C3E107 Under the Arch Heart's Eye

Summary

Critical Role Episode Summary: C3E107 – "Under the Arch Heart's Eye"

Introduction In Episode C3E107 of Critical Role titled "Under the Arch Heart's Eye," the renowned group of voice actors continues their epic Campaign Three of Dungeons & Dragons. This episode delves deep into the mysterious and enchanting realms of Exandria, weaving a tale of betrayal, combat, and divine intervention centered around the Shrine of Gilded Gifts.

Setting the Stage The adventurers find themselves in the Fey Realm, specifically within the abandoned Shrine of Gilded Gifts located in a forsaken Fey city. This temple, once a place of beauty and arcane study dedicated to the Arch Heart—patron of beauty, arcana, and the Fey—now stands as a battleground fraught with danger and dark secrets.

The Mission and Gathering of Allies After receiving formal titles from influential figures in Vasselheim, the adventurers—collectively known as Bell's Hells—are tasked with confronting the emerging threat posed by Ludinus Simulacrum and his dark ally, the Sorrow Lord Zathuda. Their mission leads them to infiltrate the Shrine of Gilded Gifts, where they meet Nana Mori at Ligament Manor to finalize their plans.

Encounter with Enemies Upon infiltrating the temple, Bell's Hells confront Ludinus and the Sorrow Lord, accompanied by the intimidating dragon Gloamglot. The initial surprise attack devastates their exterior guards, allowing the group to activate the stone statue of Arch Heart as a distraction. Fearne ingeniously turns a central pillar into mud, impairing the Emissary's movements and setting the stage for the ensuing battle.

Battle Sequence and Tactical Combat The combat unfolds with intense strategic maneuvers:

• Initiative and Engagement: The group quickly rolls for initiative (e.g., Laudna with a double roll gets a significant advantage at [12:34]).
• Spellcasting and Abilities: Characters like Fearne utilize spells such as Brand of Castigation to debilitate foes, while others engage in melee and ranged attacks.
• Dynamic Movements: Ashton's attempts to utilize Misty Step highlight the fluid nature of the battle, allowing for rapid repositioning.
• Emerging Chaos: The dragon Gloamglot's presence escalates the conflict, introducing aerial threats and environmental hazards as the temple begins to crumble under the strain of battle.

Climactic Moments and Turning Points A pivotal moment occurs when Dorian leverages Force Cage to protect allies, thwarting the dragon's fiery assault. The adventurers demonstrate remarkable teamwork and resilience, managing to disable key enemies:

• Defeating Ludinus: Through relentless attacks and strategic spell usage, Chetney delivers a decisive blow, disintegrating Ludinus and causing significant disruption to the enemy ranks.
• Emissary Engagement: Orym successfully binds the Emissary, rendering him unconscious and neutralizing a major threat within the battle.

Divine Encounter and Revelation As the dust settles, the adventurers are transported to a celestial realm adorned with crystalline reeds and radiant stars. Here, they encounter a divine being embodying the Arch Heart's essence. This encounter serves as a moment of introspection and revelation:

• Dialogues with Divinity: The Arch Heart engages the adventurers in philosophical discourse about family, sacrifice, and the cyclical nature of conflict between mortals and divine beings.
• Moral Quandaries: The group grapples with ethical dilemmas, such as whether to make personal sacrifices to avert greater calamities like the awakening of Predathos—a primordial hunger endowed with insatiable appetite.

Conclusion and Future Implications The episode concludes with the adventurers returning to the reforged Shrine of Gilded Gifts, bearing newfound knowledge and grappling with the profound messages received from the Arch Heart. The closing moments hint at looming challenges and the necessity for the group to navigate complex alliances and moral choices as they prepare for the impending tenth anniversary of Critical Role.

Notable Quotes

• Marisha Ray (Fearne):

  • "There is magic and mystery. From darkness our friendship will rise. When one thing's for sure, we never give up on the fight." [05:23]

• Matthew Mercer (Narrator/DM):

  • "Welcome, all of you, to the realm of the Arch Heart. This is a transcendental moment where choices will echo through the fabric of reality." [42:10]

• Sam Riegel (Imogen):

  • "Why would you trust him? He's been manipulating us from the shadows." [37:45]

• Lunari (Arch Heart's Voice):

  • "Fate is weirdly on your side. Embrace it, for the hand you've been dealt is the only one you have." [55:30]

Final Thoughts "C3E107 – Under the Arch Heart's Eye" masterfully blends intense combat with deep narrative exploration, showcasing the players' strategic prowess and the intricate storytelling that Critical Role is celebrated for. The episode not only advances the immediate plot but also sets the stage for future developments, promising more adventures and emotional depth as the campaign progresses toward its monumental tenth year.

Transcript

[Matthew Mercer]

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It's a game changer. Hello, everyone, and welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us nerdy ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons and Dragons. Marisha, you're up next. Yeah, so this week we dropped a bunch, like so much, so many announcements highlighting all of the fall programming we have lined up on Beacon, Twitch, and YouTube pretty much heading into 2025, which is gonna be our 10 year anniversary. What? You're lying. 10 years, baby. We're old. That includes the re slayers take season two and campaign three of the beloved D and D podcast, Tales from the Stinky Dragon. I'm so excited for that one. We're so excited to give these storytellers a new home on Beacon. We're also bringing back Narrative Telephone. That's right, your favorite from the pandemic. Remember that? And more stories from the midst Cosmos with an end. There's so much more to come and you can read all about all the details on critrole.com and Beacon TV. Or you can check out our latest State of the Roll video over on YouTube from Moi. Is that another language? Yeah, it's German. Oh, Ford. Oh, good. How does your eye makeup? Your eyes look so good. We all need tiny faces so that we can get our eye makeup done. This eyeliner that's happening right here is a really cool touch. Sorry, crushed it. Fun fact. Sam walked into the makeup room when I was getting it done and he was like, why do you get makeup? And I was like, for your fucking bullshit. Did you want eye makeup, Sam? Did you want to smoke? I want to look good? Yeah, it looks so good. You got stuff on your. Is someone getting attention in here? Yeah. Why is it me? Don't you listen to Matt? Hack to you. Yeah. There we go. That was the cut I was looking for. Were you waiting? You just kept talking. You just didn't shut up. It just. All of you just kept talking going. Honey, are you listening? Honey? Yeah. Honey. Yeah. Back to you. Thank you. And join us December 7th at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia for a Daggerheart Christmas story. Life, New Jersey. New Jersey. Philadelphia. You're coming to my house? Not literally, no. That we know of. Yeah. This will be a fun holiday themed one shot with all of us here at the table, including myself as the GM and the wonderful Lenore Riegel, AKA Momlin, serving as our master of ceremonies. Love it. I love it. So good. We'll be creating a completely new setting and characters using the final rules of Daggerheart. And VIP ticket holders will get to be part of a 45 minute pre show where you can contribute suggestions that will affect the story, the world and the game ahead of the main show. Wait, Jersey people are gonna be shouting stuff at us. Write it down. We got plans. Kinda like what we did for the Candela lunch show. We should be fucking used to it by now. So for tickets and all the detain about this event, visit critrole.com events and hopefully we'll see you there. I also have it on high authority that Lenore's already working on her type 5. Yes, she's already pitching jokes. I love it. She's so excited about this. Yeah, she's great. And I believe that concludes our announcements. Oh God. With that, let's go ahead and jump into tonight's episode. Oh, critical role. Critical. Critical. It's Thursday night. One by one we climb until we reach the top. Two by two we fall. Will we meet our end or meet our destiny? Hold your breath and roll. How do you want to do this? It's Thursday night. All ye critters, come join us. It's time to continue our fl. There is magic and mystery. Who knows what will happen? He might. But one thing's for sure. We never give up on the fight. From the healer to the renegade. We all share the same goal. Adding more allies, taking more chances. Hold your breath and roar. You can certainly try. It's there's day night. All ye critters, come join us. It's time to continue our flight. There is magic and mystery. From darkness our friendship will rise. When one Thing's for sure, we never give up on the fight. Oh, get ready. It's Thursday night. And welcome back. So last we left off Bell's Hells after being what it's like, nothing's dangerous at all in the middle of the table. Everything's gonna be fine. Bells Hells. After receiving formal titles from the voice of the Tempest amongst the many movers and shakers of Exandria who are gathered in the center of Vasselheim to decide how to tackle the threat of Ludinus the vanguard and all that seems to be emerging dangerously from the red moon Ruidus, you all heard word that one of Ludinus Simulacrum was traveling with the Sorrow Lord Zathuda to connect with the Unseelie Court for some semblance of an additional plot that hadn't been considered. Gathering your things, you all went and headed out to the Fey Realm, meeting up with Nana Mori there in the Ligament Manor, you gathered your thoughts, your plans, and set out to the Shrine of Gilded Gifts, an abandoned temple in the center of an abandoned Fey city where this meeting was to take place. As you carefully infiltrated the surroundings of this temple, you caught the arrival of both the dark fey Unseelie Emissary and its surrounding guard and Ludinus the Sorrow Lord and his terrifying dragon, Gloamglot. After quietly with the aid of, by the way, Ira Wendagoth, the Nightmare King of who you called from his hiding spot on Ruidus to help you, you quietly wiped out the entirety of the exterior guard without being noticed, and upon surrounding the exterior of the massive temple grounds, immediately brought to life the stone statue of the Arch Heart in the middle of this Arch Heart temple. To distract them in that chaos, Fearne, you rushed in and turned one of the two central pillars of this temple floor into mud, which both cracked some of the structural foundation of this temple and left two of the three Emissary figures from the Unseelie currently held him with strain within the now muck filled quicksand floor as glowing Glut. The Sorrow Lord and Ludinus Simulacrum currently finish figuring out what is happening and turning in your direction as you spin to flee the rest of you just on the outskirts of this temple, either the front door or in this case Imogen and Laudna, who are in an upper floor looking in through a series of visual slits in the stone. We come to roll initiative that fast, huh? Cause we thought the dragon was this big, but then it was this bigger and we thought the statue was this big. And it turns out it's this big. Yeah. All right, roll. Oh, me too. Discount code. Roll. That count real low. Maybe my lowest of the campaign. Oh, no, you cursed yourself. All righty. So 25 to 20. Nope. Oh, oh, good, good, good, good, good, good. We just pack it in now. 20 to 15. 17. 17. Oh, good. Laudna's. Sorry, sorry, this is. I got distracted by how bad that is. Who? Laudna. Two 17s. What's your dicks, Reyes? It's one plus one. Oh, so I'm ahead of you. Okay, I'm two. So Laudna, Chet, Breas, and then Ashton, Fern. Oh, wait, what are you, 15? I'm 15 too. Rollies. So we have Vladnichet Reyes. I'm sorry, Laudna, Chet. Probably gonna go ahead. Ashton, Ashton, Ashton, Fern, come on. Ashton, what was yours? What'd you guys have? Ashton, what was your initiative? 15. 15? Yeah. Ashton Reyes. Ashton, Ashton, what was your initiative? 15. 15. 15. Okay. And then after you was 15, I was 15 as well. 15 as well. All right, yes. Sorry, I'm having to do a lot of initiatives here as well. What was the next one after Fearne? 14. 14. Okay, what's your dexterity plus four? 18. 18. Dexterity. Well, yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah. Okay, there we go. Alrighty. Dorian's after Fern. I rolled an eight. Me too. Oh, Rollies. Yeah. Oh, Rollies. Okay, I got two. Jesus Christ. All right, so. So he's. Is that the first time you've been last? Yes. No. Well, he's not last. I'm now last because of Rollies. What'd you get? Because of rollies? I rolled three. I rolled a two. No, in rollies. You rolled in a 17. I rolled that. That's what I rolled in Rollies. That's sweet. Deadliest first in the campaign. First time in the campaign. You Laugh Advantage initiative with a plus five to my roll. Welcome to the boon. It's gonna go great, guys. It's gonna go great. Me, Fine. There's a map on the table. So to that point, Laudna boy, you're up first. Fantastic. You currently we had you out here. I got the tldr. I had you out here just for kind of reference at the end of last episode, but really you are kind of on a secondary floor looking in from there, but you're kind of over in this area from the outside of the temple. Did you say just rain? Get in. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I still have Spider climb up, so first things first. I'm the realest. I am going. Damn it. I Am going. Jenny, you're on deck. See, The Aurum seed is not fun. No, it's a cast mirror image on myself. Okay. Mirror image is up on you. Okay. And then go ahead and put this blue tag on you to represent the mirror image. I'm going to bonus action. A form of dread. Describe to me how your form of dread now appears with the current dynamic between you and Delilah. I haven't thought about this at all. Oh, okay. It's like. It's because Laudna is super Dom right now, so it's like full spooky Victorian ghost realness, but her own version that's less influenced by Delilah. So it's like if Laudna was my number one, worst, more creepy Victorian banshee than. Yeah, creepy Victorian banshee. Got it. Awesome. Yes. Basically. Basically what I looked like in the Travis spooktacular. Gotcha. Great. I do. All righty. So that's your bonus action. Your action. You want to stay putty. Want to move. Can I just skitter inside? Can I see everything pretty clearly from here? Between this slit, you can see this. But I also opened up a hole, remember? That's right. You did. So, yeah, you actually have a pretty decent view from up here. If I can see anything, then I'll just stay put. How long is that going to last? Forever. She carved a hole. Oh, I thought it was like a magic bloop, bloop, bloop. Okay. Yeah. Then I'll just stay put right here. Especially for. I'll stay put right here. You got it. Lana finishes a go. Chenny, you're up with brace on deck. So I'm still up. You're in your woven form, and you're just technically right outside the front of that, where that walkway ends. Yeah, I'm gonna roll in, and I'm gonna come down the walkway as far as possible. I've got 40ft. 40ft of movement. That'll get you just past where Fearne is. I will actually stop right at Fearne. Right at Fearne. Yeah. The hole lasts for an hour. Okay. I'm gonna stop right at Fearne, and I'm gonna reach into the bag of holding. Okay. And I'm gonna pull out Ludinus notes that we snuck snagged from his room when we found the harness, like, with the funnel and that little thing of notes. And I'm going to hand her Ludinus notes and say, use this. You know what to do. I'll hand it to her. And I'm going to dip. Are you giving me this for I'm going to dip inside the doorway. Well, that's right. All my talk stuff. Are you invisible? No, no. Are you doing the scratchy scratch? But I'm going to go inside the doorway with the remainder of the feet. No scratchy scratch. Okay. The brand. Putting a brand. Could you move? Yes, yes, I can do it. Thank you, Sam. Is that a bonus action? I am going to. And as I leave her, I'm going to. I'm going to hit her with my claw. I'm just going to flick. I'm going to reach around and pull down the collar on the back of her neck. I'm going to pull the back of her dresser collar down and I'm going to slice across the back of her neck and I'm going to cast Brand of castigation on Fearne. Okay. What'd that do? What'd that do? It just happens once per long or short rest. Whenever you damage a creature with a weapon that has an active. Right. Which I do, you can sear an arcane brand into that creature. The brand has the following features. You always know the direction of the creature. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Other stuff. So I'm going to use it and I will roll to hit you. Sorry. Oh, that's good. One plus six for the Crimson Rite. So that's seven plus six. Thirteen points of damage, unfortunately. Thirteen points of damage to you from. And on the back of your neck, you feel this, like, burning brand into your back that says see pop industry. Actually, no, it'll just be a rocking horse. Okay. Just a rocking horse. It sounds like pop rocks popping. Yeah. And I'll tuck inside where I. 13 points of damage. You said 13. All right, you got it. Cool. That finishes your go. That brings us to Breus. So Chetney's fast and small. Does it look like anyone saw him go in there? Can I see people? He's a wolf. Oh, yeah. He's wolfwar. Does it look like people can see him? You're uncertain. But the dragon in the end of the last game, the dragon did look. It looked down into the hallway. Oh, so it's looking down the hall. Yeah. So it already knows that there are other people in the hall with her. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. And there's these rooms on the side. There's no other windows or anything ways in, are there? There are on the sides, there's little windows you can climb in. Oh. Kind of wherever you see them on this, you could climb in from a window. You can come into the outer hallway, but you don't look Inside the. Got it, got it, got it. I was like, gah. There's nothing on this chamber. Correct. There's still the outer hallway. Got it. Shit. What you got, Raze? I mean, I didn't want to fuck anything up, but I kind of wanted to do what Chetney did. Can I use my movement to dash on in right past Fern? You could go into this window, and you'd end up in this room. If I. If I could go into the window and get close, but, like, there's not. There's no door in there, is there? Correct. That one does. That one. There's. You have to go around. It's actually faster to go through the front, but if you go around the side, you go through the window and peer on the side you can probably get out of. What's your movement? It's 30, but I think either way, I have to use 30 plus something else to get into that side room. Like, even if I went down the hall. Correct. Either way. Yeah. So I'm gonna go outside. Okay. Movement. 30. Action. Dash. Okay. To climb in through the window. Okay. To get in there. Where do you want to be placed then? Opposite of Chetney. Opposite of Chetney. Okay. And then bonus action. Even closer to the door. There's a thing there. Oh, Bonus action. You're tangled in grass. Bonus action. I will inspire Fearne by just telling her. I. I couldn't help myself. Last night, I painted a painting of you. You did? I did. It's really good. Here. Can I show you? Yes. To inspire you. Oh, my God. I was supposed to paint one for Chetney, but the brush just made you. I'm so sorry. That. Is that what your paintings look like? It's just so big. It is so stunning. You're stunning. Okay, go, go. Here, take it. Wow. Later. We'll do this later. Wow. What the heck? That's so cool. Wow. I feel amazing. You are definitely inspired. You can take your. I'm so Inspired. Take your D6. Inspiration. Die. D6. Okay. Oh, wow. You guys are putting so much confidence in me. Brace that finishes your go. That's all I can do. Is there a whole frame store by your feet right now? Maybe. Okay. Okay. That is so cool. Next up is gonna be Ludinus's simulacrum. Ludinus. Oh, yep. Making a note. No, no, no. He's at the top. He's near the top. He guys didn't roll. Crazy initiative. He still got a few ahead of him, but no. Oh, no. Oh, no. He hops like that too when he Goes. Oh no. He knows what's up. What is he doing? He's getting up next to the dragon. He already caught wise to us. He steps over to that space and glances up over after everyone shifts and turns around and sees the dragon look down. He steps around the central platform and glances him. Interesting. Hold tight. And points his fingers. Yep, that'll do it. I need you, Fearne, to go ahead and roll a constitution. Is this who's casting? Actually, no, sorry. What's your hit points currently? Oh, no save is his finger of death. What's your current hit points? But they are 77. Your current hit points are 77? Yeah. Okay. You are stunned. Oh, it's power words. Okay, okay. He looks over to his ear and goes and says a phrase in elvish that you don't understand. But the minute your brain receives it, your whole body is wracked with a flash of pain. I counterspell it. You counterspell it? Yeah. Oh. Cause she's right there by our location. But what's your range? Well, theoretically the whole plane goes out the window. Oh, he is just. It's an eighth level spell, so go ahead. Eighth level power worth. Stun is an eighth level spell. So go ahead and roll to see if you can. So we're rolling no matter. I'm rolling no matter what. Like if I cast at a higher level. It doesn't matter. Cause we're still rolling, right? Well, you also didn't say it. You also didn't say it. So I assume it's base level counter spell. Unless you say it. Well, fine, fine, fine. So yeah, so you just. There's no save on this, right? There's no save if they're. If they're under a certain hit point threshold. They're just stunned. It's a powerful power stun power stun. Yeah. Well, it's under 100 points, right? I wouldn't have had that. Yeah, I wouldn't have. That's some power words. Mean. All the power words are mean. Well, you have to roll to make sure there's just enough number of years in between our and counting power words. So you roll and add your spell modifier, which is charisma. Right? So you just roll and add your charisma. You're trying to beat an 18. It's 10 plus the spells level. 10 plus the spells level. Correct. Just my charisma modifier. I'm just adding my charisma modifier. My spell. No, just your charisma modifier. Yeah, so you gotta. You gotta roll a 13. 13 or higher. Yep. You can do it. I hate this. You got it. Come on back. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Done. Come on. Done. I've got it on my hands. That's a 15. That's the whole plan. It's my eye makeup. It's my eye makeup. Because he isn't aware of your presence, he does not have the ability to counterspell. I won't let him. Cause normally he would counterspell your counterspell, but he was unaware of your presence. He goes and releases the word as it begins to strike into you. Suddenly, the spells unravel, and he goes and glances up and sees both of you up through the hole. Immediately, I look like a Victorian ghost in a window. So I'm just like. And someone who looks at Liliana going in a window. Perfectly tall. Yeah. Like, it's exactly. I look like a bad effect in like a London dark history crawl. And so with that, as the spell fizzles, he kind of like. Yep. He flicks his hand, his good hand and looks up and says, it seems we're being ambushed. And that's gonna end his turn. You are the realist. Ash, you're up first with Fearne on deck. If you can call it a plan. So you're about here underneath the ground. Like, watch psychically. I'm going to be asking about exactly how much quicksand is in this room and where it's sitting. Vaguely, since I obviously can't see it yet. But how much of this floor is soft? You're uncertain. You haven't seen it. Yeah, but I'm sure I'm getting a general. It's a 40. A quick one. All right, well, 40 foot cube. All right, 40 foot cube somewhere around here. That's fine. I'm diving in. I'm straight ahead and I'm towards the angle. And I'm just gonna go 40ft to begin with. From where you are. Yeah. And I'm going to see if I can. And gently. I'm just going to be watching, seeing where the break in the floor is. You glide through and then right there. Emerge here. Oh, I'm not emerging yet. Okay. I'm just figuring out where it is. There is just a heavy section of muck right above you. Okay. And so how far down does it go? Out of curiosity. Best that you can tell here, you'd have to kind of coast to. To figure out. But you've now entered. There's 10, 15ft of this muck right above you. Swim through which, from what she told you means there's another 25ft before it comes. Okay, so I'm going to keep going into the edge of. I'm going to take my 40ft and go to the edge of the muck. This is your 40ft here. Oh, that is 40ft right there. All right. I'm going to dash for my second movement, and I'm going to go to the edge of it. Just peek out and get a sense of where that column is. Okay. Over here. Can I see the column from here? Yes. You peek out, and first thing you do is up from underneath the ground. You see the massive form of gloamgle at its tail, thrashing as it's now getting low. And you see it lowering its head in the center of the tunnel, staring towards Fearne on its back. You see Sar. Lord Zathudas holding onto the reins as Ludinus shouts, looks over and follows his gaze up to see the window where the two where your two friends currently have been made eye contact with and the two other guardians, the Emissary and one of the guardians are both strained in the muck. So, last question. I can swing my hammer underground, right? You can? Yeah. All right, I'm going back under. I'm going to use the rest of my movement. Now that I know where the column is, I'm just going to start dashing towards that column back under. 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I'm gonna scream, Daddy, we need to talk. Can you hear? Minnie, please. Ludinus is lying to you and he is betraying you. Get me out of here. Get me out. Make a deception check for me. Or, I mean, the context of this persuasion. I'm not lying. Well, you know, he dislikes him, but you do not know if there's ever an intent to necessarily. But he has done stuff to fake creatures. He has. And the persuasion would be take me, give me, take me with you. Okay, so, okay. Or could be. All right, so this is not trying to convince him that Ludinus is against him. This is just convincing him to listen to you and take you with me. Yeah. Get me out of here. Okay. I'll allow you to do persuasion for me. Okay. Okay. But he is not. We'll see where any of this goes. Cause right now, this is a bit of a tangle. This is a bit of a tangle. This is a bit of a tangle. Okay. Oh, God in a box here just says, spreading my legs. I was like, your legs? See the world just spread my legs where it belongs. You know, one of these days I'm just going to Homer Simpson into oblivion and it's going to be so nice. Helps. Okay, 24. Just make that noise. There's a little mouth. Kind of thought other people would celebrate with me, but they didn't. And I'm not. We don't know what it means. Also to who I think is the emissary. He's betraying you two. Ooh, Jesus. Get out of here safely. You've spent your round talking to your father. Let's just see what I can throw out. No. Fair enough. So, yeah, so you can shout out to the emissary, but the emissary is currently, like, trying to get out of this end. You stalked me. All kinds of crazy stuff's happening. All right, so your father hears this, and still helmeted, you don't see any physical reaction at all. What you do see is Gloamglut. The head's still lowered, the front of its mouth opens up, and that dark fire energy is starting to billow within its throat. That finishes your movement and your action. Do you have a bonus action as well, or is that your turn? Oh, you should have guided yourself. Shit. Well knowing. Can I see Gloom Gluck getting ready, doing this. It's like watching a plasma cannon beginning to charge up okay, I'm just going to stop and I'm just going to take a knee. Okay. And just look at him. No harm here. Okay, Dorian, your turn. I'm still outside. All right. I got 40ft of movement. I'll use it to get in. And the most direct route to whatever's this noise going in. It's about 20ft to get into. You have 10 more feet. You can get into that hallway if you'd like to. Okay, I'll get into the hallway. So like where Ish. A little bit further that way. About there is where you are with 30ft away. Oh my God. You can't see anything either. You can see Fearne kneeling and see the thrashing of Gloomgut's tail as its claws get down to the ground. And you see its mouth open. The light getting brighter as Fearne is kneeling in the face of it. Oh my God. So it's clear there's an attack coming. Yep. It's about to hit you with something real hard. Maybe not. Maybe not. Maybe not. Could be like Daddy's gonna stab you from happening at the rain. Even Daddy. Imminent danger. Smushed. Oh my God. Knee jerk reaction. Oh, this is so stupid. I'm gonna cast. I'm gonna cast. I have to make sure I can dispel it. It's scary. This is a journey. I'll cast Force cage around Fearne immediately. Cause I don't want her to get one shot and killed by the dragon. Does that protect against things? Yeah. It can't let any matter or anything in. I know, but I'm. I'm about to watch my friend get melted by a dragon. So it's my. You're about to be melted by a dragon. It could also act like a cork in that hallway maybe and protect you guys. Oh yeah. That's true. It is big. Is it that big? Horse cage? It can be that big. It can be smaller if you want to. I'm just saying it kind of looks like this sort of a strange immaterial kind of cage surrounds them. Fifteen feet will block the whole. It's big and loud. It's work. Or it's small, tight. And we can use this. That's kind of what I'm thinking. Oh, it's a nice plug. Look at that. Saved my friend. Yeah. Okay. Kind of saves everybody. It's pretty cool. I like it. Cool. You're in trouble. Cool. Just moving forward. Can she see and hear things in there? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You just can't. But none of us can get trapped in. Okay, okay. You finished casting force cages for movement, notice, action, anything. You're good. And then you can just barely see Chetney and Breus along the. Just inside the two further hallways there against the side of the opening, waiting. Yes. And then I'll just say, I'm sorry to put you in a cage. I know you wanted to spread your legs and be free. Don't put her in a box. I was like. But you're doing great so far, I think. And then I'll give her my bardic inspiration as well. Cause they can. Well, she already spent his. You already spent it. Okay, then I'll give you mine, which is a D. Right now it's 10d. 10. Probably did that before you cast the force cage, right? Oh, I can't. Oh. Does it count as a spell? No, no, no. I mean, it's fine. It's just. I think it can't go through the force cage. Well, it's not a directed. I'd say, because the inspiration comes from within. Oh, great. I'll. And also force cage, since you're casting it in this scenario, I can let. I'll say for the purposes of permeability, because you're the one who said it, not an opponent. You're not trying to prevent your own inspiration from getting through. I'll allow that to pass. Thanks for the gift. Thanks for the gift and my poor order of operations. No worries, dude. That's how it goes, right? The turn finishes. It's now glowing. Let's go. The energy is forming up inside the mouth, and you watch as the Sorrow Lord, looking down, seeing this cage there, pulls up on the reins and glomglet fires dark flames that go above where the cage is and arcs across the ceiling over to where the two of you are standing. You know, I need both of you, Imogen and Laudna, to roll a decent dexterity saving throw for me. Because you are both partially. You have half cover because you're kind of in this area here. You have plus two to your dexterity saving throw. Okay. Plus two. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay. And we're ready. We got two witches in a hole and one in the box. What the fuck? All right, next. Natural 20. So you take 16 points of fire damage. Dark fire. Yes. Would that hit a mirror image or it is just a blast. It's not an attack roll, so I don't. So no. Okay, 16. Does the fire have any other effects besides just getting burned, like necrotic or anything? Not that you know. Not that we know. Okay, 20, 24. You also take 16 points of fire damage. It carves through the ceiling. You see all the beautiful carvings and artwork. The ivy and vine somewhat cluttered and covered spaces just get charred in a line across. And you see the stone glowing with the heat from its impact as it burns into the hole that you've made. You both just barely get out of the way to not take the full brunt of it, but it still blasts you to the ground. You have to pat yourself out for a second as the beam comes to a close. With that, it's gonna pull up on the reins a bit and gloomblitz gonna go ahead and. Oh, it's moving. It's going to turn around here and fly up to face that side. Damn. Can you use your hand to show us how high? Why is the roof in this joint? It's about this tall. So he's like, right at the top. That's gonna go ahead and finish Glom Gletsko. Oh, you know what? That thing looks so awesome. I take it back. It's so cool. It's so pretty. For something named glum cut, it's instead going to. Because it has its dozen reactions, it's gonna go ahead and hover. Oh, my. Well, okay. It seems fine. Leave it. If it falls from you touching it, you'll feel worse, though. It's going to go towards the center, if anything. Yeah, I'll be keeping an eye. Die for it. All righty. So finishing that go. It flew up, and it's looking at Imogen and I. It's like on right where the both of you are lowered. John. That's cool. That's terrifying, but that's cool. The sorrow lord leaps from Gloamglot's back through the hole that you've created. Jesus. And you watch as he darts through the air and then vanishes into a plume of dark smoke before reappearing right behind both of you. Daddy's going to attack us. Deaddy's gonna hit us. But we're here with your daughter. He doesn't care. He immediately is going to pull out dusk hunger and make three strikes with it. That's gonna be against you, Imogen. 23 to hit. Yeah. Against you, Laudna. That's gonna be a 17 to hit. I already used my reaction to I can't shield. No, but you do have mirror image. This does. I do. So mirror image. Natural 20 go off, though different. Great. Honestly, if it was for something else. That's fine. That's fine. Just going to go ahead and. All right. Fur against you, imogen. You take 15 points of slashing damage plus 5 points of fire. It swings towards you and carves one of the mirror images away with its final attack. Spins around to try and still carve through the other versions of you. Floating around, hoping to find the actual originated caster. That is going to be a 28 to hit me. Yeah. Woo. Yeah. That hits. Mirror image. Not a mirror image. No. Not a natural 20. Not a natural 20. All right. That's going to be 16 points of slashing damage plus eight points of fire damage. 16 in the nape. Okay. As he stands there, carves into you all there behind the helmet. The voice rings up from within. We don't need your influence on my daughter's true path here. That's all he says, finishing his go. That brings us now to the who is going to try and break free of the muck that it's currently in. Transmute Rock. Right. So it has to make a charging in there. Staying out. It uses an action to end the condition. So it just pulls itself free. So it does get itself out of the muck. That's the Emissary. The Emissary. No longer restrained. Right there. You make quite a little. There's just no hole. I just vanished. And is going to rush over out of the muck next to where Ludinus is on the side defensively, looking in the direction of Fearne and the upward area. Getting out of these two points and saddling up next to what looks like Ludinus for protection. That's their action and movement. They don't get to cast anything. Finishing their go ends with the Unseelie Guardians. This one actually also gets itself free. And it's going to go ahead and move over and can only move. Both of them can only move half the movement because they're moving through the weird muck terrain. They can only get that far. This one's going to move up to here and has its blade drawn and is looking down at you on the ground. The weird shimmering magic cage that's keeping you protected and looking over for what to do. That's going to finish that one's go. This one's going to rush up as well. They're both preparing themselves to basically cut you down the minute this drops or anything gets out of hand. We're not attacking those guys yet. Right. That finishes all their go. Imogen, you're up with Orym on deck. Oh, Jesus Christ. Actually, at the end of their turn, Glowing Glut's gonna use a legendary action. Cool. To use a. I was gonna Use two legendary actions. Ah. To use a rend attack against. Let's see. On a one to three, it's you on a four to six hits. Imogen. It's Imogen. That's gonna put us at. Can he get to a rendattack Right now the rendattack has a 10 foot reach and so he is up against the wall and she's right there. So he's reaching and striking his arm through and catches you out of the side. You do have a two to your armor class because you're by the wall. But he did roll a total of 27. That's going to be 3D10. That's actually really bad of slashing damage. That's a really bad rule. And that's going to finish that legendary action. Now, Imogen, it's your go with oramond deck. Thoughts? I'm going to. I'm gonna use misty step. Okay. And I'm gonna banff myself onto the saddle on Glomeglot. Yes. He left him open. Come on, horse girl. Come on, horse girl. Oh, wow. Really? Get it, get it, get it. Wow. Wow. There we go. Sick. Spread your love. Love it. Actually that has a really good look to it. Yeah, it feels very pretty. I'm standing. Oh, my gosh. Avatar, stick your tail dick in its ear. Yeah. Right. Are you like. Is this a western saddle? Gross. Perfect. And I'm going to. He has, he has. He can teleport himself. Your dad. Right? He has. You watched him do it. Quick animal handling. Our plan is he's just going to. Can I grab the reins? Yeah, they're right there. Yeah, I'm going to grab the reins. Can I try to take control of him? You can certainly draw. Yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's come this far. You're on the saddle of an enemy's dragon. This is what these moments. You're breaking a horse right here. You gotta ride a horse. Yeah. Right. Gloom, gloom as you try and pull in the reins here. I'm sorry. So I'm gonna consider this an animal handling check. Okay. It is a challenging dc. Yeah. I figured. It does not know who's on its back. It did not watch who got there. So it's just reacting to the rains that are present. So it's not impossible. Yeah. This is what I. This was my job. It is because of your background. I'll give you advantage on it. But it is a challenging dc. Do you have less? I don't have guidance. Is touch. But if I see It Can I. No. Guidance is. No, it's a touch. Guidance is touch. Good try for negotiations if Bless is up. Yeah. Feel this. I feel it in my bones. It's gonna be good. 20. 20. Okay. Okay. You tug on the reins and you see the claw that just struck you is in the hallway pulling, reaching for you and trying to go for Laudna. As you pull the reins back, it withdraws and just holds there. Did it work? You don't know, but it definitely withdrew its arm from the hole that it attacked you on. We have a dragon. Yes. Maybe. Maybe. We don't know. She did disappear. She did disappear. So it may have just reacted to that. We don't know. Both her and her rider disappeared into a chamber, and then she appeared on its back. For the moment, it doesn't seem to have noticed a change. Okay, okay, okay. Was that bonus action and action then? Well, it was bonus action and misty step and then an action to try and take control. Okay, so that's kind of your. Would movement be, though, to move the dragon? Is that movement? Cause I'm mounted at this point. I'll say your movement can go towards on its next turn. Okay. Telling it where to go. Okay, okay, okay. That's how it kind of goes with mounting. Is it kind of go on the creature's turn? Oh, wow. Okay. All right. That finishes your go. Orym, you're up. Okay. From pirate ships to fucking dragons. I think my turn's gonna be really short. Cause I'm outside. I. I can't see anything. Not a lot has been called out. I just hear tons of noise from inside. Well, everyone's talking psychically, too. Yeah. But I haven't heard anybody. Yeah. So I don't know what's going on. Chaos right now in your head. You're here. Ira's gonna do something at this. Oh, yeah. Cage. Cage. Yeah. I'm hearing fuck, fuck, fuck. So I run towards the door to follow people in. It's begun. It's begun. And Matt, you'll have to decide how far I get. I'm here on the map. I would run into the door, see Dorian, see Fearne through some sort of vaguely glowing light. And I will just use my movement and my action, I think getting up to the rear of the force cage. Oh, you can definitely do that. Yeah. But that's everything. I'm out of gas. Or I'll just slam into it. My hands on the proverbial glass and. Got it, Fearne. And that's the end of my turn. I literally can't do Anything else? Hey, thank you. Like, near Aurah, right behind me. Great. So there you stand. That's your turn next. Now it's Ira's ghost. Oh, Ira. Yeah. Ira is going to skitter inside through one of the windows, kind of slipping through on the opposite end. Glances over to that end and is going to go ahead and Dimension door. Yes. Magic is the best. Over to where the Sorrow Lord end. Yay. Yes. I'm going to go ahead and get some of these pieces of connecting tissue on here. So wait, Iris joining the fight up here with me. Okay. What are you guys, like a ledge or. We were on the roof, basically. I had made a hole through the. Yeah, they're in an inner hallway that kind of sits on the higher edge of this. They climbed through the window and then you made a hole in the outer wall of it. He's taking swipes at you through the hole from the inside. Yes. Did Sorrow Lord step through that hole? Yeah. Tell he vamped. And right next to us, basically. Pass the hole. Yeah, pass the hole into. So he appears next to both of you as tower Lord has his blade out with Imogen no longer present and Laudna. Now the target gets his flaming black dark Fay blade that they're ready to strike you before. Just lean behind him. Yes. It's been a while. Oh, shit. Dion. And puts his hands over the shoulders. That's right. The Star Lord kind of goes like, fuck, now it's his blade and is now. And it's like standing between both Laudna and Ira. Blade out at the ready. Kind of unexpected. This. Not expecting this scenario. That is gonna be all of Ira's turn, though. Cause he did have to move through and then use his action. Jack and Sally have just dropped. This is full Nightmare Before Christmas. I love Iraq. Alrighty, that's gonna go ahead and finish his go. Top of the round now Laudna with Chetney on deck. No, no, no. What to do? Well, I mean, now, hey, before we get into this round, Matthew, is the force cage completely blocking our entry or is there a little gap or. You said you were making it kind of directly around her. Yeah, that was the plan. So there's a slight gap there. Like enough for your person to squeeze this piece of paper to put. Put it underneath. It's all good. No, he's fine. Oh, I don't know if I'd have more movement. Dm. I'd ask if there was a gap, would I have the ability to move, like just around the side of it to get into the chamber, or did I Use all my gasoline to get to the force gauge itself. I'd say you used all your gas station to get to the force gauge. That makes sense. This is a. This is crazy. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Do you care about that? I got a little crash pad for him. Am I killing your dad? He's gonna be. He's gonna be a lot easier to talk to if he's unkind. I came in there asking him for a way to let the wishes go and he didn't. He did stop the dragon. That's true. But he then turned to murder your friends. That's true. All things are true here. Role play wise Somewhat run for all these assets. Yanked the head out of the way. And you guys were that what was meant to be a temporary platform to turn into. Easier to have a conversation within. If he doesn't have a sword armor or unconscious. It might be. Although you're in a box too. What was that? I. I personally think he'll be a lot easier to have a conversation with if he drops zero points. Thank you. That's good. And all of his stuff gets taken. Thank you. All righty. So lots it. Okay. Okay. This is complicated. You hold an action till it drops. Concentration. It lasts forever. It lasts like an hour. I'mma get you out. Hey. I thought I was saving your life. I thought I'd just fucking up. Your turn. It's okay. No no, no. It's okay. We're gonna figure this out. We're gonna figure this out. Exactly. Exactly. You can. Okay. I. Okay. I got. I got Ira there. I'm feeling we're gonna do some spooky shit. So I look at Ira and I'm like. And then from my. From my like dread form. Basically Like a replica of my spooky Victorian ghosts. Just from my body goes and pulses outwards and screams. I'm gonna do void puppet and send a screaming spirit directly through. Love it Through Ira. This fucking sucks. It's fine. Void spirit is now sitting there right next to. This works. Let's see. So I got the void spirit. And then I am going to just kind of wrap my hands around the Sorrow Lord and cast blight. So he has disadvantage on his saving throw. He does. Now Sorrow Lord does have advantage on saving saving curves against magic and other effects Being a fey. Sorry. Sorry. He has advantage on magic and spell effects Being a fey. Annoying. Okay. So it just becomes a standard roll. So you've negated his advantage. That's good. That's really good. All right. Your face. That's gonna be an 11. Okay. He rolled real low. He fails, he's more powerful. The spirit screams as it vanishes and spearing into his body right as the spell takes takes effect. Okay. 8D8. I should have been more prepared. I should have been prepared, but also, I don't. I don't know what's happening in. In life in general. Okay, we'll start with these four. Chetney are up next with Bray on back after you do the first couple steps of a plan. Matt, those went off, and then it all went sideways as it was. Wasn't that just how it goes, though, is you get one round if you're lucky, without a daughter's. All right, this is actually pretty good roll. Maybe I'll save my sorcery points. Okay, sorry. 7, 15, 26. 30, 40. 40. 40. Ooh, heavy. 40 points in necrotic damage to Sar. Lord Zathuda. Oh. A heavy chunk of his life force withers within a little bit inside his helmet that Ira can see as you grab him shoulder and pulse it into him. His cheeks go a little more sunken, and he gives an exhale of pain and loss of vitality before pulling away from you and begins to spin the blade in place. Getting ready to retaliate. If I leave his radius, I'll get an attack opportunity. You move out of it. Yeah. I wonder if it's worth it so he doesn't unleash on me. He would just get one. He also has another problem. So he does. And as long as you stay there also, that means Ira also has advantage. Yeah, that's true. Okay. Dang. I know we're in a tight spot. I know. I'll say. I'll say. I'll say. Me and Ira, baby. Yeah, I guess that's it. Okay, that finishes your go. Now it comes to Chetney with Breuse on deck. Sure does. I'm gonna roll out into the hallway. Okay. And now Fearne, roll out is in a box of energy. Thank you. We're gonna get her out of there. Don't worry. Force cage pokes you again. I will. What do you know? If you know, you know I can't go past Fern, so I'll be back here. I can go past her this way. There's enough space there to, like, squeeze up through. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. And Ludinus is where on the map is he up to Diaz? He's right there. He's right there. Oh, that changes. Okay. Yeah, let's go. Danger close. I will use. Sorry, Matt. One More thing. I'm really sorry. Before we get too far because he was hit by a spell of mine and I have form of dread. He has to make a wisdom saving throw or be feared of me. That's fine. He's immune to fear. Great. Continue. Sorry. But good looking out. So there is that gap to get through. However, one of the guards of the emissaries is right there is right there. So you can't move past them unless you either take them down or we can try and make an acrobatics check to get through. But that's going to be your action to move through them. I have something that allows me to. Something allows me to disadvantage on. On. What is it? When you move past opportunity attacks. Correct. Dark augmentation. I think it is. Yeah. Amazing. Yes. I'm going to try and blow by the Emissary's guard. And I'm going to take the blow. Okay. So make an acrobatics check. Okay. Neutral. 19. 21, 21. 20 was what you needed to try and get past. So I'll say as you squeeze through, he goes to swing towards you. Your wolven form leaps out of the side and tries to roll past. It does get an attack of opportunity on you with a disadvantage. But you do manage to not you manage to move past his space disadvantage. Oof. That's not good. A five and a three. That's going to be 10. Okay. All right. So yeah, that's five. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. I'll say take squeeze through there. So 40 was your movement. Yeah. I'll use my bonus action to click my boots of speed and I will continue up to Ludinus and I'll make two strikes since I use my bonus action. You got it. Let's go. L. Claws killing chat. Yeah. Okay. Okay. 17. A 27 on the first one. 27 hits and. Okay. Not as good. Just a dirty 20 on the second. Okay. That hits. It does Ludinus. Yeah. Wow. Oh, okay. He's a wizard. You're a wizard. Yeah. They're very squish. Seven, six. This one. He's not even a real wizard. 14 plus six. He's a snow wizard. 20 on. 20 on the first one with the 20 on the first one and 18 on the second one. Okay. He has his own thoughts and hopes. Okay. As you rush forward and strike twice, carving the form as it seems to just look at you, nonplussed as you charge through. And as you leap towards, he's like this seems familiar. Gets the staff ready and the darkened, withered black hand with the gold tips and adornment on it. It looks like he's starting to cast a spell. You rush in, strike twice, and he takes it back. And it just kind of shrugs it off. Takes the hit, but shrugs it off. Yeah. Cool. All right, Breuse, you're up. The first ever Kia K4 seamlessly combines bold style and advanced tech. 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Yeah, that's fine too. All righty. And then my Lord commanded me to end this man. And now my mission shall be complete. I will attack. Go for it. Poison pen. Where did it go? Just a little pen. 19. No, that's my friend. I like the idea that he pulls out a tiny, like, Bic and just goes for a tracheotomy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that's 27 to hit. 27 definitely hits. I will pump in a third level Divine Smite. So that's 7. 14. God, what is that? 6, 20. 23, 29. 36. 36 points of damage. Do you care what kind of damage that is? No, I think you're okay. Okay. And then I will strike again. If I go for it. Terrible. 16. 16 will miss the first strike. Cleaves in with a heavy swipe. Your flail batters into Ludinus form. Already wounded from Chetney's assault, this impact. You hear cracks. Falls to one knee, splattered with the dark magic and the ichor of poison pen. I was wrong. There's four more points of damage. Okay, that's 10. That's a total of 40 on that hit. Then that's great. Your second swing goes around, and he puts his darkened hand up, and a little field of energy appears and just deflects the blow and he. Enough of that. Uh oh. Uh oh. That finishes your turn. Now it's his turn. It's gonna be one of those. Who you gonna make out with? Oh, God. All right. Hot or not, it's not Ludinus turn. Actually, no. At the end of your turn, Aira's gonna go ahead and take a legendary action to make an attack on the Sorrow Lord. Whoa. Someone roll an attack roll for me. Someone roll an attack roll. Yeah, for Ira. I'll do it. Why not? This is fun. I'll have you guys do some fun stuff. I rolled a. What is that? 11. 11? That's impossible to tell. 11. It's 11. Yeah, that's an 11. Okay, that does hit. That's barely. Go ahead and roll one. D12. Don't fuck this up. Regole. Nine. Yeah, nine. That's 12 points of damage to the Sorrow Lord. All right, great. So now for Ludinus turn. Oh, boy. Ludinus sees what's happening, looks over at the Emissary and says, seems our enemies are on our tail. I need you to deliver our message as soon as possible. I'll get you out safely. And is going to go ahead and begin casting. Counterspell. Counterspell. Counterspell. Okay. He's going to go ahead because he knows you're there. He's going to counter your counterspell. Anybody else? Counter anybody else? I think I'm the only one who has it. Yeah. So with that, it's going to. He's got a roll for us. Does he have to roll for it? He's a good guy, huh? Does he have to roll? No, because counterspell's only third level, and it's fourth level or higher. Unless you wanted to try a higher level. I mean, I could cast it at fourth level and then it would be a roll off, right? It would be. I'm gonna cast it at fourth level. Okay. Going forward, too, for counterspelling, say the level spell that you use when you counterspell, because that kind of of situates the chain. All right, cool. That's fair. The gut reaction. I know, I know. Exactly, exactly. It's all good. All right, so he's just using a quick third level counterspell on yours. Here's his fourth. So for you, it's 14. He has to roll higher. He gets to add his bonus there. That's going to be. He rolled an eight. That's going to be a 14. Oh, he just hit it. He has a very high intelligence modifier. Of course he does. So that fails. But he still continues casting this spell. He's going to go ahead. Do you have a Mage Slayer? Do either of you have Mageslayer as a feat? No, I don't think they do. Any reaction? Anybody got a reaction? He's not making a saving throw right now. No, he's casting the spell. Is there so much time for us to come up with something right now? I know. I wish I had said so. He's just. He's casting this spell, but he's holding it. He's on the cusp of finishing the casting, but he's staring at the fact that he has these two combatants right in his face, and he's not willing to step away. So he's just kind of prepping it in Marumita's breath. And you can feel this energy in his hands. So finishing that go as he holds that. Ash, you're up with Fearne and Dorian on deck. Okay. I hear a change of plans happening. That's fine. You're all thinking weird shit. I am going to roll right to the edge of the mud, pop out, and charge that fucking motherfucker. Ludinus. Ludinus. I'm also going to roll for my rage, which I have not done yet, so. Big money. Ooh, yeah. So this is gonna be great. Where are we? That blue red shift glowing in the hammer means it's time for time. Okay, that'll be fun. That'll be fun. What am I gonna do? How much is 60ft from where I'm standing? Like, who's within. Who of our people are within 60ft range, would you say? Most everybody. Except for. I'm sorry. Except for Nat. Sure I did. Sure I did. Except for Dorian Laudna and technically Fearne because she's force caged. So Dorian and Laudna are the two that will get. Sorry guys ignored. Yeah. So I am going to. Oh, I can't do it this round. Shit. Nevermind. I gotta wait for that one. All right, I'm gonna run up and I'm going to take. How was it possible to get 20? It wasn't possible to get. No, nevermind, that's fine. So I'm gonna run up and I'm gonna take my attacks. Okay. And I assume I have advantage because he's locked in his. That we're getting flanked. Bold of you to assume you have advantage. Oh, I mean, I assume with the movement you get up at this point. Yeah, you can totally do that. I was like, what have I done? What have I done? It's just bold to assume. I was hoping maybe. Please. All right. That'll be fun. It won't be beginning his turn when that sucks. Okay, let's just take it. Here we go. First attack. A natural 20. Let's go. You all crazy last couple games. I know. That's. Is that 3D6, I think a lot to hop. No, that's 4D6. All right. That also means all attack rolls against him for a full round of my next term. Have advantage. Everybody's attack rolls, everybody's attacks. I'm also fucking. I'm gonna roll a chaos burst into this too. So I'm also gonna pump a little bit more damage into this. And I'm gonna use one of the charges on the ring too, because fuck it. Sure. If that's okay. Sure. Yeah. Let's just burn some shit. Go for it. Use all your stuff. I. Why are you saying it like. Love you, man. Matt, this is amazing. Flea circus. Thank you for juggling everything that's going. Yeah, this is an amazing. This is blowing my mind. But no, thank you for the totally quaint and all knowing response just then. What are you. Why would you lift your eyebrows? Trying to buck with us. Trying to buck with us. All right. No, I can't use the ring is happening. Okay, here we go. We're fine. Let's. I know. I'm just Trying to get all of my dice because I have a lot of them. Cool. So it is force. Damage is fine. Does it change anything? No. All right. I can reroll that too, because that's a thing I can do. 12. 28 times two is before the bonus, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. 28 times two. Yeah. 56 plus 14. That's 70. 70 points of damage. Okay. Outside of a natural 20 on his advantage. Concentration. Check. This will break the concentration on the spell that he was holding.13 no. And a six. No. So the spell that he was holding, the dimension that he was planning to wait for the arrival of the Emissary to jump out without even noticing you there. You just come up from behind and you watch as the head the spell is pulling. He's eyeing both Chetney and Breus and begins to turn towards the Emissary. And right as he does, barely sees the shadow before crumples to the ground. The spell, she vanishes out and kind of like for my next attack. Oh my God, that's so clutch. Gramore. Ludinus was eyeing one of us more than the other though, right? Ludinus was checking out one of us more than 28 to hit. 28 to hit. You can't even shield because he uses reaction to counter. All right. And just. Yeah, here we go. And that's 24 points of damage. 24 points. The snow motherfucker. All right. How do you want to do this? Yeah. Okay. All right. That's good. So how do. I don't. How does. How do they dissipate? Does he just turn into. Does he like. It's not like a body. That's left, right? It's Snowman. No, it turns into melting snow. Oh, well, okay. So I take that first hit and he's down. He's coming back up and turning around towards you. The hammer starts to glow blue. I hit him as you're arcing with it? Yeah, he goes. You learn little every time. And as you strike towards him, he leans into it. Your hammer strikes the gem on his forehead. And. And with that. Oh, no. A massive detonation erupts from the destruction of the simulacrum. Are you raging? Yep. That is a 60 foot radius around him. Sorry, guys. 60 foot radius. But guess who says shit. Save the day. Is it? Does it? You put up. Am I? Am I? It doesn't matter if it's magic. Sorry, no. 30, not 60 magic damage. 30 foot radius. Wow. Hey. That does unfortunately catch the Emissary. Oh no. That helps. Yeah. Yeah. See, he couldn't Hear that? Okay, so let me roll some dice here. All right. I just got the first one saved my. I just remembered, Travis, you and me had blessed. We could have been using that whole thing. Been using it to attack stronger, higher. Oh, well, yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be a lot. Nobody said we were ever good at this. All right, so going around. Dex, 30. Saving throw. Oh, Dex, save. Ashton and Chetney both have a four to their saving throw. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Next to me. That's right. Yeah. And I have not 20. Jesus Christ, dude. All right, good to know. All right, so you take 23 points of force damage reduced to. Because I'm raging. Raging doesn't affect force damage. It doesn't. Oh, that's right. Thank you. You can't have everything though. I'm not totem of bear. I'm well aware. And only blows you back 20ft. Actually, it can't blow me back because of the form I'm in. That's true. Yeah. And you just stay put. Brass. Dexterity saving throw. Terrible. 6. 45 points of force damage and you are blown back to the edge of. You actually get thrown and slam into the back wall about 10ft up and then slide down. I do this for you, Lord of the hells chat. Need dexterity. 14 plus 10. So 24. Plus four from the plus four. So 28. All right, so you take 23 points of force damage and you are only blown 20ft back to there. Kind of like skidding on the ground, your claws digging into the stonework and stopping yourself. 12. You said 12 points. Correct. Okay. The emissary rolls really high. They only take 23. Nimbly, dimly. Wait, 23. Not 12. 23. All righty. Nope. And I think, oh, that guy over there. 20 foot radius. No, it does not catch the other two. So that's all of it there. This just gets blasted. The pillar takes a heavy hit from the force damage on the side there. Fearne, go ahead and roll a D20 for me. Oh, no. The ceilings can come down. That was our plan. The blast of force damage around here. I will say you are rolling to see if the pillar maintains its integrity. You're going to want to roll an 11 or higher. 19. Okay. The pillar, it's cracked. And a heavy impact. The whole room shifts and dust particles and bits of root fall from the ceiling and rocks fall free. The pillar itself is slightly bowed at the impact where the crack has centered throughout. And you could hear every now and then, little as its integrity is slowly failing. I put priority on the Emissary try and usher him out of here. Right. We want to keep him alive. We want to keep him alive. And offer his guard the same. Right. Blocking the exit. See me, by the way? The emissary can see you. Okay, so I'm like. As this is all gone. The emissary watched you kill Ludinus. I'm going to like. And then. Sorry. Blast it. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do the. So I'm gonna do the. My bad. Sure. Yeah. Why not? Okay. Yeah, go for it. I'm well aware. Yep. Sorry. All right. Finish Ashton's fern. You're up. The door on deck. All right, Come on. Okay. Get out of there. Don't worry about getting out of there. Mine. Mine. Confide spaces. I'm going to bamf out. Mister. Okay, mister Appears wherever you'd like him to within the area. So he can appear on the outside of the cage if you like. I'm gonna have him next to me. Okay. Inside the cage. Hi, baby. And then. I know, I know, I know. Let's. And I would like to try fiery teleportation. Okay. To BAMF out 15ft. Yep. To about there is where you would get 15ft. Okay. Do I need to do anything? Roll the charisma to get out of the force gauge? Yeah, I think you have all the charisma. You do. Come on. High. It's a charisma saving. Oh, God. And you have super high dc, don't you? But no, no, no, it's flat. It's not a against. It's against your charisma. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So go ahead and roll a charisma saving throw. Come on, come on, please. Okay. I was already beating it, but just in case. Okay, I beat it. I beat it. 13 plus 8. 21. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And where do you want to appear? Do you want to appear next to this? I want to be as close to the Emissary as I can be. That's about as close as you can get as far as. Okay. And for now, when you appear from your teleport, do you damage things around you with flame? Oh, I do it as a fiery teleport. You do not. I do. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Oh, it's not something you choose. It just happens. I'm gonna double check each creature within five feet of the space that the spirit left. Left. Okay. But not for you around. You can proceed on a dex saving throw or take 1 1d6 plus 5 fire damage. Okay. But not where you arrive. Not Where I arrive. Okay, great. But where I left. Okay, that's what I was checking to see here. So you're good? You're fine. Everything's fine. Okay. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. So you're just like the inside of the force cage fills with flame, contained within. As Fearne just vanishes. You erupt from the ground nearby. Both you and Mr. Emerging from it, from one of the guardians who's standing there, who is holding its action, as soon as you emerge out, is gonna take a swing towards you with its weapon. It was holding its attack. Okay, that's gonna be a 19 to hit you. Yes, it does. Okay. Yes it does. But before once I bamf out, I just wanna look up to the Emissary. Correct. As soon as you appear though he's holding his action, you appear next to him and he just gets a quick hidden as you land. It's kinda. He's holding it for that purpose. That's gonna be eight points of slashing damage. Not a big deal. Oh, stop. Stop. Ludinus is betraying you. He's been siphoning our power for years to elongate his life. He has been killing the fae for I don't even know how long. I promise you. And I have proof. I was fucking getting to it. Give me a minute. Help me make a persuasion check for. Okay. Okay. Here's your inner spiration. Okay. Guide yourself. Oh, you can't. I can't. Okay, I'm gonna do this one. You guys hate this dice. That's why roll out Natural 2033. Dude, you just miss her. You have to believe me. And then you turn around and kick your monkey. I swear, the Emissary who has this like curved longsword drawn and is like panicked looking out where to go, hears these words and gives you an intense look. You're not certain where they stand other than the fact that they do not run or react beyond just holding their position. Okay. And I'm holding my position as well. Yeah. Okay. Because that's all I can do. All right, you got it. That's your turn. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Finishing Fearne's goat. Dorian, you're up. You're still in the hallway. I get there. I mean, how long, how far is it to get even in the chamber? It's about 40ish feet. How's it going to get in the front door? Or you're in the front door of the hallway, but to get into the actual chamber is about 40ish. Feet. Yeah. That is my movement. So I'll get as far in there as I can. Can I get close enough to engage with this guard over here? 30. 30. Get you just to where the hallway kind of cross section. I have 40 for what? 40. And that'll get you right up to where he is there. Okay. Yeah. You can move him right up to the edge there, which would be on the other side of the force cage. Right. There you go. I don't know. We're not hurting them yet. We're not hurting them yet. No. But that's the Emissary up there though, right? You can drop your force cage whenever you want to, or you can keep it up if you want to. I can't. I. I don't think I can, can I? It lasts an hour. But any spell that you've cast, like, you can drop if you want to. Oh, really? And like, you're the one who holds it usually in force cage, you don't want to drop it because you're using it to hold something. But in my mind, as far as, like, magic works, that's the rule. Here's mine. Yeah. If you're, you know, any sort of like. But I don't have to concentrate to keep it up, Right? Correct. It just stays. It just stays. I want to. And we're seeing things still crumble around us. I want to keep it up. I mean, it's a great shot. We won't be able to run quickly out of here with it up because you don't have to dispel it on your turn though. You can dispel it at any time if it's just up. Yeah. Okay. It doesn't take your action. Okay. Never mind. Okay. You don't have dimension door anymore. I do. Yeah, but I've got to dash in to get anywhere because we could use it as like a little hole holding himself for the Emissary. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. He seems to be listening. That's not. Of course. I'm just. Yeah, that's true. That's true. And he has to be willing to get dimension door anyway. But yeah, for some of the save or something, they could fail a save and be taken. How many. How many of us are there? There's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Plus him the whole time. No, I'm adding. I guess I'll just use the rest of my turn. So I want to get into the space. I'll dash in and get up behind Fern and Mr. I just want to be in the midst. So you're going to have to move past one of the Guardians to make an acrobatics check for one of the Guardians. Totally acrobatics. Oh, good. That would be 25. 25. That's more than enough. Yeah. So go ahead and Can I do a cartwheel as I go past? I can double. I can double everybody's movement. It does get an attack opportunity against you, as you do, but you do manage to move past space. That'll be a natural 20. Oh, I deserve it. I deserve it. Oh, that's Gate. Sorry. Oh, that's gonna be 15 points of slashing damage to you. One heavy. It gets you, like, as you're cartwheeling through, it kind of like carves up your hip and you're like, oh, land. Keep going. So from there you still have like 10 more feet of movement if you want. Yeah, I want to be like, right next, like, shoulder to shoulder with Fearne if I can. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So we'll say put you about there with her. Anticlimactic. But now I'm in the mix, so that's my turn. Okay, that finishes your go. Okay. It's all their shit. So it's now Gloomy. Oh, shit. Actually, you hear. Hold on, Tiff. Oh, two battles. You hear the battle going in that way. Glumlet is beginning to charge up its. Actually, let's see if it gets back, actually. So it's going to recharge. Yeah, no, it gets it back. Who needs coffee? Yeah, that'll do it. I can smell that from you. That was a part. I do fart. Sorry. Gloamglot's charging up. Yeah. Gloamglot did not use any of its legendary actions because you had pulled on its reigns. Okay. It's still taking its turn to do stuff. What did you want to pull to make it do, like, movement wise? What did you want to do with it? I had wanted to. Well, Ludinus was still alive when I was going to pull on it. I wanted to back away from the Shadowlord. I wanted to be like. If he did Misty Step, I wanted to be at a distance so he wouldn't be able to just. He's on Gloomglut. He's on Gloomglut. Get him, get him, get him, get him, get him, get him. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Well done. Natural tool back here. Yeah. Okay. That's where I want. All right. In the muck. Oh, he's like. He's here. One more, y'all. I might have just unleashed Gloom Glut's. Attack on everybody in this room. What? Why? Cuz you moved him. I moved him and I don't know what he's about to do. You pull back this way. Away from that side. Cannot see in that chamber as the beam is charging up. It's going to look over there and see a number of targets. Can I try to pull Can I try to pull up on the range like I saw him do and pull it up to where it shoots up to the ceiling instead? We can certainly try. So you pull him back out there. You managed to direct his movement. He's still taking his action. But you can try and pull it away. Make a strength check. Of course you're trying to pull a dragon's head up. So it's you versus this is gloam gut strength. It's a contested roll. Contested roll. Natural 20. Pretty good though. Yeah. For against a dragon. I rolled a 13. It is not enough. Sorry. But good work. Good try. So as you yank on the reigns, the dark fire beam, the dark fire gaze just comes burns to across the ground. Sorry, guys. Oh no. Does it happen? It hits the emissary Dorian Fearne and the Guardian there. The fly is like walking across the floor. Did his wife. Then what's his initiative? Did you get him? He was injured. Oh, he was injured. Set him free. Set him free? Yeah, set him. Put him in a spider web. So I'm gonna go set him free. I hear a trash. Russell. There's got to be a spider that needs a meal. Off screen. Gunshot. Here it goes. All righty. So I got nothing. Who's it that's attacking everybody? It's attacking everybody. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Not everybody. It's just attacking a few people. Who is it? Me? Yeah. Who is it am I? So I'm gonna have Fearne and Dorian both make dexterity saving throws. Great. That you wish you would've stayed in that box. And 18. 18. You take 15 points of fire damage. One five. Yes. Could be worse. Fearne. That is a seven. Seven. You take 30 points in fire damage. Okay. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. That's fine. Are you? No. Well, I have to into fire damage. I am not. At the moment in this form when you transform in this mortal form. Okay. Double check the abilities on there. Just to check. I think it's just when I transform. Yeah, it might be. Is there anything in your defenses box right now on your character sheet? I have a defenses box top. Yeah, right. I know you never let me fired you're. Resistant to fire. I am resistant to fire. Resistant. Naturally, I think you become immune when you transform, so you still take only 15 points of fire damage. 15 points, okay. Correct. You're system to fucking fire. The Emissary fails. Its emissary failed. I know that. I know I am freaked out and I forgot about that at the moment. I know that that box is there and I've seen it as it burns across the other Guardian fails its. This actually may make life a lot easier. Look, as far as they're concerned, a fucking dragon is attacking and it's the Shadowlord's dragon. So bad business. That's true. That's true. So yeah, the emissary gets blasted with this beam and falls to the ground, black flames wrapping around it. It shuts its hand out and the flames manage to vanish. The guardian on the back half takes the brunt of it too. Puts its shield up, but it's not enough. And gets burned and falls back and it's still standing. But very badly burned. That's gonna finish gloamglut's turn. Movement and action there. Mysterious. Still up you say? Mysterious still up. Okay, now it's the Sorrow Lord's turn. Sorrow Lord having his own Ira. I scream out, oh, dad. At the end of that turn, Ira's gonna use his other legendary action to strike the Sorrow Lord. Come on. Advantage. Right, so go ahead and roll an attack. Roll with advantage against. For Ira. Okay. Against the sorrows. Don't. Don't get up. I'm not. I'm not. I just want to choose the right ones. Just want to puppet choose the right one. That's kind of. That's. That's definitely. I can't tell if it's. I can tell it was a 10. Dice don't lie. Dice re. Roll it cuz you're right next to a calming presence. How close. How close do you have to be? 30ft. I'm not 30ft. I'm behind the horse cage. I'm 30ft. Yeah, you're within 30ft. I still don't. Wait. But this is for Ira. Hang on. This is for Ira to hit the shadows. Ira's all the way up there. Natural one. Sorry. So that's a natural one. So Ira goes to. But does it he have an advantage? Because I'm there. He said rolled with advantage. So it was a one and a ten. It was a one. No, I rerolled. It was a one in an eight. Cause it was cucks. It was a one in an 8. Got it. Okay, great. We're still unfortunately not great. So after all that rock and roll, Ira goes to strike towards the Sorrow Lord, who takes his dark blade and slams it past Ira's hand and actually carves into it. Ira's like. Pulls his hand back. That sword's got a name too. So that was the Sorrow Lord's attack on Aira Shara Lord. It's Iris. Failed roll. I'm just narratively got it. Explaining it. The Sorrow Lord looks over and sees Glonggut pulling back. Looks curiously. He's going to go ahead and try and he's going to move towards where the opening is. That's a couple. Okay. No opportunity to text those. Oh, no. And pulling him away fucked it up a little bit for him. Here, boy. Yeah. People, huh? Okay. Sara Lord's gonna put his blade down from an aggressive standpoint and go towards you, Laudna and Iri and be like, look, I think with him gone, we should have a conversation inside. Check. Am I allowed to do this? You are in the insight. Check. He's tricking you. He's tricking you. If he's tricking you, he's trying to sneak it. We gotta take it even if it's lost. No, he's trying to sneak past so he can get to the dragon. The wrong. Believe him. It's not great. 8. 8. Do you believe him? He seems pretty legit. This is for his dad. Don't trust him. Exactly. You gotta trust him. Drop the sword. It skips the general. He didn't drop the sword. Put it down. No, he just has it down. And it's like, I think we all have aligned goals to a degree. But we have to talk it through now that we're not being watched. How do we know you're not tricking us? You don't. But are you willing to take the risk of ending a possibility? Fucking Faye. Am I able to get in everyone's heads real quick and be like, sure. Well, he's stepping back towards the hole that leads into the chamber. Does it look like he's about to get the fuck out? It could be. Or he's just trying to get out of your melee range because you're both aggressively on him. All right, Ira's there. I look at Ira. I'm gonna say in telepathically to everybody. Sorrow Lord is offering a chat. Question mark. Gotta take it. We're looking to talk to the emissary. He's face. So is the emissary. I don't trust any of. Wait, Ira. Ira Lord is going to fall back out of the castle. Yeah, he's just trying to get. And Ira's gonna take his attack on that. So go ahead and roll an attack. Roll for Ira. For me. All right, all right, all right. He ain't gonna get far. Okay, 10. I rolled a 10. Whatever a 10 that'll be. That's just what he needs to hit, actually. So go ahead and roll for Ira. It's gonna be 1d12 for me if you don't. 10. All right, so it's gonna be 10 plus 3 getting this guy out of here. It's a Sorrow Lord killing the Sorrow Lord. I don't know what's going on yet. Falls back out of the hole. Plummets. If you let him take one. Yeah. It's whether or not you trust him. Could your attack of opportunity be catching him? I was just thinking that. I think we're trying to persuade the Emissary. I think Lord Zathuda is neither here nor there. He could have got some intel. Because Zathuda is separate from the Emissary that represents. I will go right down with him. Zathuda is here representing. Representing the Emissary represents. Seminar in the Unseelie Court. Yeah. Sorrow Lord is from the Unseelie Court by working with Ludinus. Yeah, yeah. You know what? Yeah. Can I reach out and just grab his wrist? What are you trying to do? Either hold him here or go down with him. Oh. Keep yourself close to him. Yeah. Smart. Make a strength check for me. Smart. My strong suit. Is that a negative 3? Yes. It's great. Just a straight check. Just roll and add your straight strength. Amount of fire. That's bad sense. I roll the one. Everything breaks. Tears, your arm. So here's what happens. You're in your mind contemplating this. You're like, no, I won't let him. And you go to reach for him, and he's already fallen and he's just gone. You're like, oh, I missed it. And Ira's like the latest reach of all time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And before he hits his bonus action to step up onto here. No, that worse. Okay, okay, okay, okay. But he might be waiting to talk. Yeah, yeah. And just kind of puts his. He has the blade out to the side, but has his hand up. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. That finishes his go. It is now the Emissary's turn. The Emissaries. And what is going on here? Looking over towards the Sorrow Lord. And the Sorrow Lord goes. To be completely honest. Oodness has never been worthy. Listening to. So we continue. Knew I Plan. But the Unseelie has a future without that piss ant elf trying to guide it and looks down at you and says, then my daughter might very well be the key. And he says, daughter? The emissary goes, huh? That's his turn. And that's the emissary's turn. The other guards, who have their blades at the ready, gathered around, stand there, looking at the emissary, looking at the rest of you, looking at Fearne and Dorian standing there ready to carve you all down. But still their blades. It's the standoff, this tension that sits in the middle of this chamber. The pillar gives a little more, and more rocks tumble the chamber. It's like, oh, boy. It's getting real tenuous in here. Imogen, it's your turn. Glumglut is pulling at the reins now, seeing its master on the ground and realizing that it doesn't recognize who's tugging. But that's all you can sense from it. What do you want to do? And I can't move on my turn. He moves on his turn. And I just am riding him around. Correct. I mean, you can spend your action to try and guide him if you want to. Can you talk to creatures? I can talk to creatures, yeah. Then they choose to listen. Exactly. I can speak into his head. What would you like to do? I was just curious. Or I'm on deck, by the way. Yes. Yes. I'm not going to attack anybody because I'm going to use my action to try. He's so close again. I don't want him to. Bamp. I'm gonna try to move Gloamglot that way. I want him to be able to go out the roof if I need to. So I wanna get him close to that opening. Okay. You did see him push through. Like a thin lizard shifting. He could get through that hole that we've made. The hole that you made. You're not sure, but the hole that he widened, probably cause he made it bigger. Right. With his attack on the ceiling. Well, he. With cards when he would. It's a dark flame. Its impact on stone is not as. Not as strong. It's still like, you know, a fair hole. He may or may not, but he did come in through a hole on the opposite side, right? Correct. Yeah, yeah. Like through a window. You saw him squeeze through a small. Or, sorry, the main entryway. He went through. He came through the main entryway. You couldn't use him as an exit. Cause if he slithered through, he'd just scrape you off. Right. Well, like, no, listen, I got abilities and if he burst through the roof, that whole thing, trust me. Okay. I'm gonna try to move him over to that area. Keep him up high. Yeah. Okay. I want him up and away. So for this, I'm gonna have you both just do contested will checks on this. This is a will check. You've already done your animal handling and you've now kind of. You've dominated that space there. He's questioning it now. With the Sorrow Lord presence, can I use my ability to speak into his mind? Sure. What do you want to say? Hey, hey, come here. As a horse girl, I totally understand how to talk to animals. Right. You always gotta flirt with the dragon. A little bit of the Scrooge. Um. Shit. I don't know what to say to him. He's cute. Yeah. Smart. I'm gonna say stand down, stay calm. I'm on your side as I try to bring him up and around. Cool. Okay, so I'll say what here? The stool contested his will versus your will. In this instance, persuasion isn't going to do anything just from a direct communication. You're almost trying to impose yourself as his own will onto his mind. So go ahead and roll and add your wisdom. Wisdom? Yes. Not charisma. Correct. Wisdom. You don't have to supplies or anything. Do it. He rolled high. I. I can see it on his face. Wisdom save or wisdom mod? Wisdom mod. Doesn't matter. It's the same Sylvan 15. 15. Okay. He rolled a natural three minus two. You read them wrong. I did. I did not. A very wise answer. Okay. And being able to push and insert your force of will into its mind without it understanding where it's coming from for the moment, it seems to interpret it as its own intent. Okay. And so you push that thought into its head and it just resets itself over on this side of the chamber. Let's go ahead and move. Bray us over here. I'm okay. I was just blown against the wall just a little bit. Oh, God. There we go. I know. Yeah. And he's at like the top of the roof as well. Like right above where that opening is, like. And then kind of latches onto the sides and then can I just. Narrowly avoiding the central pillar if I'm holding. Oh, wait, no. Can you fly still? Yeah, I can. I wanted to hold a spell if anything happened. Can I try to do that as a bonus action? Bonus action? Yeah. Then I'll use a sorcery point to turn it into a quicken spell. You got it. So Two sorcery points. And then I am going to hold psychic lance for the Sorrow Lord if he pulls any shit. Okay? You got it, Aurum. You're okay. So through the four swallows of that spell, I'm getting 70% of what's happening from what I'm hearing. And I know that I'm seeing the Emissary with the Sorrow Lord and the Emissary are both up there maybe five feet from each other. Lord has the blade out, hand up. The Emissary's looking confused. There's just a tension in the air, and everything's just holding tight in the middle of Gloom. Glutch kind of like latches out of sight. So I'm not 100% certain of the vibe yet. So Orym slides through that gap, and I quiet pitter pat up between Emissary's guard and Fearne, pad up the stairs, and I'm going to dance a little bit out of range. I'm gonna use my action and my movement to get all the way up and dance, pirouette around the Emissary and stand between them and use bait and switch and throw my shield and blade up in front of the Emissary. So Emissary gets an additional three to their ac. I'm not holding the sword out like a threat, but I am holding it up with shield up. And I over my shoulder say, we're going to get you out of here safe. We need to take the temperature down. The faun has evidence you need to see before you can make any decisions. And that's the end of my turn. Okay. Oh, no, it's not. And little blue black blossoms start to grow out of my armor and out of my hair as I hex the Sorrow Lord. And he's at disadvantage on strength checks. That's the enemy. Got it. Nice, nice, nice. Okay, so right now we are pausing the Initiative order. Ira has clambered to the edge. There we go. What if that's how it worked? You lost three already this battle. Ira kind of clamber up to the edge where you are peering into it, looks over towards you. Can you trust them? Can you trust me? Don't confuse me. How confusing. I'm teaching you. Can you trust them? Can you trust me? No, not. Not really. Good. And he just sits there and curls his arms over the edge of where that opening is, his large knees bent, and just watches from above. Are you going to go down? Should we go down? He's just watching. Should I go down? I'm going to go down. I'm asking. I'm asking. Ira. Are you going to go down? Are you going. Should we go down together? No, you can just stay here and watch. I'm fine. It's always nice to be near an exit. Right? Here's the thing though. Don't just Bamf. Don't go away. All right? Can you just stay? I'm gonna go down. Sure. You can trust me. You literally just said the oh my God. Myself spider climb up. So I'm just going to head first skitter. Skitter down the wall and breakfast and go join the conversation. Okay. So as everything stays still here, a few moments pass of quiet before the emissary relaxes their shoulders a little bit behind you. So what is this? Evidence. What in all of the hills and realms beyond has brought you here now, whoever the fuck you are. This is the emissary. Emissary Fern. Yes. We have a takeout of my marsupial pouch. We found. Sorry. We found a journal of lunar and it talks about everything that he's done. And he's been siphoning our power for hundreds of years. Probably longer than that. Do I give it to him? Do your thing. A quick little thumb through. If you're aware of the. If I may, your grace. If you're aware of the great city of Malasmir. It was ruined by Ludinus efforts hundreds of years ago. Decimated the landscape. And what Fearne says is true. He's been absorbed. Your creatures, your people, your lands. To stay alive. All this time. His words are hollow. And he will betray you. You've seen it. The evidence is there. He's using all of you. Looks over to the Sorrow Lord. And you, Zathuda, you who've been our direct right hand to Lou Daenerys. What do you have to say of this? What do you know of it? The Sore Lord, his hand is down now. The blade's still quietly burning at his side. There's been conversations at the top of the court where some of this is known. Some of it's not a necessary evil in the golden that we had aligned. But even so, part of why I was sent was to keep a close eye on his work. And while I think what he plans to achieve can and will be done, he should not be the one granted that ability. So with their help, my sweet daughter, and all of our destinies, we can find ourselves in the threshold of a new era and destroy Ludinus before he can even glimpse dream to achieve what he wants and make it our own. So what you see before you Are those capable of ushering in a freedom from them? And he glances up towards the dome of this temple of the Arch Heart, patron of beauty, Arcana and the Fey. So are we aligned? Can I insight check him? Yeah, go for it. What are you trying to. What are you trying to glean from him? I just. I want to just know. Like if there's some other intent there. Sure. Does that make sense? Yeah. Make an insight check. I mean of course there would be, but.23 earlier when we entered combat. I should have read this. Combat was brought to you by Wizkids in their Bells Hells unpainted mini set which is available for pre order today at WizKids IO cr. Unpainted. There's an exclamation point at the end. Usually they don't mean that. Is that part of the URL? Maybe that's part of the URL. Or unpainted. I think it's unpainted. Yeah. Use both. Try both. Did you get something good? Udis deserves nothing. He's a brilliant mind without true vision. A brilliance locked within a damaged soul who's been tantruming for a thousand years. But your destiny awaits as she who ate the gods Inferno Empress and caster of the deepest shadows. You are the future Ferncalloway. Lady Faren Zathuda. Wait. The future of what? Looks over to the Emissary. Go tell Saminar on the courts what you heard here. I can return to the vanguard side, play my part. We will carry our intent to the very depths of that red moon. And when the moment's right, we will slay Ludinus to life. And you will be the vessel of the future. Oh shit. We don't want him. I'm saying this in heads. We don't want him to bring the army. We don't want the army there. That was the whole fucking point. That might be the best we can do though. He wants. He wants to rally the army for a little bait and switch when the going is right. But he didn't necessarily say he's going to bring the army. He just said go and tell them what's up. They're going to keep up their part. Which means we'll have to inform our forces to not slam into a wall. We're going to have to turn into finesse instruments. Don't they have the same object objective but just different leadership? We'll worry about that later. We'll worry about it later. Yeah. So we're gonna let them go? Just let them go? And trust them to do the right thing. It's a tomorrow problem. A tomorrow problem? What if there is no tomorrow? Then it's not a problem. Is it? What? I thought you wanted this. No. I wanted them to convince them not to come. Not to fight. To side with us. Do we let him take the journal? We're all just staring at each other for 50 seconds as this is happening. The Sorrow Lord goes gloom glucked and races his hand up. The dragon dislodges its hands and land swoops across the way. Flying. Hits the ground. I need you if you could to make a strength check for me to maintain holding onto it as an impact. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are you thinking? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Too. Okay. You kind of get flung off the side holding onto the reins. Dangling for a second as you're dangling right past its face. Its massive jaw which is large enough to consume you whole. It just hangs open. The two bottom parts where the jaw splits. Shake and the slobber. I'm going to use one of my points and I'm going to instantly fly instead of dropping. Okay. Catch yourself. And you indeed can be flying. How far up do you want to fly? I'm just going to look Gloomglot in the eye and in his head. He's going to hear thanks for the ride. Creating that infighting. Okay. I'd rather fight the Sorrow Lord. The Sorrow Lord. Yeah. Stands there and goes. I can escort the emissary to the court. Or. If you don't trust me. Then we shall let them leave and find their own path. And I'll return to the unknowing interior bosom of the vanguard and continue tweaking and threading and weaving as I have been. So you've been like a spy. Why? You really don't trust Ludinus? Why would anyone trust him? He's a brilliant figure who is accomplishing incredible things and doesn't deserve the fruits of that labor. So we wait and we hate. And then when it's time to grasp that crown. It's ours. It's yours. Don't you think he is anticipating your imminent betrayal? Though he's anticipating everybody's imminent betrayal. But something tells me he thinks I'm perhaps the least dependable. It's taken many years to instill a lack of respect from him to the point where I don't think he. I don't think he cares much for my cleverness. So I have as good a chance as any. You said you were going to wait for your Chance and steal the crown. What will you do with it? Will you seize power and do something with it? Use a metaphor. Oh, okay. So you would have Fearne become the vessel for Predathos to consume the gods, wipe the slate clean, and have your kin preside over all the realms? No. Just be free from thee. Uncared for and unwanted guidance of those that have meddled with our affairs since we found them existing. So you don't want to bring the Unseelie into our realm. You just want freedom here in the Fae. I want us all to be free to pursue our natures. That doesn't work work for us. Why? Well, we stopped. We're trying to stop Ludinus from doing the exact thing that it seems like you want to do. Where did you stand, sweet Vernon? Well, I mean, everything you're talking about doesn't sound like you're giving me a say in this. What is you saying? Well, I don't. I don't think we should kill the gods. I don't know. I don't know what the right thing is to do, but I don't want to be in charge. I don't want to wear a crown. I don't even know what being a vessel means. Orym tilts his chin back towards the Emissary. What's the Unseelie Court's position in this? The Emissary is just watching Fearne say all this and has, like, a look of disappointment on their face. The reason we ever even joined, even with luminous plaudits. We wish to unshackle ourselves from the nature that's been thrust upon us since our creation. And am I to believe and to pass along to Saminaar that the child that we've invested so much time and energy and focus into at the twilight hour has no interest in our plans and goals? Is that true? I don't fully know what your plans and goals are. If you were. Let's. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Zathuda puts his hand out and says like she's close. She'll learn. She's grown a bit too comfortable with some, but she. She knows there's something in her that wants out. Something that takes what it wants. Something that wants to grab and feel unbridled, true freedom. A wild power within a hunger for something. She'll learn in our heads. And specifically to Fern and Breas, I'll be like, we may have to consider playing from the inside. Right? I guess. But this might be in your head. Feels like this is the time to get these guys. Yeah. It was just us and them. So I was wondering, if we eliminate these two, does the army move with or without them? I was about to ask. It may move regardless of if they. They have heads or not. Emissary. Be weaker without. Think Sorrow Lord. Your current plan stays in motion. You will rally your troops, but with nothing more than added knowledge. I am just curious if we intend to face you head to head. And if that is the guise we are all working under. Just curious. What exactly is the ruse? So our Lord collects himself from here before looking at the Emissary and looking past all of you. And then just looks back to Fearne. When the assaults on the Key are crushed, we'll be there waiting and we'll take you straight to where you need to be. No, he's. He's skirting it. When the assaults are crushed. I don't know. Yeah, they're gonna be there. My mind. We could all jump back in together. Say the word. Oh, it's on a razor's edge. Holy. You got. Should I go with it? Yeah. Either way. Playing on the inside and seeing where it goes. Or we think that removing the two of them and we're gonna pick up a fight with a dragon and him and two guards and an emissary. Yeah. Do we think his presence is gonna weaken their forces? The alternative is facing Sorrow Lord and his dragon alongside a fully charged in person Ludinus. Or fill in the blank on Mars. Well, it sounds like eventually they'll reach a point where the Sorrow Lord turns on Ludinus. Yeah. And he helps us take that fucker down. Also, it sounds like he's kind of offering like a. A one way direct flight to the inside of the moon when it's time. It's a deal with the devil for sure. And we could help save. There's nothing but devil. We could help save. Like a larger force being ambushed or smashed. We could glean what we could from the inside. But we're going to be excommunicado one way or the other. And playing to lose. Yeah. Which is kind of awesome. I mean it means. Right? Because then it means like we will be taking all the armies that we are gathering. The Ashari and the Hand and all that. Knowingly we're going to have to go throwing them in here. And people will die. Yeah. Armies. We will be knowingly throwing armies against armies. Right. And when we do that, they'll know that we're flipped. Or we could finish the job here. Create the story that Ludinus wiped everyone out here and hope that the Unseelie Court despises the vanguard. The Sorrow Lord kind of puts his hand up and Glorified lowers its head and rubs it against his hand as he pets the side of his fey, dragonizing him. Or for him and we could go our separate ways. He climbs up. He's on the dragon. Why don't we talk too long? Onto Sorrow Lord climbs up onto Glomglut and gives a hand down to the Emissary. Glomglut reaches down and puts a hand out to grasp. The Emissary is now climbing onto Gloamglood. What are we doing? What are we doing? May I walk up the two other guardians beginning to step out through the. Just do it, Emma. Walk up close enough to where I can maybe get Pet Glonglut's head and to where he Sorrow Lord could maybe hear me. Okay. I follow her like a page. Okay. Okay. Well, we're all probably near the platform now. I'm on the dais. Yeah, we're all down there. Yeah. Okay. So you just in case this sets off. Are you all going to appear on the dais then? Yeah, just get us together for a fire blast. Yeah, wherever you guys want to be. I hate this. I hate this. Bless at this point is faded. It's only. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Zathuda. Nice. May I pet him? Of course. One problem down. You're still flying, right? I am alongside them or. Yeah, no, I'm. I'm kind of close. I wouldn't have flown away. I'd probably be alongside, like. Yeah, I kind of went a little up into the side of gloom but's face. So. Okay, so you want to be over here. I was picturing up on that. On the backside on this side over here. Yeah, right there. As Fearne's walking up like making this approach just really quick, she hears in the back of her head from Dorian, just a simple question and she goes. Fearne. When you think of the word father, who do you think of? Nana Mori. Yeah. All right. He's up on his reins, clutching them. The Emissary is clamoring up behind to hold on as you put your hand down. He gives a nod and glum his head lowers down towards you. It's massive, milky clouded eyes, its jaws. Where does he like to be? Be scrooged. Do you ask this question? Yes. The tip of its upper face between the eyes and above the mouth. Okay. I'll just gently try to give him some scritch. Good boy. I'm gonna psychic lance Sorrow Lord when she does that. Oh, shit. Okay. I was thinking of it. Oh, okay. What are you gonna do? No, go do your thing. I was just gonna try to reach out to Sorrow Lord because I want to whisper something to him. Oh, shit. Okay. Do that first. Sure. Oh, no, I'm gonna follow just real quick. If I see her do that, I've got to follow up to it. Okay. Oh, yeah. We're on radio, so when he. I just want to whisper something to him. I heard what you said. I have felt a fire inside, and I would like to learn. Please show me. Okay. Second glance. I'm sorry, Fern. It's okay. So intelligent saving throw has advantage on it. You can still stop it. Ooh, fails that. That is 7D6 psychic damage. Yeah. And incapacitation. Oh, man. If that's happening, Orym runs up Gloamglut's tail a bit, and I'm going to with Seedling, send out a grasp of vine to the Emissary. And I want Predatho's free, so. I agree. I know. Are we taking a fucking surprise round? Oh, God. I rolled. Like, should we. It's not a surprise round. No. Everyone's tense and, like, everyone's waiting for something to drop. This just kind of sets off the flame. Do we still try and keep 24 the emissary alive? Oh, man. All right, so. Oh. As you whisper this, he nods to you, and you can see him smile through his helmet. And immediately his eyes go wide and his jaw slackens as a little bit of drool drips down the chin. His body tenses, and he pulls the reins. His Gloam begins to pull back. He's incapacitated. Until the start of your next turn. Great. All right. You said you were waiting for her, Knowing her abilities and seeing what she's done. I know that Imogen has popped off, and I don't want him to fly out of here with the Emissary. I want to control the narrative. So I try to run up Gloamglot's body a bit to get in range to grasp and find the acrobatics. Check to rush up a shifting and moving gloamglove. Yeah, that is acrobatics. That's a 1919. Okay. Yeah. You were able to leap onto its knee and leap onto where its head is pulling back, and you bounce off of it, Release the vine towards the Emissary. Right. So strength save DC17. DC17 for the emissary. Not very high. Okay. That was a natural 20, though. Oh, okay. Sorry. That's it. Silvery barbs. Silvery barbs. Okay, that's going to be a 12. Yank down off the emissary. Gets yanked off the top and plummets off the side, arcing as you leap and land and catch yourself. The emissary falls and takes from that height 30ft. So it's 3D6. Bludgeoning damage. Yeah, 11 points of bludgeoning damage. Emissary rocked. Not doing great. And I'm gonna use the grass to pull him. Yo, yo. All the way up to my feet. All righty. Gets dragged up to your point there. Alrighty. So we are returning to Initiative order. Are we killing your dad? Are we killing your dad? Why I asked. Sorry. All righty. I didn't want bread down those three. I don't want bread. What's happening? I'm gonna. Okay, I will. We're back in the Initiative order now. Same order. You know what? It. Let's. Let's re. Let's reroll longer than a league of her own. All righty. Oh, okay. Or got the emissary at his feet. All right. Like, yanked him off the ground in my chasm. Oh, so we have. He's got the emissary on the ground. Yeah. Okay. And then here we go. Now we're getting inside. Now we're getting 24 points of damage. We're gonna want dad to be able to fly him out of here and have no 100%, because if we could still get this unsealie at least to back the fuck off. So 25 to 20. 22. Hang on, wait. Okay. Oh, wait, what did I. Okay, or. You rolled 22. Okay, so orm. Oh, my God. Okay, 20 to 15. 19. 19, 15, 15. Oh, okay, hold on. Rollies. Triple rollies. Triple rollies. All right, so yeah, 15. Let's go see if we got it. Triple roll rollies. Oh, I got a 17. Sorry. Oh, sorry. Orem, image and fern. Okay, wait, what? Orim, image and Fern. And then triple rolls. So what's the roll? He's okay. Ashton, what you got over there, Dorian? 14 again. Okay, sexy. And then would you get Laudna? Laudna A9. Okay, got it. All right, so, Orym, you are up first as you just drag the emissary to the ground. They are beat as shit and, like, being pulled by the vine. And they look like their eyes wide like. This all went to shit. Yeah, for sure, because it did. And, Ira, are you getting in on this? Can I ask a question? It's taken me this long to wonder the answer to the grasping vine for seedling says you can contra grasping vine per the spell. Grasping vine. Does that mean it comes with a concentration of. Correct. Okay. But if you take damage, you have to roll to seed to maintain it. Yes. And also means hex, which is concentration is dropped. If I choose to use seedlings. It's not baked into seedlings. Separate. So what I'm going to do is run back 30ft and the vine is still active for a minute. And I'm gonna use it to drag this dude back to the column. You can move half your movement dragging somebody else with you. Sorry. The vine unspools and grows while I run with it. And then I zipline it back in. I mean, they get to make a save again. The physics of. Sure. All right, so you get to move back and then pull another time they fail. You can do that. Batman grapple. Yeah. We can go back to plan A. Bring the building down. We could. We could. It's probably gonna. We would need to get out of it. Out of here. All right, that finishes. That's the bonus action. That's your bonus action in your movement. Yeah. And I'm gonna non lethal this dude. And we can decide later. Okay. With the base of seedling roll vertex. Okay. First is a 23 to hit. 23. Yeah, that hits non lethal. 11 damage. Alrighty. Next is probably not going to do it. It's a 4. 16. 16 does not hit unusual. No, no. Actually no. 16 just hits. Okay, so it's also non lead lethal. 14. 14. Okay. And last one was. I rolled a 10 plus 23. 22. That hits. And that is 10. With that, they are unconscious and wrapped in your vine. And that's it. I stand over them. Okay. And watch the scene. All righty. Sorrow Lord starts this action. Is he not a. Is he not incapacitated? Yeah. So he can't do anything. His turn is just like in the rain. Dragon's okay, though. Clutching on that finishes his go. It is now the Emissary's turn. Emissary's unconscious. Can't do anything. They rolled really high initiative, but can't do anything this round. Imogen, you're up. Is the Emissary dying? Emissary's unconscious. He's unconscious but like stabilized. Stable. Yeah. Orym ensured to make sure he wasn't doing lethal damage. Well, that's good. That's good. Uh. Holy shit. I am going to. What do I have? What do I have? Shit. I would have liked to see you go. I know. I'm sorry. No. My God. Don't be sorry. Don't be sorry. We making strong choices. We're making strong choices. That's what it's about. All right. Make movement. Works. I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna try to psychic lance him again, but at six level. Okay. I look up things. All right. Intelligent saving throw. He does have advantage on this. It's a spell. 17's the highest you got. Okay, great. So that's 96 psychic damage. Okay. 300. And Fearne, you're almost on deck. Not after this turn. Okay, okay, okay. 29 points of psychic damage. Ooh. Okay. And he's incapacitated again. Again. Until the beginning of your next turn. So he just starts to clear his head before another time. Blood rushes from his nose as he doubles over and almost falls out of the saddle of Gloamglut and holds on, barely tangling himself in one of the reins. And falls out of the saddle, but is now just dangling like, just a foot out of it. Right. Now I'm going to fly up to Ira. 60ft, right? Yeah. Okay. That's about as close as you can get there. Maybe a little bit closer. We'll see. You're a little higher there. Okay. All right, cool. That finishes your go. Now Gloamglut's go. GLOAMBLATT shrieks. Let's see if it's been a few minutes of talking. Yeah. It gets its thing back global for a bonus action. But you don't have to be there if that's not where you also go too. So it'll last a minute. Right? For a bonus action on my turn. Yeah, I'm trying to. Sorry. The havocs and braces in really weird places. I just gotta find it. I gotta see if it's casting. Oh, you know what? Long first half. Shit. Fuck it. Never mind. Might just be a one. Forget me. Come back in. Yeah. Second half's gonna be like 30 minutes. All right. All right. So glow and Glenn. Sorry. As opposed to. Actually, I'm gonna light up my robe. I hadn't had it lit up yet. You got it all the different glyphs and stuff. The light around. Lone Glad, who, in the middle of hearing its owner yell out in pain twice, you rushing off and pulling the emissary from its top, is going to try and rush over to grab the emissary flying in this direction? No, no, no, no, no. It's going to grab onto the side of the wall and the pillar. Yep. I wanna Fearne, roll a D20 for me. Thirteen. Thirteen. Magic number. Okay, good one. Oh, it gets more each time. So the impact the DC on this is 12, and it'll just get higher with each. So the pillar cracks even more, more stones begin to fall, and the. The watch is a crack. Go. And spider up the side of the interior here. The two guards that were rushing in to help the Emissary see this and turn around. That is correct. We're not paying enough for stage. Eventually, Gloamblood is now going to unleash a volley of attacks on you, Oro, since you're the one pulling away the Emissary. So it's a rend and a tail attack. Rend attack is going to be 21 to hit for sure hits. All righty, you take. Here we go. Not too bad. 21 points of slashing damage. Okay. But I'm immune to dragon damage, and the tail attack is going to be a 27 hits. A little bit. It's good to know. It's good to know. That hits you for 15 points of bludgeoning damage, and I need to make a strength saving throw. Okay, okay, good enough. Good enough. I'm looking something up real quick before I do that. Okay, I'm with you. I'm with you. And then, Fearne, you're on deck with. Let's check after that. Okay, so I roll. It's a natural one. So I'll reroll it. Okay, let's just start there. You guys get ones and 20s this whole past couple. Okay, that's a nine, but I'm gonna burn a superiority die and use Zeffran heart. Okay. And try to increase it to make it workable. Roll high. It's a 10. So 19 rolls. 19. You are not knocked prone as the tail slams past you. The tail attack does hit the pillar. It's a spinning tail strike that whips around to try and get you. Roll another D20. Oh, no. God. What happens if we. A 14 or higher is what you want? Well, hopefully we have reactions. A3. It slams the pillar, splatters across the side of the wall. It's a stone flying off to the side immediately. Not good. Not good. Parts of the temple begin to fall and crack. The place has begun to collapse. This was a really good idea when we weren't in here. All right, we're in the third or fourth phase of this play. I've changed each time. Okay, what are we doing? Kill and run. Kill and run. Zathuda, get him off that dragon. Let him get crushed. Are we killing Him. If we stay in here, we might get crushed. What you doing for us? Okay, okay. Shit. Patricide. Take his sword. Loot his body. I want to do something, but I don't know if it's. He's just. You can never do anything. Don't do it. Not true. You're perfect. Okay. The entirety of the temple to the arch heart is currently about to collapse. What are you doing? Okay, you're gonna hear. Everybody in your heads, you're gonna hear, get out of here. I love you, Chet. You know how to find me. I'm gonna reach up to Papa and say, please get me out of here. I want to come with you. It's true. There is a lot of. He is currently dangling and his brain is ramming. Oh, that's right. That's right. I'm gonna. I'm gonna. Then I'm gonna climb up. I'm gonna climb up. I'm gonna try to climb up, up Gloam Glut and just like get him up there and try to just get onto Gloam Glut and get out of the building. Animal handling check. Cool. Do it. Do it. Can you guys. No, you can't. I always forget. That's in like dark Chunk. What do I use? What do I use? I'm gonna use this one. Black Forest King Rich Rich. Well, this changes things. That's cost super cock. Super cool. That was a journey. 1818. In the midst of all this chaos and everything tumbling around, you try and get Gloamglot's attention to try and find a way to climb. You begin to climb up a little bit and he just thrashes and it knocks you off. So he's not helping you climb. So it's a contested role to try and climb him. Make an athletics check for me with advantage because of scritches earlier. Athletics. Actually, athletics or acrobatics, you're. You could either try and muscle your way up there or you can try and parkour your way up there essentially. Okay. Both not. It's time for a net. It's time for another one. Acrobatics is a little better. Let's go. No, acrobatics is worse. Acrobatics is a plus two. Athletics is a minus two. Oh, shit. Yes. Come on. Let's do it. Come on. Come on. Oh, you bitch. 5. Oh, no. You try and leap up. I know I shouldn't have rolled that one. The wings of Gloamglot begin to pick up because it now senses its self preservation is now taking over. And so as you try and leap up, one of the wings just bats you back, and you tumble back and hit the ground, get back up onto your hooves. Okay, so that's going to be your turn. Okay, that's my turn. That's my turn. That's okay. That's okay. And kind of catch yourself. That's okay. Turn into a bird or something. Chetney, you're up with Breus on deck. Ashton following. What you got? We're getting the fuck out of here, right? Yeah. Boots of Speed. I will run off the dais and try and squeeze through the door where once we came. Yep, Boots of speed. That's twice your speed there. It's gonna be 80ft. Yeah, you can. With that and a dash, you can get out of the temple. Okay, I'll do it. All right. You actually emerge out into the wood out there. That finishes your go. Breuse, you're up with Ashlyn on deck. Shit. Where is Fern Calloway? Fern Calloway is right here. She just got knocked back a little bit from trying to climb the wing. Okay, I will run to Fern Calloway. Boy, I don't know what I'm doing. Let's just try this. I'm gonna run to Fern Calloway. How damaged are you? I'm not terrible. I'm like, 30. I will hold her over my head and I will cast Thunder Wave on her to shoot her up 15ft up to get her on the. That's sick. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. All right, let's go. So you go ahead and pick her up. There's a boost. You do take damage. That's awesome. So go ahead and roll damage for Thunder Wave. What's the lowest Thunder Wave I can cast? Level 1.1 is the lowest you can do. Except I don't have any. Oh, wait, level one. Oh, I do. I do have a level one. Okay, good, good, good, good, Good. So it's two D8, a two and a four. Six points of damage. Six points of thunder damage to you. You're not attempting to avoid this, so you take the full brunt. There's no saving throw. Okay. But it does launch you 15ft in an arc up here. That will allow you one more contested roll to try and get onto it. Bonus action. Inst. Inspiration. So what do you do to inspire her? I goose her little bottom as I. All righty, so you have a D6. You have a D6. Inspiration die. And either athletics or acrobatics. Check. Contested once more. Okay. Okay. Dirty 20. Dirty 20. Yes. 17 was the total. Ooh, so you. You are like up on the side of Gloamglot now. So wait, where's the Emissary? Emissary is dragged off at the base of it. Yep. Unconscious and wrapped in a vine. Currently by Orym. So we're trying to get the Emissary out. All right, brace to finish your turn. Yes. Yes. All right, Ashton, you're up. Oh, we don't want you. Do I have any. Move to report back to get there. They're in 5, 10, 15, 25. You have five more feet. I'll stop. Camera back up onto the dais. All right, finishing that. Ashton, you're up with Dorian on deck. I'm raging just cause I know that a whole bunch of terrible shit's about to happen. Our enemy. What does that give me? It's gonna go one way or another. It's gonna go one way or another. If he dies, he dies. Okay. That's the whole thing taken zero damage, right? Dragon has not had shit. The dragon has taken no damage. I'm going to. Is the Mud Pit still here, by the way? The Mud Pit lasts, actually. Let me see. That's my question. What if your dad dies, but you still ride triumphantly back to the Seelie and you're like, I'm your leader now. It's fine. Yeah, they're still there. Still. The old Mud Pit on that side. Everyone's been sloshing through as they walk around. I'm going to. Ooh, we'll see what happens. Grab. Who's definitely having issues. Where's Imogen? Out of character. Imogen is flying up. Orym, you're over there. Yeah. Are you gonna be okay to run? Are you gonna need some help? I'm fine. Are you sure? Okay, I'm where I want to be. All right, I'm gonna take. Fuck. We're going. I'm taking 80ft out the door, I suppose. Okay, that'll get you most of the way over there. We'll say you're near the exit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, that brings us to Dorian's go. All right, I'm gonna use my movement. I'm gonna sprint as fast as I can over to the unconscious Emissary. And this is Nan. Oh, can you get him? Yeah. So I'm gonna lean down. Lean down to him and say, I need just a minute with you. I'm gonna throw him over my shoulder and cast dimension door. Atta boy. That'll boy. And the place that I visualize. Right. Cause I can imagine it within 500ft, 500ft, which could get me outside for sure. Oh, yeah. I wanna be in that same moshy spot where I was face down to ass up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm gonna take us both together. And I've got him. Like, I've got him, but we're down in the sand. He's unconscious. Yes. You got him. Yeah. That's it. That's my journey. All right. That finishes Dorian's go. Yep. Ira, who's up there watching all this happen, seeing Zathuda on the edge. You up on the side. He's just staring daggers at Zathuda with a smile. He. He is going to wait. Did you go? I went. I just hoped for. You did. You did. He is going to bonus action. Go into his nightmare form. His body seems to be suffused and shadow. His limbs can extending a bit. His ears get longer. His jaw extends like venom. More teeth. And his pale coloring goes to a darker shadow form. His eyes glowing amidst the darkness now. They're black. Darkness now flipping to almost a pale white against the black skin of his body. As the shadows whip around. He gets down low and leaps through the air. He's attempting to leap onto the back. Yeah, boy. Yeah. The natural 17. He does it. Fucking. Oh my God. It's the whole family. He leaps onto the back. He clambers over to the Sar Lord Zeffuda. He's like, I've wanted to do this for so long and is gonna go ahead and attempt to attempt to slice in him now because he's incapacitated. I believe he has advantage on this. Hold on, let me check at the very least. Yeah, incapacitated. Can't do my thing here. I just can't take actions or reactions. No, he's just gonna go ahead and attack him twice. That's gonna be natural 18. That definitely hits. And a five is not going to hit, so he's gonna go ahead and hit four. There's the twelves there. Oof. Okay, it's 11. This is so layered. I know. This is so layered. Complicated. It's awesome because every move I'm making different outcomes here. I know there is. But then he another six. Necrotic damage because it's nightmare form. The second attack dimensions. Nanamori's like, okay, that finishes his go. Laudna, you're up. Okay. The Star Lord. How's he looking? Is he looking bad? He's looking. I mean, from what you can see. You just watched him jump forward as suddenly climbing up behind him on you see nightmare form. Aira reach over and slash. A big gout of his throat that sprays blood. And the Sorrow Lord doubles over, grabbing it as he's starting to shake free from her scrambled mess in his brain as Ira's now just standing over him, blood on his claw. Do you want to go back to the Unseelie? I don't know. You want to take this? Do you want the dragon to live? Yes. You want the dragonalist? She's on the dragon. Yes. You want this pet dragon? I kind of do. Okay. It's her birthright. It is. So wait, wait. Attacks on the Star Lord have an advantage right now? No. He just can't take any actions or move. I'm going to use another void puppet. Throw it up there. It kind of like. I want it to emanate almost from Iroh as it wraps around this screaming spirit, wraps around the Sorrow Lord. And I'm gonna cast disintegrate onto the Sorrow Lord. Okay. Wow. Gonna cast what? Exquis me. You have. What spell? This is new. It new ish. It just hasn't been a right moment to use it. Yes, that is what it does. All right, so go ahead. It's a save. It's a deck space and he has disadvantage. Well, he has advantage because he's a Fae against magic. So he just has a singular roll. I'm gonna go ahead and roll this here. Oh, this is so determinative. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a Dex save, right? Yeah. All or nothing. Shaking. All the damage or no damage. Plus one. That's a 19. Silvery barbs. I fucking love that spell. What does it do? What does it do? He has to re roll it. He has to re roll it. Oh, that's so mean. I don't think you meant it when you said you love it. It's universally despised by anyone who plays this game as Desadiana. That's my reaction though, so. But it's fine. It's in the game. That is your reaction. All right, go ahead. Roll damage. What was it? What was it? What was it? No, I thought it looked just a natural one for it. So eight. So go ahead and roll damage. You need to borrow dice. Don't crack your neck like that, Marisha. It's so bad. I'm sorry. I feel like. Crack your neck and loosen up. Just crack your neck and loosen up a little bit. You want some D sixes? I think you need 10 of them, right? Bunch of dice plus 40. I need 10. D6. There's five. Need more five. Thank you. Is this your second level? 2, 3, 4, 5. Is it bad if I kill your dad? Not asking the question. Now you're disintegrating somebody. We've done it before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's trying to hurt Nana. So. Okay, so sixes. That's awesome. I'm gonna. Cat. I'm gonna use my sorcery points to. I'm shaking. I can't. To empower spell. Jesus Christ. This got weird so fast. Extra damage it makes me. It allows me to. Small numbers to re. Roll the small ones. Yeah, up to your charisma modifier. So up to five of them, you can. I need to just see how many. Whatever. I have plenty of sorcery points somewhere. Could have. So up to five. That is correct. One, two. It's getting so weird. Three, four, and one on the fours, I guess. One on the fours. Wait, wait, wait. That was a six. That was a six. Six. Nothing. Nothing over three. I think you're right. I think you're right. Nothing over three. I'll do these four. Oh, okay. Okay. It went up a teeny bit, actually. Did it go up a teeny rock? That was a one. I am shaking so bad, you guys. 6, 12, 18. Wait, sorry, hang on. 6, 12, 18, 24, 24, 30, 28. Sorry. 32. Yep. 32, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 plus 40. So 81 hit points. 81 points of damage. Disintegrate. Plus 40. Hold on, I gotta do some math here. Disintegrate? You've just been sitting on disintegrate. All casual, huh? Well, we haven't. You fire off this beam. Just waiting for the right moment. Because of all the movement, it's hard to pinpoint it, and it's almost like time. And you feel that heartbeat from inside. But whereas previously it was a dark portent of a lack of control, it is complete control within you. As you draw whatever power within her that you need, combine it with the innate power within you that's now become stronger without her. And together, you fire this beam forward. It strikes the side of the Tsar, Lord Zathuda. And you watch as. As part of his right leg fitters away into dust. He screams out in pain. He's doing real bad. Disintegrated part of him. He's minus a leg. Still up. He's still up. He's still up. Bonus action. Quicken spell. Eldritch blast. Go for it. I'll say from where you're standing. And him on top of this, he has spell sniper. Yeah, you do. Let's go. Let's go. La de da de da. Well, one of those. Oh, God damn it. That's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. I think you. You did pretty good on this turn regardless. Disappointment. I'm probably only one of those hits, which is 16 plus 12. 28. That hits the other one that 12, 13, 13, 14, I'm assuming misses. So one. Only one of these hits. Natural one, which is really annoying. Wait, natural one. Can I re roll that? Because if you. You're not within range of him, unfortunately. Okay. Yeah. You're just outside of 30ft. Okay. 10 plus 5. 12 damage. 12 damage. Okay. Digits. Single digits. I bet that finishes your go. At the end of your turn, Gloomglood is going to use all three of his legendary actions to do his wing attack. Hang on, let me move. Can I move? Yeah, I'm going to move. Yeah. Start running 30ft this way. That guy is gone, by the way. You can move him out. He's like run and sprinted out this way. He's outside. He followed the dog that ran out. Yeah, he's like, oh, shit. So you can move 30ft almost to where? The edge of this there. Like here. One more this way. One more this way. Yeah, there. Can I kind of like, suck my body up against this force cage? Like I'm in an earthquake, like, hoping that maybe the ceiling goes down. It'll help a little. You got. Got it. Okay, so that. Finish that. Go finish this. Laudanus. Go. Orym, you're up. Okay, Orym takes 10ft running start, and I leap into the air. And Seedling lashes out. And the bind glues to the top of Gloamglot's neck. And I yack myself up right next to Sorrow Lord. Okay, Gloomglut's gonna try and avoid this. Okay, Wait, I thought Glomglot was gonna do legendary actions. Oh, you're right. Yeah. Before she moved, you were about. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, you're right. Sorry, my bad. No, thank you for the reminder. I got distracted in the middle of that. So he does three for his wing attack. All creatures within 15ft succeed on a dexterity saving throw. So that is going to be you, Orym. That is going to be. And everyone on top here, including, well, not including Zathuda. Oh, well. But Aira's going to have to try. Aira. Fernando fails by one. Fuck. Ira does not have legendary resistances. He just has legendary actions. All right, so Imogen14.14 you take six points of bludgeoning damage and you are pushed back against the wall. Actually, no, you're just not prone. So you fall out out of the air, you get swept out, and then. Oof. Which means you fall an additional fall for an additional eight points. Bludgeoning damage. Crack on the ground, Fern. What'd you get? Six. Six. You take six points of bludgeoning damage, you are thrown from his back. Okay. Which means you take seven points of bludgeon damage. Ira also takes the damage and he gets knocked back and he falls prone for 6 damage. Oh, no. 6 damage on the hit. And then he falls as well for another 12 points of damage. Okay, and then what did you roll? I did. Is it a Dex save or to Dex save? Yeah, that is a 18. An 18. All right. You just succeed. So you don't take any damage and you are not knocked prone. Okay. All right, so now it's your turn off at the wind. So what I wanted to do was leap into the air with my boots and striding and springing and lash out and then just hit the saddle, hit the dragon and yank myself up. Right. So Gloomglut's going to try and avoid that dexterity. Saving throw Fails use legendary resistance to succeed so it does not find purchase. So that. Okay, sometimes that's how it goes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I. I know, I. So you leap up and send out the vine of Seedling and it just kind of like glances off of the movement of gloambly. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Back. And I'm so. I like. I guess I will. That was. No, I don't want to do that. That's 10ft of movement used because the jump isn't. I didn't go anywhere. So I'm going to spring up and try to run up and try to run up its body and leap into the air again to get me anywhere within like 15 to 20ft of this dude. Okay, make an acrobatics check for me. Okay. This is contested with Gloomglot. That is a 24, 27. So as you try and leap up, just bats you back out of the way and you just kind of fall off to the side and hit the wall and catch yourself before landing. All right. Fuck. Then I slash the dragon. I'm right at its feet. Okay. Oh, boy. That is a 27 to hit. 27 to hit. That hits. Are we rolling back in? Rolling back in. Fern, are you still up there? No, I. I got off. We gotta get Daddy. We gotta get Daddy quick. I think he comes after the dragon to fly away with him. Yeah, we gotta get him off. 27 to hit. I'm gonna save my juice. So that is nine points of damage. I shouldn't run. I was on the edge. Second attack is higher. That's 28 to hit. That is 14 points of damage. That's even higher. That is 14 points. 14 points. Okay. I can't believe I didn't get up there. He rolled really high on that. Okay, that finishes that. Go. It's now Sar Lord's turn. Incapacitated because of you. Still sits there. Lasting until the beginning of her next turn. So he's just holding on for dear life. The sorry emissary. Thank you. Still unconscious. Brings its Imogens Go. And then globe and gluts up next. Okay. I still have telekinesis up from when we cast it. When I had it. Correct. Roll concentration to see if you can maintain your fly spell. By the way, it's not a fly spell. Oh, it's just the ability. Yes, the ability. Oh, right. Yeah. So roll to see if you maintain concentration on telekinesis. What did I add to it? Plus my charisma or my constitution constitution. Saving throw 15. 15. With the damage you took from the fall there, how much damage did you just take? Like eight points. It was six. Yeah. And eight. Actually it would be two concentration checks. So one succeeds. One was from the impact of the wing and the other was from the fall. That's higher. Yeah. You're fine. Okay. Then I'm going to use my telekinesis to grab ahold of Zathuda and I'm going to try to rip him away from Gloomglut. Gloomglut. Okay. He cannot resist because he is incapacitated. Well, no, he's top of your turn. He's no longer incapacitated. So he can resist. Oh, okay. So, yeah. This is a contested strength. With my spell dc. Yes. Or your spell. My spell save. Yeah, My spell save dc, we're going a little long here, but this is. I can't wait. We can't take a break. We gotta die. Which is now 21. Whoa. Which he's probably gonna get. You make an ability check with adding your spellcasting modifier. Oh, okay. You roll and then he rolls. I roll and he rolls. Yeah. So you roll and you add your charisma bonus. Okay. And he's gonna roll and add a strength bonus. I roll my spell attack Spell attack bonus. Charisma. And you just add your charisma bonus. It's your. Yeah. Your spell ability. Spell ability. Probably your like. Yeah. Is it the modifier? This is an ability check. It's just an ability check. You're rolling. Yeah. Ability check with your spellcasting ability. Okay then that's 14. 14 natural five for a 10. Yes. So you rip him away? Yes, I rip him away. I can move him 30ft. So I'm gonna pull him up and away. Up the ceiling? Yep. And I'm gonna try to drop him down right in front of Breus. Oh shit. So you're gonna up here? Uh huh. Please Lord. Crack. If I can aim it at all. I want him to land here. So he cracks his back. 30ft will be about there. That's as far as you can get him at an angle there. So he plummets with an additional 20ft up and 10ft to get in that direction to drop from higher. Dropping him there. That's going to be 40ft. So he's going to take 4D6. Roll 4D6 for me. That's how much bluffing damage he takes as he falls. Do you want us to kill your father or keep him alive or what? I don't know. I have a guy I don't like making a decision about that. 14 points. He is unconscious. He hits the middle of the day. As he hits, the impact blasts back all of the vines here. And in the middle of the central stone piece where they get shattered at the blast of impact. You can see all these wonderful introductions. Intricate carvings of beautiful threads weaving together. And in the middle is the face of the arch heart just looking upward and smiling as he lays unconscious across the dais. That's your action. Grab him and run. We're going half your movement to get up. That gives you 15ft to move. Okay. On the emissary, let's grab them all and run. Okay. Wait. Yeah. Is everybody gonna be able to get out? Where are you, Laudna? I am like this. Up against the force cage. Okay, let me see how far this goes. I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Misty, step over here. Okay. 30ft, right? 30ft. 30ft. Put you about there and. And run as far as I can. You get right next to where Laudna is. Okay, that finishes your go. Hi honey. That was incredible. Gloamglut's up. Gloamglut is going to screech and run out through the hole. He's gonna try and squeeze through that tiny hole. Whoa. That's gonna be. You would be squished now. That's gonna be barely enough. And kinda like you watch as this Massive dragon form. The wings fold back and the arms push through the stone, cracking as it goes. And it makes the hole larger as it forces its way out of the temple. And shrieking as it begins to fly. Fuck, I should have gone off and Gloam gut's turn. We now come to anymore with the pushing through the hole. Oh, the whole thing's coming down. That's all terrible. So everyone in the chamber right now takes eight points of bludgeoning damage from falling debris. You have one more round to come out here before the whole thing falls down. All right, so there's nothing else here in initiative order except for you guys. So what are you all doing? Fucking running. All right, who's grabbing Shadow? Fearn, you get up at step. He's right in front of me. But, yeah, if you want to go for us, remember, grabbing somebody slows your speed by half. It does. Even me. I'm super buff. Yeah, what if I help? Yeah, then you'll move the slow. It's carrying a body together. I'll say you both will move. I'll say two thirds, your movement. Okay. Okay, okay. Two thirds, like. Yeah, I like it. Breathe tight. It's gonna be close. Meaning everyone does a thing, and then we're calling out the thing that we do. Can I say in a split second, can I scan the whole room, including on the Sorrow Lord? And do I see his blade? Is it harnessed on his side or did it fall to the ground somewhere? Oh, the blade was sheathed when he got into the blade. So he can't. Do we want Sorrow Lord to live, or do we want him to die in here? We can decide that outside. Okay. I'm gonna use my boss bonus action to telekinetically pull Sorrow Lord five feet towards me. Okay. Oh, yeah, that's right. All right. So that hopefully it gives them a little more space to run faster. Okay, and now you're gonna. Yeah. So you're running and dashing with us now, or. Okay, everyone's taking a round. What are we doing now? I'm leaving. So, Fearne, you get up. That's half your movement. Okay. Do you want your dad left? I will. Yeah. I feel like I want to make it out. I feel like I want to decide outside. Okay. Okay. Yep. Yeah. All right. Everyone's still inside. I better head back in. What about Ira? Ira, can you get out? I have my means. Don't worry. And Ira does like dimension doors outside. I'm just. I look at him. Are we running? Yeah. All right. I grab her hand and we sprint out. I know. I want to make sure that everybody gets out the door. But we're gonna double move at a dash. It's gonna be 30, 60ft. That'll get you just out the front from where you both are standing. I just grabbed them. They're very capable. It's fine. So you all just barely emerge from here. Oh, well, gosh. But I could help. I could help if I'm in there. No, no, you're fine. You're fine. I also have telekinesis. Whatever you feel. So I can try to. I can grab. I can. I don't know why. All right, don't worry. Look, don't have regrets. No, I'm not gonna dash. I'm not gonna dash. I'm gonna use my telekinesis to try to grab the Shadow Lord. Cause I can lift a thousand fucking pounds. Yeah, I'm just gonna grab him and try to pull him out with me. Okay, so you were only part. And he gets dragged 30ft over here. Okay, 30ft. Great. Okay. I would say then I'll. When I felt her hand leave mine, I'll be kind of in here. Ish. No, don't keep going. Laudnai Go. All right, all right. Middle. The towers. The towers above. You're hearing. It might help. It might help. Yeah. The ceiling is now run. Dash. All right, so it's half movement. So then the other half is 15ft will get you up on the dais. And then dash. 35ft. Right. So I'll get you there. Okay. And then 35ft will get you next to the Sorrow Lord. Okay, great. Maybe a little bit there, so. Oh, no, I use dash. Never mind. Okay, great. All right. That's you, breyess. Do I also have a bonus action? Yeah, you do. There you go. Yeah, Bonus action. I'm gonna use that extra 15ft with. Oh, Mr. Mister. And go. How far can you teleport? 15ft. Bonus action is a rogue for another chunk of movement. There you are. Rogue. And I'll do that as well. So you just pass the Imogen over there. Do you wanna put her. Yep. Okay. Okay. And then I'll take Sorrow Lord with me for that 15ft. 15ft. If you can't do both. Can't do both of them. He can if I have a willing creature. He's not willing. He's unconscious. Okay. I didn't know if that would count. That's okay. Okay, Nevermind. No worries. So you've left him. I've left him. And he's in the chamber still okay for him. You're the two who haven't done anything yet in this chamber. Yes. So I will start off just for fun. As I go, I look down at that image of the arch heart and I just smash it with my heel. And then I charge off. Okay. It corrects 30ft of movement. 20, 25. 30 gets you right there. And now I guess I will bonus action. No action dash, because I don't have bonus action dash. That gets you just up close to where. But I'd also like to carry the Sorrow Lord. Then you'll get half that movement. Yeah. So will I make it to the door? You'll make it just through the door. And he'll be pulled just beyond that fresh. Great. Who else is at the door right now? Everybody except Orym is out. Orym, what are you doing? I've been waiting to watch all the chickadees leave. And then I start to sprint in a direct line towards the. I'll use movement and action to go 60ft. Then 60ft will get you just over by where Imogen is, right? And then I will grasping vine a point on the ceiling of the hallway and yank myself even further forward. Okay. Show you 20 more feet that way. Who's outside with me right now? Can I throw one more thing, if possible? What do you wanna do? I've still got my rage up. You mind taking a punch? I'm gonna grab Chet. You're not dying, right? You're fine. Okay. I'm gonna grab Chet. I'm gonna just walk over the door, like, right into the door. I'm gonna take my fist and I'm gonna just like the gravity well is just gonna start pulsing and pulsing and I'm going to cause a singularity assault. Okay, sure. So this is gonna hurt a bunch of people. I'm gonna try and. How's the best way to do this? They're about to do something that's gonna kill the Sour Lord. Oh, yeah. No, actually, no, it won't. I just have to be really careful about it. There's nobody in any way do this and be to actually not kill everybody. We're in the hallway. We're in the hallway. Who are you attacking? Oh, well, the trick is I have to do it in a way where you understand the entire building is collapsing. Yeah, I know. Yeah, but we're in the hallway. It's a safe zone. Force cage stops everything. How much life do you have? I'm fine. Okay. What are you doing? I'm gonna do like 60, 10 damage to you. It'll be fine. So, yeah, I'm 6D. 10. It's gonna be bad. What are you doing? Just tell us you don't. I'm going to start a big gravity well. It's gonna pull everybody in that fucking hallway 30ft out. Ooh, I like that. Oh, it'll hurt. Chet, whoever's close. Chet. So, yeah, I'm going to. I'm going to hit Chet, and I'm going to tell everyone outside to brace themselves and tell everyone inside, don't brace yourself. And I'm just gonna do a fist. I'm not actually gonna use my hammer, which I can do. So that is reckless, because life is short. Pull the trigger that hits. That's just 10 damage straight. Okay. 10 bludgeoning damage. Yeah. I said this. So everybody outside needs to roll a. A strength save. Are we trying to save you outside? You are not outside. Oh, I thought it was six. Am I far enough away? What does outside mean? Outside? Who's made it on? Everyone in the hallway just go limp. Okay. Okay, wait. So outside, we roll a strength save. Yep. Well, okay. I'm gonna do great. Yeah. No, everyone, as. You're, like, you're hitting Chetney here. Yep. Everyone's going towards Chetney. Who doesn't roll against a DC16. Okay, everyone inside, 30ft towards Chetney. Whoa. Yeah. Okay, great. Can we grab onto. Can we. We're holding onto Sorrow Lord, though. I am technically speaking, Sorrow Lord is also somebody I can pull. Cause he is creative. All right, so that means that gets Aurum and Fearne out of the structure. Everyone else gets pulled. They're still within the hallway. Okay. How many people are now directly. How many people failed are now directly next to chat? That's going to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. No, I mean, like, within five feet. Like. Yeah, it's for each creeper that ends up five feet. So I don't count. That's going to be Laudna and the Guardian. So that's two. Two. Yeah. All right, so Chet, you take an extra. Oh, thank God. An extra 10 points of damage. All right? Yeah. Everyone inside gets 30 Morphins. Okay. You all get pulled forward, yanked and catching it just from that. Just from that one. Everyone resting outside, never done that before. Brayus and Imogen kind of there in the hallway, clutching it, looking over. That smile, that hope of the Fey exterior there. As the roof comes in and swallows both of them, Temple Falls. I'm going to collapse. I'm going to cover his body with mine. You cover the Sorrow Lord or Imogen. The sorrow Lord. Okay. Oh, my God. Can I. I can't use. Do anything. You offer a light reaction. The entirety of this temple falls. The din is deafening as dust billows out from all sides. You all have to brace yourself as the entirety of the vicinity becomes a dark gray cloud of dust in debris. Eventually, the rumbling comes to a stop. Stillness and shock washes over you as the dust slowly settles on the ruined pile. What was once the shrine of gilded gifts. And the two of your friends that have disappeared within the destruction. And that's where we're gonna take a break. That did not. Plan perfectly executed. We still got it yet? Pretty good about it. Still got it. I mean, it kind of worked. We talked to him. This fade guard's like, what the fuck? He is very confused. But yeah, sorry for that. Long run. We're gonna go take a break. We will too. We'll return here for what transpires after this. So see you here in a few minutes. And welcome back. So here as the dust and rubble settle. Rubble roll. Two of your compatriots vanishing beneath the fallen and crumbled stone, clutching two unconscious figures. One still dying, by the way. No. First failed save. Oh, but the emissary is stable, right? Misery stable. Zathuda's out. He made it out. No, he's under me. Under. Oh, wait. No, he's inside. That's right. He didn't get pulled. Which was like a Seattle brace shielded him with his body. What are the rest? Immediately pulling rock. I'm not strong. Oh, I'm. I will start pulling rocks if someone can help me. Know what rock? Cause I assume I can't move through any of this. Cause it's worked. Or it's all worked. Yeah. So I'm going to start pulling rocks. Cause I do have double. And I am just people help me stabilize shit. Same. Immediately same. Yeah, the two emissary guards that were back there seeing all this happen rush over to you. Dorian, to try and get to the emissary and help it up. Imogen. Imogen. I'm not gonna let him have them. I don't want to fight anymore. Oh, buddy. They both kind of rush up and they're just kind of reaching to help them up. What do you do? You're a talker. Come on, Rizzler. Hello, boys. How are you? He looks fine to me. And I'm gonna set him up like Weekend at Bernie's, and I'm gonna be like, he seems all right. He seems all right. And then. Oh, boy, I'm failing at this. Ruse. I've got him like this. I'm gonna just. Do I have it? Sorry. I've got it right here. Where the fuck is it? There it is. I'm going to snap my fingers and cast a hypnotic pattern as they're running toward me. And it's just kind of over my head. Okay. And it's just this sort of kaleidoscopic five and a 13. Oh. Okay. And yeah. 16 to save. So. Oh, they advantage. They've advantage because they're fey. Sorry. Oh. Natural three. Okay. And a natural two. Never mind. They're sweet. Didn't matter. Roll like shit. So they're trans by the thing above me. And I turn around. I got my arm. He's fine. I got him out of there. I feel like I'm responsible for him now. About stop in their tracks. Just staring above you. Yeah. Yeah. Look. Isn't that pretty? It's so pretty. Why don't you go watch it from over there? And I'm gonna ask if they can get away from gentleness. They kind of slowly sidestep while still focusing on the pattern. Just kind of like daydream, you know. I feel like maybe. Maybe he's bleeding somewhere and he needs a tourniquet. So. And I'm gonna pull the most powerful out of my backpack. My 50ft of hemp rope and I'm gonna start binding his arms. I was like yes, yes. He needs this. It's a medical thing. Are they. They walking out into the woods? Is that what's happening? No. They're just like. They're walking a little ways off and just standing there staring at this coward. Orym has a sudden thought and stands up like a meerkat on the rubble and looks around. Do I see any of the body of the people that we took down on the way in? You guys hid them all. We hid them all. That's what we did. Yeah. Like dragged them off in the bushes. Okay. I just remember striking a guy. And we're in. Great. I've been out here getting. Having a light snack. Awesome. I'll tie him up. And I've got him tied up now. Another pattern. Lasts for a minute. Yeah. He's still unconscious. So we do. We still have our telekinetic bond. You still have that? You would. Unless it got knocked out by my concentration. As you all are pulling rocks and rubble out from this. It's like one rock at a time. And what looks like will take hours to make any real headway. The towers themselves fell in and concentration. So it stays at. I'm gonna just say in my head, like Imogen. Imogen Breyess. In absolute darkness. Breyes and Imogen in the moment of accepting the end possibly of your life. The sound of crumbling destruction consumes all around you and then stops. You reach around and the stone is all around you. You. It's just stopped. Like a little cavity has kept you there. This is you. I don't do this sort of thing. Does your armor? Maybe it's my lord. All of the stones of the entire crumbled temple begin to shift and begin to pull back. They can lift and curl like the receding wave on a beach. The rubble begins to rescind. You watch as in a matter of moments, the temple begins to reconstruct itself. The towers standing there in place. The cracks still present, but just send where all the vines and leaves were. They were crushed and left to the ground. And now stands the beautiful polished, if cracked temple of the arch heart. Gorgeous in its imperfection. And on the outside, we all see this as well. All of you stand agape watching this happen. And as it rises up and what dust is there settles. You see, standing in that front hallway, Imogen and Breus hunched over where they thought everything would come to an end. Fucking Fae. I just run up to Imogen. Did you do this? This wasn't me. I'm so much all right. All of you also feel just a resin. Just the very air itself seems to fill with force. Like you're all on the cusp of something important. The faintest bit of golden light glimmers from the temple chamber you just fled from. And the air seems to grow warm. I get up and I grab Laudna's hand and I start walking towards the light. And then is the statue back of the archer. Is everyone walking in? Yeah. Is Fearne's dad stable? Can I stabilize him? It's his second death save. Okay, I will stabilize him somehow. Make a medicine check for me. Well, if I only get one shot, I'll probably just give him a hit. Okay, fair enough. Try it out. What for? You wanna make a medicine check? No, I'll just give him. If I fail the medicine check, he will die forever. Yeah, but Nana will. Damn. Do you have the means to give him a hit point? Of course. Yeah, but he'll wake up. He'll wake up. He'll wake up. I can just cock him on the. Just leave it any. Hey, let the dice decide. Yeah. Oh shit. Okay, it's just you. Medicine check. Medicine check. I will let. What's your modifier in medicine plus one. Let's go. Anybody else? Can I inspire me as modius side? You need actually guidance. Guidance. I'll guide you. Okay. As you walk up and your father is like slipping away, you go ahead and guide Breus. As you attempt to now quickly bind the wounds and close things. And using your healing touch not to fully bring him to consciousness, but just enough to staunch the bleeding and set knee bones. As you use that holy power to try and instill just enough to keep him beyond the realm of the conscious. You need to roll a 10 or higher. With a plus one, it would be a 9 or higher. AM I able to assist him? If you want to. Well, you're currently holding Imogen. Okay, I'll say. This is all happening in the same moment. That's fair. Yes. I'll just briefly whisper. If your eye is on me, Platinum Dragon, let this work. Oh, Platinum Dragon. Yes. Nine plus four from her. Oh my gosh. So it worked. You barely stabilized him. And still unconscious. The breath just slowly escapes and returns in shallowed. Inhale and exhales as we walk by. I'm just gonna take his sword right out of his fucking sheath. Throw it on my belt. Good idea. Okay. Here's your father. I mean, it's not okay. Just leave him there. You just take him. Just leave him there. Let's go. I take the funnel out of the bag of holding and I just lay against her. Dad. Is that not what we're doing? Are we not doing that? That's incredible. Incredible. Dorian, Are you bringing the emissary with you or are you staying outside? Yeah, yeah. So. So I don't have much time. Yeah, I'm dealing with it. You got like 30 seconds left of this spell at this place. You bound him quickly. I mean, like, since there's. Since there's no we're not initiative, I cast another spell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So I'm going to. I know it's a silly. Remember, if it's a concentration spell, it will drop the hypnotic power. Oh, it'll drop it. Okay. Hypnotic only lasts a minute. It only lasts a minute. 30 seconds where they're in range. Yeah, I'm just gonna. Nothing clever. I'm going to sling him over my shoulder and just book it inside with you guys. Just get him out of line of sight. Let's jog him in. Yeah. So you all jog into the temple. Walking past all the walls, you can see the thousands of spiderweb cracks throughout. But all it maintains its previous shape. I'm going to just touch the wall and feel the cracks as they walk through. It's interesting. Does it feel smooth? No, you feel the cracks there. And as beautiful as the temple was, it's a different kind of beauty. Now it's fallen and reforged. You, Ashton, find a very familiar and comforting pattern to that. As you all begin to step through the secondary hallway in towards the center of the court temple, the shattered fountain itself is reformed on the opposite side. Everything in this room, the pillars themselves, have now restructured themselves. Even that was turned to mud, has now been reformed back into the stone it once was and stands unscathed if not for the intricate broken lines that just weave through everything. And it's beautiful. As you all begin to step into the chamber, all the bits of shale and rock that was first dashed against the far wall gathers into the statue of the Arch Heart where it once was on the opposite end of the interior. And it just stands resolute, smiling, its head shakes and looks down at the rest of you. What's happening right now? Where? Where did he go? What? No. No. No way. No. I think I know what's happening. Oh, my God. You sneaky. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We're going to have work. Oh, my goodness. The statue looks and regards each and every one of you. Taking you all in. And. Stop. Sobrias. Oh, shit. I smashed your face. You walk out of the Podium, he's about 8 foot tall, looks at you. Did you really have to do that? I mean, my Lord and you don't really have a great relation from what I saw. Are you sure? Oh, first off, hi. Are you real? Suddenly, they click their fingers, the roof opens. And what you begin hearing is the growing screech of something horrendous roll. An intelligence. Save all of us, everybody. Yeah. On our heels. On our heels. Not sure what the fuck's happening. Dm indomitable. And re roll. Okay. Not much better. You said 14. 19. 20. Total. 20. Not smart. Dirty 20. Okay, nice. You got. You got a nat 20. I know. Dirty 20. Okay, okay, right. 17. Okay. 16. Okay. 17. Oh, go ahead. 12. 17. This sound, you've all heard it before, but from where? Surely, for a short moment, your minds are catapulted back to the days of your birth. The moments you were literally ripped from the wombs of your bearer. As the sky begins opening, these portals begin shooting out and these arms start snatching you and pulling you out from where you are. You find yourselves on a field. Imagine, if you will, this vast expanse of delicate crystalline reeds, swaying, rhythmically in time with one another. Above you are stars. But each star looking unique and individual. They stand there, proud and close. It's almost like as if you could reach them. And this air just hits you. This cool air. It's fragrant and sweet and subtle. The smell of roses. A smell that makes you think of grace, perfection, beauty. Now you see a figure standing 30ft away from you. Their form is outlined by this soft glow of starlight. They look naked, but their skin is not as the flesh that you'd normally see. They are a living canvas of a starry sky. A tapestry of constellations. He beckons you. Braeus. Are we floating or standing in something? You're standing. Okay. Upon this field of roots. I have nothing to fear. I step forward. What do you know of family? I know that family is the most precious thing. And if anyone challenges your family, you must destroy them. And who is your family? Well, I have none right now. But I seek. I seek a family. Yes. So desperately it's rather touching. I tell you what. Let's forget the mess you did back there. You're in my domain now. I appreciate that. Swear fealty to me and I'll let you live. There's no option B or C. No. I feel that there are more important things than life. Who you swear your allegiance to, who you consider your family. Who takes care of you in your worst times. Those matter more than the fleeting life of a mortal. So, no, I will not pledge myself to you, for I am already pledged to another. And he would not be happy with me, nor you, were he to be betrayed again. So close. So close. I thought I had you, but I didn't. But it's totally fine. Totally cool. I like it. I really respect it. Welcome, all of you, to. Well, I mean, is it my home? I don't know what is home nowadays? It's funny. I am surprised that I'm seeing this troupe of. Well, truthfully, I thought you'd all be more heroic. But here we are. Tell me, what did you see? Dm, I have a question. We have interfaced with the gods before on the material Plane, but always through dream and vision. Are we cognizant of the fact? Are we looking at divinity face to face? In this moment? Do we know? Are we aware? Is it a vision? Or are we really there? Because this is. This is the Arch Heart's realm. Yes. There is no Golden Gate. No. Between. Wow. Roll insight. Okay. I'm 19. You don't know any different. The feeling you have is so powerful and potent at Raw. It's almost as if you are within the presence of divinity itself. Okay. We saw you in Aeor, what we hope was her worst moment. We saw you as you sided with the betrayer gods and sided will collaborate. We saw the city fall. You were very powerful. I saw you rain fire from the sky. Very charismatic. The bar was beautiful. It was gorgeous. It really was. Did you hear the countless screams of people? Yes. You did, didn't you? Yes. So you saw the events of Aeol. Fascinating. I won't ask how, but this is good. This is really good. You know of our power. You know of what we can do. And we know of what you are all capable of. Our children. So my next question. Suddenly a table materializes in front of you with food and drink. It's gorgeous. Please. Sorry, my bad. Sit down. Take care to eat. Eat. You're welcome. But I look at the chair, but my next question is, what are you going to do with that knowledge of Aeor? What are you doing in my temple? Fighting family? Killing them? Or attempting to good save family is important. Yes? Tell me. One of your children, immortal, saw what we saw and wants all your children to know they have recording devices in Aeor. They have it. This man wants to leave childhood behind for all. And the threat that your kin has shown us, shown me, they think letting your children decide and letting that power free to do away with you. I don't know if we're completely aligned, but we all fear the question of that action and the balance that exists now for you and me to thrive. Well, I fear breaking that balance. I'll be honest. I fear it too. Appreciate the honesty. But there's something inside me that tells me that perhaps, maybe this balance needs to be broken. I mean, there's a reason why you're all here. There's a reason that there is a burning desire for change. Things can be broken in many ways, yes. Tiff the scales. In which way are you referring to? I saw your conversation with the dark, spooky lady. You were curious about oblivion. H. Yes. Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't want to die now. Please, no, not anymore. No, I mean, it flirted with it, but the actual reality of darkness. And it's rather dark. No? But I do feel that there needs to be a change. You see, something that I've realized, something that I keep seeing, is our children continue to rebel all the time. Hundreds, thousands, many, many years continuous. We are in this perpetual cycle. And it seems that our presence, be it either here behind a big door Isn't doing anything. There is something innate. You want us out? There is. I look at you, Fernando. Go towards you. What is that? There is a fire within. What is what? Oh, I walk towards you and I touch your chest. I usually charge for that. Hmm. You suddenly feel this feeling within you. This feeling to transform, to become primarily. Ah, so you both also have. What's the matter? This changes a lot of things, doesn't it? What does it change? Are you scared? Are you angry? No, not angry. Fascinated. You know, I actually think that. No. What? Never mind. Oh, no. I suddenly realized that I'm in a position to say something I've wanted to say to a God my whole fucking life. Oh, okay. There you go. What is it that. That you want? What do you fucking want? What? What do you want, really? Not souls. Not worship. What? What. What is this art for that you refuse to fucking abandon? How can it be art if you don't fucking abandon it? Just Ryle here. No wonder we're fucking rebelling over and over and over again. You won't let go. And that is what I want. I want to let go. There is something beautiful inside of you. And you, in fact, of all of you. But there is something here. Kicking feeling. You know, I feel like I've met you before. And to be honest, I'm a bit bored. I'm tired. That's what I want. I want to let go. I want my family to let go. Now, how we let go? Well, big doors don't work. Death. No, no. But there is an opportunity here, you see, while I was gazing and watching upon your little family debacle, where you decided to, you know, either side with them or not, you know, and then you decided to pull them off a bloody dragon and then wanted to, I don't know, kill them of sort. I mean, you took off his leg. I did. That was it. You know, we get mixed. Right. I see. Understandable. Okay. But the thing is, what I'm seeing is an opportunity here. I'm seeing something. How do I say this? There's a window. It's open. However it comes through. Potential sacrifice of famine. Do you know what it means to become a vessel? We have guesses. We have guesses. But I. I personally know what it means. What have you guessed? Well, they keep talking about. Ludinus wants a vessel for Predathos. Someone to take that power in and perhaps guide it. I know a little bit. Is that right? Yes, yes. I mean, a receptacle for something else. You want to try something else sometimes? Do you think there is any other way of resolving this scenario? I'm sure looking for it. I know a little bit. Don't. Go on, please. Pray tell. This is fascinating. Actually quite a lot about what it's like to be a vessel with something else inside of you. And tell me, do you have control now or are they in control? I think I'm in control now. Ah, yes, you see, that's the magic. But it took a long time. It did take a long time. But you succeeded. Yes. The lines. The line that blurred on a day to day basis of not knowing where I began and she ended. It was exhausting. I was afraid I'd lose myself entirely. It's terrifying, yes, but also intoxicating. The truth is, there is a few of us who want to let go. I say a few too. Maybe ask who the other one is. Oh, why ruin the fun? All right. The rest, however, we're all doing this dance again. Sitting around a table, deciding should we intervene? Should we not? We are this close to another calamity. Because there is a fear of our death. You see, the truth is, no matter what happens, there will be lives lost. All for the preservation of ourselves. It's incredibly selfish. And I'm realizing that. And I'm seeing that. And I thought we could change, but we couldn't. And so the only solution that I see is what Ludinus desires. However, I believe either you two can truly control this thing and chase us off as. How does that sound? Just chase you away? Absolutely. If you get there before anyone else does. See, our eyes are all on Ludinus and the armies that are gathering and fighting. We're ready to jump in there. But if you're able to maybe, I don't know, sneak in behind, find a way in and take over, gain control. If you. If you were inside one of us, do you think we'd be able to control you? It's a good question. I've listened to Predathos. I've heard the call. It's powerful. It is. But Predathos only desires one thing. And that is my family. Why? Sustenance. Enjoyment. It's hungry. Mary, I truly believe that for mortality to evolve, to grow, to progress, to flourish is with us, not waiting at the gate to intervene every now and then. And the only way that we will run is if we have something to fear. Now, what happens to the vessel? I don't know. But if you truly do care about family and sacrifices need to be made. And what about the children who don't want to let go. They will learn. What if you aren't able to run fast enough? And what happens to our families on the ground? Well, it depends on how fast you move. Because if you're too slow, then we're going to repeat the calamity all over again. And then we go back to building a gate and waiting for the next moment to happen. How many would it take to truly control Pronathos? How many do you think? I don't know. And that's the scary part. You are in my domain and you've seen my power. But in this moment, I am powerless. And that's what's quite funny about this is I'm looking at this troop of what don't seem like heroes having more power than what I could even ever imagine. Fate is weirdly on your side. Why? I don't know. But this is the hand we've been dealt with. This is. How does it feel to have the shoe on the other foot? I'm so curious. You see, we are just people. And I know you think lowly of us because you've asked us to make sacrifices for you. And now you're getting a tiniest taste of what it is to be a person with no guarantee. And fear of death that looms over us every day. And your instinct is to sacrifice your own family and run, and yet you ask us to find the courage to fight for you. It seems like a poor bargain. But what do I know? I'm just a stupid person. I don't think you're stupid. You're my children. Our children. You are of us. Why would I think lonely of you? Just because I have seen more than you have experienced More than you? No. Perhaps. Maybe some of us think lowly of mortality, but not I. Not some of my brothers, not my sisters, not my kid. That's why, in truth, I find all I find is situation. The power that lives within both of you right now, in you. Fascinating. Beautiful. Incredible. That can only happen if we step back. It can only grow if we step back. So I'm simply asking for you to make sacrifices in order for the greater good. I know what I will have to live with, to answer to when it all happens. But. But in the end, you will live. That's the plan. For you to live. If you can run fast enough, maybe he'll stop for Dothos long enough. Maybe he'll lend a hand so his brothers and sisters can get away. What happens to your power when you leave to that vacuum? Does it just go away? Does it get handed to the next mortal that dares go for it. Here. This place. I don't know. You're the one who gave us these gifts. Yes. Thank you. We've all done a great many and terrible thank you. Why did you do that? Why? Yeah. Wanted to change things up. You see, I am no different to you. Did you try Jello? Your carving of toys? Why do you do it, bro? You never know what it's gonna turn out to be. There you go. Surely we all want our children, our family to flourish. Don't have children with family. But you have friends. For now. This food is incredible, by the way. You guys are missing out. Oh, I thought you were just eating some Werther. I forgot about the food. I have two questions. Is it true we were around when Predathos first came to this world? We had heard that two of your siblings had been devoured by the creature before you encapsulated it. Is that true? Wow. You know a lot. Yes. Been around a while. Yes, it is true. Second question. I might have died in my sleep and this is just a crazy ass dream before the end. Or it's real. But either way, I don't think I've ever had an audience with a God. So, thank you. But I have to ask. Did you also have this talk with Ludinus? Oh, no, no, no. His idea. No, his idea was inspiring, but I didn't have the talk with him. You see, the problem with Ludinus, or, well, again, this is just my opinion, is that he is a bit power hungry. He kind of wants to be like us. Problem is, he will never be like us. We've said that. We've kind of said that. It's fun. I mean, there have been moments in history. But Udinus is, again, from my point of view, too caught up in his own self. So to answer your question in what will happen if, you know, we leave? I don't know. But again, isn't that beautiful? I have a feeling that things will balance themselves out. Because it always has. The issue, however, comes at moments where you can't balance things out. Like, for example, unleashing product with the aim and intention to kill us. Do you really think that we would let that happen? No. Because when mortality tried to kill us. Well, you've seen it. You tip the scales. Exactly. So what I am asking for or suggesting is that you go a step further, become faster than us. Because we are waiting for the moment that you all are into this big battle. And all it takes is for us to just step in. Does your Family know that? Does your family know about this? Oh, no. I mean, I'm pretty sneaky in Europe. You're asking for our help. You are asking mortal creatures for your help, are you not? I mean, if you want to see it that way. I want you to see it that way. Does it make you hard? Everything has made me hard. You said Steph. Yes. Oh. Oh, Sorry. Yes, I'm asking for your help because I'm realizing now that we need your help. You were saying? Okay. Oh. I mean, I don't want to step on any. I'm new to the group here, so I'm pretty sure we're all dead. Anyway, just a couple of questions, if you don't mind. You said. I mean, we all know that Predathos is hungry, and sacrifices must be made. Why not just feed him like one of you? Won't that quell his appetite? So you're asking me to make a sacrifice of our own family? Well, I mean, your family are a. Ours. I guess I'm just asking why that's not an option. Do you really think that if Rodarthos ate one of them that he would be satiated? I don't know anything about. I don't think it would. I mean, he ate two before that. Hunger inside, it's going to be there. Always is. Bottomless, it's all consumed. That's it. Wouldn't have trapped him in the moon if he was one and done. Yeah. I feel like that's one of the reasons. I'm most afraid that if we release him, that he'll turn on humanity as well. Because he will not turn on humanity. How do you know? Because you are nothing to Predathos. You are simply specks of dust to Predathos. I step on ants every day because I don't know they're there. I'm a little worried about the same thing. Lord, believe me, it has a singular purpose. It always has. And that is to devour us. Humanity will never satiate it. It will chase us to the ends of what we think or believe or feel. It will constantly come for us. So you want us to take Predathos into ourselves and end it so he can get a head start? And if we don't, nothing bad will happen to us. Oh, no. Terrible things will happen to you. Because the fight will open itself up here. We want to get away from the dathos. Containing it in this makeshift moon has obviously not worked. I'm gonna work for a while. For a while? Well, why don't you? I Mean, not for nothing, it's kind of a stupid plan. You hid him within view of us. We could see him. Like the moon was always there the whole time. You should have like or her. Sent him far, far away so we couldn't see. Be curious about it. Big mistake. Hey, question. Question. When you flee with your family, do you mean all your family? Yes. All your family? Yes. All your family. Even the one you so desperately desire? Yes. Does he know that? Why? Should I tell him? I mean, I think it would. Would you unleash Pedarthas for him? If he asked me to. Hmm. You suddenly see behind me the stars beginning to form what looks like a horned beast. A being. Now, I'm not a creature. So if I asked you to free Predathos for me, would you do it? I mean, you're not. I know that this is a trick. Do you? Can I insight check? A God? Absolutely. Inside check of your life? Pretty high insight. What is it? 19. Ooh. You have no idea. My 19. Eight. Shit. Earlier. Suddenly the stars dissipate. No, he's not gonna ask. He's too proud. But look, it's really simple. I am aware that the power is in all your hands. All I can do is simply suggest, ask and be honest. Whether you're gonna get an answer from anyone else. Who knows? Why not? Maybe. Why don't you leave now? Why don't we leave now? Yeah. While he's still put away. If only it was that simple. Why leave your children? Children to fend for themselves when something big, dark and scary is on their doorstep? To be fair, you're asking us to go to the front of the battle instead. I know. Try convincing my family to leave their children. They simply won't. I have said it time and time again. We need to leave. Just let them do their own thing. Let them grow. But my children. I can't leave my children. Is that the Downfather you do have? The Dawnfather. Thank you. Just loving you. Hating you. Constant fluctuation. Fear for our own lives. Like animals. You see, this is the thing. We are just animals. At the end of the day, we are no different to you. Maybe a bit more powerful. But we still fear for our lives. We still fear for survival. The only way to get us out is the fear of our lives. Now, we have always been a step ahead. You've seen aor. You've seen what they were, what you are capable of, and what we did. With all due respect, say we take you up on in your plan. One of them becomes A vessel for Bradothos begins the chase. How can you assure us you still won't start that calamity? Do you promise to run every time? But we have felt a threat. We have acted upon it. As I said, you are this close to an event happening again. The only difference is, however, is that not all of us are aligned on acting. There is a divide within the family. A moment of weakness. There has never been an opportunity like this before. Believe me, when we're on the back foot, which we have been, we will run. Aurum Jam sp seedling his blade into your table. And little tendrils of vine and flower grow around it and waver. Some of your kin seem pretty set to fight one way or the other. So even if we take you up on your offer, it doesn't seem like you have a lot of sway over your brothers and sisters and what they'll do. What if they fight us? What if they start a calamity? Anyway, if that thing gets loose again? I can only speak from the experiences that I have had. We have always had the advantage. We don't have one now. So what happens? Do you really think the vessel could control Predathos? I don't know. I think I. I mean, I feel like. I feel like I could. I feel like it could. I feel like I could. Well, you know, one God tells me one thing, and one God tells me another. I don't really know what to believe. I've never had a God tell me anything. This is fun. You're very beautiful. That's true. I will second that. Yeah. Yeah. I really was just like. Thanks. As much as I hate to admit. All right. Super hot. Wow. Suddenly I start turning gold. Look, these are all valid questions. And I simply wished to present to you my opinion. Because I can. Because someone allowed me. You? I don't know. And I don't have the answers. And that's what's so exciting about this. Because every single time there has been a threat or there's been an idea, you can see through it. I can't see what's going to happen here. However, I do know what will happen if you all decide to go to war. I do know what will happen if you unleash Ponathos when we expect it. Which is why I'm asking you, or simply suggesting that you get ahead of us, get ahead of everyone. Again, this is just my opinion. I don't know if it's going to work. I have a feeling, A gut feeling. But I can. I am like you. I don't know what will happen. However, what I do know is that if you move too slow, if you think for too long, we will simply make the decision for you. Dorian's Dorian. Karren's been sitting super rigid, backed away from the food. Cause he's disgusted by it. Like, the luxury of it. The idea that it's not even real, but it's presented this way. And then he scoots forward and begins to relax and takes a drink and partakes and says, when we first met a few moments ago, I thought, I can't believe this. God is his own worst enemy. Because I was prepared to serve you by serving my friends. And then we met, and everything you said made me want to resist it more. But you've just given us the opportunity to unleash Predathos, but control it and also get rid of you. And that was the only block my conscience had. And if I can do both, that is a deal I'd be willing to make. I will never care for the gods, ever. But I will make a deal with them if it allows me and my friends the freedom to live our lives. And this does not sound like a bad deal to me. So run because you're scared. That would make me happy to see. You are beautiful. If we do this, how might you aid us? That was definitely a question. I knew it was gonna be you too. Ever since that vision, I knew you were gonna be the one to show up. And you asked. We. I'm in thought about seeking you out when we were in Vasselheim. Honestly, kismet to find you here. So here's the connection. Conundrum. Who I can't aid you. Cool. Is that a fancy sword from his guard? Yes. I don't have a guard. The issue here. I mean, I can aid you in some way, shape or form, but in the moment, the idea of stepping foot or actively partaking opens the door for everyone to partake in. Yep. And that is something I don't want to allow. Because then I know what will happen. That's fair. What I can do, however. And suddenly you see me pinch into the sky and you see a star pulsating. The cool air suddenly turns warm as I begin pulling it towards us. And as I yank it out of the sky, a star, or what looks like a star, is about 10 foot away from you. The table and food disappears. So whatever you are eating. Oops. Oh, I just grabbed my drink. Isn't there anymore. Please walk towards me. Walk towards. Walk towards the walk. Walk with me towards the Star. I've always wanted to see one up close. And as you stand, as you step closer towards it, those from the school of magic can feel a sort of supreme power radiating from it. You can make out a face. It's gaunt and hollow eyed, feminine. Their eyes are burning with an intensity. It's unyielding, this star. You can hear it whispering. It's indecipherable. But there is a panicked sort of a mantra to it. Like a wish. Can I lean forward and try to hear a little bit better? The weapon. I wish. The knowledge. Are these prayers? The weapon. The knowledge. The weapon. This star. The only thing human about it is the face. Everything else are almost like these tendrils just coming out of it. It's what weapon? Everyone doesn't. This is her. You want your aid? At the corner of its mouth you see a hair dancing to its breath. This was someone dear to me. But a series of events led to. Well, the planning of a last resort. But now I'm seeing that maybe I. I don't need them anymore. Has she been here this whole time? You want my help? Pluck the hair from her mouth. As you reach for the hair, it begins to wrap itself around your finger, slowly spooling itself. And as you do, this human star lets out a hoarse groan as it begins to dissipate before you. As it slowly unthreads, a sigh of relief escapes its lips. Suddenly a powerful flash of light explodes from this star. Heat. Energy. Magic. It's forceful. And you feel this sense of weightlessness. Euphoria. It pierces. You have a laudna. The first thing that hits you isn't the light, but a smell. A smell you know very well. The smell of winter. Then an image hits you. Something familiar, yet alien. A mask. Black feathers. And then a whisper. Come find me. The last thing that you all hear is you have heard my side. You have not much time. Do what you believe is right. The first thing that you feel as you awaken is the cold stone floor pressed upon your cheeks. I love you, Abu. I love you. As your eyes flutter and your senses. It's what she got that is gross. Stop. I love you. Breus doesn't wake up. Just a pull of his own blood. No. As your senses come to you one by one, the blurry experience of being back in your body begins to become more and more familiar. As you sit up here in the cracked chamber of the reforged temple of the Arch heart. And the statue stands, resolute and still. A golden band wrapped around your finger. And the echoes of choices to be made in the times to come. And that's where we go ahead and close the next episode. Did you marry a God? I love it. Called the Ring of Remembrance. Oh. Oh boy. While wearing this ring. Wait. Manifested from the arch heart, this ring forms an invisible web like weave around the wearer. That was a lot of W's. While wearing this wing gain a plus two bonus to armor class. As well as a plus two bonus to your spell attack rolls and spell safety seat. You also have advantage on Constitution saving throws Caster's best friend. Oh my God. When maintaining concentration as an action, you can activate the latent arcane power within this band. Roll a D20. If you roll above your current hit points. Oh. You immediately cast the meteor swarm. Swarm. Oh. Cause if you roll lower or equal than your current hit points, you instead take 20d6 fire damage and 20d6 bludgeoning damage. So it's a last resort. It's a last resort. Wow. Yes. You have to roll higher than your current hit points. So it's something you use when you're in your left. Yeah. Or equal two. So if I'm at one and I roll at one, I'm dead. Okay. Or you can just take the boost to your stats at all times. That's fine too. But anyway, we'll pick up from here next time. Thank you all for joining us. Us, we love you very much. And is it Thursday? At AMA Insurance, we know it's more than just a car. 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