Opening Night | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 29 Part 2

Summary

Critical Role: Opening Night | Campaign 4, Episode 29 Part 2

Date: June 23, 2026
Dungeon Master: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Players: Thimble, Teor, Julian, Octis, Cid, Tyranny, Wikander, guest/NPCs
World: Ahriman

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Episode Overview

This thrilling episode continues the high-stakes infiltration of Obramis Manor as the party struggles through magical darkness, undead horrors, and political intrigue. The adventurers battle for survival in an undercroft filled with ghosts, skeletons, and devastating shadow entities, while elsewhere, a council of Exandria’s power players faces shocking revelations and political fallout. Deep character moments, tense combat, epic magical twists, and jaw-dropping political drama unfold as the story’s threads tighten.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Into the Crypt: Darkness & Undead Assault (01:28–44:40)

Setting: Obramis Manor, in the crypt. The party attempts to lay Dame Gaia Saramai to rest when magical darkness envelops them.

The Darkness Descends

• [01:46] Darkness snuffs all vision—"Magical darkness surrounds you all. Which by the way, means even those with darkvision." (Narrator)
• Teor confirms they have "fatty candles," but lighting one is a bonus action and only provides 5 feet of dim light.
• Party members become vulnerable to necrotic damage unless specifically warded.

First Combat: Skeletons and Shadows

• [03:09] Octis's protective aura shields Thimble from necrotic vulnerability.
• [04:21] Faerie Fire and similar spells are ineffective; only magical light from candles can push back the darkness.
• [06:26] Julian lights a candle, kicks his rapier into his hand, immediately engages a skeleton: "Light him if you got him!" (Julian, 07:46)
• [07:08] These skeletons are tougher than previous encounters: "These skeletons, unlike the ones you were fighting in Tanasar, are armored. Everyone here was a knight or some kind of armored warrior." (DM)

Thimble’s Heroics & Necromantic Diplomacy

• Thimble holds attacks, using a toy sword designed to banish nightmares—proving effective against shadows.
• [10:07] Octis attempts to raise Saramai’s corpse as an ally but realizes her spirit lingers:
  • "What did honor buy me?" – Dame Saramai’s tormented spirit (11:40)
  • Octis persuades her: "Come back to my voice. Help me survive this and I will show you a different path to walk." (Octis, 12:21)
  • [13:44] "Julian's candle and two glowing snake eyes in the dark." (DM) Saramai is now animated, haunting and terrifying but allied.
• [15:11] Octis urgently warns Julian: "I made a friend, don't Julian—don't kill Saramai." (Octis)
  • Julian, startled, replies: "My blade is about an inch and a half into the clothing—it's like you could have said something a little sooner." (Julian, 15:22)
• [18:44] Strategy: Teor tries to intercept fleeing skeletons to prevent alerting enemies in the manor above.

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2. Shadows Unleashed: Deadly Threats & Close Calls (23:01–44:47)

Shadow Entities Arrive

• The candles cast shadows on the walls, which spring to life as deadly necrotic entities:
  • "Your shadow on the wall behind you is quite small. Which matters in this moment because only two shadows spontaneously burst from the shadow behind you." (DM, 22:17)
• Thimble, using a magical toy sword, decimates a shadow:
  • "A little bit of color, lights this dark, depressing room." (Thimble, 25:21)
  • Thimble: "23 points of damage to that thingy."
• [29:07]–[29:26] Shadows drain strength directly: "If your strength score is reduced to zero, you are dead." (DM, 30:34)
• Teor is nearly overwhelmed: "Hey man, you know, like I'm in a fucking dark ass basement with only a fatty candle to light my way. And getting attacked by five skeletons." (Teor, 29:33)
• The combat becomes increasingly desperate; mention of fleeing and using levers to block exits.

Strategic Retreat & Sacrifice

• [46:58] Octis sacrifices his own health with Life Transference to heal Teor: "The blood floats out of my arm and it flies across the room and circles around you, and you see this length of blood. Blood sort of become a thread and start to stitch your wounds up and pull them close together." (Octis, 47:44)
• [54:24] Teor pulls a lever to drop a portcullis: "You hurl the lever down, not only does this portcullis slam. You hear—more importantly, the marble slab behind you slides back into place." (DM)
  • Their retreat is frantic—the candlelit "wall of fur and fury" and smashed skeletons buying precious time.

Saramai’s Redemption

• Saramai, immune to necrotic damage, draws enemy focus:
  • "Dame Saramai steps into the middle of this group... her eyes glow lime green in the dark." (DM, summarizing from 49:03+)
  • On a critical intimidation, the shadows recognize her as family and offer her a strange kind of welcome. (70:00–75:21)

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3. Political Aftermath: The Council of Houses (83:13–120:00+)

Setting: Upstairs, the noble council convenes. Dramatic confrontations between the great houses, revelations, and accusations ensue.

Tense Assembly & Guest Arrivals

• Leaders from all major houses gather. Lord Otto Einfassen, Lady Hailuvar, Lord Cormoray, and more are present.
• [85:41] Lord Ahtakani Cormoray arrives in style, a meteor streaking across the sky for his entrance.
• The disappearance and sudden return of Lady Amaria (previously locked in a box!) shocks attendees.

House Taconis on Trial

• Lord Primus Taconis is confronted about his schemes:
  • "Every member of this council has spoken, whispered in shadows to one another, that Royce's time has long been up... House Taconis simply did what you were all too weak to do." (Primus, 102:14+)
  • Otto and Cormoray force Primus to admit his plan: he sought to use a necromantic superweapon, the Daeva Vindicta, to make the other houses kneel.
• [106:32] The Archmage presents a black candle—a critical ritual component—terrifying Primus.
• Cormoray grandstands:
  • "I have long felt the withering gaze of house Taconis. The House of Death. But you are not the House of Death. You are the House of the Dead. Dead? ... your aesthetic enthusiasm for dead things does not make you the most dangerous man in this room." (Cormoray/Otto, 107:28–108:14)

Confessions & Fallout

• Under a compelled zone of truth, Primus admits:
  • The Daeva Vindicta was intended to unite the houses by force, not to annihilate them.
  • He claims Taconis acted out of impatience with the republic’s slow processes.
• [114:17+] The old grudges and schemes are laid bare. Primus: "The Daeva Vindicta was a winning move..."
• The council is left shaken but forced to consider future alliances and the more significant threats outside their "game."

Character Interludes

• Amaria’s Reunion with Wikander: In a surreal exchange, the returned Lady Amaria hints at new power and a shared "kill the god" mission:
  • "They don't know what I know. And I know the things that they don't know." (Amaria, 124:41)
  • "If we help them, we get to kill a God again." (Amaria, 126:08)

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4. Epilogue: Consequences, Jokes, & Level Ups (130:00–End)

• The demon aspirants bicker about their successful capture ("closed mouths don't get fed"), revealing the character dynamics within the family.
• Cadogan (Kadigan) and Wulfric, manacled, are unceremoniously presented to the council.
• Several characters level up thanks to their bravery and decisive actions (e.g., Thimble, after a crit, 38:17).
• The session ends with both literal and metaphorical doors closed—Portcullises dropped, secrets spilled, and powerful family bonds tested.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Light him if you got him.” – Julian, as he brings a bit of hope (and light) into horror (07:46)
• "Come back to my voice. Help me survive this and I will show you a different path to walk." – Octis, trying to reach Saramai’s lingering spirit (12:21)
• "If your strength score is reduced to zero, you are dead." – Dungeon Master, as the true stakes of the shadow entities are revealed (30:34)
• "A little bit of color, lights this dark, depressing room." – Thimble, as her toy sword banishes a nightmare (25:21)
• "This is how trauma is made." — Teor, reeling from the crushing tension and necrotic onslaught (62:06)
• "I made a friend, don't Julian—don't kill Saramai." — Octis, after animating Saramai’s corpse (15:11)
• "I'm heavier than I look." – Octis, as Julian fireman-carries him during the retreat (78:49)
• "Just 'cause you're goth doesn't mean you're tough." – DM, encapsulating the tone at the political table (108:26)
• "The Daeva Vindicta was not meant to slaughter you. It was meant to make you kneel." — Primus, confessing his strategy before the council (112:46)
• "If we help them, we get to kill a God again." – Lady Amaria, revealing twisted cosmic ambition (126:08)
• "We'll be right behind you." – The group, promising to support each other as they flee the crypt (76:22)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Event / Segment | |------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:28–04:10 | Magical darkness falls; party lights candles, undead voices emerge | | 06:26–13:44 | Fighting armored skeletons, raising Dame Saramai as an undead ally | | 15:11–20:37 | Saramai joins, strategy to block undead from alerting the manor | | 23:01–31:00 | Shadows arrive, devastating attacks, party struggles to survive | | 46:58–54:24 | Octis uses life transference; Teor pulls lever to block undead | | 70:00–75:21 | Saramai intimidates shadows, gains their respect, party escapes | | 83:13–109:02 | Council convenes; major houses debate, accuse, and confess | | 114:17–120:00 | Council fallout, Primus explains his motives, high drama | | 121:17–126:14 | Wikander & Amaria’s secret meeting: ambition, magic, and kinship | | 130:00–134:29 | Cadogan and Wulfric delivered; level-ups and wrap-up |

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Tone & Style

• Intense, darkly humorous, and deeply immersive: The episode displays high horror-fantasy stakes in the crypt, going from panic (“I'm in a fucking dark ass basement with only a fatty candle...”) to gallows humor, to sudden heroism.
• Political drama and intrigue: Upstairs, the council’s masked politeness, old grudges, and sudden revelations echo the best of “Game of Thrones.”
• The DM, Brennan Lee Mulligan, balances narrative tension, rules adjudication, and character banter with wit and gravitas.

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In Summary

This episode of Critical Role is a masterclass in balancing gnawing tension and gallows humor, with the players surviving by the skin of their teeth against terrifying supernatural threats while major political machinations and dark secrets boil over in the halls above. The episode ends with the party battered but alive, alliances in question, and the fate of Ahriman hanging by the thinnest of threads.

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Transcript

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[Octis]

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[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hello again, it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, and you're listening to part two of this episode of Critical Role. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. What are you doing? Otherwise, let's jump right back into this

[Narrator/Storyteller]

adventure and the world of Ahriman. In the crypt of Obramus Manor, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

In the crypt of Obramis Manor, light extinguishes.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Magical darkness surrounds you all. Which by the way, means even those with darkvision.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So Octys, even as you peer through shadows more normally, you find yourself still

[Narrator/Storyteller]

as the true tenebral gloom rushes in.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Meaning unless someone here has Warlock well,

[Teor]

we got those fatty candles, right?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

We got some fatty candles. But that is going to be a To light a fatty candle is a bonus action. You got to get those lit that will take your initiative to do so. For right now you are in complete darkness as you hear the hissing and

[Narrator/Storyteller]

gasping of spirits of the dead.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Thimble, it is your turn. First of all, this is the altar in which Gaea Saramai was laid. Does everyone here agree with where their minis are? I don't see where I this is Thimble right here. Thimble right here. But you guys put yourself wherever you would be. I have Julian here.

[Octis]

I think I'm up by the altar having just laid Sara Mai on It

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

you are here, Pin by your side.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Great.

[Octis]

Oh yeah.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Oh, pin. Cool.

[Octis]

A dog.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Great.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

My fox talk.

[Octis]

This cat's following me.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Amazing. So thimble darkness abounds. You also feel in this moment a

[Narrator/Storyteller]

protection from octis around you, granting you a resistance to necrotic damage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

But I will remind you that the resistance to necrotic damage is great on its own, but what it's really doing

[Narrator/Storyteller]

is preventing you from being vulnerable to necrotic damage, which unfortunately Teor, Julian and Cid all are. Question.

[Thimble]

Yes, Faerie fire.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Uh huh.

[Thimble]

If I light it up, how does it affect magical darkness? Or how is magical? Would I still see the outline of the fairy dust within the magical darkness?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Unfortunately, I believe the wording of darkness and I could be wrong here, which is sort of the template that we're going off of for magical darkness is the darkness spell for the duration. Magical darkness spreads from a point darkvision can't see through it and non magical

[Narrator/Storyteller]

light can't illuminate it. But these candles are a form of magical light.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Alternatively, you can cast the spell. If any of this spell's area overlaps with an area of brightletter dim light created by a spell level of second level or lower, that other spell is dispelled, your fairy fire swallowed up.

[Thimble]

Got it? Yep. Okay, then I'm not gonna do that. Oh gosh. I can't see shit. I'm gonna fly up.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You fly up. You are in a crypt. So the ceiling is only about low. It's about a 8 foot, 7 foot ceiling.

[Thimble]

Yeah. I just want to be not next to seven foot. Can I hold my attack until I can see?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yes, you can hold your attack until you can see.

[Thimble]

Or until something attacks me?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes you can.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yes, absolutely.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So you are going to ready an action to attack anything that takes a swipe at you.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. Moving forward in the initiative. Julian, that's you.

[Tyranny]

All right.

[Julian]

So I'm holding the kindle in my hand as everything just goes into full on darkness. I think Julian, as a bonus action is going to reach back, he's going to toss his rapier to the ground for a second, reach back right here, right there and pull out some flint and Tinder real quick crashes gauntlet to try and get that candle to light. Is it a bonus action?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Bonus action? Yeah.

[Julian]

Ignite it if you can.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You ignite it and are surrounded by five feet of dim light.

[Teor]

Five feet.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It's a candle. So just. It's as horror movie as it can be. Your own shadow looms on the wall behind you by the way. As Julian's shadow looms.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

All of you watch Julian's shadow look

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

down and a smile slips across it as Julian illuminates himself and you hear

[Narrator/Storyteller]

elsewhere in the manor, things begin to shriek.

[Julian]

As soon as the shriek hits and the candle light begins to burn, the rapier that I dropped off the side of the steps in front of me, I kick down on the side of it, sending it flying up into the air. As I catch it with the hand and start shifting forward to move close over to the edge of that hallway. Right in between. I'll say, between Thimble and your brother.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

10, 15, 20. Gets you right here.

[Julian]

Yeah, and just stay at the ready there. And I'm going to hold my action as well for something to come within visual range

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

as you move. What's that?

[Julian]

No. Yeah, go ahead.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

As you move, you leap forward, going past Cid as Cid suddenly is illuminated in the darkness. You see him. Turn around, he goes and points over your shoulder as a skeleton is right within your field of dim light.

[Octis]

And a ghost popped out.

[Julian]

So as soon as he points, I duck low and spin, my knees almost scraping the stone beneath me as I whip around with the rapier to try and shove upward into the skull of the skeleton as it appears.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hell yeah.

[Octis]

Go for it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give me an attack roll. You see, these skeletons, unlike the ones you were fighting in Tanasar, are armored. Everyone here was a knight or some kind of armored warrior.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's a dirty 20.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Dirty 20 is a hit, baby.

[Julian]

All righty, Go ahead and do this turn. It's a five. Yeah, I'm going to let it ride there. I'm not going to use my savage sacrifice. That's going to be nine points of piercing damage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Your rapier flashes out through the armor, through the ribs. Yank some of the ribs, clatter loose, and this thing is still standing. You see? It stands there. Scorpions on either side of its breastplate, leaning forward.

[Julian]

All right, just kind of shout out, light him if you got him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Turn it over.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That's you. Cid is going to move into your five feet of light and attack the other guy who's within. Who's right there for you. Da, da, da. He's going to make his attacks.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Two hits.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Way to go, Cid. Cid comes along and he goes, light of my ancestors, let's call it. And lowers his axe down and shatters this skeleton.

[Teor]

I'm going to borrow that.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, that's good. That's going to.

[Julian]

Mutters half credit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And that's going to be Octus.

[Octis]

All right, I'll Roll my hit points for my level up.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, go for it.

[Julian]

All right.

[Thimble]

Yeah, yeah.

[Teor]

Let skeleton go out or just back.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Done. Bones got better than two.

[Octis]

Okay, can we please.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

What did you roll?

[Octis]

Three.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

A three. Hell yes.

[Octis]

I will go to. I'm up to 37 hit points now. Wizard, Wizard, Wizard. All right. Being there, seeing all this happen and kind of get back into it.

[Tyranny]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes. You have extended protection to thimble. Connected with the tenebral gloom of this place. Essentially the vast mantle of the Underworld.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The Underworld is. Is a blanket around this world. The Underworld could not make sense unless it attached to a living world. It is a mantle of darkness, but also serving some vital. What's this? Me holding my hands like this?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Teor]

It's a joke.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

A joke.

[Octis]

I don't know if he knows what jokes about you.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I don't know anything about jokes. Looking at you have never been more

[Narrator/Storyteller]

certain that the Underworld has a vital purpose. It is there for a reason. And it is being abused by those who would use it for power. And you've grabbed two fistfuls of the fabric of the Underworld and finally have a hand in the game your family has been playing for generations. Let's see if this works.

[Octis]

And I'm going to reach out my hand towards Dame Saramai's body. And I say I do appreciate the protection you once offered me. And although your spirit has left, your body can still be of use. And I'm going to use a third level spell slot to bring the body back to fight for me.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hell yes.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give me an arcana check.

[Teor]

Sick, dude. That's great.

[Julian]

We're going to bring you all this way to lay you down.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Just lay you down.

[Julian]

And actually, you know what?

[Teor]

Get your ass.

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[Octis]

Night 21 Arcana.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

What would you do if you became aware that Dame Gaia Saramai's spirit had not left? Nobody has offered funeral rites to her. No one cast speak with dead on her.

[Octis]

Right. That was Tertia that we used it on. So then I. In that moment of realizing the speaker spirit is still there, I changed my thought process and my intention of the spell to request that Dame Saramai protect me one more time.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Reaching out. You see a voice calls to you. I'm dead, Octis.

[Octis]

Yes.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'm dead. In the dark.

[Thimble]

Alone.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

My family sent me to the night to die. And now I'm here in a world with no gods, no sunlight. It's all been one big fucking mistake. What did honor buy me?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see her corpse convulses and snake venom pours out of her throat, over her shattered jaw onto her body

[Narrator/Storyteller]

as she writhes on the table. What did it fucking buy me?

[Octis]

Come back to my voice. Help me survive this and I will show you a different path to walk.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The spell animates her. She looks and says, I want my family. I want your family to know what they did to me. Can you give me that strength? Absolutely.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

All of you, even here in the dark, hear a. That all happens instantaneously. You hear a pang of a dead arm moving in a corpse like twitch of tendons towards a magical longsword. The one you guys carried all the way from Timony. The sword that almost killed you. Dame Saramai's body. A massive gaping hole in her chest

[Narrator/Storyteller]

that oozes poison as she

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

the veil clings to the wet mess of her shattered jaw as her eyes glow lime green in the dark. Even in the magical darkness, there's only one thing you can see. There's two things you guys can see.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Julian's candle and two glowing snake eyes in the dark.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Dame Saramai is animated.

[Octis]

Wonderful. Let me double check the fuck

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

everyone's cute little kid off into magic school.

[Octis]

So then I will use my bonus action to. I don't have a candle in my hand. I didn't grab one. So I'm going to then use. I'm just going to command Pin to go and give the help action to Teor.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay.

[Octis]

When it's Teor's turn.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Cool.

[Octis]

I will then Saremi acts. That'll be the end of my turn. Saramai will act right after me and we'll get up and how many we got? The one over there. Is there any more that have appeared at the moment?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

None within sight. I mean you hear noise, you guys

[Narrator/Storyteller]

are surrounded by undead.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You just can't see them.

[Octis]

So Saramai will get up and start walking towards where we did see the one with Julian. And. Getting off the table there.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Saramai is going to get off the table and head towards the one with Cid joining them over here. Okay. She is going to walk over there.

[Octis]

Just walking that way. Yeah.

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[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Walking out of the darkness, Julian, you see your former adventuring companion, Dame Gaia. Saramai. Blood soaked veil over a shattered jaw. Glowing green eyes. Sarai putting in her hand.

[Octis]

I do shout out realizing I didn't see say anything to the rest of the group.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh shit.

[Octis]

I made a friend. Don't Julian. Don't kill Saramai.

[Julian]

My blade is about an inch and a half into the clothing it's like you could have said something a little sooner.

[Octis]

I never done this before.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Your sword is through the wound. One of the two wounds she got in her chest.

[Julian]

I looked up to her basically. Mag,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That is going to be. That's octys turn. Yeah.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Great. Okay,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You guys hear a voice say a voice from the steps say

[Narrator/Storyteller]

sorry.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You guys hear a voice from back here towards the entrance. Deeper into the undercroft. That voice goes

[Narrator/Storyteller]

to the courtyard. War now masters.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you guys hear a clattering of bones.

[Octis]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

However, Julian, you instead hear another skeleton descends on you. One right through here. Will ignore that command. Teor, you cannot take attack's opportunity because you don't have visibility. But you hear shapes rushing past you towards the stairs. Laura, are you raising your hand?

[Thimble]

Oh no, just reaching out.

[Teor]

Just panic hand.

[Thimble]

Just. That's a panic hand.

[Teor]

The hand at the level of your

[Octis]

eyes before everything went dark. Can you remind me where those candles were in the room?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

The candles are on this shelf right here.

[Thimble]

And we entered from up top.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You entered from up here. That's the entrance to the courtyard.

[Thimble]

And the secret entrance was over here on this side. And that's where we heard the voices from that said to the courtyard.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes.

[Tyranny]

Correct.

[Octis]

And the key to this whole thing is.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And how do we win the encounter? Please. Okay. These skeletons are not going to get advantage on you, Julian. But they are going to take swings on you. I just didn't try. That is a 21 and a 22.

[Julian]

They did.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So I tried very hard.

[Julian]

I would like to seeing them do it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Julian, you take.

[Thimble]

Oh God.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you're vulnerable not to this thing, just to neck, just necrotic. So that's going to be 17 points of damage as both skeletons hit. As these swords slash across you. And you hear skeletons racing up the stairway. Teor that it's going to be your turn.

[Teor]

I see Julian's candle go up and I want to do the same thing. Can I hold out the candle and just hearing movement or general sounds in the darkness in front of me. Can I just hold up a hand? And I'm just going to launch a guiding bolt into the distance in front of me and try and ignite the tip of the candle at the same time.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give me bonus action. You are surrounded in dim light.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Go ahead and give me.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Go ahead.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

If you be so kind and give me perception.

[Teor]

Perception.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give me a perception check.

[Teor]

18, 20.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

20 Dirty 20 means you can choose the right square and fire with this advantage. So you pick. You are listening for the skeletons and just firing in Their direction as they charge up the staircase.

[Octis]

Great.

[Teor]

Yeah, whichever.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And do you want to follow them up or are you staying where you are?

[Teor]

We came in from this way.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You came in from this way. But you hear bony armored feet clattering up. Commanded by something back here.

[Teor]

I think we want to go towards the Voice, right?

[Octis]

Yeah, but they're also going to warn people upstairs.

[Thimble]

Oh, so we got to get those. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I see.

[Teor]

Oh, so we need to fetch them too.

[Octis]

Like, stop. Block that door so they can't get out.

[Teor]

Then I will. Oh, and there's a lever right here or something, but I can't see that.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

But you passed it on your way in.

[Teor]

Oh, there's a fucking lever. I'll fire towards the skeletons on this staircase.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give me an attack roll with disadvantage.

[Teor]

Okay, That's a 15 to hit.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

15 does not hit, sadly, does it light the candle.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

At least your candle's lit with a bonus action. So you're good to go. You are surrounded by dim light. You have your dim light pin, is there?

[Octis]

Oh, he was giving him the help action.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh, we have to reroll that attack roll. I'm so sorry, Travis. Because you have the help action. So it's disadvantage and advantage cancel out.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

It's a straight roll.

[Teor]

Oh, that bet 19.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

19 is a hit. Way to go.

[Teor]

Let's go. Fox Force 5 roll.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Your damage for guiding both of you be so far.

[Tyranny]

Amazing.

[Teor]

6, 11, 19 points of radiant damage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Kaorp reaching out a paw. One of the skeletons at the front of the pack. And I'll say, as that light hits it, it illuminates one on either side. So you see three skeletons. They appear briefly here on the stairs. Middle one shatters in bone. But you know, there are two left in the dark headed for that game.

[Teor]

Got it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay.

[Teor]

Can I use my movement?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes, you can.

[Teor]

I guess we're chasing them up the stairs, right? I'm gonna take care of that. Yeah. So I head off in the direction that I fired.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Rushing up the stairs. Do you want to interpose yourself in front of them at the top?

[Octis]

Yes.

[Teor]

Make me a wall of fur and fury.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Cool. You rush up here, you got these two skeletons coming up. You're able to basically brush past one, but the one at the bottom is going to get a swing on you for attack of opportunity.

[Teor]

Should I try and pull that handle and shut the door? Is that going to close us in here?

[Thimble]

I don't know.

[Teor]

Maybe everybody except them. Well, hey, I don't have a bonus action anymore.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So this one takes A swing at you and clangs off of your armor as you rush up. I'll also point out, by the way, that your armor class of 17, if you're wielding the axe, is now 15.

[Teor]

Oh.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So if you would do me the kindness of on equipping your shield.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Because if you're using a double handed axe, your AC comes down.

[Teor]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So after that I.

[Teor]

So Nakey.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hold on one sec.

[Teor]

Why would it be 16 instead of 15?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I don't know.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Let's play.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay.

[Thimble]

Does the axe give you a. Oh, maybe.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I don't think so.

[Octis]

Axe?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This is no D and D beyond.

[Teor]

Don't lie though,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Julian. Crowded here in the dark. Your candle is quite close to the wall. Would you say you're still facing. Where are you facing right now? Are you facing Dame Saramai still, or are you facing one of the other skeletons?

[Julian]

I think I am kind of shoulder to that corner I'm currently keeping, just glancing over behind me to the one that's partially engaged with Cid. And now also getting the concept of maybe rushing up towards the door to try and interpose them from living the rest of the manor not.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So you're facing out this way.

[Julian]

Yes.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, so you present a very near. Because the candle you're holding is in your hand. Your shadow on the wall behind you is quite small. Which matters for this moment because. Which matters in this moment because only two shadows spontaneously burst from the shadow behind you. This one vanishes beyond Teor.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Behind you.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Your candle casts your shadow on the wall behind you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And you hear

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

as those who have lit candles peeling off from the walls behind you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You fought these before at the Palazzo Divinos. The same spectral shadow entities burst forward and four of them are going to surround Teor.

[Octis]

Oh fuck.

[Teor]

Made in the shadows. How bad could it be?

[Thimble]

Uh huh.

[Teor]

I'm a fear of myself now.

[Julian]

Remember how I mentioned vulnerability to necrotic damage?

[Thimble]

These are necrotic. These are necrotic I took in the

[Julian]

past, if I recall. This is gonna get bad.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

No.

[Thimble]

Are they close to me That I can use when I find the thing I've been waiting for?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes, you can use the thing you've been waiting for. And that is within five feet of Julian. Which means it's in light, which means you don't attack with disadvantage. And you are in dark, which means that it potentially has a disadvantage on attacking you.

[Thimble]

Oh great. So potentially so just a reg. Wait, It's a sneak attack too?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, so you'll roll with advantage, which means it's A sneak attack.

[Thimble]

Okay. Oh, that's great. 16 plus a bunch. 16 plus eight.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

16 plus eight. Okay. You're attacking this spectral. Spectral thing.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. 16 plus eight. Yeah. That is a. You absolutely demolish this thing.

[Thimble]

Okay, so that's 2D6. Okay, so let's see.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah. So your damage for. Yeah, let me know what you're rolling for. Damage.

[Thimble]

I'm rolling one D6. So four plus six is 10. Plus two D6 for sneak. That's an additional six. And then plus two D6 for the toy sword.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

These are incorporeal. Oh, shit. That's right. Drawing your little tinsel toy sword. This thing is made to kill nightmares. It was made for the young gnomish daughters of Alden Morn.

[Thimble]

A little bit of color, lights this dark, depressing room.

[Teor]

You're pretty good at this. D and d fact.

[Thimble]

So 23 points of damage to that thingy.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hell yes. You deal 23 points of damage.

[Thimble]

And then I can attack it again with. Because it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

The Nick property, gives me a second

[Thimble]

attack that's not a bonus action.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Let me just see if that is a lot. I'm going. Because this is such a scary dungeon,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'm gonna be mean.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Can you use Nick weapon mastery on opportunity attack, or I guess on a readied action? Right.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. I think that. Let me just read this on your character sheet real quick.

[Teor]

I want to know the order origin of. I want to know the origin of the. That's like the loading screen.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That's my loading screen noise. I have a lot of ticks. I don't even know. I've been DMing since I was 10 years old. So my entire how I sound is based on DMing. So you can blame the game for it.

[Teor]

Like some young computer program from his childhood. Like, I love it.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hold on.

[Teor]

Mavis speaking. Teachers typing.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, I am gonna rule that you can do it in this moment.

[Thimble]

Oh, I can?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You can? Yes.

[Thimble]

Okay, so that would be roll to attack at advantage still or not at advantage still at advantage because.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Still advantage.

[Thimble]

So that's 19 plus seven. And then. So that hits. And then when the eight is eight. So eight points of additional damage from the offhand.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Great. Eight points. Points of additional damage from the offhand.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Awesome.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hold on one second. So sorry, guys. One second. Sorry. I was running it down.

[Thimble]

You don't.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

The light property, when you take the attack action on your turn and attack with a light weapon, you can make one extra attack as a bonus action later on the same turn. And then what Nick says is when you make the extra attack of the light property. It's he makes part of the attack action instead of as a bonus action. But the light, it's working off of the light property. And the light property only happens on your turn. So we are going to rule that

[Thimble]

it's happening on your turn.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Got it.

[Thimble]

So that extra eight did not.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That extra eight did not happen.

[Julian]

Nice try.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I love it. However, you have pulled the attention of this creature off of Cid onto you. Teor, you are flanked.

[Teor]

I mean, I don't know. I think with that many of an odd number of attackers, playing cannot be achieved.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Your AC is 15. Correct.

[Teor]

16 according to D&D beyond.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

16 quarter. D&D beyond.

[Tyranny]

Okay.

[Teor]

Big, big difference.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That is a hit.

[Julian]

We can't make a difference.

[Teor]

You can't.

[Julian]

I'm knocking.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That is a hit.

[Julian]

That's a fellow 16 so far.

[Teor]

That makes a difference.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That's a hit.

[Thimble]

And this is all the shit in the game.

[Teor]

Yeah, but I also have a cloak that makes me hard to hit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

8 plus. An 8 plus.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hold on.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No, that's a miss. Okay, that is a miss. Because they are flanking you. They have advantage on the attack. And we are going to roll damage.

[Teor]

Glad nobody critted.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Nobody critted. Six necrotic damage becomes 12.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Necrotic damage 12 total 12 total.

[Teor]

Gotcha.

[Thimble]

From all of them.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Three necrotic damage becomes 6. No, no, no. So that's 12 plus 6.

[Teor]

18.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

18.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

5 plus 2 is 7 times 2

[Teor]

is 14 on top of the 14 on top of the 14 on Top of the 18. So 18 plus 14. Gotcha.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

18 plus 14.

[Tyranny]

32.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Teor, how you looking?

[Teor]

Hey man, you know, like I'm in a fucking dark ass basement with only a fatty candle to light my way. And getting attacked by five skeletons.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Getting attacked by five skeletons. Additionally to that as they reach out. And this is of marked concern because

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Thimble is in combat.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Not because this is happening to you, but because as they lash out at you. As they lash out at you, they are also going to reduce your strength score.

[Teor]

Thimbles. That's really mean.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No, no, it's a horse. But what I mean is. You mean it's only a D4. So I'm going to roll this in front of the board.

[Octis]

One.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

One,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

two.

[Teor]

Those are all the reductions.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

One Teyr, your strength is reduced by four.

[Thimble]

If they reduce me by to zero, you are dead.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

If your strength score is reduced to zero, you are dead.

[Julian]

It's okay. Resistant to.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh wait, she strikes.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Going.

[Thimble]

It's three.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

A Single swipe from one of these

[Thimble]

shadows could take me to death.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

To death. Without interacting with your hit points at all. This is the force that eight years

[Narrator/Storyteller]

ago made fairy close their doors to this world because it was so poison.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you watch that occur now, Julian, you are flanked. Shadow is coming for you.

[Tyranny]

Let's go.

[Octis]

I think maybe we run. Yeah, we run through the door.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You take five points to 10. Necrotic damage.

[Tyranny]

All right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And your strength is reduced. Here, I'll roll in front of the board.

[Thimble]

Oh, this is getting 2.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

2.

[Tyranny]

All right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Strength score is reduced by 2. Thimble, you are going to be attacked

[Narrator/Storyteller]

by one of the shadows.

[Thimble]

I could just die right now

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

here in this space. The lesser shades at the Palazzo Divinos were images of this. But they were being summoned on hallowed Fairy Divinos ground. These are true shadows.

[Thimble]

You're rolling a disadvantage, right? A disadvantage.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Disadvantage.

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[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

A Nat 20 and a 5.

[Thimble]

Wow.

[Julian]

Wow.

[Teor]

I don't like it in here.

[Thimble]

I don't like it.

[Teor]

We gotta get the fuck out.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Theater was fucked.

[Thimble]

We're fucked.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh, no. It's a gift as a DM to watch PCs. And I mean this in the best way. Cause you guys are using all your clues. You're brilliant. People are being like, shit's about to go down to this theater anyway. You guys go ahead and rob the Taconis. And I went, I don't know. That risk has been assessed as I would have assessed. Assessed it.

[Teor]

I got problems with the big brains on camera. Somebody fucked up over there.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I just. I mean, unless you're Mr. Lincoln, I don't think a night at the theater is necessary.

[Julian]

It's just good that a lot of the heavy hitters stayed behind at a theater to protect it from a big battle.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hey, well, can. You know, everyone's making the best guesses they can.

[Octis]

Absolutely.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm looking at my notes like I can't say shit. I cannot say shit.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna kill them all.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So.

[Thimble]

Okay,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

that is the shadow's turn. Oh, boy. That is going to go back to the top of the order with Fimble.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That is your turn, motherfucker.

[Thimble]

I am going to attack it again.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Go for it. Oh, God.

[Teor]

Action.

[Thimble]

Natural 20.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes. Let's go, let's go, let's go.

[Thimble]

Okay, so that's. Oh, that's a lot of D6s. I get to roll for doubles, right?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes. Here we go.

[Thimble]

Where's my other. There we go. No, that's not it. Where are my sixes? These are all weird shapes I can't find.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'll say this.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'm gonna say this too, Laura. In this moment.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, I just want to throw. You just hit a nat 20. There's a shade in front of you. It's badly, badly injured.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You've already injured.

[Thimble]

Is there another one? That's close.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Well, Teor is surrounded. Julian is surrounded.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And those Specters are at full health.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But of course you would have to leave combat with that shadow right in front of you.

[Octis]

You can boat a section disengage, right?

[Thimble]

I can and I'm gonna do that.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh fuck. You guys robbed me.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh fuck. I was trying to be scary.

[Julian]

And you were for like 4 seconds.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Until you guys remember the rules.

[Teor]

I got real quiet, man.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I wasn't saying sorry. But Laura, it is. Yes, it is your turn.

[Thimble]

I'm still. I don't think I can get see through the darkness to get. I'm worried I won't get to Teor. So I'm going to do one of the ones that are at Julianne.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. So you're going to bonus action. Disengage and get over to Julian and

[Thimble]

use that 20 for cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Fresh shadow is right here.

[Thimble]

Fresh meat.

[Octis]

Can these be poisoned? Because technically Dame Saramai has a five foot miasma of poison around.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So they are immune.

[Octis]

Just one jump turn.

[Julian]

Does the five foot miasma affect allies too?

[Octis]

No, I don't believe so. I think it's enemies.

[Thimble]

So 26. No, 46 points of damage on a nat 20 thimble.

[Teor]

Good Lord.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

These things spell death for you. You should flee. You should absolutely flee. One swipe of these will kill you. And you're choosing to save the life of Julian Divinos? Why? That's a good question.

[Thimble]

That's a good question. Because I believe Thass is on the other side. And I need my friends to go in there with me.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You deal with 44 points of damage. 46 points of damage. And on a NAT20, critical hit with the toy sword dealing the most damage you can. You level up to level five.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This shadow is destroyed. Incredible. That is action and bonus action. But your action. You have another.

[Thimble]

I get another attack.

[Julian]

Another attack?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

Is there another one?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

There's a skeleton right here.

[Thimble]

Okay, I'll do that skeleton. And that's just an attack. Double 18s.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That's a hit.

[Thimble]

Okay, and then that's just a D8.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Just a D8.

[Thimble]

That is two points of damage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You guys see this little tinsel sword is cleaving through shadows and then against

[Thimble]

a skull, you know. But I am going to use my swashbuckler fancy feet. Move and fly the fuck away. Okay, towards where do you want to go?

[Octis]

If you go towards the.

[Thimble]

Yeah, I'm going to go towards where I heard octys.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, so that was 5, 10, 15, 20. 25ft of movement.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

How many feet of movement do you have?

[Thimble]

Well, my D and D beyond isn't right. It has walking speed.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I believe walking speed is your flying speed, though.

[Thimble]

Well, that's. That. It can't. It says 10ft and I know that's not right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That's not true. I think it's 30ft. I think you have another 5ft of movement, so you'll fancy footwork out of there and get out of melee range. Okay, cool. Julian, that is going to be your turn. Okay.

[Julian]

I'll say. At this point, feeling everything closing around these Wraiths that immediately strike back. Imagery of watching his father fall and members of his family and community drained of their life force. His eyes go wide with equal terror and adrenaline as he assesses it. The one in front of him begins to reach towards him before it completely evaporates. And this glowing streak of pixie energy. The first time he's really seen Thimble do what she does and gives a

[Tyranny]

look of

[Julian]

and a nod of acknowledgment before he spins to see the already damaged Wraith behind him. Julian's going to go ahead and attempt to strike back. Throw his cloak up to try and obfuscate the space and through the cloak, stab towards where that Wraith is.

[Thimble]

Hell yeah.

[Julian]

That's going to be. Does 16 hit?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

16 hits?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Exactly.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Or the Wraith. No. Yeah, no, 16 definitely hits.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Julian]

All right. That is going to be an 8 plus 4. It's going to be 12 points of piercing damage on that already damaged Wraith.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Your sword flashes out and the shadow vanishes.

[Julian]

So with that gone, there's just one skeleton right now that is within melee to me.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, two, actually.

[Thimble]

Oh.

[Julian]

The one that's across the way is Tet Lean.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This one's partially damaged by Thimble. That one's undamaged.

[Julian]

All right, I'm going to bonus action use one of my subclass features. I'm going to use Riding the Threshold, which is when I'm bloodied, which I definitely am. Right now. I'm gonna use my Second Wind feature to grant temporary hit points instead of restoring it. So I will gain.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Could we fly in desperate measures, by the way?

[Teor]

I got it right here.

[Thimble]

Oh, you already have it?

[Teor]

Fuck yeah, I already have it. I haven't read that shit already. It's a party up where I am. We got a dance party going on.

[Octis]

All right,

[Julian]

so that's gonna be bonus action. Only six temporary hit points, but, hey, it all helps. Use that second wind there for that.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And then.

[Julian]

I'm knowing the grump away. I'm going to go ahead and take. I'm going to move up and around the stairs, taking the attack of opportunity from the one behind me. Yeah, and try and hold off the top of the stairs there to prevent any further from rushing up at the top.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Great. That is a miss on that attack of opportunity.

[Teor]

Who's breaking for the secret entrance?

[Octis]

I can open it as soon as it's my turn.

[Wikander]

Is it?

[Teor]

The two of y' all are going for it.

[Octis]

Yeah, but I can also have Saramai run up and bar the door and we can cross.

[Teor]

Where is Saramai?

[Thimble]

In there. Where is she? In the Initiative.

[Octis]

She's right after me.

[Thimble]

Okay.

[Julian]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Julian, you move up there and bar the way you've slashed at that Wraith. Any bonus action? You're all good. Oh, you second winded.

[Thimble]

Great.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah.

[Octis]

It's my turn.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Cid is going to go, brother. And is going to rush up the stairs. That's 5, 10, 15, 20. He's going to take the attack from the other one. And that's in the dark.

[Teor]

Normal or with advantage?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No, with advantage. And he's going to go ahead and take seven points of damage. 20, 25, 30. And he is going to.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's all his movement. But I think that. No, he's gonna close.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He's gonna use a double move and close. And he's gonna light one of his own corpse candles and get in between. He uses his action to dash just so that they have other targets than you.

[Teor]

Right. Is he next to me? Like, back to back? Fucking awesome. Okay. All right, cool.

[Julian]

So the candle's lit. Can we all now see what surrounds Teor and his brother?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes, both of them. Because again, the way dim light works is the area around it is illuminated, but just because you can't see the space in between doesn't. It's like seeing a campfire in the distance. You know what I'm saying? It's like you can see if there's a campfire over there. I can see it. But looking at a fire through dark woods, you're like, I don't know who's in the woods, but I see the fire over here. So, yeah, Teor and Sat are both visible.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Brother.

[Thimble]

Fuck.

[Julian]

Shout out.

[Octis]

Shit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Teor's surrounded. Octis, that's you all Right.

[Octis]

Standing up. I'm going to use my movement to get onto the altar there to stand on it to try and get a better view of what's happening up there. I'm going to look behind me at where I know the secret door is. And I'm going to command it to open.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You guys hear a door open in the hallway back here.

[Octis]

He looks up at you two on the thing. I think we should run and is going to. You're really badly hurt, right?

[Teor]

I mean, I'm not great.

[Julian]

I shout back as you say this if I can and be like a

[Teor]

quarter of my hit points.

[Julian]

And how do we get back?

[Octis]

I have no idea.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

They alert the house we have no way out.

[Julian]

Otherwise

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

we don't know. There better be another exit through that shit. We're fucked.

[Octis]

Okay.

[Julian]

This is the kind of place that

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

would have a second idea. Julian's words do ring true that diving deeper into the house while these guys leave to warn.

[Thimble]

We gotta kill these guys.

[Octis]

Okay, so what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna be up there. Can I with the being on top of the altar there. Can I see kind of across to

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

crumbling runescape right here? Yes.

[Octis]

Okay, great. So I open. Opened the door behind us, which may have been a terrible idea. And now I'm going to.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You can even leap up onto the altar here and get it.

[Octis]

I would like to leap up onto the altar.

[Thimble]

There was a body there. You got rid of the body?

[Octis]

I kicked it off.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I didn't move it.

[Thimble]

I thought it was part of the dressing.

[Octis]

Okay. So I know I just leveled up. And I don't technically have. In this moment of having filled with this energy from the necromantic. Do I have access to any other things I might be able to use in this moment?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I think so. You've used summon undead. And I think if you have that other spell slot. Yeah, go for it.

[Octis]

I'm going to. I look at Teor and I see all of the wounds and the things that have happened to you already. And see those pulling the strength out of you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay.

[Octis]

How do I feel?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I know what to do.

[Octis]

Hawk pulls the dagger out from his. His belt. James in his forearm. Slices all the way up his forearm. The blood starts to float out of his arm. And I'm going to cast life transference on tail. What? Okay. Oh my God. I could kill myself with this. This is very possible.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I bring myself here.

[Teor]

Go, Hector.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You're the laser. This is your place. Wait, but if you go down, we're all dead.

[Teor]

What are you Doing.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Put your arm back together.

[Octis]

And that is. Okay, that's good. That's good. I take 15 points of damage and I heal you. 30.

[Thimble]

Oh, that's great. Oh, wow. So much. No, don't do that again.

[Octis]

I won't do it. I can't do it again.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Thank you.

[Octis]

So the blood floats out of my arm and it flies across the room and circles around you, and you see this length of blood. Blood sort of become a thread and start to stitch your wounds up and pull them close together.

[Teor]

It's unsanitary, but I am very grateful.

[Octis]

And you heal 30 hit points.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Wow.

[Teor]

Yeah. That brought me all the way back up almost.

[Octis]

That's my action.

[Thimble]

Okay. Okay.

[Teor]

Massive.

[Julian]

It just gets more and more interesting.

[Teor]

Jeez.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay.

[Octis]

Being there. I fucking. I don't have a bonus action to use, so that'll be the end of my turn. And now it'll be Dame Saramai's turn. Dame Saramai is going to run up to get into that melee up there. Great.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. She's in melee.

[Octis]

Okay, great. Is going to make an attack here, which is equal to.

[Thimble]

Okay, do you roll for her too?

[Octis]

I do. Nice melee attack. Roll the bonus. Okay. Which is my second plus seven. Oh, that's a 22 to hit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

22 hits.

[Wikander]

Okay.

[Octis]

And that is 1D6.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No poison damage.

[Octis]

No poison damage. Yeah. Ooh. Okay, so that's. That's 11 points of slashing damage against

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

one of the wraiths, against whoever they

[Octis]

are in contact with. Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see Dame Saramai, who in moments, it's not that her spirit is not present, it's that the animation of her body needs magic. It's like she needs octys to fuel the animation of her body with power. So you concentrate, giving her more of that necromantic weave to work off of. And she leaps forward as these fangs sort of flash through the veil of her. These sort of top heavy snake fangs just descend from her again, jawless, lower. She reaches out, slash for 11 points of damage. That is her turn.

[Octis]

That's her turn.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Great.

[Teor]

Does the skeleton fall at all? Or a shadow or anybody?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No, shadow does not fall.

[Thimble]

Does anything fall? Does anything die?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Anything fall? Has anything happened?

[Teor]

Come on.

[Octis]

But in that state, though, if they start attacking her, she is immune to necrotic and poisoning exhaustion and frightened at all of these things. So she can take hits from this.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, that's good.

[Octis]

That's good.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Skeletons, these ones rush up. They're going to swing at Teor.

[Teor]

Get the fuck out of there.

[Octis]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

This is a bad place.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's a crit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

What do you mean? At least it's a skeleton.

[Teor]

What are you.

[Octis]

Hold on.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I invoke it's a crit from a skeleton.

[Teor]

I involved. Fuck. That

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

does a 15 hit.

[Teor]

It does not.

[Octis]

According to DVD Beyond.

[Thimble]

Yes.

[Teor]

You have 15. 15 down. Mine says 16. I'm not sure why.

[Julian]

What's your dexterity?

[Teor]

Dexterity is 15.

[Julian]

All right, so plus two and you have the breastplate.

[Teor]

Yeah, I have a breastplate, no shield.

[Octis]

That checks out.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

Great.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

There's a miss. So it's one crit and a miss.

[Tyranny]

You're doing good, kid.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Teor. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, my friend. You do not have a plus two dexterity bonus. You have a plus one dexterity bonus.

[Teor]

Oh, do I?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah. Huh?

[Thimble]

Why does it say plus two on his.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh, it says it on. Oh, maybe that didn't copy. Over. I'm looking at copies.

[Octis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The cotton, not all the copies. When we.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, never mind. That's some digital stuff. Don't even worry about that. Literally, don't even worry about that, guys. Great. That is just one crit. You take seven points of damage from a slave slashing blade.

[Teor]

Does that make it 14 or. It's seven total.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No, these are not necrotic. The skeletons are just hitting you with rusty old swords.

[Teor]

Okay, okay. Just.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Just hitting thrust. Shield swords.

[Julian]

It's great. Go for the skeletons.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Let them break upon your shores. Travis.

[Teor]

Jesus.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

My shores. I like my shores thresh upon your shores.

[Octis]

I need a coast guard.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. I'm so stressed.

[Julian]

The adrenaline talk. I'm sorry. I know.

[Teor]

I like. I like this metaphor.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

These skeletons are gonna come thimble.

[Thimble]

I'm in the dark.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You're in the dark. But so are they. So it cancels out.

[Thimble]

It cancels it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So it's just two normal attacks. Does a 23 hit?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You take eight points of damage. Eight points of slashing damage.

[Teor]

That's the face.

[Tyranny]

That's the.

[Teor]

Don't ask.

[Julian]

You know.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You know it.

[Octis]

No, it's.

[Thimble]

Can I roll for my hit points?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes, you can roll for your hit points.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Please.

[Thimble]

Six.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Six. Great. Six. Plus your con mod taor. That is your turn.

[Teor]

Yeah. We gotta get the fuck out of here. I'm going to turn to Sid and

[Narrator/Storyteller]

say, thank you, brother.

[Teor]

We must run. Follow me. And I'm going to use a desperate measure.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. You're still bloodied after that healing.

[Teor]

Yeah, I mean, but fucking. I'm about to run and I don't know what this shit I'm gonna hit on the way down there. So I'm gonna use one failure marked and immediately take the dash and disengage actions as extra actions.

[Thimble]

Your actions.

[Teor]

Actions. Just so I can get out of there.

[Octis]

Okay.

[Teor]

Should I try and crush one of these things on the way out? If we flee, they're still gonna be here.

[Julian]

They're still. They're going to announce the rest.

[Thimble]

I thought there was a lever.

[Octis]

There was a lever there. That's right.

[Julian]

Somebody get the lever.

[Teor]

I'll go over and try, but I

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

don't know what the lever's gonna do. Is it gonna shut the doors? Are these Wraiths gonna care about a door?

[Julian]

Are they just gonna wander through the

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

break and be like, oh, I'm a ghost.

[Teor]

I'll stay in melee with this guy and I'll run in knowing I'm gonna take an opportunity attack by moving away from. From that guy.

[Tyranny]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So you're gonna move five feet towards the lever.

[Octis]

Yep.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay.

[Teor]

And I'll.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'll.

[Teor]

I'll take a hit. Probably.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Right, you will take. You will take. You will take three hits, two from raids,

[Thimble]

but you. They'll hit. They'll deal with it anyway.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

If you pin that movement.

[Octis]

God damn it.

[Thimble]

What?

[Octis]

Pin had movement. I could have said I got disengaged.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I got disengaged.

[Octis]

Okay?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So I'm not trying to be a jerk. Yeah.

[Octis]

I will set Pin up there.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Octis]

Could Pin have pulled the lever?

[Julian]

No.

[Octis]

Okay, then Pin is up there to give you the help action.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Great.

[Octis]

He can't do shit.

[Teor]

I'm gonna pull the lever. I'm gonna take base.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give me an athletics check.

[Teor]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Difficulty is 15.

[Teor]

Okay, I'm not worried about it, you guys. I'm worried about it now.

[Thimble]

That was Pin good, Pin, but Pin helped you advantage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh, Pin helped you.

[Teor]

That's way better. 25.

[Octis]

The first one was a nine.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

25. Okay.

[Octis]

All four paws, just push on the bed.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Fucking fucks. 25. You hurl the lever down, not only does this portcullis slam. You hear? More importantly, the marble slab behind you slides back into place. Which you would be aware shadows are incorporeal, but they do actually need. They cannot pass through. They're incorporeal, undead. But they're not as strong as ghosts, are not as strong as spectres and things like that. They need to be able to pass through an opening. And with that slab being closed, there is no way for the shadows.

[Thimble]

Fabulous. Now we run.

[Teor]

Now we run now. I'll use the Desperate measure to disengage and dash running by Cid. And I'll tear down the steps as I pass the fang mouth venom dripping.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This is going to be 5, 10, 15. Because you're moving through allies, there's no way through these enemies. So it's difficult terrain through Cid and difficult terrain through Gaia.

[Thimble]

Can he leap up and over the crumbling ruins? What if he dives over?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Unfortunately the rules as written, these enemies have to be removed from their squares one way or another. Shove attacks, things like that. Okay, so that's going to be, you can go. You moved five here to get that. You've moved five feet of movement, do you want to go? Do you want to use the difficult terrain that will be? It'll cost you 10ft of movement to go through CID and Dame ceremony.

[Teor]

Yes.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, so we went 5, 10, 20, 30. You have your movement now, so you're going to go 30ft of movement. 35, 35. Oh, 35. So five gets you here and where do you, and then what direction are you moving?

[Teor]

I'm hauling ass down 20 towards the other candle because we're gonna go that way, right?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Wait, do you wanna go this way past these skeletons?

[Teor]

If I see skeletons I'll run up and just fucking jump right in front of him. Right? Cause we're gonna try and go through that one.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Go through that, great, and you use dash and disengage. So how many death save fails is that one? One great failure marked. One failure marked. So that's going to be ta ta ta. You got here with 35, you go 5, 10, and you can go right past these guys because you're still disengaged, right? Oh killer 10.

[Thimble]

Did you just kind of leave CID to die up there?

[Teor]

He's gonna follow me.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

We said those words, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 gets you here. So that's your movement.

[Octis]

Don't worry, Pin's still up there,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

that is your movement.

[Thimble]

Now they're all gonna attack cid.

[Octis]

Well, Dame Sarah, Mai's up there with him.

[Julian]

Okay, I've got one guard and a fox.

[Octis]

And a fox. And a fox who's gonna just blow up.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So that's going to be

[Teor]

six seconds,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

right, six seconds, follow me. So that's 35ft of movement. So that's your dash and disengage and does that on desperate, let me see, desperate measures again real quick because you, I'll say this, you extra actions, great. So you've used your movement and extra actions. You have it. I believe you used a bonus action to Throw the lever so you have an action.

[Teor]

Oh, it's just a bonus action. Amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Then I'll actually. I'll run up and smash on this.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You want to smash on your way?

[Teor]

Yeah. Unless I see a skeleton in front of me in the direction that we're going to go.

[Thimble]

Are there any shades over here or are they all just skeletons?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No shades over there, but you can take and attack right now.

[Teor]

Yeah, I'll rock on. That guy.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Total crap.

[Teor]

No lull happened.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You swing past.

[Thimble]

Wow.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

But you continue on. So you've moved here? Yeah.

[Thimble]

Great.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. That is going to be. Tayr. That's your turn. Is going to be the Shadow's turn now.

[Teor]

Could I ask one question? Actually, the lay on hands.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Teor]

That's not an action or a bonus action. Or is it a. It's one bonus action.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It's a bonus action.

[Julian]

Yeah.

[Teor]

Could I. No, I already swung at him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay.

[Teor]

I was going to say, should pump some healing into Cid as I ran by. I'm a bad brother. I'm a bad brother.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You rush Cid as you go. You move through Cid's square. He sees how injured you are. He's relatively uninjured. The shades haven't hit him yet. So he goes as you rush.

[Teor]

He took seven points of damage, right?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Seven Slashing from a sword. But he's tough. He's beefy. So you see, he looks at you as he can see that the strength damage has occurred to you. You see, he turns to you and goes, run. Go. And hurls you down the steps and says, get to the door.

[Octis]

Now.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He looks out going, turn me to stone. I'll send you back to the shadows you came from. The shadows are going to go. These ones recognize Saramai as being one

[Narrator/Storyteller]

of theirs and they do not swing on her.

[Thimble]

Fuck.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I heard a full gasp back there. This one cannot get through. Melee is going to take a swipe on pin.

[Octis]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Does a 17 hit.

[Octis]

I'm almost. Yes. AC of 13.

[Julian]

No, you jit the candle. So we don't see any of this.

[Teor]

He has his own candle.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yes, he does.

[Teor]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Cid has his own candle.

[Octis]

Yeah. ACF 13.

[Teor]

Just darkness.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And that's what I was worried about. Pin takes eight.

[Octis]

Yeah. Dead, dead. So falls apart into pieces and then just into green smoke.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay. You'll come back.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

We are going to roll these attacks on Cid. Cid is flank.

[Thimble]

Poor Sid said.

[Octis]

I feel terrible.

[Julian]

Is he flanked from all sides or just two of them?

[Teor]

He's not flank flanked.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Here goes there.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Octis]

Right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

They are going to Take their attacks. I will let us know right here. Cid.

[Teor]

Could Cid take some desperate mushrooms? Get the fuck out of there.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Slade is not a player character. God is my brother. He's not. He's not protagonist character. He's not a perspective character. This motherfucker never got a flashback. Okay, Sid's armor class is a really beefy 18.

[Teor]

That a boy. I knew it.

[Tyranny]

Come on.

[Octis]

Come on.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Which means that these guys hit him on a 14 or higher. But because their flames are rolling with

[Narrator/Storyteller]

advantage, they each only get one attack.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So we're looking for 13s and lower.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

On both dice. On both dice.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Eight and seven. That's a miss.

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[Narrator/Storyteller]

19.

[Octis]

Hit one. Hit

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

a seven and a seven.

[Octis]

Okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He takes six to 12. 12 necrotic. Cid takes 12 necrotic damage. And it reduces his strength.

[Teor]

Kills and bits.

[Thimble]

Let's go.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Reduces his strength by two. You see up there with the candle in his hand, he is running as fast as he, you know, looking out. I won't go back into the dark. And that is now. That's their turn.

[Teor]

This is how trauma is made.

[Octis]

Hey, kids, you want to see trauma?

[Teor]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Thimble, that's going to be your turn.

[Thimble]

Oh. Ah. Oh. Sid.

[Octis]

Octis.

[Thimble]

Are we going?

[Octis]

Yeah, I think so.

[Thimble]

Okay. I will attack these. I'm gonna do shit against these skeletons, but I'm gonna try to attack these skeletons in front of me. And then I'm gonna try to get out.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Cool. Go for it.

[Thimble]

This is just a regular straight attack roll. That doesn't hit. 14.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

14 hits. Oh, sorry. No.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

14.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

They're armored. Sorry.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

16.

[Thimble]

Okay, that's it.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

So I'm just gonna go fuck and just fly away. I did an attack so he can't get an opportunity attack, but the other one can't.

[Octis]

But it's just a skeleton.

[Thimble]

It's just a skeleton.

[Octis]

It's not.

[Teor]

You're gonna.

[Thimble]

But I am going to use one of my cunning.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You want to disengage?

[Thimble]

Just got. Oh, I could just disengage. Yeah. Houses. Disengage. Okay, I'll just disengage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I love it. Where do you fly to?

[Thimble]

I'm gonna fly. Are we just abandoning.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Get the fuck.

[Thimble]

Are you okay? I'm just gonna go towards where Taor is. We're like. To the door.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

To the door to the door back here? Yeah. 5, 10.

[Thimble]

Are we gonna get out?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

30.

[Thimble]

There's so many people. We could help

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

you tell me what you're doing.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna go. We're all running this way.

[Teor]

Yeah, we're trying to achieve a mission.

[Octis]

I have an idea of how they

[Teor]

can't just rubber band back and forth.

[Julian]

That wall that, that they're going through is that like a corridor with that

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

you can see over there's an open, a secret door. The wall itself has just swung open back here.

[Octis]

Right.

[Julian]

But the wall in front of it that you can see over that wall or is that.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No, that goes up to the ceiling.

[Julian]

That's what I was wondering.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This one goes up.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. Hell yeah.

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[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Thimble attack Action Bonus action. That's going to be Julian's turn. Julian, that's you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay.

[Julian]

All right, so nothing's currently in combat with me. I look over my shoulder towards Cid. I don't know him that well. He seems like a nice guy, but that's how it goes. I go, sid, you better get your shit together. In photo. I'm gonna go use my bonus action to use my hare's charm to cast jump on myself.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hell yeah.

[Teor]

Hell yeah.

[Octis]

Hell yeah.

[Julian]

And I'm going to go ahead and leap 30ft this way, over the skeletons, over. Landing next to where Octis is just landing gauntlet on the ground. Three point Marvel landing and look up

[Narrator/Storyteller]

and say, let's fucking move. Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You land next to Octis. Great. Okay. Bam.

[Julian]

10ft of movement there. And I'm going to use the other 20ft to move around the other side, the hallway to meet on that side.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hell yes. You're going to go 5, 10, 15, 20.

[Wikander]

Right there.

[Julian]

Is there anything in that hall not

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

that you can see with only 5ft of illumination?

[Julian]

I'm going to use my. I'm going to hold my. I'm going to step back to leave enough room for Octis to get through. And I'm going to hold my action to cover his ass.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, cool. You step back waiting for Octis to run. That's my turn, Julian.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's her turn.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That is going to be Cid. Cid is going to turn to flee. I think he's gonna just fully take the disengage action.

[Teor]

Does he have daunting roar? Is he like a paladin build?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

He does not have daunting roar.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, fuck. He is going to. He's gonna disengage as his action and he's gonna use his movement and that's.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's what he's gonna do.

[Thimble]

Yeah, that's great.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So he's gonna go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. And he gets the fuck out of there. And that's his turn, Octus.

[Octis]

Okay, Octis is going to. He's up there. He looks down, he sees Cid running down the thing, knows Saramah's up there. They're going there. Okay, he's standing on top of here and he's going to. To. Before jumping off. He's just going to throw a firebolt at them just to hit one of them on the way out.

[Wikander]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give me a tack roll.

[Octis]

Terrible. That's going to be where the hell. Okay, that's 11.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That is a miss.

[Octis]

Yeah, Just throws it.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Shit.

[Octis]

And jumps off and heads towards Julian. And. And that's going to be his turn.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

15, 20, switching to. Do you have a candle or no,

[Octis]

I don't have a candle. No. He's going towards the book. That was right. That's what I needed to go towards the bookcase to grab a candle.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay, gotcha. You fumble around here in the dark for a candle. Go ahead and give me a DC10.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Sleight of hand.

[Octis]

Oh, okay.

[Thimble]

11.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Reaching, fumbling like canisters of sacred oils and things fall off.

[Tyranny]

Yeah.

[Octis]

And you grab a candle and I'll use my. If I can use my bonus action just to kind of like press the digitization. Light it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah.

[Octis]

Okay. So light the candle, go running towards Julian. That's my turn. Saramai's turn is going to just run up and interpose. Just get in the middle of all of them and just start swinging.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Cool.

[Octis]

Just to kind of try and grab

[Teor]

as much attention as possible and have her start screaming, I'm alive.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Great. I'm a living being. All right, that is octus. Okay, I'm going to need you to give me a. Give me an intimidate check from her. You'll add a two to this roll. The difficulty, given that she is fellow undead of the house Taconis is going to be a 20. These are not persuadable entities. But I'll say, say if you can hit an 18 or higher on the die, she will draw the focus off herself.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay.

[Octis]

Plus two.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You said plus two.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So 18 is what you need. Cause you're going for DC 20.

[Octis]

Natural 20.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You have got no fucking fire. That's so good to be fucking kidding right there in the corner.

[Julian]

Wow.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You look at them as she.

[Octis]

You

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

on a NAT20. Dame Saramai steps into the middle of this group, newly raised undead. And you see that she reaches up, lowers her veil and just shattered jaw. And the blood that had stained that is now just poison, just seeping and steaming. Snake venom running down her jack as she looks around at all of them

[Narrator/Storyteller]

and goes, I are not yet in.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see that these shadows, the symbol of house Saramai in the vassal crypt. House gleams upon the shadows up there.

[Teor]

Sick. Nice.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Roll these. Jesus fucking Christ, Alex. That's fucking crazy.

[Thimble]

All right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

These skeletons go looking at the closed gate. 5, 10, 15, 20.

[Teor]

Dude, they don't know it's closed. They should definitely go up and smash themselves against the gate and try and open it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. They're gonna take some swings on Julian here. That is a. There's a 16 hit.

[Thimble]

Or.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Sorry, an 18 hit.

[Julian]

An 18 does hit. I was holding my action to cover where they were there. I get a strike as the first one steps in.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You can Go for it.

[Julian]

Let's go. That's going to be a 16 to hit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

16 hits exactly.

[Julian]

All righty.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's going to be.

[Julian]

Oh, straight up eight plus four. 12 points of piercing damage as it comes up to me.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

12 points of piercing. 12 points. This thing is on death as this thing.

[Julian]

That was almost like a trading blower. It comes up. I go and strike it and try and pull away as it scrapes into me.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Incredible. You take four points of damage slashing. The other one is going to swing. That is a hit as well. It's a 23. And you take five points of slashing damage on that next turn.

[Octis]

Okay. Just realize there's cool shit backgrounds now. There's a thing behind Brennan. That's scary.

[Thimble]

That's so cool.

[Teor]

What are you.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He's bad here. It's bad. These two are going to. I think that seeing Cid in front of them.

[Teor]

Leave my brother alone. I'm here, you bitch.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

They're gonna wheel around.

[Teor]

I swung and I missed.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That is a hit. That is a hit.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's double 12s.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Cid is badly bloodied, but still up as the skeletons reach out and slash away. Teyar, it's your turn.

[Teor]

My turn? I can't let my brother go down like this. I'm gonna use some of my speed to. To go up to him, and I'm going to put 20 points of Leon hands into CID.

[Thimble]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

20 points. 20 points of. Oh, 20 points of Leon to CID. Amazing. 20 points of lay on to Cid. Boom. He is no longer bloodied. Still injured, but he goes as you heal him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Let's get the fog out of here

[Teor]

and I'll take a swing at this.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Hell yeah.

[Teor]

With this big fucking axe from House Einfausen. You son of a bitch. You better fucking hit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You are now flanking with your brother, so roll with advantage.

[Teor]

Oh, okay, good. Anyway. Okay, great. 25.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

25 will do it. Roll damage.

[Octis]

Hell yeah.

[Teor]

Plus 2, 5, 6, 13, 14. 14 points of slashing damage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Shattered bones destroyed.

[Thimble]

Nice.

[Teor]

Amazing.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Incredible.

[Teor]

And now we flee.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And now we flee.

[Teor]

Which means I basically get back to about where I was with. But that's okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, back to where you were. And then.

[Teor]

Or maybe I won't clog the hallway. If I'm really right here, I'll just stand.

[Tyranny]

Right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, there you go. What is Dame Saramai's armor class?

[Octis]

15.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

How many hit points?

[Octis]

She does. Good question. She has.

[Thimble]

She was bad.

[Octis]

Probably the hell. Oh, here. That is 30.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

30.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You turn and see. And does she have resistance to necrotic

[Octis]

or no, she has immunity to necrotic. Oh,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

she is the shadows. Look at her go forward to strike. And seeing that she is undead like them and in fact their kin, they

[Narrator/Storyteller]

simply embrace her, envelop her. They see the blade at her side on that nat 20. They welcome her home. And you see that one of them turns to you. Octus in the dark points to the wall and flashes a sigil of how

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Saramai to you through the air. As you see, Gaia begins to go

[Narrator/Storyteller]

incorporeal, welcomed home by those ancient members of her family that see her task of punishing her living family as worthy.

[Octis]

I'm not alive.

[Teor]

Kitty dippage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Let me clarify. I'm not alive. That is insane. Insane. That is such a clutch move, Alex. Unbelievable. We go back. We are gonna go back to the top with fimble.

[Thimble]

Great. I'm gonna go to the secret door.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You rush into the secret door and are off the map.

[Thimble]

Ooh, wait. It's dark in there.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It's dark.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna wait. Cause I don't got no candle.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You have no candle at all.

[Thimble]

Cause I can't see shit.

[Octis]

Great.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You wait there if you'd like. You see that? They will be able to chase you through this open door.

[Thimble]

Okay. I'll go through the door and wait, I guess.

[Octis]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You go through the door and wait.

[Teor]

We'll be right behind you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

We'll be right behind you.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Great.

[Thimble]

I'm gonna die on the other side.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm gonna die on the other side. Julian, that is you.

[Octis]

Actually, it's just all necromantic energy over there. And you just.

[Thimble]

I know. I might. That's the thing, guys.

[Teor]

I found that rock.

[Julian]

The one that hasn't been like.

[Thimble]

It might just kill me.

[Julian]

Yeah. The one that I damaged last turn. I'm going to go ahead and try and swing the rapier around. And instead of striking and stabbing it, I'm going to take the butt of it down onto its already damaged skull and see if I can break it where it hits the back of the spine.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, go for it.

[Julian]

That's off. That's going to be a nine.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Nine does not do it.

[Julian]

I will use my bonus action to come back around with my demigantlet. As I swing past this point, I push into it with the shoulder, I kind of knock it backwards. And as I do, I bring the gauntlet up into its rib cage and towards its skull. That's gonna be better. It's a 17 to hit 17 hits with. That I'm gonna do. I'm gonna use Savage attack to reroll that. There we go. It's better. Seven points of bludgeoning damage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

The one you already injured.

[Julian]

Yes.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Shatters apart.

[Julian]

All right. Looking back towards you, I'm like, we gotta go. I'm gonna.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

This guy's right here.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Keep telling me to go.

[Julian]

You know this.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You know this because I. Because you're hurt.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'm fine.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm fine, too.

[Julian]

I'm just gonna turn.

[Octis]

You worry about me.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Oh, man.

[Julian]

All right. I'm gonna go ahead and. You don't know what's in the next room.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Just walk in. There's like 20 rings. It could be. I don't put it past them.

[Thimble]

I feel like it's gonna be bad because he encouraged me to go through it alone.

[Julian]

I'm sure I had to balance this

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

for maybe 13 people being in this dance.

[Teor]

This is what you've done to us.

[Julian]

So I have 30ft of movement.

[Teor]

Maybe 13ft.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm like, there could be 13 people in here. We have no way to know.

[Julian]

I have 30ft of movement left still.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm gonna just balance on the high end.

[Julian]

Can I use that to try and. Even if it's a half movement to try and. And back up and push Octis further in the hall behind me.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Do you want to just pick up octys or what do you say?

[Octis]

You're like, he's such a slight little boy.

[Julian]

That's true. Yeah. I go ahead and fireman, carry him over the shoulder and just try and start running back that way as best I can.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I will say, yeah, go ahead and just give me athletics.

[Julian]

You got it. That is not good.

[Octis]

I'm heavier than I look.

[Teor]

He hit his head on the column.

[Julian]

As you go by, I will spend one of my hit dice.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay.

[Julian]

To do a second wind expenditure for tactical mind.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Go for it.

[Julian]

Which means I can add.

[Octis]

Did you just say.

[Julian]

There we go. So with that, that's going to be 14.

[Octis]

14.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Octis is over your shoulder. And you guys move through the door with him.

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[Octis]

I had so much dignity.

[Thimble]

What the fuck's happening?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That's you. Sid is going to take a CID looks at you and says, should I smash this dude or should we run

[Teor]

Smash the dude in? Indra.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He's gonna smash the dude. 19 on the die. Here we go. He shatters the skeleton apart.

[Teor]

It's my brother.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And goes. Let's go. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Okay, great rushes down here. And that is going to be octys. You were carried through by Julian on his turn.

[Octis]

Technically my turn. When we're on the. I mean. Well, okay, I'll wait.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

By the way, attack of opportunity on you from that skeleton. Correct. That is a hit at a 23.3points of slashing damage to you.

[Octis]

I mean, my turn is my turn, but I'm gone out of the scene, so.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah. Gotcha. Skeleton.

[Octis]

Do I still have command of Saramai?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes, you do.

[Octis]

Okay. Saramai's up there just making a ruckus and trying to still draw as much attention as possible in that moment.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, but do you want her to follow you into the rest of the dungeon? They can't harm her.

[Octis]

Yeah, I think she'll start making her way towards me.

[Thimble]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So no need for a disengage. They can swipe all they like. 5, 10, 15. She takes two points of falling damage just to get extra movement.

[Teor]

Don't ask.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

20, 25, 32. Okay. And Saramai's in the hallway with you. Damn.

[Teor]

She got some speed on her dash.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah. Move and dash. And chose to take two damage to not go down the stairs.

[Octis]

Corpse fall.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That is going to be spooky. Scary skeleton. This guy is going to go 1, 2, 3, 5.

[Octis]

How does he know about the secret door?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He gets it right next to the door with a opportunity attack on whoever he can. But he's used his movement. Teor, that's you. Okay.

[Teor]

I'm going to run by my brother Sid. See the skeleton by the door? I'm going to see and swing away.

[Octis]

Yes.

[Teor]

That is a 25 to hit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That is a hit. Go ahead and roll.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Damage.

[Teor]

6, 6, 12, 14. 14 points of slashing damage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Destroy. Skeleton's done.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Shadows are going to go.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Sid, am I rushing? Rushing to Cid here? I'll say two enter the doorway and are going to swing on Tay. They are standing in the doorway. Cid has two behind him. They have 40ft of movement. So these two, I think. Let me see where they were. Yeah, that's 60ft away because Sarah and I just made it. So they have to use a move and an action to be in the doorway. You guys are filling the door and they can't get past you. These two are going to take swings on Cid. That is a hit. Cid's strength is reduced by another one.

[Teor]

Jeez.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And he takes 10 points of damage. And that is going to be. That's the shadows. We move all the way back to the top. And that's going to be Thimble Jewel. It's like all four of you go in a row. And so Cid is going to get one. He's going to disengage, dive through the door.

[Octis]

And then once I see Cid, if I can see Cid come through with the candle, I command the door to close.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Okay?

[Thimble]

And you're through.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

The door shuts and you guys look

[Narrator/Storyteller]

at a long dark hallway. You've made it past the doorstep of Obramis Manor.

[Thimble]

The doorstep.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And that's where we're going to move.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You stand with your grandmother, the foetarch, at the head of a massive table. She sits in her seat and squeezes your hand reassuringly.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You and tyranny.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

To one side of her, your sister Zabani and your father, Goddard. To the other, blindfolded, enormous shoulders. Your father, seeing you enter, turns to you again, eyes covered. It is good that you have returned, son.

[Tyranny]

It is wonderful to see you again, Father. I hope I didn't worry you too much.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

My faith in your return was as steadfast as the ever gleaming light that animates all. Good talk, good talk.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He stands at attention again. Zaban, the other side of you, you see that the foetarch begins to welcome people in and. And over the next couple minutes. And there are many other the room is filled with probably a good 30 people or something like that. There's attendant high ministers, high ranking clergy of the Candescent Creed are here.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And the other houses begin to enter as well.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Walking in, you see Lord Otto Einfassen, his nephew, Ser Horondus Einfassen, his wife,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

the Lady Cordelia, his sons Josefir and Rune Brahm.

[Wikander]

I'm not gonna.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You guys don't have to know all these. There's so many. And family. Lord Otto turns to you and says, ah, young Lord Halofar.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I am happy to see that you have returned. I know that your grandmother was deeply worried.

[Tyranny]

The light greets you in our home and I am honored to make your acquaintance.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You hear wind rushing outside and the

[Narrator/Storyteller]

crackling of fire as purple and red

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

light fill the courtyard. As a meteor seems to streak through the sky. And as it lands, you see the Lord Ahtakani Cormoray.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

This is the head of House Cormory. He is a handsome old man. Rings instead of gems throughout his locks, deep dark skin with a tint of red. He has fire at his fingertips. He has deep orange and then red robes.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Around him, a golden belt.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

As he walks forward, you see, smiling, his eyes seem almost tired and serene and happy, as though he has led a wise and contented life.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see there that his facial hair,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

his stately, well groomed beard is filled

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

with far more salt than pepper. As he enters the space. You see, beside him is a nervous looking man who's a part of the Cormoray cohort as well.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

He walks in. Ah, this is young Wikander.

[Tyranny]

Yes, yes it is. Hello.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Good to see you. A happy belated candle feast.

[Tyranny]

Thank you so much.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And of course we celebrate the holiday of some two days ago as well, which has yet to be named, but I have to imagine, you see, he

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

takes Yanes as and kisses it.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I have to imagine that there will be some holy day given the resurrection of the blessed Fotarch.

[Tyranny]

Yes, it is a miracle, really, and I'm proud to be a small part of this family.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that? He smiles, takes his seat and

[Narrator/Storyteller]

the doors open as Lord Primus to Konis, his two ever so tall twin daughters, Petra and Raya, and his severe, petulant, angry and muscular son Etherynd, enter into the space behind him. See, a chill moves throughout the space. Looking around, Lord Primus sees the Einfassen, the Cormoray, the Haylouvar, the Candescent creed, and looks to an empty area of the table. Putting the ass in.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Aasimar looks to an empty area where

[Narrator/Storyteller]

a small mat has been placed over the symbol of house Royce, I believe,

[Tyranny]

just before it all starts. Is there a tree across the. Is there a tree across the room?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Tyranny]

And can I just see if there's like a snake or a dead body or anything on top of it?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see, there is a hail of our gardener saying some kind of heavy

[Narrator/Storyteller]

animal slept in this tree.

[Tyranny]

Okay. But nothing out of the ordinary, my Lord.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Do you want to come take a look?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Not now. Should I come back?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It's bad time.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

All right, heads off.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Lord Primus says, I believe congratulations are in order to the Lady Hailuvar. Her radiance on her recent resurrection. A magic for the first time belongs to mortals and mortals alone.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see that?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Your grandmother Fotarch says to those assembled here, please do not applaud. It is not an act of theater to receive a miracle from the light. If you are moved in spirit and heart, simply meditate on this act in reverence. And I wish for all of you to know why we have gathered here tonight. For indeed, your Radiance.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Your Radiance. And three demons rush into the room with two massive sacks over their shoulders. Enmity, says your Radiance. We have counted, but we were. But if he's. If he's here. See? Agony goes. If he's here, why did we capture this?

[Thimble]

Oh.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And she takes a slip you see that?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The photoarch says, aspirants, please assemble behind me. We will get to your business after this important meeting is concluded. And they drop two heavy sacks behind them, one of which drops with a.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And the other drops with. Robbie. What noise would you make when you get dropped? Robbie, come out and join the table, please. I know that groan.

[Tyranny]

Do we know that groan?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You both recognize that groan? Let's smell that groan right away, baby. Just a man and a sack. I'm just a man and a sack. True minionship. We got him.

[Wikander]

Should have taken that.

[Thimble]

All right.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's okay.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that? Primus looks out at everyone. So you see enmity, cruelty and agony. All look at you as the Lord sort of hush and talk for a moment.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And you see that cruelty goes. Wow, we made it back.

[Thimble]

Yeah, no thanks to you. Listen, closed mouths don't get fed. I'm just gonna ask this. I'm gonna turn to Wakandra and say, it sounds like some very important business is going down. Would it be a good idea if I helped my sisters with their sacks? May I be excused to go help my sister?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You see, they say. This is probably the 20th time I've had to say this. Keep your hands off sacks that aren't yours. You're so rude. We are gonna get the credit for this.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see that, Cadigan? You hear everything perfectly. You're just in. They just got you in that carrot. They put you in a sack. They got you here. You hear Primus Taconis begin to speak as he says.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

This meeting has been called at the request of Lord Otto Einfassen assembling the sundered houses with an exception

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

to speak

[Narrator/Storyteller]

of the events that took place at the Palazzo Divinos more than a week prior from today. This meeting has been called by Lord Otto. But I second its calling, for indeed, I have questions for the assembled houses here as to the whereabouts of my son. Octys missing. Something terrible may have befallen him. And we look for him with all of our fury, trying to answer the same questions you have here. Your little letter notwithstanding. You see that? Primus gestures to Otto.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see, Otto holds up a letter that you see scratched very quickly and

[Narrator/Storyteller]

says, this letter written by your son, Arctis. And you see, he says, Primus says, an obvious forgery or Royce fairy trickery of some kind.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

My son may well be in danger at this very moment.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You see, Lord Cormoray says, and he may not be alone. For indeed, can anyone here explain to me where my daughter, the lady Amaria is. I have sent her to represent our interests in this city and she has been missing for days. Can you, Primus, explain where she is?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see, Primus looks and says, I

[Narrator/Storyteller]

have no business with your daughter, the Lady Cormoray. And you see that Lord Cormoray says, no.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Then explain this. And you see, he shoves a signet

[Narrator/Storyteller]

ring with a Taconis symbol across the table.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see that Lord Takonis says,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

may I inspect this?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see, the Lord come recession.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

We already have a mold of it. We have already cast our spells on it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It is a Taconis signet ring. And you see that Lord Primus takes it, looks at it and furrows his

[Narrator/Storyteller]

brow and says, I am at a loss, Lord Kormray. I recognize this as a Takona's signet ring. And I think I know who it belongs to.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

But I balare across from you, walking

[Narrator/Storyteller]

through the doors is the Lady Amaria Dasan. Cormoray.

[Tyranny]

Oh.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

She walks in and you see that your grandmother looks out and goes,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

lady Cormoray. She says, apologies, apologies, all apologies for my delay, Father Hiller. He goes, amari. How did you not say it? She says, it is a long story, Father, but suffice it to say my arcane endeavors embroiled me in a place between worlds. I'll explain more later.

[Wikander]

Yeah, go ahead.

[Tyranny]

As a student of the light.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yes.

[Tyranny]

Do I notice if there's any flickers of illusory magic around her?

[Wikander]

I'm very specifically looking for exactly what

[Julian]

I would expect to find.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You look at her bowel lair, give

[Narrator/Storyteller]

me an insight check, if you'd be so kind.

[Wikander]

I am doing my best to only make the faces at her that everyone else is making. Especially lower down the totem pole, so to speak, that phrase, insight check. I'm freaking the fuck out, okay?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

She was in a box.

[Wikander]

I rolled an eight.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You rolled an eight. She was in a box on an eight. Insight, give me deception with disadvantage.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

What?

[Tyranny]

Okay. Can I. If I'm close enough. I don't know how this works, story wise, but I would love to get rid of that disadvantage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Okay. Yes, you do.

[Tyranny]

Okay.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Give me deception.

[Wikander]

23.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

23. You see that she does not observe you looking at her. You look at her and you see a woman who should be in a box. She's not in the box. She's here at the table. She's not in the box. Bolaire.

[Wikander]

Cool.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

That's really bad.

[Julian]

That's so bad.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It's really bad. I really, really.

[Wikander]

I put her in the. She was in the box.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm gonna sack.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

No, I'm sorry.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm not gonna sack. I think Polair going back through your mind, there have been times where the

[Narrator/Storyteller]

box was unattended, and I think that

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

your mind goes to that as just. Okay, okay, you can get to the bottom of this. She's not looking at you. She doesn't know that you are who you are. No, why would she? You see that? Otto looks at Primus and says, so

[Narrator/Storyteller]

you are saying that this letter is forgery. You are claiming it as such.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see that? Primus says, I believe it to be so. Einfarsen says,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

well, it is a forgery. I have deduced it myself. Not to mention it was confirmed as such by Erinassa Royce, who was a guest in my castle, and Ser Julian Davinos and the Lady Tyche Loy.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see, your grandmother turns to you wicked and goes,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

sorry, Wiki Tychaloy. That's your friend Hal Fang's partner? Yes, I believe so. She was with a Davinos knight in Rhysengirdle.

[Tyranny]

Oh, in recent girdle. I don't know her whereabouts in the past week. I was with. That's all right.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Make a mark of that. I wish to discuss it with you afterwards. That is very. We should keep an eye on Ms. Loy.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

She seems super shady, you see. So Otto says, it is already a

[Narrator/Storyteller]

matter of fact that House Royce did not vanish into Faerie, Lord Primus. So who is responsible for that ghostly gala at the Palazzo Divinos? You see that Primus is looking off balance. He says, well, perhaps they were. Perhaps at the Insight there was an assassination attempt. Perhaps they were part of it.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see, he goes,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

you are not going to convince me that Erinacer Royce kidnapped herself and destroyed one of her vassal houses. There was an empty gala the night after what is alleged to be a massacre at the Palazzo Divinos. Who created the false gala? Primus. It is known. Primus looks out. The gnome and you see that Otto looks out and says, I beg your pardon, Lord Primus. I am not being questioned here. This attempted deception, this false gala which you are responsible for, and I remind you, we are not in a court of law. I do not need to convince a judge or jury. Your biggest problem, Lord Primus, is that I am convinced.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So perhaps we can refrain from rejoining

[Narrator/Storyteller]

with interrogations of your interrogators, Lord Primus. This deception, Royce venturing back to Faerie, is a betrayal of the alliance of the Sundered Houses. Primus speaks this is the doing scenes

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

where I talk as a million people makes my brains go.

[Tyranny]

Do you want a different for each character?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Different hats, Lord Primus, turns out.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Anyone who wants to give me an insight check, happily, sure. 14, 11, 21. Oh, Primus is furious. The jig is up.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You guys can read that the jig is up.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But on 21, Wick, he's still smirking like a cat. You see, he goes. Oh, shit. Every member of this council has spoken, whispered in shadows to one another, that Royce's time has long been up. Are we here to pretend that the diminishment of their magic, their inability to hold up their corner of this alliance, their withering on the vine of their blighted orchard. We have been speaking for years, my lords and Lady Haolovar, of the need to cut the Royce fruit from the tree of our alliance. We had been delaying and delaying. They were a miserable shadow, wretched in their absence of magic. Erinessa, that fool, married a man who slaughtered members of all our families and had neither the sense nor decency to have him killed when she could.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

House Taconis simply did what you were all too weak to do.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And we knew we could not rely on your aid.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So we took matters into our own hands.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You should be grateful that yet again your precious storied heritages rest on the bedrock wrought for you by House Taconis. For indeed, only one house of our alliance continues to see its power grow and grow and his shadows lengthen behind him. We are stronger. We took the initiative. We will do whatever it takes that our alliance thrive. Otto looks at him and says, is that why you murdered your son? Anyone who wants to give me insight

[Wikander]

practically constantly.

[Thimble]

13.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

That's cocked.

[Tyranny]

Not good.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Not good.

[Tyranny]

5.

[Wikander]

Not 20.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Nat. 20. Ethrend looks out as they accuse Primus of murdering Octus. And you can see the guilt on his face. And you see the Lady Amaria whip her eyes over to Etherind.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And you know that she knows. Primus looks at Otto. You put much faith in a scrawled letter and the babbling testimony of some what?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see that Primus takes out some sheets of paper to review this?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

What?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This testimony of some Revolutionary Guardsman who experienced a hallucination investigating the palazzo. Probably a drunkard. My son is still out there, Otto says.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Only the testimony of one of the city's finest arcane inspectors. The letter of your son written in his hand. Perhaps it is a forgery. So the matter could be concluded here. You destroyed Royce out of impatience with this alliance. The Fact that we like to do things in a way that is. I don't know. Careful and reasonable. This letter from your son of forgery. Just like the one you sent to us in recent girdle to arrest the Divinos caravan.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It's all fine. Is that all Primus?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Is that all Primus looks a little long, long time. Yes, my lord Iphassan.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

See, Lady Hayluvar looks over at you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yanessa looks at you Wick and goes. This is a good one.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that? Lord Einfassen goes then that is all.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Behind him the Archmage Kolsturm, the woman

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

in black robes with red pauldrons steps forward, reaches into a satchel and puts

[Narrator/Storyteller]

the most beautiful black candle you've ever seen right on the center of the table. Covered in silver.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh shit.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Everybody roll me insight with advantage.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh shit. Not 20. Tyranny. Some people tyranny. You see, Primus is about to vomit.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

He's terrified.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

On Nat 20 he is.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Everything is falling apart around him as he looks at the candle. My lord Taconis. Do you recognize this? How.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

How do you Primus? You see, Lord Cormorant says, Primus, you

[Narrator/Storyteller]

seem very ill. What is it you see here? Otto stands up. I have long felt the withering gaze of house Taconis. The House of Death. But you are not the House of Death. You are the House of the Dead. Dead? I wish for you to know that in the long history of this world, your aesthetic enthusiasm for dead things does not make you the most dangerous man in this room.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And the foundations of the earth shake underneath him.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Strength, my lord Taconis has come killed many more than whimpering around a graveyard.

[Thimble]

He said.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Just cuz you're goth doesn't mean you're tough. You see? He goes. You murdered your son to turn him into a celestial abomination. I invite those proficient casters of the House of Cormoray to investigate this spell component. Its magic is used up, but it has been reconstituted. Tell us if we are wrong.

[Wikander]

Insight check. Just to make sure that this is true.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Give it. Yeah, go for it.

[Thimble]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Please, just.

[Wikander]

I had a moment of panic. Nevermind. That's a 1212.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see? It's all happening.

[Tyranny]

He goes.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You would have raised one of your family in the fallen absence of the God of the Sun. To do what? To fell the Golden Orchard. Divvy up its prices for yourself. And I suppose when you had this ultimate weapon, you would have stopped there? Yes. Would you like to lie again in front of me? You see, that Primus goes.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I owe a sincere apology to the assembled lords and lady of this table. My lady Hailifar. I wish to submit to a spell of truth. Your grandma looks at you.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Wick shrugs

[Narrator/Storyteller]

and casts a zone of truth over Primus that he willingly submits to.

[Tyranny]

Okay.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

It was never my intention to slaughter any who sit now at this table.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He says.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The creation of this weapon, the Daeva Vindicta. The window has closed. We were running out of time. We completed the ritual in perhaps the last day we could have. It is no longer a threat. What Was our plan? 70 years ago, everyone at this table kneeled to the royal house of Obra Dain. All of us vassal houses, myself and Hailuvar descend from the priests of that empire.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And all of you, though you fought against the gods in the Shapers War,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

your ancestors all knelt.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Many of you only have your lands

[Narrator/Storyteller]

because your ancestors did kneel to the kings of obrademia.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

For 70 years we have been without empire.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And in those 70 years we bicker and quarrel, react, overreact, make mistakes. Royce quarrels with Einfassen.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Einfassen with Cormoray.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

70 years ago we had an emperor. I speak truth to you now. My plan with the Daeva Vindicta was the same as always. You see that?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He reaches into his cloak and manifests

[Narrator/Storyteller]

something from a small pocket of shadow

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

dimension and drops a series of plans on the table. Heather tattoo. Western Telmora. And he fans the pages out.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Western Tel Mora to the Einfossen. Eastern Telmora to the Cormoray.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

The Golden Orchard moved from its proximity to the closed doors of Faerie into

[Narrator/Storyteller]

the Tenebra reaches for use by my family. And Yanessa, the raising of Telmora's druid groves. Plenty of real estate to build cathedrals. We are true allies to all of you here. The Daeva Vindicta was not meant to slaughter you. It was meant to make you kneel. And you see that the lords look around at each other at this admission. He says, taconis is not strong enough on its own. Not without Einfassen. Not without Kormoray nor hall we were to make you kneel. The Vindictor would have been our winning gambit in the game that we all play in here.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Lord Einfasten, how goes the search for the Jotunox? And you see that? Otto's eyebrows shoot up.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

My Lord Cormoray, I understand that your grant at the Pentaveral has gone through.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Congratulations. I heard there was some celebration at

[Narrator/Storyteller]

the old Callistra quarries.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And you see Lord Cormoray drums his finger on the table. And you see that he looks right

[Narrator/Storyteller]

at Yanessa and says, I'm glad you're well, Lady Hayluvar. Terrible case of bellows fever going around, wouldn't you say?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

He looks over at you, looks right at you, tyranny.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And says, and of course, your wonderful aspirants. How exceptional that these demons are here because they have been saved. The Daeva Vindicta was a winning move. A winning move in a game. You will not deceive me. We are all playing. You might be angry that we almost win, but we did not. You have my apologies for the direct lie of the Royce gala, but let us not pretend that the old throne of Obra Demia does not call to each and every lord and lady in this room. We work best together. For there are two games being played here. The game in this room. And he points. And the game out there. They're playing too. All of them are playing out there. If we had won and made you kneel as vassal houses of the new royal house of Taconis, you would have ruled. Ruled over every single mortal in creation, save a single family that you would kneel to. Vast millions at your feet, and but a handful to whom you would be answerable. They win out there. The me, the meanest oaf, the lowest beggar, the most mud caked simpleton will be your equal. You will be above no one. They will bury you in their dirt and call it freedom. If I am bested in our little game here by someone in this room, you have my word. I will applaud my you and serve as house Taconis did serve for centuries. But we cannot take our eyes off them out there. Or did you not hear the Lady Royce's late husband and what he can still hear. You see the foe tark looks up and says, The AZI fang you pushed so hard for his death. My Lord Taconis, The candle requires still a great degree of noble blood to be spilled. We knew that if the azzy was to die, the Lady Erinessa would come running to save him. We needed it to not be a death in private, but one with a trial and a hanging, such that she would have time to make her way to Dolmarchia. We fed the information to the Royce that we were looking for Octys, thinking they might find him where we could not, and they took him to their home. Divinos was an improvisation, but wherever the Lady Royce and Octys first met, I would have Been waiting in the shadows. Or enough of erinness retainers to speed the Daeva's journey to the underworld. That is the sum total of it. I've told you all I can. Your wrath is just. Consider, as always, my lords and lady, not what your heart might tell you in its consternation and fury, what advances the interests of your house. Petra and Raya stand up behind him. We have much to discuss. My lords and lady of the revolutionary council and its weakness following the assassination attempt on the diminished king and the Fotarch. There have been heated words exchanged. We need not make a decision tonight. Let us calm ourselves and let cooler heads prevail. Come. We have laid a feast for you as a token of our apologies. And you see that Petra and Raya begin to lead some of the lords and ladies out of the room. Primus and Yanessa are staying here. You see that? Primus is staying. He's just looking across at Yanessa. Yanessa looks up at you. What do you think of that, wiki?

[Thimble]

Wow.

[Tyranny]

Well, I. I think he made some excellent points. You know, working together does have a nice ring to it. Spirit of brotherhood and. And what have you,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Balare. You see, the Lady Cormory gets up from the table with her father and they exit from here together. There is.

[Wikander]

We are not alone enough for me to cast any kind of spell in here safely.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Not in here. Very crowded.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But she is leaving.

[Tyranny]

I.

[Wikander]

You are just sort of sitting there, aren't you?

[Tyranny]

I'm just talking to Grandma.

[Wikander]

I am going to very quietly make my way across the room just a bit while you're talking to Grandma. And I'm going to see where they're going and try and just listen and see if anything is said between the two of them as I walk behind them.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Give me a perception check. Yeah. Cause that's really bad. That's really, really, really, really bad.

[Wikander]

Nope. 11.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

11. You just hear her saying

[Narrator/Storyteller]

halfway, somewhere between the tenebral reaches. But perhaps faerie or something like that. I was able to meet several enchanters that I did not recognize. And that's all you get.

[Wikander]

I have no idea if this is going to work. There's no reason for me to think it would. This is just shot in the dark. I'm going to back down, close my eyes, and I'm just going to go into that weird liminal void inside myself and just ignore whatever that terrible woman's doing.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Are you there? What's happening?

[Tyranny]

Shush.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I was about to get my break. My big break.

[Wikander]

I make a terrible blinding spotlight drop upon her in the void.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

The light tells you to be silent.

[Wikander]

And I make it go away again.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Is it you? Are you there? Are you using telepathy in this moment inside me?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Inside you? Who are you trying to speak to?

[Wikander]

I'm trying to speak to my sister to see if maybe, I don't know

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

if this is private.

[Wikander]

I don't know if this is a public place.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This is a thing I found way later. The lady in Mario is speaking to her father. Here. You cast out. Are you using some magic to cast

[Narrator/Storyteller]

out and say that or. No, not yet.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Are you just saying it with your voice?

[Wikander]

I'm saying it inside. I went into the point inside my head and I'm saying it into the void inside my head. Because just in the vain hope that we share it, I don't know if we would. I don't understand how it works.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see the Lady Amaria cock an eyebrow, reach around.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

She looks and you see that she suddenly looks up. Lady Amaria makes direct eye contact with you.

[Wikander]

I bow and head.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

She holds up a finger like this

[Narrator/Storyteller]

and says and says, father, I think you're wanted over there. She turns to look at you as

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

you're exiting and goes, shit. Says, excuse me and trails after you.

[Wikander]

I have no reason to believe she's talking to me yet I assume, no,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

she's calling for you, she says.

[Wikander]

She's saying, oh, you definitely know.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I would definitely know. She's like, excuse me, young lady. Young ladies.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hi. I was wondering if I could ask

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

you for a small decanter of tea. And you see that she whips around a column, grabs you and pulls you

[Narrator/Storyteller]

with her and goes,

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

brother, I'm having such a good time.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I got out of the box.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And she kisses you on the mouth

[Narrator/Storyteller]

and says, they don't know what I know. And I know the things that they don't know. Can we talk? And how are you alive? What is this, brother? The lady I am, she's so powerful and it's making me more powerful.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And she snaps her head so it's hanging upside down off her torso and she goes.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And we're making each other more powerful.

[Wikander]

I am. I'm. This is new Termina. This is wonderful news, but it's been a very long time and we have to discuss where we are and our mission. You do remember the mission, don't you?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Kill the God. Yes. And what happens when there are mortals? I did it. I was the last one.

[Wikander]

You were.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You did so well. Is she dead? Is the Goddess dead? I know she is. I don't get to do it anymore. Well, that's not necessarily true. What do you mean?

[Wikander]

I fear that there are a few of these mortals that are reaching for godhood themselves.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

And if we help them, we get to kill a God again.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And she. Misty steps out of there.

[Thimble]

What the hell?

[Tyranny]

She was never very good at listening.

[Octis]

Just.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Jerumina.

[Wikander]

Termina, Termina, Termina, Termina, the vessel of nothing, of no thing.

[Thimble]

Termina.

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[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Solaire, you're staring at a column and somewhere in the distance you hear Hatakani

[Narrator/Storyteller]

go, where is my daughter? Gone.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And we are going to move back into the chamber with you guys.

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[Thimble]

Thank you.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Fuck. Fo tark tyranny. You see this photo says.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

All right, lovey. I should stay here and speak with Sicornis. Go check in with your father and Zabani. I'm going to speak to the Lord. Primus allow.

[Tyranny]

Are you sure? He seems not trustworthy.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Jesus, Laffey. I'm not afraid of Primus Tagalis.

[Wikander]

All right.

[Tyranny]

You want us to go talk to our father and Sabani?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah, it's all right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that? Your sisters go. If the meeting's over, we got this guy in a bag fucking like give me.

[Tyranny]

Perhaps we should go. Just get whatever that is out of here.

[Thimble]

I did say I seek counsel with my sisters. I can go help them with whatever errand they were on. It seems significant to them.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that she looks out over at them. And you see that the other demons here, the other aspirants look over and

[Narrator/Storyteller]

say, what is it?

[Tyranny]

Tyranny?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

What do you want?

[Thimble]

I can help you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

We don't need your fucking help.

[Thimble]

Yeah, you clearly do, actually. You really, really do.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

No, we actually did our job. We actually did it really good this time.

[Thimble]

Yeah, this time. What about the other time when you were supposed to come and get me after we were kidnapped?

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[Tyranny]

If I may, it is one of our tenants to work together in unity and spirit. Family comes first.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Give me a persuasion check.

[Thimble]

Easy. That's cocked well.

[Tyranny]

Easy.

[Thimble]

Easy.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

12.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see your sisters gather around

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Cadogan

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

and Wulfric and snarl at you. The foetard turns around and says, this

[Narrator/Storyteller]

must stop right now. You three wait here silently in the corner. We can try. Would you. Would you like to remain for this conversation between I and the Lord Primus? Or do you wish to take yourself in tyranny and speak to your father and Zivani?

[Tyranny]

If I'm to be a representative of this family. I need to know all the ins and outs of what's going on here and I would prefer to stay.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Very well. Aspirant tyranny. Please keep an eye on your sisters. This is their first success and it's gone to their heads.

[Thimble]

Yes, sir.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

T. You see? She turns to Primus. Primus waiting and glowering in the corner. Primus says,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

my Lady Haeluvar, if you can wrap this up with the demons, I prefer for them not to be present while we're speaking.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see that?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

She says, Very well. All right.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Show me what you've got. And Katigan, you and Wulfric are dumped

[Narrator/Storyteller]

out of the bags here.

[Wikander]

Let me know how long it would take also for me to eventually this conversation. I know I was doing shit.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Yeah, I think you'll come back in a second. Perfect, yeah. You and Wulfric are dumped out.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Khadigan, Wikander, tyranny. Her three sisters.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

The sisters. You're like, prone on the ground. And cruelty goes. Oh, dirty man. We got you in the carriage.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah? Yeah, real fucking clever.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Stuff me in a sack. Get me while I'm vulnerable.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Am I bound?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Uh, you're probably manacled, yeah?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Who are you?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You see, the photoarch says, Mr. Vale,

[Narrator/Storyteller]

you need not lie any further.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Fuck, man, I'm just trying.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

She turns and says, this man came and lied to me in audience the other day, along with Hallen Dilfang and Tycha Loy. Is he an associate of Teor Pridesire?

[Tyranny]

The fact that he lied to you is not surprising. To me he is a vermin. He's done nothing but lie. Sensation came in contact with him. It disappoints me, though, that he's with

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Hal and Tysha Bolair.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You re enter along with Petra and Raya Tokonis.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Who walk in.

[Tyranny]

You see that he fought alongside Teor in the Torn Banner.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

As a matter of fact, I understand you were part of the attempt to lead astray. My grandson.

[Tyranny]

Never do this.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Can I insight check my. For me insight?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Him and you can give me deception or persuasion.

[Thimble]

I mean,

[Tyranny]

I'm trying to persuade him with my eyes to just kind of go with this man.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I don't know if I'm picking up on your signals or not.

[Tyranny]

I got a 26.

[Octis]

Persuasion.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

This is persuasion. Mathematically impossible. That's a Fuller.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

Yeah.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

So Dragon can feel whatever he wants to feel. You see that? The folktarch says, a wicked and dimmed man.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I understand my grandson very well. Aspirants please take Mr. Vale and his wall to my son, Ser Hailuvar, and take him to the tailor shop.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And what's that? You see? They pick him up and begin to

[Narrator/Storyteller]

lead him out of the room with tyranny.

[Thimble]

Or am I a part of this?

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Would you like you had an 11 persuasion? So your sisters are pissed at you. They don't want you to come.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

But the photo.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

And the Fotarch said you should remain with Vikander. But it's up to you.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

You can attempt to follow them if you'd like.

[Thimble]

She did say to look after my sisters, so.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh, she did?

[Narrator/Storyteller]

I'm gonna go with them.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

You go with them. Hey, what's a tailor shop? That's some kind of joke. Cause I got shitty clothes. Fuck you. What's a tailor shop? As the demons drag. As the demons drag a manacled Cadogan

[Narrator/Storyteller]

and a bound Wulfric out of the room, Wrath. Judgment. Two enormous hounds snarl at Wulfric. Valenius Haylevar looks down and says, ah, another little falcon for the tailor shop. Good, good. And they pull you out of the room. Cadigan. You look across the room. It's just Wick and his grandmother left in here, along with his attendant Lux. Across the table, Petra and Raya and their father. Their father. Their father screams in the cabin. You see the face of the sorcerer. He gazes at you with no knowledge of who you are or the long years of your life you spent searching for this shadow. You level up. Oh, and that's the end of this episode.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

It still can.

[Thimble]

Still.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm feeling very positive.

[Thimble]

This was really just.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

I'm not sweating.

[Thimble]

Emotionally beat the shit out of Katkin.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

No way.

[Wikander]

I know where we're going.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

Oh, come on, man. I had a fucking guy. We'll get into it in the Cool down, folks.

[Julian]

If you're not.

[Dungeon Master (Brennan Lee Mulligan)]

If you're not heading over to Cool down, you're only getting half the story. What does it say on Bravo, folks? The important thing is this. Is it Thursday yet? Nice job, buddy. We did it. Thanks for listening to this episode of Critical Role. If you're enjoying this story, consider leaving a review on on your podcast platform of choice. We're always looking for new critters to share our adventures with, and your review may help a new batch of wayward souls find their way to Ahriman, Exandria and beyond. Or if you want to hear what the cast discussed after the episode, head to Beacon TV and check out our exclusive show, Critical Role Cooldown. You'll be right there at the table immediately after we say is it Thursday yet? And experience our cast's post show reactions.

[Narrator/Storyteller]

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