Stone-Faced | Critical Role | Campaign 4, Episode 4 | Part 1

Summary

Critical Role Campaign 4, Episode 4 Part 1: "Stone-Faced"

Date: October 30, 2025
Dungeon Master: Brennan Lee Mulligan
Setting: Dolmarkyar, city in the fractured world of Ahriman

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Episode Theme

This episode plunges the characters into a relentless night of brutality, death, and desperate resistance as a meticulously orchestrated assault by House Taconis devastates the powerful Royce and Davinos families. The party is forced to navigate overwhelming supernatural danger and personal tragedy, all underlined by a sense of dread, gothic horror, and the ever-present threat of the underworld breaking through into reality.

Brennan Lee Mulligan (00:02): "We explore Ahriman, a world of fractured kingdoms, tumultuous rebellion and sorcery that rises from the graveyard of the gods..."

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Key Segments & Highlights

1. A Gritty Entrance – Potter’s Field Tavern

[00:02–06:20]

• Scene opens on Baulaire entering a shady tavern, Potter’s Field, in Dolmarkyar’s lowest district.
• He interacts with Devlin, proprietor of a secret backroom, and observes a mysterious, robed woman negotiating with grieving clients about lost souls—hinting at forbidden necromancy in Ahriman’s society.

Baulaire (04:31): "No evil."

Notable Moment:
Baulaire’s unique mask draws suspicion; his careful demeanor and hidden package suggest intrigue is building.

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2. Dangerous Deals & Betrayals

[12:00–18:32]

• Baulaire meets Albris Dryme, a fence with aspirations in the smuggling world.
• The deal goes south: Baulaire is drugged and his mask removed, revealing a visage of dried, crumbling flesh—a disturbing necromantic affliction.
• Upon regaining consciousness with a dead Albris nearby, Baulaire methodically disposes of the body in a chilling, almost ritualistic fashion.

Baulaire (16:39): "That won’t do at all. I begin to strip the dead body of its clothing..."

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3. Campaign Recap & Rising Stakes

[22:29–28:20]

• Brennan recaps recent events: execution and betrayal surrounding Thiazi Fang, the players’ connection to the Stone of Nightsong, and the lethal politics of Dolmarkyar.
• Several player characters rush to respond to these events: Julian, Tysha (the druid/wolf), Vaelys (the elven warrior), and Octis Taconis.
• Supernatural unrest is brewing; forces vie for control of necromantic artifacts and bloodlines.

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4. Battle in Palazzo Divinos: Death Strikes

[28:20–47:00]

• Combat explodes as Primus Taconis, patriarch of the hostile house, kills General Raymond Davinos (Julian’s father) in a sudden, horrific display.
• Julian is first to react, launching a furious assault. He nearly lands a killing blow, but Primus moves, "only 3/4 in this realm..."
• Upstairs, Octis is grappled and lethally wounded by his own brother, Etherind, now wielding the Stone of Nightsong.

Julian (31:38): "Just with an unheard primal screech, just shouts 'NO!' and goes into a full sprint..."

Brennan (46:59): "He plunges [the knife] into your stomach in the silence and begins to saw up."

Memorable Moment:
The grimness peaks as Octis is brutally killed, his heart grasped by his brother amid necromantic forces.

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5. Desperate Resistance—Necromancy Unleashed

[47:00–90:00]

• Tysha and Vaelys scramble to resist. Tysha races, in wolf form, to find Octis, but is paralyzed and nearly killed by ghouls.
• Primus casts "Circle of Death," slaughtering nobles and retainers, reinforcing the world’s peril: "Ahriman is not fair."
• Party members make bites, disengages, and use last-ditch healing to barely survive.

Brennan (54:49): "Primus... casts Circle of Death... the underworld is made real in this moment..."

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6. Death, Afterlife & the Path of Souls

[97:45–119:39]

• Octis’s spirit drifts in the underworld, torn between Tysha’s call to return and his father’s dark command to come "home."
• Tysha, herself on death’s door, pleads: "Go back. Not yet. Not yet."
• A surreal, haunting vision: Octis uses spiritual strength to resist being pulled into the dark, attempting to sew his own sundered soul back together—helped by the ghostly presence of Pincushion, his undead fox familiar.

Tysha (116:26): "But it’s not his time. I know that. So I just turn and yell 'Go back. Not yet. Not yet.'"

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7. The Final Escape—Bridge to Safety

[151:04–167:46]

• Erinessa Royce, using incredible druidic magic, grows a tree and provides a path of escape.
• The surviving party—dragging the dead Octis—fights through ghouls and specters, using spells like Thunderwave, Misty Step, and Tree Stride.
• Julian, fueled by vengeance and honor, takes up his father’s magical gauntlet before fleeing the collapsing estate.
• Vaelys smites undead, Tysha communes with plants and metal to find escape routes, Erinessa heroically facilitates retreat.
• As the party flees across a bridge, Primus’s magic prevents the dead from following—at least for now.

Brennan (160:08): "Erinessa... passes into the bridge... the dead will not follow."

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Notable Quotes & Emotional Beats

• Brennan (54:49, Circle of Death):

  "Primus lays waste to vassals... the underworld is made real in this moment... as the tide of it comes in, it leaves with so much more than it had."

• Julian (66:52, vow of vengeance):

  "Whatever death you worship, I will send you to an oblivion where you can't even find that."

• Tysha & Octis (116:26–118:39, Beyond the Veil):

  Tysha: "Go back. Not yet." Octis (spirit): "Yeah, okay. I'll come back. It's too early anyway."

• Brennan (146:16, Octis’s end):

  "The last part of your soul that remains is a hand clutching a stone. That’s the last we’re going to see of you, Alex. I’ll ask you to step away from the table."

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Dramatic Tension & Tone

• Constant sense of dread, supernatural horror, and overwhelming odds.
• The dice themselves become a narrative device; repeated natural 20s for foes, low player rolls, and intense near-death moments underscore Ahriman’s cruelty.
• Roleplaying is intense, frantic, and emotional—players process grief, regret, loyalty, and the epic scale of their loss.

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Key Timestamps

• [00:02] Episode opening; Dolmarkyar’s seedy underbelly.
• [12:00–18:32] The "mask off" betrayal and necromantic reveal.
• [28:20] Battle erupts at Palazzo Divinos.
• [46:59] Octis’s brutal death by his brother.
• [54:49] Primus casts "Circle of Death," turning the tide.
• [97:45–119:39] Octis’s journey in the underworld; spirit conversation with Tysha.
• [151:04] The party’s desperate escape across the bridge.

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Summary Table — Character Status

| Character | Status/Notes | |----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Julian | Traumatized, newly determined, acquires his father’s gauntlet, vengeance burning | | Tysha | Survives near death, desperately anchors Octis’s soul, resolves to fight fate | | Vaelys | Tanks overwhelming undead, uses divine smite, supports party escape | | Octis | Dies, soul torn between afterlife and father’s call, final fate left unresolved/tragic | | Erinessa | Heroic NPC, druidic savior, provides passage for escape |

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Closing Note

The episode ends on a breathless note, heroes battered and traumatized, but alive—except for Octis, whose fate is left looming in the liminal world between life and the grave. The tone is haunted, melancholy, and determined; the party staggers across a magical bridge, leaving the burned ruins and countless dead behind as they strive to recover, regroup, and resist the necromantic terror gripping Ahriman.

Brennan (167:49): "That’s where we’ll leave our story for now. Part two of this episode drops Tuesday..."

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This summary captures the high stakes, complex emotions, and dark fantasy events that define this moment in Critical Role’s Campaign 4.

Transcript

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Why, hello there. I'm Brennan Lee Mulligan and welcome to Campaign 4 of Critical Role. Thank you for joining us on this journey as we explore Ahriman, a world of fractured kingdoms, tumultuous rebellion and sorcery that rises from the graveyard of the gods. You're listening to part one of this adventure, with part two arriving this upcoming Tuesday. Our episodes typically arrive on the Critical Role Podcast network a week after our initial Thursday night streams on Beacon, YouTube and Twitch. But if you'd rather listen to a full podcast episode of Campaign 4 Right When it airs without any ads, consider becoming a Beacon member. You'll receive access to exclusive content discounts at all our online Critical Role shops, pre sales for live events and so much more. Start your seven day free trial today at Beacon tv. Now, without further ado, let's begin this episode of Critical Role. Evening in Dolmarkyar A crisp, cool night. Footsteps approach a seedy tavern in the Fray, the lowermost neighborhood of the city. Noise of shattering glass bottles in nearby alleyways. Raucous shouts, fights breaking out. Loud music. The braying of a nearby horse as a carriage trundles down the street, sputtering torchlight, casting shadows long and wide through the city streets. Humble sign of a tavern. Potter's Field, the symbol of a nameless gravestone on its sign. Few drunken reprobates outside. In what state does Belair approach this place?

[Baulaire]

Baulaire has their hood closed, the cape closed, and the hood up to be as inconspicuous as somebody who is wearing such a unique mask can be. He has a package, reasonably sized, wax papered, tied with string, clearly well put together. It's I mean, if you didn't know better, it would look like someone had just very plainly wrapped a Christmas present. It's very creased and well folded and together. Maybe it's a gift for someone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You walk through a neighborhood so far removed from the archonaut that the odds of being recognized in this place are next to none. Door swings open. Smugglers. Criminals. Few people under sputtering candlelight, speaking in hushed tones. Bartender looks up to perceive you and with that eye contact, nods, communicating that no, he does not perceive you. Not tonight in any case. At the back of this humble liquor drenched hovel is a thick red door, brass studs throughout it. It's hidden behind a curtain, but it's sturdier than just about anything else in here. Seated behind the curtain is a thin, reedy figure who looks up at your approach.

[Baulaire]

No evil.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Pushes his hand into the leather covering of the door, something heavy like stone grates and a hidden hinge. The wall swings open and for a minute overpowering the stench of rot and ale on the floor, powerful incense, something heady, otherworldly. As you step into the shadows, you enter a hidden place of leisure behind Potter's Field. You look in and see the proprietor, Devlin, look up to you. Rows and rows of bottles, crystal glassware overhead the fixtures here, brass velvet of a higher caliber than that which resides in the exterior. Devlin, a brimmed hat pitched forward to cover the very top of his forehead, looks up at you. His eyes always reflect a few more candles, a few more lanterns than are ever present in this actual physical space. He looks up and goes, Master, pleasure to see you. Can I pour you a drink or are you only here for a spell? Oh.

[Baulaire]

It'S been an odd week. I think a tad of something interesting would do very well. It's getting strange out there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

If it keeps up, might eventually get as strange as it is in here. He pours something thick and viscous. Delightful aroma. Must be something sweet. Sherry puts it in front of you. He looks over to a corner. You see a woman wearing thick purple robes, a long cloak. She wears formless, shapeless attire, but her face is angular and beautiful. She sits small velvet benches. An ornate lantern made of shattered, almost mosaic like glass stained in different colors, illuminates her face. She leans forward with empathy in her eyes and understanding at a mother and daughter across from her who seem addled in their sleeplessness. Give me a perception check.

[Baulaire]

Let's see. That's going to be a 19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Even at her whispered tone, your ears detect. Of course, of course, the concerns are as great as the problem which brought you here in the first place. Your father, your husband soul is in the underworld. There is no afterlife that calls to it. The clerics of the totality. Perhaps some druids of the Old Path would seek to send his soul off towards oblivion and void. Or perhaps depict some uncharted course through realms beyond that only the shapers knew. But if you wish for a brighter resting place for your father and here she makes eye contact with the young woman who you can see probably hasn't slept in days. Tears have crusted and dried in where they've been running down her face. She says there are precious few left in this world who can help you. But there are some. There are some that wish for these souls not to be lost. Now our help does not come cheaply, but it is reliable. And you see a vellum contract moved across the table to the young woman who begins to read the text elsewhere. Your name is spoken aloud in this place. Folaire, friend. You turn to see Ruleous and Calastro Murkinad. You see that they're sitting in a private booth. One of them has moved these velvet drapes aside. You see that there is a young man who is draped over their laps. And you see that his eyes have rolled back and his head as he dreams in some altogether altered narcotic state. As Ruleus speaks to you, you see. Calastro puts his lips near the young man's ears. And sucks some vapor out of his ear as the man shudders.

[Baulaire]

My word, this is surprising.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Quite auspicious, actually.

[Baulaire]

I've been meaning to get a hold of you for a while. How is business?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Business is booming as ever. We have some very important clients these days. Would you go to join us?

[Baulaire]

I think I'm actually. I'm waiting for some.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Different company for the evening.

[Baulaire]

But I can take a moment. It's interesting. Are you still doing the day job? The day work. Whatever you want to call.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Of course we must keep up appearances.

[Baulaire]

I have to ask because it has been ages and there's a gala coming up. And of course there's the new theater which will eventually be opening. And I am going to need a new suit. And honestly, what you wear is phenomenal. I always love what you're wearing. And I would love. I don't know, I think I would just look lovely in it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'd be delighted to make you a suit, Baulaire. A hand lands on your shoulder and a voice speaks and says, awful room in the back. Ready for you. You look up and see Aubrys Dryme. A man of illicit goods that you've been talking to for some time. Something. Maybe he started as a normal fence working with the Crow Keepers. But he's been making a name for himself and is looking to move up into a higher class of smuggled goods.

[Baulaire]

If you'll excuse me, gentlemen. Business calls and bespoke suits don't come cheap.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They close the curtains to their private area and you walk with Albris into another room. He's an able bodied man, but not too terrifically tall. He's similar in proportions to yourself. But you see that he shaved head. He's got a nick in one ear. And as you go into this private area, he turns around and says, well, the money's ready. I. I had no idea that you worked with the likes of us.

[Baulaire]

Oh, I work with an awful lot of people. Times being what they are. And who knows, maybe at some point you'll be able to afford more of my services.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And I push a package towards him, undoing the clasps. He opens it, see a hungry smile on his face.

[Baulaire]

I begin taking the money. Is this some kind of In a bag?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is this some kind of joke? Where is it?

[Baulaire]

Where's what?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He thuds it closed and says, oh, you are a peach, aren't you? Listen to me. I won't be double crossed now. I came for a treasure. And you see. He flicks the hard exterior of your mask. And I won't be leaving without one. I. Shit. What is your current HP total?

[Baulaire]

That is 26. That was a lot of dice.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He breathes in your face and you fall immediately asleep. Yeah, it's okay. You. Your unconscious form hits the ground.

[Baulaire]

Shit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And he pulls your mask off your body. What does he see when he pulls the mask off the body?

[Baulaire]

Oh, shit. As he pulls the mask, he sees.

[Julian Davinos]

First of all a bit of flesh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Pulls like.

[Baulaire]

Rubbered glue as it pulls off, but it doesn't stick to the mask, it just flaps back. Other than those points of contact, it is.

[Julian Davinos]

Dry.

[Baulaire]

Cracked chunks of flesh missing to see teeth. And it seems to be powdering by the second. Not completely, but just the exposure to air seems to be making it turn grayer and open up. The eye sockets are practically empty. It's just flaccid balloons of what used to be eyes. Any moisture that was in them, long gone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He looks down. Oh, the fuck. Freak. I won't even have to kid you. Looks like you're on death's door. He looks inside of the mask, cocks his head. Sees something. Maybe some glyph, something rune of power. But of course you're unconscious. So we depart this scene sometime later. Polari. You wake up feeling so much better. There's a dead body in the room. What do you do?

[Baulaire]

Well, that won't do at all. I begin to strip the dead body of its clothing. Gently, carefully folding it to the side. I then manifest in my hand a glass straight razor out of nowhere. And I begin carefully removing the hair from this body, from its head, leaving just a few patches. Almost like. Almost two tiny mohawks. I then take the bits of it and a cleaver, a glass cleaver suddenly appears and I begin chopping it into tiny pieces. Portable. Is there a fireplace in this room? I'm trying to remember.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, absolutely.

[Baulaire]

I take the chunks and I find the bits that are going to burn best and I throw them on the fire. I Keep for now the hands and the head and I put them in the empty package. As I fold it back up and retie the string, I change my clothes into the clothes that I removed from the cadaver. I put up the hood and very, very gingerly decide it's time to head home.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Feeling as good as if you were a brand new person, you head off into the night. For everybody watching, we'll get into what happens after Belair leaves and the other events in Dul Machia in tonight's episode of Critical Role. Happy Halloween.

[Julian Davinos]

Hi. Welcome to tonight's announcements at the Critical Role Announcement Playhouse. Marisha, you're out.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, I am.

[Tysha]

Our Beacon exclusive series Fireside Chat will.

[Marisha Ray]

Welcome the lovable, the amazing one of my favorite people in the whole wide world, Alex Ward. Spooky boy.

[Tysha]

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[Marisha Ray]

Questions and get to know Alex a little better. It's a cozy time and as a.

[Tysha]

Reminder, Campaign 4 will take a break next week for that aforementioned dispatch one shot. But we will return Thursday, November 6th.

[Marisha Ray]

With the soldier Table. Oh, snap. Snapdragon.

[Tysha]

And of course, if you ever need a refresher, a reminder, you can get caught up with everything crit role related with our lore keepers with our weekly crit recaps on critrole.com they're great.

[Alex Ward]

Awesome.

[Julian Davinos]

Laura, you're up next, Ms. Pickle.

[Vaelys]

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[Marisha Ray]

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[Vaelys]

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[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ooh.

[Vaelys]

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[Marisha Ray]

And it's amazing.

[Vaelys]

And the dice are equally amazing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, man, I'm destroyed the world for that one.

[Vaelys]

Can't wait to show you how pretty they are. Go, go and check them out online. They're like purpley 14.

[Julian Davinos]

Oh, those are so cool.

[Marisha Ray]

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[Vaelys]

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[Tysha]

Wow.

[Marisha Ray]

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[Vaelys]

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[Marisha Ray]

Look at that.

[Vaelys]

It's so beautiful. And it's amazing. It's actually really freaking beautiful. And it tastes good too. And it's available only@g fuel.com.

[Tysha]

Yeah, we're real YouTubers now.

[Marisha Ray]

We have a G Fuel collab.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Stop.

[Tysha]

There's.

[Vaelys]

There's stuff that comes in the box.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, it's really cool. Oh, there's a shaker.

[Vaelys]

Yeah, there's a shaker. Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, check it out.

[Vaelys]

It's super pretty. When are we going to make milk?

[Julian Davinos]

Whenever you're ready.

[Marisha Ray]

I've been dying for it.

[Vaelys]

Well, Dickers.

[Julian Davinos]

It comes with stickers.

[Marisha Ray]

Stickers.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Stickers.

[Julian Davinos]

I believe that concludes our announcement.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is that right, Carrot?

[Tysha]

No.

[Julian Davinos]

I think so. And so with that, let's bring us into the place called Aroman.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Final touches.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, here we go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hello and welcome to a very creepy episode of critical role campaign 4. I'm your dungeon master, Brennan Lee Mulligan, here for the Oops All Alex Wards episode.

[Marisha Ray]

Me too, Alex.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Where's your Alex Ward costume?

[Alex Ward]

Unfortunately, part of the stipulation of this event was that I can't be Alex Ward's. Cause I have to divvy up all of myself to all of you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Got it.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. It's a huge sacrifice.

[Tysha]

And this is where.

[Alex Ward]

Thad.

[Tysha]

Fad.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Fad. We're hitting the T. I got real heavy in.

[Alex Ward]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

What do your bullies call you when you go fishing?

[Julian Davinos]

Man, I bet you got a great source for MDMA and the Dark Web, don't you?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Perfect. Wow. Absolutely perfect.

[Alex Ward]

They made me do this, by the way.

[Marisha Ray]

We've been doing this to you for hours.

[Julian Davinos]

Like 3 hours now. Which is almost as many NFTs you own.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry you have so much crypto.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Enough crypto.

[Marisha Ray]

We're talking about crypts. Okay.

[Tysha]

Transition.

[Vaelys]

Nice transition.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Nice transition. Last we left off, our heroes here in the world of Ahriman were busy dealing with the aftermath of the execution and funeral of Thiazi Fang. In our last episode, we said goodbye to a number of people that were off to seek either revenge on Kasimir for the betrayal of Thiazi and thwarting the plan to save him at the gallows, and the rescue of Teor Pridesire's younger brother Cid, who fled with a deed to a stronghold in Gormalay we also were chasing down, through a knockdown drag out brawl in the Crow Keepers.

[Vaelys]

Bar.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A thing called the Stone of Nightsong, which the elven warrior Valis has come seeking hearing from his father, General Raymond Divinas and the Lady Erinessa, that a full court press was engaged in across the city searching for Octus Taconis, as indeed the Taconus family was behind the execution of Thiazi Fang. And that word had gotten to them that Octus maintained indeed have been involved seeking this eighth son of the Lord Primus to Khonis, who came calling on him at the Pentevral. We discovered that, yes, many forces of the City were looking for him. And it looks like the forces of House Royce and the vassal House Divinos got to him first. So Julian ran into him back at the home of Hallendil Fang and his daughter Shadia. And seeing that there was trouble afoot, Octys went with Julian to arrive back there. And Velis, who gotten to know Pincushion, the sweet little undead fox. I think knowing that the trail had gone cold on the stone of Nightsong, something about this figure that had helped you look for it and that seemed to wield a magic of death, of necromance. His family being given a birthright to a connection to that realm. But him having studied it through practice at the Pentevral Velis, followed Julian to the Palazzo Divinos, where we now stand. The Lady Erinessa took Octus up to a room in a tall tower to get him basically hidden away from people where they she could talk about what was going on with his family. As General Raymond spoke to Julian about the fact that their rear caravan had been stopped at the Dvalmar Pass. Some strange workings afoot here in Dolmak Yar. Arriving back from the hallowed round, Tysha discovered that young octys had been taken by Julian Davinos, who she. She had shared some extremely pointed words with about their relationship to the late Thiazi Fang. Bounding over one of the many bridges crossing the river in the heart of Dolmachyar, wolf and elf gazed at each other and felt a connection to the spirits of this place. Magic is afoot here. Profound. A wolf who is also a woman, a druid, races towards this place to save a young man. She walks the old path, can feel the drum of the heart of the world and of the life force within it and those spirits of death that would threaten it. An elven warrior searching for an ancient artifact, Stone of Nightsong, which we have just seen in the hand of Octys. Brother Ethernd Takonis. It seems we've found what we're looking for. The magic of a studied necromancer capable of summoning a sweet undead familiar. Perhaps wielding the magic of death is not all bad after all. And a man who has not searched for magic or understanding of it in his life. But a shadow grows long behind you as Primus Taconis pulls the skull of Raymond Davinos through his body. And he collapses to the ground, dead. I'm going to need everybody here to roll initiative.

[Tysha]

I didn't warm up any of my dice.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Tysha]

Oh, that's okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Got that. What do we got here?

[Julian Davinos]

22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

22. Let's go. What do we get? 18. 18 for Octis. Hell, yes. What do we get here?

[Tysha]

3.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

3 for Vaelis. What do we get? Tysha?

[Tysha]

14.

[Vaelys]

Got one out of the way. Definitely not gonna roll it again.

[Tysha]

Probably not, no, couldn't imagine that.

[Vaelys]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Gotcha, gotcha. Okay. Excellent, excellent.

[Marisha Ray]

Feel so dope about it.

[Tysha]

Great start.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As we begin, Julian, you are going to be first to act. And I'm actually going to pass out everyone's minis.

[Alex Ward]

Nice.

[Vaelys]

Okay, wait. So it's Julian.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Julian, if you'll place yourself, you were at the edge of the gate there. And then, Vaylis, you were right next to Matt's character, Ashley. Thank you. And you also have a friend with you. Pincushion.

[Baulaire]

Ben.

[Marisha Ray]

Ben's with me. Ben's with you.

[Tysha]

Ben's such a cutie.

[Vaelys]

Such good character.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Rushing forward at this exact moment, crossing the threshold of the gate, I will give you your mini Taisha, but also the form you currently wear.

[Julian Davinos]

Yeah, cool.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, Wolf and Alex for your review, but you will be up here. Lovely.

[Alex Ward]

I get to know this mini for such a short time.

[Tysha]

Well, let's enjoy you in time.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So, Matt, you are going to be first to act on a 22. In the doorway, you see Lord Primus to Konis standing there, also with that divine sense. I believe from Velis. The courtyard is brimming with undead just beyond the barrier of this world. So you can see that the spirits of the dead are flooding to this place just past the barrier of the living world. Essentially, you get this feeling almost like walking through some vast, frightening aquarium in the dark, where but a single sheet of glass separates you from monsters of the deep.

[Tysha]

Your family's bad.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, they are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

But Julian, you are first to act. As you see Primus hovering just slightly above the ground as he. You see your father, his skull a massive hemorrhage of blood as his brain slides without a skull to prop it up into the back of his neck. And he hemorrhages and dies in an instant. As Plimus no saves.

[Alex Ward]

Yeah, you gotta muscle through that.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. Maybe like a healing word.

[Tysha]

Spirit of dying.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There is a thud, a clank of armor, a thud, Blood gushing out of the nose and mouth as Primus makes eye contact with you, his face utterly impassive.

[Julian Davinos]

Julian, for two to three beats, is just processing what happened. I think he's. He looks upon the crumpled corpse of his father, the blood draining from his face before he looks up to Primus and Just with an unheard primal screech, just shouts no. And goes into a full sprint towards him, drawing his blade and running as fast as he can. Six, get right up into that doorway. I don't know if he's in melee there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I will say he is within melee range. Just through the doorway here in this moment, you may take your action.

[Julian Davinos]

All right. He's going to try and impose himself over. Over the body of his father, who in his mind is still trying to reconcile whether there's anything he can save or protect, but is going to throw the cloak over his shoulder, revealing his demigodlet on the other side with the rapier that he's already had ready to go. He's just putting all of that force, all that momentum, still that raging scream behind it as he goes to try and spear Primus as hard as he can.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me your attack roll.

[Julian Davinos]

All right. That's not as good. It's going to be a 12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You surge forward, looking at your father where he is lying in the doorway. To make this lunge work, you would have to step on his body. You would have to connect. And something in you. That thing has to still be your father. It can't be a body on the ground. In that moment of not being able to commit, Primus moves to the side, and as he does so, you see his body is maybe only 3/4 in this realm as he. And mist follows in his wake. Moving to the side. I don't care.

[Julian Davinos]

I immediately action surge and try and follow that up with another secondary. Now I can't see. I can't make the strike over my father's body as he moves to the side. That gives me just enough of an opening where I go from the first thrust, spin it back, and then move towards the side where he had tried to dodge. That's better. That's going to be a 23 to.

[Vaelys]

Yes. Yes.

[Tysha]

Let's go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A 23 is going to be a hit. Go ahead and roll. Damage.

[Julian Davinos]

Oh, my.

[Tysha]

Come on.

[Julian Davinos]

All right, that's going to be seven points of damage piercing and because it is a rapier with damage, gets vexed, which means my next attack has advanced.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Amazing. And is it specifically your attack or.

[Julian Davinos]

My next attack against him has advantage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. And you deal seven points of damage to him.

[Julian Davinos]

Seven points of damage as a bonus action if I can still. I'm going to follow up with my demigantlet and try and deck and grab his throat if I can. Just more for an odd bonus action offhand attack to see if I Can just continue to pummel him as hard as I can. Just pure rage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great.

[Julian Davinos]

This has advantage on it because of the Vex rolled the same number twice. Unfortunately that's going to be only a 12.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

12 is on a 12. You see that, you glance off of magic armor that surrounds him. The glancing blow with the rapier. See here he smears the blood off of his chin. Looks at you and you see that in his off hand you see he is holding a black candle with a black wick in it. Within the wax you see that there are silver figures ensconced within the wax. Like there are buried things inside it touching the blood. He looks and goes and bear your house no ill will. And he flicks the blood onto the ground. The moving forward initiative from Julian standing there in this moment, looking at the face of death. We are going to move, move up into the tower. These robed figures in front of Etherin. You see that the Taconis must have ushered these ghouls through the city. These chattering corpse devouring undead have been dressed in long cloaks and robes to be able to move throughout the city with some semblance of disguise. And Etherynd goes. The one in the lead is going to look at lady Erinessa who opened the door and kicks her full force in the chest, knocking her a square back and prone on the ground. Is then going to move. 1, 2, 3, 4. Behind you, Octis in the room here. The rest are going to surge into this chamber as well. I am going to need. In this moment, I am going to. Let me see. Okay. In this moment I am going to need athletics checks from you.

[Tysha]

Sure.

[Marisha Ray]

Hey, Roll.

[Tysha]

So good.

[Alex Ward]

I'm so good at this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How many? First one is you need to get a 15 or higher. Easy.

[Alex Ward]

19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, great.

[Tysha]

Let's go.

[Vaelys]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There are five attacks coming your way.

[Julian Davinos]

Happy Halloween.

[Alex Ward]

My AC is 16.

[Tysha]

Happy Halloween.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, these are athletics checks. These are grapple checks.

[Alex Ward]

Okay, go, go. There you go.

[Julian Davinos]

Contested.

[Tysha]

So slippy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This next one is you need to get a 14 or higher.

[Tysha]

Let's go, let's go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Eight. Eight.

[Tysha]

Oh, I was waiting for the end of that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Me too.

[Julian Davinos]

What about. What bonuses do you have?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

None.

[Tysha]

Hey, he looks like this is the first time he's ever played tnt.

[Marisha Ray]

You're doing great, bud.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. On the second. So three of them have used their attacks. There are two left to go. You see that in the silence radiating throughout the room? There's a silence everywhere throughout here. You see that? One of them is going to go for Erinessa. Successfully grapples her. You can see that necromantic ghouls should not be this strong. But you can see that there has been some effect. There's a spell active on them that has enlarged their dead muscles. You see that their veins actually are pumping blood right now, which they normally do not. The last one here. Okay. You see that? That Etherynd speaks something that travels throughout the silence that only the ghouls can hear. One of them grapples you, throws you onto the table prone. This one right here, crawling over you as you are thrown onto it. Gets on top of you, smiling as this long tongue that stinks of carrion and does a little leap forward. Frog hop as he produces a garrote. He leaps over you, facing the opposite direction and putting it behind his head, sits down hard with the wire over your neck.

[Tysha]

Cool.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool. You can feel him almost dragging you off the table behind him. So the back of your head is hitting the back of his head as he just pulls down taut on this wire. You take. You take seven points of damage. Okay.

[Tysha]

No, that's cool.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octis. That is going to be your turn.

[Alex Ward]

So being strangled.

[Tysha]

Right.

[Alex Ward]

Okay. And there are how many rounds? One is with Erinessa. How many are around me?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Five.

[Alex Ward]

And I'm in a silent bubble.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Alex Ward]

Great. Great place for a wizard to be. Okay. Can I. Even though my head is being dragged back, can I still see Etherne through the door?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You can.

[Alex Ward]

I put one hand up to try and give a little bit of air. Trying to force a hand in there. And with the other hand I. I point and cast the only spell that doesn't require focal component.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Alex Ward]

Which is Mind Spike.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell. Yes.

[Alex Ward]

On Etherend.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell. Yes.

[Alex Ward]

So that he has to make a wisdom 14 save. Octos reaches his hand out and draws a little sigil in the air that glows with this green light. And then it decays in this kind of purpley mist. And the mist shoots straight at Etherind.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. I'm gonna roll this in front of the board. Okay. I don't think it takes a very deep analysis to conclude how much trouble you are all in. I will also say at this moment that we have had a bar fight in the previous episode. The world of Ahriman has many different walks within it and many different opponents. And I will remind you, as your friend, because we are playing a game together above the table. This world is not necessarily balanced. In each and every instance, it contains a verisimilitude. And I wish for you to walk in the light of that truth.

[Tysha]

Why do I feel like I'm being read Terms and conditions.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Me too. Me too.

[Tysha]

Me too.

[Marisha Ray]

Me too.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So we're gonna keep this because there are. Because this is the reality of the house Taconis planned slaughter of the house of Royce and Davinos. We are gonna keep things extremely honest because the world of Ahriman is not fair.

[Vaelys]

So stress. God, that was dreadful.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. On a nine or higher, etherynd will save. Okay.

[Tysha]

Don'T.

[Vaelys]

Yep.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

14. That is a save.

[Alex Ward]

The spell doesn't land. He takes half damage from the spell.

[Julian Davinos]

Okay, that's something.

[Vaelys]

That's something.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's something.

[Vaelys]

That's something.

[Alex Ward]

So it's okay.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Alex Ward]

And a grand. So that's. He takes half of nine. Psychic damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. This will still prompt a concentration check from him.

[Alex Ward]

Fab.

[Tysha]

That's so good. Love that. Gotta make a fat.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, so going into this attack, half of nine is. He takes four points of damage. As the spell goes off. It is a difficulty 10. He's making a constitution saving throw.

[Julian Davinos]

That seems pretty hardy, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. On a nine or higher. He saves. I just.

[Alex Ward]

He can't get air. And he's just staring at his brother and trying to. The thoughts in his head are all over the place because he hasn't seen his brother in over, I don't know, five years. And he can't figure out why all of a sudden his brother would be with these ghouls and attacking him. And he's. That's the end of his turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ethernd looks at you as you see. Blood pools under his eyes from the damage of the psychic spell you just cast. Looks at you and mouths the words not yours, and pulls out a curved knife and steps into the room. He's going to make two attacks. Does a 16 hit?

[Alex Ward]

16 is my armor class.

[Julian Davinos]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What?

[Tysha]

Redneck.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's a natural 20.

[Marisha Ray]

No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Um.

[Tysha]

Well, I'm glad we're all dressed for a funeral.

[Marisha Ray]

What the hell?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He deals you. He deals you 15 points of damage.

[Tysha]

Don't.

[Alex Ward]

I have one head point left.

[Tysha]

I will reach over there.

[Marisha Ray]

So help me.

[Vaelys]

Do it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Do it.

[Vaelys]

Do it.

[Julian Davinos]

There's no better outfit for Anya. Slow death scene.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What is your hit point total?

[Alex Ward]

23.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Because this is a crit. If he deals 24 points of damage. Oh, if he deals 24 points of damage, this will be the end. What?

[Tysha]

Yeah.

[Alex Ward]

If you double over.

[Tysha]

If you hit your.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

Max again.

[Vaelys]

This is too much.

[Tysha]

Yeah. Too much.

[Vaelys]

I have to stand over here.

[Tysha]

Yeah. I feel like I want to go walk into the Set do I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We'll start with a plus three to damage.

[Vaelys]

My body doesn't know what it was.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's a nine. So that's 12. He takes out the knife, plunges it into your stomach in the silence and begins to saw up. Gets up to your navel from where he stabbed in under the belly button. That is 21 points of damage.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There's another nine. So that's. We said he needs to do 24 and that's 21. These need to. To be a one and a two or a one and a one for you to not die in this moment.

[Julian Davinos]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He looks into your eyes. He drops the silence and goes. Traitor. You should have welcomed the name alone as a gift. Even though there has always been something wrong with you. With a seven, he withdraws the dagger and the hand that holds the Stone of Nightsong. He plunges into your core. And you can feel ice cold fingers release the stone and begin to wrap around your heart from inside you. As.

[Alex Ward]

The, um. What a music change. As he starts to feel cold and his strength leaves him still having the garrote around his neck and this hand inside of him, he just stares at his brother and he just thinks that he's never gonna get to keep his promise and meet up with Thimble like he said. And he just. Pin disappears as that lets go. And you just see it fall apart into pieces.

[Julian Davinos]

No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Pin falling apart in front of you. Palis. You see this Tysha? You see this Tysha? It is your turn. As you thunder over the threshold and watch Pin turn to see you and disconstitute falling apart.

[Tysha]

I race up and it's like a big dog trying to hit the brakes all of a sudden, stopping right in front of Pin. And it's just a growl low in this very large, very dark wolf's throat. But from the creak of the gate and the rustle of the hedges and the tree branches, you hear Tysha's voice all around you, breaking. Where is Octis?

[Vaelys]

He's inside.

[Tysha]

And I just. Is there something I can. I don't care about the ghouls. I don't care about Julian. I need to find him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Upstairs. Having taken a lethal amount of damage, we forego death saving throws. Yeah, the amount of damage is enough for an instant death. Tysha below. In the adrenaline of the moment surging forward.

[Tysha]

You.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Can give me an investigation check to attempt to find him as quickly as possible. What I will say in this moment is the difficulty because there is a large palace that he could Be anywhere within the difficulty to instantly know where he is is 25 the difficulty to lower the next round's check by 5 is just a difficulty. 10, you will have to search the palace to find him.

[Tysha]

But the silence was dropped and I'm a wolf. Can I hear anything? Can I smell blood?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a perception check with descent. You can do so with advantage.

[Tysha]

22. Wait, hold on. That's wolf stats.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Wolf.

[Tysha]

Do I have plus two more? 24.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

24. On a 24 perception. You, I will say smell blood on the wind. And about 80ft up in the air, there is an open balcony in which you can hear muffled movement. You smell blood for sure. And you hear a I scream as Lady Erinessa bites down on a ghoul's hand from within the room, screaming at the top of her lungs as the silence drops.

[Tysha]

Okay, nothing else here exists or matters. I'm going to barge in and I'm trying to make my way.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, go ahead. And so you are just going to thunder in up the steps to get there as fast as you can. What is your current speed?

[Tysha]

40.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

40. Okay, great. Just about there. That's 40 movement. I will also say for our purposes here as well, I believe you also can dash as a bonus action on your first turn. Yeah, correct. So you have another if you want to spend your whole round movement.

[Tysha]

Yeah, whole round, just movement.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Speeding past up the staircase. You surge as fast as you can. You are going to get an attack of opportunity from Primus who misses. And that is going to be Primus turn. Seeing you, Julian, you see Primus as a bonus action, vanishes into the shadow, reappears from the shadow behind this fountain, steps slowly into the center of the room and is going to cast Circle of Death.

[Tysha]

Cool. Coco, was it the first fight of bar fight?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

I feel like this is accelerated in a pretty fucking unbelievable way.

[Julian Davinos]

No, no. I don't know if I said something like many years ago that you've been.

[Marisha Ray]

Holding onto Weed's what it is.

[Julian Davinos]

Is this for your pepper man? Is this because of at the disposal?

[Marisha Ray]

What is a bar fight?

[Alex Ward]

What does a bar fight?

[Marisha Ray]

Why am I catching a fate?

[Tysha]

I also died in the disposal.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry. Does this feel different than the bar fight? Tonally? A bit. I thought you guys said get ready for the. You said it's goth energy for the Halloween episode.

[Tysha]

Yeah, I meant like Hot Topic goth.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, I did this.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm going to need need constitution saving throws from Julian and Tysha. Let's go.

[Tysha]

22, 25.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh yeah.

[Tysha]

Let's Go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's go.

[Marisha Ray]

Let's get you guys to live.

[Julian Davinos]

Well, we'll see how much damage it deals.

[Vaelys]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

Oh yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is a six. It's a sixth level spell coming your way.

[Tysha]

Well, don't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Well, don't.

[Tysha]

You know druid rolls are different, right? I don't get the wolf HP anymore.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20 each of you takes that is going to be 21 damage. Would have been 42 and is instead 21.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, cool.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are both of you still up?

[Tysha]

10 hypocrites.

[Alex Ward]

No.

[Baulaire]

Oh yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is.

[Julian Davinos]

That's a little sensitive.

[Baulaire]

I'm sorry.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. Jesus Christ.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Primus Deconis stands here in the middle of the Divinos manor in the city of Dolmachiar. Tonight, Davinos Royce and all their vassal houses end. The work that is to come requires concentration. No distractions. The room fills with spectral forces. A whirlwind of of shrieking ghosts as that glass barrier fades and becomes permeable. You too can survive 21 points of damage. Those that cannot fall to the ground dead. The guards collapse, scattering throughout. And Primus lays waste to vassals. You watch Julian from the doorway as the necromantic energy thuds into you. That those here who are not veterans of various wars, that are courtiers and diplomats, merchants and attendants, fall. As the underworld is made real in this moment. And as the tide of it comes in, it leaves with so much more than it had. You see that Primus ends the spell, black wax dripping off his hand as the candle in his hand and melts and burns him in the casting of this potent necromantic spell.

[Tysha]

In the thudding of the bodies, Tysha's voice directed at Primus.

[Marisha Ray]

Why your son?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There is no use you in having something if it is not loyal. In point of fact, I don't know if he can even be called a son. That is going to be. That sucks. That is going to be. The Lady Royce is now going to act.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She on a natural 20.

[Tysha]

Woo. Let's go girl.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Kicks this ghoul off of her. Boom. She's got that widow's drink and is going to 5, 10, 15. She's going to get one one attack of opportunity from this one ghoul as she makes her way out the door. Let us hope that it is not successful. I will roll in front of the board.

[Alex Ward]

That hasn't gone well in the past, has it?

[Vaelys]

It's okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On a 12 or higher, this ghoul will hit.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You saw it, right?

[Vaelys]

Yeah, yeah, I saw it too.

[Tysha]

That's a natural 20. What is this?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Dice. GMs. What is this? Go away, GMs. It lives there now. It lives there now.

[Marisha Ray]

It lives there now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's the one I've rolled for each crit. Yeah, it's retired now.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, I just want to point out.

[Alex Ward]

It'S mean that it made my name dead. Octus Dakota.

[Marisha Ray]

That's hateful.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is so mean.

[Tysha]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Erinessa only takes eight points of damage from this slash. However, ghouls have a paralyzing feature.

[Vaelys]

Wait, ghouls have a paralyzing.

[Julian Davinos]

Louise was there.

[Tysha]

Yeah. They're hit. Like, has a little paralytic effect. Is that the doubled Nim. Why am I helping? Don't help.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is. Once again, we'll see if Erinessa can do it. It's only a DC10 constitution.

[Marisha Ray]

Girl save.

[Tysha]

I should go get the die back.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We'll use a different D20 for this.

[Tysha]

If she fails, it's because I threw the good die.

[Marisha Ray]

Nope, nope.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She just needs a 10 or higher on the die. Okay, 12.

[Tysha]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Yay.

[Vaelys]

Okay, so.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Girl using her movement, she begins to sprint down the hallway, and she calls out guards, Bannermen to our aid, shrieking at the top of her lungs. And that is going to. That is her turn. She had to use her action to get out of the grapple. Vaylis, that is going to be your. You are at the end of initiative.

[Marisha Ray]

Save us like you did in the tavern.

[Vaelys]

Okay, okay, okay, okay. Help Mom. So. Oh, boy. All right, so, noticing the pincushion is gone, obviously understanding what's happening here, I'm gonna just turn around and start walking inside.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

And do I see Primus? Is he still there?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, he is still.

[Vaelys]

Great. I am going to cast guiding bolt on him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, let's go. Okay, you are going to cast guiding bolt on Primus. Go ahead and give me an attack roll.

[Vaelys]

Okay, now we have to figure out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Which one to roll.

[Vaelys]

I'm gonna do this one.

[Tysha]

All of them. They're all good.

[Vaelys]

Should I do them all and then just pick the house highest?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, that's how that works.

[Vaelys]

Okay, that's not bad. That's a 22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

22.

[Vaelys]

That's. I'm lying. I'm lying. I'm correct. It's 22. Sorry, sorry.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

22 is a hit.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

All right.

[Alex Ward]

Oh, God.

[Tysha]

Let's go. We can still win.

[Marisha Ray]

You're dead.

[Vaelys]

All right. Hope that'll be not the best, but okay. All right. 10 points of damage.

[Alex Ward]

Radiant.

[Vaelys]

10 points of radiant damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So 20 points of damage. Let's go.

[Tysha]

Wait, how? Radiant damage.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, Primus turns to you, having very little expectation of resistance here, turns to see someone, there is truly no reason to be here. And goes, who the devil are you? You raise your hands, he looks to see this spell incoming. And at the last moment, as the guiding bolt hits him squarely in the chest, you see, and what you watch is the blurred edges when he moves. He leaves mist in his wake. That mist catches fire as you sort of light and fire around him. It looks like there's a danger even past the damage to his actual corpus of severing some important magical energy that he is now wearing. He does not like getting hit with that. That is your action. Any bonus action from you?

[Tysha]

I think Tyson's tail wags just a little bit.

[Vaelys]

I know.

[Tysha]

I'm glad you did that.

[Vaelys]

I, I, oh my God. I'm just going to start walking towards him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah, go ahead and move yourself 30ft. So you are now side by side with Julian in the doorway. And we will go back to the top of initiative as you arrive side by side with Julian. You arrive side by side with Julian. It is your turn. As the retainers of House Stovenos fall and Primus to Konis stands before you, this light wreathing and surrounding him.

[Julian Davinos]

The shock hits. Watching everyone like Jahar, Alondria, Mordanas, our aides and keepers of right now. The shock washes back into just a red hot rage and I just tear directly beelining towards Primus once more. I don't know if I have the movement to get within melee.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

[Julian Davinos]

Then I will, I will then go ahead and use my action to dash and get more or less behind where he was standing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Julian Davinos]

With the demigant at the ready, grabbing a piece of material on the side. Not a full grapple, but just enough to get a little bit of tear him to look me in the eye, tears down my face, teeth gritted. Whatever death you worship, I will send you to an oblivion where you can't even find that. Now it's my turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You grab him as fast as you can, turning him around. You gather his attention here in this moment. He turns to you, seeing the shock and emotion on your face, almost studies it unrecognizing. Upstairs, these ghouls are going to once again take their turn rushing after Erinessa down the hallway. Give me a perception check, Tysha. 12 on a 12. You just hear scuffling from Upstairs, you see that? You do hear cackling from one of the Takona symbols. You don't know which one. That just goes Lady Erinessa. Do enjoy the hospitality. I hear there's a lovely view from the balcony. And you hear the cackling of ghouls who on a successful grapple check are going to move her halfway into the room towards the balcony. That is going to be Tysha. That is your turn.

[Tysha]

Yeah, we're in a full sprint heading in that direction.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. 5, 10, 15, 20, 20, 30, 35. With a 40. You are able to clear up to get to I think here. That's your movement.

[Tysha]

Yeah. What am I looking at as I hit this level and in this room.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You, I think see, you can hear cackling from inside of this bedroom in here. And you see Etherind with three other ghouls walking down the hallway, something dripping in his hand.

[Tysha]

Can I make a perception check to try to figure out Tycha is it's.

[Alex Ward]

Been.

[Tysha]

Just over a day and I lost my brother in law and now I've lost Octis and I don't know what to focus on. The brother, what's in his hand. Is there any way I can suss it out?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a perception.

[Tysha]

Fuck me. Oh no.

[Vaelys]

That's a 15.

[Tysha]

Oh, it was a five again. 22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

22.

[Tysha]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, on a 22 you, you see that he is holding what looks like a dripping bit of meat in his hand, probably a heart.

[Tysha]

I go for the brother.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Tysha]

Full movement. Yeah. Dash action. And I'm just running, I'm running him down.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. Okay, clearing down the hallway as fast as you can, you turn and immediately after your turn you hear downstairs, Etherin hearing you running, swivels around to look at you, grins, ready to engage in combat downstairs, Primus. I admire your resolve. Erthrend.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you have it?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see Etherynd looks to see you charging, hears that bark and goes, Father. Yes. He goes, bring it. Etherind, you see, looks cowed and afraid. Primus is going to turn to walk from you in this moment. 5, 10, 15. You get an attack opportunity on him at advantage.

[Julian Davinos]

Well no, because I already attack against him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Unfortunately.

[Julian Davinos]

As he starts to walk away, I say don't you fucking dare. I'm going to go ahead and try and spear him from behind with a rapier.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Julian Davinos]

That's a natural 20.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. Let's go, let's go.

[Alex Ward]

Oh no, my horrible hat.

[Julian Davinos]

Yeah, that is going to be 12 damage.

[Tysha]

Let's go, let's go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Piercing 12 piercing damage as you as you lance out. I'll say on that nat20 you lunge out with the rapier in this moment, it's feral.

[Julian Davinos]

It's full on. Like you know in the movie Troy when Brad Pooh does like the leap stab, it's like that. But be steel and just.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On a Nat20 you go for a move that should by all rights would kill any other mage. You through the back, watch the sword erupt out of his front. Oblivion. You said oblivion. You threatened me with sending me home. Missed Pool out of the wound as he steps forward towards the shadows being cast from the fountain as he does so. On that NAT20 will allow you to make an insight or a perception with advantage. You can go ahead and make the roll first, whichever one you want to make.

[Julian Davinos]

This will be perception. It'll be a 19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's on that critical hit, ask any question you want about the man that has just set doom upon your family. As he attempts to walk away from you. You landed what should have been a killing blow. You have fought so many battles in Julian's mind. What is burning within him as he sees Primus Taconis defy the boundaries between life and death.

[Julian Davinos]

Is there anything in his gait, in his reaction that shows that he can be killed in the ways that I.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Understand on a 19 perception, he moves away from this place and you study as he moves. If this man were a God, he would not be fleeing right now. This is just a man and he can be killed on that critical hit. From this point forward, in any attack you make on the lord Primus to Konis, where you are at half hit points or fewer, you may attack with advantage.

[Marisha Ray]

Let's go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

An onyx ring in his hand, he stands, steps into the shadow and as he vanishes, he says, ethernd to my side. Well struck warrior. I look forward to seeing you on the other side. The black ring glows and as he vanishes. No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Tysha]

Ah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Those spectral that Vela saw outside erupt into being all around you as you are surrounded by shadows of the dead. That is going to be. That is going to be the Lady Erinessa Royce. That is going to be her turn. Bayless, from the door you can see these figures surrounding Julian. You have seen them. You have fought them many times before these. In the long centuries of ahriman. In the 70 years since the gods died, new souls have flooded the underworld. But there have always been spirits of the restless dead. There are some that have been walking for so long, waiting for the chance to claw their way back from the fate the gods would determine for them. To claw their way back from the path to new life that the druids have named and lighted the way to some purpose from centuries or millennia ago, compelled them to keep walking, to find a way back to the life they once knew. Over centuries, they traded away perhaps a name at first or a memory. Memory. What could be more important than the purpose that would let them cling to life? When you've traded away the last piece of yourself for a chance to live again, such that you cannot even remember the purpose that so compelled you. These shades of the dead are all that are left. And you have fought them many times before. Set forth in this way near a source of life, they will seek to drink what is vital within Julian, to take it for their own until there is nothing left of him and he joins their number above. The Lady Erinessa Royce is going to. Is going to attempt. She's going to attempt a spell. She's going to attempt a spell. Vines grow from the ground all around her, encompassing all around and in fact, Octus body on the table. And she chooses to fail the saving throw against the entangle spell, rooting herself to the ground. In this moment, you see that the ghouls begin even as some of them succeed against it. So their movement is unimpeded. They're still now having to wrestle someone out of these choking vines that is going to go from the Lady Erin Reness. Turn to Velas once again.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

Oh, my God. There's just so much going on.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

I will finish walking inside, which I think. Think I can get all the way inside.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. So it's 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

[Tysha]

Great.

[Vaelys]

Okay. I don't know if I should attack or try to just get you out of there because you're in a state. Would I be able to. Having fought these particular entities before, is there a way I could just. I'm gonna attack them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'll say this. Give me a religion check with advantage. You felt before.

[Tysha]

Okay. Great. Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Tysha]

Both. Or Beth Too stressed to make fun of me.

[Vaelys]

I can't even. It's literally right in front of me. I dropped it right into it and it didn't.

[Julian Davinos]

Are those dice too big for you?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is that what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's me.

[Tysha]

The full dice.

[Vaelys]

Let me just see, like, what I would have rolled if it would have gone in there. That would have been a lot better.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Damn.

[Vaelys]

It's not Worth seven.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Seven. Surgeon Taurus, you've fought these many times before, but you've always fought them alongside your sisters. So I would say, on a seven, you don't know any special information about how best to fight them. But you do know that you have found them to be defeatable. You have found that these can be opposed even by yourself in large number.

[Vaelys]

Okay. With my sensor unclipped, I will just kick it with my foot so it starts wrapping around and comes back and knocks the first one in front of me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Perfect. Okay.

[Alex Ward]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Amazing. Go ahead and give me your attack roll. And also you can flank with Julian right now, so you can roll with advantage.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

Oh, man, they're both awful. 9.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

A 9 is a miss. I figured a 9, sadly, is a miss. The sensor lashes out from you at this point. Damn. As you step forward, we move back. Julian, you were immediately after Bayless. Unless there's any bonus action you want to take in that.

[Vaelys]

No, no, I.

[Julian Davinos]

No, I. Surrounded by these spirits. Still, my jaw is so tense in the vanishing of Primus. And the thought, the image of him dying a hundred ways flashes through my brain before the cold of these terrible specters around me. I followed my back foot gauntlet open, soared out, not cold, quite acknowledging where they are. And then I see you coming up from behind. And then I have a thought. Adanessa, I'm going to disengage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Julian Davinos]

And I'm going to run towards the stairs.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Amazing. I'm going to need. I'm going to say, because you are fully surrounded by them, although you can disengage, I will allow you, if you would like, you can either give me acrobatics to move through them as they're fully surrounding you, or if you want, you'll do that. Great. Go ahead and give me acrobatics.

[Julian Davinos]

Ooh, that's me. 25.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

25. Julian. These smoky shapes surrounding you in this place. You vault through the vapor and take the rest of your turn.

[Julian Davinos]

All right. With that, I'm just going to go ahead and take 30ft towards the stairs, rushing as fast as I can, and.

[Marisha Ray]

Just shout out erenessa.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Surging forward as fast as you can, you begin thundering up the steps.

[Julian Davinos]

Any bonus actions from you not at my disposal? Actually, yes, I do have. I will take a second wind to go ahead and heal up 10 more hit points.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Amazing.

[Julian Davinos]

That's my turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The ghouls upstairs are going to go. First one does not get Erinas out of the vines at all. Next one does not get Erinas out of the vines at all. Last one does yanks her, but they all take their actions to pull her and have used their actions getting her out of there. So they take no movement that turn because she is effectively ungrappled. As they're trying to move her out of the vines. These three are going to step forward and engage with Tysha. You see fallen Royce guards all throughout here and are going to surge forward. They're going to take their attacks. What is your armor class, bruh?

[Tysha]

14.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Two of them hit. I'm gonna need two constitution saving throws.

[Tysha]

Lord. Okay, okay. 18 and 21.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are not paralyzed. You take six points. You take six points of slashing damage from one and five points from another.

[Tysha]

Well, you didn't need to paralyze me. I had 10 hit points left.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

In your wolf form or in your. Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

It's new rules.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20, 24.

[Tysha]

Love it here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So slashing out as the. Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Remember your orcish. Yeah, yeah. Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tysha]

Okay, cool, cool. Describe what it looks like.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Slash.

[Tysha]

You do it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You do it. These long, nasty claws. These were human corpses at one point, but bone has grown out along with the keratin of the fingernail such that these nasty slashing claws. You can see that it breaks the skin of their hand and blood seeps from under the nail beds. They're not supposed to attack like this, but they desire it so much. Long time tongues snake out over pointed fangs. You see the undersides of their tongues slashed and cut by not meaning to go over something that sharp. As they lunge forward, one of them deals a blow that should drop. You describe what it looks like as. It does not.

[Tysha]

I think it does. I think he kills a wolf and then it. It's not that it rotted rapidly. It was almost like it was already a little dead and bloated. So it just like the wolf's body splits apart at the rib cage. And Tysha pushes herself out with one hit point left.

[Vaelys]

Yes.

[Alex Ward]

Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go ahead and give me your mini.

[Tysha]

Cool.

[Marisha Ray]

It's covered in red.

[Tysha]

Hey.

[Marisha Ray]

We'Re having a good time.

[Tysha]

It's great to be here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's great to be here. Doing it.

[Julian Davinos]

Yeah. Welcome to Divinos.

[Marisha Ray]

Your house is bad.

[Alex Ward]

No, my bad.

[Marisha Ray]

My family's bad.

[Tysha]

This is fatherless behavior.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. Whoa.

[Marisha Ray]

Too soon.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Too soon.

[Tysha]

Whatever. We all dressed like goth today. And then the goth team won.

[Vaelys]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

I guess we kind of.

[Alex Ward]

I am a traitor.

[Vaelys]

Yeah, that's what's happening.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. You see, these two are going to Fly after Julian in pursuit of him. The other four are going to turn on Valis here, surrounding you so they'll be flanking. They're attacking with advantage. What is your armor class?

[Vaelys]

16. 16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

16. Okay.

[Tysha]

Yike.

[Alex Ward]

It helps tell you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I mean miss.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, so.

[Vaelys]

It'S still rolling.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You would normally take eight, or you take eight points of necrotic damage halved to four as they attempt to drain a life that is eternal and cannot be drained. You also are immune to the ability decrease of them, attempting to SAP your strength. You have fought these many times as they and you see, as they touch something that is immortal, you see that they almost. Something like a sorrow or guilt or grief crosses their faces. Their jaw drops two feet into their torsos as they touch and attack you two of them come for Julian. They do not should have been an elf.

[Alex Ward]

I tried.

[Marisha Ray]

Why weren't we all?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I tried. That is now going to be two attacks coming for Julian. 14. Does not hit.

[Julian Davinos]

It does not hit.

[Tysha]

Let's go.

[Julian Davinos]

As I'm rushing past and I feel it swoop from behind, I duck low and use my left arm to spiral the cloak to more or less distract and make them strike where there isn't actually me to find purchase.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see the sort of smoke and vapor vanishes in the as they reach for something that is not there. You continue thundering up the steps. That is the Shade's turn. That is going to be Erinessa. Erinessa is going to da ta ta. Yeah, they don't have her grappled right now. I think she's going to make a. Yeah. She is going to reach out in this moment and attack one of them. That is a hit. A blast of green light comes from within and she deals 12 damage to one of the ghouls in the room with her.

[Tysha]

Let's go me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Some light blasts out. She calls out Julian as loud as she can. That is going to be. That is her turn. That goes once again after her to Phaelys. That is your turn.

[Vaelys]

All right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry, Tysha.

[Vaelys]

Oh yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no.

[Alex Ward]

Yeah, yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, sorry. Oh, oh, sorry. Yes, yes, yes. Tyche, that is your turn.

[Tysha]

Sweet initiative.

[Julian Davinos]

Because you still have a hit point.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, that's great. I have won. Yes. That is your turn.

[Tysha]

Great. Yeah. Okay. I'm already out of wild shape, so that makes that easier. I'm gonna expend the other use of wild shape to use land's aid.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Tysha]

So I'm gonna center this 10 foot radius sphere on my side. Since I'm surrounded by how many Bad boys.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. Is it. It's 10 foot radius.

[Tysha]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah.

[Tysha]

Big 10 foot sphere centered on the point. And everyone in it needs to make a DC15 con save.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. I need to see something 20ft. You can actually catch these two guys in it as well. If you would like to.

[Tysha]

Yes, please and thank you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. Okay, they're making some. Some saves. DC 15 con save. Great.

[Tysha]

Level three.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ooh, interesting.

[Tysha]

Okay, I don't like that. I don't like what I find these.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Two save in the room with Erinessa. All three of these do not save.

[Tysha]

Okay. So they're gonna take five points of. We talked. We'll talk about that later.

[Marisha Ray]

Necrotic damage.

[Tysha]

We. Okay, yeah. I don't think she does necrotic damage. She's like a druid, but yeah. Five points of necrotic damage. And then one person of.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sorry. Five points of necrotic or halved or. No, if they don't. If they.

[Tysha]

Oh yeah, sorry. If they made it, then they're taking two.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Gotcha. Okay, so we'll do five to the three with you. Got it. Great.

[Tysha]

And one creature of my choice in that area. Me regains two D6 hivoids.

[Alex Ward]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Tysha]

Cool. I'll take seven back. And that's action. Bonus action. I'm finally looking at how my spell or my character sheet works. I'm gonna use adrenaline rush to take the dash action.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, cool.

[Tysha]

Mostly because it gives me two temporary hit points.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Tysha]

And I can take whatever I can get and get in. Like try to get away from these guys and get into the room. I know. I'm gonna take a tax of opportunity. No, I need to hit them. I can't hit them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What do I do?

[Tysha]

It's so bad here.

[Alex Ward]

Everyone's so stressed.

[Tysha]

Yeah. You died.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't have stress anymore.

[Julian Davinos]

That's true.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I will say I thought there was a chance that you would die in this combat. I did not know that it would. The rolls have been insane over here behind the screen.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Tysha]

I'm afraid you will auto delete me if I move away from. From here. So never mind on that. Bonus action.

[Julian Davinos]

The good news is this gives you a lot of time during the rest of this fight for you to figure out the art for your new character.

[Vaelys]

Yeah, that's true.

[Alex Ward]

I worked really hard on the other one, but it's fine.

[Tysha]

I think that's all I'm going to do.

[Marisha Ray]

Can't believe it.

[Alex Ward]

Hey, Zelma was going to go first.

[Tysha]

You took range.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You gained 2d6 you gain HP back.

[Tysha]

Yep.

[Vaelys]

10.

[Tysha]

Get 7 back. So we're up to 8 and then bonus action. We're going to cast shillelute.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, cool.

[Alex Ward]

We're going to cast stick.

[Marisha Ray]

We cast stick.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. We cast stick. Your staff, the metal and wood intertwined together. This sort of ancient cold iron wrapping around the wood as it grows in your hand and becomes heavy and potent with magical energy. You look forward and see the ghouls cackling here, but also hear bootsteps thundering up behind you.

[Tysha]

Then I'm going to the rest of my turn. I'm just yelling out the lay of the land for Julian on the way up. Okay, so three with me. However many I saw inside the room.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Gotcha.

[Tysha]

I can only see I have one eye right now. I cannot count. Minis.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Bayless, that's going to be your turn.

[Vaelys]

Great. All right, so this crew here, I am going to sensor whip, swing it around and try to take some of these out.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah.

[Vaelys]

So let's do this one. Come on. Man, that's amaze.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm so sorry.

[Vaelys]

It's even lower than last time.

[Alex Ward]

Go the other direction.

[Vaelys]

I will try. I will try.

[Tysha]

Next time I start yelling at everyone, he's dead. We. We should go. Yeah, there's nothing more to do here. That's just me. We gotta skedaddle.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, in this moment, Bayless, surrounded on all sides by these entities as you are, they continue to reach out towards you. You feel yourself once again surrounded by this chill, this presence of death in this moment and reaching out to attack. You can only conclude that cold is that what she felt when she died? Is that what she has been feeling ever since? And the sensor moves and the shades press their advantage. We now are going to move to Julian. Davinas, it is your turn again.

[Julian Davinos]

Oh, boy. I have Erinessa screaming my name up above. I look over my shoulder to give a quick glance. Now, seeing that, how confident are you feeling?

[Vaelys]

Very confident. I sort of give you a nod and look upstairs.

[Tysha]

Go.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to not disengage. I'm just going to go into a full run and take the actual opportunities. The two specters.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is two misses as they reach out thundering past you.

[Julian Davinos]

That's 30ft up. 30. And then also going into a dash action.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 30 gets you to the very top of the staircase here. Nice crowd.

[Marisha Ray]

Ernesto.

[Julian Davinos]

Ernesto, what are you.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She calls out again from up above.

[Marisha Ray]

Julian Undead at the top of the.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Stairs, racing as fast as you can to get There the shades beneath you. Looking up the stairs to follow you. Getting to the top of the staircase, you look down and see Etherin's Taconis at the very end of the hallway. And see that these ghouls are now going to act. One of them gathers her in a grapple. They're going to move half their movement into the room. As they do so you see that she's also going to have to make a constitution save. Which she succeeds on but does take. Does take 1d4 damage girl. Okay. Erinessa cries out an injury and these ghouls are going to attack. Tysha, what is your armor?

[Tysha]

Class 14.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a single hit. I'm gonna need a constitution saving Throw.

[Alex Ward]

No.

[Tysha]

2 on a dice.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You take five points of slashing damage. Oh my God. And are paralyzed until the end of your next turn. At the end of their turn, you see Octus lying dead on that table. Your family so often spoke of the realms beyond these places in the paths tread by the dead. I'd like you to roll a constitution saving throw for me.

[Alex Ward]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is.

[Alex Ward]

That is a 22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's Vaylis. Down below you begin to hear a song like a nightingale. Tycha. As the chill of the ghoul's poisonous touch flashes into you, you also hear that song. Some distant cry of a creature beyond the edge of what is seen and known. Shadows moving, blood dripping through the planks of wood onto the stone underneath. Octys dead body. When he was alive. What did Octys think would happen when he died? The underworld is a known thing, but yet no one can ever really know the touch of death until it happens. What did Octys imagine imagine it would be like to die?

[Alex Ward]

I think he thought, considering he'd been told growing up how his family, they weren't this. But they were stewards of the passage of life and death. They were a necessary part of the cycle. And he thought that due to his affiliation and his family, he would.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Have.

[Alex Ward]

An easier time passing and go into be able to make it through and go into the natural cycle. And that the problems that are affecting the world wouldn't bother him because his family knew what to do. That's what he was told and that's what he believed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Etheryn Taconis, here in this space, steps forward, faces the shadow. The hand of Primus. Taconis reaches from the shadow. Tycha. Even paralyzed, you can see this with a readied action to cast planeshift gazing at you. There is a place where all lost things are kept eternal. And all Scrub your path from the face of the beyond. And vanishes into shadow. As the hand covered in burnt silver and black wax wraps around Etherin's hand with a heart in it. And the heart vanishes. Etherin and Primus are gone. Tysha, that is your turn. You come out of the paralysis condition at the end of that turn. And below, the shadows are going to attack again. That is only one hit for six necrotic halved to three damage to Vaelysk. The shadows close in behind you, but have to use a double movement to pursue you. Or do not attack on that turn. As they reach the top of the staircase, Lady Royce looks out in this moment, sees octys body, can hear Julian rushing towards her. She is going to ready an action in this moment, looking out.

[Tysha]

Please.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Please. We've lost so much. The doors are closed. The world cannot fall further into darkness.

[Marisha Ray]

Please.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And calls out and reverberations hit everywhere. Vaelys, you and you alone on the first floor can see this nightingale fly from the trees outside. On the other side of the glass, the specters everywhere. Not the ones that have come into your world, but the ones waiting just on the other side, begin to cover their faces and flee in advance of these things that look like fairies of the dead, moving in a realm beyond, perceived only by your divine sense. It is your turn. Lady Erinessa has a readied action. Okay.

[Vaelys]

So did you say I saw those from.

[Tysha]

Outside?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, you did. Outside in the garden. You saw them move? Moving throughout this space as fast as they could. However, these shades are still in combat with you down below.

[Vaelys]

Okay, take that in. And I'm just still going to try to use my whip.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay?

[Alex Ward]

Go for it.

[Julian Davinos]

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

[Vaelys]

That's a one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And that one.

[Vaelys]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Don't play with that one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'm so sorry, Ashley.

[Tysha]

It's okay.

[Vaelys]

You know what? It's just.

[Tysha]

It's.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's how it goes sometimes.

[Vaelys]

I'm thrown. I'm thrown. My boy's gone.

[Tysha]

Yeah.

[Vaelys]

My boy blue.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

My boy blue. He's gone.

[Alex Ward]

He's blue now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Surrounded here by the undead.

[Vaelys]

I mean, I could stay here all day. They can just keep trying to take life away. It's not gonna happen.

[Alex Ward]

But I got all that.

[Vaelys]

I got all day. I got my whole life. Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We move to the top of initiative. Julian leaving the staircase. You look down at Velis. You cannot imagine that this warrior will be alive when you next see her. These shades are on top of her. The senser over and over again, moving around her. But you hear Eriness's voice in this moment. What do you do? She calls out to you in panic and terror.

[Julian Davinos]

Yeah. I'm sorry. Julian continues his terror up the stairs, breathing heavy, the spit in his mouth thick. Just not even paying attention to these specters as they approach, trying to do his best to get towards her.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. Thundering past two misses on attacks of opportunity once again. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. As you get here, right through the crook of the door at the end of 30ft of movement, Eriness is ready to action. Casts haste on you. Yes.

[Tysha]

Let'S go.

[Alex Ward]

No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She goes fly. And from underneath you as the taconuses continue in shadows beyond perception to whatever their fell work is, she turns to you. She goes ser tovinos tears streaking. You are charged with the defense of this house. See it done. And wind swirls around you as you hear the flapping of wings and gold and silver and radiant purple as moths and butterflies move throughout you. Swift wind from a realm whose doors are closed to you but whose gifts are still promised. With the haste action you gain a 2 bonus to your armor class advantage on dexterity, saving throws and additional action on each of your turns that can give you one extra weapon. Attack, dash, disengage, hide. Or using an object.

[Vaelys]

Yes.

[Julian Davinos]

Yes. Oh yes. I think that eye contact, that trust, those words resonate. And really, I think for the first time in over a decade, he really feels the weight of his station for this moment. The anger, the fury, the sorrow is held back. That disassociation kicks in and instead that sense of honor and duty is all that matters. I'm going to use that extra action to dash into the chamber to where these ghouls are currently heading towards her and then take my action to strike the one that's nearest to me. I'm getting in base to base with two of them if I can.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I have 10.

[Julian Davinos]

That's double speed, right?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15, 20, 25. You don't need to use the extra action because even though you'd used your speed on getting hit with the the spell, your Speed is now 60. So you're in the house.

[Tysha]

I love it here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Every movement of yours is just trails of radiant gold and the flashing of wings as you move through this space.

[Julian Davinos]

I think he's going to rush in that chest to the right. He's going to jump onto with one leg and then leap off a double in the air flip with his rapier coming down to stab down towards the clavicle and shoulder area of the Ghoul that's nearest to him.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. Erinessa even grappled, she is neither meek nor mild. With a kick from her high heeled shoe, she's going to give you flanking on this attack.

[Julian Davinos]

Yes. All righty. Great. That's going to be an 18 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a hit.

[Julian Davinos]

Alrighty. So with that, that's going to be well, because. Cause I have advantage on it. I do get sneak attack.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, you do.

[Julian Davinos]

So that's gonna be nine.

[Tysha]

Come on now.

[Julian Davinos]

So 10 points of piercing damage on that strike.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. Hell yeah. Of the three, there's two within reach of you. One more wounded than the other. Which do you hit? Right.

[Julian Davinos]

That one there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes. So you're going for the more wounded or the less wounded?

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going for the more wounded.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

One. More wounded 1. 10 points of damage is exactly how much health it had left. How do you want to do this?

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, Something good happened.

[Julian Davinos]

So. So as the rapier pierces down into the body, my weight coming onto it, I release the rapier, grab it with my gauntleted hand, and with it facing downward, tear the rapier out and carve through its chest if I can.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Bones and viscera scatter across the floor. The first of the ghouls has fallen. That is your first action. You go again.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to then throw. Throw the rapier up from the gauntlet in a hand, grab it with the other one, and go into a heavy spear with the other one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. Go for it.

[Julian Davinos]

If I have enough movement to move. And keep that one flanked.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes, absolutely. Yep. Taking a sidestep. Your back is now to Octis, who you can see under the navel from the waistline to the solar plexus has been opened wide with a single vertical slit. And something has applied. Tremendous trauma and pressure as you see organs spilling out of the wound in the center of the table. We'll process that shortly. Yeah, I'm not.

[Julian Davinos]

Buddy, that's cocked. Okay, that would be 15 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15 hits.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, let's go.

[Julian Davinos]

Oh, that's not good. That's going to be five points of piercing damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, five points of piercing damage.

[Julian Davinos]

I will use my bonus action to attack with my demigantlet on the same one. So after I stab through, carving but deflecting off of inside bone or still dense sinew, it doesn't quite go into the vitals. So instead I'm going to reach up with that momentum and with the gauntlet, grab its jaw and see if I can bring its head onto my shoulder. Armor to try and tear some of it away with the gauntlet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. Let's go.

[Julian Davinos]

Okay, that's going to be a 19 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

19 is a hit. Go ahead and roll. Damage.

[Julian Davinos]

All right, take seven points of damage on the demigantlet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You have dispatched one of the ghouls and savagely wounded the other. As you see, one of its limbs hangs by mere sinew. You have gotten their attention. They drop the lady Erinessa and turn to you as the.

[Julian Davinos]

They turn and say, bring it.

[Marisha Ray]

That's my turn?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yes, Julian. And bring it they shall. This is what's happening.

[Marisha Ray]

And bring it I shall.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, two attacks coming right for you. Da, da, da.

[Julian Davinos]

For the record, the one that I just hit with the Demigantlet, because it is sapped, it has disadvantage on its first attack.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Roll.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Love to see it. And with SAP, turns a hit into a miss.

[Julian Davinos]

So I see the gauntlet in hand. Catches it in the middle of the air. After I dodge the other stuff.

[Tysha]

Yes. Come on.

[Vaelys]

Now.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Reaching forward, you see Erinessa looking having been dropped. You are able to fend these two off in the hallway right here. Turns around and sees not a chance for anything like salvation, but a chance for any hope at all. And she raises her hands up as her eyes go glowing green. These ghouls out in the hallway are going to go for Tysha in this moment.

[Marisha Ray]

Jesus Christ.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is one hit for three points of damage.

[Tysha]

Enough to drop me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, Tysha goes down, down, out in the hallway. That is going to move forward and be from Taisha. That is going to be a death saving throw from Taisha.

[Alex Ward]

Let's go.

[Baulaire]

Come on.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, my God.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you want to see it?

[Tysha]

Oh.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Not one. No.

[Tysha]

Shit.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, no.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah. That is going to be two failures.

[Julian Davinos]

What?

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, no, wait.

[Tysha]

No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Two death save failures.

[Tysha]

I thought this was a guest run.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No.

[Tysha]

My bad.

[Alex Ward]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Was I supposed to be here for longer?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Tycha.

[Vaelys]

Oh, my God.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You look out. You can feel blood draining from your body, spiraling through space. You see octas moving farther away. You see them fireflies off in the distance, paths through forest leading to renewal and new life. You see octys in spirit. You are quite close to following him yourself. Octys is lost, confused. You see him moving away. His body is destroyed. There is no hope for it. As he moves, you have the chance to say something to him here at the edge of death. What do you say? In this moment.

[Tysha]

I think I've made jokes to him and to my family about feeling very maternal over him. And there is some part of me that has has the thought to give some strange bit of comfort in this place, on this path. But this feels so wrong. And everything in my path is about accepting the cycles of life and not fighting. When your time has come, then. But it's not his time. I know that. So I just turn and yell, go back. Not yet. Not yet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octus. This is the first moment that some consciousness returns to you. Dying is such a strange thing. Is it really even you that's here? Without your body? Can the thing in you which is eternal be said to be yours? Or were you its until suddenly Tysha's voice, the fluttering of wings like there are birds nearby in flight. Go back. A path through a dark forest. But a woman who knows those woods is telling you not to go yet. What do you say? Yeah, okay.

[Marisha Ray]

I'll come back.

[Alex Ward]

It's too early anyway.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Octys, you are gripped by a sudden shuddering pain. A thing that should not exist in this world. In the shadows off the path, far off it, in places beyond the woods, so dark and cold that even the spirits of the dead should never tread there. A hand emerges from shadow drenched in blood, clutching a heart. And it squeezes it and says, traitorous whelp, come home at once. I'm going to need a wisdom saving throw. And because of Tysha's presence here at the edge of death, I will allow you to roll it with advantage.

[Tysha]

I guess. Guidance.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

Yay. Add a D. Four.

[Julian Davinos]

Good.

[Tysha]

I don't want to roll. Okay, that's.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

11. Shuddering in pain, you can see Tycha. This spirit of your young friend, like a son to you forever, loses its chance to walk the path through the forest. Turning to you, he takes a step off the path. And it is in so doing that this hand in the darkness pulls. And you see that something splits in his spirit as you are being called in two directions at once. The force within the darkness, horrified to find that something else has drawn close to call you where it would not beckon you. We move from this place of death and return to combat.

[Tysha]

Yeah. Less death there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We see down below.

[Vaelys]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Vaelys, you take four and five. That's nine. Nine. Halve to four. Necrotic damage.

[Tysha]

Got it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

From the shades below, you see that? The shades at the top of the staircase. Looking beyond, look forward. See only a fallen enemy in this hallway. And see you down below. And are going to turn to engage. The last two shades are coming towards you.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Making your way. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 33. 5, 40. And are going to close in on either. They're going to double move and close in either side view. Moving from there. The lady Erinessa is going to.

[Marisha Ray]

She's the only one doing the job.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Is going to disengage as her action 5, 10, 15 towards the fireplace and is going to bonus action healing word and is going to heal you for a little 11 points of damage. Okay.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As Erinessa steps forward. Baelas, that is your turn. And you see suddenly that octys spirit is vanished from you as you are back in your body once more. Baelis, that is your turn.

[Vaelys]

Okay, so yeah, I'm going to. It's got a hit now. It's just. It's gotta hit. Okay, okay. Okay. There we go. There we go.

[Julian Davinos]

That's good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. All right.

[Julian Davinos]

I think we're hitting more digits.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Vaelys]

22 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

With my sensor wave, 22 to hit is a hit. Absolutely.

[Vaelys]

I'm gonna get some momentum, start swinging.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. And are you adding a smite on this?

[Vaelys]

I will add a smite since that hit.

[Marisha Ray]

Great.

[Vaelys]

I'm shaking. So my.

[Marisha Ray]

Why this is so unsuccessful?

[Vaelys]

These are eights.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And Julian, you're on deck.

[Vaelys]

Okay, great. So with the divine smite. 16.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

And how much the first. The hit with the censer was 6 and then with the divine smite that was.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How many D8 do you roll for Divine Smite? One? No, I think.

[Vaelys]

Oh, for Divine Smite I rolled two D6.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, you rolled two D6 for a Divine smite?

[Vaelys]

Yes.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, hold on one second. Let me just see something real quick.

[Vaelys]

I mean.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I believe. Let me just sunrise.

[Vaelys]

No, everybody's saying that this is wrong.

[Alex Ward]

No, I'm just.

[Vaelys]

Oh wait, is it 2D8?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We might be used to the. We might be used to the old version, but we're gonna double check that right now. I believe you get extra dice against undead as well.

[Alex Ward]

Which they are.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Which they are. It is 2D8.

[Vaelys]

It is 2D8.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It is 3D8 because the target is an undead. So go ahead and roll 3D. Okay.

[Alex Ward]

More damage.

[Vaelys]

All right.

[Tysha]

Right.

[Vaelys]

You can do that.

[Marisha Ray]

Get him.

[Vaelys]

Oh wait, I saw that.

[Tysha]

Duty size the tiniest boy.

[Vaelys]

Okay, that's fine. That'll be 1212.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Which becomes 24 with their vulnerability With a single whip of the censer. One of them is more than unmade. One of the shades vanishes in light as you cast it back to the underworld.

[Marisha Ray]

There we go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There we go.

[Alex Ward]

Okay, we're doing stuff.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We got this. Hell yes. Got something in Julian that Is your.

[Julian Davinos]

Turn still, at this point, honed in? Just keeping focused on forms as unpracticed as I have been for a while. It's almost like going back to when I was really honing my craft and seeing Erinessa now turning the tide a bit in this space. I'm. I'm going to go ahead and go for the one that I had already struck. Last turn, I'm going to go ahead. After cracking its jaw and then moving out of the way, I'm going to take the rapier and try and jam upward through the bottom of its chin and see if I can pierce through its skull.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell, yeah. Go for it.

[Julian Davinos]

That's going to be 17 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

17 hits.

[Tysha]

Let's go.

[Julian Davinos]

All right, that's going to be six points of piercing damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell, yeah. This is one you already injured, right?

[Alex Ward]

Correct.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see that? This one is speared through the head, comes out the top of its skull, and it collapses dead to the ground.

[Julian Davinos]

Great. How many is there? One other.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There's one left in the room with you.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to. After the rapier is through its head, I'm going to go ahead and kick it off the rapier and pull back, go into a spinning strike. Using that momentum as I pull the rapier close to my body, throw the cloak up in front of of the ghoul to obscure the vision of where I'm coming from.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell, yeah.

[Julian Davinos]

And then from underneath, come up into its ribcage and use the extra attack from the haste.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell, yes.

[Julian Davinos]

That's going to be 23 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

23 to hit. That is a hit. Okay.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Julian Davinos]

There we go. That's going to be 10 points of piercing damage.

[Tysha]

Ooh.

[Julian Davinos]

And it is vexed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Julian Davinos]

And I'm going to bonus action, Come out with a demigantlet.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So.

[Julian Davinos]

So after I pierce through its body, I get up real close to it into its face, and be like, tell your creators I say hi. And I'm going to reach up with the demiglon and grab its throat to see if I can just squeeze its head off.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me the attack with advantage.

[Tysha]

All right.

[Julian Davinos]

Which I have from Vex. I'm learning the weapons, learning the build. Yeah, that's cocked.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Julian Davinos]

The other one stops. So that was me. 18 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

18 hits.

[Baulaire]

That will be.

[Julian Davinos]

Seven with sneak attack. So eight points of damage on that one.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The last ghoul, you mow through both ghouls in the room as you crush this one until you get your gauntleted fingers on the vertebrae at the back of its neck and sever its head with pure grip strength from its shoulders as its tongue lolls out of its mouth and it falls to the ground, destroyed.

[Julian Davinos]

I throw it down, still visibly emotionless in this moment. Just look up to her and I'm like, are you okay?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yes.

[Vaelys]

Help.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Druid.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to go ahead and turn around and rush because I haven't really moved much this turn. I'm going to move out into the hallway and glance down the stairs into the main hall. Is there any visibility on the elf?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Not from where you are on the steps right now.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to listen to take her command and I'm going to go ahead and move into base to base with the nearest threatening ghoul and end my turn there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yes. Unbelievable. That is going to be the ghoul's turn. Of which there are now only three. This one, wait.

[Tysha]

Delightful.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Two of them are going to come for Julian. That is a mission. That is a hit. Give me a constitutional.

[Julian Davinos]

That was with an 18, right? With the extra two from Haste.

[Marisha Ray]

That is a miss.

[Julian Davinos]

That is a miss, my lady. Aranesa.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How about it?

[Marisha Ray]

Wow. Good call. There you go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

One of them is gonna come for Tysha. That's a miss.

[Marisha Ray]

Honestly, that's why I'm like.

[Alex Ward]

You can just.

[Marisha Ray]

You got healed okay? I thought you were stone from Minasa.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

With that octys.

[Vaelys]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

On your turn. Welcome back in the realm of death. You have failed your wisdom saving throw. Tysha is suddenly gone. And you watch as you some too many commands were heeded at once. To come back, to go home, to walk the path to something new in this space. With Tysha suddenly gone, you can feel the hand of Primus to Konis, your father, drawing you into the dark in this moment. You have to think of something. What are you going to do?

[Alex Ward]

You said that I split. Is this a thing that is there? Am I seeing another of me? I'm splitting.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It looks as though there is a tear in the middle of your soul. Something is opening wide. And you can tell that this is something that should not. If you unravel, there will be no end to the unraveling. This isn't.

[Tysha]

Right.

[Alex Ward]

I'm not.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I think.

[Tysha]

I think this.

[Alex Ward]

Needs to close. And he's going to take his fingers and push them in to start.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Almost.

[Alex Ward]

Taking the motion as though he's sewing himself back up to try and seal up this tear. To put himself back together to where he's supposed to be. To put to fix the problem as much as he can.

[Marisha Ray]

This needs to be sealed shut.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me an arcana roll.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Alex Ward]

I like that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Die.

[Julian Davinos]

You're being testy tonight.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

18. You start to stitch yourself back up. As you do, you can feel yourself being lifted off the ground and drawn towards something you don't want to go to.

[Alex Ward]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm not supposed to go there, Father.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You.

[Alex Ward]

I don't belong to you. I belong here. With them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Stitches, you belong. Where are we? Something's moving. There's a face looking down. You're on a table. But the lady erinyss is not here. You're not in the Palazzo Divinos. Face, white and spectral, looks down. Something's wrong with the boy, Primus. You. For what have you done? You feel something stirring inside you. Something's messing with the stitches. From inside of you in the forest, you're back here, moving towards the darkness. The stitches. There's something pushing against them. It's stopping your work. A wing bursts out of your midsection. You look down and see. Suddenly a little nose pushes out. And from the gory midsection, wet with your own viscera, a tiny little fox, its head unattached to any body at all, turns around and looks up at you. You scared? We move from Octis back to the Palazzo Divinos. Tysha, that is your turn.

[Tysha]

Back up. Too much. Too close. Everything is too close and Octys is still lost. I'm going to cast Thunder Wave at second level.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yes.

[Tysha]

I'm hoping that you're kind of far. You stopped far. Like a cute little move. As you were running, I was like, back up.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. Okay.

[Tysha]

15 foot cube.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

15 foot cube. Center on you.

[Tysha]

DC 15 con save.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah. That is one success, two failures.

[Tysha]

Okay? The two that fail take 13 points and are pushed 10ft away from me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Me.

[Tysha]

And the other takes six points of thunder damage. Yeah. And everything in this hall, it's just destruction. I don't care about this building. I need to get to Octis.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yeah.

[Julian Davinos]

Wait, where's the family going to live?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, I'm going to say I think thunder. I don't know. That thunder wave can't not catch Julian in this moment. Oh, wow.

[Marisha Ray]

I mean, makes sense.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me a console institution saving throw.

[Tysha]

You bet your roll.

[Julian Davinos]

So good, eh?

[Tysha]

14B1 higher not.

[Marisha Ray]

But that's okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I dig it. So, Julian, you do take, what, 13 points of damage and thud back into the wall back here. But these two ghouls fly back how many feet?

[Tysha]

10Ft.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Bam. Bam. Both thunder down the hall from you. You were in combat, just with one last ghoul here.

[Tysha]

Bonus action. Whatever. I'll take the opportunity attack. But I'm bonus. We're looking at the things we can do now that I could have done the whole time. That would have given me more hit points. Adrenaline rush. Take the dash action. It also gives me two temporary hp.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool.

[Tysha]

And I'm gonna try to just get back in the room and get to Octis.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a miss on the opportunity attack. Amazing. You rush through the doorway and and get to Octus.

[Tysha]

And I think I end up right at his head. It looks like what Tysha looked like when she was giving Thiazzi his rights. She's just at the head and she's just going to look down at him. And I think it's in Druidic, but it sounds like those prayers and those chants. But all she is saying is follow my voice and get back here. Get off the path.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you say to get off the path. Give me a wisdom saving throw.

[Tysha]

22.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How do you square in this moment with telling someone who has died that it is not their time? Why were you able to tell Thiazi that a new life was waiting for him beyond the forest? But you will not say it to Octus. I don't want to think about it. And on a 22 you don't have to.

[Tysha]

This is just feeling.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Uh. You rush inside to Octys body calling out to him as much as you can. After your turn it is going to go back to the shadows below. That is one hit and one critical hit.

[Tysha]

Okay. What is happening downstairs? Are you good?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Thirteen necrotic damage. How halved to six. Okay. How's Velis?

[Marisha Ray]

Looking great.

[Tysha]

Watch out, Oz.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

So many people go back and kill me.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm gonna come back as an elf. I wanna be this.

[Vaelys]

I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Standing in the midst of these shades, trying to drink your immortal life. They continue to do so. It's crazy when you say it like that. You see that Erinessa is going to walk to a corner of the room. Looking and hearing everything else going on outside. You also now can hear any of you that there are other Taconis in the castle. This is like Primus came to do what he was here to do. But you hear in other hallways, distant in the palazzo, other noises. You see that Erinessa walks to this desk, touches the wood, goes varnish, lifts it, breaks something to touch a raw piece of wood and whispers and begins to Druid craft a sapling out of the wood of the desk. As fast as she can. For reasons that she does not choose to share with you all in this moment. You see, she looks in and says, julian to me when you can, and runs over there. Bayless, that's your turn.

[Vaelys]

Okay, I'm gonna keep swinging.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Cool.

[Vaelys]

Since they keep coming.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, go for it. Give me your attack.

[Vaelys]

All right, let's do this one. You're gonna be good. You're gonna be good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, my God.

[Vaelys]

That's a one.

[Alex Ward]

What is happening to you?

[Vaelys]

I don't know.

[Julian Davinos]

Ashley.

[Vaelys]

Should I leave?

[Marisha Ray]

No, don't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I will.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm so happy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We will have a beautiful dice intervention. As soon as we go to break, it is. We will. We will make it happen.

[Vaelys]

It's okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

It's all good. This is the story the Dice want to tell.

[Vaelys]

This is the Dice want to tell.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

This is not a moment.

[Vaelys]

You know what I'm going to do for my bonus action?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

What's that?

[Vaelys]

I'm going to. I'm going to hold on a minute. Let me just double check this really quickly if I want to use this. No, I only have one more slime. No, I'm not gonna do that.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, we're fine.

[Vaelys]

I'm fine. I'm just gonna keep swinging. We're good. We're good. We're good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You keep swinging. It comes to you after your turn. It goes back to Julian at the top of Initiative.

[Julian Davinos]

So there's three ghouls.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There are three. And they are looking in bad fucking shape, man. Erinessa has called to you, but also, these ghouls are looking pretty fucked up.

[Julian Davinos]

No, I'm in the zone. I'm going to go ahead and go for one of them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Let's go.

[Julian Davinos]

That's an extra 20 natural 20 basis.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, my God.

[Vaelys]

Here we go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Here we go.

[Julian Davinos]

Thank you for this dice. You're welcome.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You are stomping so much ass in this fight. It's crazy. Crazy.

[Julian Davinos]

Fighter's baby. Fight a rogue's baby.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Fighter, rogues.

[Alex Ward]

Fighter.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Rogue, baby.

[Julian Davinos]

Yeah. Fight a rogue, baby. That's the way to go. So that's going to be. Could have been a better dice roll. 10 points of piercing damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

10 points gets it done. And that's the healthiest of the ghouls remaining. 10 points.

[Julian Davinos]

So after being blown back into the wall from the thunder of, I'm like, shake it off. Give you a look and be like, this is the gift for helping. And I'm going to rush up to one of the nearest ones. And right now it's dispatching. It's like mercy Kills. At this point, my mind is now on Vaelys and where she is. I'm just trying to finish off as much as possible. The first one, I just go through the eye socket. Just focus on the next one. I'm going to go ahead and do my. Yes. Bonus attack. Which with Vex would have advantage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. Yes, Absolutely.

[Julian Davinos]

Let's go. So which is good because that would make it up 16 hits.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hits.

[Julian Davinos]

That will be. That's going to be a nine points of piercing damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Nine points. Hits. Oh, sorry. Nine points of piercing damage. Oh, more than enough. The thunder wave almost had these guys on. They had these guys on death's door. So yeah, that one is enough damage. And I believe you have an extra attack from.

[Julian Davinos]

I do. With bonus action.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

With bonus action.

[Julian Davinos]

So the second strike is going to go and almost like a rapier strike across the abdomen and I'm going to take my foot and kick it into the section to snap its back off of it and kind of push it further down the hall. The last one that's standing there, Tekken, is a different target. So I don't get the Vex bonus on this one. So I'm just going to go ahead and make another attack on that one. That's only going to be an 11 to hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

An 11 to hit. 11 does not hit on that one. But this last one crumples to the ground. And just as you slash through it, this last one looks at you with its tongue lolling out of its mouth. So destroyed by that thunder Wave.

[Julian Davinos]

But you know what I'm gonna do? I'm look at him be like, you know what? I don't think it'll worth my time right now. I'm gonna turn around. I'm gonna go full sprint towards Velas.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell yes.

[Julian Davinos]

Which means I will take an attack opportunity. But I'll.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great. That is a hit. We need a constitution savings.

[Julian Davinos]

I'll take him. Let's go. This is what I get.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Damn it.

[Julian Davinos]

No, it's okay. That's gonna be at 11.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

11 saves. You are not paralyzed. You do take four points of slashing damage.

[Julian Davinos]

I'll take it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. You close. You are by Erin s side with that haste spell still.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, you're going for veil.

[Julian Davinos]

Well, she. Oh, man. Now Baronessa did call me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, it's whatever you want to do. Fine.

[Julian Davinos]

I don't know how bad you're doing, so I'm going to go to Erinsa. Yeah, that's what I do.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You close to Erinessa's. Side as you do so. This ghoul's going to go next. He is next to act. Speed is 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Is gazing around. He is going to. I think he's going to go, yeah. Double move. And it's going to close on the Lady Erinessa in this moment, pursuing you into the room. Double move. Action. Octis, once again, I'm going to need another arcana check from you in this space. I'm going to say getting below a 10 is very bad. And getting a 20 or higher will produce some hidden knowledge for your spirit, now cast into the darkness in the realm of death.

[Alex Ward]

That is 19:1 shy.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There's something. You look at Pin's head emerging. There's something inside you stirring. You feel sick. You shouldn't even feel like you have a body in a place like this. Pin looks up at you, cocks his head so soaked with your blood that his fur is matted to the side. His ears go flat against his head.

[Alex Ward]

Take my hand and reach it up inside me, busting through some of the stitches. And try and pull whatever's in there out. It's making me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Strong.

[Marisha Ray]

This isn't supposed to be in here.

[Alex Ward]

And try and pull out whatever's in there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Give me either medicine or sleight of hand.

[Alex Ward]

What the hell's my sleight of hand? Okay, okay. That is a 15 medicine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

There are things moving inside of you, but there's something that's very still. Arm reaching up past little pin's head on a 15. You can only do one thing on that roll. You can remove Pin's head and maybe see if there's any other parts of him in there. You can try to move these fluttering things inside you to one side or the other, or you can reach towards something very still. You can only do one of those on a 15.

[Marisha Ray]

This is not.

[Alex Ward]

I'm going to reach towards the.

[Marisha Ray]

That's very still.

[Alex Ward]

It's not supposed to be in there.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You reach in and your hand wraps around a stone where your heart should be. You pull it out. That translucent face looks down at you from that table somewhere, not in death or life, and goes, no, no. In the forest. You come apart. Birds fly everywhere. Nightingales. The last part of your soul that remains is a hand clutching a stone. That's the last we're going to see of you, Alex. I'll ask you to step away from the table.

[Tysha]

I'm sorry, what?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

We return to the Palazzo Divinos. Uh, that is going to be Tysha's turn.

[Tysha]

Tight, cool focus. I see Erinessa growing a tree. What do I see? Do I see anything going on with octys on the table? He has remained dead and nothing has changed.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's just. You see his body? His handsome young is just his remains.

[Tysha]

I don't know what to do, but I'll stay here and I'll wait for him. But I need to help. I move one hand away from his face and pick back up my staff. And it grows and turns into this. It used to look like the head of. It used to look like a horse, but it spreads out and looks like a dragon's face pulled apart by the wood between all of the joints of the metal. And a little bit of a dark green magic pours out of the open mouth. And I'm going to spend three charges on my staff and cast. Speak with plants.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Tysha]

As I command the remains of the entangle that she used earlier and the sapling that she's growing and any piece of metal within 30ft of me grow.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Metal begins to grow at your command. You're casting speak with. Speak with plants, which, with the loy staff, also allows you to speak to metal. Hell, yes.

[Tysha]

So it says you can turn ordinary terrain where plants are present into difficult terrain. So if I can use a little bit of the leftover entangle just to make it harder for this nasty boy to get to.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Tysha]

Is he already there?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

He's already there. He's already there.

[Tysha]

Ah, shit.

[Marisha Ray]

Is there anything I can do with that?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see, I think Aranessa turns to you, looking at your attachment to the dead body, and you see, she just says, bring him if you must now, and beckons to.

[Tysha]

Yeah, I'll then pick him up and bring him over.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You bring him over. Join with her. Any other actions or bonus actions on your turn. That's an object interaction and a move.

[Tysha]

Yeah. My biggest goal was just to help Erinessa with whatever magic she's doing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Perfect casting. Speak with plants. Actually, you see that the buds of the tree that she's growing turn to you and go. There is a danger. The dead. The dead walk. The dead. And you see that? Erinessa sees that she's focusing on growing this thing and looks to you and says, wherever the least of them are. Ask wherever the least of them are.

[Tysha]

Yeah, yeah. And in Druidic, I think she's whispering, and it sounds like metal unforging itself and returning to. Or as I scream to all the metal around me, where is the least of them?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You see hedges, growth all of this, you hear a mighty voice calling out from an ash tree at the far edge. Even beyond, near the nearest gate, the gate you came through. And you see it calls out and.

[Vaelys]

Says.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Birds fly beyond what the eye can see. The bridge across the river knows no touch of death. I welcome the touch of the wielder of the old ways. The door is open to you. And you sense a tree nearby calling out.

[Tysha]

And I think one of the buds on the tree that Erinessa is growing immediately unfurls. It's like a peony, a lot of petals. And the way the petals open and fall looks like a sort of petal map of the bridge. The tree by the bridge.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Summoning that map forward in this space. At the end of your turn, the shadows are going to once again attack Velis. That is another hit and another crit.

[Tysha]

Okay, don't.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay, that is going to be nine. Plus four is 13. Thirteen halves to six. Necrotic damage.

[Vaelys]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

How's Baelus looking?

[Vaelys]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

Okay, you're cool.

[Tysha]

What's happening?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You've been tanking. So much damage, it's insane. That is their turn. As they face you, you look and see before your turn. Erinessa growing this sapling, casts tree stride.

[Tysha]

Yeah.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And with this last ghoul that she does not permit to follow. Julian, Tysha, you holding Octis body and her appear on the grounds outside the main gate. As she looks out, all of you moving as one, Julian hears you to this gate right here. That's her action. And she is going to sprint for the gate, take 30ft of movement and just say run. As she begins to run off the grounds.

[Vaelys]

Great.

[Julian Davinos]

This little guy gone.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, poor Pin.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, why?

[Julian Davinos]

I shout as she runs. I'll be like Ernesa the elf.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

She turns to look inside, sees you, and as she does so, she touches this threshold behind her and says, the veil. She looks at you and says, the veil is stronger. Pass the bridge.

[Tysha]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As she calls out to you and.

[Marisha Ray]

You see, I think you see, Julian.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The lady Erinnessa has done some heroic things to save you. And looks at Vaelys with a look. She's a very polite woman. And says, I thought you were very nice in the short amount of time we've known each other. And turns, kicks her heels off and just starts fucking booking it in bear as fast as. As she can, barefoot on the fucking cobblestone, getting out of here as fast as she can. That is your turn, Vaylis.

[Vaelys]

Okay, so with that sort of seeing them go, can I try to Sort of just duck and disengage something. Just try to get away.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Absolutely.

[Vaelys]

Okay.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And actually, because there are no longer six of them, you can disengage if you like, or you can just take movements, take double movements to get out of here.

[Tysha]

Great.

[Vaelys]

Let's do that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

They're going to get a text opportunity on you.

[Vaelys]

That's okay.

[Tysha]

Don't you say, oh, now. I mean, you've taken 47 hits.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I didn't. I rolled 5v20 and did not roll above a 10.

[Vaelys]

Great.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Unbelievable. Great. Where was that?

[Marisha Ray]

At the beginning?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Vaylis. That's going to be 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35, 40. And you can move another 20ft out that way.

[Tysha]

Whee.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As you begin to sprint, that goes to the top of initiative. Julian, that's you.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to make eye contact with you as you're stepping outside. The rest of you, I'm going to go ahead and dart forward and ready my action.

[Marisha Ray]

Hell, yeah.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm just going to hold it there, more or less, to interpose myself with the hall, that if any of them give pursuit, I can go ahead and try and strike them down.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Hell, yeah.

[Julian Davinos]

But also, as I stand there and look inside of the spirits, my vision shifts to the body of my father and that stoic disassociation begins to slip a bit. Not that you might notice from behind, but the emotions begin to come in and wave. Now it's the end of my turn.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You ready your action, Tysha?

[Tysha]

Yeah. I'm going to use my movement and my other bonus action. What are you.

[Marisha Ray]

Say the words.

[Tysha]

I'll know them by the end. Adrenaline rush.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Yeah.

[Tysha]

So I'll end up doing 60ft of movement, but I'm going to swing around and I want to put my hand on Julian's shoulder as I'm banking around and out. Say, please, run with us now and cast cure wounds as I do it.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go ahead.

[Tysha]

I am a little sorry I did an ouch to you, though. You're fine.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Ooh.

[Tysha]

Okay. Spellcasting. 20 points.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

20 points.

[Julian Davinos]

Bright as fucking rain.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Are you back to full?

[Julian Davinos]

No.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Oh, no.

[Marisha Ray]

By no means.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

By no means. But.

[Tysha]

But. Good enough.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I'll have to. Right here.

[Julian Davinos]

Pretty good.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Tysha, go ahead and move 60ft. You have octis with you as well, yeah?

[Tysha]

Oh, yeah. Am I moving slower? No, I'm so strong. Touch. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. And they'll be here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great.

[Marisha Ray]

Slide to the side. He's just over the shoulder. We got both. Yep, yep.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

5, 10, 15, 20. So you're more than 40ft. Which means that all of the shadows go to surround you. Julian, you have a ready to action. Go ahead and take your attack.

[Julian Davinos]

All right. Which is just the single attack.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That's correct.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm gonna go ahead and strike the first one that comes towards me.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

You got it.

[Alex Ward]

That's going to be.

[Julian Davinos]

13.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

13 hits. 13 hits.

[Tysha]

Let's go.

[Julian Davinos]

That'll be seven points of piercing damage. Non magical of course. Whatever that might impact.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Sergio, your sword. Glancing blow. They surround you in this moment. You look. You can hear the footsteps of your companions. Your father's dead on the ground. You'll never have the opportunity for him to know you as anything other than a drunken reprobate. He would not have even known the cause of his death. It happened so quickly.

[Alex Ward]

And.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

As the shades surround you, whatever was written in their misty faces, it's gone now. The thing in Velis that filled them with sorrow and guilt and shame. No, that's not what they feel looking at you. They look at you and those smoky mouths grin empty sockets of shadow and lightlessness in recognition of a soul maybe just as lost as them. Maybe it would be some cold comfort to invite you into their life, which some part of you has seen fit to live. Even as your heart still beats, they don't prepare to strike you in terror or shame. If anything, it looks like they prepare for a warm embrace. Erinessa, sprinting forward, turns around. Julian.

[Marisha Ray]

Run.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Run. She continues to sprint towards the bridge, looking at you, Velis, as she watches and hears screams in sudden silence as the lights of the palace of the Divinos house begin to extinguish and falls into midnight. Phelis. It is your turn. You see that she Erinnessa before you, passes over the threshold onto the bridge away. And as she passes into the bridge, you walk. Watch. As she said, you can almost sense hanging in the air the magic that Primus called to bear to make the realms permeable for the grim work that faced them here on this night. You see past the threshold onto that bridge, the dead will not follow.

[Alex Ward]

Okay.

[Vaelys]

I would just like to go up to Julianne and try to bring him with me.

[Julian Davinos]

The minute you start stepping towards me, I put my gauntlet in hand out and say, keep them safe. I'll be there soon.

[Vaelys]

I take my whip out and start slashing them. The shadows.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The shadows.

[Vaelys]

I'm not going to leave him here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

I can't.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, okay.

[Vaelys]

Okay. 19.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Go ahead and roll. Damage? Hell yeah.

[Vaelys]

All right. 18.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

18 damage.

[Vaelys]

Yeah, no, sorry. 18 hit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

18 to hit. Go ahead and Roll damage.

[Vaelys]

Let's go.

[Julian Davinos]

Do you mind smiting on this?

[Vaelys]

Yes, I will. Because it hits. So 7.

[Tysha]

What's my 8 on it?

[Vaelys]

7 plus 6. Plus 8.

[Tysha]

Great.

[Vaelys]

And I roll one more.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Roll one more.

[Vaelys]

7.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

21.

[Marisha Ray]

42.

[Julian Davinos]

42.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Damage absolutely unmade by Thayliss Censer. Incredible. And keep going. Do you go?

[Vaelys]

I don't go? No.

[Julian Davinos]

Obstinate woman, I am behind you. You can thank them for a little bit. Now it's my turn.

[Vaelys]

Go.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Julian. It's your turn.

[Vaelys]

You take one and I'll take one. Let's finish him off.

[Julian Davinos]

I look back at the bodies in here. You know what? Let's just continue this. The first pound of proverbial flesh I'm going to go ahead and unleash on the one that I struck before.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Great.

[Julian Davinos]

It's going to be 17 hits. 17 hits for 11 points of piercing damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Amazing. You slash out and deal 11 points of damage again.

[Julian Davinos]

That's going to be 20. Not natural Dornier, just 20.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That hits.

[Julian Davinos]

Actually that would be an advantage because of Vex. Just double check. Not the same. So that's going to be 10 points of piercing damage.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Badly injured. You have your bonus action.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to go ahead and strike it now with advantage from the Vex. That's going to be okay. 18 to hit hits with sneak attack.

[Tysha]

Let's go.

[Vaelys]

Damn.

[Julian Davinos]

That's going to be another 10 points.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Of symmetrical damage destroyed in a flurry of attacks. Another shade vanishes from before you. Only three remain in front of you.

[Julian Davinos]

As I finish up that last one. Almost like using the gauntlet to wipe away a mist as it's scatters around. I throw the cape back over and put the blade out. And I step back a little bit and look towards you and be like, you're up.

[Tysha]

Thanks 2 idiots.

[Vaelys]

I'll take a swing.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incredible. Well, Tysha, that's your turn.

[Tysha]

I'm just cussing. I'm cussing in Druidic. We're supposed to be going. We're supposed to be going. It's just me bitching to Erin as I'm like, we're supposed to be just going. And they're not. They're going back because they're just so fucking weird. I can't.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, hold on.

[Tysha]

Yeah, fuck it. Let's use it again. I'm gonna. Before continuing my way out. These specters and spirits, are they corporeal and moving on the ground? Are they sort of floating?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Incorporeal? Floating.

[Tysha]

Ah, shit.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Never mind.

[Tysha]

No, I'm gonna do the Thing. I just turn around and go. I said fucking run. And misty step and then haul ass away.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Okay. You vanish across the bridge with Erinessa.

[Tysha]

I just snap point at the bridge here.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

That is a miss against Velas. There is a hit. You take eight points of necrotic damage and your strength decreases. Increases by 2.

[Julian Davinos]

That's fine. I can take that.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Bayless, that's you.

[Vaelys]

We have five more left.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

No, no, there's three.

[Vaelys]

There's three more. Oh, sorry. Okay. I'm going to look at Julianne. I will stay here with you until we finish this. But this will not make you feel better.

[Julian Davinos]

Let's go.

[Marisha Ray]

Are you sure?

[Julian Davinos]

I got one of them.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Both of you are are acting on the same turn initiative. If you choose to leave.

[Vaelys]

I mean, there are three left, it's fine.

[Julian Davinos]

I mean, they could catch up to us, but if we can get past the threshold with the haste. And I'm standing here. My father on the ground. Does he. Does he have his gauntlet on him?

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Him? He does.

[Julian Davinos]

I'm going to attempt to move up to his corpse with my hasted speed. If I need to roll an agility, get past them, let me know. But try without even looking at his face. Because I don't want that to be my last memory. I'm going to try and pull the gauntlet from his hand.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

Mm. Moving forward, supernatural speed. You surge past the shadows, wrap your hands ever tight fisted. Something in your father's hand relaxes and the gauntlet comes off. It is yours.

[Julian Davinos]

I look back at you and dart at full hasted speed to follow Erinessa and the rest.

[Vaelys]

I follow.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

The lights of the Palazzo Divinos extinguish cries of the living are quickly replaced with the chattering of the dead. And whatever grim work takes place within those halls is not yet so potent as to destroy. Ser Julian Davinos, Valis of the Morn Wood. Or Tysha, who follows the Lady Erinassar Royce across the bridge. In this place are the horrors left in the darkness. And you make your way to uncertain future together. And that's where we'll take our break.

[Tysha]

Oh.

[Brennan Lee Mulligan]

And that's where we'll leave our story for now. Part two of this episode of Campaign 4 drops this Tuesday. Thanks for listening and we'll see you soon for more critical role.