Tag Team At The Teeth: Beyond The Shroud | Critical Role Melbourne Live Show 2025 Part 2

Summary

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Critical Role: "Tag Team At The Teeth: Beyond The Shroud"

Melbourne Live Show 2025 – Part 2

Date: August 19, 2025
Podcast: Critical Role

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Episode Overview

In this electrifying continuation from the Melbourne live show, the heroes, still split from their companions, venture deeper into the haunted spiritual realm at the heart of the island of Tyranna. Joined by the enigmatic Ethel, whose dual existence straddles both the spectral and physical realms, the party faces off against vengeful pirate ghosts and, ultimately, a cataclysmic serpentine spirit threatening the island's very soul. With themes of collaboration, sacrifice, and reconnection, the episode blends high-energy combat, poignant character moments, and signature Critical Role hilarity.

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Key Discussion Points & Adventure Recap

1. Opening Banter & Emotional Reunion [03:03–05:08]

• The cast shares love with the massive live audience in Melbourne. Ashley Johnson humorously asks, “Before we get started, where's my mom?” (03:22)
• Lighthearted jokes about family and the crowd set an intimate and playful tone.

2. Preparing for the Challenges Ahead [04:14–06:20]

• Before delving deeper, the party tends to their wounds, both physical and (jokingly) emotional:
  • “Well, I can't do anything about the emotional damage right now. That's really up to you.” – Taliesin Jaffe (Caduceus) [04:24]
• Caduceus and Brayus perform healing rituals, featuring comical references (Dunkaroos, Dewey Decimal System) and mock flirtations with Fearne.

3. The Truths of the Island and Ethel’s Lone Vigil [10:00–13:44]

• The party dialogues with Ethel regarding the spectral, mournful state of the island, the emotionally-charged creatures, and his role as the survivor.
  • “I don't know why I'm the only one...everyone I know has been turned into either stones or...spirits.” – Will Friedle (Ethel) [10:32]
  • Travis Willingham comments, “Compartmentalizing your emotions is just a short term solution. Maybe you need to confront them.” [11:33]

4. Exploring the Haunted Ship's Cavern [16:25–19:28]

• Spooky details: faces under water, a ghostly wrecked galleon, ore and strange crystal veins in the stone.
• Sam Riegel (Fjord) leads an investigation, with clues suggesting illicit mining and otherworldly corruption.

5. Pirate Ghost Combat — Set-Up & Showdown [22:12–57:23]

• Spectral pirates, led by a formidable undead captain, rise from the ship and attack:
  • “Avoid cold shit, and hit him with holy shit!” – Ashley Johnson (Beauregard) [31:01]
• Showcase of Level 20 abilities—martial prowess, massive healing, radiant and psychic assaults.
• Intense, humorous, and poignant exchanges among the cast; iconic teamwork moments and near misses.

Notable Sequence

• Fearne (@Marisha Ray) finishes the ghost captain with an epic “flame strike”:
  • Narrator: “Fearne, how do you want to do this?” [55:20]
  • “I’ll shoot the flame cylinder up… Get down here, you dumb bitch!” – Marisha Ray (Fearne) [56:03]

6. Aftermath and the Ominous Light [57:53–66:11]

• The group investigates the mined crystal ore and the pervasive “spiderweb” corruption.
• Light and rumbling signals the approach of a monstrous entity. Ethel reveals the spreading corruption is not typical darkness, but a searing, almost radiant force.

7. The Island’s Heart – The Final Battle [66:27–126:23]

• The party reaches a colossal central cavern. A blinding “star” is revealed as a corrupted, titanic serpent spirit, shrieking between the worlds.
• Vicious combat follows:
  • Legendary actions and powerful novas threaten the party.
  • Teamwork emphasized: Ethel’s music, Imogen’s devastating witch bolt, Caduceus’ mass heal, Orym’s relentless martial barrage.
  • Emotional weight: Caduceus’ prayer triggers a divine intervention, invoking the spirit of the island itself to restrain their foe.
  • “Wildmother is not watching, but the children still learn. And they rise in her stead.” – Matthew Mercer (Narrator/DM) [110:26]
• Imogen delivers the finishing blow, riding her witch bolt like a lassoed thunderbolt:
  • “I’m gonna take my tether and I’m gonna pull it like it’s a rope, and I’m gonna jump up and land on it like I’m riding the snake... and slam the lightning bolt down into it.” – Laura Bailey (Imogen) [126:05]

8. Conclusion & Emotional Closure [126:23–140:16]

• As the serpent’s form shatters, the sky clears, and the party is joined by the physical forms of their missing friends.
• Ethel encounters his physical self—“the other Ethel”—and the two halves perform an intensely moving, harmonized flute duet, symbolically reuniting the spirit and body of the island.
  • “As the songs merge…and the two of them become one...the spirit of the island is reunited with itself.” – Matthew Mercer (Narrator/DM) [132:25]
• Island denizens are released from their petrification; the corrupting force is driven away.
• Touching goodbyes and gifts exchanged: Ethel gives his flute; an impromptu “Australian shoeie” (drinking from a shoe) closes the celebration in absurd, heartfelt style.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• Emotional Healing:

  • “Well, I can't do anything about the emotional damage right now. That's really up to you.” – Caduceus (Taliesin Jaffe) [04:24]

• Ghost Lore Revelations:

  • “Avoid cold shit, and hit him with holy shit!” – Beauregard (Ashley Johnson) [31:01]

• Caduceus’ Divine Intervention:

  • “I have been afraid…But right now, this needs to be done. And we need to walk out of this place. And these creatures need to be freed. If you are there, please help us…” – Caduceus (Taliesin Jaffe) [107:02]

• Epic Finale:

  • “I’m gonna take my tether and I’m gonna…jump up and land on it like I’m riding the snake… and slam the lightning bolt down into it.” – Imogen (Laura Bailey) [126:05]

• Ethel’s Reunion:

  • “As the songs merge and the sound of this beautiful music begins to wind…the spirit of the island is reunited with itself.” – Matthew Mercer (Narrator/DM) [132:25]

• Celebratory Australian “Shoeie”:

  • “Now put those shoes back on, legends.” – Will Friedle (Ethel) [140:16]

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Important Timestamps

• Team Heals & Emotional Damage Jokes: [04:14–06:20]
• Ethel’s Emotional Struggle and Island Lore: [10:00–13:44]
• Ghost Pirate Encounter and Combat: [22:12–57:53]
  • “How do you want to do this?” (Defeating the Ghost Captain) [55:20–56:03]
• Investigation of the Cavern: [57:53–66:11]
• Titanic Serpent Spirit Appears: [66:27–68:57]
• Final Combat with Spirit: [69:23–126:23]
• Imogen’s Finishing Move: [126:04–126:23]
• Ethel's Duet and Reunification: [131:12–132:25]
• Australian Shoeie & Farewells: [139:34–140:19]

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Tone & Style

The episode showcases Critical Role’s signature blend of epic high-level D&D action, emotional storytelling, improvisational comedy, and playful irreverence—while keeping the audience engaged and “in the room.” The camaraderie and heartfelt roleplay (especially around Ethel’s resolution and Caduceus’ spiritual plea) are balanced by outlandish jokes, playful taunting, and loud audience reactions.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a thrilling and emotionally rich installment featuring standout roleplaying, energetic live audience participation, and climactic combat. Newcomers to Critical Role will experience the group’s chemistry, humor, and love for storytelling, alongside the deep connections forged between characters—both in victory and vulnerability.

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Note:
All advertisements, intro/outro chatter, and non-story segments were omitted for focus on the core content.

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Transcript

[Matthew Mercer]

Morning. One sausage McMuffin with egg, please.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, your total is.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wait. Let's negotiate. How's about you throw in hash browns for a dollar?

[Laura Bailey]

Well, yes sir, that price is already a dollar.

[Matthew Mercer]

Take it or leave it. Take it, I guess.

[Marisha Ray]

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[Matthew Mercer]

Limited time only.

[Marisha Ray]

Valid for item of equal or lesser value.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ba da ba ba ba.

[Sam Riegel]

Hey there critters. This year marks our 10 year anniversary of Critical Role and we are partnering with Fathom Entertainment to bring our 2025 tour to movie theaters across the US and Canada. Head to theater to see the Wedding of the Year coming to theaters on October 15th with an iconic Jester and Ford wedding at our New York City live show. Visit fathomentertainment.com criticalrole to find tickets in theaters near you. That's fathomentertainment.com CriticalRole.

[Travis Willingham]

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[Marisha Ray]

Hey there critters. This is Ashley Johnson and Telus and Jeffy and we're popping in here to talk about our new podcast on Beacon, Weird Kids.

[Liam O'Brien]

In this series, we're diving into our.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Lives as former child actors, from unraveling our eccentric upbringings to embracing all the.

[Travis Willingham]

Delightfully odd interests we still have.

[Narrator/DM]

Today.

[Marisha Ray]

We're covering so many topics like antique toys, taxidermy, Japanese pop culture, and honestly, anything else we come up with.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Weird Kids is available exclusively on Beacon.

[Travis Willingham]

But good news, we're offering a one month free trial on Beacon TV so.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You can take a look before you become a member.

[Narrator/DM]

Just use the code weirdosacon TV to start the trial.

[Marisha Ray]

You can also find fellow weirdos by following the series on our heirdkidspod Instagram and using the hashtag weirdkids.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So to all the misfits, outcasts and weirdos out there, come take a seat at our table and celebrate all things unconventional, nostalgic and wonderfully weird. Welcome to Weirdkids.

[Marisha Ray]

New episodes release every Tuesday.

[Liam O'Brien]

Hi again, critters. It's Sam Riegel and you're listening to part two of this episode from the Critical Role Podcast Network. If you haven't checked out part one yet, pause this now and head over there first. Otherwise, enjoy part two.

[Matthew Mercer]

Friends, we love you all 11,008 of you.

[Marisha Ray]

We love you.

[Laura Bailey]

Look at all those heart.

[Matthew Mercer]

Look at all.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, man.

[Travis Willingham]

So many modes of possibility.

[Sam Riegel]

No, hang on.

[Ashley Johnson]

Before we get started, where's my mom?

[Matthew Mercer]

Mom.

[Ashley Johnson]

I was wondering where you were. I kept looking for you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hi. Like a lot of people. Love you. I'm your mother. You did.

[Travis Willingham]

You did good, Mom.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm your mommy. I'm your mom. Sorry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, man.

[Marisha Ray]

Sorry. Not sorry.

[Narrator/DM]

As you clamber ever close to the northeastern edge. Oh, they all went away. Of the island's seaside cave, you have a breath amongst yourselves as you glance into the switchback pathway that leads into the dark interior. The beginning of traversing what awaits you within the island proper.

[Matthew Mercer]

Is there any way you wish to prepare?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, before we do anything, do we want to. I mean, I think some healing may have to happen.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes, please.

[Ashley Johnson]

Physically or emotionally?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, I can't do anything about the emotional damage right now. That's really up to you.

[Sam Riegel]

Emotional damage?

[Liam O'Brien]

Mr. Caduceus, are you going to do some healing or do you want me to? Or should we both?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I mean, you're welcome to do some healing if you like, but I was going to do some healing we could do. We could both do that.

[Marisha Ray]

I wouldn't mind. From both of you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, at the same time.

[Marisha Ray]

Just a little Dunkaroo action.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I don't know what that means.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know fully what that means.

[Ashley Johnson]

Is there about to be a tag team at the Teeth?

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, no. Bull.

[Travis Willingham]

She's on fire.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bull. Cow.

[Liam O'Brien]

Fawn action.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow. The Nicodronas Tower.

[Liam O'Brien]

The only thing. Mr. Caduceus, I was gonna do a prayer of healing, but I. I don't. I don't know who to pray to. Have any suggestions.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

At the moment. At the moment. I. I've been thinking.

[Marisha Ray]

Do you want to just get on your knees and pray to me?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Wow.

[Will Friedle]

I. I start playing sultry jazz flute.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I have. I've been through a lot and I've been. I've been praying to. To my. My loved one's safety. I've been praying to the people I know. I have not necessarily tried to connect to the Wild mother yet.

[Liam O'Brien]

What if you don't have any loved ones?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, I think perhaps this is A. I think perhaps this would be a great way to start having some loved ones, Sarah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, all right. So I'll do as the lady asked, and I'll. I'll get on my reverse knees.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll join you in. I'll join you in a prayer of healing so that we can. We can actually both. How many levels do you want to.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm going to do what level you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Want to take this to.

[Liam O'Brien]

Let's go five, maybe.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, wow.

[Matthew Mercer]

Really?

[Travis Willingham]

This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You go first, and then I'll.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll go first.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll see how it goes. Anybody who needs. How many people are hurt, by the way? One. Two is only three people hurt.

[Sam Riegel]

Notice which side of the table they're on.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, I'm not gonna do prayer. You do prayer.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll just.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll just deal with what's left.

[Liam O'Brien]

All right. I close my eyes and I say a prayer to you, Lady Fearne. For your faith in me, for your large heart.

[Marisha Ray]

Hearts so big hearts.

[Liam O'Brien]

For your heaving trust in me. And for your dewy, sort of pillowy decimal system.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's for the olds in the audience.

[Will Friedle]

Last time the Dewey decimal system got a laugh and broad labor arena.

[Liam O'Brien]

To your breast. To your health.

[Matthew Mercer]

To my health.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, 32 points of.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, wonderful.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

To.

[Marisha Ray]

To.

[Laura Bailey]

To who?

[Matthew Mercer]

To who.

[Liam O'Brien]

To everyone around me.

[Laura Bailey]

Wow.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, thank goodness.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Does anyone else need a little bit of healing, or are we good on this side?

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Fearne, you're good. You need a little more.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's not great.

[Marisha Ray]

I mean, listen.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, here we go. All right, in that case, I'm going to just cast. Where did it go?

[Marisha Ray]

That snake really. Snee snake really did a number on me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, they do that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm gonna cast cure wounds at fourth level, then just to finish that up.

[Matthew Mercer]

That ought to do it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Where's my.

[Travis Willingham]

Clerics are so cool.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, we are.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, they're pretty great.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We are the best. What would you do without us? Oh, you'd die. Fives. Oh, wow. It says 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 6, 27 points of healing on that one. Two eights on some of that.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, I'm doing good.

[Marisha Ray]

I'm doing good.

[Will Friedle]

Can I ask, like, if without hit points? I know. That's like feeling hurt. What does it feel like when we lose a hit dice?

[Narrator/DM]

It feels like a tiny shard of your physical confidence is stripped away, let alone, you know, when you have the onset of a flu and your body begins to sweat but still Feels freezing on the inside. It's like that, but it doesn't go away. And it gets worse with each one lost.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm sweating a lot.

[Matthew Mercer]

A lot.

[Marisha Ray]

So we have to go up this mountain?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, into the kitchen.

[Marisha Ray]

We gotta go. I'm so sorry. That's what I meant. Inside it, not up it.

[Liam O'Brien]

And we're doing this solely on the recommendation of the new guy.

[Narrator/DM]

Oh, okay.

[Laura Bailey]

And Orym. You saw something.

[Travis Willingham]

Orym's tripping balls, so I'm keyed in, baby. I see everything.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, Wall.

[Sam Riegel]

Ethel, do you have any idea why these jellyfish, all these creatures, are keyed into the emotions of everything that's happening here? I mean, you've been here the longest. Surely you know something.

[Will Friedle]

I. I don't know. And that's what's most upsetting. I don't know why I'm the only one why everyone I know has been turned into either stones or I'm just surrounded by these spirits that vaguely look like people that I knew, but at the same time feel like a whole nother lifetime to me.

[Sam Riegel]

What was it that you did that they didn't do?

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know.

[Ashley Johnson]

Did you run? Were you a big pussy?

[Will Friedle]

No, I'm not a big pussy.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm not.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's okay. You can admit it.

[Will Friedle]

If I. If you don't. Please don't say that to me, because I'll cry and then I'll be attacked again. And I'll cry because I was attacked. And then it's a vicious cycle of self flagellation.

[Laura Bailey]

You've been here this long and you haven't had all your. I just don't understand how you've been here this long and you don't feel all sweaty and flu y. You know what I mean? And it's.

[Will Friedle]

That's not. I do. I don't feel great. You're absolutely right. But I. It doesn't feel like that all the time. It feels like I'm kind of. I'm missing something intrinsically.

[Travis Willingham]

Well, maybe you are. Compartmentalizing your emotions is just a short term solution. Maybe you need to confront them at all.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, that sounds dumb.

[Will Friedle]

I go and stand next to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, I mean, they're right. There's part of the missing.

[Laura Bailey]

What do you mean?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Ethel is different than everything else I've seen here. There's a well beyond that.

[Will Friedle]

Do you want to have another go with the jellyfish? What's your deal?

[Ashley Johnson]

You are super aggro tonight, Imogen.

[Laura Bailey]

Look, I told you, when this helmet. Truth.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, no, that's fair.

[Laura Bailey]

Also, he started it.

[Will Friedle]

Well, listen to your friends, purple hair. They're cool.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You think you're buttering us up, but that's actually not cool to work. I appreciate it anyway.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, we. We've decided to work as a team here. So perhaps we will follow your lead to this cave and hopefully something will reveal itself, something that turns the tide in our favor.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

And as we go down there, as a show of good faith, I'm going to say something I didn't expect to say. Thank you very much for helping me. I appreciate it. Shut the up. Let's go.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm gonna. I'm gonna do an insight check just to see if he's being.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, make an insight check, ethel.

[Narrator/DM]

Roll a D20 and add either your. Your persuasion or deception.

[Matthew Mercer]

Don't tell me which, just tell me what the total.

[Will Friedle]

It's gonna have to be a 20. Dirty, dirty.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Dirty 20.

[Laura Bailey]

It's a dirty 20.

[Liam O'Brien]

Did you say 20 or 30?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

You said a dirty 20.

[Will Friedle]

150. 58.

[Matthew Mercer]

Natural 22.

[Laura Bailey]

Is he evil?

[Matthew Mercer]

Does he eat poo? What? What sense of your honesty does Brayus.

[Narrator/DM]

Glean from your person?

[Will Friedle]

You get a sense that through the heart exterior and the darting eyes, Bray pretending to be, like, trying to retune his flute. But you can't tune a flute, so he's just fucking around with it. You can tell that he is. There is definitely a hidden, shaded thankfulness and gratefulness that isn't just some malevolent, like, tricking you. There is a deep thankfulness.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Liam O'Brien]

There's a deep thank you thankfulness.

[Sam Riegel]

Sam, every time I look down at you, I can't not laugh.

[Matthew Mercer]

I know.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well, thank you, my love. Oh, Possums, thank you. I love you so much, my sweet Possums.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God.

[Travis Willingham]

Feels perfectly normal for me.

[Will Friedle]

Look, if you don't trust me, you could talk to the spirits. I'll get them back over here.

[Matthew Mercer]

They can talk to you.

[Sam Riegel]

No, no, no, no. Trust is earned. And I think you've earned it here. We should keep going.

[Will Friedle]

Wait a second. Why are you guys here?

[Sam Riegel]

Well, we were actually separated from the rest of our group, and we made landfall here on this island, searching out a powerful Archmage named Ludinus Dileth. And we're trying to find the rest of our group, but also to try and glean where he might be in all this. Perhaps he is. He's caused it. But we've come upon you and your people have been affected, and now we're trying to figure out maybe if we can help you. It'll also help us in the same turn.

[Will Friedle]

You've lost part of your group.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. Yeah, Half. Exactly.

[Will Friedle]

And he touches the sort of part where you saw that kind of whole black hole. And he's like, I think we should go down into the cave. We should go all the way. Stop smiling at me. We should go down to the cave and we should stay down. Someone mentioned south until the job is done.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

Is that boat? Is that Check out?

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah. It's easy. Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Easy, Easy.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hold your breath.

[Matthew Mercer]

One by one, you trek in line.

[Narrator/DM]

Down the sea cliff pathways, hearing the crash of the ocean against the rock and glancing down into the brackish, dark ocean waters that give different texture and color than the familiar physical world of exandria that you're used to. You swear you can see 10ft beneath the waves, shapes that look like mournful faces, eyeless, the mouths open, looking up towards you, fading into the shadow as they shift and churn.

[Ashley Johnson]

I want to punch a ghost so bad.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If I say hello to one of those faces just as we're walking by, does it acknowledge? Hello.

[Narrator/DM]

How do you say hello?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Hello.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. Hello. Hey. Sup? It does not seem to acknowledge me directly. The ocean shifts as you look down. The face seems to vanish beneath another wave that crashes over onto the nearby stone. And you glance back where it was.

[Narrator/DM]

And you have a hard time finding it. You can't tell if it's an illusion or just the shaded memory of hundreds of drowned individuals over the millennia that this island has existed. This is the plane between life and death, and it is here, especially in the absence of the matron at the time being, the laws of the purgatory realms are a bit up in the air. Following Ethel a bit further, you turn the corner into an opening. This seaside cavern that is about 200ft across from end to end. And as the water inlet pours into the interior cavern, the dark lit inside itself greets you. Those of you with sources of light or torches, you can make use of it. You ignite a series of your arcane spheres that alight the path as you curl inward. Here you can see towards the deep back of it, there is indeed a number of caverns that seem to splinter off from a somewhat shallow beached area to the far end. Also, glancing about within, you can see the rock walls are smoothed from extended centuries, perhaps even longer periods of time of the seawater at different tides, rising up and smoothing the surrounding stone. But you see almost marbled veins of hints of shined ore that on the far end look like they've been broken and chiseled in places or carved away as well as. As you focus still the hint of thin glowing spider like webs of light that seem to extend amongst parts of the wall like some sort of an alien vein network that seems to have burned its way into the stone. The second thing that catches your eye towards the back of the inlet is a mighty ship. A galleon of some kind that sits kiltered to one side. It looks dilapidated and beached onto that interior sand. The sails themselves tattered and gone. The hull of it filled with three or four larger holes. A wrecked ship that remains abandoned here in this ghostly cavern space.

[Sam Riegel]

I rush forward searching for any. Any sign of a name of this vessel along the side of it. Any indication of what this ship could be.

[Narrator/DM]

Make an investigation check for me if you could.

[Laura Bailey]

Can I use my dancing lights to light his path so he can have a better view?

[Matthew Mercer]

Certainly. Kick ass.

[Sam Riegel]

Not as good. 25 investigation 25.

[Narrator/DM]

You gather. The portion of the ship with where the title itself would have been is unmarked. Meaning this ship does not belong to any sort of.

[Matthew Mercer]

Pardon me.

[Narrator/DM]

Any sort of a fleet. The name of this ship has intentionally either been scraped lost or not printed upon. Does look like it was fitted once with exterior cannon work. The second thing you noticed as you begin to investigate its exterior and look within there is shattered and sea foam logged furniture that is overturned. You can see there are elements of a lived in interior as well as a few scattered tools. You see some splintered crates and some pickaxes and other tools that don't normally accompany a wandering sea vessel with that investigation rule. You also notice that there are clusters of mined ore that were taken from the edges of these veins that seemed to be clustered and set within this ship like it was a shipment of some kind it was being gathered in mined from this interior.

[Matthew Mercer]

Indeed some of these caverns that splinter.

[Narrator/DM]

Off these large cracks that wind upward and flat further into the heart of the mountain. It looks like some of them were chipped away from some sort of prolonged mining endeavor. You also feel the air chill as the shadows of the space grow darker and a slight voice hits the wind. It's been so long since the warmth has been felt.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yo Fearne.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah?

[Ashley Johnson]

Is this that ghost pirate that you always tell us about that you fucked?

[Marisha Ray]

He sounds just a little different.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

This could be another one boys. I don't think that's him. But you did just remind me.

[Narrator/DM]

Bring the one to me. At which point bring the blue one. You watch as glowing shapes, spectral figures, begin to rise out of the ruined ship. You see what looks like partially decomposed figures, humanoid, with long tattered coats and hats.

[Matthew Mercer]

You see as they reach down and.

[Narrator/DM]

Draw actual rusted barnacle covered blades, scimitars, and ancient pistols that look like they've been waterlogged and lost to rust in time. But as they lift them up, they seem to take on a spectral renewed visage all their own, as three of these pirate spirits begin to rise up.

[Matthew Mercer]

And float in the air above.

[Narrator/DM]

And one feminine form with a massive tricorn hat and long, tattered robe locks rises.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh. I would like you all to roll. Initiative. Oh. Oh, my God. Oh, boy.

[Sam Riegel]

You got to be me. Matthew Mercer plus the D8.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

Who? Oh, no way.

[Sam Riegel]

Not in Australia, man.

[Liam O'Brien]

Crikey, that's where all prisoners go.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, 25 to 20.

[Ashley Johnson]

31.

[Matthew Mercer]

Whoa. God. Whoa.

[Travis Willingham]

Dirty, dirty 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Crazy. All right, dirty 20.

[Liam O'Brien]

Dirty 20.

[Sam Riegel]

Dirty 20.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Rollies, rollies, rollies.

[Matthew Mercer]

A three way. Rollies, three way.

[Liam O'Brien]

Wait, I think it's just me.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, you also got a dirty 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

They also got a dirty 20. Oh.

[Liam O'Brien]

13, 16, 7.

[Matthew Mercer]

So we're gonna go Orym breath.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes. Baddy.

[Matthew Mercer]

And then.

[Will Friedle]

And then.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, 20 to 15.

[Laura Bailey]

19.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

15, 17.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, Ford. Ford.

[Sam Riegel]

Caduceus.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Imogen.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, 15 to 10.

[Marisha Ray]

12.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, what you got, Ethel?

[Will Friedle]

I rolled a one.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, Ethel bringing up the rear. That's okay.

[Travis Willingham]

Can Orym's bountiful luck counter that? Since it's a D20?

[Narrator/DM]

It's an ability check.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure. Okay. Yeah, we're a little late in the game. Let's try it. Ethel, roll again. Yeah, let's go.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, that's.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's better. That's. That's.

[Will Friedle]

That's 18.

[Matthew Mercer]

18. That'll put you after. After Ford. Above Caduceus.

[Will Friedle]

Thank you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thank you very much. Actually, roll these. Roll 1D20 for me. Oh. Oh.

[Will Friedle]

20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yeah. You win.

[Will Friedle]

All right, so I get a one.

[Matthew Mercer]

You get a 20 more than Ethel.

[Will Friedle]

Got it.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, top of the round. Beauregard, you're up with Orym on deck. As these three pirate spirits lift up and what appears to be a figure of influence and authority rises above them all.

[Sam Riegel]

Listen, you know that crazy ex that just won't go stay away.

[Ashley Johnson]

So convenient. She waited till Jester was out of town too. Crazy.

[Marisha Ray]

What a coincidence.

[Ashley Johnson]

She's been on your Facebook, bro. All right, first and foremost, I am going to spend 2. I'm gonna spend 4 ki points. I can do this for freezies. To do. Empty body, where I go invisible. And I have resistance to all damage, minus force damage for one minute.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty, let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Level 20, monkey four. Confirm. And then I'm assuming I recognize the Alpha.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. I'll allow you to make a perception check if you'd like.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, really? Okay, sure.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why.

[Ashley Johnson]

Why now? Why this natural 20? Yes. Okay, that could have been on my attack. Shut up. Don't you hear that?

[Matthew Mercer]

This ghostly spectral captain figure in the.

[Narrator/DM]

Large tricorn hat you see has dense braids that billow beneath. And you see the toothy skull jaw below a mostly tattered face. The attire that first caused you panic is not as familiar as you thought.

[Matthew Mercer]

And in this instance.

[Sam Riegel]

Thank you, God.

[Matthew Mercer]

Whoa. Okay, this does not appear the I assume you thought was avant.

[Sam Riegel]

No, I wasn't sweating it. I don't know what the you guys were talking about, but a different.

[Matthew Mercer]

A different female, more skeletal. Captain to a ship that is unrecognizable in this instance.

[Ashley Johnson]

So I don't recognize her.

[Matthew Mercer]

You do not. But they are floating about 20ft above you. Her?

[Ashley Johnson]

Floating?

[Matthew Mercer]

They're ghosts. Beauregard. Yes.

[Ashley Johnson]

Good thing I punch ghosts. Let's go, baby. Okay, I'm gonna call her. Not Vantika. Great. Groovy. I'm gonna run up. So she's floating 20ft above me?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Awesome. As I run up, I am going to punch my fists as I sprint off, activating my lightning gloves.

[Matthew Mercer]

Awesome.

[Ashley Johnson]

And I'm gonna run, and as I kind of with my unarmored movement, kind of like, skip across a few puddles, do a big barrel roll, and I'm gonna do a pop pop with my lightning gloves at a distance.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fantastic.

[Ashley Johnson]

20Ft.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Baby.

[Matthew Mercer]

This is against the captain.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah. Go for the boss.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, these are plus 13 hits. Two pop pops, natural 20 again. And the second one is going to be an 18 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

18 total. Yeah, that just hits.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's it. That's where I see. That's where I see. That's what I see.

[Matthew Mercer]

God damn it.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, okay, let's first start with the. With the natural 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Big money.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's good, baby. That's a nine on the damage. Die. So 918 plus another seven is 31.

[Matthew Mercer]

34.

[Ashley Johnson]

34.

[Matthew Mercer]

34 points of damage.

[Ashley Johnson]

Stunning strike.

[Laura Bailey]

Can you stun a ghost?

[Matthew Mercer]

Unfortunately, this is immune to stun.

[Ashley Johnson]

He did that on purpose. All right, that's fine. And for the second attack, gotta be.

[Matthew Mercer]

A Ghostbuster to stun a ghost.

[Ashley Johnson]

14 damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

14 damage. All righty.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm gonna spend a ki point. Hang on. Let me keep track of my ki point. So that was. I'm assuming that was one for the stunning strike, correct? No. Okay, I'm gonna do one more to do. Flurry of bows.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go two more strikes.

[Ashley Johnson]

Pop, pop, pop, pop. That's a one and a two.

[Sam Riegel]

Two giveth and it taketh away.

[Travis Willingham]

How close is Beauregard to Orym?

[Matthew Mercer]

Beauregard? I'd say, having charged forward and done the spin off, I'd say about 25, 30ft from you.

[Travis Willingham]

Cancel the one.

[Ashley Johnson]

I get to reroll it.

[Travis Willingham]

Roll that. That one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Let's go.

[Travis Willingham]

Reaction.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah. That's fantastic. That is going to be 30 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That'll hit.

[Ashley Johnson]

Fantastic. Here we go. That is going to be another 14 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Alrighty.

[Ashley Johnson]

Extract. Extract aspects.

[Matthew Mercer]

Extract aspects.

[Narrator/DM]

All right.

[Ashley Johnson]

These vulnerabilities, damage resistances, damage immunities and condition.

[Matthew Mercer]

Immunities, indeed.

[Narrator/DM]

They are immune to cold.

[Ashley Johnson]

Damage, immune to cold.

[Matthew Mercer]

They are immune to necrotic damage. They are immune to poison.

[Narrator/DM]

Damage, Cold.

[Ashley Johnson]

Cold. Necrotic poison.

[Narrator/DM]

They are vulnerable to radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

They're vulnerable.

[Liam O'Brien]

They are vulnerable to radiant.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, Amazing. I'm just gonna shout out to the. To the crowd, avoid cold shit, and hit him with holy shit.

[Matthew Mercer]

After these series of attacks on the.

[Narrator/DM]

Captain, Kevin's like, oh, you think you're the smart one here?

[Ashley Johnson]

News flash. I am, motherfucker.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bring them low.

[Narrator/DM]

We must return. Bring them low.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, that finishes Beau's turn. Orym, you're up with brace on deck.

[Travis Willingham]

Orym had already started running and is flying through the air over Bow's head. And Seedling out slashes the air three times, sending shock waves through the air. I'll use Seedling attacking at range at her above.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

First is a 27 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That hits.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, that is. And we'll make this a goading attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure.

[Travis Willingham]

That is three plus seven. 14 plus F5. So 19 on the first. She has to beat wisdom of 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

21 beats it.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, next attack. Goading attack. Same attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Roll. All right, that hits. Roll damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Goading attack. 2. 13. Has to be to 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

18 damage. All right, that is another 22 goading attack.

[Travis Willingham]

That's not going to hit. So that is a 19 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

No. 19 hits.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, that hits. Going attack. 4, 15, 10. 19 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

19 points of damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Slash the air. 19. Wisdom.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's a 24. I rolled really good on those saving throws for A goading attack, which is great.

[Travis Willingham]

Got it.

[Matthew Mercer]

We'll see if I can carry that luck over into their turn. So finish your turn. Army up.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah, I'm just testing this. Ghost lady and I splash down below next to Beauregard, into the center of.

[Matthew Mercer]

This cavern space, the ocean itself, as the waves are coming in, finishing Orym's turn. Brayus, you're up.

[Liam O'Brien]

Matthew.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

The Natvantika lady is hovering above us.

[Matthew Mercer]

About 20ft off the ground. Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

I can't get there. And what about the other Ghosties?

[Narrator/DM]

They're about 10ft up, I think.

[Liam O'Brien]

I can probably reach them with a.

[Matthew Mercer]

With a decent.

[Narrator/DM]

I'll say with a decent athletics check.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll allow it. Okay. I want to hit her so bad, but I can't.

[Liam O'Brien]

Make me fly someone.

[Will Friedle]

Matt. I use my reaction to make Sam fly.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Liam O'Brien]

I will go for one of the ghosties instead.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fair enough. The three other gnarly looking spectral skeletal ghosts lie there. I'll say. You choose the one to the right which is closest to you. You run and try and leap towards it. Make an athletics check for me.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, come on, come on. 16 plus stuff. 23.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's plenty enough to do it. So go ahead and roll your attack.

[Liam O'Brien]

I will use Divine Smite at level three and also Shining Smite as my bonus action.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure.

[Liam O'Brien]

I will attack 20 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

20 hits.

[Narrator/DM]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

I swing my flail around and I deal a whole bunch of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

3, 7, 8, 14, 18. Huh? 24. Oh man. 33. 40 damage. And some of that is radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

How much of it is radiant? Uh huh huh.

[Liam O'Brien]

10 is radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

You did Divine Smite on this.

[Liam O'Brien]

Is Divine Smite radiant?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, it is.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, well then a lot more is.

[Matthew Mercer]

Radiant, and these are considered undead, so you do an additional D8, by the way. Oh, God.

[Liam O'Brien]

Well then that's another one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, what's the total of radiant damage on that?

[Liam O'Brien]

Radiant damage then would be 20 radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

So that'd be 40 radiant. Okay, that is. You do this massive overarching strike.

[Narrator/DM]

Wham.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Into this one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ghost Pirate withdraws back.

[Narrator/DM]

You hear this hissling, sissing sound?

[Liam O'Brien]

Hissling sissing.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's a new one.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's hissling and sizzling Sissing.

[Sam Riegel]

You were here for it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why do I do this?

[Sam Riegel]

You were here for it. Melbourne.

[Matthew Mercer]

Kill me.

[Liam O'Brien]

I want a nice hissling, hissing kangaroo burger.

[Matthew Mercer]

I want to hear this for the next 10 years. Thank you. Boy.

[Travis Willingham]

I can hear the whole audience shivering and queefing right now.

[Matthew Mercer]

As it sizzles and hisses and withdraws about five feet. Behind you. That's your first attack. You have a second attack.

[Liam O'Brien]

I have a second attack pack. I should have really learned this character.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'll swing again. That is a 22 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

That hits. Go ahead and roll.

[Travis Willingham]

Dam.

[Liam O'Brien]

This will just be normal damage, which is pretty good. Normal 1825.

[Matthew Mercer]

How much is radiant?

[Liam O'Brien]

I don't know.

[Matthew Mercer]

Matt. One of one of your D8 should be radiant. Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

Then it was the 4. It's a 4.

[Matthew Mercer]

Be an extra 8 on that. Okay. Got it. So heavy impacting strike on a second swipe down with your flail as it impacts the spirit. You see it kind of pull back. It kind of shakes in space. And its form kind of, you know. Not going to say the word. It quakes.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's not dead.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Liam O'Brien]

I did like 100 points of damage. I think you should recheck your math.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. No, it's fine.

[Liam O'Brien]

Have you seen how strong I am?

[Matthew Mercer]

I did. And it wasn't strong enough. Bray. As that finishes your turn, the three.

[Narrator/DM]

Spectral Wanderman ghosts swoop down and retort.

[Matthew Mercer]

One of them is going to as I threw my pen down. I got a pen here. That's fine.

[Travis Willingham]

Fuck that pencil.

[Matthew Mercer]

I didn't need it anyway. First one's going to go ahead and.

[Narrator/DM]

Sweep down and move within range to you, Brayus.

[Matthew Mercer]

After you struck it heavily, it's going to go ahead and do multi attack of part of its Ghost Slash and spectral pistol. One to one. So the first attack is going to be a 22 to hit.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's my armor class that hits you.

[Matthew Mercer]

And the pistol is even higher. So you take 21 points of slashing damage from the first ever King Strike. As it backs up, its Spectral Pistol lights up and lets loose this massive puff of spectral energy and smoke. And you take an additional 15 points of piercing damage. The second Spectre is going to swoop down and come after you. Beauregard.

[Ashley Johnson]

I am invisible.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why? It's going to swing and fire in the direction it thinks you are. And it has disadvantage on the attacks because of it.

[Ashley Johnson]

Empty body level 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

That is a miss because it's rolled really bad with disadvantage. Second one with the pistol shot. Oh no. With a natural three. Takes two shots. No impact. Has no idea where you are splashing in the water. The Spectral Gun Pistol just explodes into nowhere. The third one is going to swoop.

[Narrator/DM]

Around and come after you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ethel.

[Will Friedle]

But I'm so cute.

[Matthew Mercer]

First heavy strike. Nope. No, no. It's going to be an 11 to hit. Out of the way. Pistol shot is going to be better 19 to hit.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, but as it goes to shoot me, I go, oh, but what have you missed? Not all of your friends would hate.

[Matthew Mercer]

You.

[Will Friedle]

As searing words, so.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, Scott, 40. 12. Come on, baby.

[Will Friedle]

Big money. That's a natural one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, boy.

[Will Friedle]

So wait, what does that bring it down?

[Matthew Mercer]

It brings it down to an 18.

[Will Friedle]

That's one more than my armor class.

[Matthew Mercer]

It still takes the 2D. Hell yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, so enjoy this.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ah, 12. That's pretty good. There you go. 12 points of fire damage. It ignites that one ghost upon it trying to fire at you. It's swinging its blade and pulls back.

[Narrator/DM]

Mistress, this one feels different.

[Will Friedle]

No, no, I'm just the same as these idiots. Hey, we're all the same. Oh, I'm so scared of you.

[Narrator/DM]

Then let's face of its life for us.

[Matthew Mercer]

Finishing the ghosts. Go. They are all getting ones close to you. All right, cool. Got that. Ford, you're up with Ethel on deck.

[Travis Willingham]

Dm, can I ask a question?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, you may.

[Travis Willingham]

As Orym is watching with his 35 passive perception and true sight, does the ghost ringleader have two arms with complete.

[Matthew Mercer]

With that combination of spell and passive perception, you see live shows next year. Oh my God. Their.

[Narrator/DM]

Their arms are indeed complete.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, who did you think it was?

[Marisha Ray]

Ripley.

[Narrator/DM]

Ripley. Not everything's connected to your lore, guys.

[Matthew Mercer]

But nevertheless. Ford, what do you want to do.

[Sam Riegel]

With my bonus action? I will use Hex Blade's curse to curse the ringleader, the pirate. You got a captain. And then with my action, I will use Eldritch Blast.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Sam Riegel]

And at level 20, I will get four attacks and I will throw fan the hammer.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go, baby.

[Sam Riegel]

I rolled two of these already. That's another one. So it's a 30 to hit on.

[Matthew Mercer]

The first one that hits.

[Sam Riegel]

20 to hit on the second that hits. 23 to hit on the third that hits. And 13.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nah, fair enough.

[Sam Riegel]

That's 17 points of damage on the first. 15 points of damage on the second. 14 points of damage on the third.

[Matthew Mercer]

Alrighty. Is that impacting with your Eldritch Blast? Smashing into the spectral ghost captain as it pulls back.

[Narrator/DM]

They got some fight in them.

[Matthew Mercer]

They do. Let's safety it off. We'll be free from the shackles.

[Narrator/DM]

Bring them to me.

[Matthew Mercer]

When you watch as she almost seems to swell with fury, that weird kind.

[Narrator/DM]

Of ghostly green blue color, almost starting to burn like an orangish red color.

[Matthew Mercer]

So finish your turn for it.

[Sam Riegel]

46 points of damage in my turn.

[Liam O'Brien]

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[Sam Riegel]

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[Liam O'Brien]

He'S done.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it. Finishing forwards. Go Ethel, you're up.

[Will Friedle]

Ethel turns to the ghost captain and something that he's been thinking of to say for quite a while. You can see he's been ticking over. He says, hey, you don't like holy stuff, huh? Well, is this holy? And he points to his flute and oh my God. But in saying that this kind of like hunched over, like he seems like six foot hunched over, sort of like awkward. He like opens up to breathe and only now do you realize that he is like seven and a half feet tall and with that uses musical exorcism. His eyes glow and he just breathes in and just this huge sound rushes out of both sides and like bounces off this wall.

[Matthew Mercer]

Go ahead and see if you can aim that note.

[Will Friedle]

I'm gonna aim that note, baby.

[Matthew Mercer]

That note. Note.

[Will Friedle]

Got to aim that note.

[Matthew Mercer]

Got to aim that note.

[Will Friedle]

That's a 28.

[Matthew Mercer]

28. A success. Now because this is an undead creature, you do additional damage as part of this ability. Go ahead and roll that.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I get to roll lots of dice today. Good day. Good day to be a dice, huh? That's 6 12, 13, 14, 22.

[Matthew Mercer]

20 points of psychic damage against this entity as you rock it into its brain. The note careens into the cabinet and pulls back. You see its eyes go wide. The blackened vacuous skull spaces with the little flickering flames in the middle turn towards you angrily. And it shifts back to you, Ford, and back to you. I would like Ford and Ethel to both make persuasion checks to try and chuck off the attention to the other.

[Will Friedle]

That's gonna have to be 19, 18.

[Matthew Mercer]

The captain furiously turns his attention as this spiritual energy burns a bright red and it comets towards you, Ford, one of the other ghosts kind of holding its proximity next to you. It gets the captain's focus that within its targets, within five feet, the captain has advantage on its attacks. It's going to unleash its vengeful frenzy. It'll make a ghost slash attack at you. If the attack hits, it makes another attack. And it keeps making attacks until it makes.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, no, no.

[Sam Riegel]

Matthew fucking Mercer.

[Ashley Johnson]

Is she still at a range? Is she still floating?

[Matthew Mercer]

No, she's like drifted down on top of forward now, so she's about 10ft off the ground. First attack. Oh, yeah. No, that's gonna be a 30 to hit you. Jesus. You take 21 points of slashing damage.

[Sam Riegel]

21 points I will take with my reaction. The Star Razor will with radiant damage. 12 points of radiant damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Flash against it makes it 24 points of rating damage against. The captain has a vulnerability of furiously attacks again for a 24 to hit you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, that hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

Take another 21 points of slashing damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

The next attack is going to be a 20 to hit you.

[Sam Riegel]

That also hits you take another 21.

[Matthew Mercer]

Points of slashing damage. The next attack is going to be a 21 to hit you.

[Sam Riegel]

Jesus, that hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

Take another 21 points of slashing damage. Oh, my God.

[Sam Riegel]

This is a lot of math, you guys.

[Matthew Mercer]

Next attack is a natural 20.

[Laura Bailey]

Barbs.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, you don't even have to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm just gonna do. I have a. I'm gonna use.

[Matthew Mercer]

I have silvery barbs. Okay, that'll. That too. Yes. All right. My favorite spell. Okay. That'll turn it into a 23 to hit you.

[Sam Riegel]

That hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

Take 21 points of slashing damage. I'm okay. I'm gonna. Cool. I'm cool. I'm cool. The next attack is going to be a 27 to hit you. Now here's the thing. Now remind me, you have Armor of Shadows, right? And you have this creature hexed. Oh, I do. I just remembered that.

[Sam Riegel]

I was just so Taken with.

[Matthew Mercer]

So for each of those 21, let's go ahead and roll the dice and see if you take it. 4.

[Sam Riegel]

Wait, that cancels it because that misses.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, the first attack, you missed entirely. As Ford is carved down by strike after strike, you watch as your friend is bloodied and pulled apart. And then we pull back from the eye of Ford as he sees this possible reality, channeling his friend Caleb and his glance into the beacon and goes, not today, Satan. As the first strike of the Captain goes wide and is consumed with the shadowy darkness.

[Sam Riegel]

How about just to keep it fair because you thought of it and I didn't, we'll stop it there, and that'll be the one that misses.

[Matthew Mercer]

I love that. Let's go for it.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, but now I'm covered with blood and cuts and it makes me look sexy.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's true. Fair trade. All right, that finishes the Captain's turn. The Captain is going to glide up and fly beyond your reach, which gives you an attack of opportunity. Yes, it does. Or did you use your. No, you have to use reaction for that. So. Yeah, I still have your reaction. Go for it.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I don't. Because I used the radiant burst from Star Radiant Reaction.

[Matthew Mercer]

So, yeah, the Captain just shoots up about 30ft above the water.

[Ashley Johnson]

Would she go past me?

[Matthew Mercer]

Not past you, but above you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sentinel I met.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm curious if unfortunately, you and Ford parts of the battlefield.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, okay. I was curious.

[Matthew Mercer]

Never mind.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's hard.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm glad you reminded me about Armor of Hexes. It's just one of the things on this giant page of level 20. Ford.

[Matthew Mercer]

Shit. Caduceus, you're up with a minion on deck.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right, first thing we're going to do is I'm going to make my way over to Orym. And I don't know why I bother. Where did it go? There he is. And I'm just going to kind of very quietly ninja run my way behind. You know the Naruto Run. Naruto Run. That's what they call it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Grab you by the shoulders. How you feeling, buddy?

[Travis Willingham]

This is the best day ever.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's about to get better. And I tap him and I cast. Holy Weapon.

[Matthew Mercer]

Go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Let's go.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So all your hits now have an extra 2D8 radiant. Enjoy.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's awesome.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then I'm going to make.

[Matthew Mercer]

A path.

[Ashley Johnson]

Make it a path.

[Matthew Mercer]

Path in your way.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Trying to get a. A nice center point. And I'm going to cast. Turn Undead. And yes, I can do both in one turn. I checked.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. Because holding Weapon is a bonus action. Yes, it is. All right, let's go. So for the captain, that's going to be. It's a wisdom.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I believe. I'm trying to find it again. Yeah, it's a.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's see, there's a constitution.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I think it's a wisdom saving roll. I believe.

[Matthew Mercer]

I believe it's wisdom as well. That's going to be a 13.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm trying to find my. My number for that. Sorry.

[Laura Bailey]

Higher than that.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's your spell DC, buddy.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, spell DC is 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. That's a failure. Other ghosts natural two. That's a fail. That's going to be an 18. That's still a fail.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Out of curiosity, also, what are their last one?

[Matthew Mercer]

All of them fail.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So my other question question there then is also what is their. Their level, their challenge rating? Challenge rating?

[Matthew Mercer]

Challenge rating. The standard ghosts are challenge rating five.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah. Never mind. They're fine then.

[Matthew Mercer]

But they are fearful.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

They are fearful.

[Sam Riegel]

Yeah, they are.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, that means their attacks are a disadvantage and they move away from you on their turn. Yeah. No, Evangelist is going. Imogen, you're up with Fern on deck.

[Laura Bailey]

All right. I am going to activate my runes on my cloak on my robes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Which bams up my spell DC by two. And then I'm going to cast at seventh level psychic lance on old pirate. What's her fault?

[Sam Riegel]

Leave no doubt.

[Liam O'Brien]

I think it's Rashan, guys.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Was that intelligence saving throw?

[Laura Bailey]

That's an intelligence saving throw, Lar.

[Matthew Mercer]

And watch. Ooh, that's going to be a 4 fail.

[Laura Bailey]

So she takes. She takes 10d6 psychic damage and she is incapacitated until her next turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh. Ahead and roll that damage. Oh no. Yes, ma'. Am. Need to roll sixes.

[Laura Bailey]

Eight.

[Liam O'Brien]

You still just have one.

[Laura Bailey]

I know I didn't do it. Eleven.

[Matthew Mercer]

Eleven.

[Laura Bailey]

That's three dice that rolls and then.

[Matthew Mercer]

Woo.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, wait, how many roll dice did I just roll? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2 extra 7, 8, 9. Okay. 11 plus.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh God.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay. 15, 19, 24. 33 points of psychic damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

33 points of psychic damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Just above average.

[Laura Bailey]

And she's incapacitated.

[Matthew Mercer]

She's incapacitated?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah. Which.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know.

[Laura Bailey]

What does that mean?

[Matthew Mercer]

It means on their turn, they can't take actions.

[Narrator/DM]

Bonus actions.

[Laura Bailey]

That's pretty great.

[Liam O'Brien]

But she's still flying.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, she's still hovering there. Like just kind of like locked into this terrible psychic static in the middle of the spectral brain. Oh no. Does that finish your turn? Yes, it does. Alrighty. Fearne, you're up with Beau on deck.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay. Hi. I am going to cast flamestrike, which.

[Laura Bailey]

Means anything that's a Dex save. She fails automatically.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, hold on. Let me just double check this then.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. All right. Flame strike.

[Matthew Mercer]

The old magic spelling.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. All right, so flame strike at sixth level. Yeah, so that'll be a dex save of 19 already. No, just kidding. Yes, I'm serious. Sorry.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a fail on one ghost, a natural one on the second ghost, and an 18 on the third ghost, which you're spelled easy as 19, you said.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, so, okay, so hold on. There's a vertical column of divine fire which roars down from the heavens. Each creature in a 10 foot radius. But it's a 40 foot high cylinder, so I was trying to aim for.

[Matthew Mercer]

Her for the gerdy. Okay, so just her for the gerdy. So just her, not the other ghosts.

[Marisha Ray]

Well, I mean, if they could get in there.

[Matthew Mercer]

I think you get one other one. I'll say I failed. Okay, good to know. All right, so. So one of them you got. And the captain automatically fails. So go ahead, roll damage on that.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, so I believe that's 5D6 fire damage and 5D6 radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's correct. Roll the fire damage first.

[Marisha Ray]

Hold on, hold on. Give me a minute. All right. Okay, that was a good thing.

[Matthew Mercer]

8. 19.

[Laura Bailey]

Thank you for the D.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, so that's.

[Sam Riegel]

I want those back.

[Matthew Mercer]

A.

[Laura Bailey]

No.

[Marisha Ray]

15 points of fire damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

15 points of fire damage.

[Marisha Ray]

Come on, big money, big money. All right, that's okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, you can.

[Marisha Ray]

So these ones. 20 points of radiant doubles to 40.

[Matthew Mercer]

Points of radiant damage against both those targets. Fern, how do you want to do this?

[Ashley Johnson]

Why?

[Will Friedle]

Two for two, baby.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wait, on the. On the bad bit on the captain.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, play for real.

[Sam Riegel]

How do you want to do this?

[Matthew Mercer]

As the Captain is held aloft, pierced by a psychic lance that keeps it almost pinned in the middle of the air of this dark cavern. The sound of the waves crashing nearby. The spectral ship also itself giving off a ghostly glow like they're in the process.

[Narrator/DM]

Like the Captain's in the process of calling forth other members of its vanished crew. You reach up and call down this column of divine fire and light and describe to me how you finished this.

[Marisha Ray]

Oh, boy. All right. I wasn't quite prepared for this. All right, I'll shoot the flame cylinder up into the air. I'll say, get down here, you dumb bitch. Then I'll pull her down.

[Matthew Mercer]

You watch as the rock above you seems to crack and other bits of stone fall forth, almost like an additional.

[Narrator/DM]

Fissure in the mountain above opens and.

[Matthew Mercer]

Where it does the a single stream of red orange light peers down slowly, gently hitting the watertop before it opens up and explodes. This blast of white hot fire seems to burst from the water itself and engulf the cavern. You hear the shriek, you're welcome. And as the flames subside you watch.

[Narrator/DM]

As the ghosts itself vanishes with a slight phrase that says and her spectral form is dissipated. The other ghosts that were already fearful suddenly go wide eyed and scatter to the side of the chamber and vanish. The glowing ship itself goes cold once more and the cavern is now still empty.

[Sam Riegel]

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[Laura Bailey]

Was that it?

[Marisha Ray]

That doesn't feel like this is it. That's it.

[Sam Riegel]

The ore that they were mining from the the veins in this wall. Can can we identify what the ore is made of, what they were trying to collect and perhaps use as shipments on this?

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure, if you want to make an intelligence check for me.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, I'm hefty this character. No problem.

[Narrator/DM]

16:16 There is a quartz like crystal here, but you're not quite certain what this material is. It doesn't feel like something you've seen often or in trade circles.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's a unique sort of crystal, but.

[Narrator/DM]

You also notice amongst parts of it and parts of the nearby stone, that weird light gossamer spiderweb like texture seems to be spread in places that until you get close into focus, it's almost impossible to see. But as you're also looking and inspecting.

[Matthew Mercer]

The space, you see some of the nearby cracks in the nearby caverns. Light beams seem to pass through like.

[Narrator/DM]

A massive lantern or torch is passed.

[Matthew Mercer]

In front of slats. Light seems to come across like some burning massive source of energy. And light is coasting through the core of this mountain beyond your vision, but enough to send brief beams and scattered.

[Narrator/DM]

Shadows throughout your chamber. And this low buzz, this weird ominous.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hum kind of light is beyond.

[Sam Riegel]

Can I pocket the ore in the bag of holding and can I point in the direction that the light seems to be emanating from and direct our Party towards the source.

[Matthew Mercer]

Indeed. You all catch both Fjord's glance, finger pointing and the source of this light. Especially you, Orym. You're saying everything. But it seems like some of these snaking cavern entrances that pour and curl.

[Narrator/DM]

Upward deeper into the mountain above. Something, some source of this light is nearby and passes. Maybe drawn by the sounds of recent combat before drifting back into the heart of this mountain.

[Matthew Mercer]

Up.

[Liam O'Brien]

We must pursue.

[Matthew Mercer]

We move forward.

[Narrator/DM]

Yes.

[Liam O'Brien]

Immediately.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Unless we want to know anything. If we think there's anything in that ship.

[Ashley Johnson]

You said sounds of recent combat.

[Liam O'Brien]

That's us.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's. That would be. What we just did isn't us. Yeah.

[Ashley Johnson]

Or do we get a sense that there was combat elsewhere?

[Matthew Mercer]

Make a. Make an insight check. Okay.

[Marisha Ray]

Guidance.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

You know she's insiding right now.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

Fearne's just always touching Beau for no reason.

[Marisha Ray]

I was just like. I just. It was just so. Her arms.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm holding. Yeah. I'm just kind of pressing, like, checking. Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Careful. Jellyfish are drawn by Horny.

[Ashley Johnson]

23.

[Matthew Mercer]

23. You gather the recent sounds of battle would be the battle that you all just had for it. Loud, massive spells and explosions. Fiery columns and screeches of spectral entities scattered away, destroyed before there could be any conversation or information gleaned by a conversation or a gentle defense.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, I got it. I got it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Setting them aside. Any of the emergent story and. Or details that surrounded the destruction and haunting of this pirate crew immediately scattered and lost to the winds by the destruction of its captain.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

You ascertained this was probably the battle that drew the light.

[Ashley Johnson]

Great. Thank you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow.

[Ashley Johnson]

Good to know.

[Matthew Mercer]

A mystery lost to time.

[Will Friedle]

I mean, do I recognize any of the gossamer threads? Has it been around the island as I've been searching?

[Narrator/DM]

You look over and get close to it and you see flashes and you recall some of the plant life before it turned, began to give off these little light branches like roots of glowing white that seemed to emerge. Some of the spirit. Friends. Friends you've known for so long. Those that live and guide the other living beings in this island seem to act stranger and indeed carry these same veins of white hidden amongst their spectral forms. You see? Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

This.

[Narrator/DM]

Corruption is often considered a dark tint towards dark magic. It's odd to see glowing light, the source of corruption. But as you look at this, you can see the very rock and stone of this place. Here in this spiritual side of the realm. This light corrodes and it spreads. And you've seen it take the minds and spiritual Sanctity of your friends.

[Matthew Mercer]

R. N.

[Will Friedle]

That's absolutely right. Oh, no, indeed, that's absolutely right. Again. Say it one more time. Preach it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

R. Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice.

[Will Friedle]

I don't need to tell you guys that this isn't a great place. We were literally just attacked by the most monstrous things I've ever seen in my life, so.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, you should get out more then. That was actually not that bad.

[Matthew Mercer]

We've had ghost pirates.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah, kind of. Kind of a thing that happened.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, you don't have to talk down to my experience. I'm just saying those four ghost pirates in particular were the worst that I've experienced.

[Laura Bailey]

You should go to the moon.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

What? Yeah, I should go to the moon.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

They start on about this, it just becomes a thing.

[Will Friedle]

Why have you been to the moon?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, it's a long story. Yeah, I'm a God eater. Let's keep going.

[Will Friedle]

I go stand the opposite part of the party that Imogen is after.

[Matthew Mercer]

She tells me. Yeah, we got it. Keep moving.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, we're moving.

[Matthew Mercer]

We're moving. We're going. We're going.

[Laura Bailey]

We're going into the mountain.

[Matthew Mercer]

Who is guiding the troop in the direction they believe they're following of the.

[Narrator/DM]

Strange source of sound and light?

[Travis Willingham]

Orym will follow the sound. And as Cad's blessing runs through the sword, Orym sees and feels it wrapping like tendrils around his entire body.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Dick, I have some bad news for you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It only lasts a minute.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Travis Willingham]

And it fades away and goes.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We could try that again later.

[Travis Willingham]

And then I lean on my 35 passive perception as I humble brag head through the mound.

[Matthew Mercer]

Absolutely broken. Oh, wait.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm so sorry. It's up for an hour. It's my problem.

[Matthew Mercer]

Never mind.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I thought it was a minute. Never mind.

[Travis Willingham]

No, the.

[Matthew Mercer]

The.

[Travis Willingham]

Your blessing is up. But true sight means.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

True sight might be down, but the blessing is still up.

[Sam Riegel]

Full erection.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

Man, when you get a roll in the hay a day, it totally changes your outlook on life, let me tell you.

[Narrator/DM]

Falling behind Orym, deeper into this cavern.

[Matthew Mercer]

Upward. The.

[Narrator/DM]

Curling climb leads you to geode like interior caverns of broken quartz like crystal, and various pockets of ore that carries a strange inherent glow. An ore that doesn't exist in other physical realms.

[Matthew Mercer]

This is like a spectral material that.

[Narrator/DM]

Seems to have been caused by some sort of a detonation between dimensions. And here it resonates with that strange bassy sound.

[Matthew Mercer]

That heavy. You feel the chamber vibrate. Your vision shakes whenever it goes by.

[Narrator/DM]

And you feel in the depth of your stomach, almost like it's beginning to churn and rise. It is an uncomfortable, sickly feeling every time it begins to get louder and louder. And as you climb behind Orym, eventually you. You come to a large central cavern.

[Matthew Mercer]

A.

[Narrator/DM]

150 to 200 foot across cylindrical opening in the core of this mountain, blown outward almost a spherical detonation, then rises upward. And I would say at this moment you could see the sky if it wasn't blocked by a bright beaming star. A source of light so bright your eyes must avert it burns into your retinas. But take a glance. It's like staring deeply into the center of the sun at its zenith. If only white and ominous. And that hum, that low bass is just ever present and cutting through your senses.

[Matthew Mercer]

You almost feel your knees begin to.

[Narrator/DM]

Buckle at this of sickliness in you. You, Ethel. You know that whatever this is, when it awoke, this is what splintered this space. This is what splintered this mountain. This is what splintered you. And you feel something, a part of you that exists above. As you all begin to hear the sounds of familiar voices shouting. You hear these echoing distant cries of battle. You hear the voice of a familiar tiefling shouting out over the fray. You hear blasts of distant arcana. You hear the unveiling of massive blade strikes and hammer blows until the sound of a divinely blessed angelic barbarian strike brings low a loudly screaming and plummeting entity. And there you see the burning bright star diminish to about half its brightness as that distant entity falls towards you all. As your eyes begin to focus. What was once a light too hard to see is now a snaking breaking serpent of bright burning crystal and rock itself, churning and flaking and burning and breaking itself as it screams and falls towards you all angrily you all back.

[Matthew Mercer]

Up as it.

[Narrator/DM]

Hits the ground floor around you in the center of this mountain heart. Whatever tethered it onto the opposite side of this two realms. Space shattered and broken. And now only that spiritual form remains. And it is furious and desperate and about to lash out. I need you all to roll Initiative.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, wow.

[Liam O'Brien]

Ready for another? How you want to do this, Ashley?

[Matthew Mercer]

I know. 25 to 20.

[Travis Willingham]

22.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

19.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. I need you to roll a D20 for me. Who got the 19?

[Sam Riegel]

Caduceus?

[Matthew Mercer]

Caduceus.

[Will Friedle]

3.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. 20 to 15.

[Ashley Johnson]

16.

[Marisha Ray]

16.

[Sam Riegel]

16.

[Matthew Mercer]

Whoa.

[Ashley Johnson]

Three way roll lead.

[Matthew Mercer]

Three way rollies.

[Liam O'Brien]

Boulder parchment shears.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh. Cocked 19.

[Marisha Ray]

10.

[Ashley Johnson]

4.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Bo, Fern and Ford. 15 to 10.

[Will Friedle]

15.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty. We have Ethel there. 10 to 5. 9 9. What? You got me? Yep.

[Laura Bailey]

I rolled a one.

[Sam Riegel]

Imogen.

[Narrator/DM]

As this corroding light giving spiritual cancerous. This entity that has been destroying and eating the center of this spiritual core of this island writhes and lashes out.

[Matthew Mercer]

Orym. You have the initiative on this distance at this point. As you've all backed up at Its impact about 20ft from you.

[Travis Willingham]

20Ft. He ducks down low and Naruto runs straight at it. On the way. Bonus action Hex.

[Sam Riegel]

Let's go.

[Travis Willingham]

Little vines and dark blue blooms start sprouting along its head and neck. And he just starts laying in. Did I forget anything? No. And the blade is still going nuts from Cad's blessing. Wild Mother. I don't know where you are but your family is doing you proud. That is is a 23 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

23 to hit. Hits. Go ahead and roll. Damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. So the hit is 16 for the strike plus one for necrotic. So 17 plus. Holy weapon.

[Narrator/DM]

16 because it is immune to necrotic damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. Forget the hex.

[Matthew Mercer]

Damn it.

[Travis Willingham]

What'd I say? 16 plus 9 is 25 for the first hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

25 damage for the first hit. Alrighty.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. Second strike. And he is just cutting away at its face. Trying to stab it in the eyes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Does it have a face also? Is it?

[Travis Willingham]

It was a snake.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's a serpent. Looking sort of like crystal and rock creature.

[Narrator/DM]

There is a face like shape.

[Matthew Mercer]

You'd see its mouth open angrily.

[Narrator/DM]

Snap around.

[Matthew Mercer]

But it's to break and reform at other parts of its body. It's chaotic in its construction.

[Sam Riegel]

Would you say it's a floral dragon?

[Matthew Mercer]

Sure does.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Does radiant matter at that point? Cuz 2 2d8 of that would have been radiant.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay.

[Travis Willingham]

That's right.

[Matthew Mercer]

For this.

[Narrator/DM]

No.

[Travis Willingham]

No. Okay. Okay. So that was the next. Is 21 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

20. Do you want to hit that? Does hit.

[Travis Willingham]

Does hit. Okay. 4. 15 plus the radiant. 15 plus 7 is 22. And we'll make it a goading attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

So that's going to be 17.

[Travis Willingham]

Fail.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fail.

[Travis Willingham]

30 points of damage. It is now focused on me. That's the second attack. Third attack. I rolled a 17. So that's way high. That is 12 plus the radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

12 fighters.

[Travis Willingham]

13 is 25 total.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty. Action. Sir. Here we go.

[Travis Willingham]

19 to hit. Rolled a four.

[Matthew Mercer]

19 to hit. Fail.

[Travis Willingham]

Fails. Next attack. Four fail. Dude. I rolled three fours in a row.

[Matthew Mercer]

Damn. Wow.

[Travis Willingham]

Action. Surge Gone in a puff of smoke for gnar.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow. The first strikes kill you with confidence. But as you smash and destroy sections of Its stone crystal face. You watch as they splinter and reform right around its tail. Without real realizing, you look over your shoulder and sweep three times.

[Narrator/DM]

Kind of caught off guard.

[Matthew Mercer]

But your blades go wide. As the end of your turn hits. It's going to go ahead and use legendary action. Wow. To do a spirit scar beam.

[Sam Riegel]

Legendary action.

[Matthew Mercer]

No, it hasn't moved.

[Narrator/DM]

So it can.

[Matthew Mercer]

Because you all scattered out backward, it can only hit one of you.

[Travis Willingham]

It's me. It's 100 me.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. You should make a dexterity saving throw. Me? Please.

[Travis Willingham]

Cool. Oh, it's cool. That's a 27.

[Matthew Mercer]

27. That's a success. All right. So you take 17 points of radiant damage.

[Travis Willingham]

It's a deck save.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm shield master now. I throw the shield up, block my entire tiny body, and it's zero damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

There you go. And you do not take its secondary effect.

[Narrator/DM]

Secondary effect.

[Matthew Mercer]

As you block it entirely with your shield. Tiny little halfling. Awesome. Dude. All right. Finishing your turn. Orym.

[Liam O'Brien]

Tiny little halfling.

[Matthew Mercer]

Awesome. Yeah. All done.

[Narrator/DM]

It is now the creature's turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh. Oh.

[Sam Riegel]

Second in the order.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. I rolled really good color.

[Narrator/DM]

It's going to unleash a furious nova.

[Sam Riegel]

Excuse me.

[Matthew Mercer]

All creatures within 30ft of it have.

[Narrator/DM]

To make a constitution saving throw.

[Sam Riegel]

Is that all of.

[Matthew Mercer]

I need all of you. Because you all moved back as an impactor. All of you.

[Sam Riegel]

I happen to be 31ft away from it.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Will Friedle]

I push you forward just a little bit.

[Ashley Johnson]

I'm going to use Diamond Soul Roll better.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm gonna use Indomitable to recall that 1919 fails.

[Matthew Mercer]

You take 62 points of radiant damage. Dude.

[Liam O'Brien]

Wait, Matthew. Before. Before you start killing my friends.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Is anyone within. Within 10ft of me?

[Laura Bailey]

Oh, I am.

[Sam Riegel]

Is anyone within 10ft of me?

[Marisha Ray]

I am.

[Matthew Mercer]

Pl.

[Sam Riegel]

Hora of Protection.

[Matthew Mercer]

Now, you guys all scattered outward when it impacted. And it's in the middle of the chamber. So I'll say. As you guys pulled outward, each of you can have two other people in your radius.

[Liam O'Brien]

You're making us choose our favorite friend.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll take the two on this table.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, that was such an easy choice.

[Will Friedle]

All two on this table, huh?

[Ashley Johnson]

I might be good.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll take. I'll take Caduceus and the Erthol.

[Will Friedle]

That's really nice considering I got you that pirate before.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'll take Fern and Imogen.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it. So, yeah, so for you take 62 points of radiant damage and you lose two. Hit dice caduceus with.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Is it a plus five from that? That's 2121.

[Matthew Mercer]

16. So you only take 31 points of radiant damage and you lose one hit dice. Beauregard.

[Ashley Johnson]

27.

[Matthew Mercer]

27. Same thing. You take 31 points of radiant damage and you lose a hit dice.

[Will Friedle]

There's a one pass.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, Ethel, Bountiful luck. Reroll.

[Will Friedle]

It's actually quite lucky.

[Matthew Mercer]

So reroll that reaction. Reroll. Come on.

[Will Friedle]

What's the opposite? The opposite of one is a three plus three. So six.

[Matthew Mercer]

Six. You take 62 points of radiant damage and you lose two hit dice.

[Travis Willingham]

God damn it, Tom.

[Laura Bailey]

21.

[Matthew Mercer]

21. You take 31 points of radiant damage and you lose one hit dice.

[Travis Willingham]

After indomitable. 25.

[Matthew Mercer]

25. You take 31 points of radiant Damage and lose one hit dice. Vern.

[Marisha Ray]

23.

[Matthew Mercer]

23. There's 31 points of radiant Damage and you lose one hit dice. Brayus. 12. Take 62 points of radiant damage and you. Damn, I really wanted all these. You lose two hit dice.

[Narrator/DM]

That's going to end the entity's turn.

[Liam O'Brien]

Damn.

[Matthew Mercer]

Does give its legendary actions back. Stop it. Caduceus, you're up first with bow on deck. Caduceus, are you within 10ft of this creature?

[Sam Riegel]

Say no.

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't think so. I'll love that.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, continue with your turn.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay, let's see. Where was I?

[Liam O'Brien]

Guys, there is a correct answer to that question. If he asks you to say no.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's just no.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, y' all all are great.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to use my bonus action to cancel Holy Weapon. So what happens when I actually stop Holy Weapon is that the light itself flashes out in a great, brilliant burst. And so any creature within 30ft that I choose has to make a cons constitution. Saving. Throw on a fail Save. The creature takes 48 radiant damage, but.

[Laura Bailey]

It'S immune to radiant.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, it's not immune to radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's just not vulnerable.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

So that's going to be. That's a 16.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, it's a con 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And this pro. This might not work, but that means it takes 48 radiant damage, which you get to roll. And it's blinded.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is immune to being blinded.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I had a funny feeling, but.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oram, go ahead and roll. 48. Radiant yacht.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, 48.

[Matthew Mercer]

48. 48. 48. And 48. 48. 48. 48. 48. 48.

[Liam O'Brien]

Okay, 17.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, 17 points. Radiant damage.

[Narrator/DM]

It doesn't have as much of an impact as you think it would damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, all right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, with that, then I Suppose it's time for maybe a mass heal. So watching all this happen, I'm just. I'm going to sit. Caduceus kneels down, takes his staff and just starts to pressure it into the ground, cracking the ground below it as my amethyst crystal glows in time with the rest of the crystal in the room. And I cast mass heal and we all get to split 700 hit points amongst ourselves.

[Matthew Mercer]

So.

[Will Friedle]

Girl, where you been keeping those hit points?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'll never tell.

[Laura Bailey]

I think there's no way we don't all go back to.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

We all go back to four.

[Sam Riegel]

I'll take 120.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Travis Willingham]

So Caduceus finishes us all.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, he did.

[Matthew Mercer]

Orum.

[Liam O'Brien]

Disgusting, Liam. Disgusting.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'll allow it.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's been a day.

[Matthew Mercer]

Alrighty. Yeah. So all of you pretty much go to full hit point. Yep. All right. That's your. That's your action. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

And then I'm going to just keep my distance from this terrible crystal. You're staying where you are, I'm assuming. I'm like probably 20ft of. Yeah, I'm kind of trying to. Trying to stay just like some distance, but also with the group.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, with the group. Who. Who are you grouping with?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I want to be around, not you. Okay, fine. Trying to. Trying to keep. Keep with Ford, keep with Ethel, and then also like keep with Orym if possible.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you move over to that kind of troop there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And if you're turning these legendary action to do another skirt spirit scar beam, it's going to go towards. It's going to curve and carve past you, Caduceus and Ford and Ethel, I need the three of you to make dexterity saving throws.

[Sam Riegel]

Plus five.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Thank you.

[Sam Riegel]

Plus five dexterity saving throws.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Natural 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice.

[Sam Riegel]

For a 26.

[Matthew Mercer]

The 18 points of raging radiant damage to you for. Ow.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

16.

[Matthew Mercer]

16. You take 36 points of radiant damage produces. I need you to mark a death saving throw.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cool.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, that lasts until your long rest.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

How many points of damage again?

[Matthew Mercer]

36. 36. 15. 15. You take 36 points rate damage. I need you to mark a death saving throw for me.

[Sam Riegel]

You're playing dirty.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. You can heal all you want, y'. All.

[Will Friedle]

What have you done to him to make him do this?

[Narrator/DM]

I don't know.

[Matthew Mercer]

A lot. A lot.

[Sam Riegel]

10 years of pent up dming.

[Matthew Mercer]

Try running high level combat for eight people. We've.

[Travis Willingham]

We've dunked on him for every mispronunciation for 10 years.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. I've been keeping tabs this whole time. All right, so that finishes the end of Caduceus Tone, Beauregard, you're up with Fern on deck.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right. And he's down on the ground. Yeah, he's right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, he's right on the ground.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right, I'm going to run up and going to pop out my belabor. Splat. Or my belabor just like. And I'm going to spin it around, and I'm going to run in for that pop. I think it. Okay. 9 plus 13 is most definitely 21 that hits. And then 7. 13 is most definite. Oh, 22 even. And 7 plus 13 is most definitely 20 that hits. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I think 20 is our magic number, you guys. First one. Let's do this. First one first. First things first. I'm the realest.

[Matthew Mercer]

And then.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, so that's going to be 13 points of damage already. Stunning. Sh.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's muted being stunned, of course.

[Ashley Johnson]

Next one.

[Matthew Mercer]

Monk proof.

[Ashley Johnson]

That's gonna be 12 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty.

[Ashley Johnson]

I am going to. Wait. How does this work? How does this work? Hang on, hang on. How does D and D work? This is a 20 level.

[Matthew Mercer]

Monkey roll dice.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay, Unarmed strike. I'm gonna spend a ki point to do. Flurry of blows.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

Here we go again. Another pop pop. Yeah, those both hit. That's a 16 to 14. So both definitely hit. And then we're gonna do the first one. That's a 10. So that's gonna be for unarmed strike. That's 16 points of damage already. And then that's good. 14 points of damage. I'm gonna spend 3 ki points to do. Debilitating barrage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

So you see, I crack it twice with my staff. Pop, pop. I throw the staff back, and I'm gonna, like, with just a little bit of that lingering lightning glove energy, I'm gonna crack it right in. It's like, sensitive areas. What am I looking for?

[Matthew Mercer]

It's like a segmented serpent of crackling stone and furious light crystal. And as you punch into its chest, it cracks and breaks, and you actually go up to the elbow inside before you release your ki energy that spirals throughout its body. And for a brief moment, your spiritual energy connects with its spiritual energy, and you feel and sense the furious fury.

[Narrator/DM]

And hate, the elemental history of something that was long ago shattered and left.

[Ashley Johnson]

Ooh, he's Angies. And as I do that, I'm gonna grip on and I'm gonna just, like, tug just a little bit, and I'm going to make him vulnerable to lightning Damage. And I'm gonna call out to Imogen and I'm gonna say, light him up.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Ashley Johnson]

That'S my turn.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty.

[Sam Riegel]

She's at the end of the order with that.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, but let's see what happens.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bo's turn is done. Fern, you're up with fort on deck.

[Marisha Ray]

All right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Actually, at the end of that turn, spend its other two legendary actions. Recharge its nova. Continue, please.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, I am going to cast Moonbeam.

[Ashley Johnson]

Moonbeam.

[Marisha Ray]

And it is a constitution saving throw of 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

19.

[Narrator/DM]

A natural 18.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right.

[Marisha Ray]

So since you failed. So it's 5d10 plus 2d10 of rage.

[Laura Bailey]

He didn't fail?

[Marisha Ray]

No, didn't fail.

[Ashley Johnson]

What did you say?

[Matthew Mercer]

I. 28.

[Liam O'Brien]

But if you failed.

[Matthew Mercer]

But if you failed, that's important to remind them. Damn.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, so wait, what do I do now? It didn't work.

[Liam O'Brien]

You go home on the spell.

[Matthew Mercer]

Doesn't say it takes half damage.

[Laura Bailey]

But I always kill the thing.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, okay, so it's half as much damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Correct. So roll the damage and tell me what it costs.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, hold on.

[Matthew Mercer]

So we need a nine teeth.

[Marisha Ray]

We've got a four.

[Sam Riegel]

13 teeth.

[Travis Willingham]

It's full sized.

[Marisha Ray]

I know. 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

What level did you cast this at?

[Laura Bailey]

5.

[Matthew Mercer]

Nice.

[Marisha Ray]

15 plus 9 is.

[Sam Riegel]

24.

[Marisha Ray]

24.

[Laura Bailey]

So 24.

[Ashley Johnson]

So reduce that to 12 and then.

[Marisha Ray]

2D10 radiant damage on a failed. Save half as much or half as much.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, so it takes 12 damage. So it's 12 radiant damage.

[Narrator/DM]

And it takes half of that because.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is resistant to radiant damage. So it takes six damage. Cool. The moonbeam strikes through, joins its own light as the beam burns into its crystal, angry, writhing form. It sears it a bit, but it.

[Narrator/DM]

Doesn'T seem as bothered.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, well, we know that now. Radiant doesn't work.

[Sam Riegel]

Thanks for figuring that out, Fernando.

[Marisha Ray]

You got it.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty. Does Mr. Want to do anything?

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. If he's still out, he's going to throw some shit.

[Matthew Mercer]

What's a monkey to do?

[Marisha Ray]

All right, so he's going to take. Oh, those are double sixes. So 12 points of fire damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Did he roll to attack.

[Liam O'Brien]

Mr. Autocrats on everything?

[Matthew Mercer]

I don't know why I just did that. That's okay. Just roll a D20.

[Ashley Johnson]

That was.

[Marisha Ray]

I forget.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's all good.

[Ashley Johnson]

Wait, no, you just had.

[Liam O'Brien]

You have to make an attack.

[Marisha Ray]

That hits. That's 21.

[Liam O'Brien]

Just don't. Don't ask.

[Matthew Mercer]

Don't ask. 21 does hit 12 points of fire dam.

[Marisha Ray]

12 points of fire damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

While the moonbeam doesn't have the desired impact. The angry Elemental Fire Monkey's Shitgun does indeed leave a chunk of the creature angrily broken and fired.

[Ashley Johnson]

Big boy.

[Matthew Mercer]

Heck yeah. All right, finishing Fearne's. Go forward. You're up with Ethelon Deck.

[Sam Riegel]

Ford's gonna run up with the Star Razor. And he's gonna take three swings with Dwedvar. The Star Razor Exalted.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ha Ha ha.

[Sam Riegel]

Natural one.

[Matthew Mercer]

You. You.

[Sam Riegel]

I only have one now. I'll roll again. Natural 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, wait. Oh.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no, it's not. Hexbx curse. Oh, that's a 33 to hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

33 hits? Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

And the last one is a 17 plus 14. 31 to hit. That hits amazing. Let's go on the second one. Let's do one D10 plus 8. That's a 10 plus 8 for 18 points of slashing damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great.

[Sam Riegel]

And on the last one that hits, I'm going to pump a divine smite into his ass.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Sam Riegel]

That's going to be.

[Matthew Mercer]

Tell me the. The vine smite damage.

[Sam Riegel]

Separate 5D8. Oh, there's only 5.

[Liam O'Brien]

14.

[Matthew Mercer]

16, 34.

[Sam Riegel]

42 points of radiant damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

42 points of radiant damage. Okay, that'll be 20. All right. Got it.

[Sam Riegel]

Got it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Cool.

[Narrator/DM]

Massive heavy strength.

[Matthew Mercer]

Carves into a blast of light energy. Light on light. It's a lot of light. It's very bright in here, guys. The creature, like, curves around, slams into the side of the mountain. Part of the mountain kind of cracks around in bits of stone and rock. High up, boulders fall and plummet. You have to step out of the way as it bounces off of its body. It is almost like spiraling in and encompassing the center of this central heart chamber of the mountain as it gets more and more furious. Does that finish your turn, Ford?

[Sam Riegel]

It does before I run away.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so you back out of its range.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. It's going to go ahead and make an attack on you with its seething strike. That's going to be 25 to 80. Hit you.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, no.

[Matthew Mercer]

It hits. Oh.

[Will Friedle]

Can I use my reaction to searing words?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, sure. Let's go for it. How. How do you sear it with your words?

[Will Friedle]

I say snake.

[Matthew Mercer]

You.

[Sam Riegel]

Effective poetry.

[Ashley Johnson]

Why did it work for you?

[Travis Willingham]

Simple but effective.

[Will Friedle]

Keep wrong ones, guys.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Will Friedle]

And I don't want to lie to you because he's such a beautiful audience and you're such beautiful people, but I'm eating shit up here.

[Matthew Mercer]

So. Unfortunately, it does still hit, but it does do 2d10 fire damage. Oh, yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Thanks so much, my Dungeon Master is the best. Dungeon Master reminds me that I can hurt the snake.

[Matthew Mercer]

1313 points of fire damage. Though the words didn't prevent it from striking. True. The flames still burn up its body, and it angrily strikes at you with a success. On that, you take 44 points of radiant damage.

[Sam Riegel]

44 points of radiant damage as it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Bites onto you and where you think fangs would be. Instead, just searing blades of light pierce into your body and you lose the hit dice.

[Sam Riegel]

It's searing blades of light in my body.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Sam Riegel]

And Star razor bursts for 11 points of radiant damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. It takes five points of radiation while there are searing lights of blades of my body. Yes, exactly. All right, that finishes Ford's go. Ethel, you're up with Brayus on deck.

[Will Friedle]

Great. I. I'm looking between Beau and Imogen just like the. The. The relation. I'm actually looking at everyone being like, I've. I've been alone for so goddamn long. It's so nice to see people working together and nicely. I look over to Imogen. I remember that when I. When I set fire to her face, I'm like. As a bonus action, I send another Bardock inspiration over there and I try and say, light them up. Me. Light them. Light every.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you can.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's all. It's all good. And I. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

And I use my galvanizing ballad and I breathe in deep and I just play the most metal through these two flutes. In fact, it. What you hear doesn't actually seem to reflect whatever I'm doing with my fingers. Every. I. I feel like everyone will hear whatever it is that would make your blood boil and just like lift seven times as much in the gym that day. And everyone. And we will do that for the next 20 minutes. And everyone gets advantage on their attack rolls for the next.

[Matthew Mercer]

All of you have advantage on your attack rolls until Ethel's next turn.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, wow.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fantastic. All right, Finishing Ethel's go brace, you're up with a midget on deck. Okay.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm going to use that advantage to attack. Is it within striking distance of.

[Matthew Mercer]

You can move up and get with the strike.

[Liam O'Brien]

I will run right up to it and yell out in a mighty yawp of anger and strike it 11th.23 to hit that hits. I'm going to. Sorry, I should have said this before. I'm going to divine smite at first level. And I'm also going to click my foul verdict, flail and whip poison into it, causing an extra 3D8 of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

So.

[Liam O'Brien]

All right, this is 7D8. Of damage. 15. What is that? Oh, that's the 3. 18. 19. This is not a D8. 4 plus 8. 32. 39 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

How much of that is radiant?

[Liam O'Brien]

Let's just say half. Oh, wait. No, it's not, because that was mostly poison. It was just one D8 was radiant. So let's say five.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, got it. I'll allow it.

[Liam O'Brien]

Jazz, baby.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Still a heavy hit. As you splatter across it, you see the glowing light emanating from this gets even dimmer on one section of its churning rock torso as black liquid oil splatter scatters across it like Jackson Pollocking the side of one part of its face.

[Liam O'Brien]

Attack again with advantage, Right?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, indeed.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, my God. Incredible. Terrible. 17.

[Matthew Mercer]

17 misses.

[Liam O'Brien]

Unfortunately, as my bonus action, I still have a bonus action. I will inspire our new friend Ethel by. I can see that he's parched from the battle, so I'll pour a little bit of water into my shoe.

[Matthew Mercer]

And.

[Liam O'Brien]

And hold it out to him.

[Matthew Mercer]

Drink of this, my friend.

[Liam O'Brien]

It is. It is the water of friendship.

[Matthew Mercer]

Is this natural where you come from in your land?

[Will Friedle]

It seems kind of up.

[Liam O'Brien]

My land is up. It's on the wrong side of the earth. The flat side.

[Ashley Johnson]

That character's dead.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, I got confused. Drink of my shoe and be inspired by my foot odor.

[Matthew Mercer]

I say foot odor, shoey, shoey, shoey.

[Will Friedle]

And I get dysentery, I imagine.

[Marisha Ray]

I thought you had hooves.

[Laura Bailey]

You. You wear shoes?

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, do I drink it?

[Ashley Johnson]

You know, what are they tiny little off my hoof?

[Liam O'Brien]

My hooves are detachable.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hoofy, hoofy, hoofy.

[Liam O'Brien]

I just had to unscrew it.

[Travis Willingham]

Roll. For mad cow disease.

[Matthew Mercer]

This is so off the rails already. Oh, no. All right. Does that finish your turn, Brus Mo. Imogen, you're up with Orym on deck.

[Laura Bailey]

All right, all right.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm still floating in the air, and I'm gonna hold out my hand, and I'm gonna cast Witch Bolt at eighth level.

[Matthew Mercer]

At eighth level.

[Sam Riegel]

And that keeps going every turn right.

[Matthew Mercer]

Is that lightning? Well, it returns to a regular D12, potentially more.

[Laura Bailey]

It's eight D12.

[Matthew Mercer]

The first hit.

[Travis Willingham]

Doubled by Bo's fucker.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, but it's doubled by Bo's.

[Matthew Mercer]

Indeed.

[Laura Bailey]

And I'm rolling at advantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

You are rolling at advantage because of Ethel.

[Ashley Johnson]

Let's go.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come on, come on.

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah, that's a crit in Dagger Heart. I just.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's okay.

[Laura Bailey]

Hold on. Okay, that would be 28.

[Ashley Johnson]

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

[Marisha Ray]

Let's go.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a successful hit. Yeah. Let's go. Come on. Okay, let's roll that lightning damage.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, okay. Seven.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm sorry, guys. She still just has.

[Laura Bailey]

Shut up. Shut up.

[Liam O'Brien]

Who is this woman? What is this?

[Ashley Johnson]

Come on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come on.

[Laura Bailey]

I know, I know. This is so tough. 23.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Plus three is 31.

[Liam O'Brien]

What's up there?

[Sam Riegel]

Not your face.

[Laura Bailey]

36. And I got one. One more. That's cocked. That was a 12. But it was cocked.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, 12.

[Laura Bailey]

So whatever that was.

[Ashley Johnson]

36 plus 12.

[Matthew Mercer]

48. 48 times two, times two.

[Will Friedle]

Come on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Come on. That's going to be 96. Yeah. 96 points of lightning damage as this witch bolt charges up within Beauregard with her arm like half buried in this creature and holding onto it. You watch the light flickering through. And as you remove you your arm, Beauregard, it leaves this gaping, broken chasm in the creature's torso that you release this bolt into. And as it strikes in, you watch as chunks of the serpent shatter and break off into hundreds of different directions, scattering around. It's now broken. You can see the stone body of it is now broken into two different sections with one long, almost lightning tether of radiant spectral light holding them.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm going to wrap the tether around my wrist and yank and try to hold onto it.

[Matthew Mercer]

And then you're lassoing this entity.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm lassoing.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hell yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

And then I'm going to. As a bonus action, I'm going to quicken mind sliver and try to hit it with psychic damage as well.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Laura Bailey]

All right. That's an intelligence saving throw.

[Matthew Mercer]

That is natural.

[Narrator/DM]

17.

[Matthew Mercer]

19 fails.

[Laura Bailey]

So that's.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

What's going on over there?

[Laura Bailey]

That's 16 points.

[Liam O'Brien]

I like the.

[Sam Riegel]

I like the Ginu force in dragon ball.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wow.

[Laura Bailey]

16 points of psychic damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

16 points of psychic damage. Nice. All righty. Does that finish your turn? Yeah. All righty. Bring us to the top of the round. Orym, you are up.

[Travis Willingham]

Orym slides in front of Imin and starts slashing away at the beast's head. Face at advantage. Here we go. That is a natural 20.

[Liam O'Brien]

Silvery bar.

[Travis Willingham]

I rolled a six on the die. That's 12. Plus 11 is 23.

[Matthew Mercer]

23 points of damage.

[Travis Willingham]

Hit. Goading attack. Oh no. Plus goading attack.

[Ashley Johnson]

He's the greatest of all time.

[Travis Willingham]

Three plus six. So whatever I just said, plus six from the superiority die.

[Matthew Mercer]

So between nine total and it has.

[Travis Willingham]

To be to 19, it did not.

[Matthew Mercer]

So it is goaded. So any attacks that aren't you. It has disadvantage.

[Travis Willingham]

So I'm up in its face disadvantage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Against four last time with its reaction attack. And it continues that trend.

[Travis Willingham]

The second attack, that is an 18 plus stuff. So that is three plus one is 14. I'll leave it at that. Last one is 14 plus 15. So 29 to hit. That is a three plus one is 14. So I'm just stabbing it in the eyes again and again and again to try to bring its ire on me, the smallest man in the world.

[Narrator/DM]

It seems to be working.

[Matthew Mercer]

It is furious and focused on you at the singular moment.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay. And I stay put.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, that finishes your turn. That now brings us to initiative.

[Narrator/DM]

Count of 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Now that it actually is.

[Travis Willingham]

Are you're far back.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Ish.

[Travis Willingham]

But never mind. Go ahead. Go ahead, Mac.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm at 30ft away.

[Travis Willingham]

Go ahead.

[Matthew Mercer]

Actually, it's an interesting point. Orym, you started your turn close up to it because you fought it last time.

[Travis Willingham]

I'm right in its face.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. So at the beginning of your turn, you will be within its consuming corona.

[Travis Willingham]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Because you started your turn within 10ft.

[Narrator/DM]

Of it, you lose a hit. Dice.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Sam Riegel]

I like to consume coronas.

[Will Friedle]

My corona.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, now comes the lair action. Now that we've been in combat for a round, you notice at this point.

[Narrator/DM]

So many little spirits and sprites of the island have been gathering around the rock, following you behind, possibly, and watching at a distance, cheering you on.

[Will Friedle]

Don't worry, they're my friends. Guys, it'll be fine.

[Sam Riegel]

That's good.

[Matthew Mercer]

And you watch as the light flickers in this entity.

[Narrator/DM]

And for a split second, you watch as those weird white spiderweb like tendrils.

[Matthew Mercer]

Rocket out in all directions and seem to pierce and strike all the various.

[Narrator/DM]

Small spiritual friends of the island. And all their eyes shift to a bright white color and they all descend.

[Matthew Mercer]

In a cloud of corrupted furies, like spirits. Everybody, please make contact.

[Narrator/DM]

Constitution. Saving throws.

[Sam Riegel]

You're close to me plus five.

[Will Friedle]

Thank you.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah. Imogen Fern, you're close to me plus five, you die.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Starting over here. 25. 25, you're fine. Ferns real bad.

[Marisha Ray]

15.

[Matthew Mercer]

15, you're fine.

[Travis Willingham]

16. 16 after indomitable. So I'm all out of that.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. 21, you succeed. 23, succeed. Beauregard. 17 succeed. Caduceus.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

21.

[Matthew Mercer]

27, you all succeed.

[Narrator/DM]

The gathering of them and the presence.

[Matthew Mercer]

Of Ethel drives these spiritual entities, corrupted.

[Narrator/DM]

As they are, to still not fully engage in the ravenous cloud of spiritual hunger.

[Matthew Mercer]

They were driven to do so. None of you. You Mark a death save. It wasn't a terribly high dc, but those that failed. It was bad.

[Sam Riegel]

We all do. Three seconds of a dance move.

[Matthew Mercer]

That does bring us to the entity's turn. However, since it did use two of its legendary actions, which it gains back. It's Nova. It's furious.

[Narrator/DM]

Nova recharges without having to roll for it.

[Travis Willingham]

Goaded deep.

[Matthew Mercer]

All creatures within 30ft of it, which is all of you. I need you to make a constitution.

[Narrator/DM]

Saving throw.

[Matthew Mercer]

Five plus five.

[Laura Bailey]

I mean, do we still take an extra five?

[Liam O'Brien]

Do we still take five if it's a spell? Is this a spell attack or.

[Narrator/DM]

No, this is just a magic.

[Matthew Mercer]

This is just an emanating spiritual strike. So.

[Liam O'Brien]

26.

[Matthew Mercer]

26. You take 31 points of radiant damage and lose a hit.

[Narrator/DM]

Dice.

[Matthew Mercer]

Boran.

[Marisha Ray]

9.

[Matthew Mercer]

Take 62 points of radiant damage and you lose 4.

[Narrator/DM]

Hit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Dice. Orym.

[Travis Willingham]

Dirty. 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

20. You take 31 points of radiant Damage and lose a hit. Dice. Imogen.

[Laura Bailey]

22.

[Matthew Mercer]

22. You take 31 points of radiant damage and you lose a hit.

[Narrator/DM]

Dice.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ethel.

[Will Friedle]

27.

[Matthew Mercer]

27. You take 31 points of radiant damage. Lose a hit. Dice.

[Ashley Johnson]

Both 23.

[Narrator/DM]

Nice.

[Matthew Mercer]

31 points of radiant damage. Lose A hit.

[Will Friedle]

Dice.

[Matthew Mercer]

Caduceus.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

25. 25.

[Matthew Mercer]

Dang. All right. 31 points of radiant damage loses hit. Dice.

[Sam Riegel]

17.

[Matthew Mercer]

17. You take 62 points of radiant damage and Ford loses five. Hit, dice. Whoa. You bitch.

[Liam O'Brien]

What you down to, buddy?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Actually, don't know.

[Sam Riegel]

Did you say five?

[Matthew Mercer]

Three. Five. You are. Oh, boy. One more.

[Liam O'Brien]

You should.

[Laura Bailey]

It's all because of Ethel.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's Ethel's fault.

[Laura Bailey]

Ethel's fault. That my.

[Matthew Mercer]

Should we turn on?

[Will Friedle]

That's not my fault.

[Sam Riegel]

Kill the Goliath.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's gonna finish the team. The entity's turn. Caduceus, you're up with Beauregard. On deck.

[Liam O'Brien]

Maybe the entity wants a sacrifice. We could give it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ethel.

[Ashley Johnson]

I thought you were good now.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, you're right. You're right. I gotta keep reminding myself.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Sorry.

[Laura Bailey]

We're gonna save him. We're gonna. For saving you.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Okay. Just looking at some stuff really quickly. Do I have a bonus action I can use.

[Matthew Mercer]

Send it back to hell.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It's not how I work.

[Matthew Mercer]

Why not?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Cause shit needs doing.

[Narrator/DM]

Steep some tea.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That, on the other hand, I can do. Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That'll do a thing. I'm gonna do it. I haven't tried this. I've been so. I'm going to attempt some divine intervention.

[Matthew Mercer]

Whoa.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh.

[Liam O'Brien]

But you said you weren't talking to the wild mother.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

This is the first time I've tried it since y' all fucked everything up.

[Will Friedle]

So thank you for that.

[Matthew Mercer]

Sorry. Caduceus.

[Narrator/DM]

Explain to me how you are attempting and what you are attempting to ask of the wildmother.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I have been afraid to ask for anything. He quietly kneels down and he holds his staff and quietly speaks to it. I have been afraid of whether or not you would answer, and if you answered, what it would even mean. But right now, this needs to be done. And we need to walk out of this place. And these creatures need to be freed. If you are there, please help us free these innocent creatures caught between life and death. And if you're not there, I beseech whatever can hear me, whatever is here, Just help.

[Narrator/DM]

Just help us. Please. Caduceus, you've spent the entirety of your life feeling, through familial practice and through prayer and through routine piety, always felt the wildmother present. And in this fearful moment, you reach that familiar, warm space of consciousness and find nothing there, but instead feel warmth elsewhere. As in that space, you. You feel the rock and the stone and the vine and the moss and the trees and the ferns and all the life that she once overlooked still carrying her presence, though still scattered and echoed. You feel the island. You feel the life force that exists to the other realm, the one that you were plucked from. Briefly reach beyond that veil at the thinnest point, and the rest of you watch as the cracked stone of this cylindrical space begin to shake, as thick vines begin to pierce through and hold the crumbling aspects of the mountain together. You watch as impossible, a man of root and tree begin to break through and climb the inside of this chamber.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ethel.

[Narrator/DM]

You feel a thrum in your chest, an unfamiliar heartbeat that is bigger and warmer than yours. As you feel your hands reach back against the walls of this chamber, and roots and vines begin to wind and expand beyond the cracks at the tips of your fingers. You feel some calling you haven't felt.

[Matthew Mercer]

In a long time.

[Narrator/DM]

And all of these trees and roots are connected to you. In this instant, somewhere in the mind of this quiet little cowman, something stirs within. And you watch as the island fights back.

[Matthew Mercer]

While the mother is not watching, the children still learn. And they rise in her stead. Branches fire forth. You watch as trees and leaves, not.

[Narrator/DM]

Red and purple as the surrounding jungle, but green and vibrant from the physical.

[Matthew Mercer]

World, wrap and surround this entity. And it is not just restrained for the time being, but I'll say it loses its legendary resistances. Whoa. Yeah. As it holds no sway in the.

[Narrator/DM]

Central veil to the physical world, the spiritual form of this creature.

[Matthew Mercer]

Does that finish your turn?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

No, I have a bonus action.

[Will Friedle]

So.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Who'S really hurting right now? Is anybody hurting? HP style, everyone. Good.

[Sam Riegel]

I mean, I've been spanked pretty good.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right, then I'm going to heal. Ford, hold on.

[Matthew Mercer]

Four.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

One.

[Matthew Mercer]

Where'd it go?

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Just healing word. I gotta do healing word.

[Matthew Mercer]

Damn.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So let's heal you for, like, let's.

[Matthew Mercer]

Say just a little bit.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

5D4 +5. Just put it in there.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's pretty good.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Not bad. So, yeah, just giving. Giving Vord a little heal. That's gonna be 5D4.

[Sam Riegel]

Roll higher.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. All right.

[Sam Riegel]

I said higher.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

10, 11, 12, 13.

[Matthew Mercer]

14. 15. 15. 15 points of healing damage. Oh, take it, take it. All right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

All right. Yep, that's what I got right now.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

It went okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, not bad. Perfect. That finishes your turn. Yeah. Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

I'm out.

[Matthew Mercer]

End of your turn. It's going to spend a legendary action to do with a seething strike.

[Narrator/DM]

It's going to be at you, Imogen.

[Travis Willingham]

Is it goaded?

[Matthew Mercer]

It is. Or has this avenge and the strike.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, I see.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. So that's gonna be 25 to hit.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah, that hits.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. So with that adds its furious, like, held in place restrained disadvantage. It still gets its massive kind of light, radiant fangs out to strike at you, imogen.

[Narrator/DM]

You take 44 points of radiant damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

And you lose a hit. Dice.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

Sentinel attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

Go for it. Roll the attack.

[Ashley Johnson]

I have advantage of it, right?

[Matthew Mercer]

You do.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay. Yeah. That hits. This is an unarmed strike, I'm pretty sure. Yeah. So that's going to be 14 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

14 points of damage. You got it.

[Ashley Johnson]

And it can't move, but I don't think it was going to anyway.

[Matthew Mercer]

It just can't move at the moment because it's restrained as part of the divine intervention as well. Yeah, it is stuck in place. All right, that finished. How much does that go? Caduceus, in your turn. Beauregard, you are up with Fern on deck.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right. And each one of these has advantage, correct?

[Matthew Mercer]

Indeed.

[Ashley Johnson]

All right, I'm gonna do these one at a time. First attack. Yeah, that's good. That's a 16 to hit. Second attack, that's a 15 to hit. So both of those definitely hit. Okay. That first one is going to to be 16 points of damage, and then the second one is going to be nine points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

All righty.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah, might as well. I'm going to spend a key point and Do Flurry of blows.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go.

[Ashley Johnson]

First attack is 11, plus a bunch of 23. 24 second attack.

[Matthew Mercer]

The math left 11 plus a bunch of shit equals.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, natural 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes.

[Sam Riegel]

Warm it up, baby.

[Matthew Mercer]

Warm it up.

[Ashley Johnson]

I.

[Matthew Mercer]

Did.

[Ashley Johnson]

I roll a D12 on that second one. General D12. Hang on. Yeah, same. Same thing. Okay, I'm gonna keep it. Okay. And then. Okay, let's do this. First one first. Okay, good. That is. Cause these are an unarmed strike. So that's gonna be 14 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

You got it.

[Ashley Johnson]

And then for the natural 20. Come on, big money, baby. I rolled a three. Okay, so that's six plus six. So 12 damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

12 points of damage on that. So good. Round of a flurry of bows. Upon that, there's a finishing turn. Beauregard.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yep.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fearne, you're up with fort on deck.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, so I am going to cast scorching Marisha Ray at fifth level.

[Matthew Mercer]

Fifth level.

[Marisha Ray]

Yes. So, and that's with advantage for each hit, correct?

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Marisha Ray]

All right, so I'm gonna do these two. I'm gonna be kind.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's gonna be six rays, six attacks.

[Marisha Ray]

Six rays.

[Matthew Mercer]

The vanish.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, first hit. Oh, that is 30 something or other that hits.

[Laura Bailey]

Do we still have advantage on the attack?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. 16. 16 fails, unfortunately.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my goodness. That's a natural 20.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go. All right, that's it. Okay. Four more.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Or three more.

[Marisha Ray]

Yeah. 32.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's a hit. Two more.

[Liam O'Brien]

Even better.

[Marisha Ray]

Even better.

[Matthew Mercer]

Great. One more.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, one more. Great. 16 plus 11.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Okay, that's. Each one of those is two D6. So roll eight. D6 fire damage. And then we'll do two D6 double.

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, so. Oh, great. Okay, so that's 15. 18. Okay. Plus it's not as great. 18 plus 31. Thank you so much.

[Laura Bailey]

So 31.

[Marisha Ray]

31.

[Liam O'Brien]

And then roll two more dice.

[Marisha Ray]

Two more dice. Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, my gosh. What are they gonna do?

[Marisha Ray]

Okay, I'm gonna do these two.

[Matthew Mercer]

I believe in you. Okay.

[Ashley Johnson]

Thanks for spending money to watch us human.

[Marisha Ray]

That's so lame.

[Matthew Mercer]

Man.

[Marisha Ray]

So lame.

[Ashley Johnson]

Your support means a lot.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, so eight total. Okay. All right. 39 points damage in that one. Nice ferns. I finish. Your turn, Mr. To go ahead.

[Marisha Ray]

Mr. 's gonna fire again.

[Matthew Mercer]

Who has advantage?

[Marisha Ray]

Who has advantage?

[Matthew Mercer]

Awesome. Because of Ethel.

[Marisha Ray]

What a big boy. Okay, that definitely hits. And then two flame Shit.

[Matthew Mercer]

Three points of dip. Hey, it all adds up. All right. Thank you, Fearne. Finishing Yorgo at the end of your turns can use another legendary action. Going to do a spirit scar. Beam. And since its placement is there, it's going to go ahead and it's going to go ahead and strike across the opponents that were close to you. Fjord, you said were you in caduceus and Ethel? Sure. All right, I need you three to roll dexterity saving throws plus five. Do you both.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, my God.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Will Friedle]

Really?

[Sam Riegel]

Natural one?

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Liam O'Brien]

Is.

[Travis Willingham]

Is Ford within 30ft? Forum?

[Laura Bailey]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

And the size of this chimney, because you guys were clustered in two different parts, I'd say no.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, so long.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ford.

[Sam Riegel]

Seven.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Caduceus, 12.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, Ethel, 33. But I got all those ones before, so don't worry.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Ethel, you avoid that entirely. The two of you take 36 points of radiant damage and you both mark a death save. Yep. Yep.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, my goodness.

[Travis Willingham]

How are you sitting 40. That good, huh?

[Marisha Ray]

Helo?

[Sam Riegel]

I'm all right.

[Matthew Mercer]

I'm all right.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm sub 100. I'm sub 100.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's fine. That won't be a problem. All right, so finishing Fern's goat. Fjord, you're up with ethylon deck.

[Sam Riegel]

I'm gonna try and contrast the fire of Fern by sending out a cone.

[Matthew Mercer]

Of coal.

[Sam Riegel]

Which is 8D8 and a wisdom saving throw of 19.

[Matthew Mercer]

Wisdom throw 19. That's going to be a fail. I. I can't use legendary resistance cuz the. Yeah. Okay, so it takes full damage.

[Sam Riegel]

That is 46 points of cold damage. I take the star razor and I just sweep it across my face face. And a flurry of blizzard just shoots.

[Matthew Mercer]

Out across you watch as all this greenery that has grown and encased this light being now comes covered in ice like a flash winter as icicles fall below. And the light is starting to dim with each of these blasts is getting covered and diminished. Does that finish your turn forward. There it is. As the sun deck, I'm going to.

[Will Friedle]

Attempt, attempt to recharge my galvanizing ballad so I can use it again.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, let's go ahead and roll.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Six. Great. So one of the flutes kind of like starts to get a bit hot and I reach in my pocket, I pull another flute out and I quickly I switch it over and I keep blasting on it. So everyone gets advantage for the whole next round.

[Matthew Mercer]

Let's go, let's go.

[Laura Bailey]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right. Bonus action anywhere thinking about doing.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I'm going to explain spend my very last bardic inspiration and I'm gonna send one over to Fjord because he is. He's so. Yeah, I just toot a few like, quick notes over like, and they Just. They enrapture.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, by the way. Forward. Because you started your turn. And within 10ft because you struck the last turn. You do lose a hit, Dice, because you were within its corona.

[Narrator/DM]

Son of a.

[Matthew Mercer]

It's consuming corona. All righty. Definition turn. Yes. Any turns can use his last legendary action. It's going to go ahead and do another spirit scar beam on your team again. What the. Man.

[Sam Riegel]

There's a whole other half of the table over there.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, just spread all my attacks around so nobody ever gets in danger.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Actually, aren't you. Aren't you still goated? Out of curiosity.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah, but it's not rolling. Attack. Roll.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Oh, it's not an attack.

[Travis Willingham]

Okay, That's.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hey. Yeah. Yeah. Is this spell beam a melee attack? No, but I need you all to roll. Dexterity saving throw.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's the people who are in range.

[Matthew Mercer]

It has those same three people. It's Caduceus 4.

[Travis Willingham]

Very smart sneeze.

[Sam Riegel]

Did you say Dex?

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes, please.

[Sam Riegel]

Dirty 20.

[Ashley Johnson]

Damn.

[Matthew Mercer]

Dirty 20 just saves. 25 saves. Caduceus 17. Caduceus. You take 36 points of radiant damage and mark another death save.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

So what happens when you have three death saves?

[Matthew Mercer]

Say it's hit. It just means when you hit zero hit points, you instantly die.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Well, okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Position.

[Travis Willingham]

Heal thyself.

[Matthew Mercer]

No.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

36 points of damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yes. All right.

[Narrator/DM]

What's his.

[Liam O'Brien]

What's his health at?

[Ashley Johnson]

It's not good.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Not great.

[Ashley Johnson]

It's bad.

[Liam O'Brien]

What is that?

[Matthew Mercer]

What is that? 28.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

Nosies.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. Okay. BR is IR2HIM with Imogen on deck.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, nosies.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

If you got something, I'll take it.

[Ashley Johnson]

Damn. Damn.

[Liam O'Brien]

I. I mean, can you.

[Laura Bailey]

Can you heal?

[Liam O'Brien]

I can.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Not enough probably.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's so hard to heal at a.

[Sam Riegel]

Live show, but will you.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm trying to be a good person. I'm trying to be a good person.

[Matthew Mercer]

Trying to be. Trying to be.

[Sam Riegel]

Be a good person. Be a good person.

[Matthew Mercer]

Be a good person.

[Sam Riegel]

Be a good person.

[Liam O'Brien]

But I also want to do awesome stuff. My kids do awesome stuff.

[Matthew Mercer]

Do awesome stuff.

[Will Friedle]

You've got that advantage.

[Travis Willingham]

Shoey.

[Matthew Mercer]

Shoey. Sh. Sh.

[Liam O'Brien]

Now we're just chanting things.

[Ashley Johnson]

Chanting things. Chanting things.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's about right. Brace, what would you like to do? Should have done that. Thing them up, buttercup.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'm gonna him up.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. Let's go. All right. So you got advantage on those attacks. Brace. Let's go.

[Travis Willingham]

I will.

[Liam O'Brien]

I'll take that. 30 to hit. And I will use Divine Smite. And I will use Foul Verdict. I'll use all of it. It's 2, 3, 3, 5.

[Matthew Mercer]

Just please note to me which parts.

[Liam O'Brien]

Are well, 10, 27, and then the radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

So.

[Liam O'Brien]

37, but 17 of it is radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, gotcha. So that'll be. Gotcha.

[Ashley Johnson]

But he doesn't have his vulnerabilities. Or is his resistance correct.

[Matthew Mercer]

Right.

[Ashley Johnson]

Okay.

[Matthew Mercer]

That's your first strike. Huh?

[Liam O'Brien]

And then for this one, I'll do. I'll just do blinding smite. Also, I guess even though it's radiant damage, it'll have it, but it's. It's more.

[Matthew Mercer]

I mean, it does all add up.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Liam O'Brien]

It's 29 to hit that hits and attack. 24, but 20 of it is radiant.

[Matthew Mercer]

So 14 points of damage. Got it.

[Liam O'Brien]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

All right, cool. Heavy strikes from brave.

[Liam O'Brien]

But he's blinded.

[Matthew Mercer]

He's immune to being. But good looking out.

[Liam O'Brien]

But he's super blinded.

[Matthew Mercer]

He's super blinded. All right, cool. That finishes Brus's go. God, he's used all his legendary actions.

[Sam Riegel]

Oh, thank you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Imogen, you're up with Oramond deck before the next layer.

[Ashley Johnson]

Oh, God.

[Sam Riegel]

No pressure.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah. Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

All right, well, I'm gonna do my 1d12 of tether damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay. It's an action to do that.

[Laura Bailey]

I know.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so that's seven lightning damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

Seven lightning damage.

[Laura Bailey]

And I'm gonna quicken a spell.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, there it is.

[Ashley Johnson]

Yeah.

[Matthew Mercer]

Look at that. You see that wink? That was awesome.

[Laura Bailey]

And I'm gonna look at the spot that I have the tether in, and I'm gonna send a lightning bolt up through it right there.

[Matthew Mercer]

What level?

[Laura Bailey]

All I have is a level five.

[Matthew Mercer]

Level five lightning bolts. Not too bad. All right, so some damage. That is going to be an 18 fails. And I have no legendary resistances because of the. All right, let's go.

[Laura Bailey]

Okay, so that's 10D6.

[Travis Willingham]

Oh, that's a lot.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay, come up.

[Ashley Johnson]

Come on.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm sorry.

[Matthew Mercer]

12. 14.

[Liam O'Brien]

Apology accepted.

[Matthew Mercer]

Okay.

[Laura Bailey]

And then 36 points of lightning damage.

[Matthew Mercer]

36 points. Lightning damage doubled. All right.

[Laura Bailey]

Not doubled. He's not vulnerable to it anymore.

[Narrator/DM]

How do you want.

[Matthew Mercer]

It? Had 35 hit points left. I wanted to. I'm gonna. Ooh.

[Ashley Johnson]

I love you guys.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm gonna Ooh. I'm gonna take my tether and I'm gonna pull it like it's a rope, and I'm gonna jump up and land on it like I'm riding the snake. And as I say.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yee haw.

[Laura Bailey]

I'm going to slam the lightning bolt down into it.

[Matthew Mercer]

Phenomenal. As you slam the lightning bolt into it. It bursts from your palm and carves through the stone. And as you lift your hand, it's like a massive heated plasma cutter as you're just carving through the length of its remaining body.

[Narrator/DM]

As you do, the light begins to flicker and fade.

[Matthew Mercer]

The stone begins to crack until eventually.

[Narrator/DM]

Pieces of it break off and tumble between the branches and leaves that hold it. And you leap off and float in the air. As the final bits of its light dim. As it does and it crumples into pieces of shale, the green of this chamber begins to blossom brighter. For a brief moment, the ever fogged clouded sky above gives way to a bright blue sky. As you see shapes begin to descend from above. The shadows of your lost comrades.

[Matthew Mercer]

Swan diving from the top of the mountain, having more or less served the second half of this battle to you from the physical realm. And here you finished it in the.

[Narrator/DM]

Spiritual, destroying whatever strange entity had been haunting and corrupting this island for an untold period of time.

[Matthew Mercer]

But their shadowed forms become physical as.

[Narrator/DM]

The boundary and veil between these realms fades. And you all now stand back on Exandria proper.

[Matthew Mercer]

They all.

[Narrator/DM]

Gently land and you can't.

[Matthew Mercer]

Help but immediately excitedly gaze upon the.

[Narrator/DM]

Rest of your scattered families.

[Matthew Mercer]

But the other thing that catches your.

[Narrator/DM]

Attention is the other Ethel that descends with them.

[Sam Riegel]

What?

[Matthew Mercer]

Wait a minute.

[Will Friedle]

Oh my God. I think.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hi. Hi.

[Will Friedle]

How's it going? I'm fine. How are you? We don't have to do small talk. It's fine. We don't have to. I'm fine. I'm good. Did you. These are your friends?

[Matthew Mercer]

I guess.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Yeah. They're really. They were great. Come over and say hello to me. Don't worry. We'll just. Just have our moment. Are you okay?

[Matthew Mercer]

Everything.

[Will Friedle]

I missed you.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, buddy. Don't worry.

[Will Friedle]

Don't worry. No, I don't. I like it. I don't know. And I'm scared. I've been. I don't think you need me. Just go and. Go and do it. I'm nothing. I'm just dragging you back, man. I'm just. I'm a dick. They don't like me. They're just hanging around me because I could help them to my friends. Hey. Hey. You guys can go home. By the way. I've got this one says, hey, you're my dick.

[Matthew Mercer]

Boop.

[Will Friedle]

And he step.

[Travis Willingham]

Caleb lands light as a feather next to Orym and says. It's so weird. It's almost like he's talking to. To himself. I know. It's so weird.

[Marisha Ray]

Wait. How come we didn't get another one. I. I want another fern.

[Liam O'Brien]

Everybody does.

[Matthew Mercer]

Yeah. The rest of you notice that as.

[Narrator/DM]

They'Re having this conversation both of the.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ethels.

[Narrator/DM]

Begin to glow in their own way. A faint gentle greenish light seems to surround them both in proximity and caduceus. That vision you had earlier. That vacant space in one seems to match the opposite of the vacant space space in the other. Two halves of one whole.

[Will Friedle]

Do you know how we get back? I don't know. We're just high fiving a bunch but it doesn't seem to be working.

[Marisha Ray]

I think you have to enter the other one.

[Sam Riegel]

Maybe just hug it out.

[Matthew Mercer]

That.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

That might be.

[Marisha Ray]

Seen it.

[Will Friedle]

Wait, hang on. I don't know who your friend is yet. Don't listen to her. She's kind of fucked up. Hang on, wait, hang on. Just. Do you remember when we were young? When there was that before he can even finish the sentence and he pulls the flute to his lips and plays one haunting note that kind of goes high and sits there and then comes back down. And the Ethel with the lute slides a note up and hits that same note and comes down. And then between. I guess it's a trio because there's two flutes. But they start to follow each other just in the melodies and the harmonies taking turns where the other lets lead and then seamlessly letting the other instrument take the melody and come home while the other just falls into the background and they play and accompany each other.

[Narrator/DM]

As the songs merge and the sound of this beautiful music begins to wind. The sounds of the island come alive. The sounds of hundreds of birds beginning to chirp with it. The sounds of the distant seaside waves crashing. It's like a vibrance in life that's been long muted in this space returns as the two of them become one. And it's here. Long divided and kept away from the corrupting force. The spirit of the island is reunited with itself as Ethel is no longer but a standing Goliath but is now the living force that has long guarded and been the heart of this island for so many centuries. The memories come back the time before the calamity and the time since the guardianship. The generations of Goliaths that have lived amongst your children, trees and the jungles. The village that you helped grow and build from within yourself. And for out the children that you've watched over. The creatures, the birds, the seals. The vibrancy of this island that you have held within your heart and protected and finally can return.

[Will Friedle]

It's also clear now each and every one of you Came here looking for something completely different. And yet you found one aspect of me and put your other stuff aside. And now look at all these spirits. You are heroes.

[Narrator/DM]

As the music spreads throughout the island, the various stone forms of its Goliath denizens begin to shift once more the protective stone state that was placed upon them to shield them from the corrupting force no longer necessary. And as you all say, your kind hellos.

[Marisha Ray]

Hi.

[Narrator/DM]

And for the time being, goodbyes to the joyful soul of this island to pursue the hunt, the ever progressive hunt for that which you seek. Take a moment.

[Matthew Mercer]

Ethel.

[Will Friedle]

We sure are gonna miss you. I'll miss you too.

[Matthew Mercer]

Hey, look at that.

[Will Friedle]

You can brand a spirit. And I look at the tattoo. That still seemed a little faded. Maybe because it was only one half of the brand.

[Sam Riegel]

But you seem to have been here for a long time. There aren't many of these, but I'll. Here's an egg.

[Marisha Ray]

Hang on a minute.

[Sam Riegel]

Watch out for that when she's conniving.

[Marisha Ray]

No, no, you just met the two of them.

[Liam O'Brien]

Fern, shut the fuck up.

[Marisha Ray]

I don't know. You never gave me an egg.

[Matthew Mercer]

Thank you, Ethel.

[Will Friedle]

Well, one good deed deserves another. And I look at my two flutes. I go. And I snap off one. I go. Two is pretty stupid to look at anyway. And I hand over one of the gold sort of pan flutes.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, shit. I bet this does something.

[Liam O'Brien]

Bryus would go over to Caduceus and put a hoof on his shoulder and I just say, thank you so much, and as I touch him, I'll pump 60 pounds. Points of lay on hoofs.

[Taliesin Jaffe]

Technically, that means you're putting your foot on my. It's okay. I'm not going to fight it.

[Liam O'Brien]

But that was amazing what you did. Watching you pray back there. There's no gods. But you somehow were visitors on this island. We've only been here a short time.

[Matthew Mercer]

Time.

[Liam O'Brien]

And yet somehow you found inspiration from. From the people here and from the nature that they've shared with you. And it was incredible to watch. And I think if I can't pray to a God, maybe. Maybe this land will inspire me for the rest of my life.

[Ashley Johnson]

Ethel.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, yes. And Ethel.

[Ashley Johnson]

What will you do now?

[Will Friedle]

I'm the spirit of this island. It's. I'll stay here and look over it. But I do have to say maybe make some stupid songs that everyone can sing and share with each other. But Bryas, I did notice. I'm pleased that you are. You love this island and the things that it's done for you. If you'd like, you can sample something from this island as well. And how he strums on his guitar and. And a blue energy comes out and seems to make this sort of like, cup mug thing. But it doesn't look really like a mug or a cup. It seems to look a little like a stiletto. He says, for anyone who wishes to sip upon the. The sweet juice of this island.

[Matthew Mercer]

Is it.

[Travis Willingham]

A shimmering door raises up from the sand on the island. And Caleb says, hold on a moment. I have 12,000 spectral cats who would like to see this happen. Come inside and let me get my boot off.

[Liam O'Brien]

Oh, there's stuff floating in mine.

[Matthew Mercer]

Australia, this is how much we love you.

[Ashley Johnson]

Hey, are you all ready? This is so disgusting. Ready, Aussie.

[Matthew Mercer]

Aussie, Aussie.

[Will Friedle]

Now put those shoes back on, legends.

[Matthew Mercer]

Oh, you got to put it back on. Oh, yeah, put it back on, y'. All. Oh, I'm not putting it back on. Yeah. Oh, damn. So with that, the adventure adventurous tales of the island of Tyranna come to a close for now, but perhaps future adventures for the hunt of Ludinus and other such chaos is to come. But thank you all so much for joining us on this wondrous evening. We love you, Melbourne. And is it Thursday yet? We love you, Australia. SA round of applause for Tom Carney. I love you all so much. Have a wonderful night. Until next time, you all.

[Sam Riegel]

And that concludes this episode of Critical Role. If you like the adventure, please consider leaving a review on your podcast platform of choice. We love welcoming new critters, and your review could be the map that leads other kindred spirits our way. We hope you enjoyed the story and thank you very much for listening.