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Ep. 90 Dissention! - Bellum Draconis
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Finish HIM. The party try to navigate their latest predicament.
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D&D Adventure Begins
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Hello everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. We are a live play 5e D and&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Eryth in the Kingdom of Dralak. Joining you for this week's episode, we have... Darrin, who plays the High Elf, Art of His Arrange, Haddao. Why are the Shothermendians... No, we're Shothermendians, fuck this. Why are the Sweet Guardians stabbing us? That's what I was trying to say. That was awful. Will, who plays the human cleric, Emron? Why can't we all just get along? Ian, who plays the Tiefling Water, or Nyx Corral. Hi! Boobies. Did your intro just go off prematurely there? But, no. Premature. Introactions.
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wow ah rick Boobies works, that's fine. We can say hi to Boobies. The amount of times you fucked my intro. It's payback. Who else is here with us? We also have Will, who says Boobies in Days of Dragonborn, Jared Palvalkand. Oh, that's so quiet. My name is Mark and I'm playing the human blade singer Seth Faro River. I'm my last, but by no means least is our commander of current combat, our DMD of D and&D, our man, Danny. Oh my god. You are a right listener when you've just turned to the person next to you and said aren't they all in their 30s and they're all about boobies.
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yes or for you we so We still have the sense of humour of 12 year olds. The hail pitters against the roof of old girl's shack items on the walls rattle and vibrate with the energy of the sleet and so and hail falling upon the shop old girl flicks one or two of these small hailstorms out of the front door before looking up reaching into his pocket and removing the orb
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Oh, clip-clop!
Kareem's Ambush Plan
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The party gets themselves back on the road, Reigns does a little bit of unpicking on Burt Shadow's present, and then the party talks about plans for some sort of ambush, and they settle on the idea that they's gonna keep themselves moving. They see some person up on a hill, turns out Daisy hitchhiker, they sees another person, but they're on horseback, they got a red traveling cloak, and it's Kareem! He wants to rearrange his deal with Seth after, you know what, Seth is no longer a wanted person. Turns out he doesn't even have no Trappy Trap for them at all.
Combat with Uprisqra Begins
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He's just a genuine human being that wants some money. He lingers behind the cart for a full minute doing some sort of shady shit, and Nix decides to change his bet to make Seth the champion. The party decides they want to find somewhere safe, but before they do so, they see up ahead the sleet
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cart surge are ambushing the Uprisqra. Oh shit! The cart slows down. Bad idea boys, bad idea. And the Uprisqra are dying. Well that's okay. Raines jumps off. What? Seth jumps off. Oh serious like oh there goes the plan. Good job. Seth wants to heal all of the downed soldiers because he's got some sort of affinity from earlier and they done says we're looking for someone and then they says to Seth hucky If you're a chance to run now, boy, just you." And says like, oh, just say the damn phrase and make it seem like you're the people we're meant to hand this prisoner off to, but they don't, so it's fucking initiative! And as bless is going up, there's explosions happening, and rains get stabbed the fuck up by like five people, it's crazy. And then we hear a voice say, he's here for king and country, and a spear is thrown at Alpha, and there's a big fucking eruption from somewhere!
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Thanks Lobster Will. In this moment where your ears are absolutely filled with this rolling thunder, you're trying to place where it came from. Nick's completely blind to what's happening outside of this circle of darkness you find yourself in. A number of rocks just sort of fall off the cliff edge where those arches are ambushing you from. And you all see this black scorching appear in a ring around the base of Alpha. And for a moment, Alpha just collapses and then instantly hikes himself back up again and begins to sprint very awkwardly towards Reigns.
Moral Decision in Battle
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And as he's sprinting, just shouts, oh my guy, that was the stupidest thing you have ever done. And I spent four months as a bugbear's prostitute here and slaps you on the butt Reigns and you receive
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44 points of healing. what the fuck stop but something other now yes i will take that And then he turns and points that group at the north. Seth currently engaged with five of his former brethren it would seem. Four of them caught in this difficult terrain that Reigns has created with this webbing effect. One of them, however, to the left of you, Seth, just sort of begins to shake a little bit and drops the aggressive stance he was holding. As Reigns, you just hear, uttered from Alpha's voice, in Alpha's voice, protect us. And you watch as this person next to you, Seth, spear dropped, turns shoulder to shoulder now, and looks at the rest of his crew.
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Top of initiative now, it is the sleep guardian's turn. Why are you a better alpha than alpha? Don't tell him that. ah yeah yeah yeah yeah He's doing so well. Don't tell him that. He's talking loads today as well. So here's what's going to happen. ah Seth, the two that can reach you with spears are going to make two spear jabs towards you. Do it. Do it. They attack the the one that's restrained attacks with disadvantage. Thank you very much. The one with disadvantage rolls a 14 to hit. That misses. The other rolls a 12. That misses. I still got my bladesong up so my AC is 21.
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Okay. The two who um weren't able to reach you, Seth, are going to start to move south in the direction of rain. And because of Ray's webbing, it's difficult to rain, but am I also making a save?
Baal's Wildfire Spirit Tactics
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Those two were restrained, I think, so they need to make strength saving throws before they can move. ah Okay. you want One isn't. Yeah. and Okay. The one that is needs to pass a strength saving throw. Natural one, so he's staying put. and The one that hasn't.
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Am I right in thinking they've got to use their action to free themselves with a strength check? Yeah, they have to use their action to break the to try and break the restrain. ah whether i say it's just double yeah yeah So the individual who was unable to break is just sort of there, just trying to now poke hit the webbing around his feet with his spear. The one that was able to get out just makes a beeline reigns towards you, but doesn't quite have enough to make up the distance. And it's just going to lob his spear the rest of the way. So it reigns. Does A. twenty two hit your armor class
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You take points of piercing damage as just for a second you feel completely renewed and revitalised. This spear just gets you straight in the bicep. On top of the cliff edge then, despite being difficult terrain, the one that is engaged with your magical, sorry, spiritual weapon, Emron, is just gonna sort of run away from it a little bit and take one shot at you, Emron. Okay. ah
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14 against your armor class. No, that misses. The one to the far north is just gonna come down to your ground level, Seth, and is going to shoot Beau towards you. Piss. 20. Miss. Fantastic. ah The two who are above you, Beau, sorry, the two who are in the cliff and in the difficult terrain are both gonna take shots at you, Beau, as they can see that you channeled that attack. So you're gonna take two straight bow shots. The 22 to hit. Certainly does. And the nine to hit. Does not. You take.
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five points of piercing damage and the one who is yet to make a move outside of the the difficult terrain area is just going to again roll run back round following his companion to the north and it's going to dash to make it up to Seth but cannot take an action the one however that has dropped arm Seth and is looking a bit more protective of you is just going to raise a shield next to you And that is the end ah the cris return it is sorry of the sleekard turn. So used to making a brisker, the bad guys. Over to you. and it is ah It is a party-wide initiative, so you guys decide this order, except for Alpha, who's now acting out of that order. But you have all seen Alpha run like he has never run before, like he is not used to the body he is in. Cast something he has never been capable of casting before. Over to you.
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Can I ask a question before we start? Yes. You know, at the end, when before comment started, there was the Chris remember the sort of like sort grabbed onto the back of our car. Did they die or where are they? They died. Yeah, I did. like I couldn't remember. They're sort of in Nix's darkness cloud now between the carts.
Emron and Nyx's Strategic Moves
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Fine. Thank you. But they have only recently like, you know, they're the equivalent of making death saves, you know. Cool. Okay. Uh, Can I move my, I'm going to use the bonus action to bring my spiritual hammer to the south. Okay. And I'll do that in a moment. And it's going to make an attack against the soldier that sort of headed towards the southwest. That's okay. Go for it.
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me That's an 11 to hit. That will miss, I'm afraid. Fair enough. um Everyone will see the two up in default terrain and everyone will move up the slope, as it were, towards difficult terrain and swing at the one closest to him. That in itself is difficult terrain. Oh, sorry. um like like It's sort of like a ah cliff edge incline. So you would use um double your movement to get up there. ah And then you the the point where you see the shading change is like a ah cliff edge that you need to just ah mount and and get over, if that makes sense. I wouldn't be able to attack him from below. You'd have to go into the difficult terrain proper um that Baal has caused. Okie dokie.
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Anyone can go at this point. It's not just everyone's turn. Yeah, it's all good. ah So are we, I guess we can communicate at the same time then? Yes. As we're doing this, awesome. I, Bar will shout out, cause he can see that obviously Seth now appears to be in the most kind of precarious positioning. Seth will just, ah sorry, Bar will just shout out, we need to get back and we need to start moving. um And um I'm intending to do something with my action, but obviously cause other people are doing stuff at the same time, I'll i'll wait to see if other people are going to respond in some way.
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ah Excuse me, sorry. Nick's would, because he's covered in darkness, and he's on the car at the moment, ah but hearing Baal say that is is exactly what Nick's is thinking as well. So he would crawl kind of hands and knees style. up to the car, up to the seat of the car where the reins are um and I'd like to set the elephant in the slowest motion forwards possible. Can you find the reins? What's that? Can you find the rage? Well, this is what I'd like to do, right? i But I can still move, can't I? And it's only a smallish car. So and make an animal handling check then a disadvantage because you're not proficient in vehicles and also it is completely enshrouded in magical darkness. Yeah, yeah yep. Yep, yep, yep, yep. And whilst he's doing that, but I will also just shout out. Seth, I'm going to move you back.
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um
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Yeah, before I do my next action. Did you say disadvantage? Yes, please. OK, I'm going to use Tides of Chaos and negate that. ah So once per long let rest, you can gain advantage on one attack roll, one ability check or a saving and throw. Before you regain use of this feature, the DM can have you roll on the wild magic third table after you cast a first level spell or high, then regain the use of this feature. So Tides of Chaos, I'm just going to roll um Animal Handling Normal. OK. which is horrible anyway. Nine. Oh man. Worth a try. Totally. So you successfully locate the reins, but
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In the act of finding them, you've been doing a lot of pulling and you eventually just pull the elephant closer towards the car in almost like a reverse fashion. Haven't managed to get, get trunks to move at all. Cool. Okay. That'll count as your action. like that not Hey look, you could have had him spinning around 360. That's cool. What I'd like to do then, if um I might as well jump in, um I am going to conjure my wildfire spirit. um And I'm going to conjure it just outside. Now, having, because i've I've conjured it several different times, some I've managed to damage friends and things like that. So he's being a bit more conservative about it this time. And I'm going to have it conjured.
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um in front of Seth, but far enough away from him so that its initial explosion doesn't damage him. um But it means that anything within 10 feet of it, i've I've marked on the map for you, Danny, and you and for listeners, it's just outside the web um that's been created by Reigns. But there are three um ah three of these Sleepguard members that are within range of the kind of the explosion that will happen when it appears. So I need from them. um all a Dex save to avoid any damage. Which they roll at disadvantage because they are restrained. And it also sets the webs on fire. Which I'm rolling at damage for now. It's at the start of their turn, isn't it? So DC15, just so you know where. So the two closest to Seth fail. The one who is furthest away and spent his turn sort of trying to get rid of the webs at his feet. and He passes on the Dex save.
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Okay, ah only the ones that fail take damage and it's seven points of fire damage. um I don't know whether it's an extra d6 for the web igniting. It's two d4s, which I rolled two twos on, so it's an extra four points of damage to the two that failed and then two points. When it starts, it's turning the fire.
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I'll go from the starting of its turn. But Darren, can you just remember the damage value and when I come back to it? Yes, four for two of them, two for one. Easy. And then with my bonus action. and our command in Draconic for it to move towards Seth, um which we'll do in a direct fashion, not kind of leaving attack opportunity unless anyone's got a 10 foot attack opportunity to get within five foot of Seth and then use its fiery teleportation feature. um Now, Seth has to be willing and it's entirely up to him whether he is or isn't. He would have seen this feature happen before.
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um But basically what it's going to do is go to engulf him and as it does, we'll be able to teleport him 15 feet away and leave behind a secondary explosion. That's huge! And leave behind an explosion. Oh yeah. At that, as it approaches, I imagine that the flame flick does does something different. And again, he kind of recognizes it. And Seth would just shadow blade in one hand, kind of hold his arms out wide to the side, head bowed low, as it kind of kicks in and shifts him back. And what you see the Wildfire Spirit do, because I've kind of described it like this before, is because obviously it's this kind of flaming serpentine dragon. It's just going to open its maw and kind of engulf in you and kind of bite down and explode. And you will appear 15 feet closer towards the cart, um probably down by the side of the elephant, if that's 15 feet. And anything just within five foot of it. So there's two um ah to members of the
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I'd probably have it appearing to the left, even though that's probably in the danger zone. um But the ah two of the the nearest members of the um surge needs to take another deck save, please, same DC. One is restrained, so that will be a disadvantage. The restrained one fails. The unrestrained one who has just recently joined the fray after being hit by your attack on the cliff.
Seth's Powerful Spell Attack
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ah passes with a 20. Okay, only the one that fails, balls damage, minimum damage is four points okay um to that one, but that's that's my action as my wildfoss spirit is also teleported with Seth. That was awesome, fantastic. and Just to finish off that awesomeness of an action, as Seth lands, and imagine there's little kind of like magical flames maybe on the edge of his cloak as he appears, the minute he reappears almost knowing that his arm's already halfway back and he's going to throw his um
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shadow blade towards ah the member of k chris kra that is in the corner of the web that's already been hit now twice by the spell and it's just going to go for a ranged attack it's within 20 feet so hits And they're going to take 3d8 plus 4 damage. Wow, that's 23 points of sight. What? That guy is dead.
00:22:10
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Cool. with his you just You just see as in a second, this black mass of energy just penetrates through the chest of this guy and he just falls lifeless.
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Awesome. Very awesome. that's What I can also do then I think as the bonus action is I can recall the weapon and to my hand and it just dissipates from this gut the middle of this guy's throat and just appears back in Seth's hand. He's then going to turn his head, snap his head rather mechanically up towards Trunks and is going to use ah within permission DM and his movement to get himself into a position to um control the cart in some way. do i actually shit another I'm not next to the car, I'm next to trunks. No, so you're still 20 feet away from the the driving capacity space of the cart. So technically, as I haven't moved yet, um I will then use my movement to shift myself back. I can see the darkness. miss I don't want to sit in the darkness, but I guess it's your call. Where can I sit? I wouldt how i would help him up. Live on board for a minute. Yeah. So I'll sit you next to Nick's if you were sort of in that driving spot.
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Okay. Am I able to see, am I able to see from that position? Just, you are just outside that, that radius. Like sticking his head out on the rest of his order. You can see nothing behind you. You're not even, you're not even convinced the carts are connected. Like you cannot see behind you at all. Okay. And he's just going to jump up on there. And i I don't think I have any movement or any kind of action economy left to say I'd, I'd hear it. But that's, that's my next thing is to hear. Um, I don't know. what a clip oh yeah clip we'll be on the clip now we are beyond yeah yeah yeah we're on we're in clippity-clop
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they move on drugs. um And also Seth is totally internally, totally bemused by the fact that this massive moor of darkness just sounds like Nick saying, oh, hey, he's in this kind of like mechanical state now, given who they're fighting and what's going on. Everything's very serious. Everything's very heroic. Everything's very cinematic. That's what he does when he's serious. um And that's my turn. Okay. So, Reigns hasn't taken an action or both section of movement. em Everyone, did you take an action? No, not yet. Okay, so you guys still have skin in the game. Okay, Rains is immediately going to see this. Alpha's hand is still on your butt. ah Okay.
00:24:39
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What we say about personal space alpha, if that's you, get on the cart and what Reigns is going to do is the Rubik's Cube is going to come up. i Stakes are too high and what's going to happen is the two sphinxes, um which are not present on this armor because it's different armor, they're going to form the two sphinxes on his shoulder are just going to appear out of the suit and both mouths are going to open and just outcome the range of magic missiles towards the guy in front of me. Okay, go for it. Give me some damage.
00:25:12
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Did they go? Oh, max damage, max damage. 20 points of shit all four. watch joe It's going to go one into him for five damage. I'm going to keep throwing them at him until he falls down. And if he doesn't fall, they're all going at him. So he doesn't. He'd take one after the other. It's four, is it? Fourth, the 20 damage total. One after the other, after the other, after the other. end And they just, they sort of, these glowing white um ripples just sort of stick in that sleek guardian plate armor. and then eventually just sort of dissipate. He looks bruised and battered, but he's still just breathing. Okay, ah what's then going to happen is, is the seat looking at the car? Have I got this right? nix Is Nick's on the roof? You can't tell. It's completely in darkness. Okay, but I can't see Nick's, but I can see Seth. You can see Seth's legs, Seth's nose, Seth's hands.
00:26:05
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Okay, Reigns is then going to just shout to Alpha, we need to get on the car and Reigns is gonna just turn and in the first instance is going to try and jump, if getway he's gonna scramble up the other side next to next to Seth. Okay, I need you to make a, um
00:26:33
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perception check at disadvantage as you're going into complete darkness to just try and you have, you have only known that car for a short time because you were unconscious for some of the time you were in there. Yeah. Yeah. It's a nine. Yeah. You, you, you stumbled to get to the place you were trying to get to. You just sort of find yourself at like the base of it inside complete darkness. You didn't quite get to where you wanted it. It's like you, you imagine there was somewhere you could put your foot and it wasn't there and you just sort of fall back down on your ass.
00:27:06
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Okay. M run. Yes. Um, looking around, do any of the sleek guard soldiers bear any kind of like rank insignia to demonstrate that they might be in charge? Uh, make a history check for me or, and yeah, history seems the most appropriate. Okay.
00:27:33
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Nah, it's a two. It's hard to say. It's hard to say in this heat in particular, like you you're just, not everything's quite connecting and you're a bit more yeah like stunned by the fact that this is even happening. It's hard to get specifics. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Anything else you want to do? Yeah. um if unless and Unless that burns my action. and I e will say no. So, everyone's going to move just to the other side of Alpha, sort of across the cart, probably ducking under the reins. And I'm just going to attack the guy that's closest to the party that reins us through his magic missiles at. Go for it. With Mahama. That's better. 21 to hit. ah That hits. Go ahead, roll damage.
00:28:29
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ah but That's... four points of bludgeoning damage. Thank you very much. This guy, who's just received four magic missiles to the chest, is looking very ropey indeed. And then he will also get pushed five feet backwards as well. Nice. Thank you very much. Okay. Am I correct in thinking just what I meant to go? The kart's like one of like, it's like four wheels rather than just two on the map, isn't it? Yeah, sorry. I couldn't get a token in the match. But yes, it is like a four-wheeler red-debrided engine-style person wagon. Yeah, that's cool. Right, right.
00:29:00
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um And then I'm gonna sort of stay where I am, to sort of wait for Alpha to move. Okay, couple of things happen here. Has anyone else wanna do anything with their turn? Okay. Nix, you've been located there enough and you've acclimatized yourself to not being able to see any of that space around you, but your passive perception is high enough to hear the distinct sound of something leaping off the back of the wagon and it there's a sort of a bounce to the wagon afterwards and then this figure just comes past your shoulder it rains but it's too dark for you to tell what you just get sort of barged in the shoulder and then this individual appears next to Alpha
00:29:56
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with a blade to Alpha's neck.
Kedark's Betrayal and Transformation
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And you watch as both of them just almost like Baal managed to do there with Seth. They just sort of warp 20 feet towards the east away from what's happening. And you all see the prisoner you have been escorting, not the one in the cage, the one you had tied with a blade
00:30:26
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motherfucker at alpha's neck for straining him fuck had it shoved up his ass we're gonna kill that camera and then you just hear alpha say oh my this was just like that time back in moonrise let's do this daddy oh my come on let's do this daddy alpha is unable to take any more action it is the sleep guardian's turn and they are going to draw their attention to the one thing that is going to stop you from staying here and you just watch as this one individual who is now at this point Emrun
00:31:05
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appearing to be the one of rank. It was the one who was talking to Seth saying, just be on your way and pretend you didn't see any of this. Just points towards Trunks. Which one's that one? Sorry, ah in relation to the map. Sorry. In the relation to the map, it's the one that was for a moment appeared to be guarding Seth and that seems to have stopped. Okay. okay you So it's the one to the north. Four points of damage to the two in the webbing as well, Danny. Thank you very much for the reminder.
00:31:37
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So, you just watch as the two in the webbing release their spears at trunks. Restrained one at disadvantage. Are they restrained now? Could we burn the webs? Well, it's it's technically that says the webs are still formed until the end of this round. They're currently burning. Any five-foot cues that expose burns away in one round, ah yeah. Makes sense. So that's until Baal's turn, they will still be on the map as I read that. But yes, even at disadvantage, they're able to still hit trunks, both of those. What so did they roll? oh They rolled a 22 and a 17. Okay, thank you.
00:32:16
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Should have blessed Trunks. Trunks receives a number of damage that you will not learn but has two quite sizable spears skewered into one of his legs. ah The one who pointed at Trunks is then going to advance and this time just beelining for you Baal.
00:32:33
Speaker
It seems to have shaken off whatever it was that was ah compelling him to protect Seth. and Another is going to spend all their movement to dash to Emron. The other is going to, who was just knocked back by Emron, going to re-approach Emron. So, Emron, you're going to get hit. Baal, you're going to get hit. That's nice to release these. Oh, it's a natural 20 against you, Baal, I'm afraid. But only a 10 on you, Emron. That misses. So, Baal, you're about to get hit by this bladed curved spear edge. okay
00:33:06
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For 14 points of slashing damage.
00:33:11
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And that leaves the four who are on the raised platform. Two are going to unleash arrows, this time at you Seth, seeing as though you are about to sort of try and attempt to drive off. Do I get any kind of like half cover for the darkness? They know where you are, there's nothing protecting you, it's not like a physical object. That makes sense. There's a 20 and a 14. Nice. ah The one who is sort of kiting your um your spiritual weapon yeah is now going to make a dash into the darkness and
00:33:46
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He will hold a position on the map, but that is not the position that he has. okay That's just for reference that he is in the darkness. Nix, you hear something leap back onto
Nyx's Crown of Madness Spell
00:33:55
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the car with a much heavier stride than the thing that just dismounted. That's about all you're getting from that passive, and which leaves one more one more individual at the north, who is just going to head to the road ahead of you, about 60 feet ahead of where the car is on the road, and begins to just put something on the road. It's hard to tell from this distance.
00:34:17
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You're gonna have to kill them all. Cow chop's that. kill them Also, Mark, how does the 20 miss you? You've been to the Callum School of Armor class. Blade Singer. I've got Mage Armor and then the Blade Song. He's dragging the teeth, just apparating out of nowhere. Callum's not here. He's currently taking notes on his next class. Blade Singer. He's currently not the highest it can be. If I evoked Shield as well, it would be boosted up to 26.
00:34:48
Speaker
And if you were next to me and that still hit, I could still sort you out. I'm next to you. When it comes circles back round to our group, can I take the first? It is your group's turn. I just need, sorry, Raines, I need you to remove the webbing now as it's well and truly burnt away. I didn't add it, I'm sure. Is the difficult train spell concentration, Will? No, no, it's just that was a... I thought it was. um but yes nick has erupted I'd like to drop concentration on darkness once I felt the weight leave the car. Knowing this from just chucking things off a fucking ship, that something's gone overboard.
00:35:27
Speaker
um and then hearing Alpha's voice so I would have as soon as darkness starts to swirl back. As darkness does start to swirl back just because it might change what you want to do next you just see poised towards the back of your neck the tip of a spear from this individual from the sleep guard who dashed into the darkness. Okay. I've just highlighted him so you can all see him. That's fine. It doesn't change what I'm going to do. Gotcha. And it might be cool if it all happens instantaneously because hearing Alpha's words from last time, I can pinpoint quite quickly the direction that he is and this purple cloud will start to swirl next. In an instance, he is gone and he apparates behind the person who's holding the dagger to Alpha.
00:36:17
Speaker
and nix is holding his dagger to that guy so nix is basically apparated behind the um what's his face prisoner what's his name and The birch wood. I was looking at Darren because it's his fucking grandfather's. Keydark birch shadow. The Nick's apparates behind Keydark and his blade is held, not at his neck, but specifically behind his ear at an angle that he would know would straight into his brain from up there. And you just hear in the back of your, in your ears, just, okay, we can drop the blade.
00:37:00
Speaker
That's it. Okay. Thank you very much. Who'd like to go next?
00:37:05
Speaker
Uh, yes. Which two through their spears again, the trunks, the two who were webbed previously. So the ones to your, to your right. Cool. But there is someone engaged with you directly as well. That's fine. Okay. And he has just smashed into me. I get that. Um, but as he's kind of looking down at the blade cut, he's seeing these two javelins sticking out the side of trunks and, uh, I'm at second level going to spunk off some, uh, Scorching raise, please. Okay, go for it. So at the closest one, ah I don't need Bless, I don't think it's a 24. That hits. Second one, 16 plus Bless. It's easier for me to roll it here, isn't it? Yeah. and Just in case the Bless is two, so 18 to hit. That hits as well.
00:38:01
Speaker
okay and then the third one because it's what second i was spell ah is a already rolled the bless for that one what good a oh shit a 12 that one misses okay so the first two are going to strike into the closest one seven points and fire damage each are in total Is that for the first raid that's spashed in? Has that taken him out? or is it No, but he falls to his knee. yeah The 10 damage for the second blast is going to go straight into his fucking face. The second one just sort of team rockets him off into the distance. Excellent. ah Yeah, that's my action. And then with my bonus action, I am sending... ah I'm going to be commanding my Wildfire Spirit to make its way basically equally surrounding. I can get it with it 30 feet of flight speed.
00:38:51
Speaker
um equally to either side of Nyx and Alpha and Burt's shadow. um But whilst it's there, it's going to turn around and unleash some flaming spit at one of those that's near to Emron. So he's without a outside of five foot for it, so hopefully it's not disadvantage. i yeah But I think it's just a roll to hit for that one. Flame seed, it's called. That sounds kind of cute. It's a shit roll. Nine. That misses, I'm afraid. Yeah, no worries. That's me, then. I think the wildfire spirit benefits from your bless.
00:39:22
Speaker
does it? Well, my spiritual weapon does, I'm not sure. Oh, no. I think because it's an entirely different entity with his own hit points and armour class and everything. Yeah. That would explain it. Cool. Yeah, that's ah that's me. I'm not even the focus on the one near me. Okay. Who's next? I'll go. Raines is turning and seeing the scene with Nyx and Alpha And our dastardly assailant from Shadow Men's is going to turn, see Emrom, and it's going to immediately just summon the two sphinxes
Heat Metal and Psychological Warfare
00:39:55
Speaker
again. And what's going to happen is is that, first of all, i another magic missile is going firstly towards the one who has been pummeled. I don't want to cast it at second level. One second.
00:40:08
Speaker
Not so good this time. He takes two points of damage if the first one crashes into him. And that is enough to end that one. Okay. He's then going to just send the other two, other three, so for six points of damage into the one still engaged with Emrom. Okay. And that is also enough to end that one. These midget missiles are cleaning house. And then what Reigns is going to do is he's going to start sprinting towards Alpha and Nyx. You will receive an attack of opportunity from the person in the cart just above you.
00:40:46
Speaker
Am I covered in any way because of the angle of the car? No, he is literally poised on top of it spear out and you are just by his like your head is by his foot. Hold that. Can this happen simultaneously then? Yes. Before you make it move. Yes, it can. That's the whole point of this shared initiative. Fuck yeah. As you start that and the corpses drop, Seth is going to turn to the right hand side, feel the presence of this the movement of the person behind him on the cart. And I'm going to, he's gonna reach down to his spell work and pull out another tab and flick them both. There's two of them out this time and he's gonna, I'm gonna cast Cause Fear at second level. What I need is the person on the cart and also the person who is restraining
00:41:36
Speaker
Alpha to make wisdom saving throws please. DC 15, or they will be frightened. ah The one on the card is a 14. Fails. But Kedok, Burt, Shadow is a 21. Passes. So the target is frightened for up to one minute concentration. and Has users turned to run away from you? or run Remind us. ah Yeah, to run away ah from me. an If it's a terminal reaction, because it's a reaction, you've got to go straight away, hasn't you?
00:42:11
Speaker
Well, um you've literally got fear up. You typed it quicker than me. I i have a ah rules question while I'm here and we're discussing this one. um When I dropped ah conversation, when I dropped concentration, does that take an action or is that? No, it just happens. I've still got an action. yeah When so things are happening while frightened by the spell a creature must take the dash action and move away from you by the safety of a roof under his turns The creature enters turn location where it doesn't have line of sight it can take another wisdom saving throw and it can't willingly move any closer Yeah, it's nothing to do with reaction. No, I go. Okay. Okay. Okay. No, that's even better actually though, really
00:42:49
Speaker
Well, he's about to take a reaction now to hit Reigns. Exactly, that's the problem. So that does Seth's thing happen before that? Seth feared him, but the guy still is able to take a reaction because the rules don't affect his reaction. He just can't advance or aggress towards Seth, and not the party. and And his next action has to be a peg run away. So currently this is his reaction. I misread it. Okay, it's still going. It's 19 to hit your armor class Reigns. Yep. You take eight points of piercing damage as this spear just catches you right into the shoulder. Okay.
00:43:31
Speaker
I was trying to be self-explanatory on this because I've got an actual action. i'm good so Nothing changes. The blade is still behind in that crevice of the the back of the ear, ah point pointed and and and sharpened against Kedark. But Nix is going to hold an action. to push that blade clean through if there's any attempt on alpha from key dark that's hostile in any single way the blades going in so it's this kind of like wild west drop it. yeah thing it i will enough I will slowly describe what happens
00:44:11
Speaker
and then And if you deem it to be hostile, you have to just declare at that point. okay It's just' a shame that it sounds cooler than it is given my shit ass attack, but I set the scene for it. i Is Kidak holding Alpha right now? yes With a blade against his toe. Which is why Nix didn't want to make a run towards him. He had to appear behind him and hold him. So it's this. It's everyone's thing. Everyone's going to suddenly turn to key dunk and I'm going to say the word to drop and command bitch. I would like him to make a ah wisdom saving throw. You got it. plus I want, I want, have I got Bain? Oh, when the next try to get at you, drop it like it's 18.
00:44:56
Speaker
Yeah, that passes. yeah un luckycky And lucky, lucky. I have a bonus action still. And what Rains is going to do is Rains is going to use the bonus action to dispel the hood of his shadow men, all of his dralak armor. So what's going to happen is that the robes are just going to start to unfurl themselves and just completely explode Rains' head. And Rains is just going to start raising his arm, and he's just going to shout, Ku'lark! And he points the gauntlet straight at him. Okay. And I thought it was keyed out. So, sorry. Uh, keyed out. It's quite a muscular framed, but shorter than average humans about five foot five. Nice mix is taller. That's i just making sure that
00:45:44
Speaker
or always It's a different in my, in my theater, to the mind, Nick's just looking up because he's, he's shit oh never actually Nick's ah down. I imagine i imagine that Nick's constantly walks in a crouched position. Nick's has got high heel boots, man. He is, he is a swashbuckler. He walks with a swagger, not with a hunch. I would also use my bonus action to, yeah, shut up while I'm talking now. Um, if it's okay to use the bonus action to clip clop. or to start the clip-clop, or to try and calm. Basically, just I want to get the cart moving slightly in some way. I know I haven't given a bit of time for a full action. the the the The using an item action is an action if you're using the reins. And you will use this bonus action to say the words clip-clop and not add to it. If I hear Seth say that,
00:46:33
Speaker
because obviously I know that we've he's been using that to to move on as well, and because Seth is right within the darkness, and whilst Baal's been slinging off these things. still active darkness is know What I mean is you had been within the darkness when these guys had laid something on the road in front of you. So with your attempt to move the cart forwards, Baal would very quickly just relay that and just say, something on the road, be careful. Okay. I'm going to move to my bonus action if that's okay. I'm going to move the hammer just 20 feet closer to the guys in the difficult terrain. It's going to hit the one on the ridge closest to Baal. Go for it. Thanks. This does benefit from my bless. So let's use it.
00:47:26
Speaker
That's a 23 to hit. I have a hit. noise Awesome damage.
00:47:32
Speaker
Ah, get out of the way. There we go, that's better. Ooh, max damage, 11 points of force damage. Great. Good hit as this hammer just pummels this guy in the back and he just falls to one leg for a moment, is able to stand back up. Anything else the party wished to do? We have a held action from Nix, otherwise I think that's it. Okay. It is. Oh my God, I'm nervous. Alpha's turn. and alpha with a blade across the throat being sort of pulled backwards. We sort of missed the beaning backwards ah into Keduck's chest, just sort of says whilst grappled.
00:48:10
Speaker
My guy. I'm not the guy you need. I'm just borrowing this one's body. Might be a while. We could just wait. I've got a cup of tea in there. I wanna sit down. We could just, no. And then just feels the grip getting tighter. But you do see as Alpha's hands begin to glow blue.
00:48:32
Speaker
And no one is close enough to perceive what's happening. What, even within 10 feet?
00:48:40
Speaker
No one is close enough to where something is happening to perceive what is happening. It's Kedark's turn. Kedark, with a spare hand in the direction of you, reigns, just lifts a middle finger up towards you, tightens his grip on Alpha. It just holds for a second and nicks you here in your mind.
00:49:07
Speaker
Drop the blade, boy. I'll make you a rich man. oh
00:49:20
Speaker
You have a free chance to react should you wish?
00:49:24
Speaker
na and No, no, no. The blade ain't going anywhere. it'ss That's not a threatening action towards Alpha. That's a bargaining chip towards Nyx, but that's okay. He's got a blade against my friend. I'm not... Nyx is a cunt. He's that much a cunt. How much? I i was expecting Nyx to be like, a price first? Nice. No, no, no. Price from request. But the blade ain't going anywhere it's still. So and up but there's ah there's a palpable pause after you hear that offer in your mind and you do nothing. And then the dagger you're holding feels incredibly hot. Fuck it. Like it is beginning to burn even you.
00:50:14
Speaker
And you take some damage. Okay. this is halved okay you take already yes six points of fire damage as you feel your hand beginning to burn holy shit shanker bitch it's not against alpha it's against me ah and he is the kind that i'm I'm right, aren't I? yeah My conditions were against alpha. I didn't anyone to say myself. oh no I'm right in saying that I'm still- But who rules lowering yourself? I'm imagining though, it's unwavering your concentration. Like you're still holding the blade there, you're just persevering through the pain. Did you need to take a consave?
00:50:56
Speaker
Does who need to make his turn to drop it? No, it's... Oh, when he takes damage to drop it. When he takes damage. If it's heat metal, Nix needs to take a con save. Make a con save then, please, Nix. Fuck you, Will. I was doing such a good world luring myself. Sorry. Con saving throw, yeah? Yes. Yes. Come on, Nix. 18? You keep that in your hand. So if you don't drop the object, you now have a disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the start of your next turn. Wow. You're good at keeping it in your hand, Nix. Thanks, Baal. Top of the round, it is the Sleek Guardian's turn, and you just watch as Baal, this one that's squared up to you that seems to be organizing everyone, just again points at the elephant, and then with his other hand, rams this bladed spear towards your chest. I can take it.
00:51:51
Speaker
um maybe i can't i don't know 14 to hit uh would meet and beat but i'm going to use my reaction because i'm not looking tip top uh as and having seen him do this already as the as his arm goes back again these spectral flaming wings kind of sprout out of Baal's back and kind of Bash off, bash off. Clothes in front of him. I bash him off. Yeah,
Enemies Begin to Surrender
00:52:15
Speaker
take that. Deflect the blade strike just wide of me ah that is my as my AC is increased for that attack. Nice. Okay. Thank you very much. and The two who are on the ridge, one that's just been hit by a spiritual weapon is going to follow his command rather than ah note that the spiritual weapon is hitting him. They're going to unleash two more shots this time at trunks.
00:52:41
Speaker
One's a crit. Oh fuck. One also hits. Trunks takes an amount of damage you will not learn but there is this bellow from Trunks as he is hurt. You see just sort of blood dripping on the sand below him and he is sort of struggling on one leg to keep it taut. Trunks is looking hurt. The individual who's in the road begins now to charge back towards the fray and uses all of his action to dash
00:53:14
Speaker
and get in front of trunks past Trunks and can just reach Enron with a dash, but cannot and take an action. ah The other one can make it to Alpha. And you watch as you're now in this four way of Nyx with a blade to the back of Kidak, Burt's Shadow's neck. Kedark Bertshadow grappling with a blade to the neck of Alpha and then this other sleep guardian trying to pull Alpha's feet towards him, towards the north. There is this line of four that, oh, and then the individual who's in the cart, Seth, with you is just going to turn his spear and it's going to attempt to just shove you off the cart. Not going to run away. Ah, thank you for reminding me. Thank you for reminding me. Also, this is not Nyx's first four way.
00:54:04
Speaker
but bi You're muted, so that's not funny from you. the Thank you for reminding me about the fear. The individual who has feared literally spends their entire turn getting to the very border of our role tap our our tabletop map here and that is at 80 foot distance from you. yes as it well Do I get an attack of opportunity? Yes. It's your call. I want an attack of opportunity. There may be something in the fear that says if you attack them it it know It's the start of the outline of sight. Great, go for it. and Then I'm going to, as I've got Warcaster, I'm going to cast a spell at him. I'm going to cast Toll the Dead. and Has he been hit before? Yes. He's damaged. He is. Good. I guess he's been hit by the hammer. ah Can he make a wisdom saving throw please? Has a three. Cool. I get to roll. Because he's been injured before, D12s instead of D8s.
00:54:53
Speaker
Holy shit, that's 18 points of necrotic damage. That was almost max. Wow. That's your fucking Scorchhelm champion right there next. Sponsored by... Bring it on, Karim! Karamanshi! Tesco Extra. Jevalu Karamanshi. Okay, that's all. Sorry, a bell a bell forms and he just hears this discordant ringing in his head and it just kind of pumbles him. It's his black ichor kind of ah running down the sides of his cheeks, maybe out of his ear as well. Nice. That is the Sleek Guardian's turn complete. It is the party's turn. We are, however, going to double check. I think I need Nyx to roll a d20 for Wild Magic Surge. I did it, motherfucker. Not that one, baby. Coming up, fresh, roll magic. Roll 16. All okay for now.
00:55:47
Speaker
This does give you your tides. I get my tides of chaos back there. Yeah buddy. Which means I'm going to use it straight away for the next thing I was going to do. so um ah You're pointing at me. I you and i was going to jump on in and use my bonus action first, but it might fuck up what you're going to do. um It's up to you, man. I mean, I because i suppose it's above board. that This is what I was moving my wildfire spirit to do last time. um So I'm sorry if it fucks it up, but i it's going to kind of ah weirdly almost split and two mouths are going to, in fact, actually, it's almost like it's kind of splits into three different ways. No, it doesn't. No, there's just two because it's just alpha and nixer there. And because you're within five feet of it, it's going to, if you're willing, engulf you both and teleport you back.
00:56:35
Speaker
ah just behind Reigns, who is behind you. So 15 feet backwards, you'd be able to get yourself basically further back. So it's doing that firey teleportation again with all of you. Obviously it will break the grapple, um both grapples on Alpha. um And yeah, be that much further backwards. And I'd need a Dex save from... Sorry, are you moving everyone? No. it Just the two allies. Yeah, yeah, it can only move allies and yeah if they are, I think it says, if it's willing, let me just see, each willing creature of your choice within five feet of it. Yeah. Okay.
00:57:15
Speaker
um So that's my intention to break the grapple and move them back kind of almost in a direct line where they were 15 feet backwards, which would be behind range and em where they stand. Alpha will be willing. Will Nyx be willing? How instantaneous is this? the you go to get a chance this year Instant instantaneous. But if you were trying to do something beforehand, I mean... No, no, no. It's more... it Do I see if Alpha goes? But yes, I'm willing. I've seen what's happened... No! ah I don't know this spell!
00:57:52
Speaker
I'm so sorry. I didn't see it happen to Seth and I've never seen this happen in my life. Because you were too busy fighting a big fucking imaginary worm, weren't you? yeah it was you I don't think this is you. I'm so sorry. No, no, no. It's your choice. You stay exactly where you are, friend. now So as the flame engulfs me, Nyx has never seen this. yeah And if it engulfs me and there's a chance like you can choose to resist it, I'm going to resist it like the fire in the blade. And I'm really fucking sorry. No, don't it's a it makes sense. um But you will have to make a deck save as well. Yeah, I don't know what's going on. Keydag got a 21 on the deck save. He takes no damage. I got a 20. I think, hang on, is that a disadvantage?
00:58:42
Speaker
It's an ability check. Because you're holding your heated dagger. i I don't think it's a saving throw, isn't it? Oh, saving throw, sorry. ah Internet, if you would like to find the meme foras of like two people shaking hands and you just have Drago Nix resisting friendly teleportation, that would be great. Yeah, true. Nice. I know, good point. I just don't know. Nix doesn't know this shit. So, here's what happens. ah Alpha, you get, I'm talking to myself here, instantly warped behind. Nyx doesn't. Kidak stays motionless and this sleep guardian guardsman, let's call them, stay in situ. Bal, you just hear in your voice, my guy, that could have been so cool.
00:59:36
Speaker
and he just alpha turns and gives you a eyebrow raise as good as he could. He doesn't think he has eyebrows, but gives you just like a lift of one of his eye cylinders. Excellent. And just for the rest of that bonus action, 15 feet up in the air is how high the wildfire spirit is going to go. So it's going to have to teleport that back and then go up to get ah to be able to survey better across the battlefield. But that might that's my bonus action. I'll and hold off on the action until other people have chosen what to do. Nick, you were imminently about to do something. was. ah I'm so sorry, Will, because that was cool as fuck. And my instant reaction was to go, hell yeah, I'm going. But no, fuck you. Yeah. ah Okay, so a lot has just happened.
01:00:20
Speaker
I'm going to still do what I'm going to do, because it makes sense in this situation. So the blade is still at the back of Kedark's head. and With Nyx's free hand on his right hand, um he's going to start with a long finger tracing around Kedark's head. And as he traces around, this purple kind of wisp starts to appear after the fact of his finger. And it just starts to circle his head and appear up like thorns as Nyx whispers in his ear, everything you know is a lie. and I'm going to cast Crown of Madness on him. Which is a spell we from which cat which class? It's my Warlock class, and it's a 14 Wisdom. Oh, he rolled a 2. That's a 7 in total.
01:01:07
Speaker
he ah is He's mine. That bitch is mine. He's loopy he is charmed for the duration of my spell, which is one minute. ah While the target is charmed in this way, a twisted crown of jagged iron appears on its head, so it will be all lit up in purple. and a madness. Again, I'm going to coin purple glows in his eyes. The charm target must use its action before moving on each of its turn to make a melee attack against a creature other than itself that I mentally choose. The target can act normally on its turn if you choose no creature or non within reach. as So that's a very important thing.
01:01:45
Speaker
On your subsequent turns, you must use your action to maintain control over the target, or the spell ends. Also, the target can make a wisdom saving and throw at the end of each of its turn on a success if the spell ends. So he's going to attack that fucking, oh Chris, good no, sleep guard soldier um closest to us. Okay, when it's his turn, just remind me when I get to his turn. Does it break it in? Beg your pardon? If we attack him, does it affect it? It doesn't say that, no. Just say no. Wow, we can wail on him. This worked. This fucking worked. I would like to go next. Me, please. um Seth's going to see all this kind of taking place and... um
01:02:23
Speaker
His fingers are going to twitch, his eyes are going to twitch and very slowly he's going to reach to a new tab that he's just recently put in at the very very bottom of his spell book and slowly he pulls out the tab which forms like the this inside of us a mask on his um in his hand which he's going to push to his face and then push it away towards one of the nearby corpses, hand trembling slightly, eyes pupils dilated fully. and as the red mist lands upon the corpse it's going to twitch, it's going to flicker and he's going to cast animate dead and is going to form a zombie out of the corpse of a creature neted basically directly in front of Alpha next to Emron who had just fallen um the turn before. Do you remember the guys hit by the magic missiles? That's right, yeah thanks.
01:03:15
Speaker
I'm trying to pull a zombie ah thingy on to roll 20, but it's not you want me because it's not mine. Thank you, but thank you, friend. And then. With his bonus action, he's going to command the zombie to smirk the dude next to him. If you've got the character sheet, sorry, step up for it. I've got a more built up, but it's going to be basic pitch rolls for now. um So it's plus three to hit, and that is a three so the six to hit. That misses, I'm afraid. Yep. Cool. Swings, nothing. But action economy. Is that concentration?
01:03:51
Speaker
That is not concentration. It is just up and I have it up for 24 hours if I choose. Okay. ah So you still have concentration on the fear. Unlike most of us. Right. so and He took the blue pill. and Nice. i I realize now, I realize what you're saying. Who hasn't acted yet? Reigns? Yeah, Rains hasn't acted yet. And Bowel hasn't taken an action. Oh fuck, I've moved the cart. Rains is going to stare at Keylac and is just going to... Keydark. Keydark. Keydark, sorry. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. Quikrack. See that something has changed. He's heard the Quikrack. elephant and he's gonna go We've fucked up that Bing Daz here and see and what NC is gonna do is gonna fly out the bag of holding and it's going to land on the elephant and just Dissipate a cure wounds on the elephant. Nice. Quikrack You fucking second level. No You're not the only one going
01:04:50
Speaker
That is a 15 points appealing. Fantastic. way to deal oh you legend And as you do that, you just sort of see trunks regain his strength and get back onto four feet with, with gusto. Once again, Ooh, that rain's thing going to just turn and just say to everybody, we got to deal with this. And then we deal with him. Take out the flute guardians.
01:05:16
Speaker
I don't know how long I can hold this as your hand is burning up. Oh, is it still burning from that blade? Yeah, nothing in your spell said that that he has to drop concentration. Does it still hurt then? Am I still getting attacked from that? Yeah, you will do at the end of your turn. Well, when it's Kedark's turn... isn't it Isn't it a bonus action? It's a bonus action. So, we'll we'll see. Is it concentration? You're still in contact with it. Because Kedark's lost concentration, hasn't he? No, because he's not been hit. Okay.
01:05:49
Speaker
Just because he's charmed doesn't mean he loses concentration in the spell. And it doesn't say you act friendly, it just says you're under his control. So Nix will tell him what to do at the end of his turn, he will make a wisdom save to see if he breaks out. But right now the spell is still active, so you're still holding a very hot knife. Can I choose to drop the very hot knife? but You can choose to drop the very hot knife. I fucking dropped that hot fucking knife. I told him to fucking move. As soon as he moves, I'm like, ah! Nice. Son of a bitch! Was it him scream as well? Oh, he would scream as well. Like, his sweat has been beating down. He's been trying so hard to be strong and macho. They're not things that are synonymous or nicks. He would drop that bitch as soon as he gets chance. OK.
01:06:34
Speaker
I'd like to use my bow and action bonus action to move my spiritual weapon down to attack the person commanding Baal. Can my spiritual weapon strike for non-lethal damage? It's hitting for force, so no. You can only hit non-lethal with piercing bludgeoning or slashing. It's still going to hit the thing. It's still going to hit the dude.
01:07:02
Speaker
that's a 20, not natural. That will hit. And it takes... ah nine points of force damage. Nice. On the guy attacking Baal. And then... Emron will... I kind of want to hit Keita, but I've got a guy next to me. He's going to use his hammer and smash at this sleep guard soldier that the zombies just tried to take a swing at as well. Go for it.
01:07:38
Speaker
Hang on, that's nine plus.
01:07:42
Speaker
That's a 10 to hit. So you go and you wave your hammer with all you've got and it just sort of misses. And in that moment where you just feel that sense of disappointment, you just hear whispered in your ear. It's okay. Do it again. You're going to be great. I believe in you, guy. god And you can add a d12 to your roll, as you are bardically inspired. Fuck! Thanks. I'll add a d12. I like this version of Alpha. It's very much better than the original. That's a 12 added to that, so that's a 22 to hit. That now hits. You also have a tap on your bum, as it comes in. It's a bit touchy-feely, but we'll take it. But that's five points of bludgeoning damage, please. Oh shit, for a butt-tap. And as your butt-tap,
01:08:37
Speaker
Fills you with a little happiness. This strike lands true and you just flatten this guy dead. Tasty. Fan-stabulous. um Everyone's gonna move 10 feet forward just so he's in range of the other two. Ready to wail on them in a minute. And as you walk away, you could just see Alpha's hand is still out as though your butt was there. He's just sort of caressing the space now where it once was. Bal, your hand was up. It was, yeah. ah This kind of not not captain, but captain. Oh, captain, my captain. What's he wearing, Danny? Spamix. Metal. love Oh, baby. Oh, donkey. Two things. Firstly,
01:09:25
Speaker
kind of after, obviously and attempting to deal with the ones at range, they've gone now, he's kind of had two slices at him. Baal's managed to counter that last slice. He's gonna look down, his eyes are pretty much gonna ignite. And he's just gonna say, oh dear. And heat metal on his armor. I'm only gonna do it at a second level. I could, no, I need to save my third level, yeah.
01:09:51
Speaker
Um, so that there's no save is that it's on his armor. Uh, so that bitch, does he take damage straight away? Yeah. Yes. Then it's nine points of fire damage as, uh, he begins to kind of, yeah, uh, burn red hot. And as he's doing this as well, um, He's going to hear this very odd, peculiar screech from his wild, fast spirit. And Baal's eyes are just going to widen in fear.
01:10:31
Speaker
as he spins his head behind and sees this zombie style undead thing attacking um yes on our side but it doesn't necessarily know that immediately but that's that's me okay Anyone else have actions, bonus actions, movements, or reactions? No one has taken out Key Dark while he's at full strength. I thought Will was going to sweat and we hear... No one. ...a sizzling sound as the man cooks. Sorry about that, I had to save the elephant. As soon as he drops that thing, he's coming for me. As soon as he drops that thing, he's coming for me. As soon as he drops that thing, he's coming for me. As soon as he drops that thing, he's coming for me. As soon as Okay. End of party's turn. he drops that thing, he's coming for me. Alpha. It's your turn. Thank you, Danny. Alpha. Can I say that? Can I say alpha? You've been so helpful in this combat. You're doing amazing. You're speaking so much. Alpha is going to just walk with purpose. Up.
01:11:31
Speaker
the road ahead of the elephant, walk, sort of sidestep and dance around the zombie that's now just appeared next to him. Just give thisno the zombie a little nod. Just a little shimmy. Sort of stroll with a bit of purpose around the elephant, tap the elephant on the leg as he goes, and just come around to the other side of this captain that's encountering Baal. And it's just going to whisper in this captain's ear. Baal, you can hear this. He just goes, You better run, motherfucker.
01:12:04
Speaker
And you could just as as that is being spoken, you just sort of see this wispy breath coming out of of Alpha. That's all that happens on Alpha's turn. It is Kedark's turn. What does he do, Nix? He's just there sort of looking enamored towards you. Yeah, that's right. You're my bitch now, huh? You're Dark. um He's going to attack the fellow in front of Emron, the sleep guardian soldier. yeah ah So Nyx will just kind of, and so it's all through the the words of the mind. Key Dark just hears the simple command, attack that sleep guard soldier.
01:12:46
Speaker
and The key duck whilst charmed is going to take that as an imperative. This must be as aggressive as possible. My my master compels me to harm this man. The key duck drops. the knife he had. And you just watch as he begins to twist and rotate and wild shapes into this giant constrictor snake. And it's just gonna make one bite at the head of this creature. Sorry, at the sleep guardian. It's like a high level spell slot he just used, right? Wild shape. It was a wild shape, it was a class action. Oh, shit! What's a high level spell slot, then? He's a fucking druid!
01:13:28
Speaker
And he is going to miss, unfortunately, but as he goes to just sort of make a bite of the jugular, the sleek guardian just looks super primed and just steps back. Top of the round, unless you have anything. Oh, I can make a wisdom save. I have a, I have a question and I hope it doesn't fuck me. I'm just going to make a quick wisdom save for Kedark, unless you're doing a Kedark thing. It's, it's a question about Kedark. Okay, go. This spells specifically for humanoids. Is he no longer a humanoid? The spell, when you cast it, he was a humanoid. Technically, he is no longer a humanoid, but he is, even while wild-shaped, he is a humanoid, so... i Yeah, so it's not like polymorph, when you lose your form. Wild-shaped, you keep your consciousness. I would i didn't have a clue. that I just knew the terminology, and I know a snake is not a humanoid. He rolled a 20 on his wisdom save. I guess that breaks your DC. So he is no longer under the effects. I was worried about this. I was worried that we would have one chance, but I was worried. It's the end of his turn. It's the end of his turn. in Top of the round. It is now the sleep guardian's turn. Now, Seth, I need to know your, what DC am I rolling to break the fear for the guy who is high tailing out of there? 15. Okay.
01:14:42
Speaker
He rolled a 12. So he's still feared. And this guy is going to run another 80 feet back down the road. He is now 160 feet off grid. And okay now ah have to eyes on him the the one who was just hit by this giant constrictor snake just sort of takes a step back, raises both hands in surrender and disengages and sort of just steps back his movement of 30 feet. back towards the road almost where first encountered by Seth. This one that was... Sorry, I ran to go for it. but There's two attacks opportunities there, isn't there? No, it took a disengage actually. Ah, yes. um The one who was whispered to by Alpha.
01:15:28
Speaker
again, raises his hand, immediately drops that curved spear onto the ground, also disengages, looks at you dead in the eye bowel with earnestly, with earnest and sincerity of a surrender, and begins to back away, also with the disengage action.
01:15:48
Speaker
Which one was that? Sorry. The captain. The one in front of you. Okay. Thank you. And then the two on the ridge above, unsure of what to do, seen two members of there, the two surviving members of their team surrender are also going to attempt to move out of the difficult terrain as well. Do you don't get as far?
01:16:13
Speaker
And the the their entire turn is spent backing away from the party, hands raised in surrender. That is the turn of the sleep guardians. It is the party's turn. Firstly, bonus action.
Chaos and Combustion
01:16:29
Speaker
Heat metal. Cook a bitch. Okay. The captain is going to sustain... Does the same amount of damage, doesn't it? ah No, it's rerolled every time. It's 12 points of damage. Okay. And you just hear... okay this northerner scream in pain in well helm style the rest of you you have been here before of this person just screaming in agony at at the hands of Baal
01:16:56
Speaker
and paul ah But also um I'm going to take my full action now because it'll be relatively swift. um With that, that's almost kind of an afterthought. He's turned in fear. You hear him just shout at the party, get back, get back. And I am going to use a first level burning hands on the zombie. um no I don't want to hit the party. It's not kind of as wildly doing this that it would. I don't think I'm within range to hit the party anyway, ah but I need a deck save from it. and Mark, you have the stat block. Could you just tell me the modifier please? Isn't it a 15 foot cone? It is.
01:17:41
Speaker
i'm I'm above on the back of an elephant, probably 10 feet up, pointing down. Oh, you're on the back of the elephant? Yeah, I've been on the elephant pretty much the whole time. Dex de dex save modifier is minus two. Thank you. Yeah, we're probably okay. Roll to zero. Okay, it's a big role. It took, for the first level anyway, it took 13 points of fire damage. Okay, it is now a zombie that's also on fire. nice I've got the stats up. Great, so it takes, I'll absolutely keep a track on the health if you can just, um what's his maximum? 22. Okay, thank you. But then it has got undead fortitude, but I'll deal with that when it comes to it. Okay, okay.
01:18:19
Speaker
That's all. That's my turn. All right. What do the rest of you want to do? Uh, sorry. Nick's is just going to shout out real quickly. I've lost him. I've lost him.
01:18:30
Speaker
uh off the back of that sorry shut up i'm going off the back of that sounds going to um a mutter confused to himself looking at this zombie slowly cooking is the smell of burning rotten flesh starts to fill his nostrils he's going to burn his action cast second level um um shadow blade which appears in his hand and then he's going to jump off the cart cursing to himself and hits the sand at absolute pace the blade song giving him extra movement he's going to sprint and i like to imagine he sees a he doesn't actually just slides underneath the feet of um of kedark but but shadow men man i don't know if you're going beneath both of us there you go wolf and it slides between the feet of you know two people and it ends up on the other side of him
01:19:18
Speaker
and is then going to take an action to attack at Kedark to attack his um health and wellbeing, generally looking to cause damage and mayhem to his person. And that is going to be a four, what? That's ad bless. Fucking hell. Um, is it even worth it? Fuck it. Why not? So it's 14 plus bless, which is going to give me three. So 17 to hit one second snake form. Yeah. I'm just going to get the right
Kedark's Fate
01:19:47
Speaker
AC and that hits because it's at a lower level. I'm just having to roll, um, but um by hand, uh, four plus four is eight points of psychic damage, that a single strike.
01:19:59
Speaker
It's all that damage in one single strike. Yeah, that's one strike, yeah. And it's just gonna whisper as that happens, we've been here before, you know how this ends. So as your blade goes through, you make contact. Immediately at the point of contact, that wild shape breaks. And just as you're getting used to the sensation of hitting the the flesh of a giant constrictor snake, you are then hitting the flesh of a ah a broad, stocky figure, and then that figure collapses on the floor, KO'd. Well, that was a lethal hit. So he is now making saves.
01:20:45
Speaker
Okay. That is the end of Seth's turn. Well, I think who's good next. Okay. So, uh, I'm going to have everyone jump in here as, um, uh, key dark falls to the floor bleeding, um, from his wounds, uh, and once it's going to kneel down and I am going to cast touch him and cast spare the dying. Uh, okay. Which stabilizes him.
01:21:12
Speaker
re Let's tie this bastard back up, everyone will say. And then... Nix is going to put his blade into his throat.
01:21:23
Speaker
Abs are fucking lutely, Nix. He is... Twice. You're automatically hit because he... Yep. He's down, he is incapacitated. Twice? I'm killing that fucker. I can do it twice. Oh, you can. He's dual wielding. Yep, and I'm just going to do ah one blade across one length of his Adam's apple and the other blade across the other length of his Adam's apple, as Neil... Can Rains contest this?
Tension Among Allies
01:21:51
Speaker
Over his head. In what way would you like to contest this? As in, if Rains sees Nick's go to kill him, Rains is going to try and stop Nick. Nick's is only five feet ahead. you've like Okay, you yeah, if I can't stop it... Wait! That's all Rains can do.
01:22:04
Speaker
Well, you can then move to, yeah. um Well, but let's see how things pass out. If we get back to Nix's and your turn and no one has taken a hostile action other than this, we could break initiative, but we'll see. We'll see. and So, Rains, you've just sort of dashed in there. You have your action. You have your bonus action still. I mean, I've i've shouted, wait, I'm not going to get to Nix before he stabs him. i if would This is real time and we're on a shared thing. We're not real time. We're still in an initiative because there's still the sleep guards trying to kill you.
01:22:36
Speaker
um I've shouted, wait, and I've gone towards the situation. Reigns is then just going to, I need him alive.
01:22:51
Speaker
That's, that's, that's all I've got. Okay. Anyway, else we're taking anything. Yeah. Could my, my bonus action, my hammer is going to move 20 feet towards me. Uh, Seth's going to go. Fuck him up, Nix!
01:23:09
Speaker
And Jimmy and you on. Nice. Because that's exactly what I was going to do if you weren't going to do it. This man was getting his throat cut one way or the other. I think he's still alive, so I don't have an action. So I'd be going, I've used mine. right End of party's turn. Okay. It's Alpha's turn. And Alpha's just going to stroll up to you, Bao. Take a step and say, your friends, over there, they are stabbing that guy. Go join in. Looks fun. I'm going to go see what these guys want ah with me. And Alpha is going to walk to the north.
01:23:51
Speaker
And he is going to go to the captain. And ba it's probably too far for audible range, but it's at the sleep guard to continue to have their arms raised in a surrender motion. And you just see as Alpha just steps straight towards the captain and they begin to have a conversation at distance. That is the end of Alpha's turn. Kedark's turn. He's making a death save. Please fucking fail. He got a 12. He passed. What a loser. What a loser. ah So it is now the sleep guardian's turn.
01:24:26
Speaker
they're all gonna pile on Alpha. You watch. Sounds about right.
01:24:36
Speaker
That's her target. He just walks towards them. Do we need him? ah You watch as Alpha just gets so mobbed at this point. Barley, you're probably the closest you'll sort of see. Everyone else is a bit distracted by Keydark. Barley, you have complete sight of what's going on. And Alpha's gonna get some hits.
01:24:57
Speaker
And it's interesting, as these stabs are coming in, Alpha is moving with a grace that he's never had before. He is nimbly dodging the occasional one. And then just as that last ah strike comes in, a lot lot the the captain is now unarmed, so just sort of making fist blows. But as this last person that does have a spear left just makes a strike, that one does catch, and Alpha sustains some damage. And as that last strike hits him, and you see Alpha take damage, that grace that Alpha was moving with and that charisma and that that confidence in the battlefield just dissipates and he he looks about like Alpha, he's performing like Alpha has performed the entire time you're knowing him once again.
01:25:44
Speaker
The party's 10.
Initiative and Execution
01:25:47
Speaker
Okay. I want to stab, but i imagine it's going to be initiative order at some point because I feel like to stab I'm going to hit him with my head. All right. Let's do a micro initiative because this is tight. Can all of the party roll initiative, please? ah Absolutely.
01:26:07
Speaker
Um, I got question. Do you want to ask a question before we do initiative? and ah Attack, roll, village. No, because I can't use it, so... Initiative it is. Come on, be good. Okay. Great time for that. Oh, no!
01:26:25
Speaker
Anyone above 20? Yes, 22. Yes, 24. Oh, fuck. Anyone above 15? Yes, that's 17 and 16 football. ball so Next, next is last, stay cold, last with eight. Okay, so it is the party's turn. Seth, immediately, you just take that first breath. What are you doing? I'm stabbing a bitch right in the butt. As hard as I can. He's incapacitated, Seth. You do not roll to hit. You just roll damage. Oh, I accidentally rolled to hit. Well, that was shit anyway. Never mind. I am going to roll some damage and it is coming out as a nice, clean... up This is not an auto fail.
01:27:17
Speaker
Yeah. I'm just letting Seth have his time. Well, that's all right. Just letting him have his moment of execution. Thanks for killing the mood, brother. I appreciate that. Thanks. Any other time,
Rains' Withdrawal
01:27:28
Speaker
any other time you want to jump in when me and my wife are, you know, Oh, by the way, that's an inefficient way to have sex. And you can come and do that, absolutely fine. Standing in the corner. You do anyway, so you might as well, because you're there. You could get pregnant doing that. I'm not feeling this. Guys, guys, I'm lacking some emotion here. Fluffy! Anyway, jump from that to death. That's going to be a sexy, oh shit, loss of 10 plus four, 14 points of psychic damage as my blade whispers, your corpse will feed the worms.
01:28:02
Speaker
And ah physically, how do you execute him? Oh, it's the most unceremonious, it's like an execution over the head, like to cut someone's, to behead someone, but it's directly through the middle of his skull. Kind of like, no, not even through the middle, like it's side on, and it'll just cut across like one eye, half the nose, across the cheek. It's really just like, oh, like he's actually hitting with his fist, but the sword happens to be there and makes damage first. I don't know if the blade actually cuts though, because it's a psychic blade, but it's up to you to play with, but it's the kind of. That's blood come out, it's still, Still has a form, doesn't it? Yup. Mix is drenched in this blood. All I can picture is House of the Dragon, just like a sudden from behind, half the head is gone, but not all of it. Yeah, it makes like a wet slap. That's the best thing I can say, as it kind of hits down and then just panting from Seth. Then he... Do you have your bonus action and movement? Yeah, his bonus action to...
01:29:05
Speaker
he He's gonna look up. And then look at the zombie and then make the zombie sit down still on fire. I assume it's a bit of flames on it and just make it sit down or kind of lay down or kind of be still one of those things. He doesn't really know what the fuck has just happened with that. And he's sweating because of that. It's more shaken up by that than the execution. And that's all he'll do to stand over the corpse. Okay. It is your zombie's turn. If you want to have it do anything. Just going to sit down. Okay. Reigns at the feet of you is your fellow countrymen.
01:29:39
Speaker
What would you like to do? In this action, Rains is just going to close the hood of his helmet. And he's not going to say anything. He's just going to walk in the direction of Alpha and the sleep guardians as far as he can. And he's just going to let off two rounds of the lightning launcher at one of the nondescript people attacking Alpha. OK, roll to hit.
01:30:06
Speaker
Yarup.
01:30:10
Speaker
Good old Yarp. The Yarp Cannon. Every time he fires, it's Yarp, Yarp, Yarp. I will add my Bless to that, because I assume I'm still blessed. see and and Yes, you are blessed. Blazed. Oh, you should have used your Bless, Mark, to fucking... now That is a 20, not natural, to hit the one closest to me. Yep, go ahead and roll damage. Yep, I'm going to add the additional D6 to the first one as well.
01:30:43
Speaker
did it did
01:30:47
Speaker
Oh, that's meaty. That's what she said. ah That is 15 points of damage to the one closest to me. And the one closest to you that falls on this impact to the floor, lifeless. Second, because I get multi-attack now. One more, more another one. and So there's the captain, or there are the two bowmen. Is the captain
Unresolved Tension
01:31:13
Speaker
piled on despite being on fire? Yeah, on fire, i like just just complete reckless legend. Yeah, Rains has no regard for him. he he's whichever what I tell you what, it's going to go... Rains is now just aiming as as his eyes see people. So it's the one who was behind the one who's just fallen dead. That's the captain. I've marked the captain in yellow for your convenience. yeah
01:31:38
Speaker
I'm not even going to bubble with Bless for that one. That's a 22 to hit. That hits. Please roll damage.
01:31:45
Speaker
Not so good. Five points of damage. Would you believe, thanks to Baal's burning, that is enough to also... You fucker! You stole my kill! Yeah, I think on rounds of hell, people who have to be angry here, that was pretty low on the list. Baal doesn't know that! that' That is, ah with that, NC is just going to fly back and dive into the bag of the holding with the bone with with his movement, and that's the end of my turn. Okay, thank you very much. Next on that initiative is Emron. Okay, Emron's going to scream in anger, and the hammer's going to surge forward and hit Seth. That's the spiritual weapon. Wow. He's going to hit Seth. you've gone against part me He's
01:32:29
Speaker
There's a spiritual weapon coming for you, Seth.
01:32:33
Speaker
Fuck. That's a 22 to hit you. Shield. Get in the bin.
01:32:41
Speaker
Your friend is getting attacked over there. And then, um, v less will drop. Oh, I can add d4 to that. Hang on. She was getting the pin. That's 23 to hit. It's still 24, so get the win. Everyone's going to step forward over the corpse of Kedark, and then can you, and then, bless you, something's going to drop, so you're going to, uh, Seth, you'll feel, you'll either leave you, um, and then, can you both make con saves, please? constant Hold up. Alpha's being attacked. Right. Okay. Con saving throws. I get it. I'm going to use my ties to chaos.
01:33:20
Speaker
Uh, unnatural 20. I know it's a 16, but I get a plus four for, um, blade song. Okay. 15 for me. Okay. So, uh, everyone just shouts and this, this wave of radiance, um, leaves him, ah but nothing happens at the moment to you. You're fine. Okay. Oh, next up. Anything else you want to do, everyone? Uh, that's my action and bonus action. And, uh, he's just incredibly angry right now. Grr. yes oh your turn
01:33:52
Speaker
So, seeing the captain drop, I don't need to be continuing to sizzle that bitch. But I'm going to use my bonus action first. The wildfire spirit is going to launch a flaming seed at the sitting down zombie. um So I'll roll it back out's got his own fucking enemy going on as it's thirty to hit Does that count as prone, the zombie? If he's sitting down. If he's sitting down. Hey, despite being pissed off, range has been half the damage around alpha. Is he that sitting or is he lying? He's sitting down. sit Counts as prone. It's a range attack at disadvantage, please. Yeah, sorry to make it harder for you. You bitch. It's fine because 13 was the lowest.
01:34:34
Speaker
So much infighting. Is 13 enough? What's the AC please? of the zo make The AC is 8, so 13. Yeah, shit, you're going to take a tasty 6 points of fire damage, bitch. Mark, that's 18 damage in total at sustain. Cool. It's got three left. Cool. But Baal's attention is back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. ah The bigger threat right now is that to Alpha. ah So he is going to spunk off his final ah second level spell slot of Scorching Ray. But I don't get my bless anymore. At the closest one, 11. Miss, I'm afraid. 20. That hits. Okay, so damage on the closest one is nine points of fire damage. Is it still up? It is not. You managed to burn that one to a crisp.
01:35:20
Speaker
Cool. And the final scorcho is 22 to hit. That hits. Wonderful. And that's a tasty 10 points of fire damage on the one at the back. How do you want to do, there are no placebo threats, but everyone still seems to be there. So cool. How do you want to do this? I want to, a lot like he's kind of done before, he's breathing fire into his hands and kind of flicking it and launching it. The first one goes a little bit wide, but the second one kind of drops the last target and he kind of ah adds a little bit of vim and vigor to the last one. And if possible, is can I see this guy's face? Yeah, why not? As he's kind of wailing on him, I'd love for the fire just to go in his mouth somewhat, like a hot fucking ball of molten iron that just kind of melts away at the lower part of his face. Okay. Yes. And as you do that very action and sort of see that flesh become liquidized onto the metal, you just see these scorched marks over
01:36:20
Speaker
The emblem of kingdom of sleep-guard.
01:36:25
Speaker
That is where we're going to end this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis. Donkey, so much to unpick. Wonderful, wonderful episode. So much to unpick. Loved every minute of it. Hopefully, you all at home loved every minute of it too, and you'd like to DM us about it. Well, good news, you can do. We have an X page where you can DM us on the slide. We have a collective one, which is at Fellowship Table, and we have individual ones you can DM us to. I'm at I've rolled one. Mark is at. He should have rolled DM. Shield, get in the bin. Alpha, where is that?
01:37:03
Speaker
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