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C1 Ep. 59 The Dawn of Mourning Chapter Five
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Eberron Renewed continues this week with the party venturing deeper below Stormreach, but what they find there threatens to change them forever. Can the heroes stop the lich, or will his wave of destruction continue? Find out on Eberron Renewed!
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Sponsorships and Introductions
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This episode is brought to you by the generous donations of Matt Lewis, Daryl Delaney, Darren Katska, Ryan Royce, Jessica Smith, Laura Pickron, Irene Villarito, Nico Batson, John Kerry, The Cam Family, and Charles Compton, as well as many others.
Podcast Concept Introduction
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D20 radio, your gamer's role.
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Hello, and welcome to Eberron Renewed, a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast set in the Eberron campaign setting.
Host Introductions
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I am your dungeon master, Eric. And I'm Philip. Randy. Jeff. And welcome
Recap of Previous Episode
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to another episode. Gentlemen, what happened last time? Fought some shadows. Fought some shadows. Akko came back, kind of, inhabited by context clues would lead us to believe the same purple thing that was inhabiting Amontu. Yeah, I think so. Sounds right to me. So just a lot of reunions.
Underwater Cave Exploration
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We saw Akko, we saw Pinchy.
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We saw shadow dogs and we heard them all. Yep, we don't know if we heard them. Yeah, we got rid of them temporarily. Krast is not in a good way. And so that's not great. And we are in an underwater cave moving upward in the ruins of some ancient civilizations, something, temple, home, who knows?
Close Call with Death
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Yeah. And have we got the sense that the water is not coming up? No, no, no, no. We're out of that. No, you were basically in the overflow area, but now you're good. Important programming note. Dex is about to die. So anything any of you at the end of the party could do to prevent that once we get started going again would be pretty rad. Oh, are you in bad shape?
00:01:54
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I had 23 hit points. Okay. I will cast Cure Wounds out of the amulet. Okay. Because until Randy takes his Cleric Multiclass, I think that's still our most powerful healing object. Yeah, sounds good.
Perception Checks and Challenges
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Yes. When I rolled well, too. You were getting 21 hit points. Oh, great. That gets me out of bloody terrain. Excellent. Okay, so you all are continuing to run. Everyone give me perception checks.
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15. 16. What's the baseline? Passive count or no? No, passive does not count. 14 then. 13. 12. What's that on your dice there? Yeah, that's a natural one. You're right. I should have said that out loud. Okay, so... Just doing that today, huh?
00:02:32
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Have any of us rolled a 20 yet today? I did on with disadvantage. I did on an InSight check. The shadows did on Krast. You know what? No one cares. I care. I want one. Okay. Sorry. So we had a 12 via natural one.
Confrontation with the Lich
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What was Booyaz?
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Uh, 13, 14. Um, none of you all, nothing of note. Um, continue to sprint. Erebus is still leading the way, rounding corners. You find yourself all of a sudden rounding a corner and just stop Erebus stops as you all come face to face with the, the site. And you feel the portal getting closer and closer as you sprint down this hallway and turn the corner.
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and you see the portal. You see a large number of shadows gathered around it, and a few of them, this is like, just so people don't think that it was hand-waved, the result of your one, you see a couple of the shadows with the last people they're taking through the portal going through, and what you see is some shadows holding on to, Beric, you're the only one that would recognize the three pickpockets.
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You round the corner and see the lich holding up by the neck, the girl that you encountered, as he turns his head and smiles at you, as he throws her across the room as she lands with kind of a sickening crack against the wall and crumples down onto the ground, and he turns and looks right at Dex.
Battle Strategies and Combat
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It says- How far am I from- or how far am I from- Before you do the cool monologue, I don't want to interrupt that. It's a pretty long haul. It's about 55 to 50 feet away. For both of them? Yeah. Well, yeah, because he didn't throw away or towards. It was to the side. Right. Trying to visualize my angle to both of them. It may take you an extra five feet to get to her, given the angle. Okay. All right. Hit us with the one-liner. I get to do some- You guys get to do cool things all the time. Let me have my cool things. No, I don't. It's just- I'll take a monologue.
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He just doesn't typically monologue he likes to give one liners to decks. That's that's true He does have a history of one liner and then he's out. Yeah, what's up? Well now that I have my flow and it's just completely natural
00:04:43
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He kind of turns and locks eyes with you Dex and smiles and says thought you might come Now and he gestures at Barrett crest and Booyah, which of your friends die today? Are you are you letting me pick? I've got opinion initiative
00:05:04
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Nice I have something for that if you don't but if you do go for it now I want to hear what yours is a lot of times yours are cooler than when I come up with mine's not particularly cool playing with playing with Chris and our really long game and I rolled like two triumphs together and my idea was like
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Hit the brakes on the train It would be a 23 by the way for the number. Okay, you're not gonna believe it. Did I beat you you beat me? Oh my gosh, what did you what did you roll on the die a seven? Okay, gives me a 21. Yeah. All right, then 19 for me X 21 did delicious roll a natural 20. No, it was crafts turn to roll his initiative Oh, I don't know. Well, I've switched dice. Did he roll a one? Yes, he rolled a one on his initiative check. Oh my god
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Guess the answer today is crass. Could you do that when you're not rolling our allies? Because I feel like it would balance if you were rolling as many natural ones as we are, but you're only doing it because that's our ally. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. On International Tabletop Day, no less. Right. Seriously, Eric, have you no decency? I mean, it'll be like three weeks after International Tabletop Day, Ms. Harris, but still. Right. Okay. So Eric's first, then Dex, then somebody else. Yeah, that else. And then Womp, Womp.
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So all that we see is that look like adversaries are the lich and a good number of shadows. Yeah. So what was your thing for your 20? Okay, just so that I understand the layout of our situation. We are at one end of a fairly long room. Yes. Portal is at the other. Yes. At the portal at the moment are the liches with those three kids. Or not the lich, but the shadows with those three kids.
00:06:43
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They are stepping through the portal. Like basically that was what you witnessed as you rounded the corner. They're gone. Yes, that was the result of the one from earlier. Two of the three of them are gone. Well, there were three kids and then they're older siblings and that's the one that got thrown. But only the smaller children were the ones taken. Okay.
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And you see Orianna crumpled on the ground. She looks to be in a battle. My particularly not awesome one that just off the top of my head was basically Orianna would stabilize. Like, you wouldn't need to concern yourself with her during the fight.
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Okay. Actually, I would take that. I was concerned about it. I don't know why this matters so much to Beric. Obviously, in meta terms, I know why it matters to me that you threw a little girl across the room. Right? But I feel like it matters to Beric and I'm not entirely sure why because he had this blunt interaction with her and she was kind of plucky and charming. Yeah. Which if there's one thing that we know about Beric lately is that he's easily charmed.
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It's not like Beric hasn't been her sister or something. Yeah, okay. Anyway, yes, I would very much happily take that. Okay, Beric, it is your turn. Then, that being the case? There are about, I'm going to say, a dozen shadows in the room, kind of standing between you and this lich, okay? Okay.
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I just want to I Yeah, it just needs to be pointed out daylight is still odd So if you wanted to do something my provoke opportunity, they'll have disadvantage. Oh No, no, no, Phillips about to break my encounter actually Phillips texting me. Holy crap or screwed That was a pretty good pretty good line though for him to say it was a really it was a good like it was a good line Dex is sufficiently shook
00:08:43
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This is a bonus section so I can do it. Listen right now pause the episode and place your bets on which character does not walk away from the encounter. You want to put odds? I mean I feel like the odds on Krast have to be pretty high just because of his current state. One to ten odds on Krast.
00:08:59
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Yeah. It may change when I, it may change right about now. Barak sees the lich, throw the girl, has watched this being kill his friends. This is like the dread purpose in Barak just wells up and he grips the sword. And before he acts, he says, whatever else happens here, one of you get that girl out. And then Barak dissolves into a flurry of bats.
00:09:26
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uh okay and races 60 feet in a straight line at the lich okay i would like to pass through as many shadows as possible okay um and i would like to use the property of my amulet to cause them to not take necrotic damage but radiant oh
00:09:47
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Done and doesn't that make them vulnerable to radiant for the remainder of the encounter to for the remainder of their lifetime Yes, actually to the degree that it matters. I will activate that ability also to the degree that it matters Well, I don't know how many of them will like these are their minions I assume so I don't know Right vulnerability is going to make a great deal of differences. We put out hurt for the listener. I have to take that ambulance
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For the listener, I cannot express after all of these bad crass rolls that aren't his fault. It's just happening. The look on Eric's face as Philip continued to describe the thing he's doing was priceless. Okay, so you can hit two groups of shadows, so half of them, and the lich. And I have the range to do it, so I would also like to pass through the lich. Oh, I thought you were about to say the portal.
00:10:41
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Bye. Not yet. I'm not going in there to get you. Yes, I assumed your intent was the lich as well. So yes, you can hit two groups of shadows and the lich. So all of them, if I have found the page where you pulled this from, all of them will need to make a constitution saving throw.
00:11:02
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PS, this is another example of Dex being just taken aback at this thing Barak does that he had no idea he could do.
Turning the Tide Against the Lich
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Okay, the Shadow's save is three, and the Lich's save is 16, or 17, sorry. The Lich, the Lich succeeds. This would heal me if I was injured, but I'm not. Then Dex can't do that. Now heal me, heal me! Pay it forward! Okay, so...
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Now, the success on the Constitution means the Lich is not vulnerable to the radiant damage. No, that has nothing to do with that. Oh, okay, cool. He's gonna take half damage. So he takes radiant damage, so he's going to be vulnerable to it. Okay. If they weren't already before. Fourteen is the radiant damage. Okay, so the six shadows that you pass through just explode in fiery, silvery light.
00:11:49
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So as Beric dissolves into the swarm of bats that are on fire and just races down the hallway, passes around the litch, and reforms between the litch and the boar. Okay, so the lich lets out a howling scream as the shadows explode and it just burns with radiant fire. He does not look super happy. So that's my bonus action.
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You gave me the spell. That's a bonus action spell? Yes. Balls. And I look up at the lich, I turn my back on him, I look at the portal, and I cast Dispel Magic. Ah, feel a bit better. I love playing this game with you. I also love playing this game with Randy. He's the one that just did the thing. You've done the things that I've said that before. Okay, you need to make an ability check, pinging off of your spell casting modifier, which is Charisma.
00:12:47
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Okay, which of you dice is not gonna screw me up? 17. The, I mean, you see the shadowy magic close as the portal shuts down, leaving no magic in its wake. And you see the shadow just- Eric turns back and says- The, the lich's eyes go wide. Eric turns back and says, look, my friend's got a lot of things between you, them and, them and you, and I might not walk out of here, but neither.
00:13:12
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No, and that was my movement now Now I attack him six times now so proud that was such an incredible moment. I didn't want to Dispel it um moving forward though rules are if you're gonna cast more than one spell in your turn one of them has to be a cantrip Oh, okay. Yeah, so just that's actually the rules for bonus action stuff. So
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He cast Gust and knocks the portal over. Okay, Dex, it is your turn. Try to top that. Well, I certainly cannot, but what I can do is, if I run up to where I'm... How far are you, do you think, from the Lich? Oh, I'm right at the Lich. Okay, never mind. I'm about 55 feet from you.
00:13:58
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Is it an action to dispel daylight? No, you can just shut it off. Okay, I'm shutting off daylight because I don't want to blind Beric because he just did good things and does not deserve it. So move action and dash to get within range of the lich with my ribbon weave and then I am going to hit it with my ribbon weave. Spring! Chain comes out.
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As you run away, you hear crafts behind you kind of speaking to nobody in particular. When did Beric become a god? Oh, surprised me too! Alright, so swinging with the ribbon weave. And this will be dealing radiant damage. Ta-da!
00:14:33
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21. Hit for... 11. 13... 24 points of radiant damage to the Lich, okay? Nicely. How did you get to him? Yeah, how did you get... bonus action dash. Yeah. Oh. I can go 60 feet. I cleared a path, I see. Yes.
00:14:49
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Yeah, and also, yeah, you were an amazing run blocker. You were a swarm of bats. Okay, it is now the Lich's turn. So the Lich, seeing that things are going very poorly, retcon.
00:15:05
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The Lich raises his hands in the air and surrender, I see. And you all see as he like raises his hands, palms facing each other and then flicks them outward. Yellow greenish fog erupts from his hands and it just envelops all of you in this fog. And the area, it's a thick fog. The area is heavily obscured. And that is...
00:15:31
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Oh, apologies. At the end of your turn, you and Beric need to make constitution saving throws. At the end of our previous turn? Just at the end of Dex's turn. It's a legendary action. Oh, I see. Yes.
00:15:44
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I haven't well, okay, you're both going to take full damage. Well, I have evasion. So does that that's for dexterity saves? Yeah. Oh, yeah, you're good You both take 15 necrotic damage I resisted cool so half and it kind of shows its frustration and anger as you two clearly resist its its disruption of your life and
00:16:08
Speaker
Oh, I did not resist that. Oh, neither. Wait, the ribbon weave allows me to resist Negrotic again. Do you have resistance to Negrotic from the amulet? I do not believe so. No, you do not. Okay, so it's angry to you. Well, it's been angry to me the whole time. Day one, that guy was angry at Dex. It is now Booyah's turn.
00:16:25
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Okay, so it's heavily obscured? Yes, so disadvantage on any shots that you take. Or you do have six shadows, then? Yes, I think that Booyah will try to deal with the minions. Get them out of our hair might be the best plan of action. So, sharp shooting towards shadows with plainer justice. Got any options for radiant? Because they are full. I do not believe I do. That's eight.
00:16:50
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That's a miss. I did nothing. Second shot. 18 from planer justice. That's a hit. 20 damage. Okay, so you shoot planer justice at the closest group of shadows to you and the bolt just passes through them and they dissipate with the screen. The last shadow standing in that group rushes it. Of course he does.
00:17:09
Speaker
Well, not just Krast is the one rolling ones on my side anymore. It swings wildly. And the other group of shadows are going to rush up on you, Booyah. That's a two. So that's going to be... No, that's going to miss. Okay. Come on, come on. You had a 95% chance of hitting. Krast is going to step up next to you, Booyah, and try to fight off the shadows that are attacking you the best he can. That's a hit.
00:17:34
Speaker
So Krass steps up and swings and takes out that last shadow from the group that you were attacking and clears it off you. In turn, she said, you focus on him, I'll do my best to watch your back back here. Sounds good, you're a good friend. Beric. Okay, bonus action. Oh, start of your turn. You're in this fog. Yes, I am. So I need you to make a constitution saving throw. That's a good one. 20. 20, okay. You're gonna take half, and this is poison damage.
00:18:04
Speaker
That's not the roll of my damage. That was me emptying my bag. Is that the damage one bag of dice? Yes. Just dump them all out, see what happens. Here, do you need the one we killed earlier? Fifteen damage. About half of that. Yes. In case you want me to start rolling that one. Roll that for the bad guys. Okay. Alright, bonus action, I...
00:18:20
Speaker
I've just pulled Erebus out at him and cast my Hexblade's curse on him so the runes sort of flare down the length of Erebus and this sort of cold silvery translucent fire runs along the blade. And then I step in and attack him. So first attack.
00:18:39
Speaker
is a 20. 20, that's a hit. That's 20 damage. And second attack is a 17. Hit. That'll be another 19 slashing damage. So Barak points the blade at him, calls in the Hexblade Curse, and then steps forward into a form and begins just slashing his way around, fighting in a circle around this ledge.
00:19:00
Speaker
Okay, Dex, give me a perception check. It's a 21. No, no, no, sorry. Yeah, 21. Yeah. Well, actually, okay, this is a moment of genuine, we never resolved it, so I need honesty and open hearts.
00:19:15
Speaker
After Booyah took the lightning stone out of the ribbon we who would have held on to I think that Beric would have asked for it back because Booyah had one Beric I'm sorry Dex would have asked for it back because Booyah had one but listen I know that Beric is manifestly more awesome than my character
00:19:35
Speaker
I'm I'm kind of recalling that I may have mentioned that I took it out to replace and gave it back. Okay, I think Okay, I would not have it on me. You wouldn't you would just left it on the ship more than likely Okay, never mind then. Um, I mean I did and that's me being like totally good with it. Um, I I appreciate the honesty and open hearts Moving on it is so that's barracks turn anything else you're doing on your turn. I just have a move action left and I don't want to go anywhere
00:20:01
Speaker
You want to turn into the Silver Flame and just burn everybody? Um, he wants to! You just can't. I've been trying to become one with the Silver Flame for a while now. Dex, it is your turn. Oh, sorry. On Beric's turn, something happens. Well, that's irrelevant. Ten was the attack roll against you, Beric, and that didn't do anything. So, Dex's turn. How big is this? Oh no, I gotta do a constitution, right?
00:20:26
Speaker
Oh, that's a twenty-something, twenty-one. Okay, you're gonna take half damage. Right. Fourteen. Half of that? Yes. Um, how big is this fog cloud? It is a... remember if it's in diameter or... It's a 20-foot radius, so 40 feet across.
The Lich's Deception Unveiled
00:20:42
Speaker
Alright, here's what I've got to do then. I'm going to attack with the ribbon weave, doing radiant again. It's heavily obscured, but I can still see him well enough to attack. You're up on him, so that's just mostly for ranged attacks.
00:20:54
Speaker
God so close 26 26 that is a rolling that one
00:21:06
Speaker
My sneak attack die was a 2 and a pair of 1s. Wow. So that's 15 and that's the raw number. This is radius, so 30 total damage. And then I've got to get out of this cloud. I'm not going to survive another couple of those checks. So I will... I don't actually know how big the cloud is. It's a 40 feet across, 20 foot radius. So I should be able to just use my movement action to get out of it. Even if I'm right in the middle, I can get out from somewhere. You'll need to disengage. I don't have to disengage as long as I attack.
00:21:29
Speaker
That's right. Never remember. It's a weird one and it's and it's also unearth Arcana. So yeah Okay, okay, I guess I probably need to see what changed I didn't know it was in there I think that feature is still there. Okay, I'll take a look at it and see what changed until I need to modify I mean I've only got one skill from it because the next one took up the ninth level Anywho, which I you know, I'd like to I heard Beric so I'm going to run out of the cloud Towards the best of my recollection where that red-headed girl that he seems to care about was
00:22:00
Speaker
The Lich, from your perspective, he threw her to the right, so she's crumpled up. Well, I guess she's not far enough to be out of the cloud, though, is she? She's right in there, too. Yeah, it's a wipe, so. Okay, okay. That's his 20, is she is safe regardless of what's happening around here. Okay, but I see I don't know that, so I'm gonna run over there and check her, just as her name, and put a mirror under her nose, and she's breathing, and I'm comforted. Yeah.
00:22:25
Speaker
I don't know, I got weird stuff in this pack. There might be a mirror in there. I got ball bearing. Okay, fill up question. I want your opinion on the call you'd make as a dungeon master because I know what I would say, but opportunity attacks when it relates to teleportation. I would usually say no.
00:22:43
Speaker
okay well i just the we've we've done it i know okay with the mind flayer yeah um i would usually say no unless you there's a feat unless you get an opportunity to attack when something next to you casts a spell that you're not you're not taking a move action yeah you're not you're not stepping away you're just not everything
00:23:01
Speaker
It makes sense. I was just citing precedent. So this, uh, lich is reeling and you see black icker like seeping from it. Um, everyone give me perception checks. Well, not you heavily obscured. Sorry. I don't mean to not me. Well, uh, not Randy. Oh, I'm out of the fog now too. Oh, okay. So Barry 23. Good. Great. Um, 22. You, you just, you noticed the blood changing color. It's a weed. So, um, what color is it?
00:23:29
Speaker
It's kind of shimmering, if that makes sense. Oh, it's constantly changing. Like an oil slick? Yeah. OK. And then in a moment, the Lich is gone, and Booyah, you hear kind of behind you as you see the Lich has appeared, and he takes off running 30 feet away, back down the hallway that you all came. So it is now Booyah's turn. Booyah sees him head down the hallway and Booyah, oh, maybe something in bag, oh, don't know, maybe something.
00:24:02
Speaker
You know rather than dragging on trying to figure out what it is I I have some so you pull out what looks to be another like crystal ball like that and
00:24:12
Speaker
Radiant hand grenade that you had before except this one. There's it's not like magical darkness There's just literally nothing in it as you look at it. It seems to be devoid of Magic within this crystal ball and it's very frail glass You get the sense if you throw this it basically contains a spell within throwing it in
00:24:34
Speaker
Give me a ranged attack roll without all of the the bonus of planar justice. So I think it's a plus one. So just plus proficiency. What's your dexterity modifier? Plus three plus profits. So, hey, come on, you 14.
00:24:49
Speaker
Okay. You managed to hit the wall right next to the liches. It runs and you hear the glass shatter as like, it seems as though magical energy is washed away. Let me ask real quick. Would you all give chase just for the sake of this moment, uh, even outside of initiative order? Absolutely. I probably, okay. So you all coughing run, um, and well, have a thing that can do before we have to run.
00:25:14
Speaker
Well you're not, this is just, I'm just wanting everybody to witness this, basically. So you all round the corner just as Booyah throws this glass ball and it hits the side of the wall as this energy rushes out and you see the lich slam up against the wall but as he hits the ground you see a changeling look back up at you and it's chance.
00:25:40
Speaker
Hey, big brother. So can I tell if it was a willful change or if he's been knocked down to magic was dispelled? Oh, right. Sure. Of course. Are we still in a fight? He wasn't. He wasn't too late. Eric is grinning right now. OK, very good. It's your turn. Oh, Booyah, it's still your turn. OK, yeah, I got what it let me out. What are you confused about?
00:26:00
Speaker
I don't know what we've been dealing with now. It was an illusion or something I made him look at. Booyah throws a thing which bounces off the wall and lands and is probably enough to cause Beric to hesitate because it's weird. And you also saw him look at Dex and say, hey big brother. Not that would affect him, but Dex. I pull the blade back into the- Oh don't back down now. How far is he from
00:26:23
Speaker
Um 20 feet get walked. I mean I walk up to him. Um, and uh based on texas understand this chance I know you're still in there somewhere. What are you? What are you doing?
00:26:35
Speaker
He hasn't let go of his ribbon leaf. Yes. Dex, I'm more free now than we ever were. Yeah, I know you think that. I know I've heard it from so many people. No, no, you know, poverty, famine, it's all great. Constant war. Who wouldn't want a world like that? Listen, either do what you came here to do, or let me go. Because don't worry. And in a moment, he shifts into Barrett, and then into Draconos, and then Theradak, and then Graham. We'll see each other again.
00:27:04
Speaker
He can change 12 times in an action. I can't change 12 times in an action. My action. It's the exact same thing you did when you revealed to everybody you were a change length. Yeah, we weren't in combat. I... Chance, I'm not gonna kill you. Okay. But I can't let you leave. And... Everyone give me a perception check. Shoot. 27. 21. 15. You all hear rumbling and see not like a constant like, oh God, but just like kind of a shaking of the earth and you see some dirt and stone fall down from the ceiling above you.
00:27:33
Speaker
not in a oh god it's a cave-in um just something something heavy just impacted something and as soon as you say to him you're not gonna kill him boo y'all levels plan or justice boo y'all might kill and knock him out yeah i'm rolling to knock him out
00:27:48
Speaker
24 can't take it with just 24. Yeah, you hit 8 9 13 14 points of non-lethal damage I mean when he teleported you had one hit point So yeah, you just crack him across the temple and he crumples on the ground. We got to get it We got to get we got to get him back. We can get guy get the thing out of him What can we do?
00:28:08
Speaker
You've been telling me that you can't, been telling me it's impossible. I mean, I haven't seen it done, but the earth shakes again. It's exactly the argument we had in Lord Amantu, over Lord Amantu. Yeah, Lord Amantu's not my brother, and Lord Amantu was an Arabist chimes in. This is the agent, one of the greatest threats. Listen, you and I have been getting along a lot better recently, so let's not push that angle right now. What am I doing? You asked me what your purpose was, what the pact requires.
00:28:34
Speaker
My killing this kid isn't going to complete the pack. I kill this kid, do my family leave the afterlife? Is that what you're saying? No, I didn't think so. So, let's just have a talk
Stormreach Under Siege
00:28:41
Speaker
about it. Um, Dex, I understand. And I would, I would, I mean, I'm just saying we can't take him with, I can't put him on the ship. No, no, no, no, we can't, we can't put, we can't put the, the inspired thing in him on the ship. I get that. I mean, I tried, I tried to, I tried to remove curse on him on before we left. Whatever we do, we need leave.
00:28:59
Speaker
the earth shakes again.
00:29:15
Speaker
Booyah in right now for you. Dex lost his brothers a long time. The earth shakes again. I look at Booyah and I say, well, I can't do it. And I turn around and I start walking. Yeah, plainer justice. Okay. Booyah, you bury a crossbow bolt into the back of his head. Dex falls down. I know we were going to get up and move. We're going to run, but the earth shakes again as you all. Booyah, sorry, Dex. Booyah, sorry, sorry. Just don't. I don't want to hear. I don't want to hear you. I'm sure as you're looking around this room, is there a way up? Is there another passage leading up?
00:29:54
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and stairs lead up. As you all continue to climb the stairs, the shaking and the accompanying booms get louder and eventually you find yourself opening a door onto the streets of Stormreach and it is complete
00:30:11
Speaker
Yes, you do see a door back behind where the portal was. You all can easily avoid the cloud of poison gas.
00:30:18
Speaker
chaos as people are running through the street and Everybody because you spend enough time to storm reach everybody give me perception or investigation just as you kind of scan what's happening 2260 natural one for a 12
00:30:33
Speaker
Yeah, you got a 22? No, 60. I had a 22. Okay. Barak, you see people running away and screaming from soldiers that are brandished in the markings of some kind of rehydrant army. How far are we from the ship? Maybe a three to five minute run, but it is... Go ahead.
00:30:56
Speaker
This is like a 14 year old girl and she's a street kid. So I assume she's undernourished. So she does not wavering my care to say that. Yeah. So I mean, I know that Crass is in bad shape, but he has an eight strength, which is not like cripple. I mean, it's clear that whatever battle is happening started while you all were down there. And I want my, I want my hands clear to fight while we run. Basically, you can not help. I mean, the girl off his cross could carry. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm just trying to bear. It shifts the girl off his shoulders and says, cross, take the girl.
00:31:26
Speaker
Okay, and he hoists her up onto his shoulders. I think we need to get to the ship. The fighting looks done. Everybody go. I'm last. Okay. Yeah, I'll go. Yeah. So as you all are running, you now see what was causing the Earth to shake as you see just probably five foot radius ball of like green glowing energy just impact one of the buildings.
00:31:50
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in Stormreach as you're running and bits of wood and stone go flying as you all run through the streets. You make your way through the Stormlord District as you're running and one of these balls hits the Omerin Estate as the top floor goes flying off and you're in a full dead sprint as much as you can with carrying people.
00:32:12
Speaker
and you see airships in the sky around the harbor district with the reedron flags flying on them and you all are still a fair like at least 90 second run away from the harbor district but you see just corpses of reedron soldiers on the harbor as Gerald is standing on the bow just lightning flowing out of him trying to keep them off of the ship.
Escaping with Rickard
00:32:42
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Eric would look over to where the Black Freighters stand. Is it there? It's gone. You all are running. Everyone give me perception checks. 21. 16.
00:32:53
Speaker
21 21 16 21 as you all is there anything else you want to do before you get on to borrowed time? Essentially like the the way is pretty clear through the Harbor District. I can't imagine us stopping as Gerald sees you coming He just shouts get on the ship. I'm gonna get it in the air You hear footsteps behind you and somebody shouting wait wait Looking over you show your soldier your shoulder your soul shoulder
00:33:19
Speaker
You see a man in his mid to late 40s wearing what looks to be like ranger leathers, and Beric, you see emblazoned on his chest. It's a bow with an arrow in it, a glowing and silvery flame, and you recognize as being affiliated with the silver flame, but you're not entirely... It's been a while since you've been it, so... Wait!
00:33:45
Speaker
Wait. Eric holds up waves to the other's arms. And he hops on the ship as borrowed time takes off into the air. Reagent ships seem to be focused. They're the source of these magical energies. The airships are just parked above the city. But as you all
00:34:02
Speaker
Fly away, you look back and just see smoke and ash coming up from Stormreach. Maren's neighborhood? The city is gone. It's not destroyed. Like, this was clearly an invasion, not a destruction, but they did what they could to bring everybody to heal. And in fact, you begin to see reagined flags flying over the city of Stormreach as U3, Krast, Boranell, this older gentleman that just came onto your ship. Can I?
00:34:29
Speaker
ask his name, like on our ship Eric would demand this person's name so that I know if I need to chuck him off to the side. Um, Rickard. Uh, Rickard? Rickard. Die him up. So many die him up. What, what, what did I do? Dex. Frankly, we don't know. Dex has always known that anybody might be a changeling, but now that means so much more to him. And it's, and now it's, it's, once it was hopeful, anybody might be a changeling, now it's sinister, even though he is one, tie him up.
00:34:56
Speaker
What did I do? We don't know you. Once we do, I'm sorry. I know this is not a nice welcome, but I don't really care right now. You're safe. You're on our boat. You're not going to be harmed. No, no, we're not going to hurt you, but we don't know you and things are weak. I just, I needed to get out of the, I was going to, going to die. And you're welcome on the ship and we're happy to get you out of here. As your prisoner? We have some questions we're going to ask and we don't want to do it.
00:35:18
Speaker
You're not a prisoner. Consider it a screening process. But I will say very clearly for you now, your two options are accept being restrained or get off the boat. With the tensions rising as they have with this conversation, Dex, you you hear Cassian begin to cry over your shoulder.
00:35:36
Speaker
Alright, okay. You all tie Rickard up. Throw him in a dungeon or anything. He's just restrained. I mean, how would you react in this situation? I get it. No, I get it. I find him a spot to sit on the deck while we arrange everything else.
00:35:52
Speaker
Booyah, here's the child cry. Yeah, I take Chance's body below. He goes up and asks, why, why, why you cry? Why, why? Because what's going on? He just kind of looks at you and nods and buries his head into Charlie's chest. I tell you what, I turned to Crass and I say, give me the girl. Stay here and ask the questions you would need to ask to feel confident of who this man is.
00:36:12
Speaker
Crass knows how to do that sort of thing.
Planning at Greywall
00:36:14
Speaker
Crass is a more active participant of the Church of the Silver Flame. I also now know that Crass has some law enforcement background that's more substantial than we thought before. I want Crass to be able to certify that this guy's not going to try to kill us. I take the girl and I cast Cure Wound. Okay. You get the sense that- I would roll but it's probably not really.
00:36:33
Speaker
Um, you get this at like, she, her breathing intensifies. She's still unconscious, like asleep. Uh, but you're confident that she is going to be okay. Um, then I head below with her and grab Paola on the way. Um, at this point, uh, just any of you could potentially hear this. You hear Gerald shouting for somebody, anybody to come to him. Booyah would definitely take off and head that way.
00:36:57
Speaker
You know, there's nothing I can do except for distract myself. So Dex, Dex runs up as well. Uh, guys, we, we made it out, but I need to know where we're going. I feel like we need to bring Boranell in on this decision and Beric. I mean, well, I, I actually have a conversation to have about Boranell. Say what?
00:37:17
Speaker
We still have a conversation to have about that. You have no one. That's right. That's right. I don't know that. You're working on the on the trust that I say it's okay. To be fair, Dex, Dex gives a lot of leeway. Booyah's just all along with the kind of got thrown into this willy-nilly, so.
00:37:35
Speaker
Well, how long can this thing be kind of a cruise ship? Well, I basically have to force this elemental to do what I want it to. And so ideally not more than the time. It takes us two weeks to get to another body of another continent. Right. And that's going to be exhausting. So is maybe small island somewhere we could hide?
00:37:58
Speaker
I mean, I could keep an eye out if you want, but how long can we stay there? I run down, I said, give me one second. I run down, I start shouting for Barrick. Hey, Barrick, I need one second. Where are you? Okay, Barrick finds. What were you gonna do with Paolo? Sorry, to resolve. Barrick has Paolo, takes both her and Orianna to his quarters, puts Orianna in the bed, turns to Paolo and say, look, I don't really know who she is, but she was, there's too much. I don't know who she is, but Myron's here, so there's just too much to explain right now.
00:38:28
Speaker
Stay with her. Of course. Yes. Yes. All right. And I swear I'm not insane. He says the murder of the wall covered in to the murder board. I'll explain that another time too. And then heads out toward the sound of Dex's voice. Hey, man, are we are we.
00:38:44
Speaker
going on there or what? We gotta pick, we gotta aim. Boranell wants to go back to Brelin. Why are we listening to what Boranell wants? Short version. I'll take it. The person ruling Brelin right now is maybe a changeling, maybe a doppelganger of some... It looks like Boranell, but it's not. Boranell's on the ship with us, someone who looks like Boranell is on the throne in Brelin.
00:39:04
Speaker
Right, so to Dex, that immediately means there's another changeling. And it has something to do with the re-adrons, and I assume this is all, go back and deal with that. Ah, there's a place pretty close we could probably set down in some safe, pretty close to Brelling. I mean, I'll take some safety. I mean, honestly. And then, I guess... You haven't heard the suggestion yet.
00:39:21
Speaker
I have two suggestions. One of them more risky than the other. The one that's probably less safe is we could make back, we could head back towards Miss March. But in Breland, I don't know what the situation is anymore. Borneo's not there, so he doesn't know what the situation is anymore. Just over the border, there's this town called Greywall. Expound, please. Which is a country ruled by monstrous races, minotaurs and gargoyles. The governor of Greywall is a mind fling. Gross. Yes, the governor of Greywall is a mind fling. I don't mention that.
00:39:51
Speaker
I'm not sure Beric knows that, but if he does, he absolutely does not bring that up right now. That was a fun fact to give to Jeff, not an inform, like informing back Dex's decision. Now that's, and that, but it's in Breland though, or it's just on the outside. It's one of the neighbors. It's one of the, it's the, Jerome is the Western neighbor of Breland. It used to be like within, within Beric's lifetime, it was part of Breland.
00:40:14
Speaker
Do are they are I'm assuming they're did barricade exit. So I'm assuming they're like are they hostile to non monsters? No Great walls in open city. I'm speaking accurately. Yes gray walls in open town. Like yeah, there wasn't open city It's their main trade city. So well, yeah, I think good idea gray wall. We got there
00:40:32
Speaker
Great walk good idea option is Dargun But I mean we might find useful things in Dargun because some of this stuff's been goblinoid But guard goons not not a safe place by any stretch of the imagination all right Well one thing is for sure we can tell him it won't look for
Episode Reflections and Future Setup
00:40:48
Speaker
us in context
00:40:48
Speaker
Let's let's say gray wall then I'll tell him gray wall and then maybe we can talk to the king See if he's got some way to some some some some on voice a safe space Someone's still loyal to the actual king something we can do. I don't know I'm possibly so for Cornell won't be happy about it, which is why they won't look for us. They're born on whatever. Yeah Okay Gerald more talk is this gray wall. I'm sure it is take you where thank us gray wall we go gray while we'd be safe and
00:41:15
Speaker
We'll be fine. We're gonna look for us elsewhere? I mean, we're not gonna look for us there. Fair enough. Okay. Booyah looks up at Dex like he wants to say something, then he just kind of hangs his head and turns around and walks away. End of episode. All right. Well, hope you all enjoyed that episode. Thank you so much for listening. Be sure to check us out on social media. I don't think we did any of these for the previous episodes now that I'm thinking about it. Oh, yeah.
00:41:40
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00:42:07
Speaker
Thank you all so much for listening. I definitely would, because we leveled up, right? That was totally a milestone. Yes, that was a milestone. Come on, yeah. Thank you all so much for listening. Once again, I am Eric. I'm Philip. Randy. I quit. We'll see you next time, except I guess Jeff will. Bye.
00:42:37
Speaker
Can't take it when it's focused on you, huh? No, what he said can't take it when it's focused on you, huh? Jeff I would like to record something just a two-week ship ship ride a two-week ship ride There needs to be a resolution to Dex's dead body brothers body that I feel like could very naturally lead into the conversation that everybody wants us to have including the two of us I mean, there's a whole lot of resolution that needs to happen on this two-week trip like I
00:43:05
Speaker
Oddly enough, it'll still be a good conversation, but it's slightly less than desperately necessary now. Yeah, which is interesting. Barak provided reasons for Barak to kind of snap out of it, at least for the moment. Right. But at the moment, Barak's just sort of pretending that none of that stuff is there because, hey, something to do.
00:43:21
Speaker
Yeah, but it also makes sense like I would see a At least a minor shift. Yeah in your attitude and at this point a minor shift seems seismic So I would probably that this would you know Like I said Dex is waiting for him to get to a place where it seems like he wants would be willing to talk So I think it makes sense to do it now
00:43:38
Speaker
So, I mean, basically, we have three episodes out of today, plus the reviewed. And then if we do, I mean, however you all want to do it, if you all would rather do it as a couple of reduced episodes of just those that need to be in on those scenes, be there. Or if you just want the next session we record to be kind of the resolution of all these storylines during the trip to Greywall. I'm fine with either option, because there's... I'm fine with recording episodes, because there's probably some scenes that wouldn't necessarily involve everyone.
00:44:06
Speaker
I feel like when we're doing a session, we're trying to get to the next thing. Like we've done a pretty good job of having character building conversations, but there's still, I think all of us feel the need to get to something, either a battle or a new major resolution or new problem.
00:44:21
Speaker
So I think doing a reduced where we can really sit down and stew in some stuff. Me, you know, Dex and Booyah can make up again, Krast and Barrick can have a talk and Krast and Booyah can meet each other, whatever else. In vignette form that we know all we're doing right now is making character points. I think that'd be a good...
00:44:39
Speaker
And I don't object to using those as like little extra releases. Exactly. Those don't have to replace an episode. Yeah. In our release schedule, because I do want to do when I keep moving forward with the main plot, too. I'm excited. Plus, we just totally pulled the rug out from under Eric by selecting that as our destination. Yeah. And I'm I'm looking forward to seeing what Eric does with that. And and on it like I don't know where else.
00:45:01
Speaker
all the monster voices he's gonna have to come up with um and give me some great great sensory experience for everybody you didn't think chance was going to die today did you i did not think chance was going to die um so that was as surprising to me as it was to you i had readied an action to do it if dex looked like he was about like america wasn't going to let dex be the one to do it
00:45:21
Speaker
Oh, that was my whole thing was Dex has one great fear and it's the reedrons Dex has come to terms long ago in the way that he views things his brothers are gone any right It's almost like zombies It's like it's like, you know, if if my brother was bitten by a zombie and I saw his zombie for him later I'd kill him too. That's where Dex is at with it. But yeah, he wasn't gonna know this is different than a zombie. I
00:45:42
Speaker
yeah you know this thing this this was my brother with my brother spark in his eye i wasn't gonna do it so i turned around and walked away and cried deeply i didn't get it really i really didn't get enough chance to convey how fucked up it was for barrick or for dex
00:45:57
Speaker
Probably for Barrick. For me, for Booyah, it was like, you know, he's struggling to try to be as good as he can be, but, you know, he's not there yet. Yeah. And he's just, the sky has been evil and he's got to go.