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A Day in the Life of Archdevil Bel
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Ever wondered what it would be like to play as a major DnD villain? Been curious about what a day in the life of these nefarious and evil creatures entails? With this new series we seek to answer those questions. First up, the Devil himself…well, more like A Devil. Bel, the Warlord of Avernus, the first Layer of hell. Think of him as the Devil’s arms dealer. I wonder what he’s up to today…
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Transcript
Introduction at Moonstone Manor
00:00:04
bladesedge
Greetings, mortal. My name is Elsaphia Stardock. Welcome to Moonstone Manor, my home. Let me introduce myself. I'm an art fae and a mage of high renown. What do you mean you haven't heard of me? I'll pitch party real soon. I am an ambassador to the Primatary Plain and a member of the Council of Light, a gathering of various goodland creatures keeping the balance and the light in all of our worlds.
00:00:33
bladesedge
But listen, not everything needs to be solved. but Without the bad, there could be no good. So, on a lovely, lazy afternoon here in the Fey Realm, sometimes I like to sit back on my mushroom sofa, puff my devil weed pipe, and take a look at my old scribe all here.
Unique Device and Gehenna
00:00:50
bladesedge
You see, I got this off of an inithid hag worshipper of Mansokorian in Gehenna years ago, and it acts sort of like what you would know as a television.
00:01:01
bladesedge
So let's pop this on and see what's on today.
00:01:07
bladesedge
Ooh, Archdevil Bell, a military genius and weapons manufacturer for the Blood War. ah Which, as you know, is the ancient and everlasting war between the devils and demons. And the former Archduke of the first layer of Hell of Vernus.
Milgalath's Invasion Plans
00:01:27
bladesedge
Archdevil Bell.
00:01:29
bladesedge
Well, it seems a young, upstart, wannabe demon lord has invaded and taken over the bronze citadel. Home of the current Archduke of Avernus, the nefarious and mysterious Black Tabaxi, Occmage Finley Rain. Many you know him as Finn. Ah, it seems Archdevil Bell is at council right now with his advisors. Ooh, and an emissary of Asmodeus, Lord of the Hells.
00:01:58
bladesedge
Let's tune in, shall we?
00:02:11
Kyle
Hey, what's the status on our shipment, huh?
00:02:16
bladesedge
Greetings, Belle. You stand, you sit rather, Belle, in your chair with your high counsel around you.
00:02:29
bladesedge
You, Belle, stand about nine feet tall, red skin, flaming sword at your side. You see to your left, the Azer, Taskmaster of the Forge. As I turn this music down ever so slightly, bear with me.
00:02:53
bladesedge
Whoops, it'll turn out a second and then sorry about that. OK. To your left, the Azure Taskmaster of the Forge. His name is Tez Rialin.
00:03:06
Kyle
Tez.
00:03:07
bladesedge
You see to the left of him down and you're in a sort of a circle here. Bill sitting on your throne, Tez Rialin to your right, I guess. ah Below him, you see the fire giant, Fayaz Endir,
00:03:24
bladesedge
the head craftsman of the weapons that you make for the blood war. ah You see on the other side of your council, ah Oak Moon, ah a lieutenant of the blood war and your right hand man for anything not involved with ah forging weapons.
Strategic War Council
00:03:43
bladesedge
And below him you see your mount, your trusted mount gift of Tiamat. You see Razus, Lord of Fire.
00:03:55
Kyle
Classic razzes.
00:03:57
bladesedge
And then speaking to you on the other side of this is a a devil named Abulon, who is the high priest of Asmodeus. But before he answers your question, why don't you go ahead and um yeah, describe us maybe what we're looking at with Belle.
00:04:17
Kyle
Yeah, I might stand nine feet tall, however, I am sitting. dictating, scheming, plotting.
00:04:30
Kyle
And I want to ask, Forge Master Rialin, what,
00:04:35
bladesedge
Uh, he, he looks at you and goes, yes. tisra master He goes, ah, yes.
00:04:39
Kyle
Tez, Tez Rialin, hey, what's the status on the new double-sided great swords?
00:04:50
bladesedge
The devil sided great source. I have been keeping the fire giants busy. And he looks down at fire as in deer, uh, the fire giant who nods and speaks and says, they have been completed.
00:04:58
Kyle
Finn.
00:05:04
bladesedge
However, and he looks and you see, this is where Abulon, the high priest of Asmodeus says. Yes. Greetings, pal. There is a rather large, however, with all of our weapons currently in transit. The bronze citadel is under a terrible curse. It's under attack.
00:05:33
bladesedge
As Medias has learned that a new upstart demon lord named Milgalath is behind it.
00:05:43
Kyle
Mm, milk of lath you say. The name doesn't ring a bell.
00:05:46
bladesedge
Yes. To us neither. She used Archduke Finn's heart to power a ritual that is devastating the city and killing the people ah of Avernus, but most importantly, it's stopping the exploitation of your weapons to the front line of the Blood War.
00:06:06
Kyle
Mm, you say you used Finn's heart. I didn't notice his presence being missing. Is he dead?
00:06:13
bladesedge
We don't know. this This ritual has granted her power over all people within the city, treating them as her puppets, and any forces we've sent in have been turned to ash.
00:06:25
Kyle
Turn to Ash.
00:06:28
bladesedge
Our sources, from what they can gather, say that stopping the ritual will restore the city, its people, and the trade route, the Red Road. But this mission requires you to retrieve Finn's still-beating heart and remove it from the city to stop the ritual.
00:06:38
Kyle
and
00:06:47
Kyle
Don't mind if I do. It's not something that I expected to go about doing this way, otherwise maybe. However, and I look over at Razus, Lord of Fire. It's about time for her morning ride.
00:07:06
bladesedge
um Abulon looks at you, this devil in these red robes, cult of Asmodeus, symbol hanging around his neck. He says, yes, that is as much as we've gleamed, but do you have any questions I might have?
00:07:24
Kyle
Uh, whom have you sent in so far? Describe their legions.
00:07:30
bladesedge
um he He goes on to say, Well, we've sent in many bearded devils and bone devils and chain devils. None have exited. We fear that sending in these lesser creatures, either they're being destroyed or they're falling under her command.
00:07:41
Kyle
What a powerful demon.
00:07:52
bladesedge
he He opens the window. and shows you far off the um the castle,
00:08:07
bladesedge
the bronze citadel. And I'm going to show you that here.
00:08:11
Kyle
Yeah.
00:08:11
bladesedge
pay no Pay no attention to stuff in the foreground, but this is what it looks like. And why don't you go ahead and describe to everybody what you see here.
00:08:21
Kyle
All right, let's see. I see a swirling tornado of black smoke rising high above the Citadel. um Crested at the top in its swirling center is a, looks to be like a completely blacked out moon, almost a black hole. The land surrounding it looks highly decrepit um and the city seems to be breaking apart in and ah um from out of itself.
00:08:51
Kyle
ah It looks ah and looks like quite the site for a battle.
00:08:58
bladesedge
Yes, he says, yes, indeed.
00:09:01
Kyle
And I will be referring to them as the ashen for the moment.
00:09:02
bladesedge
The castle has been is is guarded by creatures that used to be of allegiance to us, but have now turned ashen.
00:09:13
Kyle
and i will be referring to them as the ashen for the moment
00:09:17
bladesedge
Yes, that spherical void formed high above the castle seems to be siphoning energy, whether it's souls of the dead or pieces of and at that moment, as he says pieces, you see a part of a building break off and rise up to it and can that black orb consume it and spherical consuming void.
00:09:43
Kyle
Fascinating. I can't say I've seen magic like that before.
00:09:48
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:09:49
Kyle
This new generation of upstarts is always intriguing.
00:09:54
bladesedge
Um, looks at you and says, yes, but I'm quite stupid if you ask me because this will be the end of Milgalath.
Infiltration Strategy
00:10:03
Kyle
Yeah, and I look over at Oakmoon and I'm like, I love troubling young upstarts. Lieutenant Moon, I need you to demo for the troops the double-bladed great swords and meet me out front, probably within the next four hours.
00:10:18
bladesedge
Nice.
00:10:20
bladesedge
Roll me a D, roll me a, roll me a D six first.
00:10:26
Kyle
Okay.
00:10:26
bladesedge
Let's tell me, tell me what you roll.
00:10:30
Kyle
One.
00:10:31
bladesedge
Okay. So not now roll me one D six that D six roll for was for how many D six is you'd be rolling.
00:10:36
Kyle
Okay, six.
00:10:38
bladesedge
cool ah You see that he looks at you with a look you're all too familiar with this is your lieutenant He follows your every word to a tee and he hates you um But he looks at you with a very serious face and just says we only have six the rest of them are in the city didn't you hear him?
00:10:57
Kyle
Six is enough. We'll be back before happy hour.
00:11:03
bladesedge
Um, Abulon says, right. Well, I will leave you to your planning and machinations, but, uh, any more information that you need from me.
00:11:15
Kyle
um Yeah, as far as the um ah spherical void, do you know the um the class of magic that it is?
00:11:27
bladesedge
Hmm. He looks at you and says, uh, no, nobody was able to to get close enough. But all of this magic we know is this ritual. Finn is somewhere within the property and she has his heart. I'm talking literally out of his chest. She has his heart powering this ritual.
00:11:49
Kyle
Interesting. And where is his body?
00:11:54
bladesedge
He shrugs, and he says, but I assume in inside the property, but Finn did not, as you know, Archduke Finn did not travel lightly. Him and all of his compatriots within the walls are being treated as puppets under this lady's command. You will be met with resistance. ah We don't even know why our forces have not returned. We've sent in legions and legions and legions.
00:12:23
bladesedge
They are on the lookout for people approaching. I trust you will come up with some sort of plan, military strategies that you are.
00:12:32
Kyle
Yeah, so I think um I have the, I have mirror image, I have mislead, I have raised dead.
00:12:45
Kyle
um I think it would be interesting to try to figure out some way that I want to combine those spells.
00:12:56
bladesedge
Um, Abulon says, right. He leaves a, um, a sending stone in the shape of the cult of Asmodeus on the floor. And he says, well, Asmodeus would like to be notified when this is, uh, finished because as of now, blood war will turn in the demon's favor if we do not fix this.
00:13:24
Kyle
Naturally, I know where my place in this operation is. um So what, go ahead.
00:13:31
bladesedge
Uh, you, you look outside too. You see, you have, uh, you have legions at your commands. You see the city off in the distance and, so um, did you, were you get about to ask him something?
00:13:44
Kyle
No, no, I'm fine, he's dismissed.
00:13:44
bladesedge
Okay. Yeah. He. Teleports out and you are left with your war council to ah Figure out a plan forward tesra island your azure taskmaster Fayazen dear the head fire giant craftsman smith ah Oak moon your lieutenant and razus lord of fire three headed this three headed red dragon gift of Tiamat who you share the first layer of Avernus with. um And they all look at you expectantly.
00:14:25
Kyle
Yeah, so I have thoughts. Lesser demons or lesser devils seem to be coming either under the control of this spell or are being destroyed. I am not a lesser demon or less lesser devil. um What I think will be the plan is I want to disguise a group of ah devils that have already come under the spell and masquerade as one of them, as I myself infiltrate with them. So basically what I want to do is I want to use the spell mislead to become invisible um at um and join in with a platoon.
00:15:16
bladesedge
Nice. Why don't you let me know what, uh, man, the list is what the spell mislead does. Sounds very cool.
00:15:20
Kyle
Yeah, so mislead is a fifth level spell. Concentration spell lasts an hour um and you become invisible at the same time that an an illusory double of you appears where you're standing. The double lasts from the duration, but the invisibility ends. If you attack or cast a spell, you can use your action to move your illusory double up to twice your speed and make it gesture, speak, and behave.
00:15:42
Kyle
in whatever way you choose. ah You can see through its eyes and hear through its ears as if you were located where it is. And on each of your turns, to the bonus action, you can switch from using its senses to using your own or back again. While you're using your senses, you're blinded and deafened in regard to your own surroundings. So basically, I would, I think I'd like to
00:16:05
Kyle
act openly so that they are aware that Bell is potentially at their front gates.
00:16:12
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:16:12
Kyle
um Meanwhile, that is my double. And as the real Bell, I will infiltrate the city while they're distracted by the growing army outside there um yeah outside of the bronze citadel.
00:16:29
bladesedge
OK, Oak Moon looks at you ah or a rack of six double bladed double sided great swords behind him and says,
00:16:41
bladesedge
All right, so you want me to gather how many squadrons?
00:16:47
Kyle
Oh, I would say gather three squadrons.
00:16:53
bladesedge
It goes three. And what are we talking here? We talking our best guys?
00:16:59
Kyle
um I would say bring in some lesser devils, but mostly just fodder. i don't I don't want them to think that this is as big of a deal, right? We're just,
00:17:13
Kyle
We're just gonna muster us a fair army out front, but nothing that's gonna leave ah my tower completely emptied.
00:17:25
bladesedge
says Okay. So your illusory double, how long does that last for? By the way, anyways, your illusory double me and three squadrons approach the front gates and open fire.
00:17:32
Kyle
An hour. And yes, definitely.
00:17:45
Kyle
I would say just muster um about a half mile outside within eyesight.
00:17:52
bladesedge
Okay. ah He says ah he gathers the double great swords and says we'll do anything else you need from me.
00:18:02
Kyle
um Let's see. I will... No, I don't think I need anything else from you, Oakmoon.
00:18:15
bladesedge
Okay. He walks over to the window and drops out, falling about 50 feet before his wings sprout out, catching him. And he flies over and you hear his voice beginning to summon legions, you see three ah three squadrons ah form Oak Moon. You see is ah gathered by a red skinned tiefling sorcerer.
00:18:49
Kyle
Hell yeah.
00:18:50
bladesedge
at at At his side as he begins to get the three squadrons ready to move as he waits out front.
00:18:56
Kyle
All right. um Then I would um ask the weapons master, the head craftsman, Fyazundir, sharpen my blade, and I will be mounting up on Razus within the hour.
00:19:09
bladesedge
Fayazhundir.
00:19:21
bladesedge
ah He says, we'll do ah he. Razus looks at you, three heads, which all speak in unison, and they say, Miley, what is our plan during this?
00:19:35
Kyle
you will be observing with my illusion. But if I call for you, come to me immediately.
00:19:47
bladesedge
god
00:19:48
Kyle
um And ah I go to procure some kind of um large amount of meat, like ah like a Vernon bison or some shit.
00:19:58
bladesedge
Totally.
00:20:00
Kyle
ah
00:20:02
bladesedge
Yeah, you get a Vernon Bison.
Engagement with Ashen Guards
00:20:05
bladesedge
And it's a it's a half and half batch, half of Vernon Bison, half Iolan prime material plane man meat.
00:20:14
Kyle
Wow. Yeah. Well, gotta, gotta keep a growing dragon fed. It's got three heads after all.
00:20:22
bladesedge
Begins ravenously tearing into the bison and man flesh. Uh, Tezrae Alan says, sir, anything for me while you're gone. Do you wish for me to just watch over the tower in your state?
00:20:37
Kyle
Watch over the tower, yes. um I may return in case I need that weapon. um You know which one I mean.
00:20:46
bladesedge
He nods.
00:20:49
Kyle
um
00:20:52
Kyle
Otherwise, ah yeah, i think we're I think we're all right. We should be ah we should be back quickly.
00:20:59
bladesedge
He starts rubbing his hands together. Wow. Our leash getting his hands dirty going in. Oh, they don't know what's coming.
00:21:08
Kyle
suspicious It's been a while. I haven't stretched my legs or my bloodied my sword in ages.
00:21:19
bladesedge
He says, I wish I could watch this as we zoom out the camera, zooming out.
00:21:36
bladesedge
Well, this is quite something. This is, well, I get a sneaky peeky into the day of a devil. And what a day it is. No, that's my stepson Oakmoon right there, just as you tining in um yeah for The foremost ex-stepson, my ex-wife's son, right?
00:21:59
bladesedge
He's doing a great job. He's farming legions. He's approaching the gates. He has bears riding in on Razus. The legendary Faizendir sharpening his weapon to his right alien. The Azer among Azers watching over the bell tower as he approaches the bronze citadel. And me? Shoes off. PJ's on.
00:22:30
bladesedge
What a lovely day. Oh, I see he's approaching the Bronze Citadel now. Let's tune back in.
00:22:47
bladesedge
Okay. Sir Bell.
00:22:51
Kyle
yeah hu
00:22:53
bladesedge
As you approach, you have three squadrons um live with Bella at the front, these sort of Mad Maxian vehicles with your three squadrons rolling up. Although it's only three squadrons, the bronze Citadel does not house and army so you see outside these front gates at each gate there's like four guards ah there are four entrances one at the north one at the west one at the east one at the south into this city each only has like four guards as you're riding on top of razis you look at the inner a map of the inner castle that tesraelyn gave you which looks like this
00:23:16
Kyle
Yeah, mhm.
00:23:38
Kyle
her
00:23:39
bladesedge
You could even screenshot that if you want to look at it once I move off this.
00:23:43
Kyle
Sure, let me do that real quick.
00:23:49
bladesedge
Yeah, you do see that also while this is the map as you're looking at this. Parts of this tower are like broken off and floating upwards.
00:24:03
Kyle
Right, it's, oh wait, you didn't play Elden Ring. It's like Crumbling Pharah Missoula.
00:24:09
bladesedge
Exactly.
00:24:10
Kyle
which would totally make sense if you had played the game all the way.
00:24:13
bladesedge
I imagine some people listening maybe have know exactly what you're talking about.
00:24:18
Kyle
Yes, this is Crumbling Faire Missoula for show.
00:24:21
bladesedge
um As you approach. um You see that the bronze citadel has rusted and deteriorated to the extent that sections of it now float in the air. You see ash and detritus rising up towards this spherical black void that hovers high above the castle amidst that ash and detritus. You see? yeah
00:24:52
bladesedge
really souls of whatever creatures lived in this city in this castle being sucked up into this void, um presenting another ah potential complication as the blood war is fueled by the souls of ah people in hell. The void itself up high above this castle seems to be pulling the the castle and the surrounding embankments or embattlements apart.
00:25:24
bladesedge
ah The castle is groaning this bronze in protest as stone grates against stone, bronze, metal grates against ah wood and rusts and iron. um ah You see four guards, their bodies made. They look like they used to be devils um and their bodies now look like they are made completely of ash.
00:25:52
bladesedge
flank every castle entrance. ah You see inside more ashen guards circle the castle in patrols of four guards each.
00:25:52
Kyle
You.
00:26:03
bladesedge
But yes, you see that there are there are four entrances as you approach and as you do you in your But that's it. Reconnected. Cool. um In your ear, your magical earpiece sending stone earpiece, you have Oak Moon down below with the three squadrons as you're approaching says. All right. We're approaching which entrance.
00:26:30
Kyle
Yeah, we've got our Jabra Bluetooth headsets in.
00:26:33
bladesedge
Absolutely.
00:26:34
Kyle
Yeah. um You will take the front entrance. I will be a part of the first first force.
00:26:43
bladesedge
He goes, so we are attacking.
00:26:45
Kyle
Oh yes, we will be attacking.
00:26:47
bladesedge
Just OK. He ah begins to. Gather the troops ready for a attack on an assault on the front entrance, and you are currently on. Razus, what is the plan there?
00:27:10
Kyle
Yes, so I will be a foot soldier. um I will be using mislead um to allow the copy of me, the illusory double, to remain atop Razus, acting just as I would, barking out orders from above, um while Razus rains down fire.
00:27:16
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:27:30
Kyle
Razus is... you know, obviously a beast. ah As the Lord of Fire itself, I would hope that she does um as her namesake implies.
00:27:46
bladesedge
Okay. um As you cast mislead, Razus hovers over the three squadrons, ah you turn invisible. And what is your plan as from afar, these Mad Maxine war vehicles start to volley through through through large arrows and spears at Uh, the bronze Citadel.
00:28:17
Kyle
Yeah, I'll be watching for every single projectile that comes in and just walking around them.
00:28:24
bladesedge
Okay. oh So, so Razus goes to the, goes to the ground and lets you offer you use your wings to fly off.
00:28:26
Kyle
Oh,
00:28:30
Kyle
ah I use my wings to to to jump down to the ground.
00:28:30
bladesedge
razzous while Nice.
00:28:35
bladesedge
OK, so there they are creating a distraction at the the North Gate. um And ah which gate are you heading towards?
00:28:45
Kyle
um I am going to be heading towards the rampart um and I would end up looking to teleport on to one of the ramparts to get a view beyond.
00:28:55
bladesedge
OK, so as you start to fly in. Over the city. um So you're just flying over the walls, not going through a front entrance.
00:29:05
Kyle
Right.
00:29:06
bladesedge
Okay, cool. Nice. So as you fly in, heading to the RAM part, I'm looking for that on the thing I gave you and I do not see that. So um we're gonna say it's ah the the walls are 60 feet high. So as you get to the wall, and you head over, you start to realize why creatures that were sent in here.
00:29:38
bladesedge
Did not make it. As you see, even these ashen guards, their buys made of ash are like slowly floating up towards this void.
00:29:47
Kyle
huh Interesting.
00:29:47
bladesedge
As you enter each five feet of movement, you lose a hit point. So as you travel, you hit the wall on the top and you go down 60 feet in.
00:29:59
Kyle
Okay.
00:29:59
bladesedge
Um, that is 12 hit points. that you lose. um For those people at home, this this is a very the fun experiment because you're playing a CR 25 arch devil.
00:30:16
Kyle
364 HP.
00:30:19
bladesedge
Yeah, yeah yeah you are you're so losing 12. Not a big deal, but you can now see how this is definitely a job for ah you.
00:30:29
Kyle
Yes.
00:30:29
bladesedge
Alright, so you are invisible and you head towards the bronze citadel. So the actual castle within this place, right?
00:30:38
Kyle
Correct, yes.
00:30:39
bladesedge
Okay.
00:30:40
Kyle
i The direct route is so almost always gonna be the right one when I'm involved.
00:30:46
bladesedge
Nice. So you are invisible um as you land in front um and you see that the front door where you're currently looking at, you see two of these Ashen soldiers.
00:31:02
bladesedge
Um, standing guard at the front door of the castle, although parts of it are still just broken apart. Uh, like the mage tower, which is on your sheets, um, is broken apart and is floating.
00:31:15
bladesedge
Uh, the bedroom is floating. The armory is, uh, floating. And the first and second store stories seem, um, intact here.
00:31:27
bladesedge
I can even show you here.
00:31:27
Kyle
Thousands of feet in the air, hundreds.
00:31:32
bladesedge
s two
00:31:33
Kyle
Gesundheit, goog.
00:31:35
bladesedge
ah Not much. they're're They're not crazy high in the air like you can see here. do
00:31:42
bladesedge
Um, this is the mage tower art handout of this is being, uh, detached from this.
00:31:47
Kyle
Mm, okay, sure.
00:31:49
bladesedge
Uh, the bedroom is the bedroom one is definitely higher in the air, but as you're on the ground here, staring at the front doors is still invisible. Uh, lasts for an hour.
00:32:01
bladesedge
Uh, we'll say it's, you know, since you cast it, it's probably been 10 minutes.
00:32:05
Kyle
Sure.
00:32:06
bladesedge
Um, so you have 50 minutes left.
00:32:09
Kyle
And I am outside which part on this map?
00:32:11
bladesedge
You're outside the the front door.
00:32:13
Kyle
Outside the front door. Okay, excellent.
00:32:15
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:32:16
Kyle
um Yeah, well then I would walk over here to the right to see what's beyond. And I actually can't move my token.
00:32:27
bladesedge
Oh, OK. Let me help you out there. Do you show by now?
00:32:32
Kyle
Correct, I can move.
00:32:33
bladesedge
Cool. Um, all right. So as you go over there, you're still invisible. You see sort of the side of this castle. Like if you're looking at your map, you were at the entryway and now you're looking at what you can assume is probably the library.
00:32:51
Kyle
Yeah, um and then I'm going to cast um Detect Magic around myself.
00:32:57
bladesedge
Nice. No, so doing so would break your concentration on mislead.
00:33:02
Kyle
I think it said, is it a attack? Let's see.
00:33:09
bladesedge
They casting a spell also.
00:33:13
Kyle
to And if you attack or cast a spell, oh, okay, cool.
00:33:16
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:33:16
Kyle
Well, then I would just be walking and using my my passive perception.
00:33:23
bladesedge
Nice. So you have a passive perception of 14. So I do you want to make an active perception check.
00:33:29
Kyle
Yeah, sure, let's do that. Let's do a persepy. Bop, bop, bop. Skills, believe it or not, does not have proficiency in perception. Skills.
00:33:45
Kyle
persuasion, deception, insight, and arcana. Cool. Out we go.
00:33:53
Kyle
And it was a 14th.
00:33:54
bladesedge
Nice, which is your passive.
00:33:55
Kyle
Yeah.
00:33:55
bladesedge
um You I mean, you you recall that there's the front door over here, but if you want to stay invisible and not have to detract from these guards on the east side of the house where you're currently going around, which you know you're looking at, what would be the um library?
00:34:11
bladesedge
There is a door. um Right over here that would normally. Um, you're actually looking at it. It's the, this broken door right here, this broken hallway normally connected to the mage tower, but the mage tower is floating in the air.
00:34:27
bladesedge
So as you look in there, you see a door at the end of that, at the end of that hallway.
00:34:30
Kyle
Yeah, absolutely. Door gets pushed open.
00:34:34
bladesedge
Okay. Nice door gets.
00:34:37
Kyle
And all all nine feet of me hopefully can pass through.
00:34:44
bladesedge
Ab so lately you. Um.
00:34:51
bladesedge
open that door and you head into the library. And what once might have been cozy with a large desk and padded couch, spacious bookshelves and rich woods, the books, which you know, Finn, the Archduke, the Black Tabaxi, Archmage, is a ah the protege of a ah arch lich, a lich turned God by the name of Nazar. So Finn being his protege is very much so a wizard, books very much so important, and you look and all of the books are ash and the furnishings are beginning to deteriorate similarly. Flakes of ash cloud the air as they float upwards towards this spherical thing.
00:35:41
Kyle
Interesting. Okay, well then I am going to um continue into the next room through this door.
00:35:49
bladesedge
OK. As you open that door, I will let you determine what you do, because the door opens and you see right on the other side of the door to ah sort of ash guards. One was guarding this door. One seems to be guarding a door over here. And they both look your direction. Neither of them having true sights and furrow their brows. But you being Bell have the opportunity to do something first, if you'd like.
00:36:19
Kyle
I walk in the room and with my great sword just picked up like it's a like I think the the great sword for Belle would be on his back and just like grabbing it and tilting it and walking by this guard and just splitting his throat as I walk by.
00:36:39
bladesedge
Hell yeah, go ahead and so as your um ah mislead breaks, go ahead and make, how many attacks do you get per round?
00:36:55
Kyle
I get three attacks, two great sword, one tail. So I was planning on using the first great sword on this guy, likely killing him and then using tail on this guy.
00:37:04
bladesedge
Nice. So these guys actually used to be devils that guarded the, uh, bronze Citadel guarded the archduke. So they're actually pretty hefty. So you can go ahead and make the attack and we will determine.
00:37:17
bladesedge
We'll go from, I'll let you know how he's looking after one attack.
00:37:19
Kyle
Sure. All right. First attack is going to be for 21 splashing and 23 fire.
00:37:28
bladesedge
Nice and as Bell because these guys are all These guys are immune to fire but I'm gonna say since you used to be the Archduke here there any any immunity is turned into a resistance enemy resistance is turned into no resistance against the flame the mighty flame of your sword and
00:37:47
Kyle
Sure.
00:37:51
bladesedge
So yeah, so 21 and 11 is 32. So as you come out the, the stunned look on both these guys faces, uh, this first guy's still up, but is immediately bloodied, which means he's below half health.
00:37:51
Kyle
Battle of Hell.
00:38:05
Kyle
Sure, then I will um pull my sword off of my back and do a proper swing.
00:38:11
bladesedge
Okay.
00:38:16
Kyle
That's gonna be a 28 to hit for 22 slashing and 26 halved to 13.
00:38:16
bladesedge
Nice. You.
00:38:21
bladesedge
You slit this guy's throat and as he falls, the blood coming out of his neck isn't blood at all, but ash as his entire body made of ashes crumbles into a ah puddle on the ground.
00:38:34
bladesedge
And you still had one more attack left but of your.
00:38:35
Kyle
Yeah, and so I'm gonna move one step forward and use my tail to attempt to grab this guy um by the throat.
00:38:44
bladesedge
OK.
00:38:49
Kyle
And that's gonna be a 29 to hit and he needs to make a DC 23 con save.
00:38:54
bladesedge
Okay, so um This guy's con is just a plus two He fails with the 16 or an 18
00:39:05
Kyle
Okay. So he is stunned until the end of his next turn.
00:39:11
bladesedge
Nice. So he is stunned. And as you do this, you are a military strategist, military genius. You kill this one guy and stun this guy and you hear around the corner. um You hear the voice of Ilvato and Ilvato, you know, is a a warlock of Finn.
00:39:35
Kyle
OK.
00:39:36
bladesedge
So you know that there is a person around the corner, just supposedly talking to maybe another one of these action guards. But as this guy is stunned, it is your turn and nobody knows that you are here quite yet.
00:39:48
Kyle
OK, then I have this guy in my tail. I'm going to pull him back into the other room.
00:39:57
bladesedge
Nice. So. Let me just do a quick little math here because I forgot the keeping track.
00:40:03
Kyle
Oh, yeah, the movement thing.
00:40:04
bladesedge
Yeah. So for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
00:40:05
Kyle
Yeah.
00:40:11
bladesedge
Uh, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26.
00:40:21
bladesedge
You've taken 26 points of damage.
00:40:23
bladesedge
It's each step. Uh, you feel your body wanting to turn to ash, but yes,
00:40:23
Kyle
Okay.
00:40:31
Kyle
Okay, so I've lost 12 and 26, so minus 38.
00:40:39
bladesedge
you're currently at.
00:40:42
Kyle
And is there, oh, um let's see, 326.
00:40:43
bladesedge
What are you, yeah, what are you currently at?
00:40:52
bladesedge
Cool. Um, you pulled this guy in here. He's the stun condition is about to end on him. What would you like to do?
00:40:58
Kyle
um I would let it end.
00:41:01
bladesedge
Okay. Um, so like as it ends, uh, you see this Ash and guard immediately, uh, go to pull his weapon.
00:41:13
Kyle
um Yeah, then I would just ah try to just cut off his sword arm and see if he has any language left in him. Ask him, where? Where is Milgalath?
00:41:28
bladesedge
Okay, um so go ahead and make an attack roll on that sword arm.
00:41:35
Kyle
25 to hit 22 slashing and have to 21 for 10 damage.
00:41:37
bladesedge
Nice. Nice. Yeah, so you bring this guy to one hit point, basically his arm cut off and turns to ash about to die. And as he goes to speak, ah you see his words come out of his mouth as ash and smoke.
00:41:57
bladesedge
as whatever creature this was, this loyal devil who served the archduke of the first layer has been ah corrupted completely.
00:42:08
Kyle
All right.
00:42:08
bladesedge
And whoever is in charge of this is ah controlling these people like puppets. They are not acting of their own free will.
00:42:19
Kyle
Sure, so that might mean that ah they are aware to the fact that I'm within the keep.
00:42:28
Kyle
But I'm not worried about that. um Let's see.
00:42:33
bladesedge
We'll say after after you cheap can't speak, his arm cut off, his body turns to ash. You still hear, yeah, you still hear Ilvato around the corner, um and it is your, oh.
00:42:40
Kyle
Yeah, I would drop him on the ground.
00:42:50
Kyle
And Ilvato is speaking and barking out orders. um Can I do a, let's do a but's do an insight roll to see if this is someone who is in a part of the resistance or is someone who has been taken over?
00:43:09
bladesedge
Cool.
00:43:13
bladesedge
um Absolutely taken over. This is every single person inside the walls has been taken over, which at this point you get a ping from Oak Moon outside the front gates who says.
00:43:16
Kyle
okay
00:43:28
bladesedge
All right. That was a little too easy. Every single gate, all four guards dead. There's no resistance coming out to
Curse of the Ashen Guards
00:43:35
bladesedge
meet us. You want us to enter?
00:43:37
Kyle
No, don't enter, you'll be turned to ash. I'm not sure about you Oakmoon, you're quite resilient, but I don't really want to risk it. I can do this myself.
00:43:48
bladesedge
He says, all right, well, we're on standby and Raza's flying overhead. ah
00:43:55
Kyle
um And I'd like to ah change my perception. um Well, I guess I'm i'm not doing this lead anymore, so I'm no longer on that. But I would assume I can communicate telepathically with Razzis.
00:44:07
bladesedge
Yeah. do
00:44:09
Kyle
I'd want her to do like ah a ocular pat down of the of the scene and see if there is anyone that is um like can she see into the city from above.
00:44:21
bladesedge
um Yeah, you see, yeah, looking down into the city and she responds all three voices at once. There are action gods everywhere. There are hell hounds running about and helmed horrors, but I don't see anything else of note.
00:44:44
Kyle
Hmm. All right. Well, if I keep running around in here, you know, this tickle will eventually turn into something a little bit more uncomfortable. um And so I will move down the hallway here.
00:45:01
bladesedge
Okay. How many, so every space you move, go ahead and count it out for us.
00:45:06
Kyle
Let's do we're going to move seven spaces.
00:45:12
bladesedge
Nice seven spaces. So you take seven more points of damage. And as you round that corner and you see Elvato and another guard, I do need you to roll initiative now.
00:45:23
Kyle
Yeah, sure thing.
00:45:24
bladesedge
This will be our our first, but probably not going to be too many initiatives as, uh, you know, I mean, you know, Ilvato and you just dealt with these guards. They are nothing to you. Um, okay. And you.
00:45:44
bladesedge
There are some hellhounds that you don't see that will be joining this that you hear as you approach behind this door. um But they cannot get out until the door is opened, so their turn is spent useless. And you are up first as you turn the corner and see one of the warlocks of Finn and Nazar ah Speaking a while every time her mouth opens, you see there's no tongue in her mouth, yet she is magically still being being able to ah ah speak.
00:46:16
Kyle
oh
00:46:22
bladesedge
She was speaking in an elemental language, barking orders to these ashen soldiers. You're up.
00:46:30
Kyle
Okay, um then I'm gonna come around the corner and I'm gonna flick from my middle finger and fourth thumb a fireball.
00:46:38
bladesedge
Okay. You flick a fireball, which is a deck save. This action soldier only gets, um, gets a natural twenties of saves.
00:46:49
Kyle
How about that?
00:46:50
bladesedge
And then ill Vado, uh, who is not resistance to fire. So we'll take the full amounts fails.
00:47:00
Kyle
Yeah, and that's the weakest fireball in my entire life, 15, that's four ones on the D6.
00:47:07
bladesedge
Damn.
00:47:08
Kyle
Fireball is 8d6, folks. Four of them were ones.
00:47:10
bladesedge
yeah
00:47:14
bladesedge
So you, um, around the corner, cast fireball. Uh, the action guy takes half of half because he succeeded. So it'd be seven turned to three.
00:47:26
Kyle
her
00:47:27
bladesedge
And that is your action, but keep in mind that you have legendary actions.
00:47:31
Kyle
yeah Yeah, well, that was that that was a legendary action.
00:47:32
bladesedge
So after they go, that's okay.
00:47:36
Kyle
Yeah. um And then I'm going to hack at this. ah
00:47:43
bladesedge
Well, that's going to have to be, you're going to have to wait for your legendary actions though. Cause that's your action on your turn. And then yeah, you can't do legendary actions on your turn though.
00:47:49
Kyle
ah No, that's that's a legendary action to cast Fireball, right?
00:47:54
bladesedge
So I'm just counting that as your turn.
00:47:54
Kyle
Oh, okay, I guess I've never never used legendary action, so that's my bad.
00:47:58
bladesedge
Oh yeah. Yeah. So you use them after other players turns.
00:48:01
Kyle
Oh, okay, I see, I say see, I see.
00:48:03
bladesedge
So you run the corner fireball, this action guard runs up to you, uh, takes out a long sword and attempts to hit you twice, uh, with a 17 and a 16.
00:48:16
Kyle
ah Let's see, 17 and a 16 both miss.
00:48:19
bladesedge
Nice. how How does, how does that miss? Are you pairing those as you hit your armor?
00:48:23
Kyle
No, I'm just taking a step step backward and a step to the right.
00:48:28
bladesedge
Nice. Um, you see this warlock, um, puts their hands together. Oh, that's the end of his term, which I'd use a legendary action.
00:48:38
Kyle
um
00:48:41
Kyle
Yeah, I mean, we can i'll just I'll just have casted another fireball.
00:48:45
bladesedge
Cool. So you have one left for this round.
00:48:47
Kyle
Sweet.
00:48:47
bladesedge
Um, all right. They, the action fails. The warlock fails.
00:48:53
Kyle
Okay, 26 damage.
00:48:55
bladesedge
Nice, 13 to the Ashen Guard, 26 to Ilvato, who then puts their hands together and this rift opens behind you, this entropic rift, and I need you to make a consave.
00:49:08
Kyle
Constitution saving throw. Consave coming at him, 25.
00:49:14
bladesedge
All right. So 25 is a success. So you take half of this necrotic damage. So it's 33 halved to 16. And do you have any necrotic resistances?
00:49:26
Kyle
Nope.
00:49:27
bladesedge
Okay. So, uh, 16 and you moved two more spaces. So just call that 18 total. So you should be at 301 health.
00:49:38
Kyle
OK, yeah, I'm counting the other way. Um.
00:49:41
bladesedge
All good. That is ill vatos term. Would you like to use a legendary action?
00:49:48
Kyle
um Yeah, and I like to think that my fireball isn't actually necessarily me casting fireball.
00:49:50
bladesedge
and
00:49:55
Kyle
It's more of just like my body is radiating flame.
00:49:58
bladesedge
Totally.
00:50:00
Kyle
um
00:50:00
bladesedge
Yeah. A little bursts popping off you.
00:50:02
Kyle
Yeah, just every every step.
00:50:06
bladesedge
I love that.
00:50:07
Kyle
um And so yeah, I would definitely want to include Mr. Hellhound here in that damage.
00:50:14
bladesedge
OK, you're doing another one as your last one.
00:50:16
Kyle
Yeah.
00:50:17
bladesedge
OK, that's your third.
00:50:17
Kyle
Uh-huh.
00:50:18
bladesedge
And then they're about to be reset because it'll be the top of the next round.
00:50:21
Kyle
Oh yeah, oops, 29.
00:50:22
bladesedge
um Nice. The hellhounds also just have a plus one. So hellhound fail ash guy succeeds again to their natural 20.
00:50:33
Kyle
That's second time.
00:50:35
bladesedge
Elvato fails. So Vado takes the full 29, um, 29, 14 half to seven for the Ash guard and just a 14 for the hellhound as they are normally immune to fire, but because it is Bell, they're still taking half.
00:50:45
Kyle
Mm-hmm.
00:50:55
Kyle
Sure.
00:50:56
bladesedge
Um, on their turn, this is going to go five, 10, 15, 20, 25. This guy's going to go five, 10, 15, 20, 25 or two that, uh, run up on you and each just attempts to bite you. Uh, that's a 21 and a 23.
00:51:14
Kyle
Okay, both of those are going to hit.
00:51:17
bladesedge
Nice. So they only do, uh, we two da plus six total. So for the 10 points of magical piercing damage total, it does some fire damage, but you're immune to fire 10.
00:51:21
Kyle
Okay.
00:51:29
Kyle
Okay, and how much damage was that? Sorry, I was just checking my stat. 10, okay. 73.
00:51:36
bladesedge
And it is your turn.
00:51:37
Kyle
Okay. Excellent. Well then, first and foremost, I am going to take a Greatsword swing honor at the Warlock, at Finn's Warlock.
00:51:47
bladesedge
At, uh, at who.
00:51:51
bladesedge
Nice.
00:51:51
Kyle
Ilvada, Ilvado.
00:51:52
bladesedge
Ilvato. Yes. No reactions. Uh, 33 hits dealing 45 damage. Ilvato had 14 health left. How do you kill this warlock of fin?
00:52:04
Kyle
ah right but Right from the ah the top of the head down through and how probably just to the belly button, whack.
00:52:14
bladesedge
Nice cleaved in half.
00:52:17
Kyle
And then for my second swing, I'm going for this Nat 20 Devil.
00:52:23
bladesedge
Okay.
00:52:28
Kyle
30 to hit 23 slashing, 23 fire, halved to 11.
00:52:28
bladesedge
30 hits. Nice. How do you kill this guy?
00:52:36
Kyle
ah Same way, just bonk, bonk.
00:52:39
bladesedge
sliced through both. ah Both turning to Ash, Elvato, this one of the the same way you had your council members. oh You know, Elvato was one of ah Finn's main three, he had three council members that you can remember.
00:52:56
bladesedge
Elvato, Nazir, and Zuncalas.
00:53:00
Kyle
Yeah, okay.
00:53:00
bladesedge
And Elvato, now one of them, turns to Ash. Sol moves up towards this orb and is destroyed.
00:53:08
Kyle
Clearly Finn was too weak and kept the council of weak company if this is the state they're in.
00:53:15
bladesedge
um I believe you still have a attack too.
00:53:15
Kyle
but I do, I have a tail, so I'm going to use my tail to um slaughter one of these hellhounds.
00:53:23
bladesedge
Cool.
00:53:29
Kyle
35 to hit.
00:53:29
bladesedge
Nice. Thirty five to hit for twenty nine will absolutely kill one of these as they've both taken half that fireball damage. Which one are you trying to kill?
00:53:38
Kyle
ah This one in the bottom left, um and basically I'm swinging down in one big arc for the um with my tail, just trying to hit the other guy as well, but realized that my tail isn't that fat.
00:53:54
bladesedge
Hits him and when your tail comes up, you expect to see blood and gore, but your tail comes up and Ash follows it.
00:54:02
Kyle
Radical.
00:54:02
bladesedge
Um, this guy will attempt to make a bite attack. Nat oneing.
00:54:08
Kyle
And gets fireballed with a legendary action.
00:54:08
bladesedge
ah
00:54:12
bladesedge
Nice. Nat one. Two nat ones in a row for him.
00:54:14
Kyle
Wow.
00:54:15
bladesedge
He'll still take half.
00:54:16
Kyle
Yeah, I have 26.
00:54:19
bladesedge
I have to 13. So that guy's still up and it is your turn.
00:54:25
Kyle
um Yeah, and then I'll just clomp him with my tail.
00:54:29
bladesedge
Nice. That's going to definitely do it. 27 hits. You clump them turns to ash and you are once again, alone on the first floor in, uh, this, you're looking out the back now and you can see that this part is detached.
00:54:50
Kyle
Okay, um so.
00:54:50
bladesedge
um yeah There are stairs somewhere, ah but the stairs look like they've been. um
00:55:00
bladesedge
ah You know, the stairs would be behind this door right here, but you also could just fly up to the second
Inside the Bronze Citadel
00:55:07
bladesedge
floor.
00:55:07
Kyle
Right. And then I was also thinking, looking back to the map, you know, I've been here before and while it might be broken into pieces, um I could probably just teleport into a place that I choose, right?
00:55:19
bladesedge
Yeah, you have teleport, you can do three times a day, right?
00:55:21
Kyle
Yeah. I'm going to teleport right to the King's bedroom.
00:55:25
bladesedge
Okay. Teleporting to the King's bedroom. Okay. Which is, let me go ahead and make sure if it's 16 or 17 here.
00:55:43
bladesedge
Um,
00:55:49
bladesedge
Okay, the king's bedroom.
00:55:57
bladesedge
The doo doo doo is the one floating in the air. So as you do, you immediately enter this room right here and you are immediately um ah confronted by Nazir, ah so who you know is like the personal bodyguard of Finn.
00:56:20
Kyle
Uh-huh.
00:56:21
bladesedge
ah standing in front of this door in the back oops of the room. um And ah you may act first, but you see that he looks hostile and is about to, ah you're about to roll initiative, but you definitely teleporting right in front of him have a surprise round.
00:56:40
Kyle
Okay, let's do a little bit.
00:56:43
bladesedge
This death priest and put in half plate armor.
00:56:49
Kyle
a Okay. um
00:56:56
Kyle
I am just going to, yeah, I'm just gonna fucking kill him. This is great.
00:57:00
bladesedge
Yeah,
00:57:00
Kyle
Taking out fucking Finn's lieutenants, why not?
00:57:03
bladesedge
yeah you see that this King's bedroom is deteriorating to the extent that you can see furnishings being reduced to ash before your eyes mounted on the north wall above the King's bed as a painting. of Zariel, the former archduke, ah which but is Zariel looking like an angel with kind eyes. ah The image is fleeting, however, as you watch the painting dissolve into a cloud of ash as you take two greatsword attacks and a tail attack on Nazir, all of them hitting.
00:57:32
Kyle
Yeah, so the first one comes in and it's just my tail attack trying to paralyze him. So he needs to make a constitution save.
00:57:43
bladesedge
Nice. And he ah has a plus six, this guy. So he, 18 fail.
00:57:50
Kyle
and Okay, he fails, which means that the next two greatsword attacks are auto crits, right?
00:57:55
bladesedge
Um, that is the, is it, did it stun him?
00:57:59
Kyle
ah He's paralyzed.
00:58:01
bladesedge
Paralyzed. Interesting. So, okay.
00:58:03
Kyle
Or no, sorry, stun, stun, stun.
00:58:05
bladesedge
Yeah. So stunned in fifth edition is automatically fail. Strength saving throws and deck saving throws.
00:58:17
bladesedge
Attack rolls have advantage, not auto grits.
00:58:18
Kyle
here Okay, so I will just roll um at advantage.
00:58:22
bladesedge
Yes.
00:58:23
Kyle
I'll just roll 2d20 just to see if I crit.
00:58:26
bladesedge
Cool.
00:58:29
Kyle
I did not crit.
00:58:30
bladesedge
Uh, 39 and 54. um That you go, you pop in this room, stun this guy, attack him twice. He is immediately bloodied. ah His body slowly turning to ash. ah He it comes out of his stun condition, but it is your turn, because it's the end of his turn. He comes out of the stun condition.
00:58:52
Kyle
Sure, um and then I just want to cast detect magic at will.
00:58:58
bladesedge
OK. So that'll be your action for this turn.
00:59:01
Kyle
Yeah, and just kind of study this, this ash.
00:59:06
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:59:08
Kyle
Because i want to I want to see if I can divine any any anything about it that is new, obviously, um because I haven't seen this spell before.
00:59:15
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:59:18
Kyle
um But I want to see if it'll allow me to maybe attune more deeply to the source of the magic.
00:59:23
bladesedge
So the source of the magic is coming from the next room. The next room over, you get the sense Finn is behind that door.
00:59:26
Kyle
okay
00:59:30
bladesedge
You're getting a very strong detection of magic, meaning Finn and his heart are probably behind this next door. Um, you see that, um, sorry, let me just tell my buddy here that I'm recording this podcast. Sorry about that folks. Um, you, uh,
00:59:57
bladesedge
you You see that this this thing above is destroying everything that comes in contact with it. So anybody who is killed, this cannot be undone. Their souls are being destroyed in this rift above.
01:00:17
Kyle
Interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting.
01:00:18
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
01:00:20
Kyle
What a powerful spell.
01:00:22
bladesedge
Very, very powerful. Very, very interesting. Do you want to make? Go ahead and make an insight check for me. I think you've advantage.
01:00:29
Kyle
Yeah, insight or a little arcana or something.
01:00:32
bladesedge
Yeah, well, insight will be for something else. You can make an account check if you'd like.
01:00:35
Kyle
Sure, we're gonna do an insight first and then the arcana. So that's a 20 insight and 27 arcana.
01:00:42
bladesedge
nice so 27 arcana the person creating the spell this mil galath this demon is in the mage tower with this detect magic this arcana they're not here but they are um doing this ritual that is utilizing the heart of Finn, although they don't need it to be on them. So they're they're not in this room. They're in the next room. It is a very powerful sort of ritual spell. This is not something that's not a spell that somebody learns. This is sort of a. A ritual, much like the ascension to God and how that's a sort of a crazy ritual that you need to do.
01:01:25
Kyle
Sure.
01:01:26
bladesedge
Um, that's what you get with the arcana check with the insight check. I'll say right before Nazir goes, it's just going to be his turn. Next going to attack you. But, um, with the insight check, I'll say that you are at an interesting.
01:01:44
bladesedge
Point here, I'll actually say for just for narrative reasons, we will do a little. The camera zooms out of this floating bedroom, 100 feet above.
01:02:00
bladesedge
but Well, this is quite a day. My goodness. Ilvato, I remember that person. Yes, Finn is a... ah He entered into the furnace. I remember this whole story. about he he He entered into but my other steps on Billy Moon.
01:02:18
bladesedge
I actually went down to take care of this whole xerial problem years ago. And then there was sort of a power vacuum. I remember Bell was trying to become the leader of the first, but then there's some outside forces swept in and Fen was not even a devil rose to power. Quite interesting. What a conundrum Bell is in.
01:02:38
bladesedge
There, stands outside the door of the man who has the job that he desires. There, obviously, was the former archduke of the First Lady of Hell, Bernice.
01:02:52
bladesedge
interesting yes no i'll have another pastry yes yes by way thank you lemonade too thank you so much ah what how interesting so he what a unique position because these people he's killing or being killed for good so obviously he's not a fan of finn and if fins is behind the store he has the opportunity to maybe rid himself of this opposition but Will that upset the balance of the rings in the hills? I mean, as Medea said, to get the heart of Finn outside of the city
01:03:31
bladesedge
How interesting. That would stop this curse. But what will he do? Quite a conundrum. Will he go and try and rule the health? Will that be okay with us, Medellus? Will Finn's patron, the god N'Zar, have something to say about that? Or will he take the heart outside the city, saving Finn, maybe garnering favor? How interesting. Well, let's turn back in here.
01:04:08
bladesedge
Tune back in, Belle realizing those same things with that insight check as Nezir here, not speaking of Nezir, but Nezir. Nezir will ah cast a a seventh level circle of death behind you. So this sphere of negative energy, much like the sphere above,
01:04:33
bladesedge
ripples behind you. Uh, and I need you to make a con saving throw DC is very low for these guys.
01:04:38
Kyle
Can't save coming out.
01:04:42
Kyle
17.
01:04:42
bladesedge
17 is a success. So this will be a 10 D six necrotic damage halved.
01:04:54
Kyle
Okay.
01:04:54
bladesedge
Uh, so it would have been, oh, a roll, low roll would have been 27. You only take 13 should put you at two 78.
01:04:59
Kyle
okay
01:05:06
bladesedge
ah That is his turn. um Oh, I'll say as a bib bonus action, he can do something that is not technically a spell, but more of a feature. um So he targets you and ah with this ray that comes out of his, he's sort of holding this mace and this ray shoots out of it.
01:05:28
bladesedge
He's making another con save.
01:05:28
Kyle
Another con save coming at you. Kerchow, 26.
01:05:33
bladesedge
My six is a, is a success. So it's 48 plus three halved necrotic damage. So 22 halved to 11. So you take 11 points of necrotic damage.
01:05:45
Kyle
OK.
01:05:46
bladesedge
Uh, let's let me roll a D six. see If he gets that back next turn, he does.
01:05:49
Kyle
Ooh, and he does.
01:05:49
bladesedge
So he can do that again. If he survives with a cool 14 health as it is your turn.
01:05:56
Kyle
Yeah, and ah I'm just going to, um I'm gonna move here and I'm gonna kick him through the door into the next room.
01:06:06
bladesedge
Nice. So you take one point of damage as you move.
01:06:08
Kyle
Okay, and I'll just do a, we'll call it a tail attack. I'll swipe in with my tail through the door.
01:06:14
bladesedge
Cool.
01:06:17
Kyle
26 to hit.
01:06:18
bladesedge
As he hits the door and the door opens, ah his body turns to ash. He's dead.
01:06:26
Kyle
Okay, and I walk into the next room.
01:06:28
bladesedge
OK, you see standing in this room ah motionless. You see the black Tabaxi standing probably only around three and a half feet tall, wearing these purple and black robes, staff, hood, ah chest open like the movie Alien rib cage poking out of the chest. You look inside as Finn is standing there eyes open, no heart.
01:06:57
Kyle
Interesting.
01:06:57
bladesedge
in in, in his chest, but you did um you did feel it.
01:07:04
Kyle
Yeah, I felt the the the pulse of his um heart's energy from the Mage Tower.
01:07:12
bladesedge
Yes, you you with your detect magic, um you actually determine that um So this chamber holds Finn in in ah in a sort of a new terrible form, a little bit more hulking and and and bigger, a little bit wider, sort of ashen, ribcage torn open, revealing an empty cavity where his heart used to be. Seen no sign of his heart. um However, your detect magic ah detects the heart under in a cavity under the floor.
01:07:50
Kyle
Yeah, um I would ah i i use my sword to lift up one of the floorboards.
01:07:57
bladesedge
Nice, absolutely hilarious that I have to ask, but you do need to make me an athletics check.
01:08:01
Kyle
Yeah, absolutely. Athletics check. um Probably just strength.
01:08:10
Kyle
Just a 14.
01:08:11
bladesedge
Nice DC was 10, which is why it was funny that you had to, I had to ask, but, um, you open this stone tile on the floor, lifting the stone tile out with your sword, using it as sort of a, um, wedge, wedge it out.
01:08:12
Kyle
Okay.
01:08:27
bladesedge
Um, and you see a heart in there that currently looks like twice the size of what it should be.
01:08:37
Kyle
Yeah. And I, uh, I look at it and I want to take a fucking bite out of it.
01:08:43
bladesedge
Good. So you're going to pick it up.
01:08:44
Kyle
I'm going to pick it up.
01:08:45
bladesedge
All right. As you touch it, I need you to make a constitution saving throw.
01:08:47
Kyle
Okay.
01:08:51
Kyle
27.
01:08:52
bladesedge
Cool. So you'll take half of this necrotic damage.
01:08:57
bladesedge
Okay. Uh, you'd 49 halved to 24.
01:09:03
Kyle
Okay. 24.
Collapse of the Ritual
01:09:05
Kyle
So two, four, three.
01:09:06
bladesedge
Uh, all right. Uh, two for two.
01:09:12
Kyle
Two, four, two, okay.
01:09:12
bladesedge
Yes. And actually, because you walked into this room, you went 5, 10, 15, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Another five points get taken off for that.
01:09:22
Kyle
Okay.
01:09:24
bladesedge
So it should be 2, 3, 7. So you reach down, you grab the heart, and you're going to take a bite out of it. Are you taking a I'm destroying this heart bite?
01:09:34
Kyle
Yeah, uh-huh. Yeah, I am claiming my revenge on Finn.
01:09:35
bladesedge
yeah
01:09:39
bladesedge
OK, you take a bite of this heart and. Let's go ahead and.
01:09:57
bladesedge
um
01:10:02
bladesedge
The heart stops beating as you take a bite out of it. and dies in your hands. You see Finn's body immediately fall to the floor. And you see his body as he hits the floor. It's solid, not ash, because as the heart it dies, you so look above you and you see the void above ah this castle the bronze diddle shrink and disappear.
01:10:46
bladesedge
um
01:10:48
Kyle
And there's the job complete.
01:10:50
bladesedge
You as this happens, the bedroom that you are in and everything else immediately falls to the ground. Um, I need you to make a dexterity saving throw.
01:11:05
Kyle
Absolutely. 15.
01:11:11
bladesedge
If it is a failure as this room you're in with a ceiling immediately falls, you know, whatever it's 60 feet to the ground crashes into other parts of the house.
01:11:23
bladesedge
The armory that was also floating crashes down the mage tower that was also floating crashes down as this all crashes and in ah in a heap of rubble.
01:11:34
bladesedge
You take 43 points of damage.
01:11:38
Kyle
Okay.
01:11:41
bladesedge
um
01:11:46
bladesedge
Okay.
01:11:46
Kyle
Is that bludgeoning damage? Because technically I have resistance to bludgeoning, but I don't know how fall damage works in that metric.
01:11:53
bladesedge
Is it, ah do you have resistance to magical bludgeoning or do you just have resistance to bludgeoning?
01:11:57
Kyle
Resistance to bludgeoning?
01:11:58
bladesedge
Cool, that's magical.
01:11:59
bladesedge
All of that, yeah, everything in this bronze citadel and everything with all of this.
01:11:59
Kyle
Ah, okay.
01:12:06
Kyle
Sure.
01:12:06
bladesedge
As you land, you see. um Let me go ahead and. Move you to this. Blank battle map that we are just going to call. There's rubble.
01:12:32
bladesedge
everywhere, as all of this crashes down. And as you stand up, you see across the way, this, this lady floating puppet strings hanging from her fingers, black ichor coming out of her eyes. The wannabe demon Lord Milga laugh looks at you.
01:13:02
bladesedge
And at that same moment you hear in your ear, as your own initiative, you hear in your ear, Oak Moon say, the sphere is gone. You want us to move in?
01:13:14
Kyle
Yes, move in.
01:13:17
bladesedge
OK.
01:13:17
Kyle
Now's our time. And I'm, um, I have half of the engorged heart in my hand and I'm just staring over at Milgolath and I take another bite.
01:13:28
bladesedge
Okay. Take another bite as you roll initiative. Um, I will let you roll initiative and then go ahead and roll me a D four twice.
01:13:41
Kyle
Okay.
01:13:41
bladesedge
We'll take the lower number and that's how quickly Oak moon and, um, then we'll find you in these rubble.
01:13:50
Kyle
Okay. Cool.
01:13:51
bladesedge
So you have three rounds, but you have.
01:13:52
Kyle
Yeah.
01:13:58
bladesedge
legendary actions, you have the opportunity to go first as you bite into this heart. And the demon Lord mil Galath, who, uh, uh, looks bad.
01:14:11
bladesedge
I mean, has been doing a thing and then just also took the same damage as you took.
01:14:15
Kyle
Sure.
01:14:16
bladesedge
If not, if not half, because ah they might've succeeded, but they've taken some damage and you're up.
01:14:19
Kyle
sure
01:14:22
Kyle
All right, so I'm going to start by moving 60 feet towards her and I'm going to cast ah Meteor Swarm.
01:14:31
bladesedge
Okay. Yeah. You, you, uh, make your way over the rubble of this, uh, Citadel. And if it wasn't destroyed, if there were people alive, if the Citadel could be rebuilt in an instance, you have decided no.
01:14:51
bladesedge
The sky opens, meteors come in, whatever shipments of weapons were in this city, whatever people were alive, whatever salvation was left, this city in an instant is turned to rubble and dust and ruin as, let me just do some math here.
01:14:52
Kyle
And absolutely.
01:15:14
Kyle
And also, um as we were falling, I definitely want to have grabbed the body of Finn with my tail.
01:15:21
bladesedge
Okay. Uh, what is the deck save?
01:15:27
Kyle
um The Dex save for Meteor Swarm is, let's see,
01:15:33
bladesedge
Whatever your normal save is. That's 23 or something like that.
01:15:36
Kyle
yeah, 23.
01:15:38
bladesedge
Cool. Uh, well a 17 plus two is a 19. So. Here's what happens is you stand a um across from this burgeoning demon lord, smiling ichor coming out of the eyes, your double-bladed sword somewhere in this city.
01:15:59
bladesedge
um I'll say because you failed that deck save Finn's body somewhere in this city, but you don't necessarily have it on you currently.
01:16:07
bladesedge
As this place is rubble, you cast Meteor Swarm, and as the meteors come down, this insane, chaotic devil smiles and laughs as it's crushed by meteors that level the city, killing Milgloth instantly. And we zoom up.
01:16:07
Kyle
Ah, okay.
01:16:41
bladesedge
Well, well, quite a ton of events. I am interested to see how this, I might need to put this on, what do you call it when you record a TV show and you guys, well, I might need to do that.
01:16:55
bladesedge
I might need to make sure I record the next episode of this because I need to see what the ramifications are.
01:17:02
Kyle
ah Yeah, one of the, ah one of his attendants comes up like, it's called Tivo, my lord.
01:17:06
bladesedge
Ah, yes, yes, TiVo. Yes, yes, absolutely. Nope, yes, yeah we all take our pants off here, Thomas.
01:17:13
Kyle
Oh, yep, sorry, sorry, sir, sorry, sir.
01:17:15
bladesedge
Thank you. um at evil. I might need to do that next time because this is interesting. I need to see how will, as Medias feel about this, how will N'zah, this evil machinations wizard has been plotting something for thousands of years. will he think How will he respond to one of his go to men destroyed by eating of the heart wow this let me tell you this is must see TV what hold on I'm getting it
01:17:53
bladesedge
ping here Okay. Well, uh, sorry, errand the eternal, the gold dragon part of the council of light on the prime material plane needs my assistance. So I must be going now, but thank you all for joining me on this. It's been fun, right? I think we'll make this a serious, a day in the life of a villain, a day in the life of bell. Well, thank you so much. I've been your humble host sincerely.
01:18:23
bladesedge
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