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C1 Ep. 137 The Storm’s Ashes Chapter Five
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An old ally returns face to face with the party. But this old friend’s intentions seem to be anything but helpful. What will happen to this old relationship amidst the wreckage of Stormreach?
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Acknowledgements and Introductions
00:00:01
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This episode is brought to you by the generous donations of Irene Villarito, Elizabeth Clark, Darryl Delaney, Darren Katska, Ryan Royce, Laura Pickron, Douglas Pop, The Cam Family, Charles Compton, Michael Clark, Rebecca Miller, David Scrams, and John Kerry, as well as all of our generous patrons.
00:00:47
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Hello and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting. I'm your dungeon master, Eric. I'm Philip. I'm Randy. I'm Trevor.
00:00:58
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I'm Jeff. And welcome to another episode. So
Recap of Last Session
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probably nothing notable, just run of the mill, even in that intro, nothing too big happened last episode. So I think we can just keep rolling straight into this one, right? Yeah, I'm good. Yeah. Really? What happened last time? Draconos. It's me. We got a
Return of Draconos and Initial Tensions
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little demon boy's back.
00:01:24
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Yeah, so there was a fight at the last night, a state, which is becoming some sort of fortress, and we were beating up some guys, and then the doors swung open right in Dex's face, and Draconis was there, and he doesn't look happy. But he did compliment us, we have come a long way. That's very true. And he was smiling, I mean. I gave a glorious smirk.
00:01:55
Speaker
Um, all right. So, yeah. Um, let's just go ahead and have Trevor roll into our current initiative order. So Trevor, go ahead and roll initiative for me. Can we know what Draconis's class is? He's a paladin. Is he still a paladin? I was just asking. Yeah. Do we know what Draconis's level is?
00:02:19
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I mean, no, no, no, no, no, I don't, I don't ever get to know the level. No, no, no, I was sorry. That was my own thought of what's my initiative monitor. Let's go with 17. Okay. Well, that just works out perfectly because Booyah was the last person to go with a initiative of 19 and Orianna has an initiative of 16. So guess who gets to go first? Ooh, lovely.
00:02:44
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Okay, so who is in my sight? Who have I seen so far? Dex is literally right in front of you. Barak is at the base of the stairs down in front. And those are the only people that you know. You see a red-headed girl also down near Barak, not right next to him.
00:03:04
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holding a spear that's on fire. And you see a very tall woman standing on the steps just behind Dex, or next to the steps just behind Dex, but on the ground. So Dex is the only one in your immediate vicinity. Point of order. Would he recognize Barrick? Or would he just know it's Barrick? Because who knows what he knows? Because Dex just has much longer hair at this point than the last time Draconis saw him. I mean, he's
00:03:34
Speaker
Draconis has been privy to what you all have been up to and your current condition, so. OK, OK. OK, so. Are we are we in are we in fight or are we? I mean, you can you can talk if you want. I mean, talking is a free action, so. OK. And Dex is OK, so Dex is like right in front of my face.
Challenge and Confrontation
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Yep. I'm going to just glance up at is it is
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the very tall woman behind Dex. She's down on ground level though, so you'd be looking down at her. Okay, and that's, just for my knowledge, is that our other playable character, or is that? That's Behman, so that's one of the characters I'm controlling. Booyah and Rickard are in the alleyway across the way, you haven't spotted them yet. Okay.
00:04:32
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So I'll just, I, I see people that aren't, um, that aren't the two original that I knew. So I'll glance at them slightly and then I'll look Dex right in his eyes and say, how long was I gone before you decided to replace me? I mean, truth be told, we didn't really decide to replace you. This guy just kind of jumped in and we were like, fine.
00:05:02
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Uh, we, we didn't, we didn't replace you, man. You're wait. Hey, no, no, no. Dex thinks this is somebody else did
Combat and Strategies
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it. This is a changeling screwing with him. So as he's kind of bumbling, I'd like to take my action. Go ahead. Uh, it, can I call a headbutt and arm, an unarmed strike? Yeah. Okay. So if he's close enough for that while he's talking, I'm just going to headbutt him.
00:05:34
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All right, so let's see what we got that would be a natural 20 So that's that would be 29 to hit yeah, dude So you double that damage okay, so that would be 20 bludgeoning damage
00:05:58
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Okay, well. Dex, your nose explodes. Like, you got blood on your face. Big disgrace. All right. Can I use a bonus action real quick? Yeah. And then I'm also gonna do a bonus action of Shield of Faith around myself. Well, it's Shield of Faith, it's 60 feet, and I think it affects
00:06:27
Speaker
It might affect multiple people. I can look real quick. But if it does, I want to cast on my other people as well, but it just gives... It's just you. Oh, okay. Then I'm just going to use that on myself. Okay. All right. So, Orianna, you just witnessed that. What are you going to do? Orianna has no context for what's going on.
00:07:00
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Something's up, but probably like Dex, she assumes some sort of changeling trick. And so.
00:07:11
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she's going to attack the mage. I don't know exactly what the layout here is, as far as where the bad guys are, but if it's plausible for her to approach and attack the mage, that's what she would like to do. Oh, run up there and attack. You could poke your spear, the mage is towards the back, so you could poke your spear through everybody else, you would have the range to do that, but it would be with disadvantage.
00:07:37
Speaker
You know what, then? Instead, she's gonna do searing wind right through the doorway. Okay. So, instead, she just says, ah, hell with this. And she begins to just spin the spear, and this column of fire just explodes forward through the doorway.
00:08:03
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Okay, so everybody in it, which I assume is, I mean, door raised, I don't figure the door is much more than 10 feet tall, 10 feet across. Gonna need to make a dexterity, a strength saving throw and a dexterity throw. I'm included in this? I don't know because I don't have- Am I included in this since I'm resisted the fire? You are included, you will, if there is damage, take less of it.
00:08:34
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Wait, what's your, what's your ruling on me, Eric? Um, yeah, let's say that you're included. Yes. Some decks and strength. Yeah. Strength first index. Strength first index. Okay. So on mine, 24 strength.
00:08:59
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And then dexterity five. Okay. So that, okay. I got six. Good. No, go ahead and resolve his nose. The strength succeeds. So you won't be moved, but the deck fails.
00:09:14
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Okay, I got 20 strength, I hold a 19, I needed it, and 19 dexterity. Both of those pass, so you won't be moved and you won't take damage. The guards get a 10 on strength and a 19 on dex. Okay, the dex succeeded, the strength fails. And the priest got a 21 on strength, a natural 20, and a 19 on dex.
00:09:40
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Both of those succeed. OK, so the guards are thrown 15 feet backwards. OK. Flying back into the mansion. Yes. And then the damage. Involved. And there's 22 fire damage to go around.
00:10:07
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Draconis takes it all, but then it's halved because he's resistant. I don't remember who else succeeded and failed. So I'm hoping that Eric was keeping track. Yeah. How much damage was it? What did I just say? 22. So she, okay. So take half of that, Eric. Yes. Okay. And can I, I have a reactionary spell when I'm hit. Can I use it?
00:10:37
Speaker
It's not melee or anything, it's just anytime you're hit. Yeah, it's Hellish Rebuke, it's just anytime I'm damaged. Yep. Okay, so she hits me with fire, I take a little bit of a hit, and then I just look at her and just kind of like snap my finger.
Intense Battle and Emotional Confrontations
00:10:53
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And it is a deck saving throw. Wait, who needs to make it? Orianna. Just two damage to me.
00:11:06
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18. Ooh. Uh. What is it if it ties? I think ties go to the person making the role. Yeah, making the role. OK. So how does she does she take my fingers? She's a rogue. So even if there is half damage, she'll she'll avoid it. Yeah, if she's successful, she takes half damage, but she avoids it and there you go. OK.
00:11:38
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So close. I really wanted that to happen. Orianna barely jumps out of the way of the the fire that erupts. All right.
00:11:53
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It is now Rickard's turn. So Rickard's just seeing stuff popping off and he is going to rush out for the sake of range into the middle of the courtyard and fire an arrow at the figure that
00:12:16
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Brutally and viciously decimated Dex's nose. So that is going to be a 22. No, that does not hit. Holy buckets. Barak. Barak is as a bonus action going to activate his true seeing ability.
00:12:43
Speaker
OK, so Barrett now sees things as they truly are. He sees into the ethereal plane. He's like. The definition of this is extremely broad. You're just going to have to tell me. Based on everything you can see. That is Dracono standing in front of you. OK, does he have?
00:13:04
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a purple claw monster floating floating about him as have all of the other quarry attached people that we have encountered. He does not. OK, interesting. All right. So I have an action. Oh boy.
00:13:32
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guards went in. I think Barrick is shocked as what he's just realizing. And so he. Hey, quick question. Am I able to when he did that detection on on me, would I be able to sense that? No, no, you wouldn't. OK.
00:13:59
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Cause it's, it's, it's him casting it on himself, not on you. So, okay. Yeah. Uh, and Barrett, I'm unsure of what to, what to do here. Uh, just sort of raises a hand and the air around him sort of begins to shimmer, uh, and, uh, ripple, uh, as if, as if affected by heat.
00:14:30
Speaker
And I will move closer. I don't think I can get within melee of anything right here because they call him a fire. So, uh, yeah, that is, but he says Texas really him. Can I respond back? Yeah. How dare you speak in my direction.
00:14:59
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Barak is non-plussed by that, but he wears a mask so you can't see it on his face. Okay, so now it is the caster's turn who is going to, is he able to move forward? You know, you're the one who gave me this item and I wrote down everything you
00:15:26
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So there is a 10 foot line of powerful wind.
00:15:32
Speaker
Um, that requires a strength save to avoid being thrown by. So I don't know if that requires a save to fight against it. Uh, am I just, do I have, well, is what I have just straight from the secrets of Zendric book? Cause I've got, I can see if it provides any more detail. I know you adapted it because it was 3.5. No, I, I just basically ripped gust of wind, um, for the mechanics of the column. Uh, and so.
00:15:59
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Basically, it's difficult terrain to move forward. The caster struggles but manages to grab the side of the door and pull himself out of the column and kind of centers himself and then
00:16:23
Speaker
reels back with fire swirling around his hand and just launches it straight at Orianna. And I guess Bear could probably also be close enough. I don't know what your radius is, but probably. 20 foot. So both of you need to make a dexterity saving throw.
00:16:53
Speaker
For Orianna, it is 23 for Barak. It is 17. OK, so you both save, but deck or Barak would still take the half damage, right? Correct. 16 points of damage. All right.
00:17:23
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as both you and Orianna dive out of the way but the the heat still erupts near you. Okay so these two knuckleheads that got knocked back by the wind are going to fight their way up and basically they
00:17:42
Speaker
They're gonna get right up to as close as they can to the doorway, but then step out of the column behind the wall because they can't make it out of the doorway with their speed being knocked back 15 feet. So they are not visible to any of the ranged characters. Dex is the only one that can see them. And Draconos. All right, that is everybody's turn. So Dex, it's back around to you.
00:18:10
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Okay, Dex is gonna suck in the blade of his ribbon weave and go for a blunt attack on Draconos who dealt his own blunt attack a moment ago. So yeah, I'm just gonna pull the blade in and hopefully in pretty fluid motion just
00:18:33
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I want to go right for his nose. Almost like a jab with a blunt object straight to his nose. Oh, that was close. It didn't hit, it's a 17. It was almost natural one. See, Draconos, you were around to see what Dex is capable of with the blunt side of that ribbon weave, so you were smart enough to have your guard up for that. Yeah.
00:19:00
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I, uh, so he just kind of wild, like stands up and just kind of wildly throws a punch at my face. I swing a big piece of wood at your face. Oh, it was wood. Yeah. It's the ribbon weave cane. Oh, okay. Um, okay. I, I'll just say like, Oh, I'm glad to see that you still have your favorite object. And I say, would you shut up?
00:19:31
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I'll just say that's the decks I remember. It is your turn, Draconis. Okay, so on my... Oh wait, I thought he was after Boobio. Yeah, I thought he was after me. He was after me. Oh yeah, yeah, sorry, it's Bamani's turn. It is not your turn. Sorry about that. Got confused. Okay, so Bamani is going to leap up onto the stairs.
00:20:00
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And she is going to, just for flavor standpoint, she could actually just use her movement to do this, but she is going to run past Eudex. And you all see her leap just before she gets into the column of wind that Orianna is creating. And she uses the momentum to shift her direction to where she flies through the column and goes with it for a second and then kicks one of the guards hiding behind the door in the chest. Nice. That's a natural 20. Yeah.
00:20:32
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So that is going to be... She missed with her second two attacks though, so not great. Booyah, it is your turn.
00:20:51
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Booyah is extremely confused with what's going on. I assume he sees Dex essentially put his ribbon weave away from where he's at. So he's thinking maybe they don't want to kill this guy for whatever reason. So he's going to shoot at the caster. You do have your your sending stone. If you want to communicate with them, you could ask what's going on.
00:21:20
Speaker
Oh, that's right. I do have sending stuff. Yeah, Booyah probably would do that because he's really confused. So Booyah say, what? Go on. Why? What? Why you no hit ribbon? Booyah, this is Draconis. Well, Booyah seem member that name. Still don't want Booyah shoot.
00:21:50
Speaker
Maybe kill the others first. Right, right, right. Booyah marks the caster. And that wasn't, you couldn't hear Booyah's side of that conversation, Draconis, but you could hear them talking, so. OK, Booyah. You hear me say, oh. That's 30 on the caster. That's a hit. 20 damage.
00:22:19
Speaker
Okay. Another shot. Um, that's 28 and that's 24 points. 24 points. Okay. Boy, I think crazy. Go on here. Um, not wrong.
00:22:43
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Uh, the second crossbow bolt, you say that as you like, absent mindly fire your second bolt and it just hits the, uh, the caster in the head and he drops onto the, he falls back into the column and his corpse goes flying into the mansion. Um, Booyah say that Draconos you give up now. You hear a voice yelling from the alleyway across the way, Draconos. Okay.
00:23:14
Speaker
Um, it is your turn. Okay. Um, so, um, with, uh, Dex in front of me, I see that he, even though he took a swing at me, he, he put away his blade. Um, so I'll say since you gave me the courtesy first, I'll give it back to you and I reach out and I grab them.
00:23:41
Speaker
and then I use banishment on the both of us. Oh, you son of. See what I. And so I'm going to take us both to another plane where neither of what was the actual definition where it's both. Well, it says the target is incapacitated, but we're both the target right now. So we're both for the next minute in a different plane.
00:24:11
Speaker
so we can have a chat. I can do nothing about this. You have a saving throw. You get a charisma saving throw. Yeah, you get a charisma saving throw. OK. Is that two characters? It's a modified version. A higher level you can target more than one thing. Cool. I like it. OK, so charisma saving throw. Let's not get banished. 19.
00:24:40
Speaker
I'm sorry, what was it? I cut out. 19. 19? Oh. Yeah. Yeah, I guess that would. That would save yourself if you got 19. Does Draconis still self banish? Amazing. No, the banishment would be contingent on I'm assuming Dex coming with you, so. I mean. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I.
00:25:10
Speaker
Way to go, Dex. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I tried. And then you just kind of held your ground and just it stopped working. Can I just very frustrated me? I want to I want to headbutt him so bad right now. So I'll just say since since I just still have him in. Within that kind of whispering range, I'll say your brother misses you and wants you back.
00:25:40
Speaker
You need to, I'm only giving you one chance to turn. I mean, cause I only have a second. So yeah, since it didn't work, I'll get, I'll get a little frustrated and say that like your brother misses you. He wants you back on our side, but I'm only going to give you one chance to do it. Yeah. You're barking up the wrong tree, bud. I'm trying my best here. Um, well, this is going on Oriana. It is your turn.
00:26:13
Speaker
Real quick point of order question for Randy, as Philip's mind is trying to think of what things we can do about this. How many levels of cleric are you? What level of cleric spell do you cast now? Fourth.
00:26:31
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Orianna, so the guard is, I mean, Orianna's gonna, you know, push with the firestorm some more. So she just takes a step forward and I don't know, I mean, it's still there, so do I just cause everyone to make the save again? Those that are still in it, yeah. So that would be Draconos and Dex. Okay.
00:26:59
Speaker
It's a strength and? Strength first,
Chaos and House Fire
00:27:02
Speaker
then dex. I actually do cast it fifth level. But you only have fourth level cleric spells. Right. Right. Because you're because you're multi class. Right. OK.
00:27:19
Speaker
I see you said strength and decks. Yes. So my strength was. Seven and my. My dexterity was eight. Wow. So what's what's Dex's result? OK, it depends. I cannot remember. Does reliable talent affect saving throws or just skill checks, skill checks, skill checks? OK, then it was a 17 strength and a 10 dexterity.
00:27:47
Speaker
Okay, so your strength succeeded, but your Dex failed, and Draconis failed both of them. So Draconis gets thrown 15, and both of them are going to end up taking half of this. So, because Dex has evasion, Draconis is resistant. So half of 17, so eight, no wait, yes, eight. So 17 was the damage? Yeah, so eight total, eight to both of you, because we halved.
00:28:14
Speaker
But Draconis was thrown 15 feet back into the building. Sorry to mess up the moment there. Your brother wants you back. I picture like I'm trying to whisper like so only if you have this intimate moment and then.
00:28:37
Speaker
And Dex just stands there with the breeze, tossing his hair. To be fair, Orianna has seen way too many times. Somebody say something to Dex, and then Dex just take off sprinting in the other direction. So probably trying to avoid that.
00:28:51
Speaker
It is Rickard's turn after that. So Rickard is out in the middle of the courtyard. And he is going to continue closing the distance. He's up with Barrick and Orianna now. And he is going to fire another arrow.
00:29:14
Speaker
and that's gonna be a 16 to hit you. I guess Draconis isn't visible right now, so he doesn't have anybody to shoot at. He could actually make it up the stairs. So he goes up the stairs and shoots at you, Draconis, and a 16 does not hit, correct? Correct. Okay. So yeah, in spite of the fact that, like, I envision, unlike the two guards that got completely, like, jet engine pushed away, Draconis is in more of, like,
00:29:40
Speaker
a three point superhero stance being like slid back on the floor, trying to trying to fight it. So I have a just a setting question here for you there, Eric. What's happening to the house? I guess the interior would begin part parts of it are catching on fire because it is a wood house internally, at least. This is this is like a giant flamethrower. Yeah. So yeah, the inside of the house is starting to burn. OK.
00:30:11
Speaker
No tip. We've played this song before in this town. Yep. And went super well last time. Barak, it is your turn. Oh my gosh. Okay, he's not possessed. So I have constant magic sight. I have constant detect magic on
00:30:38
Speaker
Do I, did I detect any, the aura of any sort of spell cast on Draconos when I saw him? No, there's no active spell or anything going on. Okay. Nothing like. Right. No, I just, yeah. Okay. So essentially.
00:31:01
Speaker
There's nothing I can target. There's no quarry presence. There's no spell to dispel. There's nothing I can target with this. OK. And I don't know what to do here. Eric will. Ready an action. To attack.
00:31:32
Speaker
the first creature that comes into sight because he's not going to walk into the fire the fire column yeah um so the first creature that manages to get back into the doorway uh barrick will attack oh so oriana is still done on street level
00:31:50
Speaker
So she would. I had her kind of on the last turn, I kind of was trying to imply that she was sort of advancing towards the door. Yeah. But still, even at this angle, it would be the column of fire would be angled up, so you'd be hitting the ceiling up to the second floor. Yeah, I suppose so. Yeah, that just adds an interesting other wrinkle. OK. So.
00:32:17
Speaker
It is now the caster is dead, so I don't need to worry about him. So the two guards that are face to face with Bamani are going to attack her.
00:32:30
Speaker
The first one misses with a eight. The second one misses with a 13. So things are going great right now. Yeah. And she's in the house with them? Yeah, she jumped through the column, basically, to land in the house with them. But they're not visible to us standing in the door. No, because they got out of the way of the column. So they're kind of back behind. It is Dex's turn. Well, I'm not going in there.
00:33:00
Speaker
Uh, I don't, I don't think now I'm not going in here. It's on fire. Uh, who was inside of the building? Uh, you're to the two guards that were with you and the tall woman. Okay. So the people that got blast, they got like knocked back into the building. They ran forward. Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:25
Speaker
Is there anybody outside? No, the enemies, nope. Okay, I, man, I don't wanna go in there with the fire and Bamani can take care of herself, I can't. Maybe, maybe not against all three of them, I forgot that she. Shoot, I guess I've got, no, I've got to. All right, I'm going to run in. Can he like parkour slide under it since it's angled up?
00:33:51
Speaker
Uh, sure. I'll give you an athletics check if I need to. No, I let Bhimani jump through it without making any rolls. So I'll say that you can too. Yeah, I'm a lot like a Calistharan. An ageless Calistharan. Um, okay. So then I'm going to co-op and I'm going to do something I haven't done in a while. I'm going to try to trip Draconos. Ooh.
00:34:18
Speaker
in my superhero stance. Whatever stance you're in bud, you're putting your butt on the ground. Okay. And that is a... I know I don't trip him. I sure don't because I rolled a three. So that's like a 13. I'm rolling so badly against this stupid demon.
00:34:45
Speaker
I'm not a stupid dude. Okay, I'm gonna, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Second wind, I just, I need to hit this fool. So I'm gonna burn my second wind now to try to hit him again. 17, I swear. Ugh.
00:35:05
Speaker
Nevermind, just skip me. Just let her worry out. It is Bhimani's turn. So she is going to attack the one in front of her that she's already attacked. That is 23. So that's
00:35:25
Speaker
All right, and that's it for her. She did 12 points of damage to the one that she's been attacking consistently. It is now Booyah's turn. So Booyah, all the enemies are no longer visible to you. And he saw Beric not run in, but then he sees Dex run in.
00:35:58
Speaker
Can Booyah, I mean, I know he can run up to the door. Can he run up to the doorway and see in and see a guard? You could angle yourself to where you could see one of the two that Vamani's hiding, but you would have to run all the way to the house and it's 50 feet away. 50 feet, all right. I'm gonna move up next to Beric.
00:36:27
Speaker
and already a crossbow bolt. If any bad guy pops his head in the door, I'd like to fire. And Booyah's like, Booyah want to know what go on? Who this Draconost? I think I hear you talk before, maybe some. We've told you about him. He was our companion.
00:36:55
Speaker
Something's been. Come, come, what, companion? What that friend? Yes. You know, act like friend. Something's been done to him. I don't know how. Oh, they have him. They have him. Okay. Booyasi now. He got thing on control cell. Something like that. I don't know how to undo it. Okay.
00:37:24
Speaker
That's it. Okay. Um, it is now Draconis's turn. Okay. So with where I'm at, how, how close is Dex to me? Um, since he tried to trip me and then tried to punch me, see like
00:37:43
Speaker
basically right in front of me. Yeah, we're engaged. Yeah, I moved in. Congratulations. Yep. Ah, thank you. Okay, so still kind of... They said we'd never survive the move, but... All right, so I'm going to use my bonus action first and add... I'm gonna add... Let me just make sure real quick.
00:38:13
Speaker
Yeah, okay, so I'm gonna add thunderous smite to my to my axe of dwarf it acts of my axe and I just like glow and like really for a second and then From I guess what Dex can see is like what this like anger and like just pure emotion coming from like the depth of my stomach and
00:38:43
Speaker
And then I'm gonna cast Thaumaturgy to make my voice three times as loud right now, just kind of out of instinct. And just like, just let it boil and then look right at him and just yell, why? Why did you not come and find me?
00:39:13
Speaker
And you can rebuttal if you'd like, or I can keep going. Before he can interact, I'll say, I was left there. I was tortured. I was beaten. And I never gave anything to say what you were doing or where you were at. And I kept myself up.
Accusations and New Conflict
00:39:43
Speaker
for as long as possible and I never broke and you never came and found me and then the only person who ever cared about me and came and find me is the one that you're hunting down and the only other two people that I've cared about you've killed
00:40:05
Speaker
why should I spare you? And do you just say all of that? Yeah, it's like, yes, it's like like in the way that like when you're so angry, you just kind of word vomit everything. And so all of that, and I assume, I don't know how close, uh, Eric is. I mean, if you're using the, you got a, you got a loud speaker, man. So I'm, I'm basically, yeah, like that's something that I've been like holding back for the way I pictured is just like, I've been holding all that back for,
00:40:35
Speaker
a long time and then I was trying like the first part trying to like still be kind of intimidating and then now that he's just right in front of me again I it just boils up and all word vomits out and so I guess both or the whole party yeah here's that okay and that was an action the thaumaturgy was and then the bonus action so that's my turn okay
00:40:59
Speaker
Orianna's turn. So two of her allies are now in there. It's pretty hard to do this without harming people. She doesn't want to hurt. But she's also so angry. She's going to walk in and direct the column of fire at one of the guards that's fighting Bhimani. OK.
00:41:28
Speaker
Ideally, without hitting either Bamani or Dex anymore. I don't know if that's possible. If that's not possible, tell me. I mean, you could angle it to where the majority of the column is just blasting the side of this doorway and like you're catching one of them on the corner. So it's possible. Okay, she's gonna try to do that. Okay.
00:41:51
Speaker
Because she can she's beginning to get the to understand that something more complicated than she realized is going on. And real quick, as you're doing that, just for the visual decks, yes, Ezra and Beric, Ezra Konos word vomits this. At this point, he is like reaved in flame behind him, as the house is properly on fire at this point.
00:42:12
Speaker
OK, so he needs to make a strength save and a deck save. So strength save is eight. Deck save is nine. All right. He's thrown straight backwards, 15 feet. And then takes. Twenty two points of fire damage. Twenty two points of fire damage, OK.
00:42:42
Speaker
Is he still up? Who takes that damage? The guard. One of the guards. Yes, he's still up. Good lord.
00:42:50
Speaker
It was the one that Babani hasn't been attacking, so he only took the initial blast from the column. So that's the second he's taken damage. So she sort of advances in and she's just going to try to blast this guy right up against one of the walls. That's what she's doing now. She's just walking straight at this guy with this column of fire. Yikes. She's decided it's all this guy's fault.
00:43:14
Speaker
Okay. Um, record is going to run in through the front door, uh, with the column having been shifted, um, to within about, let's say 15 feet of what Dex and Jerkonos are doing. Um, and he's going to continue firing at, uh, the, the one that looks scary. Um, that is going to be a 21 to hit. You say 21. Yes.
00:43:44
Speaker
It does not. Okay, so now it is Beric's turn. Beric runs across the room.
00:44:16
Speaker
lunges at Draconos, catches him by the arm, and says, unless you and I have a talk, and I will cast Banishment. Okay, so Charisma saving throw Draconos. All right. He's probably good at these as a paladins. Yeah.
00:44:44
Speaker
You might roll poorly. You get advantage on this, don't forget. Yeah, so with advantage, it is 23. Fine, we won't have a meaning conversation. We can go with the first roll. Booyah's got to run through and do the same thing.
00:45:09
Speaker
Everyone wants to hear that conversation. But Booyah is going to grab a barrack and say that, right? Man, y'all are going to be jaws on the floor when I cast banishment successfully. Everybody goes, I can actually cast it, though, so. OK. There's no rule that says I can't cast it.
00:45:33
Speaker
I feel like there is. Okay, I'm gonna take the wizard out of the initiative order so I forget thinking that it's his turn. Okay, the one that is being slammed up against the wall by Orianna is going to attempt to move. So he's going to, as though it's difficult terrain, slide out of the way.
00:45:56
Speaker
of the column and then try to close distance with her and make an attack. So he rushes with his sword and tries to swing at Orianna. 15. That will miss. Okay, so he tries to swing, but he tries to swing through the column and it just slows his arm down to the point where his sword gets pushed back. And the other one's going to try to attack Bamani. Hey, that's a 23, which is gonna hit.
00:46:24
Speaker
Hot diggity dog. They're doing something. So that's six damage. So we're now back around to Dex. Dex is singularly focused on landing a hit on Dracono, especially after
00:46:49
Speaker
Man, I really am sorry that everything's been so hard for you because stuff has just been pretty chill and easy and cool for us since you left. No, nothing major or bad or scary or sad or terrible happened to us. So I understand why you've taken the tactic you have of trying to hit me in the face again. So he rolls. Yes. Yes. Okay. He, he hits me.
00:47:15
Speaker
I pictured you just like jumping out of your chair and like fist bumping like so that's this is this is stick to face and that's uh 10 20 30 30 30 points of face damage say it again
00:47:37
Speaker
30 points of damage to your face. Okey-dokey. Which is more damage than was done to my face when my nose exploded, so whatever I guess. Does that mean for the rest of it, I just have to talk? Okay, so it is now...
00:48:00
Speaker
Bamani's turn. So Bamani is going to continue punching the face of this dude that just struck her for the first time. So that going to be a 14, which misses. So finally, she swings wide that getting hit is not something she's accustomed to. Booyah, it is your turn. Yeah, seeing everybody else go in, goes in, slides across the floor.
00:48:31
Speaker
crossbow bolt to the one, actually he's going to mark the one on his left. Okay. That's the one that's attacking Oriana. Okay. And fire a bolt and that's a 23. That's a hit. And that is 24 points of damage. You kill him.
00:49:01
Speaker
And then he's going to shoot another bolt at the other one. Okay. And that is 21. And that is 20 even points of damage. Okay. He's still up.
00:49:24
Speaker
That's the one that Bhimani's fighting just for the sake of Orianna knowing what's going on around her. Okay. Okay. So, um, all right. Yeah. The one in front of Orianna just drops like a sack of bricks, um, and just can get swept away in the column of fire that she was shooting at him. Draconos, it is your turn. Okay. So I, uh, I've got both boys right in front of me. Just got super decked in the face.
00:49:54
Speaker
Um, okay. So I have, I don't know if this is just part of who I am, uh, Eric, so you can tell me, but it says I've got extra attack when I use a melee weapon. Yep. Is that just consistent? Yep. That's just a part of your, uh, your thing is you can attack twice when you take the attack action. Okay. Um, so I've still got thunderous smite on my, uh,
00:50:24
Speaker
Yep on my axe and so I'm gonna see both of these guys in front of me that I'm not happy with and so I'm gonna and I haven't really paid any much attention to Barrick at this point and so I'm gonna obviously first look at Dex cuz just instinct of anger And then
00:50:52
Speaker
but then I'm gonna glance my eyes over at Barak and just almost as if like, I mean, there's fire behind me, so it might be hard to see, but there's almost fire in my eyes of just how much hatred I have specifically for Barak. And as I start to kind of shift my weight back to where I can
00:51:24
Speaker
I don't know, just where I have a little bit of balance. I'll say to Berwick, I'll say you killed them, you killed both of them, and you mutilated the only other person that means anything to me.
00:51:44
Speaker
Can we curse on the show? No, no, you can. OK, then then believe me, I've tried. OK, then you can invent an error. Yeah, you can say you as I start to lunge for it, I'll just say you mother and then like like leech forward as the axe blows again in the in the thunder and just take the biggest disadvantage. I do. OK, yes, because it is under the effect of blur right now.
00:52:15
Speaker
Oh, well, that's cool. Um, okay. So I will attempt to hit him, uh, at least once. Uh, we'll see if I try to hit him both times. I guess. Yeah. Um, you can decide that after. Okay. So for the first one, uh, disadvantage, right? Yep. Yep. Ah.
00:52:45
Speaker
So that would be 11 for the first hit. So you swing and the air around the hand. And it's like there's this invisible sort of force that just shunts the axe aside. Okay, so I'll just give out a very frustrated. And then
00:53:05
Speaker
Yank it out of the ground as I'm trying to go back with it again, and that is Also a disadvantage you what still a disadvantage. Yeah, that would be At 12 at disadvantage, okay same same thing Barak Barak doesn't move the axe to sort of move around him. Oh wait I'm an idiot hey the
00:53:31
Speaker
Did you forget to add your attack modifier to those roles? Well, I added my strength, but I forgot to add. I was very confused. I was like, how that's not what, um, no, I mean, I don't know what to change the first attack from an 11 to at 19 for the first one and then 20 for the second.
00:53:51
Speaker
both of those will hit. Okay. Okay. Um, so let me do, I don't appreciate this revisionist history. Sorry. I'm, I'm, uh, I'm, that's cool. It's just the first time I'm going to describe that actually working on back. It's cool. You still have to describe it to be fair. So I hope you're going to take it out. So the, uh, the first hit is 16.
00:54:20
Speaker
damage and then the second hit is 18 damage. All right. And then. Oh, I'm sorry. You need that. Yes. So that's that's just the damage. But on the very first one, you also get. Twelve damage on that first hit added and for 300 feet. So everybody hears a loud thunderous ring.
00:54:49
Speaker
And I need you to do a strength saving for a throw or get knocked back 10 feet. I am knocked back 10 feet. Okay. So yeah, Beric, you are knocked 10 feet and prone. Okay. Okay. So that was Draconis' turn. It is now Orianna's turn. She turns the fire column on the surviving guard. Okay.
00:55:17
Speaker
And at this point it is apparent that she is screaming over the roar of the fire. Okay. Uh, so strength save for he saved index save. Yep. Uh, the strength save was 20. Oh, so he's not moved. And the deck save is 16. So wow. Nicely done. Plants his back foot and takes only half of the, of the horror and fire.
00:55:43
Speaker
Well, ooh, three sixes. Eighteen. Eight. Twenty six, so halves to 13 fire damage. OK, so yeah, he pleads his back foot and like shoulders into the column as he makes eyes with Orianna who's screaming and he himself begins to scream back. But slowly you see from the like searing column of fire his like
00:56:12
Speaker
armor begin to melt away and the clothing underneath burn away. And then his hair ignites as he like all of a sudden ceases screaming and goes flying backwards and crumples on the ground. All right.
00:56:25
Speaker
So at this point, the structural integrity of the house is really starting to get not great. And you all begin to hear cracking and the wood beginning to bow. And you all hear a voice from the top of the stairs begin to shout, you come into my house.
00:56:53
Speaker
and you seek to destroy it like everything else in my life. And you see a horribly disfigured changeling come quickly walking down the stairs, brandishing a rapier in a very aggressive fashion. Not them all. Interesting. End of episode.
00:57:16
Speaker
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00:57:39
Speaker
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