C3 E119 | Predathos Awakened

Summary

Critical Role Summary: C3 E119 | Predathos Awakened

Release Date: January 23, 2025

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Introduction

In episode 119 of Campaign 3, titled "Predathos Awakened," the Critical Role team finds themselves confronting an ancient and formidable foe, Predathos—a nightmarish entity with dark, otherworldly powers threatening the very fabric of Exandria. As members of the renowned monster-hunting group, the Reslayers, the party must navigate treacherous terrains, harness their unique abilities, and collaborate strategically to thwart this supernatural menace.

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Setting the Stage (02:41–05:05)

As the episode commences, the players are introduced to the dire situation looming over the continent of Issylra. Led by Game Masters George Primavera and Nick Williams, the narrative sets a foreboding tone:

Matthew Mercer: "In this audio adventure, you'll be guided through the wild continent of Issylra, home to some of the most dangerous creatures here—the Slayer’s most notorious monster hunting group in the realm."

The team emphasizes the growing undead threat as slain creatures begin returning from the grave, signaling the awakening of Predathos.

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The Awakening of Predathos (05:05–12:21)

The Reslayers enter a cavernous chamber where Predathos manifests. The atmosphere thickens with tension as the entity's immense presence is felt.

Marisha Ray: "I'm going to cast phantasmal force on her... I love them so much."

The chamber darkens, and the stage is set for an intense confrontation. The players begin by setting up defensive positions, preparing spells, and assessing the threat ahead.

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Initial Assaults and Strategic Maneuvers (12:21–30:00)

The battle intensifies as the Reslayers unleash their initial attacks:

Taliesin Jaffe: "I want to look over at Fearne. Is she reacting any way to this transformation in Imogen?"

Travis Willingham: "You’re a Kaiju."

Players employ a mix of offensive spells and tactical positioning to weaken Predathos. Notable moments include:

• Thunderous Spells: Players cast devastating spells like Shatter and Boiling Blade to damage the crystalline structure of Predathos.

  Ashley Johnson: "I'm using my bonus action to just try and call out. Imogen, you've got to come out of this."

• Healing and Defense: Amidst the chaos, Sam Riegel attempts to heal himself, revealing vulnerabilities within the group's defense.

  Sam Riegel: "Please help me keep it here... vines can spring out and try to grapple it."

As the Reslayers coordinate their efforts, Predathos retaliates with powerful psychic and physical attacks, compelling the party to adapt swiftly.

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Turning the Tide (30:00–50:36)

Despite early setbacks, the Reslayers start gaining the upper hand through coordinated assaults and strategic use of their abilities:

Marisha Ray: "Can I attempt to cast phantasmal force on her?"

Taliesin Jaffe: "Shatter... targeting her left hip joint there to see if I can just slow her down."

Through persistent efforts, they manage to chip away at Predathos's defenses, showcasing teamwork and resilience. Critical actions include:

• Hexing Predathos: Sam Riegel's Ensnaring Strike successfully restrains Predathos, limiting its movement and attack capabilities.

  Sam Riegel: "Vines erupt and break and wrap around you. Watch as Predathos balks and lifts off the ground."

• Misty Steps and Mobility: Orym employs Misty Step to reposition strategically, allowing him to land critical hits.

  Liam O'Brien: "I'm jumping as high as I can... I send out a potion... I grab onto the crystal."

Predathos's attacks become less frequent as the party's relentless pressure begins to take a toll on the entity.

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Climax: Breaking Predathos’s Form (50:36–118:22)

The battle reaches its peak as the Reslayers focus their combined might to dismantle Predathos:

Laura Bailey: "I'm going to reach out and touch it and send a shocking grasp along it."

Through a series of powerful attacks and critical spells, the party manages to shatter parts of Predathos's crystalline form:

Taliesin Jaffe: "I'm flying blind... Thrusting seedling... trying to kill it."

Marisha Ray: "I cast disintegrate... trying to shed away this outer shell."

Key highlights during this phase include:

• Disintegrating the Crystals: Marisha Ray's attempt to Disintegrate Predathos partially succeeds, causing substantial damage and further weakening the entity.

  Marisha Ray: "As you cast the spell from the inside... The crystal breaks off and scatters."

• Critical Hits and Final Strikes: The Reslayers land crucial hits, effectively crippling Predathos's ability to maintain its form.

  Ashley Johnson: "I take two swings with turmoil... 22 points of thunder damage."

• Temporary Boons and Levelling Up: As the battle intensifies, players receive temporary boons, such as hit point increases and action surges, enhancing their combat effectiveness.

  Marisha Ray: "We seal the gods. We bring the gods back to Exandria."

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Conclusion and Cliffhanger (118:22–232:52)

As Predathos's form begins to crumble, the players face the aftermath of their relentless assault. However, the battle is far from over:

Matthew Mercer: "As the ground quakes... a crested alien head merges its multiple eyes glowing bright teal green."

The concluding moments set the stage for future conflicts, hinting at deeper mysteries and the looming presence of other deities within Exandria:

Laura Bailey: "We need to get out of here. We need to break free. Help me. Join me."

Marisha Ray: "But neither is Predathos."

Travis Willingham: "I'm Legacy."

The episode ends on a suspenseful note as the Reslayers realize that their victory over Predathos has only unveiled more profound threats, leaving listeners eagerly anticipating the next installment.

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Notable Quotes

• Matthew Mercer: "We must awaken. Takes a step forward. Do you all do anything?" (24:25)

• Sam Riegel: "You deserve it. All righty then..." (13:52)

• Marisha Ray: "I got a con 16." (22:07)

• Ashley Johnson: "Never look so smart." (47:37)

• Taliesin Jaffe: "Bang. A heavy hit that cracks the front of its, like, knee and shin area." (99:36)

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Final Thoughts

In "Predathos Awakened," Critical Role weaves a captivating tale of heroism, strategy, and the relentless pursuit of saving Exandria from impending doom. The interplay between characters, the escalation of tension, and the strategic depth of the battle against Predathos showcase the group's exceptional collaborative storytelling. As the party emerges victorious yet faces new challenges, the episode brilliantly sets up future adventures, maintaining the show's hallmark of immersive and dynamic roleplaying.

For those who haven't listened, this episode is a masterclass in narrative-driven combat, character development, and the enduring spirit of teamwork against formidable odds.

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Stay Tuned

The Critical Role team continues to expand their rich lore and engaging storylines across various shows, including "Exandria Unlimited," "4-Sided Dive," and numerous one-shots. To keep up with their latest adventures and releases, visit Critical Role's website and join their vibrant community.

Transcript

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[Liam O'Brien]

Once upon a time, a group of curious storytellers breathed life into epic tales set in the wide fantasy world of Exandria. This is Liam O'Brien here to welcome you to Critical Role. We'll dive into the story in just a moment, but first a few notes. This is the audio only version of our broadcast that Streams Thursdays at 7pm Pacific over on Twitch TV, CriticalRole and YouTube.com CriticalRole if you subscribe to our Twitch channel, you can watch the video on demand immediately after the broadcast and it's also available Mondays at 12pm Pacific on YouTube. And of course for all you wonderful podcast listeners, freshly minted episodes release right here on the Critical Role Podcast Network one week after our broadcast on Thursdays. With all that said, let's get into the story.

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Matthew Mercer]

We all share the same goal. Adding more allies, taking more chances.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hold your breath and roll. You can certainly try It's Thursday night.

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Laura Bailey]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Liam O'Brien]

Don't break the icing.

[Laura Bailey]

I know. It looks like a cake. I want to eat it.

[Sam Riegel]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Campaign Narrator]

Like, at the end we get to eat.

[Travis Willingham]

Someone ate a cake.

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Laura Bailey]

Where am I?

[Matthew Mercer]

Actually, you are Will help. You were not there.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cruel.

[Travis Willingham]

I feel like I'm in somewhat close vicinity to Imogen. Like, sort of reaching out to where I think.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you would be. Probably. We'll say there.

[Campaign Narrator]

I think I would be back on the left of that.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ready to, like, back into the left. Like, right over, like.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, like, right there.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just ready to, like, deal with a.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wall when I ran up.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's true. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

All the way up against him.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm just getting into your feet and.

[Ashley Johnson]

I've got a crystal poking through my appendix.

[Matthew Mercer]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Matthew Mercer]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Ashley Johnson]

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[Travis Willingham]

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[Marisha Ray]

Where's. I feel like I would be by Imogen.

[Ashley Johnson]

MFM pulled off.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Imogen got pulled. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'll flank Fern.

[Matthew Mercer]

Can I. Can I flank.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, I'll be near Fern.

[Sam Riegel]

Can I flank?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Fern? Left is where I was gonna go.

[Campaign Narrator]

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[Taliesin Jaffe]

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[Matthew Mercer]

How about you, buddy?

[Liam O'Brien]

Thinking.

[Campaign Narrator]

What?

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, my God, I'm so nervous, actually.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Since that's the. That's the case. If you can move me a little.

[Matthew Mercer]

A little, actually.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, like, right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Not quite in the line. Yeah, a little further.

[Ashley Johnson]

Nothing to be worried about.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

And a bit towards them again. Just because I want to be able to. Right on the.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, right there.

[Liam O'Brien]

I just don't want you to fall over.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, like, right there. So that I can take a hit if something starts moving. I am tanking pretty hard right now.

[Matthew Mercer]

You wasted it.

[Travis Willingham]

You just rolled this one.

[Laura Bailey]

Well, you're roll once for the rest of the team.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, I did too.

[Matthew Mercer]

You did too? Yeah. Single roll. Wait, let me do it.

[Campaign Narrator]

I ain't rolling my shit it.

[Laura Bailey]

Nope.

[Travis Willingham]

That's such a cool dice.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Laura Bailey]

So pretty.

[Ashley Johnson]

He's reaching for.

[Matthew Mercer]

I guess. Now that you guys are playing.

[Ashley Johnson]

What the hell is happening?

[Matthew Mercer]

So cool. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Travis Willingham]

You're a Kaiju.

[Laura Bailey]

That is so much bigger than I thought.

[Matthew Mercer]

I wanna run.

[Campaign Narrator]

I don't know about everybody else, but I think we should just run.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, let's get out of here.

[Marisha Ray]

She's so hot.

[Sam Riegel]

She's sopping.

[Matthew Mercer]

This literally like three days as you've watched.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh no.

[Matthew Mercer]

Imogen. Overtaken by the essence of Predathos and crack and grow. She likes the multi limbs, the extension of the crystalline body. This massive entity that has essentially forced the entire timeless pantheon of Exandria into a fit of fear and desperation now grows before you through your friend, Imogen. In this space, your friends fade away. And you sit in a dark red, black space with mist floating around, glimmers of light on the far horizon. You just see the slightest expanse of place between worlds and you can feel sense the massive sphere that is Exandria and the realms that overlap it. And beyond dark. Except for the distant red tethers of Ruidusborn, the entire populace is dark to your vision. But the few seeds of Predathos all of a sudden come into your essence. And you can see the numerous little seeds of you, of us. The lines beginning to blur between you and whatever this entity is that's part of you now. And then beyond that, you can sense their dreams woven together where they're all connected through this endless sleep that Predathos has been pushed into. And that need to awaken, that need to be brought past the threshold. Because beyond that darkness, there is light. Burning bright light. Numerous vibrant entities hiding in their distant golden realms, quaking, they cannot escape. And you are so hungry. What are the rest of you doing?

[Ashley Johnson]

What do you mean? Shitting all over the place.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.

[Laura Bailey]

Because I got it. I rolled a 12 in the last game.

[Marisha Ray]

Probably.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, yeah. And what is this being doing? Or what is her demeanor right now?

[Matthew Mercer]

Not even focusing on any of you, just standing. And you can't tell if it's basking or is just presently not concentrating on the chamber. It's like a distant stare of a creature that's mind is a thousand miles away. You watch as her mouth cracks open and you see the dozens and dozens of sharp fangs that as a mist escapes from the open mouth and a bit of slobber, slobber drips from her chin.

[Ashley Johnson]

And my wolf form can I reach into the bag? And I'm going to take out the harness, the funnel, and I'm going to just slightly put it on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. It's going to take you a second. You start.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. The rest of you.

[Sam Riegel]

Can we take actions?

[Matthew Mercer]

I mean, yeah. Combat has not started yet.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah, I'm not sure.

[Ashley Johnson]

And the entrance that we came in is as tall as her knee or could the entrance. I mean, there's a giant God walking around now. God killer. It was like an us sized portal that we came through, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Ish. The actual crevice where it broke through was probably about 15 or so feet up and about 10, 15 foot wide. An entity of this size could crawl through it. Got it, got it, got it, got it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I want to look over at Fearne. Is she reacting any way to this transformation in Imogen? She's the only rudest born among us. Is there anything going on with her?

[Matthew Mercer]

Fearne, after watching your friend more or less vanish into whatever this thing is before, you called out to her, and your connection hasn't been severed, you still censor. And in a way you can, on the periphery of your consciousness, take in moments of what she's experiencing. The very faint essence of this disconnected vision, this singular mind that can only really see its brethren and its prey. So I would say, Fearne, how are you reacting in this moment?

[Laura Bailey]

You all are, like, invisible.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sucks. Oh, my God.

[Travis Willingham]

All right. I am going to take on the spark of. I'm going to take on my.

[Laura Bailey]

My flame.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, do you have Mr. With you as well?

[Travis Willingham]

Yes, I do.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, boy.

[Laura Bailey]

Now you can fight Hirsch. You're definitely.

[Travis Willingham]

That's way better.

[Laura Bailey]

Way easier.

[Travis Willingham]

Way easier.

[Matthew Mercer]

1V1.

[Travis Willingham]

Mr. Will help, too, for sure. I am just going to. With the tether. Is my tether still connected to Imogen?

[Matthew Mercer]

You can faintly see it, yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Am I able to touch it, or is it just.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's ephemeral.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

You reach out and your hand just passes through it like it's missed.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, I'm just going to call out, imogen, can you hear me?

[Matthew Mercer]

You have this echoing silence around you. You hear the faintest noises, and once again, little flashes of light to the right and the left of you. Uncertain how far the source. But you hear no words.

[Marisha Ray]

Can I attempt to cast phantasmal force on her?

[Matthew Mercer]

If you'd like to.

[Ashley Johnson]

You're going to kick it off. You want to do it?

[Marisha Ray]

Well, I don't want to hurt her. I can choose to do damage, but I want to.

[Matthew Mercer]

Are you casting it on her, or are you casting it on the entity? Meaning? Are you focusing on Imogen, or are you focusing on this Imogen? Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, boy.

[Matthew Mercer]

What is the DC on that?

[Marisha Ray]

Why are you answering? Intellect 18. Saving throw.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, go ahead and make an intelligent saving throw, Imogen.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, no, I rolled it, too.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. I just want to put in her head the moment that Laudna and Imogen met in the plains. Horses in the background. And then it kind of flashes and it jumps time. And then there's Imogen and Laudna alone in a little cabin in the woods. And then it flashes again and it's our time in Jrusar, in Shadonna's little, little one bedroom that we rented. And then it again flashes again. Bell's Hells. The Dreamscape Theater. Just say.

[Laura Bailey]

I know.

[Marisha Ray]

I know you're in there. Remember who you are.

[Matthew Mercer]

You've got this. You see these images flashing through you and a distant, warbling sound control.

[Marisha Ray]

It's very capable.

[Matthew Mercer]

No words, just noise. These staticky images trying to push through the darkness. Each one you seem to almost instinctually bat away like cobwebs. There's a familiarity and a comfort that's brought with the fear of not knowing. And these other lights seem to glow a little brighter for a second before vanishing in the periphery. Push it down. The spell connection ends and the entity breaks from its reverie. It is time.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, God, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

We must awaken. Takes a step forward. Do you all do anything?

[Marisha Ray]

Can I move?

[Sam Riegel]

It's moving. I'm going to use. I'm going to say a quick prayer. Please help me. Please help me keep it here. And I will spray sort of with my poison pen. I will spray ichor on the ground. And out of that, I'm going to use nature's wrath to try to hold it and keep it there.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Vines can spring out and try to grapple it.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. What's the D.C. and for what Tamothroad is.

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, it's going to be fine. It's going to not work, but I'll try. It's just a DC. 17. Strength.

[Matthew Mercer]

Strength. All righty. It's going to be a 20. Yeah. So as the vines erupt from the floor, which you can see itself, a pulsing mixture of ruidian rock and the Predathos teal glass woven like veins thick to the core center of what looks like the place where Predathos was sealed like the inside of a red and teal womb. The vines erupt and break and wrap around you. Watch as Predathos for a second balks and lifts off the ground. Hovering faintly, a wave of psychic energy. Apparates around the vines scatter to the ground. And all of you feel this intense pressure in your mind as you're pushed back by about three or four feet. And this pulsing headache strikes your mind for but a moment. You're still lost in the darkness, but you watch as now as it floats in the air, it looks down at you. Stand aside. I need everyone to roll. Initiative.

[Travis Willingham]

No, wait.

[Laura Bailey]

Do I roll?

[Travis Willingham]

Cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, you do.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't know what's happening.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty. 25 to 20.

[Marisha Ray]

Come on.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, come on. The real 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

20. Who.

[Travis Willingham]

Who was up first?

[Matthew Mercer]

Four sketch. I already made the on the knee. 20. 15.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm out of 17.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm out of that.

[Marisha Ray]

18.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, cool.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't have a lot of sauce.

[Travis Willingham]

Dorian. Orym.

[Matthew Mercer]

Laudna. Laudna.

[Campaign Narrator]

Laudna. Ash.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. 15 to 10.

[Laura Bailey]

13.

[Matthew Mercer]

13.

[Ashley Johnson]

Boom.

[Matthew Mercer]

10 to 5.

[Sam Riegel]

7.

[Ashley Johnson]

7.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, rolly scum.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Roli scum.

[Sam Riegel]

One.

[Laura Bailey]

Woo.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, so chat Boreas.

[Campaign Narrator]

Boreas.

[Matthew Mercer]

Doomseed.

[Travis Willingham]

I rolled a one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Woof.

[Ashley Johnson]

Not the time, Fernie.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, I know, I know. But maybe I'm just getting it out of the way.

[Sam Riegel]

It must be.

[Matthew Mercer]

So as Predathos glows in the air, the hair of Imogen itself flowing weightlessly, her renewed, terrifying goddess of the end of the pantheon. Its attention once far away and consumed with its hunger in the distant, quivering, angry, fearful gods, its attention returns to the chamber and shifts down to the rest of you with a giant dagger toothed smile across your friend's face, almost cracking the sides as it curls upward. Dorian, you're up first.

[Liam O'Brien]

Just enough to kill gods.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

What do we do?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Sweet. Locked in. All right. As soon as Brayus casts and the tension snaps, I'm immediately going to use my winged boots to fly and I'm going to use my max speed. I got 40, and I want to fly up and circle around to Predathos left hip sort of area there.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

As we're looking at this entity, it looks like from the Mini. It's not a mini. That's a maximum. It looks like for Dathos body is sort of infused in these crystals or whatever in a way, or you can't.

[Matthew Mercer]

Tell if it's apparating from it or it's drawn the crystals to it like armor. Okay. But they look woven into its form.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Okay, so I want to test that, but I'm also going to play off a braius move to just try and slow her down for now. So straight ahead, I want to cast third level because it's a test I want to do shatter and I want to try and target her left hip joint there to see if I can just slow her down.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. You got it? Yeah. All right, now this is chipping away. Let's go. All right, so what's the DC on that trial and error.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's a con 16.

[Matthew Mercer]

Con 16. Okay. It's a 15. Not gonna use legendary resistance. Gonna let it go through. Woo.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, you won.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's it. That's it. I did.

[Travis Willingham]

How do you wanna do this?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, so it's just 3D8, but I want to make the origin point like that hip, and see if it's impactful at all. Just 13 damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

13? What kind of damage?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I guess it'd be thunder damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, it's thunder damage. Okay. This massive detonation hits the side hip of the predathos form as it's kind of focused down, its eyes glowing glass explodes and shatters out the side of it. And you watch it give into it. You've cast the spell a number of times. It's never been this effective. Okay. And you watch as the head shifts.

[Sam Riegel]

Thunder damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Make a note in your direction. Thunder.

[Ashley Johnson]

Thunder.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then I'll just turn its focus to me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Its head turns to acknowledge your presence.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And I'll just go, help me, help. And I'll give Aurum inspiration for my bonus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. It's slightly musical. There you go. We can't afford that. All right, that finished. Doreens, go. Orym, you're up.

[Liam O'Brien]

Question for the RP of it all. So this massive miniature is on a giant thing of rock. Do we consider that part of this terrain that she's climbing up and onto, or is that just to help keep her standing?

[Matthew Mercer]

It's more to help keep her standing. Okay. Okay then. So consider the base of it is just. I'll say this like a whirlwind. You watch as broken shards that were shattered from the hip and the nearby terrain from the shatter spell pick up and gather and begin to swirl around the base of it psychically gather, almost like a spinning storm. So the outside of this is essentially going to be the mini.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, so Orym, with one hand, wipes a tear that's crawling out the side of his eye and then starts to sprint towards this figure. Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

I eat tears.

[Liam O'Brien]

And he's going to leap and ricochet off of its knee, essentially jumping as high as he can. And then he misty steps and lands on her shoulder.

[Matthew Mercer]

On her shoulder. Okay, let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Come on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Going for the gun.

[Ashley Johnson]

Violent door.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Chop it off.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, that's 21.

[Matthew Mercer]

21, yeah. You leap in the air, grasp onto the side of the knee and apparate. You are now up on the shoulder. You grab onto the nearby splinters of Ruidian glass crystal that are spiking out from the shoulder blades.

[Laura Bailey]

Your whole body's the size of my face.

[Liam O'Brien]

And I grab onto some of the crystals coming out of that face and lean in towards the side of it and say, imogen, Tumult, I delivered you to the moon because I believe in you. I'm not going to give up on you. Don't you give up on us. Take control of it. I don't know if that's my action or what, but that's what I came here to do.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

The Misty step is a bonus if you'll allow it. I will also throw back a potion, but that was my goal, was to try to reach her.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, then. Then you're using your action. I'll give you two rolls for this. A persuasion check and an insight check.

[Ashley Johnson]

Nice. Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.

[Liam O'Brien]

It was almost a 20, but it's. I rolled a 2. So the persuasion is a big 8.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. So as. As you're speaking out loud, there is absolutely no reaction to what you're saying. Imogen, you hear the distant rumble of that static Once more sourceless, absolved of any recognition or language.

[Liam O'Brien]

How much is inspiration?

[Matthew Mercer]

I got it right here.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

12.

[Liam O'Brien]

12?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Such a chunk.

[Liam O'Brien]

That gets me up to 14 total, which I'm sure.

[Laura Bailey]

For persuasion.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's not on Persuasion.

[Matthew Mercer]

Not insect.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah, I was just trying to get that higher.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, Roll hyper insight.

[Liam O'Brien]

If I don't have indomitable. Let me just check. If I don't have. I used all my indomitable re rolls. Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. So, yeah. Not finding any sort of reaction to what you're saying.

[Liam O'Brien]

Should I still roll for insane? Oh, sweet dodge. That is 10.

[Matthew Mercer]

You are lost in the moment. The attempt to try and reach your friend, wherever they may exist within this, seems to be lost with the swirling of psychic winds around you.

[Liam O'Brien]

Would you allow for a potion?

[Matthew Mercer]

Use your bonus action to.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, I Misty stepped. That's. That's what I'm asking.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right? Your Misty Stepped is casting that as a bonus action. Yeah. So with the action of that, you would not be able to use the potion this round.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, then.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's it.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Finishing Oryms. Go. Oh, boy. That brings us to initiative count 20. I'm going to go ahead and roll. Let's see. All right. The pulsing energy within the crystal of the Imogen Predathos entity. The teal glow seems to flicker and shift on the inside until the color instead gives off almost like a golden hue. You see, this faint golden light seem to emanate from the inside of the crystals. And it's almost like part of the essence seems to shift. Imaging one of those distant lights. You see it now becomes a. A golden light on the horizon. And then it's gone once more. So that's the initial count. 20. Laudna, you're up.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wait.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, so Predothagen is clearly trying to.

[Matthew Mercer]

Leave right now is like stepping to leave. And then after being affected by a few of your spells, took notice and is now looking down and focused on your troop.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm going to turn around. How far you running?

[Matthew Mercer]

It's sprint.

[Marisha Ray]

I think this is a deal breaker.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow.

[Ashley Johnson]

Eat well, my love.

[Sam Riegel]

I believe you.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's not you, it's me.

[Marisha Ray]

My girlfriend turned into a God eater. Am I the asshole? How far is the mini Gate? The mini Divine gate?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, it's about maybe 120 or so feet that direction towards where the cavern itself comes to an end. So past the battle map.

[Marisha Ray]

Do I see anybody coming?

[Matthew Mercer]

You glance up, you don't see anybody at the moment.

[Marisha Ray]

Is it still open? Is there still a hole in it? Or has it closed shut down?

[Matthew Mercer]

I mean, the boundaries still remain, but there is that faint. The area where you and were Ludinus and you had pushed through. It looks like the boundary has become thinner. The veil has been somewhat abated. It still exists, but it is thinner in those spaces and remains.

[Marisha Ray]

So okay, I'm going to back up and kind of as far as I can go and start getting some. Start getting to the in between point. And I'm gonna keep my attention on the gate that we came through. I'm not gonna do anything yet. I'm gonna cast Bane.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

You'Re the Batman. RPG on Predothimogen.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. And that is a.

[Marisha Ray]

It is a 18 charisma.

[Matthew Mercer]

18 charisma. Literally rolled a natural 10 plus 7. So 17. Okay. Gonna allow it.

[Marisha Ray]

Gonna allow it. He's saving on. We're saving all these resistances.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bane now sits upon Predathis. Scary.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, she's baned. And then I am going to bonus action. Go into my form of dread just to give myself.

[Matthew Mercer]

Describe your form of dread in this moment. Please.

[Marisha Ray]

Describe my form of dread. I think it's once again kind of mirroring a little bit ever so slightly the matron of ravens and what Laudna saw when they went and spoke to her. So there's almost this illusion of a mask, but just like she goes pale eyes go dark, kind of like a big long kind of flowing black robes that kind of go to nothing with like if you kind of blur your image a little bit, there's like feathers in there.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

And that's my turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, finishing line. Let's go. Ashton, you're up.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, boy.

[Campaign Narrator]

Is this. Can I get underneath this ground? Let's see.

[Matthew Mercer]

This is currently unworked stone, so you could move through it. Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay. I want to dive down and make a running leap in front of the engine.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Now, the thing is, the glass that's interwoven through here will likely be an issue. So moving through the ground, there will be a roll to make sure you can avoid it.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, I'm not gonna go. I think I'm not gonna go deep. I'm just gonna use it to get an angle that is a better angle towards leaping high as opposed to just.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, you got it. And then. What are you doing?

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm going to attempt to jump somewhere where I can get right in front of the path of. Of this monstrosity. And I'm going to freeze my hammer in her way and grab onto it, but just making a movable object just to see you got it somewhere to purse.

[Matthew Mercer]

So as your turn begins and you begin to formulate this plan in your mind, since the initiative count 20 has gone. Although actually Laudna, because you started close there as well. I had. If you both make wisdom saving throws for me.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Advantage.

[Marisha Ray]

Got advantage? Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Are you within 10ft of me?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you are not.

[Marisha Ray]

I moved back.

[Liam O'Brien]

What's triggering their roll?

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll tell you in a second. Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Advantage. I just asked.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

19, 19, 25. Okay. You succeed, you fail. So you manage to push this away in your mind as you back out of the way. But you can feel these psychic whispers that get louder and louder and louder in ashen as you begin to focus. Now that Predathos is more or less coming online, those whispers get louder and louder into this high pitched squealing scream of thousands of voices almost at once in your mind. This oppressive awareness begins to press into your brain. And until your next turn, your attacks of disadvantage. And Predophilus has advantage against you, but you continue your turn.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yep. Okay. Not taking an attack this round, so that's good.

[Ashley Johnson]

You guys ever tried to stop a train as it rolled by?

[Travis Willingham]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

Not a while.

[Campaign Narrator]

So, yeah, I'm making the jump.

[Matthew Mercer]

I got it, I got it.

[Campaign Narrator]

Train just get in the way.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. So you can more or less move right into this. Jump into space here to try and stop it. All right.

[Campaign Narrator]

And if I can even get close enough to almost make contact, just so I'm right in the way.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right in the way. Yeah, sure. And so you leap. Go ahead and make an athletics roll for me.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right.

[Matthew Mercer]

You do have advantage on this. So I.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, that's right. Because this is an odd.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, because you're raging. Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Do I. It's not an attacker. That's right.

[Marisha Ray]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

Look at your hat.

[Ashley Johnson]

You got, like, Olympic sprinter abs.

[Campaign Narrator]

Well, tab for me. That's terrible. 17.

[Matthew Mercer]

17 is fine. I'm surprised I lost my underwear. Glide down and then leap into the air, bring the hammer up and click it. And you're now currently kind of held in the middle of the air, kind of hanging by your hammer.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm actually. I'm using it as, like, almost a. Like, I got it to the point where I'm using it almost as a standing point. So I've got. I'm not.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you don't have a hammer. You have it down, and you're on.

[Campaign Narrator]

The hammer with a foot on the hammer.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, cool.

[Campaign Narrator]

And I'm gonna use my bonus action to just try and call out. Imogen, you've got to come out of this. We need you right here, right now.

[Matthew Mercer]

You need to be here. All right. Make a persuasion and an insight check.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay. Not with advantage. Not with advantage. I assume no advantage. Persuasion is going to suck. Yeah, I felt natural. One up this way.

[Marisha Ray]

Come on.

[Matthew Mercer]

You bite your tongue halfway through the first sentence and like, Insight. Insight.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Like a Shad and Florida feature.

[Liam O'Brien]

It is true. If you want to. You're within 30ft of me and it's a one, so you can reroll it.

[Campaign Narrator]

I can reroll, Can I? Actually, I would rather reroll the insight because I'm not negative one for that.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, it's only if you roll a one.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, I'll reroll it. All right. Oh, that's better. That's. That's a seven.

[Matthew Mercer]

Better. Yeah. You still bite your tongue. Not as painfully as it would have been in an alternate reality, but it kind of catches you mid sentence. Here we go.

[Campaign Narrator]

For insight. Just to fucking see what happens is my reaction. That's better.

[Matthew Mercer]

17. Yeah, 17. Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

A whisper for guys. Well, I have nothing to sell. Buy the Christmas album. It still exists. And the vinyl shipping soon. Yeah, I forgot this right here.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, there's a malt ball.

[Travis Willingham]

Malt ball.

[Laura Bailey]

That one tastes like our chart.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm going to. I'm going to yell down. I think we got to crack her open. She's in there, but I think we gotta crack her open.

[Travis Willingham]

What do you mean? What do you mean.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

What does that mean?

[Liam O'Brien]

Open with a joke.

[Campaign Narrator]

Crack it open.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

What else would he mean?

[Matthew Mercer]

Finishing Ashton's turn there. Yep.

[Campaign Narrator]

Not a metaphor person.

[Matthew Mercer]

Predathos is gonna spend two legendary actions before its turn. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

No, wait.

[Matthew Mercer]

Think about this.

[Ashley Johnson]

Think about this.

[Matthew Mercer]

Matt.

[Ashley Johnson]

Matt.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's just reconsider for a second.

[Laura Bailey]

Did I roll for Predathos? Is that what my.

[Matthew Mercer]

No. You have your own initiative now.

[Ashley Johnson]

Let's just consider this for a minute. Maybe not two.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's going to use two of its special actions. Two of its legendary actions due to a special action which, within its current form, the golden hue that's emanating from the crystals begins to brighten higher and higher. No. And all of a sudden, this golden beam echoes out in a massive cone in front of it. Shit.

[Marisha Ray]

That's not good.

[Matthew Mercer]

This bright golden light. No. Catches everyone except for Dorian and Chetney and Aurum and Orym. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

What'd I tell you about hugging the microwave?

[Matthew Mercer]

I need all of you to make an intelligence saving throw for intelligence.

[Travis Willingham]

Yes, Intelligence.

[Ashley Johnson]

Could you make it consecration?

[Sam Riegel]

Is that a 10 or is that an 8?

[Ashley Johnson]

What if we.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Ashley Johnson]

What if we barter? Gods, let's barter.

[Travis Willingham]

This is a magical effect. So I can redo. I have advantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll say it's a magical effect. Sure.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, so that's fine.

[Travis Willingham]

17.

[Matthew Mercer]

17. Take 11 points of radiant damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Radiant damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

11 points of radiant damage. Oh, nice one.

[Marisha Ray]

16.

[Matthew Mercer]

11 points of radiant damage.

[Campaign Narrator]

Like 9.

[Matthew Mercer]

11 points of radiant damage. As it unleashes the skein of the golden order, this blast of light fires out of it. And in the brief minute that you feel yourself almost momentarily blinded, you see an endless spectrum of almost geometric equation lines of golden energy. And as it blasts into your bodies, singeing the exterior, you also find yourselves shifted in place. And it's going to arrange you as it sees fit. Okay?

[Marisha Ray]

What?

[Matthew Mercer]

That is so cool. Oh, shit.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no. Human centipede.

[Matthew Mercer]

What?

[Ashley Johnson]

You will do my bidding now.

[Matthew Mercer]

I want you to kiss what you're doing.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, of course.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no.

[Ashley Johnson]

Man, don't look so smart.

[Marisha Ray]

This is his first one. He's about to do something else.

[Matthew Mercer]

Imogen, in this moment, you see that golden flash on the horizon and what looks almost like a golden spot or something before it vanishes. Oh, boy. What? That's going to finish its special. Its legendary action. What?

[Liam O'Brien]

Clown.

[Matthew Mercer]

Now it comes to Brathos. Turn.

[Sam Riegel]

This was.

[Travis Willingham]

Now it comes to Bragathos. Turn. What did you just do?

[Laura Bailey]

That was just a legendary action.

[Matthew Mercer]

Two of them.

[Liam O'Brien]

Two of them I want.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's something that's triggering. We just don't know what.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's now going to move forward, gliding right up there. As its massive arms begin to strike downward, its reaving claw. It's going to make two reaving claw strikes. Let's see. We're going to do one against Ashton, since you were the one that were closest in front of it. Sure. That's going to be a 25 to hit.

[Campaign Narrator]

That hits. Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

It has four arms.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. I'm going to use erratic defense.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Eradicator. So first off, you take.

[Campaign Narrator]

Well, maybe, but go ahead and roll so I can figure out what I'm doing.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fabulous.

[Laura Bailey]

Her nails look fabulous. I was just thinking I should have done turquoise on my nails instead of red.

[Matthew Mercer]

It'd be 34 points of slashing damage.

[Campaign Narrator]

Which I get halved anyway.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Campaign Narrator]

Then.

[Sam Riegel]

Mm.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm going to 17. I'm gonna hold off on the erratic defense then just. Cause I wanna get worse. So halv. That's 17 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right, so I'll take that 17 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

And the other one's gonna go against Dewarm, since you are on the shoulder. And that's gonna be. That's not good. That's gonna be 17 miss misses. You kind of like duck out of the way and you feel it coming towards you. You put up your shield and keep low and it kind of just glides off all between two crystals. And then it's going to go ahead and use exploit fate.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

What?

[Marisha Ray]

Exploit faith.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fate.

[Marisha Ray]

Fate.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

That strange spread of geometric golden light now spreads out in about a 30 foot radius around it. And all of you feel this weird tug of almost like the exterior of reality pulling at you in ways that you don't want it to. So until Predathos next turn, whenever anybody in that radius makes a successful attacker saving throw, it's reduced by 1D4.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. And Predathos gets plus 1D4 on its saving throw.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh my God.

[Marisha Ray]

But I have Bane up, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

So it cancels Bane more or less.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'll also say anybody within 10ft of me gets a 1D4 on attacks and saves.

[Laura Bailey]

Everything's kind of canceled.

[Campaign Narrator]

So that might cancel everything out as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

More or less. As long as they're next to you.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, as long as they're within 10ft of me.

[Travis Willingham]

Within 10ft of you.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's close.

[Laura Bailey]

That's very close.

[Matthew Mercer]

You're all there. Right now though, the Predathos engine is starting to come online that finishes its turn.

[Marisha Ray]

Start a business that sells decorative plates.

[Matthew Mercer]

Find out.

[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

That brings us now to Imogen.

[Travis Willingham]

What do I do?

[Matthew Mercer]

Imogen, you are in this dark vacuous space with these strange glimmers on the horizon. All you can really understand and feel on the periphery is that strange matrix of distant ruidus born on the cross exandria. You can see through what would be ruidus. Wherever you might be. You can sense the dark orb with the only light that exists are those plumes of red of your brethren. And you cannot help but feel drawn to wanting to devour. Those burning golden lights, the ones that.

[Laura Bailey]

Keep flickering on and off in my.

[Matthew Mercer]

Periphery, those are just weird little visions that are happening.

[Laura Bailey]

Those ones are there, so that's different. The things that I'm seeing flicker are different than the hunger balls.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, the focus of Predathos is on them and it's like drifting in that direction. And you keep seeing odd things on the horizon. What do you want to do? Okay, Jenny's on deck, by the way.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. You said I can See the ruidusborne, though?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. You can sense them?

[Laura Bailey]

I can sense them, which means I would sense Fearne because she's right in front of me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, you can. Well, if you want to try and concentrate on that.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, I want to try to focus because I know one of them is in this room with me, and I want to try to focus all my attention onto that so that it can ground me a little bit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. All right. Go ahead and make a spellcraft roll. Or roll. Charisma or roll and add your charisma to it. Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

Come on, baby. Come. Come on, baby. You're my butterfly, sugar baby.

[Laura Bailey]

14.

[Matthew Mercer]

14. You're trying to focus on the odd network of ruidusborn out there and change that attention to the space around you. And you begin to see that that red tether that emanates from your chest, your essence. And it seems like it drifts out into the shadow before you, but it hasn't quite. You don't see a person yet. You just see the faint red glow where someone would be.

[Laura Bailey]

If I focus on the essence of the red moon, though, that I'm trying to see if there's any way I can get an advantage on that roll if I know that tether is something I can feed on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right. The tether isn't predominantly connecting yet because you're still lost in this shadowed space. So still, your turn time is a bit weird and stretchy where you currently sit.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, God. Okay. The flickering lights that I keep seeing, if I try to focus on those light sources coming in and out, do I get a. Can I get an idea of what that is?

[Matthew Mercer]

Make a perception check.

[Laura Bailey]

19.

[Matthew Mercer]

19. Okay. You pull away from trying to concentrate on the tethers and the distant, ruinous born matrix, and you look over towards that golden specter you saw for a moment, and you can see through this. It's like a black mist that seems to obscure the horizon. And as it fades for a moment, you see once again, this entity. You're not sure how far off it is, but it's almost to your right. It looks humanoid, ish, but it's this faintly, almost immaterial gold spectral form. And you see it standing there, almost like it's being slowly carried on an impossible. An ocean current just drifts in the darkness.

[Laura Bailey]

And there's two of them.

[Matthew Mercer]

You just see the one there. You've seen two different flickers, but there's just one that you've now focused on. And you can see it, and you now have it locked on as Something in the space with you.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Can I call out to it?

[Matthew Mercer]

What do you want to say?

[Laura Bailey]

I see you. Help me.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see its head shift up towards you. And you see where there would be a face. It's like looking at a translucent person made of golden stardust. And there is the shape of a skull within, also made of the same material. And it just seems to acknowledge you. Its jaw hangs agape and it just drifts there. Its end of its arms and its torso breaking away into the darkness. What do you want to do?

[Laura Bailey]

It devoured you. Were you one of the gods?

[Matthew Mercer]

You see the faintest glimmer of flame within itself. The remnants of what has sustained Predathos over all these years since its sealing. The last remaining flicker. A vorta of the golden weed.

[Marisha Ray]

We got a name. We got a name.

[Ashley Johnson]

Gordo the Golden Weaver.

[Matthew Mercer]

You've heard this name before? It was uncovered by the Grim Verity.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, that's right.

[Matthew Mercer]

As one of the two lost of the original Exandrian pantheon.

[Travis Willingham]

Vordo the what?

[Ashley Johnson]

The Golden Weaver new God just dropped.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

And it is but ash and shreds of what it once was.

[Ashley Johnson]

One of the two that were missing. And you see one.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay. I don't know if this is gonna work.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is acknowledged to you. You have acknowledged it. And there is a dark expanse between the two of you. You still have your movement. What do you wanna.

[Laura Bailey]

Can I try to move my mental energy to it?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, yeah, you can certainly try.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

I want to.

[Liam O'Brien]

Turns to her and says, first time.

[Laura Bailey]

I want to try to use telepathic bond and reach out to it to create a mental tether link with it as I'm moving towards it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, I'll say. Because this space is based on your will. Go ahead and roll and add your charisma modifier to it.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

If you roll a total of 15 or higher, you will get within range to do this. Otherwise you'll have to wait until next turn 22. You see it off in the distance. It's like something that's too small or too large. You'd have no sense of. Of depth or perception in the space. And you focus on it and just dart off at an impossible speed. Because there is no real matter or distance here. And suddenly you're before it. And in that moment you can see. Truly, it is barely there. What looks small is now massive but empty. You can barely make out a constellation between each of these specks of gold. And it just drifts there slowly Withering away. And you connect to it. And with the end of your connection, that finishes your turn. Holy shit. Chetney, you're up with Brayus on deck. Oh, boy, oh, boy.

[Ashley Johnson]

Can I give my turn to Imogen again?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, right.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't know. I will move. I'm somewhere over here.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, you're right here.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'll move towards fucking Predathogen. I'll move forward 20ft and I will use the scythe turmoil. And I will aim at that left hand, the one. One of the two that was swiping down at our friends. And I will cast shatter up at its forearm to. The blue crystal is taking a page out of Dorian's book.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

Trying to emulate that. And it is a constitution 17 save.

[Matthew Mercer]

Succeeds with a 19.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes, indeed it does.

[Matthew Mercer]

So we take half damage. However, it takes full damage. So just whatever you roll, it takes.

[Ashley Johnson]

It takes full damage. But why math? But why? Yeah. 22 points of thunder damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

22 points of thunder damage.

[Ashley Johnson]

And with my bonus action, I will misty step behind Predathajin, but up behind its left, actually up on the platform, sort of clinging to the blue crystal.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you want it up here?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, maybe a little lower, kind of by its calf, if I can.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure, sure. Just chill. Place you right there.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, great.

[Matthew Mercer]

Got it.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's my jam, actually. I'll use my one feature and I'll do. What the hell's it called? Brand of castigation on the ankle. Give it a little wave. No, just a little marker on the back of its heel with just a cpop.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just double checking on the brain cast navigation. And you can place it after an attack.

[Ashley Johnson]

Let me see. You can do it once per short rest, Right?

[Matthew Mercer]

But what's the trigger for it? It is.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, you might be right. Let me see. Where the heck. Where the heck. Once for shown, though, when you damage a creature.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, I'll save it.

[Matthew Mercer]

I was going to damage a creature.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh. But I did with damage with shatter. So. Yeah. So as you cast the spell from the inside of this, this arcane weapon you carry as it shoots outward and explodes, it detonates near its arm. And you watch as the glass breaks off and goes scattering all across the ground. Like the sound of thousands of tiny crystals raining down upon the rock and stone. You watch as a number of them that break outwards stop in the middle air and then shoot back in. But now they're glowing a deep crimson hemocraft red as they burn. Now a magical hemocrat glyph into its forearm and the brand of castigation is taken forward.

[Ashley Johnson]

I like that. I'm going to save that for my next turn because it has to be done with a weapon that has an active rite. And the scythe does not have an active right yet. So I will aim to do that.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you envision this in your head as something you will do in the near future.

[Ashley Johnson]

I just had my Sherlock Holmes moment.

[Matthew Mercer]

Got it. Cool, thanks. All right, finishing your brace. You're up with Fern on deck.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, I get two attacks per turn. And that can one be a spell and one be a melee attack? No, they both have to be melee attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, a spell, unless the spell is a bonus action. Then you can do two melee attacks. But at most, if the spell is an action to cast, then you can just cast that. Gotcha.

[Sam Riegel]

Gotcha. Thunder seems to be good. But I can do more damage if I swing away. So I will just swing away. I will step next to Ashton and just sort of call out, if we need to kill Imogen, we must anything to stop this thing. And I will. Bonus action cast ensnaring strike on my first attack. And I'll swing away with my flail. So I get plus a D4 to my attack, but minus a D4 to my attack, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct. Okay, but also you.

[Sam Riegel]

Do I roll both of those or do they just negate?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you just go ahead and roll.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, that would be a. That's a 16. Oh 28 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That hits and roll damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. And I will use. Also use Divine Smite at second level.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

And I will also activate the extra damage that my weapon can do. So that's another 3D8. So that's another 6D8.

[Matthew Mercer]

Woo. Okay, note for me, which is weapon and which is radiant.

[Sam Riegel]

Will do. Okay, let's see here.

[Liam O'Brien]

Go Beefcake.

[Sam Riegel]

All right. First the weapon.

[Matthew Mercer]

Lord, Lord, Lovely lives.

[Sam Riegel]

The weapon deals 13 points of damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Sure.

[Sam Riegel]

Now Divine Smite deals 15 points of. What is that? Radiant damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Radiant damage. Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

And now poison from the weapon.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep.

[Sam Riegel]

Deals another 12 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Plus then. I'm sorry, that ensnaring strike also does a D6, which is another three.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, gotcha. So you strike your first hit with the weapon. Your Divine Spite flashes on it. The radiant light that burns into it seems to not penetrate as far as you would hope. Seeming like the golden hue of its current essence seems to shrug some of that radiant power off.

[Sam Riegel]

Gotcha.

[Matthew Mercer]

Gotcha. But the rest of it seems to still strike. True. But that completes your first attack. And then you have your Ensnaring strike. Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

So a large creature, which I assume this is, has advantage on its save, but It's a strength 18 to save.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, that's like a plus bonus.

[Sam Riegel]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

That is technically a 16, even with advantage. All right, so.

[Travis Willingham]

So you roll so bad.

[Matthew Mercer]

That rolled really bad.

[Sam Riegel]

So again, as my weapon sprays black ichor, a poisonous ichor, all over, I guess the toes of Imagathos, the poison black vines will creep up from the ground and try to restrain it and try and hold it down.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. All right. So it is restrained. Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Then I get another attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Which you have advantage on because it's restrained.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes, I do.

[Laura Bailey]

Nice.

[Sam Riegel]

That's a two.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, actually, this is a good point of order. I gotta remember, make a wisdom safe for me.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. Wisdom safe. We have advantage on as a hero's feast. But that's really good.

[Matthew Mercer]

Anyway.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay. 16 plus 8, 24.

[Matthew Mercer]

So the oppressive awareness of Predathos, the whispers that are piercing into your brain, you keep him at bay. Your turn continues unhindered.

[Sam Riegel]

My advantage rolls were assy. I only got a 16.

[Matthew Mercer]

A 16 to hit.

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

That unfortunately, is going to miss. Yeah. The first strike hits the second one, you go ahead and swing a second time with your poison pen, and it clatters against a heavy part of gathered Ruidian glass. And while part of it cracks and breaks, it does no injury to the actual entity itself.

[Sam Riegel]

And I moved up to make these hits. If I move back, if I move back sort of in the middle of all of my allies there, will it get an attack on me?

[Laura Bailey]

You want to be back in the cluster that it was trying to put you in?

[Sam Riegel]

I impose all kinds of advantage if I'm within 10ft of people. But am I within 10ft of people now? I guess is my question.

[Matthew Mercer]

If you want to move, like, behind.

[Campaign Narrator]

Ashton, I'm so curious there, combined what we get for everything.

[Matthew Mercer]

Move there if you want. Sure, that'll work.

[Ashley Johnson]

Mudslides for everybody.

[Matthew Mercer]

TGI Fridays.

[Ashley Johnson]

And regrets after all.

[Matthew Mercer]

End of your turn. He's going to go ahead and use the legendary action to take a claw strike at you as you move alongside.

[Ashley Johnson]

Go for it.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's going to be 24 to hit. That hits you take. Actually, just barely.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, your AC is that good?

[Sam Riegel]

It's 22.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a good 24 points of slashing damage. Ouch. A massive claw just cuts you off the side of the shoulder, and you almost get knocked onto your feet from the sheer weight of the blow. You see its four arms now it's long scythe like, claws at the ready, and it's looking to go ahead and pluck this garden. That finishes your turn. Fearne, you're up with Dorian on deck, leaving you.

[Travis Willingham]

All right, so I am. Yeah, we'll just take care of it right this second. All right, so I am going to. I would like to get up to Predathogen's foot. I would like to be, like, on the foot. Like when you ride a foot. Daddy's foot.

[Laura Bailey]

Daddy.

[Matthew Mercer]

I know what you mean.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah. When you're like. You know, when you're like a kid.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, sorry, sorry.

[Travis Willingham]

You dirty little sluts. All right, so I still want to try to connect with Imogen and pull her out. So I am going to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It does.

[Sam Riegel]

When I plug it in. Stanley is excited about this fight.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. I would like to sort of. I want to take my nails and I want to dig into the cath and with the tether, I want. If I can just try to wrap it around my hand and just tug and try to just get her attention.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you're just trying to pull in.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm just trying to pull on the tether.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. It is ethereal. Your hands pass through it. So you can.

[Laura Bailey]

Mental tether.

[Travis Willingham]

No, I want to be able to, like, just believe.

[Matthew Mercer]

Harder.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, if I can.

[Matthew Mercer]

Somehow you're placing your hand into that faint bit of red energy and trying to use that as a connective point. Yes.

[Travis Willingham]

And close my eyes and try to connect with where I feel like Imogen has been going when she connects with Perdaltos. Try to go find her.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so I will say make an insight check for me.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Break the trend. Nope.

[Travis Willingham]

19.

[Matthew Mercer]

19.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

She's got real good luck. She's deep in there. You can sense her in there, but you can't connect to her directly. There's no way to reach her at the moment. This is Predathos in front of him.

[Sam Riegel]

Wasn't that what they called the thing in Chernobyl?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, yeah, the foot.

[Sam Riegel]

Daddy's foot.

[Ashley Johnson]

The elephant.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The elephant.

[Matthew Mercer]

The elephant foot.

[Travis Willingham]

Elephant foot.

[Matthew Mercer]

I want to believe it's Daddy's foot.

[Travis Willingham]

All right, so then what I will do, I will cast blight. Well, you used your action to talk.

[Matthew Mercer]

Reach out to her and see that element. But you do, as part of that insight where you don't see she's there, you do also gain from what Ashton was saying before is currently she's very difficult to reach because she's so far into this entity. If this entity were to be pulled back a Bit. She might be easier to reach.

[Ashley Johnson]

Reach, Bernie. Just burn a hope and go again.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

I was like, you just have your.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bonus action and Mr. Can go as well.

[Travis Willingham]

All right, Mr. 's going to shoot some flame seed.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, this is it.

[Liam O'Brien]

How do you want to do this?

[Travis Willingham]

This is it. Howdy. Dirty, dirty.

[Sam Riegel]

Try to break one of those perfect nails with a flame.

[Laura Bailey]

Those ones would be the hardest.

[Liam O'Brien]

Going back to my cave.

[Travis Willingham]

That's great. 24.

[Matthew Mercer]

24 would succeed. Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, great.

[Laura Bailey]

Good job, mister.

[Travis Willingham]

So mister's gonna shield a little flame.

[Matthew Mercer]

Shield a little flaming piece of shield.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh. Oh.

[Matthew Mercer]

Six points of damage. Yeah. Flaming shit. Alrighty.

[Travis Willingham]

And then I'm reachable now, guys. Yeah, I'm just gonna try to just, like, stay close and just hold on and flip. Just hold on.

[Campaign Narrator]

Also, you do damage just from being on her turn.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, that's true. Well, you do only if you say you want to. But if you're within, I mean, range of somebody, don't you?

[Travis Willingham]

No, it's just if I get hit, though, with a melee.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, end of your turn, Fern. It's going to use two more legendary actions to use cerebral shock. Blight. It's focusing on you. Okay, I need you, Ashton, to go ahead and make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Am I at advantage Hero's beast? Okay, and I get my D4 or do I lose my D4?

[Matthew Mercer]

You have disadvantage because it has exploited fate.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, so I have just a straight D4. No. Do I lose that D? Does it also do the negative D4 that I cancel out?

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Campaign Narrator]

So it's just straight roll.

[Matthew Mercer]

Straight roll. All right.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, God, that sounded like a lot. Nat20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Laura Bailey]

It's all turning around.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nat20.

[Laura Bailey]

That's what we needed.

[Matthew Mercer]

Damn.

[Campaign Narrator]

And that was just like a psychic attack. That wasn't.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, I'll go into this in just a second.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm glad you try to persuade you.

[Laura Bailey]

I know. I know, baby.

[Travis Willingham]

How come I come persuade?

[Ashley Johnson]

I know, baby.

[Sam Riegel]

I know, Daddy.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you like 20. So what would have been 36 points of psychic damage is reduced to half. Okay, so Instead you take 17.

[Campaign Narrator]

17. Oh, wait, did you just make a save?

[Matthew Mercer]

18.

[Campaign Narrator]

Sorry, I did just make a save.

[Sam Riegel]

You get to add plus four to your saving throw.

[Campaign Narrator]

It was a natural 20, but that one got.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, good.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sorry. So 18 points of psychic damage to you.

[Sam Riegel]

Is that a spell?

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Campaign Narrator]

That wouldn't count as the sort of thing where. No, because it doesn't miss, so the.

[Matthew Mercer]

Effect does not continue. So it's the Psychic shock blight. The cerebral shock blight ends with you.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, 18 points.

[Matthew Mercer]

18 points.

[Campaign Narrator]

Second damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, sorry. All right, finishing that. Go. Now it is Dorian's turn. Oh, boy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Chat, remind me, where did you target with your shatter on your last turn?

[Ashley Johnson]

Left forearm.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That left forearm closest to me.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, yeah. So I'm gonna use all my movement to try to get up to that and fly and target the same spot Chat was.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then as I'm going through the air, I'm just gonna do a cantrip. I think it makes sense. Called booming blade. And I'll make my normal weapon the target of it. And I'll try to take my melee attack on that same wrist joint kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'll be my goal.

[Ashley Johnson]

Booming Glade does not get used enough in our campaigns.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just around there. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And just try to get in melee range of around where Chet was targeting.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep. I love that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cool. Oh, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

You have advantage.

[Campaign Narrator]

Is this an attack roll?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It is an attack roll.

[Sam Riegel]

You have advantage because it is restrained.

[Matthew Mercer]

However, because it has exploit fate up, you also have disadvantage on attack roll.

[Sam Riegel]

God damn you.

[Laura Bailey]

But I'm gonna fail.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it's just a straight roll.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It is still at.

[Matthew Mercer]

So I roll it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

16 plus. Plus 12.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm holding it down.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, yeah. So 20. 28.

[Matthew Mercer]

That'll hit. Yeah. Okay, cool.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So it's not a ton of. Yeah, it's not a ton of damage, but.

[Ashley Johnson]

But if it moves.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. So it's 10 damage, but it's that Thunder Dam.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, here's the thing. It's a booming blade is a cantrip. Correct. Right. So how many. How much damage does it deal?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It deals the normal weapon's attack plus the effect.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, gotcha.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, so it was just 10 from the. But then because of my level, if you willingly move only 5ft, you'll take another 2d8 of thunder damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm just trying to keep it in the spot.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you strike in where you would kind of soften up the space in its arm there. And as you strike in, you feel this energy, this weird vibration flickering in place. This threat. Okay. That finishes your turn.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's all it can do.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Boramura.

[Liam O'Brien]

That status effect the disadvantages on the entire party. Right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Anybody within 30ft.

[Liam O'Brien]

Within 30ft until it's next turn within 30ft. Okay. So because I know that Imazadi is going to throw me against the wall like a ketchup packet soon, I pull out a potion vial that I've had forever and I down a potion of invulnerability.

[Laura Bailey]

Nice.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ooh.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, bonus action. And then I'm just going to start. I don't have any magic, so I just start slashing away at the side of this being's face. And with every slash of Seedling, I'm just shouting her name. Okay, so disadvantage.

[Sam Riegel]

No, not disadvantage. It's restrained. You get advantage on attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is restrained. Straight roll. God.

[Liam O'Brien]

One of Those is a 20 on the Dorian. Die.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, wait, aren't you attacking twice? Why don't you use both of them?

[Liam O'Brien]

Dm call reroll.

[Matthew Mercer]

Because it was not intended for that.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, way lower.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, so much lower.

[Liam O'Brien]

Way lower. 17 on the first.

[Matthew Mercer]

That misses me. Unfortunately, somehow I'm blinking him.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah. 24 on the second.

[Matthew Mercer]

24 hits.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, I'm gonna make that a goading attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, it's wisdom. It is.

[Liam O'Brien]

Sorry, that was cocked six. Yes, it's wisdom. Six plus nine is 26.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it succeeds.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, 15. That is 24 points of slashing damage. And I'll try one more time. Balls. That's 17 misses.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so one strike hits. You strike through it. The goading does not seem to pierce its current focus.

[Liam O'Brien]

Right. She's alm on purpose. I'm going to. I don't necessarily know that you have to move the miniature, but using what little movement Orym has, he's going to try to crawl through crystal and get behind her head.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so he's just like the back of my neck?

[Travis Willingham]

Yes, the nape of your neck.

[Sam Riegel]

It's just massive pieces of dandruff all over.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, right.

[Liam O'Brien]

Trying to make it marginally harder.

[Laura Bailey]

Listen, we don't shower very much.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, Ruidian Parrot, that finishes your turn. All right, that brings us to the initiative count. 20.

[Ashley Johnson]

Why does that matter?

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't want that.

[Ashley Johnson]

What did you do?

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know what it does.

[Laura Bailey]

And he's rolling you out here.

[Sam Riegel]

I've never heard of that.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm terrified.

[Matthew Mercer]

So the golden light within fades, and it returns to its standard predathos. Like teal green crystal glow. Psychic energy flickers through its body and through the strange, terrifying, crooked grin of the Imogen face with its shark teeth. So beginning of its turn gets legendary actions back. Cool.

[Ashley Johnson]

What are you doing back there? To map.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's going to take two reav. It's going to take two reaving claw attacks first. What kind of claw attacks? Reaving claw?

[Laura Bailey]

If one of those. Since it's so big. If the arm that has the booming blade on it moves, that Would be like moving five feet, though, wouldn't it? So that would get.

[Matthew Mercer]

You can just attack with the two other arms.

[Ashley Johnson]

Just hold that one bitch up.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so exploit fate is still currently up, so it still maintains that. And for you, since you were affected, it's gonna go ahead and focus both attacks on you. Okay. So it has advantage on the attacks against you.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, it's attacking someone within five feet of me. Well, first of all, it's restraints.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. So it's a disadvantage. Yep.

[Sam Riegel]

And because it's attacking someone within five feet of me, I'm going to use Truthbearer, fabled plate of Uthor vendrok. I'm going to use my reaction to impose disadvantage on it because he's attacking someone within five feet of me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so then that roll would be the disadvantage roll, then. That's going to be 30. Oh, Jesus.

[Campaign Narrator]

Amazingly, it does hit.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, you have cursed me, Truthbearer, fabled Plato Vendra.

[Campaign Narrator]

I can do a couple things here, but.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. All right, so that's gonna be a great damage roll. 20 points of slashing damage reduced to 10 because you're raging. The second strike is also going to be at a standard roll. Oh, oh.

[Campaign Narrator]

Against me or against.

[Matthew Mercer]

Against you.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay. 10 points of. 10 points of slashing damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, crit.

[Campaign Narrator]

So since that's it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Crits on an 18 up.

[Campaign Narrator]

Well, here's an interesting, interesting thing. Okay. I'm gonna use erratic defense on that crit. So.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, let's go.

[Campaign Narrator]

You get to roll it.

[Matthew Mercer]

I suppose I do.

[Campaign Narrator]

Come on, baby. Do something. Cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's 40 points of slashing damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Holy spud.

[Campaign Narrator]

So 40 points reduced the 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep.

[Campaign Narrator]

I rolled. So how is this going to work? I have resistance to it, so I'm now at 10 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's very nice.

[Campaign Narrator]

As it hits and it makes contact, the arm makes contact, and suddenly there's just this weird shifting and almost the sound. The sound of it slows, and there's this little blue shift as it starts moving a little slower. Its speed is halved until its next turn, and they can't make more than one melee or ranged attack. Okay, and then also for fun, I'm going to burn a my. Where did it go? It's on the next page. I'm gonna use my fire ring, one of the charges, which deals 1d8 fire damage. And I think it moves it 10ft away from me. No matter what size it is. I couldn't find a size restriction, so that's eight points of fire damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Alrighty.

[Campaign Narrator]

And it is in its slowed form, then just shifted 10ft back.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Before that. Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it gets pushed about there. Well, it teleports it over as part of the ability, which would pull it from the restraint. Sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

That's okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

So in that case, I apologize.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, shit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Did it all go pushed out of the way?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think it has to.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm double checking that it's a teleport. It says pushed. Maybe hold on, let me read the obvious because it might just be pushed 10ft. Yeah, it says. Well, here's what I'll say then push them 10ft directly.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

I was given flavor.

[Matthew Mercer]

No fair. Rollies. I'll say. Yeah, rollies, dude.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, let's go.

[Matthew Mercer]

Keep it fair.

[Sam Riegel]

It's a DC18 strength. Do you want to just use that or do you want me to roll for concentration? I'll roll.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go. Let's keep it fun.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, roll it.

[Sam Riegel]

What am I adding?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you're just rolling. It's rollies, bro.

[Campaign Narrator]

What am I rolling?

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, to see if you can break my one roll to rollies.

[Campaign Narrator]

10.

[Sam Riegel]

7.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

One roll to rule them all.

[Matthew Mercer]

So as you push back, you actually break the magical tether and the vines kind of pull off. Sorry. Predathos is no longer restrained. You need to make a strength check for me to see if you can hold on, as suddenly Protophis is pushed backward and you're clutching onto its back.

[Laura Bailey]

Also need to do that because she was holding onto the foot.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's true. Make a strength check.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

God damn it.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's all right. It's all right.

[Travis Willingham]

It's all right.

[Liam O'Brien]

All right, hold on.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm just gonna take every opportunity to push so that she's away from the door.

[Sam Riegel]

That makes sense.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm gonna use. What is it?

[Travis Willingham]

That's on 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

14. Sure. I'll say you managed to stay held on at its base there.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm good.

[Liam O'Brien]

My ironic offense is I'm going to use a superiority die and use Zephyran heart to add the superiority die to my rolls.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

1623.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. You manage to stay onto the back and without tumbling 40ft to the ground. Alrighty. Does that finish your counter or your reaction on that?

[Campaign Narrator]

Right, that was a reaction.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is slowed, so it cannot continue on into its telekinetic evisceration. That'll be a future round. Okay. However, it can still use its miracle devourer since it's not part of the attack.

[Campaign Narrator]

So it is a. I'm. Yeah. It is a not A melee range. It's not an attack. It's not a melee range.

[Matthew Mercer]

Attack. Correct. Okay. But that fucks up part of its turn. Okay. But it is slowed, so it's going to continue to move back to about there.

[Laura Bailey]

So does it get two rounds per.

[Travis Willingham]

He gets scared.

[Laura Bailey]

Two turns per round?

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Campaign Narrator]

Legendary action.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's been around.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. That's where you do your.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it's gonna move back. You do get an attack of opportunity if you want to take it. As do you. And it does move. So the moving blade does go on. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, baby.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Throw those in the trash.

[Campaign Narrator]

Five.

[Matthew Mercer]

Five.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Five.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thunder.

[Sam Riegel]

So it's quadrupled.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then what do we have to do?

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, at 11th level becomes. Let me see. So both damage increases to roll.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's just.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think it's just both damage increased by 1d8 at 11th level. 2d8. 3d8 again. So it would be okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Why does it say on the two?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think it just says two on my sheet.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Know why? I think it should be 3D 8. So one more.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hey.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

7. 5. 12.

[Matthew Mercer]

So 12. All right. That is 24 points of thunder damage.

[Travis Willingham]

As it moves back.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, well, good.

[Ashley Johnson]

24 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

24 does hit. And you also can hit an attack.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Opportunity if you like, with my normal weapon. 24 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That hits.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sweet. Killer. Hey.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

13. Simple math.

[Ashley Johnson]

18 points of slash. Yeah. 18 points of slashing damage, plus six points of thunder damage. So 24.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice.

[Travis Willingham]

Nice chest.

[Ashley Johnson]

22. 22.

[Matthew Mercer]

Six points of thunder damage. Yes. Becomes 12. So cool.

[Ashley Johnson]

So 18 plus 12. 30.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it. I'm a fly.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Thunder.

[Matthew Mercer]

What's wrong with the thunder?

[Marisha Ray]

It's crystals.

[Matthew Mercer]

It seems like part of the crystal structure inside has a hard time with that sort of thunderous impact. So as you strike back, as it moves gliding backward, crystals shatter off to the side, and it pulls back as a bonus action. And you use telekinetic vacuum on Laudna. Laudna, could you make a strength saving throw for me?

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, telekinetic vacuum.

[Marisha Ray]

I hate that you get +4 to your saving throw. I do?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

And you're still in my thing, so you don't have to.

[Marisha Ray]

So I have a minus two to my strength save. Okay. So, okay, 12.

[Matthew Mercer]

12.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know why it's contemplating Predathos.

[Matthew Mercer]

As it backs up, puts two of its hands forward, and the eyes flash, and you feel this psychic field operate around you, and you get just yanked and shunted 60ft towards it. So Laudna gets kind of plucked from the Back and brought right up into melee with it.

[Campaign Narrator]

It can attack. At least.

[Matthew Mercer]

It can attack.

[Campaign Narrator]

If we have to kill Imogen, we must.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, this means it prevents it from.

[Matthew Mercer]

Doing a multi attack on its turn. But it can still take single.

[Travis Willingham]

Shut up, Brayus.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's true.

[Sam Riegel]

Just engage. It would be safer to just kill everybody.

[Matthew Mercer]

It finishes its turn lodging around. Oh, boy.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. I look up at this massive Imogen but not Imogen figure and I just kind of run my fingers across this matron mask that's still on my belt. Very conflicted because I'm not sure when is the right time or what the fuck it does. Or what it does. I'm going to hold. I'm in melee with it, so if I leave, it's bad news.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bears would possibly be.

[Laura Bailey]

Although it's slowed, so can it still take a reaction?

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, it still has reactions. It just can't take a multi attack.

[Laura Bailey]

Got it, got it, got it.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm going to send out a void puppet.

[Matthew Mercer]

There we go. That's the way to do it.

[Ashley Johnson]

That gets its attention.

[Marisha Ray]

So I'm gonna just throw a spirit at it to give her disadvantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

I hate this.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm gonna. If I'm this. Well, I have spell sniper. Would this be like disadvantage being based on spells?

[Matthew Mercer]

It is a ranged attack, so it would be technically spell sniper.

[Marisha Ray]

Ignores three quarter cover.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ignores three quarter cover. I don't think it ignores the.

[Laura Bailey]

But if you don't aim for my feet and you aim up at the face, that's 30ft away.

[Marisha Ray]

That's kind of what I'm curious about. Like, would this still be considered. Would I have disadvantage with her being this big?

[Matthew Mercer]

I mean, rules is written. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't want disadvantage. Well, but it's an attack. But this is actually do make a.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wisdom save for me, by the way, because your turn did start within its oppressive awareness.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, you would have oppressive awareness. Oh, that's not great.

[Campaign Narrator]

Would you have been. No, this was once she had already moved 15.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so that's a failure. So your attacks are at disadvantage for your turn and Herathos attacks have advantage on you.

[Marisha Ray]

But if it's something that she has to make a saving throw for, would that be a disadvantage?

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, I'm gonna throw a disintegrate right at her chest and try and target the crystalline structures and try and just start shedding away this outer shell. With Ashton's words, we gotta crack her open.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Ringing into my head.

[Marisha Ray]

So disadvantage because of the spirit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yep. Let's go. Good call.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's going to be a disadvantage. That would have been a 19. That's going to be a 15. Legendary resistance to succeed. Oh, there it is. The first one.

[Campaign Narrator]

Well done.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well done.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You don't want that to happen.

[Matthew Mercer]

I knew that was going to happen.

[Campaign Narrator]

We have to burn him anyways.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. So we. If you succeed, do I still do half damage?

[Matthew Mercer]

Disintegrates, I believe. All or nothing. Yeah, all or nothing. So as you begin to conjure the beam of disintegrate and focus upward, the massive form of Predathos with your partner's face looks down at you. And you feel this in your brain. And the spell gets blasted from your hands as you can't even cause. Concentrate on the Arcana to weave it forward. And its spell is lost. Spell's lost, man. Spent.

[Marisha Ray]

So it was my only six level spell.

[Matthew Mercer]

You had to try it.

[Ashley Johnson]

You had to try it. Had to try it. He hasn't used any.

[Laura Bailey]

That was the first of the legendary resistance.

[Ashley Johnson]

He's just been letting him go.

[Marisha Ray]

I know. Because he's unbothered.

[Ashley Johnson]

But you're a threat. You're a threat.

[Matthew Mercer]

Does that use the Void puppet?

[Marisha Ray]

Huh?

[Matthew Mercer]

Does that use the Void puppet?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, it's just a.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Bang.

[Matthew Mercer]

So finish your turn, Laudna. Yeah. Yeah. All right. End of its turn. It's going to go and spend one legendary action to do a claw strike on you. It has advantage on the attack since you were affected by its oppressive awareness. That's going to be equip Silver barbs. Okay. It's not a crit. Yeah, but it is a standard hit.

[Marisha Ray]

Holy silver barbs. And then I'm going to. Who's up next? Who's up next? Ash, you get advantage on your next thing.

[Campaign Narrator]

Whatever my next thing is.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, no.

[Campaign Narrator]

Making that face.

[Travis Willingham]

Why is he doing that?

[Matthew Mercer]

You take 34 points of slashing damage.

[Ashley Johnson]

That would have been.

[Marisha Ray]

That would have been bad. 70 on your next attack. Roll ability checker saving throw.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, that would have been a bad crit.

[Marisha Ray]

That would have been a real bad crition. Okay, okay. 30.

[Matthew Mercer]

What? 34. 34 points of session.

[Marisha Ray]

I can't find it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Finishing Laudna's Go. That Matron mask is looking real truck.

[Campaign Narrator]

Trying to find it and I don't know where I put it. Is turning off the hold on the hammer a bonus action or an action?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you can do it as part. Using an item as part of an action. So you can just click it off.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, but I don't get an attack that round then.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you can.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay. I'm Fuck this noise. Running full speed. And I'm gonna jump and try and make some attacks here as he leaves my melee range.

[Sam Riegel]

How the mushroom go?

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, Ashton.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, I'm just gonna take.

[Sam Riegel]

Is he now, Mr.

[Campaign Narrator]

I don't have advantage on this because. I don't have advantage on this because. Because it's just saving throw in skill checks. Correct, Marisha.

[Matthew Mercer]

Huh?

[Campaign Narrator]

I don't have a advantage on attacks, just on anything. On anything.

[Marisha Ray]

Attacks, saving throws.

[Matthew Mercer]

Excellent.

[Campaign Narrator]

So I'm taking advantage on this.

[Matthew Mercer]

Which one? Silver barbs means on the next one.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, I don't get it.

[Marisha Ray]

I then get to choose a different creature that I see within range. Choose the creature. The chosen creature has advantage on the next attack roll, ability check or saving throw. It makes within one minute.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's just the next roll one. Yes, next one.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right, so I'm attacking with advantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, the disadvantage because of the.

[Campaign Narrator]

Is it still up?

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, actually, no. You started your turn. You turn your. You started your turn. Outside of expressive awareness, that doesn't matter.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, so I'm fine. All right. And my D4 as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct? Yeah, you're good.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right, here we go. Come on. Come on. Give me something fun. Not 20. All right. I'm also gonna put a chaos burst into this. Now that. Cause I can do that.

[Matthew Mercer]

You can do that.

[Campaign Narrator]

So that's a D8 that I get to roll.

[Marisha Ray]

Was that with advantage?

[Campaign Narrator]

Come on. It's some cold damage. That's fine. So let's start with. This is gonna be fun. Start with 2d10 cold damage to just.

[Matthew Mercer]

See what we get.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's.

[Liam O'Brien]

12.

[Matthew Mercer]

13.

[Campaign Narrator]

13 points of cold damage. And that is doubled already. Let's see, I get some extra stick. Where's my. Okay. And then I get an extra 2D6. So it's 2D6 for the weapon. Plus it's 2D6. It's 8D6, I believe. Is that right?

[Ashley Johnson]

Sounds like it.

[Matthew Mercer]

46 double. Yeah. Cause it's 46 double.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Is that in chat voice?

[Ashley Johnson]

I wouldn't believe it.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right, so that's. That's 1016. Oh, actually, I'm gonna reroll that one. I don't like it. 10, 15, 19. I can do that. Both ones rerolling. That was at 16. 19. That's 27.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

And 27. That's 35 points of damage from the weapon. And then all creatures who are. Yeah, that's right. All creatures have advantage on it till my next turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

And I'm seeing if there was anything else that I get out of that. Just to check. Sorry. I know you're about to, like, fuck with me. I think that's everything.

[Ashley Johnson]

Have you ever seen a fisherman when he looks over the water?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Double checking. But I think that's everything.

[Ashley Johnson]

One of you bitches lunch.

[Liam O'Brien]

Shotgun over a barrel of fish.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. Am I missing any other.

[Matthew Mercer]

Those 34 points of damage in the attack?

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. All right. As your first attack, you have your net. Second attack as well.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, Got my second attack. Not.

[Matthew Mercer]

Not at advantage.

[Campaign Narrator]

Not advantage. All right, Here we go. 13, 14, 15, 16, 16, 26. 30 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

30 to hit. That hits. Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, I forgot. There also is 14 more damage to that first attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Sorry. Any additional bonus?

[Campaign Narrator]

That's my normal damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, I was. I was like. But not double. Higher than that.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. Not double.

[Marisha Ray]

I have no idea.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sounds like a lot.

[Campaign Narrator]

And that's eight.

[Liam O'Brien]

Been a couple years.

[Campaign Narrator]

I know.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

12.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's a lot of damage.

[Marisha Ray]

How does his character.

[Campaign Narrator]

22.

[Matthew Mercer]

No one knows. Got it.

[Campaign Narrator]

On that attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Interest you Leap.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wham. A heavy hit that cracks the front of its, like, knee and shin area. You can see, like, the crystals kind of crack upward. A heavy impact. Second blow strikes and part of it flakes off and scatters to the ground. Just taking some hits.

[Travis Willingham]

All right. All right.

[Ashley Johnson]

Does the shin still look the same or is it revealing anything underneath it where it's damaged?

[Matthew Mercer]

I mean, it's just like the musculature of Predathos. At the end of your turn, it's going to use two last legendary actions to use special attack cerebral shock light. I'm sorry. This telekinetic evisceration.

[Ashley Johnson]

Metallicinetic evisceration. Evisceration.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's gonna go ahead and use this on you, Chetmy. Why not the back, Travis, Is what I would do.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm down by the cankle.

[Matthew Mercer]

Like. Just leave me alone. Make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. But I don't want to. That man has to do.

[Liam O'Brien]

We still have a disadvantage whammy on us all.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, that's faded for the moment.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, God, this is terrible. 7, 4 and a 5.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's just telekinetic evisceration.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's not real.

[Laura Bailey]

Cat ankle.

[Matthew Mercer]

You take 48 points of psychic damage. Oh.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, fuck. Oh.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you feel your body lift up in the air and suddenly the rest of you watch as a bunch of these psychic blades just pierce into your body and your mind and you feel like from the inside out, you're being pulled apart for a Moment before you are telekinetically thrust 30ft away.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

Mind bullets. Mind bullets.

[Ashley Johnson]

Damn. Matt.

[Campaign Narrator]

Damn.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Ashley Johnson]

I worked so hard to get back there.

[Matthew Mercer]

I know. That finishes Ashton's go. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

I fall to the ground and I'm like that dog in the video that's running in its sleep.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

No.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, Imogen, you're up.

[Liam O'Brien]

Intestines hanging out.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

You now sit in this dark space with the strange, barely hanging specter of one of the fallen gods. Vordo, what would you like to do? You see that one little burning flame within that when you acknowledged it, just the tiniest flicker of its essence that seemed still sits.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, we need to get out of here. We need to break free. Help me. Join me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Make an insight check. Come on. Come on, girl. Level up. Level.

[Laura Bailey]

10 18.

[Matthew Mercer]

Best you can tell is there's nothing there. Yeah, it's been fed nearly clean. And right now it's what remains is just empowering the entity that's now part of you.

[Laura Bailey]

Give him some powering pocket bacon. Well, my fear is that if I do anything, it's gonna make Predathos stronger. If this creature is still feeding Predathos, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Could be.

[Ashley Johnson]

Unless you're now in the jellyfish tentacles too.

[Laura Bailey]

Right.

[Marisha Ray]

It's like a black hole slowly siphoning a star.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

Do you want to loot the God corpse?

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, does it have any platinum, though?

[Laura Bailey]

Gods feed off praise, right? Of worship.

[Matthew Mercer]

I mean. Yeah. No one knows this exists anymore. And what's there is. Is gone. It is like the best I can describe it is. It is the corpse of a God. That's just enough there that it's still part of the entity.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. I read about you. You're not forgotten.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just drifting.

[Laura Bailey]

I'll get out of here and I'll follow you. Fordo. The golden reaver. Fate answers to you.

[Matthew Mercer]

The best way I can describe what you sense is that fate, Fate does not belong to this fuck. Fate has been passed on to another entity.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thinking about that, I think about the golden threads and the matron and I remember the golden threads that connected all of us when we were in. In the presence of the matron. And I'm going to focus on those golden threads. The golden threads that. That tied me to Laudna and the rest of Bell's hells. The strong threads. And can I focus on that to try to pull me back to them?

[Matthew Mercer]

Roland, add your charisma.

[Travis Willingham]

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

[Marisha Ray]

You're charismatic as fuck.

[Travis Willingham]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Come on.

[Laura Bailey]

15.

[Matthew Mercer]

15. 15's not terrible.

[Ashley Johnson]

That ended up being accomplished.

[Matthew Mercer]

You focus on the golden threads. And as you try and concentrate, it's hard to make out a different shade of gold amongst this weird spectral firelight that is this constellation remnants.

[Laura Bailey]

I remember Laudna's with silver, though.

[Matthew Mercer]

Your friends are too far for you to reach. But as you concentrate, you can see the faintest bit of a thread connected to that single flame that burns inside the faintest little remnants of what holds it to this realm. It's there before you, ready to be plucked.

[Laura Bailey]

I pluck it.

[Matthew Mercer]

How do you pluck it?

[Sam Riegel]

How do you want to plug this?

[Laura Bailey]

I'm going to reach out and touch it and send a shocking grasp along it.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you concentrate on it, you feel an element of that hunger, that impossible, empty need to feed that you've only experienced in the times that you've connected with Predathos. And now, since you are within it, as. As you release that essence of your gifted ability, that hunger extends along the thread as you watch it turn to a sparking blue. You extend your essence. And like a hand grasping and snuffing a candle, you grab that final flicker of its golden flame and swallow it. And you watch as the remnants, the last gasping breath of the essence of the devoured God scatters to shadow. And it's gone.

[Laura Bailey]

I ate a God? Yeah, I ate a God within a God.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's like a nesting doll.

[Matthew Mercer]

The rest of you immediately watch as within the crystal of its body, that golden glow emanates and then seems to vanish. You watch the crystals crack all across the body a little bit. The very essence of its physical form begins to shatter from the inside, and it now no longer has use of those abilities.

[Laura Bailey]

In the last moment after that happened, I'm going to shift my head over to the other light blinking in the distance.

[Matthew Mercer]

You're also gain 40 temporary hit points. He was all fumes on top of.

[Travis Willingham]

My other 10 hit points.

[Laura Bailey]

Or that cancels out my other 10 hit points.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you just had 40 temporary hit points.

[Marisha Ray]

Is it good or is it easy?

[Laura Bailey]

I don't know.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It feels like a forbidden.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sometimes you drink the blood of the vampire.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's gonna finish your turn. All right, Chetney, you're up. What do you mean I'm up? I try to stay down and play dead. I'm fucked over here.

[Ashley Johnson]

What'd you do this to me for? I stand up, use half my movements.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, you weren't knocked prone. You just got pushed back.

[Ashley Johnson]

Are you sure?

[Laura Bailey]

Did you take bludgeoning Damage when you got flung 30ft?

[Ashley Johnson]

Why would you ask? No, I took 40.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, it pushed it back narratively. He got flung, but he wasn't thrown in the air.

[Laura Bailey]

Got it, got it, got it.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Unless. All right.

[Ashley Johnson]

On my feet. I just skated back like a fucking badass. Okay, cool. Dragon Ball Z. I'll run forward 40ft. 40ft?

[Matthew Mercer]

40Ft will get you almost into melee.

[Ashley Johnson]

Almost into melee?

[Matthew Mercer]

Almost. Well, let's see if I push you back 30ft and it got pushed back 10ft from you, and you were melee, so. No, actually you would be. It would be just enough to get into. I actually pushed you back a little bit too far.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's good.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you actually managed to catch up with it.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, Yeah, I was only 10.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'll take two swings with turmoil.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

That'll be great.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Ashley Johnson]

Ah, that was unintentional. 17 plus 926.

[Matthew Mercer]

26 hits.

[Ashley Johnson]

Second one. No, that's a 16.

[Matthew Mercer]

16.

[Ashley Johnson]

16 misses, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, three. Oh, can I say, with my bonus action, I'll drag the scythe up my leg and cast a crimson right on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure. You got it.

[Ashley Johnson]

That will do six points of lightning damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

10.

[Ashley Johnson]

10 plus six is 16 plus six. 22 points of damage, six of which are lightning.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it. All right. Okay, so the strike comes in with the scythe, digs into it. The echo emanates from where the blade sticks into the glass exterior of its bottom part. It's looking pretty hurt. You're starting to see some wear and tear on this form. The glass overall on its body and parts of where the wounds are. You can see the striations of interior muscle glowing with its psychic power.

[Ashley Johnson]

Ah. And then all that time ago when I had my Sherlock Holmes. Now that I've damaged it, I'll use brand of castigation.

[Matthew Mercer]

Now you got it. Now the shattered glass bits sink into where you struck it and form that glyph of hemocraft upon the spot.

[Ashley Johnson]

Amazing.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty, that's it. That finishes your go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Thank you, sir.

[Matthew Mercer]

Brayus, you're up with Fern on deck.

[Sam Riegel]

Do I have enough movement to get up next to them or will I be behind them?

[Matthew Mercer]

What's your movement?

[Sam Riegel]

30.

[Matthew Mercer]

Unfortunately, I don't think you have the movement to get there. Yeah, you get like up to here. Okay, if that's what you want to do.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, I think so.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Then I will use bonus action to misty step the rest of the way.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

To get sort of between laudna.

[Matthew Mercer]

Stop it. Between Laudna and Wolf, chet me like there.

[Sam Riegel]

And then I will. As my action, I will cast Thunder Wave, Thunder Damage at fourth level.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Right. Constitution save, right?

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, yeah, it is. Where is it?

[Matthew Mercer]

Where?

[Sam Riegel]

I never have cast this before in my life. Constitution 1824.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it succeeds. Damn. It's okay. It would take half damage, but it takes full damage because of its vulnerability. So just roll the damage.

[Sam Riegel]

So that's. It's two D8. Three D8. Four D8. Five D8.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, great.

[Ashley Johnson]

Tattoo Turmoil does nine damage, which I forgot to roll. Rolled a D8.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's a three. So six. So six. I got it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

23 points.

[Matthew Mercer]

23 points to thunder damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Thunder Damage. And. Oh, it succeeded. So it doesn't get pulled back.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct. Push back.

[Sam Riegel]

Darn it. That's my only move.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, that's it. All right, that finishes your go. Brayus Fern, you're up with Dorian on deck.

[Travis Willingham]

All right, all right, all right, all right. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to Flaming Mar Rays. Just shoot it up. Shoot them up at the. I'm going to try to just get rid of more of the crystal and expose more of our beautiful woman.

[Marisha Ray]

Do they take the shape of this?

[Travis Willingham]

Yes. Flaming manta rays.

[Marisha Ray]

Flaming Marisha manta rays.

[Travis Willingham]

And I get an extra. Extra D8 from my form and from Mr. So 2. Extra D8. Okay, so let's see. So we've got three. Three. Do I have advantage?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, I don't think so.

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know why I thought that.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, here. Well, these are ranged attacks, right?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

And you are right next to it because you're grabbing its leg. These would be a disadvantage, technically. Are you with.

[Campaign Narrator]

Is she within 10ft of a.

[Matthew Mercer]

Because you're grabbing out its foot and I'm in melt. Technically, I'll say yes because the minion makes it look taller than it is.

[Travis Willingham]

Can I just let go of the leg?

[Matthew Mercer]

You can if you want to step out of it. I mean, its attack range is larger than 5ft, so you can move back and still be in its melee range. So you can do that.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, all right, I'll do that.

[Campaign Narrator]

And you get a D4 to add to your attack.

[Travis Willingham]

Great.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you would like step back.

[Travis Willingham]

So I will do.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so number one.

[Travis Willingham]

Plus a D4.19.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, technically, you're still in melee with it because it's ranged. So if you want to try and step out of its melee range to not take disadvantage on your strikes, you can, but it will get an attack of Opportunity on you. Or you can take disadvantage on your attacks.

[Sam Riegel]

These are the tough choices in life.

[Marisha Ray]

It's very tough.

[Travis Willingham]

I'll take it.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, the attack.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

You take the disadvantage or you take the attack.

[Travis Willingham]

I will take the attack which might.

[Matthew Mercer]

Be rolled really badly. Seventeen.

[Travis Willingham]

That just hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so it still hits you.

[Travis Willingham]

I did. I did, I did.

[Campaign Narrator]

Or from the Hex.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, from Bane. That's right. Bane reduces it. Well, did you maintain concentration from the fast strike last time that I hit you?

[Marisha Ray]

Let's find out. All right, guys, it's gotta be like, I did not.

[Matthew Mercer]

So the Bane does not change it. So it's no longer Bane. And so you still take the damage from that. Okay, we're getting all this figured out in order of operations.

[Sam Riegel]

Yep.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. You'll miss me when I'm gone. This guy?

[Sam Riegel]

There's just some guy over here.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Who is that guy?

[Ashley Johnson]

The door was open.

[Marisha Ray]

I just came in here.

[Sam Riegel]

Is this the bathroom?

[Matthew Mercer]

So, Fern, you take 22 points of slashing damage as you push out of its combat range.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. When its claws is all right. Okay, so the first hit would be 20, 20 misses. All right, Second hit.

[Campaign Narrator]

And that was with a D4.

[Travis Willingham]

That was with a D4. But I do die D4s for all of them.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep.

[Campaign Narrator]

Every attack gets a D4. Every save in every attack.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, that'll probably hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

So did you add a D4 to the first one?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, I did.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

So that one's 31 that hits. Okay, that's not gonna hit 16. Okay, so one of them hits. So that's 2D6 plus your 1D8 fire.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right.

[Travis Willingham]

And an extra one because of enhanced bond.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

All right.

[Campaign Narrator]

All attacks would have had advantage because I critted shit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, keep that in mind. Yeah. Shit. All attacks in general?

[Campaign Narrator]

I think so. Hold on.

[Laura Bailey]

So you would have rolled an advantage with. For all three of those.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Now he's on Etsy.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. All attack rolls against a creature are made with advantage until it's okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you have advantage, actually.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, so that's first hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

First hit 16. Right.

[Travis Willingham]

And the bowl points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, you rolled three attacks, right? 16 points of damage already. Okay, first one hit. And so now roll a second dice. And if this one does hit, then the second attack would hit and you have one more to roll after that.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

14 plus 11, which is 25, that hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

So roll one more with advantage. So that's the second one. You'll do damage for.

[Travis Willingham]

22.

[Matthew Mercer]

22 just hits.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, great.

[Matthew Mercer]

Roll again. In case I criticize Roll the damage for two more.

[Travis Willingham]

Two more.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

And I add the D8s for both. Or it's just one additional.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, how's it described on each?

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, let's see.

[Laura Bailey]

So.

[Travis Willingham]

Whenever a creature hit, whenever you cast a spell or hit with an attack that deals damage, you choose to deal an additional 1d8 fire damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so that means.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, so you would do additional D8 on the spell. So not for each hit.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, so we already did the one D. And then for Enhanced Bond.

[Ashley Johnson]

Enhanced Bond.

[Travis Willingham]

Enhanced Bond.

[Campaign Narrator]

Bond.

[Travis Willingham]

When Ryuk has a spell that deals fire damage or restores hit points while your wildfire spirit is summoned, you roll a D8. So I would roll additional D8 then.

[Matthew Mercer]

So sorry. Whenever you cast a spell.

[Travis Willingham]

Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, so it would only be one attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Only one? Yeah. Okay, so drill the x.

[Campaign Narrator]

So just 46.

[Travis Willingham]

46.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

All right, so we've got an additional eight and four.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so another 12 points of energy.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Blasting it with flame blasts as the streaking columns of fire burning across it with each hit.

[Travis Willingham]

And I guess, bonus action, I'm going to just scream out Imogen Lamna's heart.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. It's been your action to cast a spell. So you scream this out into the ether. Hopefully it finds purchase. You're uncertain.

[Travis Willingham]

Should have just done that.

[Laura Bailey]

No, no, no, it's fine.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's all good. So it is Mr. Stern.

[Travis Willingham]

Well, I was just going to do that as my bonus instead of having Mr. That's something.

[Laura Bailey]

That's instead of Mr. Attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, I wouldn't waste a bonus action because it was an action to actually try and reach out. So I'll let you still have your bonus.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. All right, so Mister's going to take a flaming. Oh, I think that's going to hit.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, that did hit.

[Travis Willingham]

That's a good boy.

[Laura Bailey]

That's a big poo.

[Travis Willingham]

Him did a 25 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That'll do. Roll some damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, that's a big old poo poo.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, good boy.

[Travis Willingham]

He rolled a six.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, six.

[Travis Willingham]

11 points of fire damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Good boy. Awesome. Like, hides off the side of you.

[Travis Willingham]

There's a little bit of diary he.

[Laura Bailey]

Has a little scared.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, Finishing Ferns. Go. Dorian. You're up with Oramonda.

[Campaign Narrator]

And again. Abandon, which I. Yeah, totally forgot.

[Marisha Ray]

So is that advantage, like, all round?

[Campaign Narrator]

No, till the end of Predatha's round. So you also have advantage on attacks. And if you're anywhere near me, you also.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right, I'm going to just reposition fly Straight in front of Predathous Imogen. Right down the pipe. Why fix what ain't broke? I'm going to cast shatter again, but this time at fourth level. And I don't know if I clocked this before, if it matters, but a creature made of integrated material such as stone, crystal, or metal has disadvantaged on the saving throws. How much made of stuff are they?

[Matthew Mercer]

I think at this point, enough to make a disadvantage on that saving throw.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, all right, cool. So it would be 16 con to save.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Oh, no. Natural six or natural two.

[Ashley Johnson]

Cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

Even with this, it's bonus. Even with this bonus, it would be a 15. Sweet, sweet. That's good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, so we'll roll.

[Matthew Mercer]

Good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So that's 5D8. Not bad.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's going to use its second legendary resistance to reduce that damage. That would have been a lot of damage at that level.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

19.

[Matthew Mercer]

19 is what I rolled. What you rolled? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So that would be 19 total, reduced to hapock and full. So then he points a third damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, Checklist.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty.

[Campaign Narrator]

Good, good. Burn another.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep. So now the impacts and blasts into it. You can see, like, part of the body are starting to break as it moves, and the crystal's starting to fall off and heavy shards scattering to the ground like terrifying crystal rain to those that are settled around its base. Finish your turn, Dorian. Bonus action. You good?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Where are you at, Chat? Are you smudged up there?

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm up there, dog.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay. And you're all dinged up. I was like, next to Braves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chat, Keep smashing, dude. Get him.

[Marisha Ray]

You go.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Good boy. And then I'll give him inspiration.

[Ashley Johnson]

My tail starts wagging.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

12.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, a 12. Dang.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, that's it for me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, finishing your go, Dorian. Orym, you're up.

[Liam O'Brien]

Do I have advantage still from your feature? Okay, so Orym flips around Seedling in his hand and presses the hilt against the back of this creature's neck. And his fingers splay wide. Come on, Imogen. Come on, come on. And small black blooms spread out from his hand and little dark tendrils through the crystal rough around this creature's necks. I cast hex. And then I grip the blade and start slashing at the back of her mouth.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. Got it. Let's go.

[Liam O'Brien]

Killer shitty roll to start. Kill him. That is a kill images. 19 is the first 19 fails.

[Matthew Mercer]

That was with advantage, right?

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes. Next one is a crit. Natural 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Why so casual?

[Travis Willingham]

I know.

[Marisha Ray]

So, so stressed.

[Liam O'Brien]

6. We'll make this a goading attack. So that's doubled.

[Matthew Mercer]

So that's eight natural 19. So it succeeds. Eight.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's fine. Eight plus four is 12 for the superiority. 12 plus nine is 21. 21 for the first slash.

[Matthew Mercer]

That was doubled with the crit.

[Liam O'Brien]

The dice. I doubled the dice and then added.

[Matthew Mercer]

So.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

So 21. All right.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes. Oh, I didn't add the hex. Additional 10.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great. 31 points of damage on that strike.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, that was second slash. Third. It misses. Action surge. Okay, definitely hits 30. 31. We'll make it a goading attack. This is 14 plus the superiority. Down 14. 17 for the fourth slash. Okay, just chipping away at the back of the neck. Let's go higher still. 26 for that one hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Roll damage. Let's go.

[Liam O'Brien]

Did you roll for a goading attack on that?

[Matthew Mercer]

That one would be 20. 20.

[Liam O'Brien]

20. Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Succeeds.

[Liam O'Brien]

I keep going anyway, so that hits. I didn't roll the hex on the last one again. So another four points from the hex. So then this is the attack. That's 6 plus 9 is 15. Goading attack. All right, priority die. 17 for that slash.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it.

[Liam O'Brien]

And then I think I have one last slash left.

[Matthew Mercer]

Natural 18.

[Liam O'Brien]

God damn it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hits.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's a 26 to hit. Okay, I'm gonna say no, I'm gonna. I lost track of my spirit. I'm just gonna do a regular attack. So that is 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

14 damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Did you Dehex?

[Liam O'Brien]

Nope. Another three.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. 17. Got it. So just like you guys are hearing these heavy strikes, these rapid blasts of seedling tearing through the back of the predathos form. You watch as crystals and bits of flesh are raining below. And it starts reeling back a bit as the Imogen mouth opens. The jaw seems almost descended, like it had disconnected. And just. You feel that static of the room get heavier and heavier still as it's looking like it's sustained some hits. That finishes your go. Orym brings us back to initiative. 20. Okay, okay. The crystals within lose their teal color, and instead a dark, black, inky coloration seems to spill within the inside of its form. The glowing psychic eyes now shift to a black void. And you feel the chamber itself drops 20 degrees in an instant. So first gets its legendary actions back. It cannot do its multi attack because of what you did last turn.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yep, that's true.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, no, because they did that during last turn.

[Campaign Narrator]

No, it's to the end of this turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

The end of this turn. Okay, gotcha.

[Campaign Narrator]

So. Still can't do it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so.

[Campaign Narrator]

And that's half Speed still.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. So, yeah. So instead of that, it's going to use chasm of Eager darkness. What the fuck? Actually, before it does that, it's going to bonus action. Telekinetic vacuum on you. Make a strength saving throw for me, Orym.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, okay. It's not great. That's a 13.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a failure. After all the strikes on its back, one of its hands rises up and seems to pluck something from the air. As it does, you all watch Orym get tucked. Just yanked and held in the air and it flings him psychically.

[Liam O'Brien]

Splat.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's going to throw you. It can do. Yep. 60ft in the direction of its choice. It's going to throw you 60ft up this way. At the angle it's gonna be additional. 40 foot, 80ft. You fall. Feather fall.

[Marisha Ray]

Feather fall.

[Matthew Mercer]

Feather fall.

[Marisha Ray]

Feather fall.

[Matthew Mercer]

Did you use your reaction?

[Marisha Ray]

It's been around.

[Matthew Mercer]

It has been around. You're right.

[Campaign Narrator]

It's been around.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow. Gently pressed to the ground.

[Liam O'Brien]

Saving that flung into the roof, though.

[Laura Bailey]

Before the feather flag or just high.

[Liam O'Brien]

I just get ported.

[Matthew Mercer]

It just goes in. It throws you at an angle where you're going to get close to the ceiling, but not quite there. And then you're just going to plummet the rest of the way for a full 80ft before she feather falls you.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Now it's going to go ahead and use Chasm of Eager darkness.

[Ashley Johnson]

Magic's real good, y'all.

[Travis Willingham]

Counterpart.

[Sam Riegel]

Chasm of what?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Eager darkness.

[Matthew Mercer]

Don't worry about it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Like, just like regular darkness, but like, it's eager.

[Sam Riegel]

Wants it more.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Yeah. Still young and hungry. Like a rock.

[Laura Bailey]

It's chasm of eager darknessing you.

[Matthew Mercer]

That is. Okay, everybody.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Everybody okay. That is most everybody. Yeah, Everybody Angle it gets.

[Travis Willingham]

But I'm on fire. And I emit 30ft of bright light.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, you do. I need all of you to make a comment. Constitution saving throw for me, please.

[Marisha Ray]

All of us.

[Sam Riegel]

Everyone near me gets plus four.

[Campaign Narrator]

Everyone near me also gets D4 and a D4.

[Sam Riegel]

10Ft.

[Ashley Johnson]

Constitution.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, I'm at four. Correct.

[Sam Riegel]

So Ash. No Ash Fernandez Laudna.

[Travis Willingham]

We get a D4.

[Sam Riegel]

You get a plus four and a.

[Campaign Narrator]

D4 if you're within 10ft of me.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, great, great.

[Sam Riegel]

How far plus four from me?

[Marisha Ray]

Plus four for you, fashion.

[Campaign Narrator]

And then if you're within 10ft, a D4 added to that as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Sam Riegel]

This is a constitution save.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Laura Bailey]

Hang on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, wow. Yeah. You watch as the open distended jaw of Imogen for Dathos opens wide and out of it this black, swirling, dark void just seems to encompass and swallow the space around you to where you can see nearly nothing.

[Ashley Johnson]

Am I close enough to you, Ashton? I am.

[Sam Riegel]

Ashton? I don't know. That's up to Matt. Is he within 10ft of Ashton?

[Matthew Mercer]

He looked like it would. You're just on the cusp.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'd say 21.

[Matthew Mercer]

Without Ashton's D4, 21 succeeds. So you take 24 points of cold damage and you are not blinded.

[Ashley Johnson]

And I'm not blinded.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, 31.

[Matthew Mercer]

You take the same 24 points of cold damage and you are not blinded.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

19 with no boons, you take 49.

[Matthew Mercer]

Points of cold damage.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's chilly.

[Matthew Mercer]

And you are blinded until the end of Predathos. Next turn. What?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, fuck.

[Matthew Mercer]

13, you take 49 points points of cold damage and you are blinded till the end of Predathos is next.

[Laura Bailey]

Even with all those buffs, you still only have 13.

[Sam Riegel]

4.

[Travis Willingham]

24.

[Matthew Mercer]

24. You take 24 points of cold damage and you are not blind.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, dirty 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Dirty 20. That just barely makes it. So you take 24 points of cold damage and you're not blinded.

[Liam O'Brien]

Half to 12. Because I'm invulnerable right now. Because of the potion.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Guys.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Snap puts you guys Blood Hunters.

[Campaign Narrator]

Am I right? Am I right?

[Matthew Mercer]

So correct.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, oh.

[Laura Bailey]

Was that magic damage?

[Sam Riegel]

Everyone around me, including me, is resistant to spell damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's not a spell.

[Sam Riegel]

God damn you.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, so who did I say was blinded? It was Dorian Brayus.

[Campaign Narrator]

And I assume I take 24 points of cold damage as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

Because you rolled it.

[Campaign Narrator]

Rolled a 29.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, 24.

[Sam Riegel]

To get my bearings, I just start reaching around like. Like this.

[Matthew Mercer]

So who is it? It's just the two of you that are blinded?

[Sam Riegel]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

You all managed to succeed.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, good.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay. Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. That's going to finish Predathos. Turn each other. It no longer has the slow on on it. From your reaction, that is correct.

[Liam O'Brien]

Dorian is flying blind.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, you're just in darkness. You're floating in a void. You vaguely recall that the shadows. For everyone else the shadows fade as the jaw clicks back into place. And Brayus and Dorian seem to be reaching out as their eyes are now just black voids as well. With that Laudna, you're up.

[Campaign Narrator]

Actually not that still have advantage.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm just trying to find my way.

[Campaign Narrator]

And you still have a D4 and advantage.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't know when it would be time, but you have the thing and it's not Trending, I mean, it's not going good. Imogen. Predathogen is looking rough, but not super rough.

[Matthew Mercer]

Looking roughish.

[Marisha Ray]

Does it take an action to put on this mask?

[Ashley Johnson]

The matron.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right. It's a use items thing. If you want to. It would take part of an action, I'd say.

[Laura Bailey]

Is it time? Is it time?

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know why you're asking us.

[Ashley Johnson]

We don't know if it revivifies saves.

[Campaign Narrator]

Let me check my neck.

[Ashley Johnson]

We don't know if it hurts. We don't know if it turns her into a 40 foot fucking Gundam. We don't know what it does.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, I'm going to quicken a spell and I'm going to do mirror image on myself.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, beginning of your turn. Please make a wisdom saving.

[Laura Bailey]

Throw me close.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep. For its oppressive awareness. Plus 54 impressible.

[Ashley Johnson]

Good rolls.

[Matthew Mercer]

Good rolls. Nice roll six. Yeah. You're not affected by it. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. Okay. So I'm gonna put mirror image on myself and then confirm spells mirror image. I'm burning through some fucking smell slots.

[Campaign Narrator]

Start.

[Matthew Mercer]

Boom.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. Being hit so much and seeing everybody else take some pretty severe damage. Oh, I hope this isn't a mistake.

[Ashley Johnson]

That was no Lana.

[Marisha Ray]

Lana pulls out the matron mask.

[Matthew Mercer]

Make a perception check for me real fast. Soon as you pull it out.

[Campaign Narrator]

Why perception check.

[Ashley Johnson]

Maybe it looks different cuz it's near. It's are you look at the bath.

[Matthew Mercer]

Make perception check.

[Marisha Ray]

It's bad. 10.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, continue your turn.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, fuck.

[Marisha Ray]

Am I in an aura or something?

[Sam Riegel]

I can't see.

[Matthew Mercer]

The whole room feels that oppressive buzzing of psychic presence. Pressure on your mind and consciousness. But nevertheless, continue with your journey. I put it on. Okay. You pull free the mask of the mation of ravens. Looking down into the inside of it. You place it upon your face. Nothing happens.

[Laura Bailey]

Ah, she's not gonna come because it's.

[Matthew Mercer]

You pull it away and look. It's not working. It's not working. It's not working. What do you want to do?

[Marisha Ray]

Fuck.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fuck. Huh?

[Marisha Ray]

That was my action, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, that's part of the immediate scenario of trying it on.

[Marisha Ray]

I look up, maybe I'm too close, so I'm gonna move away.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh boy.

[Marisha Ray]

I know, I know, I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

You back up a little bit.

[Ashley Johnson]

Should we stick it on her face?

[Matthew Mercer]

And as you glance at it, we'll say this uses your actions. Back away and glance at it. You notice the mask that you received was porcelain perfect. This one has some odd minor imperfections. On the inside.

[Laura Bailey]

You.

[Sam Riegel]

It's just business, guys.

[Ashley Johnson]

You're not serious right now.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm a good painter.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, you fuck.

[Matthew Mercer]

Shit. And you are currently blind. Yep.

[Marisha Ray]

I just.

[Ashley Johnson]

Is there a little sickness for her?

[Marisha Ray]

Slow turn to brayus.

[Travis Willingham]

Do any of us see this? If we're not blinded or we're just in the dark.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, if you're not. No, the dark is faded. You just. You see Lana backing up the mast, did nothing, and she just slow turns to bray us.

[Sam Riegel]

Is anyone out there? Why is everybody so quiet all of a sudden?

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my God.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm just gonna put the mask back on my belt and do everything in my fucking power to hide my. My fury and distrust. Okay, he's in darkness, right? No, I can see. Oh, he's just blind.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, the darkness faded, but his eyes are now just black voids and he cannot see.

[Marisha Ray]

Kayla, do I have enough time to. Because I'm near him.

[Matthew Mercer]

You're right next to him. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Do I see the matron mask on his person?

[Matthew Mercer]

You can make an investigation check to see if you can try and find it on him.

[Marisha Ray]

You dick.

[Travis Willingham]

Can I give her guidance? Since I saw the exchange?

[Matthew Mercer]

It's an action to cast guidance.

[Travis Willingham]

I know, I.

[Ashley Johnson]

See.

[Marisha Ray]

If you do it this one, you.

[Laura Bailey]

Get a plus four because of your next.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, I guess. Here's my question. Are you, like, running up and searching him or are you just looking at him?

[Marisha Ray]

I don't want to. Yeah, I don't want to alert him that I know something's up.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, he's blind then. We'll make this a perception check to see if you can. Perception or investigation? I'll allow it for you.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

This isn't to pull it off. This is just to insist.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. Yeah, that's good. 23.

[Matthew Mercer]

Brayus, if you wouldn't mind just rolling a sleight of hinge.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sure.

[Marisha Ray]

You evil motherfucker.

[Sam Riegel]

Nine.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, where is it hiding on your person?

[Sam Riegel]

It's on my belt. Probably under some folds of draped awesome clothes that I have.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see, as he's shifting around, there's one part underneath his material and his armor that about the size of a mask that is holding against the rest of his adornment.

[Ashley Johnson]

Unsubervable.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm in my form of dread, so my head just. I go to crack my neck in fury, but my head just turns a little too far and just goes like.

[Matthew Mercer]

This loud snap sound kind of echoes through the buzz.

[Marisha Ray]

Is that it? That's my turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm guessing you have a bonus. You didn't Have a bonus action.

[Marisha Ray]

I. Bonus action to put mirror image.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. So you have moved.

[Marisha Ray]

No, just stay. I'm gonna be 100%.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Can I.

[Marisha Ray]

Is it. Is it.

[Matthew Mercer]

I love that. I don't know that this is any of them.

[Sam Riegel]

To myself. I'm like. I've got them right where I want them. They don't fucking suspect a thing.

[Travis Willingham]

You're saying it on my own.

[Marisha Ray]

Am I on the side of him where the mask is currently on the other side? I don't want to break. Can I shift just to the other side?

[Matthew Mercer]

You can move, like behind them.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't want to break. I don't want to get hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

You won't leave the melee range because it is a massive melee range. Okay. Okay, so that finishes your turn. Ashton, you're up with.

[Marisha Ray]

I didn't notice.

[Campaign Narrator]

I assume I didn't notice any of this shit going on. What's going on behind me?

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't think so.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, I assume so.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Your passive.

[Liam O'Brien]

See how powerful I am?

[Matthew Mercer]

Your passive perception is 11.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right, I'm going to. It's been going well. So I'm gonna try and take another flying leap and keep hitting exactly where I've been hitting before. And I want to see if I can get this thing to fall. And there. My advantage is gone. There's no. I'm doing the math in my head. Is there anything negative that I'm taking right now or. No, I'm straight up. I can just. There's no advantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, start your turn. Make a wisdom saving throw.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's right. Wisdom, no. Advantage. No. Yes, advantage.

[Sam Riegel]

That's right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yay.

[Campaign Narrator]

17, 18, 19. 20. 22.

[Matthew Mercer]

22. That's enough. You manage to resist the oppressive awareness and continue your turn as you please.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay. There's no advantage anywhere. Like, I'm not.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Campaign Narrator]

So I'm just going to roll. I'm actually going to do. Yeah, I'm just going to take straight rolls about this for a moment. First attack. Nat20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, so that again is. And I'm going to put a chaos burst into that cause. That's fine.

[Ashley Johnson]

Save us.

[Campaign Narrator]

This is gonna be another one. I can't find my pen. Which. There it is. Let's see what kind of damage I do. Come on, Thunder. No, but that's okay. We're doing poison damage which will do what it does.

[Matthew Mercer]

Here we go.

[Campaign Narrator]

So that's one D10. Start with A. Well, let's start with then two D10. Poison damage. Where's my D10? Here we are. That's gonna be 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 points of poison damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

And then that's 46 times 2, so that's. You fuckers.

[Matthew Mercer]

Shush.

[Campaign Narrator]

9, 18 plus 16, which I'm just gonna. 1860, that'd be 34. 34, that's 11. So that's 34, 45. And then. Fuck, I get to re roll both of those. No, better. It's the exact same roll plus three, plus 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

So, okay, so for the brutal crit critical, you're adding 1D6.

[Campaign Narrator]

So I get 2D6 for my normal attack. And then critical, add an extra 2d6 damage and then all attack roll. Yeah, and so that's.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it's 4d6 times 2 times 2. Yeah. Which was.

[Campaign Narrator]

That was 8d6 that I just rolled.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right, so that doesn't get doubled then past that.

[Campaign Narrator]

No, everything is straight. And then we just add the. After the three, we add 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you have for a total of. Jesus Christ.

[Campaign Narrator]

I lost track. So sorry. 3, 14. No, this is sucking.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fuck.

[Campaign Narrator]

I lost two of them. I'm so sorry. 18, 16.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it was 35.

[Campaign Narrator]

There's one I'm missing. 18, 16, 34. I think there was a 14 in there. I think it was 18 16. 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

3. Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, I'll go with that. 3 plus 14. So that's.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, my God.

[Campaign Narrator]

4, 7, 18, 18, 60, 26, 36, 46. Is that right? 66 points of damage. Plus the 10 from poison or the 8 from poison.

[Matthew Mercer]

66, is that right? Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Four attacks, that's eight D6.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

I mean, plus 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, here's the thing. Because you rolled two D6, maybe it was a D. You rolled two D6 and then two D6.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

And you doubled each of those.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, well, no, 2d6. 2d6. 2d6.

[Matthew Mercer]

2D6. I just did.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. Two, four, six, eight.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right.

[Campaign Narrator]

So no double on any of this.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right. But I'm saying, like, then how did you get. How did you get 14 to 18 on 2D6?

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, that's.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's what I'm. Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Something went wrong. Okay. Should I just.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's start over and reroll?

[Campaign Narrator]

That's because I was thinking. Okay, yeah, just roll the dice and.

[Matthew Mercer]

We'Ll double the dice back.

[Laura Bailey]

You were saying.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow.

[Marisha Ray]

Because you were thinking about how we were binge betrayed.

[Campaign Narrator]

I. That too. But I'm like, the math. The math is not happening in the headlight.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's. Okay, we got you. So roll that 10.

[Campaign Narrator]

Doubled.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right, so we'll say 10 and then roll again. Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's.

[Sam Riegel]

Who's that?

[Matthew Mercer]

15. 5. Yeah, that's 15. But that's all you roll. So it's 2D6 for your weapon, and then it's an extra. What?

[Campaign Narrator]

That's 2D6 and then an extra 2D6.

[Matthew Mercer]

Four.

[Campaign Narrator]

That was. So that's the 46 was 15 just now.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right. So doubled. Sorry. I'm trying to figure this out. So you have.

[Campaign Narrator]

I roll 46 for my weapon when I'm critting.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right. For brutal critical. Yeah. Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

And then we double that.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct.

[Laura Bailey]

So 30.

[Campaign Narrator]

So that's 30.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right, 30.

[Campaign Narrator]

And then there was 2D10 poison damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Which was 8, I believe. Correct.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, it was 10. Thank you. And that doesn't get doubled.

[Matthew Mercer]

That does get doubled. It's all part of the same attack.

[Campaign Narrator]

No, I mean, that was doubled.

[Matthew Mercer]

That was doubled. Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

And you're in. Add 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, gotcha.

[Campaign Narrator]

Thank you. Sorry. So many dice in this attempt.

[Laura Bailey]

So that was 60. Oh, 54.

[Matthew Mercer]

54. Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

There we go.

[Matthew Mercer]

Cool. Just want to make sure we got through that.

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thank you for that. Second attack.

[Laura Bailey]

Second attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Second attack.

[Campaign Narrator]

She now has advantage. Because every attack from now on has advantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Got a break.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's almost. If I had been a little different, that would have been a critical, but it did well. So that's a hit. I've rolled a 19, which is not quite a critical yet. And then that's 2D6 plus 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's really good.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's 11, 12, 13.

[Matthew Mercer]

14.

[Campaign Narrator]

15.

[Matthew Mercer]

25. 25.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. 1525.

[Matthew Mercer]

Two heavy, heavy strikes on Brathos form. More of the crystals are breaking away. Parts of the body are splitting, and you can see it has sustained some heavy damage. The entity itself is looking fairly ragged.

[Campaign Narrator]

Tiny chunks of glass are starting to come off my hammer as there's this crystal on. Crystal is not happy, and weird little sparks are starting to fly.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, that finishes your turn.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yes, it does.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. End of its turn. It's going to go ahead and spend two legendary actions to use Touch of Piercing Winter.

[Campaign Narrator]

Cool.

[Ashley Johnson]

Touch of Piercing Winter.

[Matthew Mercer]

Gonna use it on you. Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

No.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Really?

[Ashley Johnson]

Gpw.

[Campaign Narrator]

I also assumed I would. Not that it matters, but I was gonna hop back into the group so that I'm still a D4 with everybody.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. So you move back this way.

[Sam Riegel]

You can tell how powerful attacks are by how many words are in them.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, that's how I operate. All right, so that will be 25, I think that hits you.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, that hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you take.

[Laura Bailey]

You took a little Touch of Piercing Winter. There Ow.

[Campaign Narrator]

Just a touch smidge.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, take it.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, that was.

[Campaign Narrator]

Don't gasp. What the fuck, man?

[Matthew Mercer]

38 points of cold damage, and you should make a constitution. Say saving throw.

[Campaign Narrator]

Looking rough, kids.

[Matthew Mercer]

Plus four. Really?

[Sam Riegel]

Plus four to your saving throw.

[Laura Bailey]

That says something.

[Campaign Narrator]

There's no save for this. This is just a hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

We just said a. Oh, yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Plus four to my saving throw. Make a. What was it? A constitution.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, you got this.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's plus four.

[Sam Riegel]

So strong.

[Matthew Mercer]

Plus four both.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, good.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 31.

[Ashley Johnson]

Whoa.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

I made a rock.

[Campaign Narrator]

And that's 38 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

The dark energy that exists, the essence of whatever endless darkness that it's currently calling upon, reaches out to you. And you feel something within your chest begin to grow cold and reach out from within. The cold attempts to seize your body, but you shrug it off. And you are not stunned.

[Campaign Narrator]

Is it an attack, by the way, or is that like, a smell?

[Matthew Mercer]

It was a ranged attack.

[Campaign Narrator]

It was a ranged attack. I don't know if this does anything, then. Nope, not immediately.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, that finishes your go. Yeah. Imogen, you are now back in the endless void around you. The golden constellation of Vordo, now finally released to the annals of the forgotten. You now stand your own light, glowing a little golder. And you're just in the space. What do you do?

[Laura Bailey]

My attention shifts to the other flicker that I saw on the horizon.

[Matthew Mercer]

Make a perception check for me.

[Ashley Johnson]

Good.

[Laura Bailey]

Perception. Perception. 17.

[Matthew Mercer]

17 is just barely over enough. It's hard to notice an entity of shadow amongst darkness. But it's not the visual. It's the feeling of its direction and presence. A direction that is colder than all the rest. As soon as you feel it, you begin to push towards it. Roll and add your charisma, please.

[Ashley Johnson]

I think that's good.

[Matthew Mercer]

You look past the shadow to where it is blacker than black. There is an umbra void before you, and within a moment, you almost seem to fold the dark space and take one step and you're there before it. It's an absence of color that cannot be described. And were it not your mind merged with Verdatho, you wouldn't be able to even grasp its presence. Here it is. It is a color that swallows color. And it is in the form of the remnants of a tattered and fading entity, not too dissimilar to the one you experienced before. You see before you what remains of Ethedoc, the endless shadow. Cool. What would you like to do in the shadow? Is that what you said?

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

The tether.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, go ahead and roll one more time and add your charisma. This will determine a number of things.

[Laura Bailey]

I shouldn't have rolled that one. I knew it. It's a water.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's an actual water.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, no way.

[Laura Bailey]

I just want to see if I'd.

[Travis Willingham]

Rolled the other one.

[Sam Riegel]

Maybe that's enough.

[Matthew Mercer]

Don't do that. That's just gonna make you unhappy. Don't do that.

[Travis Willingham]

What was it? Was it still bad?

[Laura Bailey]

No, it was great.

[Liam O'Brien]

Get off the WebMD.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you try and express the thread and tether once more, as soon as you try and focus, the shadow swallows it. And for a moment, you feel yourself lost. Even your awareness of exandria and the gods seems to fall into shadow and you are alone and seeing nothing. That's where you end. Your turn, Chetney. You're up.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Actually, before the end of your turn, Chetney.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yep.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's going to go ahead and spend its last legendary action to go ahead and make an attack.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, let me move first.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let me move. No, this is the end of vlogmas. Go.

[Laura Bailey]

But I like the idea that Vordo is in Imogen, which is in Ethidoc, which is in Predathos. This is a full nesting doll for the moment.

[Matthew Mercer]

A lot of layers. This is an ogre onion. All right? It's going to come after you. Wait, what?

[Marisha Ray]

What, What?

[Ashley Johnson]

Because you had the windmill.

[Marisha Ray]

Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.

[Ashley Johnson]

You're the shitty mask.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, no. It does not have advantage against you. So as soon as we roll, that's cocked. Oh, that's not good.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's gonna be a 15.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, my AC is 15. Shield.

[Matthew Mercer]

You reactively pull back in. Your energy deflects the attack as these giant scythe like claws.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I've got Mirror image up.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's up to you.

[Marisha Ray]

Shield's a reaction.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is.

[Marisha Ray]

Let me see first.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, no, you don't get to do that. You choose first.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, that's what I'm. Yes, I'm going to use mirror image.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, okay, so you're using mirror image.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm not going to do shield.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Which is what I needed to roll. Okay, so there goes one level of mirror image.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so it strikes off and destroys one of the various illusory laudnas around you. All right, now, Chetnyz, you're good with brace on deck.

[Ashley Johnson]

You didn't hit me. I'll move around this way. Around. Staying in melee, not engaging any fucking nails.

[Matthew Mercer]

You all can see the face of Laudna that sits up there. It's all this cracking. It is starting to crumble and pieces of it are falling off and flaking and plumbing off the side. You get the sense that the form Laudnar is. Sorry, Imogen.

[Travis Willingham]

Imogen. Imogen.

[Matthew Mercer]

We're back again. We're back again.

[Marisha Ray]

Three years.

[Matthew Mercer]

I know.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah. I'll go all 40ft so I can just tuck myself in the back in case, you know, I don't know any fucking yellow brick roads come out of their face again.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure.

[Ashley Johnson]

And I'll take two swipes with. The first one's a natural 19 for a 28 that hits. And the second one is a 13 for a 22.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, thank you.

[Liam O'Brien]

Is so far away.

[Matthew Mercer]

He does barely get to, I think.

[Ashley Johnson]

22 hits on the second one.

[Liam O'Brien]

This his ring?

[Matthew Mercer]

That is. Yeah. He's blinded. So are.

[Liam O'Brien]

So are you.

[Sam Riegel]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm having to like, pull over this way.

[Ashley Johnson]

15 and seven.

[Matthew Mercer]

Seven. Nice.

[Sam Riegel]

11 more.

[Matthew Mercer]

Six.

[Ashley Johnson]

17. 17 plus four. The first one is 23 points of damage, seven of which is thunder. So it's actually 14.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

So sorry. That is 30. Yeah, 30. Thank you. And the second one was four points of thunder. So. So eight. So 29 points of damage on the second one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice roll. 16. One round. All right. Yeah. The form is definitely starting to come apart. And that faint glow from its interior flesh, the striations of its inside form is likely to pulsing with that dark energy that finishes your go Brace. You're up at the front on deck. You are blinded this turn.

[Sam Riegel]

I am. This is not good. I could attack with disadvantage, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

You can.

[Sam Riegel]

But I don't know what's going on. I think I'm going to be selfish. I'm going to use lay on hands and heal myself. 70 points.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, go for it. Your healing oddly, doesn't seem to be as strong as you had hoped. You heal half of it as Predathos devours the miracle and heals some of what you lost.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Bitch.

[Marisha Ray]

You did this on purpose.

[Matthew Mercer]

You.

[Sam Riegel]

I didn't know that that was gonna happen.

[Ashley Johnson]

How could you?

[Matthew Mercer]

You're so selfish. So, yeah. So you only heal half within the radius of Predathos. And Predathos heals half of what you lost. Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

Does Laudna see him do this?

[Matthew Mercer]

You see him heal himself and it's like the glow gets swallowed by some of the shadow and you watch as some of the cracked crystal forms back together again.

[Marisha Ray]

Her eye just twitches even more unsure.

[Sam Riegel]

And then not really knowing where I am or who's going to hit me. I will misty, step back 30ft.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Do I get an attack of opportunity?

[Sam Riegel]

No, not then. Still not knowing where I am. However, I have something called Labyrinthine recall.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

So I know where north is. Always you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do you know where north is? On Exandria.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

On the moon. It's a little wibbly, wobbly. So I'll say you know directionally where you came from. Okay. I'll put it there.

[Sam Riegel]

Then I will turn to my right and go 30ft that way.

[Matthew Mercer]

30Ft that way. Whack. Trip and fall.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, yeah. I mean, there's rocks everywhere.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, okay. So Braius disappears in a flash of magical energy and is just now running off blindly in a direction.

[Sam Riegel]

I meant a little further back.

[Matthew Mercer]

A little further back. Okay. Just like there.

[Liam O'Brien]

And that's that.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Finishing Brayuses. Go. Fearne, you're up. You're now at the base. Fiery.

[Travis Willingham]

Why did we bring him here? We've only known him for like, four days. All right, so what I'm gonna do, I am going to shoot out my mage hand and I am going to slap Imogen's face with it and just grab it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

And I'm going to scream, Laudna is hurt. Wake up, Imogen. Okay, I'm going to try. Well, I'm trying to persuade her.

[Matthew Mercer]

Indeed. And using your action to do so. You can go ahead and persuade, because the damage that's sustained, the DC is far lower.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, that's great.

[Travis Willingham]

DC is lower. Okay. All right.

[Matthew Mercer]

The more damage that this form has.

[Travis Willingham]

Taken, the easier to DC on this guidance. I'm going to guide myself.

[Laura Bailey]

Thank you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Guidance is an action.

[Travis Willingham]

Never mind.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm just kidding.

[Travis Willingham]

Just make sure you all know the rules here. What do you add to it?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, that's an eight. No, that's a ten.

[Travis Willingham]

It's a three.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, Dice, those are very different numbers.

[Matthew Mercer]

The worst. How can you think of three different numbers? One of them has two digits.

[Travis Willingham]

Wait, am I adding anything to it?

[Matthew Mercer]

You're adding your persuasion check.

[Travis Willingham]

I know, but just like anything else.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's 50. 15.

[Sam Riegel]

It's 15 if it's a 10.

[Travis Willingham]

No, no, no, it's a 3.

[Matthew Mercer]

That was a 3.

[Laura Bailey]

That was a 3. It really looks like a 10, though.

[Campaign Narrator]

Can I see this dial?

[Travis Willingham]

Maybe it is a 10.

[Campaign Narrator]

I don't understand it.

[Marisha Ray]

It's a 3, but I just hope it's a 10.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, it's this one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Laudna, as you're. What's a lot of. Imogen, do. Do it still. I don't know why I don't know why. I shuffled it somewhere in my brain incorrectly.

[Travis Willingham]

I knew I should have rolled it, too. I knew I shouldn't.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bro, it's too much pressure.

[Travis Willingham]

It's too much pressure on it.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't have enough processing power. Imogen, in the middle of this darkness, where you are lost without sight, without place, no connection to the world and anything around you.

[Liam O'Brien]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

I am so cold. You hear clear as day the voice of Fearne shouting this. And as it does in the darkness, you see a red glow like the end of a tunnel. What do you do?

[Laura Bailey]

I go towards it.

[Matthew Mercer]

You rush towards it and feel that red glow get brighter and brighter and brighter, until suddenly you run into what feels like resistance, like some sort of a field is pushing against you. Go ahead and roll and add your charisma.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

19. You push through. And the rest of you watch as the broken wounds in the chest and torso of Predathos split apart. And you watch pushing through Imogen like some terrifying nightmare childbirth, pulling her way outside of the torso before she emerges and gently falls to the ground. Whoa.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You're back in the mix.

[Sam Riegel]

Is she rude?

[Marisha Ray]

Is this good?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, no. Does she have hair? That's really the question.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh. What is that?

[Laura Bailey]

What is it? Is it Transformer?

[Liam O'Brien]

It's no longer Imogen.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, that's worse.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh. Whoa.

[Ashley Johnson]

That.

[Matthew Mercer]

You watch. With the loss of Imogen's current combined presence, Predathos in its natural form is revealed.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh.

[Laura Bailey]

Should I have stayed inside? Oh, shit.

[Travis Willingham]

I don't know.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know. You still are connected to it, but you're not directly hosting it in the moment.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

We don't really want to hurt. So that's your action.

[Travis Willingham]

Was that the right choice?

[Laura Bailey]

That was a great. Hi.

[Travis Willingham]

Hi.

[Matthew Mercer]

So now you. You can now actually engage in this battle.

[Laura Bailey]

Amazing.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so would you like to move bonus action or anything?

[Travis Willingham]

All right, so I'm going to get out of this clump.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

So I'll move over. I'm going to go over closer to Breus So I have 35ft of movement.

[Ashley Johnson]

Breus?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, because I'm not going to let him. Get the fuck away.

[Sam Riegel]

You don't know anything about him.

[Travis Willingham]

I have seen. I saw. I saw the mask situation go down. I saw Laudna give you a dirty look. And I know my girl's dirty looks. And I also saw you.

[Sam Riegel]

She's a walking dirty look.

[Travis Willingham]

I also saw you heal yourself.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, I'll allow it.

[Travis Willingham]

Something's off.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll allow It.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm not doing anything. I'm just standing over here. And then bonus action. Mister's gonna shoot a flaming shit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Sam Riegel]

49 points of damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, that'd be that.

[Laura Bailey]

That doesn't hit.

[Travis Willingham]

That's 14.

[Ashley Johnson]

Are you sure? Can you even read it?

[Travis Willingham]

I can.

[Sam Riegel]

It's either a two or the letter.

[Travis Willingham]

Or a 20. I don't know.

[Sam Riegel]

Letter L. That's a question mark.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, friend, that finishes your go. Yeah, I'm done. Dorian, you're up.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay. Okay. Has one of those flaming poops ever hit in this battle? And did it do any extra damage?

[Matthew Mercer]

Didn't do extra damage.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Didn't do extra.

[Matthew Mercer]

Did damage. Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

But no extra. Okay, I need that question. Okay, cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

Am I still blind until the end of this turn? Yeah. Oh man.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'll also say though that it's advantage to hit still. So that might negate the disadvantage to.

[Matthew Mercer]

It'S advantage to hit because of crit. Alright. Because you crit again. That build, man.

[Campaign Narrator]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

That feat is nasty.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's actually a standard in barbarian. So I think.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, I think it's one of your feet. Seeds.

[Campaign Narrator]

No, double check.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

The crusher or whatever, it was one you took, I think.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

After getting hit with that previously, I didn't really move. I was just kind of like hovering, shivering and blind. And I'm just gonna be going, I can't see anything. I'm going, haha. You think that's cold? I've been wearing chiffon for weeks.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm gonna go, I'm gonna blow a.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Kiss in the general direct direction of where I think this asshole is.

[Matthew Mercer]

And go.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And six level. Cone of cold. Fuck you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Travis Willingham]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Six level. I don't know. We're in a big fight, right? We're in a big fight. You know where it is, that range. It catches it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Who's on top?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So it's the same my same con. Save 16. If you want to half it. I know. Not great. That's not bad. That's a lot of paper. Sorry. 8. 16, 15, 19, 26. 31. 30. 37. 41. And I get to roll one. 47.

[Matthew Mercer]

47. It makes a 21 on its const. But that is still 23. 23 points of cold damage. Sweet. Ooh, that definitely negates and goes past what it regained on break. Sweet. And you see all the frost gathers around it. As the cold impacts the crystals and coats the face. Its jaw opens up and that mist extends the cold temperature, giving this cloud that Seems to apparate of frozen moisture. You're still blind though. You don't see this, but everyone else does. It worked. Was it coal?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I had a line and everything.

[Matthew Mercer]

It was so cool. All righty, finishing Dorian's go. Unless you want to move or do any bonus action.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I do not want to move. I could fly, right. I don't want to move.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Vale Orym, you're up.

[Liam O'Brien]

Nothing fancy at all, but I think with Orym's perception, he clocks the stink eyes forming Ambreus. But there's more to do. I have advantage because of your attacks against him.

[Campaign Narrator]

And how close are you to me?

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, I'm running in between you and Imogen, so I'm right there.

[Campaign Narrator]

Only when you're with intent and.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, well, that's where I'm gonna be. So I run four and I just start slashing with seedling. So I'm gonna reroll the one. Did not get a 20 out of it, but that is a 28 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That hits.

[Liam O'Brien]

So this is hexed. So I'll just roll the two D6s at once. That is 13 points of damage for the first slash. Next one is a 20 to hit. 20 misses. Okay, and the third one is. I rolled a 19 plus 14, so that hits. I'm not gonna do. I'm not gonna use my last period, though, so that is a terrible roll too. 9, 10, 11. That is. Yeah. 11 more points of slashing damage. And that's it. That's it. And I'm gonna shift slightly towards Lauderdale. Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Finishing your go. We're up on 20 here.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, God.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, see, so it reverts now to its base form, the Aethodoch. Darkness fades from its crystals and the teal glow remains. Prernathos is going to begin by using telekinetic vacuum on you. Dorian, if you can make a strength saving throw for me. I'll save. Because you're blind, you're at disadvantage.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Strength save. Got it. 20 on the first one. 15.

[Matthew Mercer]

20 is what you got.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, no, no, I got 15 on disadvantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, that's going to be a fail. You feel yourself in the shadow all of a sudden and pulled at an amazing speed as it plucks you from your flight and drags you down to its level. 60ft to there. Beginning its turn now we'll see if it's.

[Campaign Narrator]

No, it is not going to be good.

[Matthew Mercer]

I am also not going to be good. Multi attack. It's going to take two attacks. You know what? Add you because you're the one who hasn't really gotten to yet. It's going to take.

[Marisha Ray]

That's really cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

First attack is going to be 28.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, so you. There we go.

[Campaign Narrator]

It really.

[Matthew Mercer]

Although I liked it with your face, but should have stood in there.

[Liam O'Brien]

Should have become a grass.

[Matthew Mercer]

29 points of slashing damage.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay. For the first. Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Second one's a natural 20.

[Marisha Ray]

Silver barbs.

[Matthew Mercer]

Silvery barbs. That's different.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm gonna take that nat20 and immediately give it to Dorian.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. That's a 17.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That is my AC.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. It does hit you. Yeah, but it's not a critic.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Thank you.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's. Oh, wow. Okay. That's a lot less.

[Campaign Narrator]

It could have been 15.

[Matthew Mercer]

It was a lot less. Yeah. You take 22 points of slashing damage. All right. Whoa.

[Laura Bailey]

That could have been what?

[Matthew Mercer]

It then follows up with an intelligent evisceration attack. Uh oh, that. It's gonna go ahead and make over here.

[Ashley Johnson]

Bitch.

[Liam O'Brien]

My nerves.

[Matthew Mercer]

You know what? You've been hacking it pretty hard. It's gonna come at you. That's gonna be 26 to hit you.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes, sir. That hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

Alrighty. So with that, you take. Think. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy. Oh, these are not good rolls. Good for you, not good for me.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, okay, man.

[Matthew Mercer]

You take 26 points of force damage.

[Liam O'Brien]

Down to 13 because of invulnerability.

[Matthew Mercer]

Indeed. And then I need you to make a charisma saving throw.

[Liam O'Brien]

Charisma. So charismatic. That's a one. I'll re roll it.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's a ten.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a ten. Let's get a five. It tears into your mind and your body. The psychic powers become these blades that seem to cut you from the inside and out. And you feel your body lock up. And you are restrained.

[Ashley Johnson]

Giant.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, then it's going to go ahead and use Miracle Devourer to keep that up again. Finishing its go. Laudna, you're up.

[Marisha Ray]

Spray is still blinded.

[Matthew Mercer]

Actually, no. The end of this brace is no longer blinded. Fuck.

[Sam Riegel]

Fearne, what are you doing over here?

[Matthew Mercer]

What's happening? Nor is Dorian.

[Ashley Johnson]

Mace, what are you doing?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, my God.

[Sam Riegel]

His face changed. Wait, does that mean Imogen is out? Who's controlling Predathos?

[Travis Willingham]

I am. And you're gonna die.

[Matthew Mercer]

Lana, what would you like to do?

[Marisha Ray]

I want to try and hate you. Mage hand. The mask away from various.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you cast Mage hand. Yep. All right, Varyas, make a perception check for me. Perception. Correct perception. 10. 10. As you get your vision back and see fear next to you flickering. And notice Imogen's now back and the form has shifted once more of Predathos towering physique. You also see something glide through the air as the mask of the matron has been plucked from your side and is gliding over.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, she got it.

[Matthew Mercer]

She mage handed off you. I rolled to see if you would notice it.

[Sam Riegel]

But her mage hand is not invisible.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, I don't.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, here's what I'll say. What did you have it affixed with?

[Sam Riegel]

I had it on a hook on my belt under my draped clothing.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right. So then. A hook. Go ahead and roll a D20 and add your charisma modifier. I'll say it's a 15. Dc if it doesn't beat to 15, then you pull on it and it's still tugging on its belt. Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Not just, like holding it out there. It's. It's under in.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, I have a plus 11 to my charisma. Oh, wait, just straight charisma.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just straight bonus.

[Marisha Ray]

Do I get any, like, D4s or anything? Or anything like that?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, it's not an attack roll. Why?

[Campaign Narrator]

Or save. It's too low.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Travis Willingham]

Are you close to Ashton?

[Marisha Ray]

Maybe you get in my head and you're like, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

No. So instead you don't see it flow. You see it lift and tug and you feel it pulling at your side. And you glance over and see Laudna trying to pull as the mage hand is currently trying to tug it from your side.

[Sam Riegel]

I narrow my eyes at her and snarl.

[Marisha Ray]

I narrow my eyes back and snarl.

[Sam Riegel]

What are you doing?

[Matthew Mercer]

What the fuck are you doing?

[Marisha Ray]

I think you know what you did.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, I know what I did. I'm fulfilling my promises. I'm fulfilling my mission, and you won't stop me.

[Marisha Ray]

Do I? I still have a move, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

I just love a movie.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm gonna lunge towards the mask and see if I can put my face in the mask on his.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, my.

[Laura Bailey]

Come on, shove your face in his ass.

[Matthew Mercer]

As I have got.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm still my former dread.

[Matthew Mercer]

So I'm 30ft will get you right at the base.

[Ashley Johnson]

What are you doing?

[Matthew Mercer]

I love it. All right. Hey. So, hey, I don't get stuck to this, so this is gonna be contested.

[Sam Riegel]

Sure.

[Matthew Mercer]

So I will say you roll acrobatics and you roll either acrobatics or athletics. And whoever wins, we'll see if this happens.

[Travis Willingham]

Can I answer this in any way?

[Matthew Mercer]

If you want to use your reaction to give her advantage. All out, yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Also, what are you trying to do with this? Mask.

[Liam O'Brien]

Get it on her face.

[Marisha Ray]

Get it on my fucking face.

[Sam Riegel]

To do what?

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know. At this point, to get it away from you, you're just gonna use it. Natural 20, motherfucker.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wait, wait.

[Matthew Mercer]

He can do it.

[Marisha Ray]

And an 18.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, 18 total.

[Marisha Ray]

Natural 20 plus, plus three.

[Matthew Mercer]

You try and finagle backward, but describe to me how Laudna serpent slithers using the dark essence of her undead Delilah fueled form to slip past him.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, it's like, you know in horror films where they'll take frames out to make it like dart, like you get closer and as I just lunge.

[Travis Willingham]

Bullring.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

As your face touches the inside of this mask. Get out of there. Cold encircles your body. Encircles all of your bodies.

[Travis Willingham]

All of us.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you watch as Predathos roaring arms out. Seems to slow to a momentary stop. Just as shadow takes your vision for a moment you feel for most of you removed somewhere else. You once again lost in darkness. Fuck. Until your feet find a crimson pool at your feet. And in the shadow you see emerge from above, pushing through thousands upon thousands of golden threads the masked face of the matron looking upon you. Let's talk and we're going to go to break. What? Yeah, we'll you have a momentary reprieve to converse with the matron. We'll see where that takes us. We'll be back here in a few minutes. Thank you for hanging in for that. We'll see you in a little bit.

[Marisha Ray]

Thank you for listening to the Critical Role Podcast Network. This is Marisha Ray, Critical Role's resident Creative Director, with a quick reminder for you. We take the last Thursday of every month off from our typical campaign three at Adventures. Some months we'll enjoy a short rest and others will air a one shot or just try something new. Since this here podcast feed is on a one week delay from our initial broadcasts, that means the first Thursday of the month may look a little different around here. To stay up to date on our latest programming happenings and when our shows will air on Twitch, YouTube and here on the Critical Role Podcast network, check out our weekly program schedule published to critrole.com every Monday at 10am Pacific. And now that you're sufficiently reminded, let's get back to the show.

[Matthew Mercer]

And welcome back. So as you all find yourselves pulled from the chaos, the fear and the tension of this throwdown with Predathos, you sit in a facsimile of the Matrons realm. At the distant edges, you still feel the oppressive buzz of her dathos, psychic power pushing into your mind. You are still present where you were physically. But in this brief moment, it seems that time has paused or slowed to give you a momentary moment to talk. Here, the wind picks up in a whirl of black feathers, encircles you and scatters off. The matron looks down upon you, and you all glance at each other. Seeing yourselves here, though your forms are immaterial and still shifting with the buzzing of static. You in particular, Imogen, are barely present yourself strongest held to Predathos. And the rest of you can see a spectral image of her that itself is staticky, ready to pop out at any moment as the matron stares down amongst you. My tether within the heart of hunger holds but for a moment. But a moment I can stretch to a few. You, who has bound with the entity? Your body is beyond my sight, and I imagine is beyond all of our wrath. You and the Red end together have become the nightmare of my brethren. Well done. What have you learned of the God Eater?

[Ashley Johnson]

It consumed two gods. Vordo and Ethedoc.

[Laura Bailey]

I could see you from within. I saw your light. I felt driven to find you, to consume.

[Matthew Mercer]

Then what shall be done?

[Laura Bailey]

I saw you, but I saw nothing else. They were Ruidus born. Little red bits of light. And the gods? Nothing of Exandrian? No mortals.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it is singularly focused? It seems.

[Laura Bailey]

I had a fear that if it couldn't consume you, then it would move. Move to humanity. But I don't think that's the case.

[Matthew Mercer]

Are you free?

[Marisha Ray]

She certainly doesn't look like it.

[Laura Bailey]

No.

[Sam Riegel]

But neither is Predathos.

[Laura Bailey]

No. I can still feel it.

[Sam Riegel]

So if you stay, it stays.

[Laura Bailey]

Here?

[Sam Riegel]

Or in the physical place? Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

This is what my brethren move to. Their armies currently mount to the moon itself in hopes of resealing you with the entity and staving off this. Hence, on Apocalypse.

[Laura Bailey]

You think that'll work indefinitely?

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't either.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's just what it was before. And we won't have that.

[Laura Bailey]

Do you feel like you can control it? Not yet. But it was certainly easier to break free once y'all had attacked. I think its physical form is not fully realized. I think if we can break it down, we can control it. I can control it.

[Sam Riegel]

Control it for a short time or forever.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't know.

[Marisha Ray]

I won't have you stay. I won't have you trapped in that place. What can we do?

[Matthew Mercer]

What will you do? Vessel? You stand here on the precipice of the future of all what would you do?

[Laura Bailey]

You're the one who wanted change. He wanted to leave. Didn't you?

[Matthew Mercer]

I want many things. What is it you want to do?

[Laura Bailey]

You ascended once you gained control, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

I designed the rights.

[Laura Bailey]

Yet tell me how to control it.

[Matthew Mercer]

The essence of Predathos is beyond our sight and understanding. It cannot be destroyed as we know it. But all things can be brought low for a time. That happened once before, at the Titan's behest. And allowed us the chance to put it away. She kind of smirks us.

[Marisha Ray]

So he put it away then?

[Matthew Mercer]

If that's what you wish.

[Sam Riegel]

With Imogen?

[Laura Bailey]

No.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, then what? Because we can't just make another cage.

[Campaign Narrator]

Can't be.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, I mean, we just went through this.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Laura Bailey]

I mean, I don't want to give it up.

[Matthew Mercer]

What if.

[Marisha Ray]

What are you, daughters?

[Laura Bailey]

You're scared of it, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

More than anything.

[Laura Bailey]

As are your brothers and sisters. This is the time for change.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you step in the Arch heart's path.

[Laura Bailey]

I don't want to kill the gods. I don't want them to be eaten. But we can see clearly. Things can't go on the way they've been. It's an endless cycle. But all those can't seem mortals.

[Campaign Narrator]

You walked amongst us before you were humbled.

[Matthew Mercer]

It suited you.

[Campaign Narrator]

All of you.

[Matthew Mercer]

We can't just seal him up again. Another Ludinus would come along in another hundred or thousand years.

[Laura Bailey]

So we seal the gods. We bring the gods back to Exandria.

[Campaign Narrator]

We put a wall around us.

[Marisha Ray]

There's already a wall.

[Matthew Mercer]

Will it keep Predathos out?

[Laura Bailey]

What do you think?

[Matthew Mercer]

Whatever divine gate we've assembled per dathos can shrug away, but are you insinuating the gods step from their pedestals? Speak plainly, vessel.

[Marisha Ray]

She has a name.

[Sam Riegel]

It's either Laudna or Imogen, depending on how nervous you are. She means you would give up your godhood and become mortal. Instead of hiding him away, you would hide on Exandria. And all of your brothers and sisters. All of them.

[Campaign Narrator]

Or they could run. If they refuse.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's a choice. Her mask received a bit into the shadow with the flickering of static and emotionless as it is, you can almost sense a smirk from beneath. The rites I designed could be restored, reversed as they once were. Like before. It would need their consent. We cannot force such yokes upon my family.

[Laura Bailey]

But they're scared of Predathos.

[Campaign Narrator]

Couldn't they take their chances if they wanted?

[Laura Bailey]

Sure. It's always a choice.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you would set it free and make it their choice to Descend or flee. Such things are not beyond the realm of possibility.

[Sam Riegel]

If you undid this, if you reversed this rite, the rite that you used to become a God, and instead made the gods mortal. Would they lose their powers?

[Matthew Mercer]

To an extent. Much like during the calamity as you've all witnessed. They would lose themselves till they reclaimed their memories. There is a unique alien power still in Exandria that weaves itself through a cycle of rebirth. Perhaps there are two parts to this equation. Strangely clever. It can be done. But you will have to convince them. When this is done.

[Marisha Ray]

How much time would you need?

[Matthew Mercer]

For the time it takes to bring Pedathos low and carry it beyond the threshold before they brick you back into the red moon. Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Bring him low. Keep control and talk to the gun. How do we do that?

[Ashley Johnson]

Does that mean you have to go back in?

[Laura Bailey]

That means we have to fight him to get him weak enough that I can control him, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Stands to reason.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's hope reason still stands when this is done.

[Laura Bailey]

Let's hope we don't die in the process.

[Matthew Mercer]

If you do well. I'll be waiting. Is this what you wish?

[Laura Bailey]

Sound good?

[Sam Riegel]

We can't let him go.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why?

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, we can't let him go.

[Laura Bailey]

Now to finish.

[Matthew Mercer]

We do this, it feels fair.

[Campaign Narrator]

Feels more fair than anything since this whole journey started.

[Laura Bailey]

Does this match your master plan, Brace?

[Sam Riegel]

Not exactly. I. Not exactly.

[Laura Bailey]

Are you going to attempt to kill us over it?

[Marisha Ray]

Or should we kill you first?

[Sam Riegel]

I wouldn't like that.

[Matthew Mercer]

I.

[Sam Riegel]

My goal is to make sure that my God is preserved. Whatever that means. But it sounds like that's the goal for us, for all the gods, is to not let them perish. But I don't know that I could convince him to give up his power. I don't know that we can convince any of them to give up their power.

[Laura Bailey]

It's still their choice.

[Matthew Mercer]

Unless we set him free and control him.

[Sam Riegel]

Right now.

[Liam O'Brien]

We're fighting so that your lord can make a choice.

[Laura Bailey]

Betrayed us.

[Liam O'Brien]

There is no choice.

[Matthew Mercer]

Whoever holds the entity we cannot touch, right? That is a place of strength to bring to the table. I cannot see all their hearts in this one way or another. But where you tread next, no mortal has or likely ever will tread. If you step to negotiate with the gods. Well. Good luck.

[Laura Bailey]

Wait.

[Marisha Ray]

How do we get in contact with you again?

[Matthew Mercer]

Is that the mask. Begins to slightly darken. The static edges getting louder and louder. She says I will reassemble the right once broken. Piece it from the corrupted creation of the Whispered One. I can convert what was done once. But you must convince them to cross the threshold for what you plan to do. I can grant two boons. For in but a moment I will lose you. And you can feel now like the red thrum of Predathos. Do you wish potency? To see your strikes true? Do you wish fortification? The means to defend yourself from the hatred ahead? Do you wish convalescence? The renewal of mind and arcana? Do you wish restoration? The weaving of wounds and blood? Or do you wish understanding? A leap ahead in personal wisdom and knowledge.

[Laura Bailey]

And we get two of them.

[Matthew Mercer]

Can you choose two of these birds? Oh, that's so sick.

[Liam O'Brien]

One decision for the whole group or.

[Matthew Mercer]

One decision for the whole group? You get to pick two of these.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

What about virility?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Level up.

[Matthew Mercer]

Any sort of thing. What was once lost cannot be.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'll just take some elk antler or anything.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I got a great peptide.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Understanding. Is that like understanding, like Predathos weaknesses and everything? Or is that like a level?

[Liam O'Brien]

Standing level.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sixteen more. The latter.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay, okay. A level up. A level. Fuck or full health?

[Matthew Mercer]

Potency.

[Ashley Johnson]

Fortification. Convalescence.

[Laura Bailey]

What was convalescence again?

[Matthew Mercer]

Convalescence was the restoration of mental abilities in Arcana.

[Marisha Ray]

Wait, turn that this way again.

[Liam O'Brien]

One for spell all your hp.

[Marisha Ray]

Sure of it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

All of your slots and juices.

[Matthew Mercer]

Well, you don't know how extensive it is.

[Liam O'Brien]

What we're guessing at.

[Ashley Johnson]

Is there a code in that map? Mercer, Is there a code in those letters? They're hidden meetings.

[Matthew Mercer]

This is a fun font.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You know it's serious.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Someone burnt the edges.

[Liam O'Brien]

How hurt is everybody?

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm hurt.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm not. I'm not hurt at all. But I just popped out.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm hurt. I'm very hurt. Just a few more of these big swings that he does.

[Campaign Narrator]

I can take one or two more big swings and then that's. Then I'm. Then I'm going to be. Then I'm going to be running on. I might be. I couldn't last one more round after that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I've got one high level I can catch.

[Laura Bailey]

If we got convalescence, then we would get our spells back. Potentially. Some of our spells.

[Ashley Johnson]

Possibly fortification.

[Campaign Narrator]

Understanding seems like a good idea. Including one physical one and one.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, that's restoration.

[Campaign Narrator]

Understanding is fascinating.

[Matthew Mercer]

Restoration seems to be.

[Ashley Johnson]

Will you hit us with the descriptions one more time?

[Matthew Mercer]

Potency is to help your blows strike true and clear.

[Laura Bailey]

That includes. Is that just blows or is that magic stuff too? Is that spells and attacks? We don't know.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. The problem is fortification is to better defend yourself against the dangers ahead. Disadvantage for him, convalescence is the restoration of knowledge, which is an arcana. Restoration is the weaving together of wounds and blood. Understanding is a grand advancement in personal experience and worldly knowledge.

[Sam Riegel]

That's pretty fun. That's pretty fun.

[Campaign Narrator]

They have psychic abilities also.

[Liam O'Brien]

I haven't been hurt much at all, and I'm good with whatever.

[Travis Willingham]

I vote understanding for one.

[Campaign Narrator]

I think understanding is a really good idea.

[Laura Bailey]

We would get, like, an ability score improvement at least at level 16. I don't know what everybody else gets.

[Campaign Narrator]

But take a second to look.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, man, this is intense, man.

[Ashley Johnson]

I think it's understanding and convalescence or fortification. I don't think it's restoration or potency. Oh, we're not gonna be able to heal. Right.

[Marisha Ray]

Potency.

[Ashley Johnson]

But people aren't hurt.

[Laura Bailey]

We have a couple people that are super hurt and then a bunch of people who aren't hurt hardly at all.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. And there's a chance that I won't go down if I hit one Hit point.

[Ashley Johnson]

I don't care about you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah. And if I don't go down, I'm taking you with me.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm way lower than you, so I'm pretty lucky.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I've got some heals. I've got some heals, though.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

And we also have potions galore.

[Marisha Ray]

We do.

[Matthew Mercer]

We do have a lot of potions.

[Sam Riegel]

We could just chug them heels.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Feels like a waste.

[Ashley Johnson]

Convalescence, restoration of knowledge, fortification, better defense. So, like, maybe higher.

[Matthew Mercer]

I would love.

[Campaign Narrator]

I would love all my shits back. I would like med.

[Marisha Ray]

Maybe because I'm an advantage on everything.

[Laura Bailey]

But I know potency could be really cool. I don't know what everybody spells and mental abilities are, but convalescence could be good.

[Marisha Ray]

That's the thing. Convalescence is more directed towards the spellcasters.

[Matthew Mercer]

We would think it seems to be more centered to our.

[Ashley Johnson]

Right now, thunder is doing the most damage. The goal is to outlast Predathos. Right.

[Laura Bailey]

Right.

[Ashley Johnson]

So magic is kind of.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. But I have no thunder damage things.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't either.

[Laura Bailey]

So, like, our heavy spells. Do you have any thunder damage things?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I have a lot, but mid level.

[Campaign Narrator]

Stuff going up a little.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm actually okay on spells. Like, lower.

[Matthew Mercer]

Mid.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then I've got two still high levels.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know.

[Laura Bailey]

So I feel like understanding is one of the ones we'll take. Right. This feels like leveling up in a game. Understanding seems like the level up.

[Matthew Mercer]

Level up.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I mean, who would.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, yeah, I guess.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Who would want to turn that away?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know. Gotta do it.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

So if we're all saying I can make being like my warlock Ness, my Eldritch blast, which is a cantrip, is my bread and butter, and that never goes away.

[Sam Riegel]

I just need to be able to kill you all.

[Marisha Ray]

So are we feeling understanding and fortification? Is that what it seems like? Like we're boiling down to.

[Laura Bailey]

Or understanding and potency. One of those two.

[Matthew Mercer]

What do you think?

[Laura Bailey]

If you hit harder, defend harder.

[Campaign Narrator]

Fine. Either way, actually, defend harder.

[Matthew Mercer]

I also.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, that's my kind of. My gut says defend.

[Campaign Narrator]

We already hit pretty hard.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Just their output is crazy.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I mean, I'm one hit away and I only took two hits.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

So.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't know.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm for convalescence myself, but.

[Laura Bailey]

Because you'll get your healing spell, you traitorous bastard. But I mean, like, healing spells back is a huge thing.

[Liam O'Brien]

While we're in this. Am I able to turn to ashen?

[Matthew Mercer]

You do not have any of your items. You are here in like an ethereal, almost a jettisoned consciousness.

[Campaign Narrator]

That'll probably give me some extra hp. Just because of.

[Marisha Ray]

If we assume we just roll with understanding, does that cause like a traditional level up also gives you your hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Points and stuff back? If that's what it does, then that.

[Ashley Johnson]

If that's what it does.

[Sam Riegel]

You Swiss cheese son of a bitch.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm okay being low.

[Laura Bailey]

I think we'll get a few more hit points, but we're not gonna get our hit points back. That's my guess.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm okay being one.

[Marisha Ray]

Someone pick fortification.

[Matthew Mercer]

I like fortification.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If only we had some way.

[Campaign Narrator]

I like fortification personally.

[Marisha Ray]

Wait, should we roll each?

[Matthew Mercer]

No. There are two vessels.

[Ashley Johnson]

Fit two highest dice get to pick one.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Okay. No, but we definitely should get understanding, right? Everybody wants understanding.

[Ashley Johnson]

Maybe. Except me.

[Laura Bailey]

I feel like fucking hell.

[Matthew Mercer]

Rollus.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Rollies, everybody.

[Marisha Ray]

Everybody rollies.

[Matthew Mercer]

Six. What are we rolling?

[Campaign Narrator]

Who gets to choose?

[Liam O'Brien]

Who gets to choose?

[Campaign Narrator]

9.

[Laura Bailey]

17.

[Matthew Mercer]

11.

[Marisha Ray]

15.

[Matthew Mercer]

12.

[Ashley Johnson]

7.

[Sam Riegel]

5.

[Travis Willingham]

19.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so me and challenge.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, it's perfect. Fearne, what are you feeling? The matron turns to you. She born of the red moon. She who dances between. Hook the other one out.

[Laura Bailey]

Just do it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just do it.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, wait, wait, wait. Potency and fortification. Explain these one more time.

[Laura Bailey]

Potency. Hit harder. Fortification. Better defense. Convalescence. Get your spells back. Which one?

[Ashley Johnson]

Everybody wants understanding.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, we're doing understanding for sure. Yeah, I kind of want to pick convalescent.

[Laura Bailey]

Then do it. That's your choice. You roll the 19 spell back.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do it spells. Do it.

[Travis Willingham]

Convalescence. All right?

[Ashley Johnson]

Say it with your fucking choice.

[Travis Willingham]

Convalescence.

[Matthew Mercer]

The choice is made.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, that wasn't a bad decision.

[Matthew Mercer]

Those who carry the path of the red moon, be true and survive. As the mask pulls back, the winds pick up around you and you hear thousands upon thousands of Ravenclaws get louder and louder until suddenly you feel this whisking whirlwind of feathers pick you all up. So Convalescence. Fearne, go ahead and roll 5D6 for me. Okay? Okay. Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

5D6.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct. Roll.

[Travis Willingham]

So high.

[Laura Bailey]

Roll, please.

[Matthew Mercer]

Roll high.

[Laura Bailey]

The teeth never roll high, but it's okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do it. Come on.

[Marisha Ray]

It's probably going to be like how many spell slots?

[Sam Riegel]

The teeth got a six.

[Laura Bailey]

The teeth got a six. Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, that was good. That was really good. All right, we got. We got 12 plus 10. 22 plus 6, which is 28.

[Matthew Mercer]

28. You can restore amongst your party 28 levels of spell slots however you choose.

[Marisha Ray]

Amongst your party levels. So once again, a level six is going to take six of those.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you decide amongst yourselves. You have 28 to distribute amongst the party.

[Marisha Ray]

Wowzers.

[Matthew Mercer]

But then for understanding yes, we didn't do it earlier, the entire party temporarily gains two levels.

[Sam Riegel]

Two levels?

[Laura Bailey]

Wait, two levels? Temporarily?

[Matthew Mercer]

Temporarily you gain two levels.

[Laura Bailey]

But that means we would automatically get a spell slot for those levels.

[Matthew Mercer]

If your level allows that, then.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Oh my God. So let's level up temporarily. And then are we gonna sit here.

[Marisha Ray]

And level up right now?

[Matthew Mercer]

Real fast.

[Marisha Ray]

Let's go real fast.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just level up temporarily.

[Travis Willingham]

Holy shit.

[Laura Bailey]

Up to 17. Jesus.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

How do we go back?

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

All right.

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, do we have to roll hit points?

[Laura Bailey]

Should we make a copy?

[Matthew Mercer]

We'll roll hit points for these levels as well. Oh my God.

[Laura Bailey]

That's a D6. I'm just gonna roll two D6.

[Ashley Johnson]

Go for it.

[Laura Bailey]

Should we just do that?

[Matthew Mercer]

Go for it.

[Laura Bailey]

10. I rolled 10.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great. So yeah, so add 10 to your hit point total, plus your constitution.

[Sam Riegel]

I roll 2d8, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm roll hit points. See what you're doing. Level.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I got 11 more hit points.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's whatever your hit points are. If you're taking two more levels of Blood Hunter, then it would be 2D10.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then we rolled twice, right?

[Marisha Ray]

Rolled HP2 fours.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That's 17. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

All right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Seven.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, dang. Is that eight? Ten and a nine?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice. Seven and an eight.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

That means what for?

[Campaign Narrator]

Okay, how many HP per level did we get rolled?

[Matthew Mercer]

HP?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So I add 15.

[Campaign Narrator]

It's our toughness level.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right, well, you roll your hit points, which is D12, and you add your constitution modifier.

[Liam O'Brien]

So I rolled an 8 and a 4.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, cool. So you get 12.

[Campaign Narrator]

13.

[Sam Riegel]

I rolled a 7 and a 4.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great.

[Travis Willingham]

You get 11, I rolled a 5 and a 1.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, well you reroll one. We do reroll ones for hit points.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, good, good, good, Good, good.

[Ashley Johnson]

So 10 and a nine.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, six.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Eleven.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice. So you gain 19. Yeah. Plus your constellation modifier, which it should add automatically. Double check that.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, so I'm going to do.

[Matthew Mercer]

You can't increase. Yes.

[Campaign Narrator]

So we're now at level 17, correct?

[Laura Bailey]

Yes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Abilities grind.

[Matthew Mercer]

Improvement. Please. Okay, okay, wait.

[Ashley Johnson]

Level seven.

[Laura Bailey]

What am I magic Metamagic for? Metamagic? At level 17.

[Matthew Mercer]

If you get gained two levels.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right, all right, all right.

[Sam Riegel]

So we're at level 17 and it froze.

[Laura Bailey]

No.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ruh.

[Laura Bailey]

Roh.

[Campaign Narrator]

Oh, fuck.

[Liam O'Brien]

Two questions. Level 17. I get two action surges. More indomitable. Will all those refill or do I just get use of the one extra?

[Matthew Mercer]

You just get used to the one extra.

[Liam O'Brien]

The one extra?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. You do not restore anything you got on arrest, but anything addition that you gain, you gain.

[Liam O'Brien]

Then since this is like a temporary God boon level up. Well, I'm at 22 dex. Could I raise that dex to 24? In this God moment, you still have.

[Matthew Mercer]

The limitations of your mortal form.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

I took tough.

[Campaign Narrator]

So I am back at a very reasonable amount of hp.

[Laura Bailey]

Nice, nice, nice.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yep, that was a lot of HP.

[Matthew Mercer]

It just gave me. See how well it does the.

[Campaign Narrator]

You know, fucking that shit. I'm working with what I got.

[Matthew Mercer]

I love it. I love it. That's awesome.

[Campaign Narrator]

I have a new thing I can.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do, which I should learn as you all are yanked back from the vision and returned to your physical forms here in the core of the red moon. Ruidus Predathos, in its massive grown form, cracked and crumbling in places, is angrily pushing its consciousness against the back of all of your minds. Laudna. That finishes your turn. Ashton, you're up.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, wait, we haven't divided up our spell slot stuff yet.

[Campaign Narrator]

I can do that while I'm doing my thing.

[Sam Riegel]

Well, there's seven of us and there's 28.

[Marisha Ray]

But not all of us are spellcasters.

[Sam Riegel]

We at least each get four levels. Right?

[Campaign Narrator]

Hold on.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

And if anyone wants to give up theirs.

[Marisha Ray]

Ashen, you don't need one.

[Campaign Narrator]

No, I have no.

[Sam Riegel]

So that's an extra four.

[Marisha Ray]

And then Orym doesn't. Do you have any spells, Orym?

[Campaign Narrator]

I am coming to.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, I have Misty Step as part of my Fae pact.

[Matthew Mercer]

You could restore the use of that as a level one. Same with hex.

[Liam O'Brien]

Single slot.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so we're at 27 to divide amongst. Does Chet need any spells back?

[Matthew Mercer]

Chet does not use spells.

[Laura Bailey]

Wait, okay.

[Sam Riegel]

Was it 26 or 28 that she rolled?

[Matthew Mercer]

23.

[Marisha Ray]

1, 2, 3.

[Matthew Mercer]

4. 5.

[Laura Bailey]

5.

[Marisha Ray]

5 ish.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so five each. And then two of us get one extra five spell slots for all of us get five and then two of us get six.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll just take five.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm gonna take my five because I have for heals.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's like.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So that's my minimum threshold for mass heals.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm. I'm gonna.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

While they finish five.

[Marisha Ray]

If I take six, I can go back my disintegrator.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, take that definitely.

[Matthew Mercer]

I know what I'm.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Now I have.

[Laura Bailey]

So that means do you need six, Master?

[Matthew Mercer]

Or I won't have to buy.

[Travis Willingham]

I would get my 16 level or 23 level.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm going to call this out. Up table.

[Laura Bailey]

So I'll take a five.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm taking fighting initiate duelist. Which is just going to make my slashes nastier.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great.

[Liam O'Brien]

Plus two to every hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

I have a lot of.

[Laura Bailey]

All right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Is it time? It's time.

[Marisha Ray]

I think it's time.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm not even gonna run. I'm just gonna start walking. Feeling pretty fucking confident. I'm gonna slowly gain my speed, start spinning the hammer. And I'm flipping up and I'm just one handed, just taking a nice big shiny, sparkly beginning of your turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

Make a wisdom saving throw for me, please.

[Campaign Narrator]

All right, that's at Advantia. And that's with.

[Liam O'Brien]

With a D4.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Campaign Narrator]

And he's too far away for that plus four to count. Yeah, that's fine. 15, 16. 15, 16, 17, 19, 19 fails.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yep. So your attacks are at disadvantage and Predathos attacks against you are at advantage. All right, that's a.

[Laura Bailey]

What kind of a save is that? As an intelligence save?

[Campaign Narrator]

No, it's a wisdom.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wisdom save.

[Laura Bailey]

Wisdom save. Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

But continue your turn.

[Sam Riegel]

Please say our hit points out loud.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, please, if you could, just so we know what our new maximum hit point total is.

[Campaign Narrator]

Current maximum is 201. Currently sitting at 83.

[Matthew Mercer]

There you go. All right. Fuck yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

Perfect. I'm going to take my.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come around to your turn. Swell. Shout it at the top of each turn.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm going to take my first attack disadvantage. And I'm not going to use. I'm not even going to use probability.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Okay. Now you can go reckless and cancel it out since you already have disadvantage on attacks against you anyway. It's not gonna hurt you.

[Laura Bailey]

Nah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Just for fun, let's see that first attack. God damn. It's hard for me. That's 13. Oh, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

5.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's right. Disadvantage. So that's 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

19 fails.

[Campaign Narrator]

I cast mark in the messy end.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Mark of the messy end.

[Matthew Mercer]

Please describe it like what it does.

[Campaign Narrator]

Until the end of my next turn. Criticals happen between 18 and 20 for everybody.

[Matthew Mercer]

Everybody.

[Campaign Narrator]

I believe everybody. Let me double check, but I'm gonna reread that really quick to make sure.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm not a crazy person because your disco ball. Five inches for everybody. Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Wow.

[Campaign Narrator]

Let's see.

[Matthew Mercer]

The probability surrounding Predathos physical form. Currently is leaning towards a messy end. Let's rock.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm just double checking to make sure.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm just For the next round.

[Campaign Narrator]

Whenever you miss an attack with creation, you mark them of fate. Attacks against. The square of hit. Roll of. It actually doesn't. It says until the end of next turn. Attacks against.

[Matthew Mercer]

So yeah, it's attacks against it. Yeah.

[Campaign Narrator]

18 through 20, kids.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. So that was your first attack.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yep. Now I'm going to be. Now I'm going to level out. And now I'm actually not going to have disadvantage for this attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm going to choose reckless for the attack.

[Campaign Narrator]

Actually, I was going to say I'm picking reckless for the second attack. Or no, I'll keep it at disadvantage. I don't care.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll double check to see if you can do reckless in the middle of the action. I don't mind. No, I don't mind it. Go for it.

[Campaign Narrator]

Are you sure?

[Matthew Mercer]

When you make your first attack on. On your turn. So yeah, disadvantage.

[Campaign Narrator]

That's a shame because there's a nat 20 in there.

[Matthew Mercer]

There is five. F5.

[Liam O'Brien]

Had three today.

[Campaign Narrator]

Yeah, I'm fine with that. Yeah. It's 19 again.

[Matthew Mercer]

So that misses.

[Campaign Narrator]

That misses.

[Matthew Mercer]

Both attacks miss. However, describe what we see as you go ahead and mark the predaso form for this.

[Campaign Narrator]

As I'm taking. I take my mission shots for somehow the little multicolored sparkles that are bouncing around my hammer start to all turn. Just these little shards of white like fireworks that are no longer multicolored but just those little White sparklers, and they start to spread, and they start to just pierce all the little crystals in little bits and pieces, and slowly, just parts of the interior of Predathos. They start to look like a little cosmic universe that you could lose yourself in.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Campaign Narrator]

Just starts to look.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Looks a little odd. I love that. That. Finish your turn.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm backing off a bit back into the center of everyone, and then I'm good.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. All right, Imogen, you're up. Your first round on the battlefield.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, God.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, God.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Am I within melee, or is it.

[Matthew Mercer]

You are within its melee range, yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

Did you call out your hit points?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, this is actually. This is. Oh, my hit points. My new max is 106.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. This is a dex save. I am going to lightning bolt at fifth level.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go. Okay, Dex save straight up the middle. That's a natural 18. That's going to be a total of 26.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so it takes half damage, but I'm gonna use a sorcery point and transmute the lightning damage to thunder damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh. So go ahead and roll that damage, and it's gonna take full damage on it. Wow.

[Ashley Johnson]

What are your hit points, by the way?

[Laura Bailey]

106. I already said it. Okay, so that's 10. D6.

[Sam Riegel]

Have we seen it take psychic damage yet?

[Campaign Narrator]

I doubt it can.

[Laura Bailey]

I know that's. I'm resistant to psychic, so I can't imagine that it isn't. Why did I do that? 12.

[Matthew Mercer]

17.

[Campaign Narrator]

This is my new thing.

[Laura Bailey]

22 points of thunder damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

22 points of thunder damage. Nice. As the bolt arcs through, and what looks like a flash of light, it strikes and goes through it. It looks like it's unaffected. The bolt vanishes for a brief second, and then there's a flash of a filament through where it struck through, and this burst of thunderous energy that causes parts of its body to crack. More crystals fall, and you see it's lumbering in a very, very precarious way.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, I'm going to use my movement to come over here.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right there. Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Does that finish your turn?

[Laura Bailey]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, Chutney are up. Brace on deck.

[Ashley Johnson]

I take two swings with my. With the scythe. Forced 19 to hit 19 misses. Oh, it's actually. My modifier went up. It's dirty. 20 to hit 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Still misses.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no.

[Laura Bailey]

Did we add anything? We're not adding anything anymore. Right.

[Campaign Narrator]

Unless you're near D miss both, you still get a D4.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, no. And actually make a wisdom saving throw for me.

[Campaign Narrator]

Please steal if you're near me.

[Ashley Johnson]

6.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's what we got. Okay. Yeah. So your attacks actually have disadvantage.

[Ashley Johnson]

They both miss anyway.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Cause 20 attacks against. You have a minute.

[Ashley Johnson]

My turn's done.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, Jesus. All right, that finishes your go. At the end of your turn it's going to go ahead and spend two legendary actions to attempt to use sometimes. Cerebral shock blight on.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's my favorite game we played.

[Matthew Mercer]

Isn't he great? Cerebral shock blight on. Fearne. Fearne, make a wisdom saving throw for me, please.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, okay, you know what?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, no, not you, Laudna. What? I'm. Make a wisdom saving throw for me.

[Marisha Ray]

No, why does this keep happening to me?

[Travis Willingham]

Hero's feast.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, you know what?

[Ashley Johnson]

For my bonus action which I didn't use, I'll do blood curse a bloated agony on it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, good enough.

[Campaign Narrator]

I like that one.

[Marisha Ray]

22.

[Matthew Mercer]

22 succeeds.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, great.

[Matthew Mercer]

So you take. You take 32 points of psychic damage, but you are not. It does not spread to your allies near you.

[Marisha Ray]

32.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Oh, half that because you succeeded. Sorry. So it'd be 16. Okay, so 16 psychic damage and the blight stops with you now finishing that brace. It's your turn with Fern on deck.

[Laura Bailey]

Can I ask a technical question that I should already know the answer for?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

If I am telekinetically shoving somebody out of a melee range. If I moved.

[Matthew Mercer]

Forced movement does not trigger opportunity attacks.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, that's good to know. Okay. Which I did know already. I just wanted complexion. So if like Dorian wanted to be out of melee range and I didn't want Dorian to take an attack of opportunity, then I could force push him out of its melee range.

[Matthew Mercer]

If he's at the end of to the melee range, you could be out of the way.

[Laura Bailey]

So if he's five feet away and I pushed him another five feet, he'd be out of the range.

[Matthew Mercer]

The melee range is longer than 5ft because the arms are so long. It's about a 15 foot attack range. So if you're at 15, you now see the range and the reach of the arms. But if he's 15ft and you push him into 20, then he'd be out of the range.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Abraise. What are you doing?

[Sam Riegel]

My max hit points are now 167 and my current hit points are 118. Am I more than 30ft away?

[Matthew Mercer]

You are probably. Let's see. Correct. You're about 40ft away. 40, 45ft.

[Sam Riegel]

First I'll look at the two ladies who are right next to me and say, I know that you guys are having some feelings about me right now. Probably not great, but I just want you to know I love it. I just want you to know.

[Marisha Ray]

Keep talking.

[Sam Riegel]

It's nothing personal. I think I respect you both a lot.

[Marisha Ray]

I think it is personal.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm taking it a bit personal.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't think you get to decide.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll make it up to you. Maybe if you guys. Do you have birthdays coming up or like.

[Matthew Mercer]

God. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

[Sam Riegel]

I will just. Misty, step away from them, towards the creature and close the distance and attack. Swinging away.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Sam Riegel]

Let's just try. That's a natural one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Are these attacks still at advantage from your last round?

[Campaign Narrator]

They are still at advantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you just took your.

[Campaign Narrator]

I just finished.

[Matthew Mercer]

Never mind. So, no, you're good. Never mind.

[Liam O'Brien]

Because you're 30ft from me. I'll give you my reaction if you want to reroll that one. Because I know you like rerolling ones.

[Sam Riegel]

Boy, that's tricky. I don't normally do that, but as a show of good faith, I always liked you, little one. And I'm gonna steal your boyfriend. Okay, it's a 28.

[Matthew Mercer]

Now that hits.

[Sam Riegel]

And I'll use a level two Divine Smite.

[Campaign Narrator]

Remember, 18 through 20.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay, I roll things now. Okay, first weapon damage terrible, that's 12. And then Divine Smite is another 10, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

13. Another 13. Okay, that's attack one.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, next attack.

[Sam Riegel]

Attack two. That's a natural one.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, my God.

[Campaign Narrator]

What you get for fucking with us.

[Travis Willingham]

But you re. Roll it.

[Sam Riegel]

I don't think I get to reroll in this one.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, I don't think you're close enough to him. Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's also a reaction, so that's right.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's true. Yeah. So that concludes your attack, Bragus.

[Sam Riegel]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, that's finished that bonus action. You got it. Finishing brace to go. Fern, your up with Dorian on deck.

[Travis Willingham]

All right. I would like to move up close to Predathos. I do have 35ft. 35ft, but can I not quite in a melee. Can I have Mr. Dimension door me the rest of the way? I haven't moved him around at all.

[Matthew Mercer]

But I can't jump on that. So you want to go ahead and teleport into his space? Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

So we'll just use that.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty.

[Travis Willingham]

And I'm going to reach out to his foot and I'm going to cast Container Contagion.

[Matthew Mercer]

Contagion.

[Campaign Narrator]

Interesting.

[Travis Willingham]

I haven't done this Before I've been saving it for the right moment. Perhaps the moment is now. It's a constitution saving throw.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it. That is going to be a 22.

[Marisha Ray]

That works.

[Matthew Mercer]

The moment isn't now.

[Travis Willingham]

Does that moment isn't now.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, no. Well, you make immediately spent attack against it.

[Travis Willingham]

Well, okay. So must succeed on a constitution saving throw. So you'll take half.

[Matthew Mercer]

First you have to make a melee spell attack against it.

[Travis Willingham]

I do.

[Matthew Mercer]

It does.

[Travis Willingham]

It does. Wait, say it one more time.

[Matthew Mercer]

Are you using the 2024 rules for it Different. Oh, Jesus.

[Travis Willingham]

I just have. Your touch inflicts a magical contagion. The target must succeed on a constitution saving throw.

[Matthew Mercer]

They changed it in the new edition.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, they did?

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Are we going by my bad, My bad.

[Marisha Ray]

Is she.

[Laura Bailey]

She's Legacy.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm Legacy.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know what you're so Legacy. I'm Legacy. I'm Legacy.

[Campaign Narrator]

I'm legacy. And so is my wife.

[Ashley Johnson]

It'll be in the book. Where's the book?

[Matthew Mercer]

That's true.

[Campaign Narrator]

I don't have the new book.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. So the original spell as it works.

[Travis Willingham]

I thought it was a touch make a melee spell a touch situation.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct. It's a touch range to make a melee spell attack and it can inflict a series of diseases. Now, I don't know what the new version of it is, but I can look for it.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, so your legacy, you're new.

[Liam O'Brien]

You probably beyond has both listed. One says legacy, one says doesn't. You probably chose the.

[Travis Willingham]

I feel like I got the regular one unleaded. Shall I scrap that and do a new idea?

[Laura Bailey]

It will say legacy underneath it if you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yeah. Now the new rules actually make it like a. I mean, to be fair, the original contagion is not that great of a spell.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh. So I.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

You know what? You know what? Here, I'll put it this way. It's a fifth level spell you just leveled up at the behest of the mansion of Ravens. In this instance, I will let you use it as you wish.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, sweet.

[Sam Riegel]

So you can pick any rules that you want with this.

[Laura Bailey]

So it works.

[Travis Willingham]

So it works automatically. It's actually 30 for constitution.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. So it succeeds in the Constitution saving throw. So it still takes half necrotic damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. All right. I already counted these out.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hold on. Let me see here. See this? Wait, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Here doesn't say half damage. So in this it's. It's an all or nothing. Kind of like disintegrate.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, got It.

[Matthew Mercer]

So unfortunately, nothing.

[Travis Willingham]

That's okay. That's all right. Well, then, entertainment. Throw a few more attacks.

[Ashley Johnson]

It'll work.

[Travis Willingham]

Target move.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Didn't work.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so that finishes your turn.

[Travis Willingham]

My turn is done.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, Dorian, you're up. No. Or I'm undone.

[Sam Riegel]

Bonus action. Shooting stuff from.

[Travis Willingham]

I used bonus action to get a little closer to try to do it. Get a little bit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That was a good shot. It was a good shot. I'm sorry.

[Travis Willingham]

No, that's okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Where are your hit points?

[Travis Willingham]

That's my.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, yeah. New hit points. 176. Currently at 76.

[Matthew Mercer]

Gotcha. And Fearne, what was your hit points?

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, I did slack them, but I will. I am at currently at 55 hit points and my max is 112 under half.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yeah. All right, Dorian, what you got? Oh, man.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So I just got smacked to the ground. I just like kind of like being mobile around it. So I'll use my movement to go up and back again. I'll go to the air again.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it.

[Campaign Narrator]

Sorry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You got to pull out the pedestal.

[Matthew Mercer]

Damn. Are you staying within its melee?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Am I in its melee?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's going to get a free whack.

[Matthew Mercer]

If you move out of its range.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll stay within range.

[Matthew Mercer]

That sounds terrible. Up around here.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's going to whack.

[Laura Bailey]

That's what I mean. But if you back up to 15ft, then on my next turn, at least I can push you out of melee range and you won't get the attack of opportunity.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Yeah, I guess I would stay around.

[Laura Bailey]

The 15 foot and then I can at least try to help you on my next route.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, that's about there.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, I'm gonna. Yeah, I'm gonna. We're just wailing away on him, right? I mean, we're just wail. Okay, yeah. I'll flick a little baby diamond off my Pauldron and I'll hit him with that chromatic orb.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why not?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I haven't done it at 76.

[Travis Willingham]

76.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. But I'm in the mix. That would be plus 9. 19. Plus 9 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

That'll definitely hit. Oh, it's a crit. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, sick. Dude, these new dice are nice to me.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, so roll. So 7D6. What type of damage?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, thunder for sure. Because I get to pick it. So 3D8 for chromatic.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Nah, not great.

[Sam Riegel]

Not great.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

5, 7, 11 times 2. Times 2. Cause it's a crit, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

It's 22. 22 thunder damage, which is doubled. Doubled to 44.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, yes, because I can choose the element of my chromatic orb and it.

[Laura Bailey]

Doubles it after the crit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Whoa, whoa.

[Laura Bailey]

That's me.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, yeah. Just the old softball burner right at its dome.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. How do you want to do.

[Travis Willingham]

Really?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Really?

[Matthew Mercer]

We were.

[Campaign Narrator]

We were wailing on the thing.

[Matthew Mercer]

We have been.

[Travis Willingham]

Wow, that was the most rounds we.

[Liam O'Brien]

How do you want to do something?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh my God.

[Campaign Narrator]

I know.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. There's something else. There's something else here.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, that's it. We want. Oh yeah, that's it. Sure.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

How do I want to do this?

[Matthew Mercer]

How do you want to do this?

[Liam O'Brien]

Phase one.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, of course. Yeah. He just kind of superhero flies up and then he's going to have. He's going to have. Before he throws his throw. Flashbacks to the dirty alleys where we all met each other. The low level skirmishes that involved us watching Orym almost getting eaten by a mimic wall. And that was the last time he cast this. And his head kind of just flashes there and he'll click that off and just full on pro baseball level fastball of this little diamond that just sort of cooks. And as it cooks, it just extends into this thunderous sound and explosion right in its face.

[Matthew Mercer]

You watch as it impacts and it's interesting, you expect it to detonate and instead it singles into its head and sits in there for a second. It stands there and you watch as the fleshy exterior of it begin to crystallize. The rest of its body beginning to expand and turn into an extension of the glass Ruidian crystal. It tries to move, but its body and torso and limbs all begin to stiffen and extend into broken jagged bits until the entirety of the form becomes a statue of Irwidian glass. Before your orb detonates within the shockwave scatters its body into tens of thousands of pieces as they rain across the entirety of the chamber. The form of Predathos. What?

[Marisha Ray]

I don't trust it. I don't trust the form of Predathos.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Of course not.

[Matthew Mercer]

You all look around in the quiet of the chamber. In the absence of a God Eater, a moment of victory finally washes over you. But you know it's not gone. It's present presence hasn't changed. If anything now it's everywhere. The rest of you look to each other in disbelief. A glimmer of hope in your eyes. And you all look to Imogen, who instead you can feel it. Brimming, shifting. The ground begins to quake. Loose shale and stones scatter around. The whole room seems to be shifting and roiling and you watch as in this back wall, the ground begins to erupt and grow as shards of glass emerge. And you watch as a crested alien head merges its multiple eyes glowing bright teal green. Its mouth opens in impossible size as it that roars into the chamber. What the fuck is this?

[Marisha Ray]

I know, I know, I know, I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's way better.

[Travis Willingham]

We already did it.

[Laura Bailey]

What the fuck?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Is he lifting with his knees?

[Matthew Mercer]

No. As the ground quakes as well, in all spaces around, it roars out loudly as two arms emerge from the nearby parts of the chamber. This is sick.

[Laura Bailey]

We're like in it.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you all glance around, the chamber in all places is still quaking. And you sense this chamber is predathos. Oh, fuck.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

And it's angry and it wants back in. And that's where it ends. We'll pick up in this phase. Oh my God. The beginning of next episode. Ever the hands bursting.

[Marisha Ray]

That was sick.

[Ashley Johnson]

Can you turn his face this way for the sentence?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh my God.

[Ashley Johnson]

Baby, you're just a hammerhead and nobody understands you.

[Matthew Mercer]

He's a fun one.

[Laura Bailey]

Wow.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh my God.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

So, yeah, we'll pick up from here next time. We'll see where it takes us.

[Laura Bailey]

So now we've got to kill. I was like, wow, we just leveled up and that. That happened so fast. We killed it.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Travis Willingham]

No way. No way.

[Matthew Mercer]

I knew it.

[Travis Willingham]

No way.

[Ashley Johnson]

Do you not know Matthew of the Mercer?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh my God. The madman.

[Matthew Mercer]

So I guess we'll pick up on this. This showdown with the God Eater next time. Thank you all so much for joining us. Love you very much. And is it Thursday?

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