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Ep. 186 Up Your Game - Bellum Draconis
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00:00:00
Speaker
Okay, we're going to hit this thing. Hit this thing. We're going to hit this thing. Going to hit this thing. Going to hit it for a crit. Going to kill it. Going to kill it. Going to kill it. Let's go.
Introduction to the Fellowship of the Tabletop
00:00:39
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Belem Draconis. We are live play 5E 2024 D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Aerith in the kingdom of Dralak, but currently in Hell.
00:00:52
Speaker
Joining you for this week's episode, you have Peebee, who plays the rules consulting human cleric Emron. Hello. We've got Ian, who plays the tiefling war-ser-ro-nyx-corel. Hello. My name is Mark and I am playing the human blade singer, Seth Farrow Reaver. And by last, but my no means least is the Oracle of orgasms, the overseer of oaths, the obliterator of obstacles, the oat milk enema and enforcer and Kampai engorger. Dungeon Master Danny. I fucked him. I fucked him. There was a bunch of good ones in there. There was bunch good ones in there. I'm not going to over labor this because we are in the midst of something incredibly
Prego the Majestic Summons Karstan
00:01:29
Speaker
challenging. Continuing your crawl through the floating fortress, facing off against hounds from hell, Prego the Majestic successfully calls forth your ally, waiting in hellish wings to take his role center stage alongside you. Karstan, may you also please now roll initiative.
00:01:47
Speaker
Okay. Okay.
00:01:50
Speaker
He's back. Back again. again Castan's back. Castan, we need you.
00:01:57
Speaker
Nine. Great. Thank you very much. We have added you into the initiative. We are top of the round now. Sir Seth Ferrariva,
Battle with the Enlarged Hellhound
00:02:04
Speaker
you're up. You are in the south ah westerly chamber squared up against this enlarged and enraged hell hound that someone has kindly helped me, renamed Hell Puppy. um And...
00:02:20
Speaker
You have watched this and its fallen compadre whale on...
00:02:28
Speaker
drago with absolute force how do you respond i'm going to draw out the shadow blade which is reformed into his hand and he's going to swing twice down to take the noise you might have heard listener from will go oh just now was that i was trying to speed roll these in the in the lieu of listening to people roll die sometimes being a bit dull and and rolled a crit followed by a 23 that hits cool i assumed as much yeah So the first one is going to be a little bit of damage. It's going to be 22 points of force damage. That's the first one. And then the second one is just a nice normal 13 points of force damage.
00:03:16
Speaker
And then with my bonus... It falls to ash.
00:03:24
Speaker
and Seth would then quickly look around and we're at the kind of south end next to Drago who's just been wailed on by this hellhound. There's a little bit of a corner that he hasn't quite explored further to the south and more towards the middle of the building. He's just going to move about 10, 15 feet just to quickly spy around the corner, make sure there's no other enemies kind of coming before looking back and um and seeing what we can see.
00:03:49
Speaker
And as you look into that chamber, you're able to complete your complete circle circuit of this floor, seeing that southeasterly chamber where you first spotted these hellhounds.
00:04:03
Speaker
So Seth and I are aware that we've done like a full kind donut circle around, leaving a gap in the middle. um where they haven't managed to go I can't see any of the hellhounds from my current position so he's going to look back to Drago and then see over his shoulder that Karstan has just entered and he's going to start slowly walking back over towards towards Karstan but kind of in the direction of Drago and that'll be the end of my turn Thank you very much.
Emron's Tactical Retreat
00:04:30
Speaker
Prego is just going to recover from the ritual cast and rearm himself with the scimitar that you gave him, Seth.
00:04:43
Speaker
We return to the north east north-westerly chamber where the hell hound and ah the the lone hellhound now is wailing on Emron and it is going to continue its pursuit ah in that very same fashion.
00:05:00
Speaker
For a 22 and a 20. Ah, the first one meets and beats. The second one misses. Okay.
00:05:17
Speaker
You take 14 points of piercing damage followed by 4 points of fire damage.
00:05:28
Speaker
18 in total, yeah? Yep. Also, so just so everyone knows, remember, you're still blessed. Thank you. But that is the Hellhound turn. Emron, your response?
00:05:42
Speaker
ow would be my response uh emron will sort of have taken these two quite hard um injuries for himself he's like uh a little lp please and he yeah as he shouts towards everyone around him who are hopefully down towards the rest of them unless they're dead who knows um emron is going to then swing his hammer earth shaker at the hellhound
00:06:11
Speaker
For 28, it's...
00:06:17
Speaker
For 8 points of bludgeoning damage and also... points of force damage.
00:06:35
Speaker
Thank you And then could it please make a
00:06:42
Speaker
ah Yes. Could it make a constitution saving throw, please? Six. ah That fails. It is now prone.
00:06:54
Speaker
Not that it makes much of a difference, but, you know, every little helps. And I think that is all I can do at this.
00:07:05
Speaker
Oh, i put and it gets pushed five feet backwards.
00:07:09
Speaker
Excellent. I can now move away from it very quickly. So, Emron at that point will ah start to retreat ah back around the corner to the others and sort of take up a defensive position in the doorway saying, I've got another one this way.
00:07:27
Speaker
Over his shoulder to the rest.
Karstan's Healing and Past Conflict
00:07:30
Speaker
And it is Drago's turn. ah Yeah, hearing that, is you'll turn around, it give a nod of approval to Seth for the absolute Hail Mary hit that he just put on that hellhound um and a of grunt of respect turn around and see Karstan and a smile will kind of etch across his face but he's going to heed Emron's um words and do a dash that's 40 feet of movement straight north um to to get towards the hellhound he'll Yeah, hope it'll get as close as it can. What's the red line again on the map that i'm seeing? and There's debris over the door, so it's kind of like um Emron has put obstacles in the way and it's kind of like scratching through it.
00:08:21
Speaker
So there's there's holes being formed. All right, cool. thought it bashed its way through it nearly, didn't it? Nearly. You were fighting it on the threshold, so it hasn't quite penetrated.
00:08:32
Speaker
Okay, with his full feet of movement, he's going to stand center the doorway so that the Hellhound can see him. And he's going to stand there with Dengon's Deception at his side, braced up and ready. He's going to burn a reaction, though, to keep Rage going.
00:08:47
Speaker
Okay. Thank you very much. ah That would be Karstaz's turn. Karstan, okay. um Karstan is looking a little bit disheveled um and a little bit annoyed um for reasons that our listeners will know why he looks bit annoyed and disheveled.
00:09:03
Speaker
But the rest of the party will, I'm sure, shortly find out. He sees the others. um Karstan's never met Prego. I've seen a vision of Prego, haven't I? Correct. Did I see him in the keep? Yeah. So he sort of gives a nod to Prego.
00:09:18
Speaker
um Sees Seth down to the south. ah Does Seth look injured? ah Make a perception check. I will do. Okay.
00:09:30
Speaker
I'll make up a perception and check. um I have a passive of 26 before I roll any dice. He does not look injured. He looks unharmed entirely.
00:09:41
Speaker
I will then... Karstam will then move 30 feet. So he is up next to Emron.
00:09:52
Speaker
Nope, path that is moving that. And then I will give Bardic Inspiration Drago. Do you need line a sight for that? ah you Yeah, you've you've got it. It's all good.
00:10:07
Speaker
Yeah. Anything else you want to do turn? No, because any healing spells I have ah require me to touch Drago and I'm not in range.
00:10:19
Speaker
Okey dokey. All right, top the round, Seth.
00:10:24
Speaker
I'm going to take my action to dash so I can be in a position to be of assistance to the gang. 30 feet takes me to inside the chamber that's kind of parallel to our friend Prego the Majestic.
00:10:41
Speaker
And then...
00:10:44
Speaker
Oh, can I do it? No, I've already used it. Okay. Then about 30 feet to draw just a little bit ahead of Karstan and where Emron are kind of like nearest to the corner and he'll switch the blade, Shadow Blade to his left hand and with his right hand kind trace the edge of the wall to kind of peer around to see where Drago and this Hellhound are.
00:11:06
Speaker
And then that's as far as I can go. So that'll be my movement and action and turn and everything all combined. The end. Thank you. Welcome. It Prego's turn. Prego now armed and stood is going to follow suit. It's just going to come behind you. Seth, place
Hellhound's Fiery Breath and Emron's Fall
00:11:21
Speaker
a light hand on your shoulder. a fine strike indeed.
00:11:25
Speaker
And give you bardic inspiration. Mashallah, I'll take that, thank you very much. And that's its turn, the Hellhound's turn, enraged now that it's kind of been knocked on its ass, climbs back up, sees you there in the doorway now, Draco, and is going to unleash this fire breath in an effort to kind of burn through some of the debris so it can get to you, but also ah ah inflict some damage. So I need you to make a dex save for me, please.
00:11:53
Speaker
Yeah, okay. Okay. I've got Bardic. What's Bardic doing? It's a 1d12. I'm allowed you to add one d twelve or you add to your... It's a 22. I think I'm going to be okay. And that's without my d4.
00:12:09
Speaker
Do I have to announce Bardic before knowing the rolls? Yes. ah yeah Before you know the outcome. But for cast and Bardic Inspiration, you can also use it as a reaction to add that dice roll to your AC.
00:12:21
Speaker
And you can also use it as ah immediately after the creature, after you hit a target, you can use the Bardic Inspiration to add damage, 1d12 of damage to your dice roll. inspiration Just to clarify for me, say I'm going to get hit something big and Danny goes, that's a 25. I can then choose to roll Bardic or do I have to It says when the creature is hit by an attack roll, that the creature that creature needs its reaction to roll the Bardic Inspiration die and add the result to its AC against that attack.
00:12:49
Speaker
Sick. That's only when you get it from Kastan though. Your current one is not great. No, Drago's is from me.
00:12:59
Speaker
Drago got it from Karstan and f Seth got it from Prego. I thought you gave it to Emeron.
Drago's Rage and Hellhound's Demise
00:13:05
Speaker
No, i gave it to Drago. My apologies.
00:13:10
Speaker
Sorry. That's okay. So you pass your save Drago, which means you take half this damage. You take 15 points of fire damage.
00:13:22
Speaker
Oh, buts. Don't you have that again? No, because that's physical. its This is fire damage, right? Fire. Yeah. Nah. Oh, sorry. I thought you were ah thought you were resistant to fire as a Dragonborn. I'm resistant to ice and cold, but fire like melty, melty.
00:13:41
Speaker
And that hurts. That hurts me. That cuts me deep, real deep. And with this ah flame breath, as well as hitting you, Draco, it also disintegrates some of the rubble that's causing it difficulty to break through and is able to leap into the room. And you just watch as the fires stoking in the northwesterly wall just kind of go out and that smoke seems to just be inhaled by this hellhound.
00:14:13
Speaker
That's the end of its turn. Drago's looking um pretty, pretty holy. Emron. Okay, at this point, Emron, seeing Drago take a hit, and now accompanied by everybody else, will leap back into combat against the Hellhound, and I will attempt to hit it with my hammer Earthshaker.
00:14:42
Speaker
Oh, it rolled twice and... fuck off.
00:14:49
Speaker
That's a natural one. You rolled d20 for me? Yeah, of course. Fucking hell. I thought I was doing well this game. Clearly not. You were up until this point. Yeah.
00:15:01
Speaker
It's 15. You fumble Earthshaker and just to the point where it almost falls out of grasp, you're able to just yank it back in. Thank you, Danny. You're the best.
00:15:13
Speaker
um And with that, ah I would like to cast 16.
00:15:24
Speaker
sixteen No, I'm not to cast anything. Well, no, can cast. It's just I don't want to burn for a really weak healing spell. So at this point, we've got potions. Anyway, that's the end of my turn.
00:15:35
Speaker
Okay, thank you very much. It is Drago's turn. Drago, you've just taken a ah flame breath and this massive hound leaped around you. Yeah, Drago's rage is becoming palpable as he takes Dengon's deception over the top of his head into a clean vertical strike down and going hopefully hit that motherfucker.
00:16:03
Speaker
Let's go... Where's my dice roll?
00:16:10
Speaker
What the fuck? hey we oh has Oh, Jesus Christ. You can add your d4 from Bless.
00:16:20
Speaker
You can also add your 1d12 from your body expression if you want. and I'm saving that. 14 to hit. Miss. Yeah.
00:16:31
Speaker
Fuck you, Seth. As he goes for a second attack. Oh, geez. This isn't good, guys. was rolling bombs last time. yeah now i'm well on welcome Welcome to my world. 14 again. Wow.
00:16:48
Speaker
Wow. Oh, he's not feeling good. ah Panting a bit heavier from doing the double dash and then getting hit by fire, being an ice dragon. Ain't doing good. He's heavy breathing and he's starting to feel a little bit like he's got egg on his face being the champion of this group and not performing.
00:17:06
Speaker
End of my go Fun times. Let's go. Karsten.
Karstan's Failed Alliance and Steel Nightmare
00:17:11
Speaker
Excellent. ah I am going to... Karsten,
00:17:20
Speaker
seeing Drago look a little bit worse for wear, is going to move up to the side of ah Drago and place a hand upon his ah shoulder.
00:17:34
Speaker
And I'm going to cast um Cure Wounds with my Bardic Power at fifth level. Oh, thank you.
00:17:45
Speaker
Oh, shit. ah That is 10d8 plus five healing. My boy. My boy's come in and he's fucking... Hell yeah. He's done it.
00:17:56
Speaker
Campaign one character for life. He says, like he took touch your shoulder, says, Tiriani's blessings upon you, Drago. Fuck that.
00:18:06
Speaker
You take four points of necrotic damage, Karstan, as that spell is cast. Okay.
00:18:17
Speaker
you want me to roll the healing for you, Ian? Yeah. I'm rolling like shit. You take 51 points of healing. Excellent. Big heals.
00:18:29
Speaker
And then, because I've got battle magic feature, because I've cast a spell as an action, I can then use my bonus action to attack the Hellhound with my normal rapier that is not in any way on fire.
00:18:43
Speaker
Because that would be very silly. to hit. Missed. We're all rolling turds. And that is the end of Carson's Go.
00:18:58
Speaker
Thank you very much. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold the fuck on. Where are you? How close are you? yeah Right next to you. Yeah, right next to you.
00:19:10
Speaker
Hang, please. Hang, please. Hang, please. Hang, please. I have something because you're stood next to me.
00:19:23
Speaker
Oh, it's a plus one to all saving throws. Never mind. Never mind. Seth, you're up. If you're within 10 feet, just for you guys, if you're within 10 feet with me, you have a plus one bonus to all saving throws.
00:19:37
Speaker
That is good.
00:19:40
Speaker
Seth. Seth's going to see the group all kind of hounding around this hellhound and failing miserably, and is going to run forward and kind of like, not quite from Troy kind of overhead stab, but is going to kind of jump jump out of the overhead swing down to avoid hitting Karstan and Emron and Drago that stood around it. Swing down onto this hellhound beast and try and smote it. That's firstly going to be 24 and then a to hit.
00:20:08
Speaker
The 24 hits. Yeah, the 14 doesn't because we know 14s don't hit. That's going to be 18 points of psychic damage. and That was my one, two hits. With my bonus action, I'm then going to use the my offhand weapon, the Stimitar of Wounding, and take a hit against that with a nice little unnatural 20 to hit. That hits.
00:20:30
Speaker
um We're going to take seven points of slashing damage, but the scimitar wounding, if I remember, you two d6 of necrotic as well.
00:20:42
Speaker
Oh, I'm using the little sidebar thing. ah Where can I just select extra dice? Bottom right corner, roll die. Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:20:53
Speaker
You legend. Thank you, William. Two of those. And it's going to be then nine points of necrotic damage on top of that as well. Great. thank you so it's And then the offhand with the scimitar as well coming down on this creature. And he's going to fall back into stance. That's just flavor. Nothing actually really happens.
00:21:12
Speaker
And as you pull that second strike away, this thing looks wounded after those two. It looked pretty fairly confident beforehand. And those two very clean hits, uh, It's Prego's turn and Prego is just going to hold fire, not to really fancying being stuck in the fray without any of his abilities available. and So it's making it the Hellhound's turn. The Hellhound was successful in its recharge attempt, so it is going to unleash a fire breath, but it's not going to be a Drago. It's going to be Emron, Seth and Karstan. I'm going to need you to change that label.
00:21:46
Speaker
But i need I need Emron, I need Karstan, and I need Seth to make dexterity saving throws, please. Don't forget we get a plus one within 10 feet of Drago. That is correct.
00:21:58
Speaker
And you get to add your um
00:22:04
Speaker
bless as well. your way You're talking to yourself here, Will, because you've got to do two characters. Yeah, yeah no I know. Yeah.
00:22:13
Speaker
what What sort of saving throw is that again, sorry? Dex. Dexterity.
00:22:20
Speaker
eleven i 11. To cover the noise of Will doing maths, and Seth got an 18. teen Okay, you're going to take half damage.
00:22:38
Speaker
And I've done a clean Everyone's going to take full damage. And then Karstan got 21. Half damage.
00:22:57
Speaker
ah So it is 29 points of full damage. That half is 14 to Seth and 14 to Karstan. Cool.
00:23:05
Speaker
katan
00:23:09
Speaker
ah as the flames wrap around Emron, he forced the floor unconscious and is downed. Holy shit. Okay. Holy shit. Thanks for healing me. You guys should probably start hitting this thing. ah That's all it can do on its turn, though. It is Emron's turn. Emron, death save and throw, please. Fuck! i I'll make a death save, yes.
00:23:34
Speaker
Come on, after 20.
00:23:37
Speaker
um
00:23:47
Speaker
checking if I had any abilities that would help with this. No, I do not. So I will just make a death save. 14, success. Success.
00:23:58
Speaker
That's the end of your turn. Drago. um Fuck, fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck. This thing looks weak, and you've just seen Emerald fall a heap on the floor.
00:24:15
Speaker
Okay. Looks weak. Looks weak. And I'm raging, so i can't fucking heal anyway. Okay, we're going to hit this thing. Hit this thing. We're going to hit this thing. Going to hit this thing. Going to hit it for a crit. I'm going to kill it. It's going to kill it. It's going to kill it. Let's go. Let's see.
00:24:32
Speaker
Oh, let's just do the um fucking... or Do I do the magical charge? oh Oh, yeah, let's do it. Fuck it. Let's go. He's going to pump in the magical charge. So as he hits the crypt,
00:24:47
Speaker
those kind runes along Dengon's deceptions light up as if it was the ron one ring of Sauron.
00:24:58
Speaker
Lights up gold as he's pumping a charge in from his long lost daddy and... I need to roll d20 on a 1 to 15. This charge does nothing on a 16 to 20. It's a KO on a failing a con save.
00:25:15
Speaker
So let's just fucking go for the d20 first. How many charges have you got? Three per day. and if you That's an eight, so it does nothing and dissipates. What a shame. You've got one left.
00:25:27
Speaker
No, I've got ah two left because I didn't do it last time. That is...
00:25:37
Speaker
six seventeen 19 points of slashing damage. He rolled turds.
00:25:44
Speaker
Thank you very much. Still up? Still up. Very weak. That's fucking annoying, that is. So he's going to swing again.
00:25:59
Speaker
For 18. eighteen Hits. Smash in. Let's do better this time. 15 points of slashing damage. And as that second strike goes in, this thing disintegrates and just a pile of ash fills the room, and the the dark room. Now the the the kind of fire has been absorbed.
00:26:21
Speaker
But as you can see, there is no perceivable threat. So we break initiative and immediately Prego kind of rushes to sta but attempt to stabilize you and succeeds Cast End.
00:26:34
Speaker
You're stabilized. You mean Emron? Sorry, Emron. ah Excellent. and So with that, Karstan will come over, seeing Prego stabilizing Emron, and I will cast a fourth level Cure Wounds on Emron, giving him 8d8 plus 5 health back.
00:27:03
Speaker
39 hit points onto Emron and he rises from near death experience. dirty And for the rules point of view, his bless from the potion is still active because it lasts a full hour. Okay.
00:27:20
Speaker
It's good to know. ah Lovely. Emron sort of gassed up. Fucking hell. Okay. um And he sort of looks around, sees sees Prego over him. all right I'm all right. all right.
00:27:32
Speaker
Just got caught on a way, is it?
00:27:36
Speaker
We still have some ways to go. Be careful. Yeah. ah How are we all doing?
00:27:44
Speaker
We keep going. yeah um but i mean I mean, like... Keep going. Pulsons of Ealing-wise. Like, we've got Pulsons of Ealing on us. Do we use some now? Anyone need some?
00:27:55
Speaker
Or are we good? Yeah, I'll take our potion of healing.
00:28:01
Speaker
but Everyone's got two on him. Does anybody else have any on them? Because the the party in which he doesn't have any in. So I assume the rest of the party, the abode party, drank them all.
00:28:12
Speaker
Listeners, no. It was a sticky situation. I think big Seth has one. Drago has a greater potion.
00:28:24
Speaker
i mean i'm and one's but I've got two 2d4 ones. So a maximum of 10 hit points. It's whether it's worth giving it to you now or saving it for Shit Hits the Fan. It's a maximum of what hit points? 10. There's no point in that for me. Okay. Everyone's going to drink one because that will actually do a lot for him.
00:28:43
Speaker
um Given his low health, that's 2d4 plus 2.
00:28:54
Speaker
Okay, everyone will take seven more points of healing.
00:28:59
Speaker
Which takes to 46. That's not bad. That's close to my max. That's good enough.
00:29:05
Speaker
Everyone picks himself up. it Is it 1d10? 2d4 plus 2. Okay, actually, Seth will take one. His one. He'll drink his because he got knocked for 15 hit points, so I'll take that.
00:29:19
Speaker
um i don't have... I'm trying and to replenish himself. so I thought I Never mind. 2d4 plus 2. Okay, that is 8. Okay, 8 points healing. Not bad. That does something for me as well.
00:29:35
Speaker
Chuck it on. Anyone else doing anything else? Yeah, Jargo's just going to go over to Karstan and shake his hand. You okay? Karstan looks weary, ah and and his cloak he looks he looks he looks worse for wear than he normally does.
00:29:52
Speaker
um And he looked at it's it's It's been a long journey to get to you.
00:30:01
Speaker
Shondra LaCarr fucked us.
00:30:05
Speaker
Okay. do you mean fucked us? What? When I went to Shondra LaCarr, it turns out we weren't the only people trying to get Shondra LaCarr to be on their side. Shondra LaCarr was approached by both Tolkalon and the people from The Steel Nightmare.
00:30:23
Speaker
It makes sense. What did he decide upon then? Or would they decide upon? She tried to trap me in her in her lair and then left.
00:30:35
Speaker
Left for where? I don't know. i think she was either she was looking for the eggs. And where were they? They are hidden.
00:30:48
Speaker
Where does she think they are Three places. Three places. Either with Baal at the keep or with Baal's broodmother.
00:31:03
Speaker
ah I won't lie. What does that mean? To Drago with a very sympathetic look.
00:31:12
Speaker
I won't lie. I thought I could appeal to her sense of, I don't know, fairness. Turns out not that. That's okay. We all fuck up. But what does it mean?
00:31:23
Speaker
Yes. I don't know. I hope that she hasn't messed things up for the others if she went there or the keep. What does it mean? Drago turns to Prego.
00:31:40
Speaker
your Your brother is skilled. I'm sure my worry is for nothing.
00:31:47
Speaker
No beating around the bush. What are you worried about?
00:31:58
Speaker
Do not let me... Do not let me add doubt. right, fuck you. Okay, we still have a mission to do. We still have a thing to do here. What you have done or not done, there is no point in worrying about it right now.
00:32:11
Speaker
Is there anything that can be done to solve it? Looking back at Karsten. No, I mean, I i left the rather rude message on Chandra LeCard's walls after I left and, you know, fucked her place up a bit. But I spent a lot of power getting here. So I'm still good. i just don't have the greater magics I would normally have when we're here.
00:32:29
Speaker
We're fine. Where we're going, it's not going to be easy. You know this. If you need to stay here, that's okay. It's fine. I've still got some strong spells. It's just my strongest.
00:32:40
Speaker
I had to burn quite a lot of energy to try and get to you guys as quick as I could. Right. But we're good. Onwards. The chamber is downstairs. Okay.
00:32:54
Speaker
We still keep going in the same way. up I'll take the lead. We're all good with this raging matriarch dragon running around looking for her eggs and knowing these three important places. We're...
00:33:05
Speaker
Oh, fuck it. I guess we can't do anything about it now, can we? I mean, you're absolutely right, Seth. with There's nothing we can do. Don't get me wrong. Seems like, Karstan, looks like you screwed the pooch. um But, you know, um let's find the next staircase and let's just keep going.
00:33:24
Speaker
Yeah, we'll we'll blame Karstan later. But for now, let's just complete the mission and then push it to the back of our heads. Karstan, you good? Can you keep a level head? yeah i'm i'm I'm fine. and i fine I'm fine. I'm ready. I have magics. I was expecting us this to be tough, so let's let's do this.
00:33:41
Speaker
All right. And, Emron, are you are used keeping keeping calm? You just died almost then, yeah? I won't lie. it's I have stared death in the face a bit too often recently, but don't worry.
00:33:53
Speaker
I'm still good. And we agreed. One of us falls. We have to keep going. Keep going. Castan, you heard any word from the others?
00:34:03
Speaker
Karstan looks at the others. Other than the message I got um as I arrived at Chandralakar's lair saying from your from your brother saying that things had begun, no I have heard nothing else.
00:34:18
Speaker
Okay. Listen, Karstan, make sure you keep an eye on Emron. Okay? Something down here is affecting him. Sorry, Emron, but... so much of your power seems to be tied up in religion and gods and these hells.
00:34:33
Speaker
I think it's blocking you. you You might be right. um it's It's tough, but I am able to cast stuff, which means that, despite everything, Aledo is with me. And cast anything's good with your casting. You haven't got any problems.
00:34:47
Speaker
I won't lie. When I had to cast just then, it did hurt me, but whether that's because I stated Tyrion's name as I cast. Okay.
00:34:58
Speaker
I don't seem to be affected by Drago. Do you get affected by it when you cast the spells? No, but I haven't tried to. Shall we move on? Yeah, I'm sorry. Okay. Sorry, the intellect in me is asking questions. Okay, I'll take the i'll take point like before. Castan, I take point, okay? You stay behind Emron and just keep talking to him to make sure that he knows what's going to happen. like Okay, you've got good eyes. so um um I'm not blind, Seth. I can see for myself what's going to happen.
00:35:26
Speaker
Yeah, he does seem quite sufficient to be able to see in his ocular capacity. Yeah, but you did fall on the roof just now. So just keep, you know, keep an eye. Okay.
00:35:37
Speaker
Okay. Right. and was that I think you're fine. I absolutely mastered falling. ruin by the those wolves want me that Can we get a fucking move on, please?
Emron's Armor Alerts the Enemy
00:35:44
Speaker
Okay. Sorry, I got confused. Big lumbering people.
00:35:48
Speaker
Right. Um... how do we stairs where's the staircase where down here and he's going to point back kind of the the way they came anti-clockwise towards the kind of the northern part of the chamber is it this way prego gestures back the way you were stood uh oh yeah yeah of course no dude yeah just follow me follow me Oh, it's Tiz. yeah, here. And he walks past the stairs and then, oh, yeah, yeah, doubles back with probably that prego coughing and yeah, down here. And he gets himself to the- Are sure you're not the one that needs to know, like- Shh.
00:36:23
Speaker
Looking after- Come to whisper. We're getting close now. Lower your voice. Be stealthy. Castan, make sure you're stealthy. Does everyone want to make a stealth check then if that's the order? Okay, I'll be stealthy.
00:36:49
Speaker
i'm go to I'm going to use my Bardic Bless thing from Karstan so I get to roll a d12, Yes. Utter bollocks.
00:37:08
Speaker
of bollocks
00:37:13
Speaker
game
00:37:16
Speaker
Mate, mine was no better. Okay. I used my Bardic Inspiration as well from Prego, the Majestic, and overall got... Oh, wait, no, plus Bless. I forgot to add... Is Bless still working? Yes.
00:37:27
Speaker
Yep, still a thing. Okay, so including Bless. Okay, 14. 14, thank you. Emron. ah You to up your game there, Seth. Emron got 23. Thank you. Karstan.
00:37:39
Speaker
Karstan got 17. Thank you, Drago. Drago. Drago rolled d20, d12, a d4. Eight.
00:37:52
Speaker
Fuck yeah. I'd say Emron was the most stealthy of it all. I'm sorry. I got a lot of shit last episode. So...
00:38:01
Speaker
As you kind of just descend the spiral staircase, Seth first. Seth, as you just kind of get to the viewpoint where you can see into this floor, you're now on the first floor of this this this floating citadel.
00:38:15
Speaker
You just see, due south, about 20 feet, guarding the entrance to another chamber, one of the gold-masked demons that you have encountered on the surface.
00:38:31
Speaker
And beyond it, two more hellhounds chained to a wall. You're able to kind of like stop the pursuit down the stairs. But there is that kind of reaction, like Newton's Cradle. You stop the person behind you, bumps into the back of you, the person behind you, bumps into the back of you, person behind you, bumps in the back of them. I don't know where this is going. There is a a knock on the metallic staircases.
00:38:55
Speaker
But the creatures do not seem to respond.
00:39:01
Speaker
Daniel, can ask a question? um From when we looked, from our understanding of the castle layout, are we now on the floor that we can get to the um the the focus in the middle, or do we sort of go down another level? Yes, this is the floor with the access to this the central ritual chamber. Thank you. Yep.
00:39:20
Speaker
Okay, with that in mind, and Seth almost noticing he he pushed his luck, he's going to turn and push his fingers to his lips in a shushing motion one more time. And you can like steady, slowly, up hands to the to the group.
00:39:34
Speaker
And then he's going to step out very gingerly into the corridor. Just this head and shoulders first, just kind of look left and right to see what's around before making any other decisions. Everyone's going to going to creep up behind you.
00:39:48
Speaker
Not Emron, cast Senesori. Oh, it's happened. I can... Do you want me to try and cast spell? I can try and make it sleep, potentially, if that is assistance at all. I don't think it's noticed us yet. Just save the spells.
00:40:05
Speaker
Okay. ah Danny, just so I know, as Seth pokes his head out to the left of him, so in front of him is the Maragon with the chain devils behind him. To the left is just a wall. To the left is a solid wall, but as you kind of lean against it, you can feel this heat and this reverberance as though the room on other side it on the other side of it is housing an almighty force of some kind.
00:40:35
Speaker
And as you look to your right, the chamber kind of opens up and then comes back around on itself.
00:40:44
Speaker
Okay.
Stealth Fails: Maragon Combat
00:40:45
Speaker
Okay, Seth's going to make a decision here and he's going to follow the kind of loop around and very gingerly take a few steps around, away from the merrigan, towards the kind of the loop around the outside of the stairs, hoping there's a a workaround. This is a so spiral, a circular chamber, so he's hoping that will and give him some some view, yeah kind of beckons to the others behind as well.
00:41:10
Speaker
And your hope pays off as it there is a ah kind of... um radial corridor very thin radial corridor around this circular floor emron will follow i need you to make a stealth check as you enter into that space that's 15 20 feet away from this mirror gone another one oh man all of us well seth yours are kind of already counted in okay I rolled 23 as Emron, damn it.
00:41:42
Speaker
and not That was when you're coming down a metal staircase. Now you're trying to sneak past a creature that's awake and is 20 feet away from you. yeah You've got clanky, clanky armor. I know, I know, I know.
00:41:56
Speaker
that's that one.
00:42:02
Speaker
Okay, and that's a 13 this time.
00:42:14
Speaker
So, Emron, as you turn the corner,
00:42:20
Speaker
you attempt it with a fair amount of uncertainty, given how close you are to this creature. And as you turn, you just catch one of your shoulder guards on the frame of the door, and there is this clunk that just echoes down the chamber.
00:42:40
Speaker
As this maragon flips 90 degrees, halberd drawn and just bellows at you as the two hounds below come off the hind legs and stand and need your to roll initiative please sorry guys it's tricky now it was going to tricky anyway seth you can have advantage on this roll oh shit
00:43:14
Speaker
It's happening, guys. This shit is happening. Okay. It's the final flaw, by the way. It's one we've been aiming for. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Seth got 26. What the fuck?
00:43:28
Speaker
I got advantage. Has it done it for you, Daniel? or Do you need to give your numbers? I will have to put it on again. Sorry, because I hadn't queued up. So, Seth got 26. Thank you very much. um Prego...
00:43:45
Speaker
21. Emron. So what's that? Drago. 22. Karstan. 6.
00:43:57
Speaker
All right. Seth. Top of a round. What are you doing here? you You have enough kind of about you to know that, ah, Carstan is coming down next. I better just be prepared just in case this goes wrong. And it does.
00:44:10
Speaker
It's not Carstan, Emron, you mean? Sorry, Emron. Yeah, geez. Trying my best here. So much shade on um on poor Carstan. um Seth's gonna hear the of the of the armor clanking and he's just gonna kind of like clench of his body when he hears that
Deja Vu on the Blight Battlefield
00:44:26
Speaker
noise. It's a it's an instant turnabout and he's gonna run the 30 feet around the corner to be in contact with the Maragon. He's aware though that he's got people coming down that need line of sight and so it's going to take at the last minute and again just adding flavor as it swings down at him he's gonna sidestep to the right out of the way so that people coming down still have access.
00:44:46
Speaker
he doesn't going to use shadow blade yet because that is you know we're trying save back our stuff here and kind of be utilizing sensibly he's just going to um they've drawn the simitarve wounding into his main hand and he's going to take two swings with that so the first one is going to be a 16 to hit the second one is going to be a nice juicy 25 to hip and the hits the doesn't Very good.
00:45:13
Speaker
It's going to take 10 points of slashing damage and then has a follow-up 2d6, which is going to be 7 points of necrotic damage.
00:45:25
Speaker
And then is going to drop it to stance again and just be ready for the retort. Again, just flavor. The end. Thank you very much, Drago. Drago.
00:45:37
Speaker
So Drago is at the top of the stairs. He's the last one. Um, so he would have heard ah dear Emron clatter and just, oh
00:45:53
Speaker
and push pack. He's going to withdraw Dengon's deception. And he's going to push his way past cast down past prego, get to the foot of the stairs and, uh,
00:46:06
Speaker
I think he can see above Emron. um Yep. So he'll look in and see Seth one-on-one with one of these golden armor type folks. I don't know if Drago, I know Nyx has seen one of these, but I don't think Drago has ever come up Yeah, you've seen these. You've seen these in at various intervals. yeah You know that these are forces are toklon at large.
00:46:30
Speaker
Oh, this just sucks. It's just getting to crunch time, isn't it? I can feel it. Your rage wouldn't have sustained as well. but No, no. And I wouldn't have bo bonus actioned because of all the, um because people being down and stuff. you do do do do do do He's just...
00:46:56
Speaker
does Does he see past the Meragon to the Hellhounds beyond? Yeah, they kind of flank it. All right, cool. So he... I would like to rage. Mm-hmm. This was always now. It's more of a calm, ah poignant rage. There's a rage that's precise in his feeling. And so he's just closing his eyes for a moment, tapping in to what makes him a barbarian, what makes him love the fight.
00:47:25
Speaker
And his grip on Dengon's deception is firmer as he charges in towards the gold motherfucker. Dengon Deception over his head and he's going in for his big hits right next to Seth.
00:47:40
Speaker
And that is going to be a... We're still blessed. Still blessed. 17 to hit. Misses.
00:47:53
Speaker
Whoa. Fuck. Fuck. Whoa. And jarago as Drago comes down with Dengon's deception, he feels that his aim and his strike is true.
00:48:04
Speaker
So for that to miss, that takes him a step back. and he remembers And he remembers how tough this this enemy is going to be. And it just half a heartbeat takes him back as he gets ready for the seriousness of this battle as he swings again. That's far better.
00:48:24
Speaker
Before the bless, that's a 22. That hits.
00:48:29
Speaker
Refocusing himself, shaking his head to get that second hit. 17 points of slashing damage. Thank you very much. And Drago stands...
00:48:46
Speaker
He has done this battle enough to give Karstan line of sight as well from the door. So he's going to stand. If Seth is standing to the left of the Maragon, Drago is standing five foot apart from Seth and in the right corner and giving line sight on the door.
00:49:10
Speaker
Dengel's reception in hand. Stance in a ready place. Muscles flexing, adrenaline pumping. This shit is going to get real. End am my go.
00:49:23
Speaker
And something something happens happens during that, which might explain why that first strike that you expected to go so well didn't. As you kind of moved into this chamber and you you kind of brushed against this really resonant wall to your left where clearly something sizable is housed.
00:49:46
Speaker
just for a split second before that first strike, you're frozen and it kind of impacts the strength of your swing. You're not sure what's kind of caused that, that kind of skipped beat for you.
Karstan Blinds the Maragon
00:50:01
Speaker
Maybe it's Karstan alongside you. Maybe it's facing off against a demon.
00:50:09
Speaker
but you're You're taken back to the final moments of the blight. Just temporarily. And just for a second, you you blink and it's a battlefield and there are bodies and there are there are horses, there are undead. You blink again and it goes.
00:50:30
Speaker
But it's lingering. It's lingering like like like a dream you were falling in and out of for a microsecond.
00:50:41
Speaker
But it's enough to throw you off your game.
00:50:48
Speaker
And then you kind of breathe and hit that second strike. And that feels more true to your intention. But something about this has a weird familiarity.
00:51:05
Speaker
It's Prego's turn. Great.
00:51:10
Speaker
Prego kind of taking in the scene, just turned to cast hands.
00:51:18
Speaker
He will struggle here.
00:51:22
Speaker
Keep an eye on him.
00:51:25
Speaker
And gives you Bialik inspiration. 1d12. Thanks. That is his last one. Emron, your turn. Excellent. Emron's going to try and redeem himself. for He's going to come charging in.
00:51:38
Speaker
you have a reach weapon?
00:51:43
Speaker
Oh, it's not going to enough space, is there? There will not be enough space. This is a 10-foot-wide corridor, and it's being occupied by Seth and by Drago. Five-foot range. No, I do not have a reach weapon, so that's not going to work. Then you will not be able to reach.
00:51:57
Speaker
That's all right, then. I'll do something else. um
00:52:03
Speaker
I will...
00:52:09
Speaker
Is he five-foot away from me? He's 10 feet away from you. He's 10 feet away from me. That's annoying. Okay. I will instead then cast...
00:52:21
Speaker
That's so good to me. Okay. I'm going to try attempt to cast Sacred Flame on the Meragon, please. May you please make a religion check.
00:52:34
Speaker
Yes. It is a cantrip. I'll make religion check.
00:52:47
Speaker
23. Your spell succeeds. Go ahead. Am I making a save? could you make Could he please make a dexterity save? 10.
00:52:59
Speaker
ah He fails. So he will take three points of a radiant damage. Thank you very much.
00:53:10
Speaker
And that's all Emron can do. Thank you. Here's the Meragon's turn. And the Meragon, with this halberd in hand, this this reach weapon conveniently, is just going to turn and strike at a metallic kind of block that sits between the two hellhounds that has them chained.
00:53:34
Speaker
And it's just going to break it with one strike. And then following through with that same strike is going to make two cleaving attacks with reach range. So all three of you are going to get hit, which is Seth, Emron, and on the first.
00:53:56
Speaker
22 on the second. 16 on the third. Is that three attacks each? and So these these are all hitting you. so so All three attacks hitting of All three hit are hitting all three of you. So let me know. that Two of the three hit me.
00:54:12
Speaker
Two of the three hit you. None of them hit me. I'm to cast shield. Thank you. Emron? And one of the three hits me. Okay. So we'll say this one is the one that hits Emron and Drago.
00:54:24
Speaker
And then the second one has come through in a second.
00:54:34
Speaker
uh okay so you both sustain seven points of slashing damage and then drago an additional points of slashing damage fuck that in total or an additional 14. so the seven was the first one yeah and then 14 points of damage was the second one one okay it's half it i know but still yeah And then three points of fire, Emron, and six points of fire.
00:55:03
Speaker
ah Drago. That fire. Just laying it in, Danny, aren't you? Jeez. These things hurt. ah Now, that strike to the hellhound released the block that was chaining them, but they can't get through, so they are both going to dash westward. Offscreen.
00:55:26
Speaker
Offscreen. Off screen into the, the place you can't see, although with your angle, Drago, you will see a little bit more.
00:55:41
Speaker
ah and that's all you can see right now, but you can hear howling coming from beyond the mirror, gone more three of you cast down your turn.
00:55:52
Speaker
Uh, hey
00:56:11
Speaker
Karstan is going to step um forward down the stairs and
00:56:24
Speaker
he's going to help Everyone, I am going to cast ah Blindness on the Meragon, please. um and Could he make the Constitution saving throne? 11. He fails. He is now blinded for the next minute.
00:56:47
Speaker
And then with that, Karstan will...
00:56:54
Speaker
um give bardic inspiration to drago
00:57:00
Speaker
thanks buddy and that is the end of my go seth top the round as you're kind of in this chamber and your allies are filling behind you and squaring up to the maragon no doubt is occupying most of your vision but just off to your left you can see this huge chamber door
00:57:24
Speaker
What would you like to do?
Unlocking the Ethereal Chamber
00:57:28
Speaker
All right. Okay, okay. and First things first, this combat ain't any time soon. and He knows now's probably time. He's got one more use of Shadow Blade after this, but he is going to use his bonus action to cast Shadow Blade. And and then he's going to take a couple of decent swings at this creature. First are going to be two swings at the creature at advantage. Because it's blinded.
00:57:57
Speaker
Oh, shit, because it's blinded. Well, one of them's a crit. Take that one. So what's your second one? Oh, shit. So I'll treat those two first rolls as my first attempt. And then the next two are going to be... Oh, almost fell onto a crit again. It's 22 to hit.
00:58:14
Speaker
Both hit. So... That blindness is good. Yes, it is. Hell yeah. Yeah.
00:58:20
Speaker
okay so the first set of damage and just add it up 18, 17 sorry, plus That's 22 points of psychic damage for the first one. Psychic. And then the second hit comes in as 14 points of psychic damage, followed up by that off... No, I can't. Ignore that roll.
00:58:40
Speaker
Bugger, it was really roll. Ignore that roll because I've already used my bonus action. and That is all i'm going to do. And if he can, he's going to try and... Is there any room for me to shimmy some side-on next to him in the space? Well... Your your second strike lands so true and so powerful and that that kind of psychic resonance just kind of warps it to its core and it just falls lifeless and burning on the ground below you.
00:59:06
Speaker
Okay, and with that, he's going to know um shit's about to hit the fan, that they need to get fucking moving now and he's going to look to everyone. His eyebrow is raised slightly and he's going to run and...
00:59:18
Speaker
I want to open the door dramatically like Aragorn. Go straight in. Let's do this. We're going to fucking have to those hands. Those hands are going for it. I'm in. And shoulder barge the door or just kind of go through the door. i mean, what I go to open the door. What happens? I should probably ask.
00:59:33
Speaker
It's kind of, um Lord of the Rings reference here is apt. The picture, the kind of moon rune door in the hidden entrance to Moria is kind of en etched and engraved onto the face of this door.
00:59:44
Speaker
Okay, beo let's go. that's Not necessarily into a tree formation, but all of the kind of um demonic symbols all kind of convalesce to the center of this door where there is a circular keyhole.
00:59:58
Speaker
So as you kind of shoulder barge it, nothing happens. but You can't help but see that all of the kind of thin um kind of blue-ish lights are all sort of illuminated illuminated and kind of markings are all drawing back to a a single keyhole point.
01:00:17
Speaker
Have we got a key for this?
01:00:22
Speaker
Yeah, the key that came through the magic pouch, maybe?
01:00:29
Speaker
yeah ah who Who has that? Me? You do. You do. oh, oh. It reached into his pocket. Pull that eye. Again, sorry, this is taking a lot of liberties on an action. Danny says stop me at any point. But if I have the ah free action action, whatever you got um to give me, I'll unlock the door.
01:00:49
Speaker
And again, shoulder barge it if I can. So you take the key stone that was pried from the dead hands of Oriand Cardinal by the first of the three groups, and you place it within, and this stone door covered in these demonic symbols just scrambles, and the whole a stone just turns this translucent blue, and it loses all form, becomes an ethereal kind of...
01:01:21
Speaker
um shell of of a piece of hewn stone and inside you see an almighty sight that you will learn about next week in the next episode of the fellowship of the tabletop bellum draconis eat shit danny oh what a setup