishes. There's this pause where nothing happens before. From on top, he just claws downward, striking and carving down the back of Ludinus body in hopes of going for the back of his neck. Okay. Oh my gosh. Has advantage on the attack. And a D4. And a D4. I'm going to roll this in front because it's fun. Stack them up. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah. That's a natural. 17 +4 is 21 +9 changes everything. That's a 30. So kicking my Holy marking. Patience. Holy. That's okay. Okay, that's six D10. All right. So that's going to be 15, 20, 30, 37 points of force damage on him. 37 plus eight D6 damage checked. Yep. 10, 25. 35. 37 points of necrotic damage. 37. Yeah. Twice. Whoa. Yeah. That one round from Ira did 74 points of damage. That one strike. Let's go for fun. Yep. And a D6. Damn. 74. He's probably vulnerable. He's six because of a twiddled a ring at the Top and skin shimmer all over and then faded. I think everything's going to have damage. Oh my God. I got gave a goosebumps. I know. Lasting a long time. Yeah. That changed spell. I know. And a second level spell. Oh yeah. So his. His spells are starting to get eaten up. Okay, so that finishes that go. Iris turns. Then Fern, you're up. Okay. All right, so I'm gonna take my. This does not bode well for. I want to take my full movement, but just a little bit that way so I can have full range of shooting him. 30, 35. 35 would be about there. Okay, great. Am I within 60ft of him? You are within. Please. I don't think so, girl. Unfortunately, no. Except. Okay, what if Mr. Was running with you? Could he bamp you another? You could hold your action and have Mr. You. Oh great. Let's do that. So. Thank you. So can he. You can hold your action casting the spell and then appear and then release it within range. And I am holding. I am about to shoot out. And that will get you within 60ft. Great, great. Okay, so I'm going to do at fifth level Flamestrike. Just so you know, look at the radius of Flamestrike. It's going to hit everybody around each crash up. So it is a. It is a wide column of fire and stone. I love that. I'm going to cast fireball. I'm going to cast flames. Ashley might have forgotten, but Fern nose. Fern nose. Okay. Shit. There's no way. Hold on, hold on. It's a 10 foot radius. There's no way. I can only put that on him somehow. The flaming sphere. You're saying the flame strike. Flame strike is a 10 foot radius, which means it's about 20ft across. So if you put it on him, it'll still hit. Oh, I understand what you're saying. It's a column that goes like. Okay. To help you visualize it, this. Imagine how many little. This here is a 10 foot radius. So like a. A column. Yeah. Okay. I'm so sorry. It's okay. Not a worry then. Damn. I really wanted to do that because. Okay, so that's all right. I am going strength saves to cast down 30ft. I'm so sorry, you guys. I really have that ready to go. No worries. Give me just a minute. No worries. We've gone to that accent. Oh my God. I can't believe it. I mean, I'm gonna have to just. I'm scorching rain again. Do it, do it. I mean, I don't really have anything much left? Let's go. Give it advantage in all the hits. Chip away. Yeah, yeah. So that'll be fifth level. It's my last fifth level. All right, so let's go. Well, nuts. Three normally at second level. So it's third, fourth, fifth. Okay. Yeah, it was six. It is. Right, and they're each at advantage, did you say? Yes, So a lot of. Lot of math floating in here. Yes. So 18 plus 29. 29 hits. 27. Okay, these normally hits or are these to the. Oh, wait, I get advantage on that. We didn't specify. Did you? 27. 1. No. So it's the first two hit. Okay. Do you want to hit a neck? Oh, we're just hitting him, right? Yeah, hit the neck. Yeah, I mean, whatever you want. Yeah, his neck is. I'm just do his body. I mean you can go. Sure. Yeah, yeah, do that body. You get advantage. All these, all these attacks have advantage because he's stunned. It's harder. But the neck is going to be harder to hit. It's harder to hit. But if you hit him at least once, he takes a bunch of. Of extra damage. Get 76 points of damage more at least for the first body. And then. Okay, so you've got two so far advantage. Okay, so 19. 19 does not. Okay, so now for the next. Okay, okay, 25. Missing five going to be a 26. 26 is the magic number. You got to run a 15 or higher if you want to hit the neck. Damn it, damn it, damn it. Or just a hand for the body. Either one neck. Come on, come on. Okay, so 27. You got two more rolls. Two more rolls. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to go for the neck. Oh, wait, one more, one more roll. One more roll. That didn't. That was a one. Come on. 20. Nah. Okay, so two to the body, one to the neck, but one to the neck. You just need one to the neck. So 46 fire damage. 46 fire damage. Oh, three hits. So 66. Sorry. 66 fire damage. And then he takes an additional 86. Okay. And I won a D8. Cuz you can only take that damage to the next. Once you hit it, then you back off. 20. 27. Okay, then roll 8D6 necrotic damage. 8D6 necrotic damage. Okay. Okay. I'm so nervous right now. I know. Okay, so we've got. That's nine. I know. They're so small and so annoying. It just helps me. I don't know why. Okay, so 9 plus 9. 18 plus 7 to 18. 25. Thank you. Two more. Yeah. Plus 8. 2. 25. 33. All right, 33 points. Oh, and the D6. For spells. For spells. Yeah. To reduce. Spell his spell. To reduce his spell. D6. Plus one six. Okay, so that's seven. He's going to lose a seven double spell on that. Whoa. Okay, okay, okay, okay. That finishes Fern skill. Yes, it does. We're at the top of the initiative order. Orym, you're up with Chetney on deck. Okay. Come on, baby. All right, all right, all right, all right. Orym's going to step backward 10ft and extend seedling out, and vines will shoot out and wrap around Ludinus chest. Hopefully, I'm going to attempt to pull him toward me, away from the gates. He fails his save automatically because he's stunned. So he gets yanked past. Amazing. And then I'm going to. Orym's going to sprint and skid under his legs and slide so that I'm helping form a wall in front of the gates. Okay. So he's got Ash and Orym and Dorian in the way. And then I will Ira take off the stone so that I spring up into the air and I'll take three quick slashes starting at the back of the neck. It's an advantage because he's stunned, right? Correct. That's a 24. 24 missing. Actually, I was gonna say. Actually, are you close enough to me that you get a D4 on that? Yes, I'm right next to you. Okay, so add that D4 to about 10. Come on. The second one's gonna be a crit. That's a 25 second roll at advantage. I got a 20, which is a 34 to hit. Correct. That's on the neck. Correct. Okay, do it, do it. And then I'll just see if the last. I'll just do the last slash, which is not as good. But a D4 still correct for the body. 27 on the body. That hits. Okay. Okay. Okay. Come on, baby. Crit first. Loot first. Nuts. One doubt. Terrible. Roll two. I have no fighter stuff left, so that is an 11 for the damage from seedling. Okay. And then is there damage for the neck hit? You double your dice. Double dice. Yeah. So there's no thing for the back of the neck? Not for original. No, it doesn't. Crit double. No, it's just the impact takes on top of that. So roll 8. 86. If that's what I was asking. Yes, what I was asking. 86 2. Okay, I just wanna. I got. I got 86 so that's 6, 7, 10, 16, 22, 28, 32. 32 for that. Okay, 32 damage. Yeah. And then. Is it a D6 plus one for the well. Orym Savior. Blade of the Tempest. Warrior of Zephyra. How do you want to do that? Yes. I have to back it up. Orym was pressed and losing hope. And then saw across the field of battle, Imogen climbing, clutch her hand out, and saw him lock up fire, streak out across the cavern, slamming into him. So he took his moment, yanked him out, slid under, spinning him around and leaving his neck bare. And slashes once across the neck and it begins to spurt out the back. And then he just drops around front so I can see him. And I stick it up under his chin into his neck and say, so much pride. So much plotting. And I don't say another word. And I just stare at him, eyes open, until he's gone as a millennia of sheer will and drive comes to a single trickling end point. He smiles. Finish what must be done. And his eyes drift unfocused as his arms fall to his sides neatly, the bolts of energy dull. Oh, shit. Should we absorb him? Shove him in? Shovel quick. Do you withdraw the blade? I do. Falls to the ground, lifeless. Limp. Ira curls over like a spider surrounding a wrapped fly. Picks up his head in his hand. I needed that. Did that really just happen? I poke him a little. Is he dead? He's dead. Dead. I'd open Raider's pocket. Yes. And I'm just looking through all the pockets. Loot the buddy. Steal his vest. I'm standing by the portal entrance and I am keeping an eye on fucking Ira. Ira is sitting back and watching you loot him with a terrible grin. His crown that he still has adorned on his brow. He's just kind of relishing in this moment of comeuppance in his face. I'm gonna slowly walk forward and drop to my knees next to Orym and hug him. What happens? I don't know. But you did it. We did it. We did it. If I look back at this shimmering gate, what do I make of it? Like, is it. Can we see through it? Does it look diminished from when we first entered? The initial boundaries that the Nissa pushed through themselves appear to be permeable. There's an area about his shape where the runic lattice itself is almost immaterial, faintly present. And there are a few boundaries beyond that, two or so that look solid still. Look around at the group over Imogen shoulder. I'm going to use Second wind. Then stand up with my back to the barrier. Do we go? Do we keep going? I mean, this is it, right? Predathos is through there. Yeah. This could be a good time for a refresher. Oh. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If we all gather up within. Sure. This is the door. Can you remind us what this does one more time? This fist side blows feels cold and smooth. That doesn't matter. When throwing against a hard object with enough force orb of a shadow shatter encircling any creatures within 15ft with a burst of crafted dunamis. All creatures affected by the orb regain immediately half of their expended hit dice. Rounded up spellcasters regain 1d4 plus 4 spell slots of their choice and gain the benefits of a short rest. Okay, so we gain the benefits of a short rest. Meaning we can spend hit dice to heal. You can spend hit dice to heal if you'd like. We can spend hit dice to heal and we could. Any abilities that recover on a short rest you regain. Okay. 1d4 plus 4. Do each of us roll individually 1d4 plus 4 or do we roll 1d4 once individually and we regain 1d4 plus 4 spells slots. Spell levels of slots. That's pretty clutch. Arrested. He's dead. Who else is coming? Where's your mom? She's out there. She in the other cavern. She didn't come running after us. I'm going to. I'm going to call to her mentally. Are you okay out there? Should we be response? I'm all right. Okay. How about you? Ludinus is dead. Truly. As far as we can tell. Yeah. What if we just. I don't know. What if we just cave this place in some. There's gotta be a way to do that, right? Cave it in and go no further. I mean, Ludinus is gone now. Is he. Did he make copies of himself that are around? Maybe. Probably, yeah. Can we. Can we drag his kind of body out of the walkway a little bit and just search him for forehead gems, armpit amules and a reminder pocket that his magical staff is where Corio. Oh, right. Coriolis is. Oh, yeah. You can suck it up good. That thing might have teleport on it too. Like it might have something useful. Can we look at least for that vial of glowing liquid that he was reaching for? Yeah. There's the healing potion. A good one. I bet it's a pretty good one. What do y'all think? It feels too good to be true. To just be able to sit here for an hour and Wait. I can't sit here for an hour and wait. This is it. This is all I have. In one hour I'm going to be nothing. I'm. I gotta keep going. We don't have any ideas. Even without that, I'm not. We gotta. No. That's that my fifth. We gotta use that ball and. Yeah, we gotta go. Big assumption. I have almost nothing left. But maybe with a short rest it. To what? To a chance. Do what this man has been planning for millennia. I don't want us to rest on our laurels. On this victory. Who knows what can come around the corner at any moment. The race isn't over. In my opinion, he might have made more of himself. I'm sure he did. But if he didn't, we'd just be releasing Predathos on a what if, right? That's not. But also like, we're so close. We should just like take a little peeksies up there. Well, we'd still have to get those membranes down. Yeah, but the girls can do it. That's the only thing. I think. I think we could walk through it. Image. I think that was why he was trying to drain your mother. I think he couldn't walk through it. And he didn't get enough. And you don't have to trust me. And I know you don't. But he was right. This is the beginning of a new age. And a new age it belongs to children. I am tired of thousand year old. I'm tired of being lorded over by people who think they know better. And I'm not. I don't want to kill anybody. I don't want to hurt anybody. But I think things have got to change. And we have. We have a moment to change them. Chet. What? If you like grim psychometry. The geometry. Remember it? Yeah. Love it. I'll use grim psychometry on one of the impenetrable membranes. Roll a history check. 17. 17. You concentrate here. And the history is broken and sporadic. You see civilizations collapsing. Collapsing within a rockfall from all sides. You see a gathering of divine fear. And you see something once grand. Squeezed to a point of slumber. And for the first time, you feel this pull. Something beyond that boundary. You sense something. A will. Present Awareness. Inviting. Anything. There's something back there. But it's old. Maybe the small super hot warrior is right. Maybe. Maybe we shouldn't mess with it. We could just make sure no one else tries. But didn't the arch heart and the matron both ask us to help them? Yeah, they did. We listened to them instead of the others who. How do we keep this safe? Why do it have to be one or the other? Why. Why can't we. Why can't we try to do something about Predathos to. To keep it from feasting? Maybe it doesn't. We still don't know. We're still on the precipice of discovery, but in my opinion, Ludinus unraveled this thread. I agree with Ashton. How are we supposed to keep this safe? We can't stay here forever. I think it's coming one way or the other, and it's either us or someone else. Especially now that people are aware that it can be done. Yeah. The vessel is the only form of control over it. I would rather it be one of us. There are hundreds of people who are privy to Ludinus's plans. There's an entire planet right now of angry people on this moon who were promised something they're not going to have. And at least not yet. Until we can do something, Imogen, we're. We just put our hand on it and see what happens. I don't want to do that until we've at least used that ball. Okay, there's just to double check. There are several more membranes that we can see, right? Not just one. Best you can tell, there's a handful of layers. Yeah, you can just test one. Zyra is. What if we get, like, sucked in, though? Maybe we should do it. Ira's just kind of sitting back and just watching you all come over. A sickly grin, thinking intertwined, knees folded up on the sides. Dorian sends out a little melodic whistle to command Coriolis to scoop up Ludinus staff. And he gently floats it through the air and drops it in Imogen's hands. Cool. It's a super awesome stuff. Whoa. Anybody able to tell what this. Ira, can you tell what this is? But also, don't lie to us. Don't take it. Oh, well, this is a no, I'm holding on to it. Well, show too. It is a delicious artifact indeed. Quite the prize, really. You don't have identifying. I think I do, but I'm pretty sure I do. What do you think, Ira? Let chaos reign. Hmm. I'm certainly curious what you all decide to do, empowered as you are, to make this choice. Me? I got what I came for. I think I'm. I'm comfortable just watching from the sidelines. So a bunch of slap dicks. We're gonna decide that fate of Exandria right now. We were here. Let me see the staff. Bunch of slap dicks to do anything. The cast ident staff. Big. It's a big decision. No, I know. But we can't agree on anything. Oh, it's odd. The staff rejects your identify spell. Oh. What it repels your intent to learn of its enchantment like itself is attempting to prevent you from using what it is capable of. That's new and also worrisome because that means like some sort of consciousness lives on. What could have been warded against such a. Yeah. Ludinus ever holding it or was it just always floating there? Me held it at times encountered in the past. But this evening he kind of had it floating at the side. Cool. While he was focusing on the boundaries. I'm scared he's going to come back. I'll cut his head off. I'm going to say while all this is. We're really devolving now. But I mean it's. While all this is happening. Got his head on shell shock mode. He's not talking anymore and he's sort of like slump down onto a rock and is listening to all the debating at this point. And yeah, we should use it. He doesn't know what to do. He's been so sure for so long and just doesn't know what to do. And going in feels so wrong to him. But he hears the logic that it's only a matter of time before someone or something a day from now, a year from now from now, six months from now. And just lets them figure it out. Because he's took all his energy to make it to this point. I'm just afraid like a fucking sand worm could just explode. I know. Use the fucking ball and let's sprawl. About to die. But just for the record. Strange sulfurous smell begins to come to the air. This is what I mean. Like no, no, no, no. Use a ball. No, no, no. We're using the ball. We're using this. An acidic kind of caustic chemical smell. And you turn back to the bubbling liquid that was once Ludinus corpse. It has seemingly disintegrated. Were you able to loot the body before that happened? You kept saying you're going to loot the body. A ring. He had his super potion. Do we take Angus? He tried to shrink all of it. 15 things are off cutaway. Is that. Got that? You turn around. Ira's not there anymore. You is the staff. I'm going to. When something dissolves and goes away. But it was more like something from the abyss. Right? Like was he A demon. The. Was that when Bertrand did the very, very beginning. And the dudes. The dudes. I know what you're talking about. That were going after Burchen. Didn't they have some dissolve y situation? The barriers that he passed through are unchanged. And the other ones have not beyond. Have not been breached. Okay, let's use the orb and let's get. It needs to be crashed against something hard. Right? Do it on my pecs. And everyone is. Can you squeeze? Everybody gets close 15ft and I just. I throw it abrasive crotch. That should be done. You shout in pain. It's like you said something. Suddenly, an instantaneous beat. Time slows to an infinite point of stretch and then rapidly seems to jump through some. It's like being pulled through a violent portal. But you're landing right back where you were and you feel somewhat refreshed. You feel like some of your wounds have healed. You feel like some of your exhaustion has faded. Some of your awareness is rested. And there's just left in your mouths the slight little taste of almost like a. A sweetness. As this smoke that has emerged and been left to dissipate from the inside of this shattered orb dissipates in the air around you, you all gain the benefits of a short rest. You can spend hit dice to heal. Do you automatically get half of our hit dice of healing for this? You send. Well, no, no. Any hit dice you've already used, you gain back. And then you can spend hit dice to heal if you'd like. And then just to add, ask Matt with Hunter's bane. So just so you did that disintegration seem like anything from demonic or make an arcana check for each time you roll, which I have advantage on. You do? Yeah, I would like. As far as you can you go and inspect the remains and you have quite some experience with fiendish entities and things that delve in that space. It doesn't seem to be fiendish in nature. It doesn't seem to be tethered. But it does appear to be an intentional self destruction of the remains. Okay. Meaning there's no reason why this should have been done, given his means of destruction. And unless he didn't want his body consumed or it was an asset. Or unless. Yeah, there was. He had to kept alive and. Yeah. Or there was something there that he didn't want to get into the wrong hand. Yeah. I don't like it. My head dies. 1D4. I rolled four. There you go. Eight. Eight levels. Great. Okay. And then I'm Gonna. Okay. Clear what slots to restore store. So if you're a seven, it would be like one level seven spell. Or seven level ones, basically. Okay. Or a three, a two and a one and a. Another one. Okay. Oh, boy. I still have no rages, which is good. Oh, that's a. I roll no one. Wow. Three nines in a row. So this is the best part of the show right here. Yep. Spells. Any level. You just get back that many amount. Like if you. What did you roll? I rolled. I rolled a one. So you get five slots worth spells. So you can gain five first levels or one fifth level or a second and a third. Whatever adds. Whatever adds up to five. Should we try? You try to suck that staff. That's dangerous. No, I wouldn't do that. Boy, I sure want to. You want to? Well, yeah. I'm not going to. Hold on. I'm gonna use the vial to get, like, my sorcery points. I'm going to use sorcery points to recover spells as well, and then use the vial to gain the sorcery points back. Okay. There is no way to get a rage. Yeah. Damn. But you can maintain the rage that you had for as long as you'd like. Oh, that's right. Because I've got the. I've got the. Hold it until I drop it. I'm relieved. Like, he could have been bringing it as a defensive measure against Predathos. Sure. But even if it is and you absorb it, you would have that innate ability. But he also could have done that. You can just sit there and. How long does it take to suck? An hour? A minute? Sparkling. There's a reason why, if he would have sucked it down, if it would have helped him already. All right, I'm gonna roll that D4. Come on. Roll high. It's okay. Mid. Mid. All right. Plus four. Yeah. We're making Arcana. Check. Uh. Oh, me. Okay. Shouldn't be. What do I do here? Oh. Oh, my. Arcana is so bad. You're an archaeologist. Okay. You just got a whole weird bag of those, didn't you? That's awesome. I have a minus for guidance. Guide yourself. Guide yourself. You're also within. Guess you can't do that. You can't even to read your guidance. Artificial short rest. Does that mean that you could have attuned to a weapon instantly 10 to get the benefits of a short rest? No, probably not. I would say no. Never mind. Curious. I'm going to bring back one level here. Only two. Plus six. You're going to do It. Yeah, it's dumping a lot into it. But that's where my disintegrate is. I will say very low on the first drink. No, no, the 10. Does it look like old Arcanum tech, this staff? Or does it look just like a very fancy Elven? It looks of Elven make. For the most part. It just has like the two kind of like forking points and like the kind of the lattice between it. Two forking points. Does it feel feyish at all? Doesn't necessarily feel fey. Does it feel like attunement? Like it's a tuning thing for a plane? Did you already ask that someone else would like to make an Arcana chop. Glean anything else from it? What are we. What are we rolling? I can try. I got. I've got. I'm not proficient or anything with it. I'm proficient in Arcana. What are we trying to go for this figure out. Give it a look. See. Do you want to assist me? Yeah. And we can look at it together. Inscription or be a very. There's no inscription on. But there are arcane ruins across it. Eyes of the room keeper. Oh yeah. Okay. Glancing at the details of the staff, it looks like the basis behind the script upon it is. Roll a kana for me to see if you can ascertain what the nature of it is. Because you can read the runes and they have a guidance and she's helping me. And guidance. And guidance. Which is plus four. I will. I will say it leans somewhere between transmutation and divination. Interesting. Okay. I rolled a 15 and 14 plus so 15. Ooh, that's good. 15. 18 plus 6. So 24. 24. What you can learn looking at this. Beyond the enchantment is there is a slight. A dullness to a handful of runes that sparked when she tried to identify it that have not recharged yet. Meaning you gather that whatever prevented you from identifying it can only do that once every period of time. Oh, so if you try again, it has a counter spell inside it or something like that. Masquerading. Okay. Okay. Anyone else want to hit it? You want me to give it another go? Reveal your secrets? Well. Well, I mean it's first level, but worth it. Forget it. Worth it. All right. Cuz it. If this thing's packed with spells. If we did this at the beginning of the or we're just using the two charges it has it. Would this have been at the beginning of the. Could we say we did this before the bubble so that we could attune to it during that short rest. Because the short rest is the benefits of it. It doesn't necessarily include spending time with the item to attune. Got it. Yeah, I was poking that. Oh, wow. Yeah. She's identified, man. Guys, I have nothing. Not a lot of spells left for a nice fight. It is a staff of soulbind relay shit that has been expended. Meaning it was meant to extend the range of some sort of spell. It. It's meant to be a relay of some sort of enchantment that has something to do with the binding of his soul. Oh my God. He still shot his soul into a clone somewhere. Still gotta go. So now we know we have to go. Because he's gonna go. Was worth it. That was worth it. That gives us answers. Okay, before we go. Delilah has clones. He definitely. Well, should we. Should we. Should we destroy it? So we can't. No, it's already been used. It's already been. But it can't be used again, right? Let's throw it in a bag holding or something. Well, unless we want to. Because what you intimated was that it had expelled the. Don't look at me. Correct quality. Not the soul shot. I mean, I don't know. But that's not what DM said. Dm? It's possible because it had it so far away from him when he died that he wasn't able to use it. And just a reminder if it's. If it's very rare. The wearer's hit point maximum increases by 5. All attack rolls, saving throws and ability checks have advantage until they complete a long rest. Or if it's legendary. One of the wearer's ability scores is permanently increased by 2. Depends if we suck it up, as does your master. But it takes an hour to suck it up. It's one minute for one minute for an hour for a creature, a body. Bodies don't just. Bodies don't just bubbled into sulfur for no reason. Yeah, but if he used this for soul binding, you can get the benefit of it being super rare or legendary for whatever is going to happen. I think we should suck it up. Do it right now. But who now you've used it a few times today too. Yes, we have it. But I mean, this is the moment, right? I mean. Wait. Do we need the harness for Predathos? Do we need the harness for Predathos? We don't know. I don't know. We didn't get. Did we get the harness off of Ludinus before he turned into sulfur bubbles? He didn't have one. Yes he did. He had it on when he was. Would we have looted it off of him? Where is it? He would have taken it off when you guys had force caged him. But it would have put it in his pocket. Right? Or a bag of holding or something. Does he have a bag of holding which is gone on. Do we need it for prelos? I need at night. That's a lot of possessing and soul swapping. And there's a tool that. That's like a relay that allows you to do it at a distance. Sounds useful. I might need it for prothus. How else do you get it inside your body? Well, by telling him get on inside. Maybe you just have to bone him. Maybe you. Wow. This is my call. You're made to be the vessel. Let's put the staff in the bag of holding. We'll keep the harness free just in case we need it and we should go. What's our role at right now? What do we have to not roll this for the harness? For the harness. Make it break. It said 40. I think it said 40. If you do it again. Yeah. Would we still get the the as rules as written. Do we still get get the benefit even if it breaks or if it breaks and then we roll for it. But someone we're like end of days here. Someone will get like something our ruidus born juggernaut here we'll get a permanent stat bump. Once a creature gains a benefit from the ray they cannot benefit from again until they complete a long rest. If this item is used more than once within 4024 hour period, there's a cumulative 20% chance chance each of these. So it would be 40% chance that it would break after this use. Okay. Pretty high. Chetney. This could be our last chance to smoke that Fusaka. You really going to. You going to get high before we go fight for Deathos. When would be a better time than now? After fair convincingly m made. What the have you done to me? I was fun once. Oh God. Just to logic this out one more time. One puff. Because I was also originally like what if we need the. What if we need the cone? The sucky cone. But Ludinus was using the sucky cone to suck in Liliana my mom to be. He didn't have it here when he was trying to get in. Yeah. And he didn't have. Well he would have put it up but still. But what is he gonna do? Go in front of predators and then put it on like come on. Does mom have any more insight than what we have. She didn't. She just knew that we'd be able to get through these gates. Okay, wait. But you still haven't he to see if he left it behind in the other room? No, we have. We figured he put in a bag of holding or something. It wasn't. Should we suck up that thing into. You did not find a bag of holding on his body when you looted it. But he definitely placed it somewhere. Should we run back to the room where my mom is and see can you see invisibility or something for an hour? If it's a up when we went in, I would. Maybe it's in business. We are killing time I do not like us to have. So if we're going to do this, let's do this right. Can you run back to. Maybe you should chill. Maybe you should smoke some fusak. Calm your nerves a little bit. Matt, would you say it's been an hour since we first went into the cavern where Lewdness was put in the force gate? I don't know if it's been an hour. I think from then it's probably been about all the conversation rushing through and you guys recovering, looting all this stuff here. It's pretty close to an hour since I could run back and try and look. 47 minutes. 47 minutes. Minutes. All right. I'll. I'll run back up the tunnel since I still have see invisibility up. I haven't even. I got 12 minutes before I'm a problem and just see if there was anything where the force cage was. You do not. I return. Okay. How's my mom? Did you check on her? I killed her. All right. Probably a little bit more. Then I'm going to walk over to that barrier. It's time. Let's do this. Okay. So you walk up to the next unbreached barrier. Yeah. And put my hands on it like I saw Ludinus doing. You put your hands on it and the minute you put your hands forward, nothing seems to happen. You instinctually let your consciousness expand. Grab her belt loop and you feel a familiar presence from the other side. Meet your energy. Energy. Like two hands reaching across a threshold. And when they join, the boundary gives and you just step through. I look back at Laudna. I think he's hitting on me. Should I be jealous? Step to the next one. The next boundary. And once more you feel the consciousness of Predathos reach out to meet yours on opposite sides of this divine barricade. And it's that tether between the two of you, that causes it to weaken and give way. And you push to the next one and reach each boundary. Yeah, yeah, you can come. It's permeable, right? It's not just you that's able to go through. Well, it's turning permeable like it was for Ludinus. That's what I'm saying. Is it going down? I don't know. Are you guys come with me? Yes. I was holding onto your belt. Each step you all also traverse these barricades, these divine boundaries becoming permeable as Ruidusborn leads you through them. The fifth boundary gives way. The final boundary gives way. And that tether that you reached out to, to give you and your friends passage remains your handhold strong. You can't help but feel in your proximity it come through imagine into you. And there's just a sense of belonging. It's the strongest deja vu you ever experienced in your life. You know, you've never been here, but you've always been working to get here. And you can't help but feel butterflies of excitement, but not quite sure why the logic conflicts with the instinct. And what you feel beyond that draws you both further in. This tunnel itself feels excited. The rest of you watch as you two friends here smile and look to each other. And you all begin to walk into a widening core to this moon. A somewhat spherical massive chamber where the walls themselves are all manner of crystalline spikes and obelisks and natural structures built here at the center of the prime pillar. What rock does exist in places seems like it's been changed or twisted, altered to resemble structures. You see ruin and things that have essence of temples or ancient reliefs. But they all look a bit melted or unfinished, like something affected their form over time through dreams. And they drift in and out of shape as they have massive columns of red rock spires that reach up and around. And in the center of this chamber you can see, much like the last, these massive curved spires, like the remnants, remnants of something detonating in the center of this room. And in that flash, the room's given form, locked and frozen, a crystal and red stone womb. In the very center of this small chamber is a soft glowing, teal white light. Just a little light floating, resting on something. From your distance here, you can't quite make out shape. It's just this unfocused mote. You don't have enough depth at the entry point, which is quite a distance of 80 or so feet from it to really see any sort of scope. But the two of you stand at the precipice of the entry point of this chamber. What would you like to do? Can I reach my mind out to you? Mm. Is that you? You are here. The voice that was once muddled and deep and echoing and distant. It's almost childlike. It has an innocence and a sadness and an excitement and an. It feels half awake. The rest of you, as it responds to Imogen, you hear its voice in your minds, too. And the red, glowing tether of energy between the two of you is the brightest it's ever been. And the faintest threads of it reach out to all of you. And a very dense core of it goes towards this light, which now begins to take the form of almost a small child of glowing light. You came. Hi. Are we free to go? Will. We caused a lot of trouble, you know. I want to wake up. A lot of people are scared of you. I'm so hungry. Let's wake up. Did you talk to Ludinus? He was the first to reach me. What did he promise you? He came to me in my dreams. Promised to set me free. And now you're here. I'm so hungry. Can you hear him now? I can only hear my. My children. How did you get here? Flashes of images in your mind. I was in too deep. Flashes of heated rock, of volcanic cataclysmic destruction, of seas boiling and mountains falling and gods encircling and Titans pouncing and being lost to darkness alone. You pull out and you look at this light. And in those images, as you pull out this little light, you really grasp for the first time that this is a shadow of its true self. And who knows how expansive its true self could be? Can we go? What? Do you want to go? Can we go? Do you want to go where you came from? Where did you come from? I don't know. More flashes through your minds. Distant starscapes. Cosmic clouds where stars are born and die. Strange celestial towers of possibility. Blackened clouds of nothing given shape and thought and just a vagrant need to feed. It's like a child reaching to suckle what's in here. Those are the only flashes of clear memory. We want to help you. But you'll hurt people. That's what happened before, isn't it? I don't understand. Inside Shark Insight Check A God high for me. 17 oh do you believe? Happy 2025, everybody. You don't want to hurt people. Oh, I didn't even. I didn't even realize. Your shirt today. Oh, wow. Itty Witty, baby. The fifth element is love. Sleeveless hair. I remember that haircut. Listen, these strands that are connected to us, that are pulling us in, do they feel like they have a substance in the room? Or does it just feel like an energy of light? You focus on them, and the color is different than the red tethers that hold them. The faintest of gold light through them. Oh, we. We want to help you. But if we can't, what will? You. I'll bring others. I can make more of my kin. The whole room begins to quake. And you feel the essence of Ruidus begin to shift. All the crystals begin to brighten. The rock itself begins to brighten. And you realize you are in the epicenter of a Ruidian flare. The room becomes so bright, you all have to clasp your eyes closed for fear of going blind. And your eyelids do nothing. Your head burns. Your consciousness burns. And here, in a flash of moment, you have a thought that this might be the end. And before I ascends to Ruidusborn, you both get proximity of this 24 temporary hit points. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Juicing. Hey, when you do that, it kind of hurts. It kind of feels good, though. Not gonna lie. Yeah, it's a little. A little pleasure with the people. What are you doing? Making more of you. Oh, wow. Yeah. What do you. What do you. What do you. What are you making more for? To come find me. We're here. We found you. Can we go? What does that pull feel like in here? Does it feel like. I want to step forward and embrace? That's the closest way you could possibly conceive what that means? It's odd. All of these feelings are both as natural as any impulse you've had through your life. An instinct that feels so primal and yet alien. The light steps close. I just instinctually look over my shoulder and out through the passage that we came. You see anything? No. I'm going to mirror that step. We're in the room with something that ate the gods, and I want to get closer. I'm going to walk towards the form. Okay. Slowly. Hand up. If I hold my hand out, is there any mirroring of that gesture from this entity? You notice it stepping towards Vernon? Imogen, do you want to step to intervene? No. I will acknowledge that it's not clocking me. Orym does, though. It's very childlike. Right. You intervene? I do. It moves forward, and you watch as it steps closer. The glow. You can make out a little more of its shape. And it looks kind of humanoid. Its limbs Long and thin, its head has a crest. You make the connection that the Reilorans are definitively the physical children born in the image of what this Predathos entity is. As you see the almost gray alien like thin small body just drift it steps. But the step is the mimicking of a shape that it's trying to read off of you. As its feet, it don't really touch the ground, its head crest is wide and it seems to almost grow larger as it approaches with each mimicked pulse forward as you intervene my small size. Wait. I'm afraid of the trouble and the pain that you leaving here might bring. Would you leave? You came from somewhere else. You could go. You can. But I must eat. We can get you food. Do you know what you're hungry for? More images crash through your brain. You see visions of imagery. Imagery that begins to glow in the various twisted pieces of the structures that you see formed out of this chamber as they twist and move. The actual interior of this room. Almost mimicking these flashes of memory, temples, symbols. You see images of a star headed, gold armored entity. You see the flicker of the moonweavers flowing silks through the air. And in each of these flashes, you feel a burst of that hunger. In each of these entities there is a spark of divine light that burns a color that doesn't exist in language to express. And as you come out of it, this entity just smiles through its odd sharpened mouth. We all saw that. Some of those are friends of ours. Would you. Would you hold off on. Would you do us a favor and spare some of them? I need to eat. As Bray is said, that Laudna is just going to reach down and kind of run her fingers along the outline of the matron of raven mask. Oh jeez, that's right. Oh my God. You still have that on her belt. Do I get any type of feeling? It just feels cold in your grasp. We're in like a gaudy MP zone searching for something sort of tactile in all these images, I'm gonna just slowly nick the tip of my finger with my own knife to just a tiny little bead of blood forms on my thumb thumb. And I'm just going to touch it to the thread that's pulling me toward her and see if anything happens, touch her thumb to it. As you do, that little golden thread flashes in proximity and you recall at this moment, these faint little threads are very similar to the ones you saw woven through the matron of Ravens domain. The threads of fate that bind all of you themselves. Now Quite visible in the presence of an entity that is the antithesis of divinity. Are you alone here? Not anymore. Aren't there like two other gods or something that disappeared, Ate them? That's what we were. Yeah, but what if they're like here? The abilities after he ate them, like Ludinus retained the gifts of all the things he's been absorbing. What if Ludinus took inspiration from Predathos and created a harness so that he could take in the gifts of magical and arcane creatures, like Predathos did with the deities that it ate? Maybe even the former God of death. Oh, wow. But we just ate them. No, Matron said that the former. Oh, no. Matron said the former God of death she set free Predathis. Didn't get that guy. You believe her? Yeah, I have. Yeah. I don't know. It's. It's a vacuum. It's nothing. I don't know. I'm extreme out. It starts to not continue to move around you or to head towards the two of them. What do I do? Do I put this fucking mask on? Do I do it now? Do I do it later? We don't even know what it does. We don't know what it does. What is later? It was just weird. Do you continue to intervene or do you let it circumvent you? That's scary. I don't know. I mean, he's not so reckless that he's going to throw himself at it. But I am. For a moment at least. We'll walk alongside and try to stay between Imogen Fearne and it. I'll mirror two, but I will try to intervene. Okay, so it mirrors you, continues to move, cocks its head curiously at you, and you go to intervene. Slow down. Can we go? I step forward. What would you have us do? Wake me. It takes another step towards. Hold on just a second. Can you intervene? Yeah. I'll even put a hand out if I have to. Oh boy. Make a strength saving throw real fast. I still have advantage. 16. 16. You put your hand out and you watch as Chetney gets shunted off at an incredible speed into a pile of rubble and rock by. It just nudges you aside. Hey, you take. It's a God. Eight points of bludgeoning damage. Okay, okay, okay. It doesn't even bother with you. That's our friend. You can't do that. It doesn't seem to righteous. Can you go? I'm gonna hold your hand. Fern. Listen, listen, listen. We have a choice here to let you go. Oh, Go. Don't let it touch you. No, no, wait. So you feel that tether reaching between the two of you. Do you allow it or do you resist it? Game. This is a choice for both of you. I know what I want to do. Until you finish something. I don't see another way out of this, y'all. We could fight it. Yeah, exactly. We could fight it. Well, the only way we can probably fight it if it's inside of you two, right? I start taking up this. I mean, I'm sorry. I trust you both implicitly. I'm gonna hold your hand and I'm gonna reach out. What are you doing? Fernie? You allow her. Yes. Yeah. As you all acknowledge this moment, you watch as the light accelerates and just seems to. I was going to try to resist. Are you for real? Are you for real? I was thinking about it. It only needed one of you to explain. Look. No, no, no, no, no. I. I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to do that to her. You feel this churning. It's like a storm inside you. It's overwhelming. The tunnel begins to shift. The vertigo overtakes you. And your friends become faceless shadows. The room itself seems to twist and bend. Becomes an enclosed space of nothing. And then expands a bit. You fall backward, but you're still standing. And you're spinning. You're spinning. The rest of you watch as Imogen begins to rise. The crystals clusters in the round crack and shift. Drifting in the air. You can see her skin now, her body taking this deep red crimson scale form. Her limbs begin to extend and shift. You see her eyes glowing bright. Where those veins of lightning were, they now are where this crimson begins to spread. Spread throughout you. Feel Predathos begin to overtake you. Can I fight that? Do you wish to fight? Can I try to suppress it? Yeah. Make a wisdom saving throw. Come on. You got advantage. Because a hero's beast. It's true. It's like Poochie the dog just skateboarded here. And I have a. I have an inspiration from somebody. No, I don't. Would have only lasted 10 minutes, so. Yeah, I think that was from me. That sucks. DC's probably like 10. Probably. It's fake. 12. 12. It's probably really low. If it's a charisma save, I can help. But it's a wisdom save. And I second. Can I try to assist? And try to resist as well. Like feeling that she's trying to resist. Wisdom is so high. That can so good for you to do. In this particular instance, the choice has been made for the vessel. Okay, the tether's still there. I thought I was going to, but. Are you resisting it? Coming into her? That moment has passed. What are you trying to to do, Fearne? I am trying to keep my connection and my thread, to imagin me Fern, so that she remembers who she is, who we are, and goes towards that and remembers that. Okay, you go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw for me. As this genuinely horrifying transformation of Imogen begins to swell and expand, these shards of crystal that floated in the air begin to do affix themselves amongst her body like clusters of spiked armor that pulse with psychic energy. That's cool. The bolts of lavender power. Imogen checking through her hair. 28. 28. You feel yourself begin to disappear into that shadow. And for a brief moment, you forget who you are and what you're doing. And in the middle of that shadow, you see a point of red light and you hear Fearne call out, imogen. And that's Rene. Great. Now we have to wait till 2026 for the. Oh, Phoenix. Jesus. A whole year. That's how we do it. That's how we do it. It's just one a year. Wow. Wow. Oh, my God. We'll hop into that next time. I don't know what I was thinking. I don't know what I thought was gonna happen there. Well, if you didn't go into it, it was gonna probably force it. Save it. Save it for cr. Cool down. All right, friends. Spicy one. We'll pick up from there next time. Thank you all so much for joining us. We love you very much. And is it Thursday? Thank you for listening to Critical Role. If you've enjoyed the adventure, please consider rating and reviewing this podcast. Your insight can really help support the show show by bringing new critters into the fold. Until next time, dear Critters, adventure awaits.