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Ep. 46 Remnants Of War
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You made it, Hireling. Stand with us once more.
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Call to Action: Stand Against Corruption
00:00:18
Speaker
It's all come to this. You made it, Hyerling. You stood with us against the corruption. You stood with us against the evils. The sun rises each day to bring light to the darkness that lurks behind these trees. So take up your sword once more and bring justice to this day.
00:00:45
Speaker
Rise up with us. The fight is not over. It has only just begun.
Welcome to The Hired Swords Podcast
00:01:22
Speaker
You're listening to the Hired Swords. We appreciate you listening very, very much. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Hired Swords. We're going to do this thing, you guys. I'm here with Blaze. He's Craig's. Derek.
00:01:51
Speaker
Hi. He's Daven, Mikey. Please don't do this. He's Joxer. And also we have Ash. Let's kill him. And that's Gwen. I may have fun. And I'm going to call her out in the middle of her laughter. Sturbuck's with us. Yeah, that's her. Apparently she's going to be here. So good. Welcome to the next episode of The Hired Sores. We're going to be...
00:02:21
Speaker
Looks like we're going to be having some combat as we ended the last session with initiative.
Gathering Intel and Confronting the Chief
00:02:26
Speaker
And just to kind of backtrack a little bit, the swords had made their way around town after speaking with Hurley, learning a few things about what's going on in the town and some advice, getting some advice on maybe where to go next to deal with what might be happening in the wilds. They decide to go ahead and seek out some more information by going to tub the tinkerer's place. They learn a little bit from tub.
00:02:49
Speaker
About kind of how the transition of magic weapons and things works in town being transferred from the chief through Hurley through other groups and Decided to go confront the chief when they arrived at the tower of testing to confront the chief They found that Sariah was already standing there arguing with the chief about some of the same issues They were discovering themselves. So as as Sariah stormed off from her conversation with the chief they followed her and
00:03:16
Speaker
spoke with her for a little bit and convinced her that she could join their side and they could go and stand up against the chief to see if he would confess to what's going on here and maybe make him stand up for what's actually happening and speak some honesty for a while.
Ambush and Battle Initiation
00:03:31
Speaker
So there was some yelling back and forth some some accusation the chief trying to deflect finally turning to walk away as he does an arrow hits the post next to him and
00:03:45
Speaker
Everyone looks to see where that arrow could have come from. And up in a tree, behind the swords, behind the statue, near the edge of the nobleman's barracks area, up in this tree, you see Salrin standing there, another arrow already in her bow. And what are you doing, Salrin, with the rest of this little surprise round turn you have?
00:04:11
Speaker
Solid is going to jump down from the tree and make a sprint behind the statue in front of the tower testing.
Battle Intensifies with Strategic Moves
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Speaker
And I believe she has one more shot, yes? Yes, she does. All right, she's going to take that and attempt to shoot the chief in the back with it. OK, the chief, the chief starting to turn as he heard that playing on the on the post next to him. Like that shot.
00:04:41
Speaker
The next shot won't be a warning. Oh my God, a natural 20. She wasn't kidding.
00:04:48
Speaker
All right, that's how you start. And the chief is this. Of course you did. And the fight's over. Thanks, guys. So the arrow flies from behind the statue and sinks right in between a couple of gaps in the armor right at the top edge of the chief's armor into his spine. And you hear him kind of roar with pain as he takes how much damage? Are we there yet? 10 damage.
00:05:17
Speaker
10 damage from that arrow. And she like nods to herself. She's like, nice. And he turns around. And when he turns around, he draws his sword. And we are now in initiative. Surprise round is over as he pulls out this big long sword. I'll set the scene.
00:05:38
Speaker
real quick for everyone. Everyone's standing in front of the Tower of Testing. We have a kind of mob of these hunters surrounding the Tower of Testing. There was a group that was with Soraya who are now kind of all their lining between the statue and the tower with
00:05:56
Speaker
the the our party the hired swords group here and sovereign has come up behind the statue and is kind of behind them then up on the steps of the tower is little tomba standing next to the chief who is now reaching back to try to to try to take that arrow out
00:06:13
Speaker
But it's right in the middle of his back where he can't get to it. So he just turns with his long sword in both hands. And he says, he just calls out, get them. And when he does, we start our round and it's Soraya first. Soraya is going to also pull out her bow. And she is going to draw back and fire
00:06:40
Speaker
Yep, she's gonna take one shot at the chief with her bow as well. That shot is a 26. So the 26 for sure hits and she does 11 damage, whoops, 11 damage to him.
00:07:00
Speaker
And so yeah, he takes 11 damage as another arrow comes in and catches him in the side as he's turned with the sword open. She then turns around and she runs past her mage friend and grabs onto the statue, pulls herself up and stands up on the platform of the statue that was behind her, pulling herself back behind the actual statue and trying to kind of hang back for cover.
00:07:28
Speaker
That takes us now back to sovereign. This is your actual turn
00:07:34
Speaker
We rolled initiative on the previous episode, by the way, everyone, listeners, in case you didn't know that. So Celrin, we're at you. Celrin is going to take a couple steps over. She's going to round the statue to get behind Sariah. And she's going to say, took you long enough. And she's going to make another shot this time at Tomba, because she thinks that guy's a creep. OK.
00:08:04
Speaker
All right, that is an eight plus eight 16. I like the section you were taking. This is very pleasing to Gwen. Gwen liked this. You hear Gavin scream out, father, no. Oh, God. Yes, no, 16.
00:08:25
Speaker
So the arrow flies up and flies up onto the porch. And as it does, Tomba lifts his cane and swoosh swipes it out of the way. And the arrow just flies away. He hits the cane like a baseball bat and he tucks himself back behind a post. Hi. Oh, you just pissed off the beast. Oh my God. Oh, you have another action or another shot.
00:08:52
Speaker
She's like, she takes the B and she's like, what? And then she makes another attack. That's a 15 plus eight 23. That will hit. So you fire that. And what's the damage on that? Five points of damage. OK, another arrow flies through past the statue and catches Tomba in the leg and you hear him like that. And he is taking a little damage there.
00:09:22
Speaker
Um, Craig's right. You know. Oh, buddy. Did I see that Tomba just wrap off that shot? I think you did. OK. How close is Davin to this area? Davin is about 10 feet away from Tomba. About the length of the stairs was about 10 feet. Yeah, I was like right at the bottom of the stairs, putting a lot of the steps in there up at the top. OK.
00:09:52
Speaker
In my turn, I am going to shout at Daven. Daven the elk, you can ride. And then I'm going to be charging in the direction of the tower towards the chief. Who at this point is anyone visibly hostile?
00:10:16
Speaker
as you look around as you're running you see mostly confusion most people most of the hunters around you are a little they're they're trying to figure out what they're going to do in this moment as this is all happening kind of almost simultaneously yeah they're they're still not nobody seems to be sure okay the only hostility you see for sure is the chief with a sword out ready to go alright well
00:10:43
Speaker
I'm going
Attempts at Diplomacy and Magic Unleashed
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Speaker
to run up next to Daven between him and the Chief and I'm going to call out. I'm not going to take any fighting actions, I don't think, but I'm going to call out and basically be like, it doesn't have to be this way.
00:11:02
Speaker
to everyone and hopefully sway some that might be following him and stand in the way as a defense. You know what I am going to do? I am going to cast one spell. I am going to cast Warding Bond on Davin.
00:11:17
Speaker
warding bond. It wards Davin. I'm assuming he's a willing creature. I touch Davin and create a mystic connection between the two of us and the target until the spell ends has plus one bonus to AC and saving throws if he's within 60 feet and has resistance to all damage and it takes time. Every time he takes damage I take the same amount of damage he takes
00:11:47
Speaker
Oh, okay. And you said you have to run over and touch him to do that. Yeah. Okay. So, so I'm going to be standing technically behind between him and the chief now. Yeah. Okay. Uh, so you get over there standing at the bottom of the steps between David and the chief, uh, ready to go. Is there anything else you'd like to do? Uh, I think, I think that's going to be it for now. Okay. Next up is,
00:12:17
Speaker
All right, Joxer, go. Yeah. So you said that no one looked hostile at this point, just more confusion? Yes. Ooh, that makes it slightly more confusing on this end. So I'll just, everybody will kind of look over and you'll see Joxer look down at his hands and this purple blade will just kind of,
00:12:45
Speaker
appear out of his arm and kind of pushed out of his hands and he casts Shadow Blade and he'll look up to the Chief and then you'll just see him kind of aim and then throw it directly at him. And let me see...
00:13:06
Speaker
Okay, so that is a 16 plus six, so 22 damage. 22 to hit. 22 to hit. Yeah. That hits. Okay. And then, or 22 hit, yeah. And then, so for damage, that is six, two, three, so 11 damage to him. Perfect, all right. So 11 damage to the chief as this sword, these vines wrapped around,
00:13:35
Speaker
Joxer's arm turn turn this purple color and emerge into this sword as he throws it up and hits the chief and just kind of it pierces him and dissolves in his chest and he kind of looks down at it like what was this and lets out a Cry of pain as it pierces through his armor and everything All right, is that your whole turn Joxer?
00:14:00
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not too sure I can move anywhere. I might move one over to get next to Gwendolyn. Okay, great. So he steps over next to Gwendolyn and prepares himself as we go to Davin's turn.
00:14:17
Speaker
Davin's going to look around and say, well, this is us going quickly. And I'm going to back up and give a nice little curtsy to the chief. And then I'm going to hop on top of the elk and I'm going to direct it to ride back toward the back of the statue. And then after I get back there, I'll see Saria and Solrion back there. I'm going to say, well, let's try this again. And I'm going to cast Polymorph on Solrion and turn her back into a direwolf again. That is, if she's willing, she will turn into a direwolf.
00:14:46
Speaker
She's absolutely willing. She recognizes your gestures to do it, and she gets that feral grin on her face, and she already starts howling. She's like, ah! Before she even changes. She's absolutely gonna take that polymorph. Okay. Yeah, she wants to continue the howl through the transformation. Very Teen Wolf style. I'm gonna hide behind the statue, which seems to be the safest place.
00:15:15
Speaker
All right, let me ask a question real quick. When somebody's polymorph into a direwolf, do they take all of the direwolf stats? They do. Yes, they understand that they are still themselves, but they take all of the stats. OK, so. Well, I'm trying. And then when she drops to or rather, if she drops to zero hit points, does she go back to her full?
00:15:41
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You would take any carry over damage, but otherwise it's like a big buff. I posted some dire wolf. Big furry buff link in the D&D. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Also, let me see. Do you have control? Solrin? Of what? Of the dire wolf that I put on the map. That I am?
00:16:09
Speaker
I put a map. I put a direwolf token on the map. I'm asking if you have control of it. Yes, I do. OK. I thought you were asking if I was losing control. No, no, no, I mean the therapist token. So we'll say your tokens there, but we'll it is you are the direwolf until you are not. All right. And so was that your whole turn, Devin?
00:16:34
Speaker
Yeah, my action was the spell, I used my movement to run away, and I'm using a bonus action, not really, but just to hide behind the statue. My bonus action is really me going, please don't hit me, please don't hit me. Okay, that brings us to the chief. And the chief is going to run down the stairs, right to Krigs. Hi buddy! The nearest threat. And he is going to make his attacks.
00:17:05
Speaker
I don't like the plural there. He's going to make his four attacks. Natural one on the first one. That's not going to hit. Kill the record. Yep. Second one as he misses. God dang it. Another natural one. Not joking. Two in a row. Wow. It's not in the cards, boys and girls. It's that arrow in the back that's going to hit. What the heck? Oh, I'm sorry. Did I hit a nerve? Three. There's another way to roll three in a row.
00:17:35
Speaker
You know what the percentage of that is? That's not going to hit. I checked my AC and that's not going to hit. Did I make those dice? My AC is the two. You made those dice. I told you. You're protecting Briggs with the dice you made. Wow. Yeah, as I do.
00:17:58
Speaker
Okay, this fourth attack, he doesn't get a fourth attack. He rolled three nat once. He's done. And so is that dice. So he just can't bear the emotional. He swings and he just, and he's just hitting shield and he's missing and he's, and he's just angry and frustrated. And I'm going to, I'm going to turn back to the party and Wayne can say,
00:18:22
Speaker
Slippery oil. All right. Oh, that was supposed to be so epic. Sorry, Barks at you. I do want to state though.
00:18:33
Speaker
for Craig's and his new found nature-ness. Whenever he swung and hit the shield, you definitely saw, like, bioluminescent spores coming off the shield. Like, the shield actually glue. I had a glow to it for a moment as it hit and didn't do any damage. And he was just like, sweet. Like, heck yeah. This new defense is sweet.
00:18:59
Speaker
This glue is so awesome. I thought it was slippery, not sticky. Sometimes it's both. True. You know oils. Okay, that's Gwyn's turn. Here we go.
00:19:18
Speaker
I'm the last one to go. All this stuff has happened. So when she saw the shot fired at the very beginning, she looked back and saw Sollering and her towel begin to wag. And so she's very excited. And then when she heard the howl, she also howled in agreement. And so she's so excited because finally all this stuff is coming to light. And you got pack tactics, baby. Yeah, baby. Are you guys going to start stiffing each other again?
00:19:45
Speaker
later later it's excuse me two more important things right now we have things to do and so you have eaten bark well unla is gonna run up and kind of be on the backside of krigs and she's gonna be staring at tomba because she real sus about that stick swipe she did okay what else is that it um
00:20:09
Speaker
I'm gonna bite him in the leg. I'm gonna bite him where the arrow went. Okay, so go on up there and make a bite. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. China does that thing that dogs do where they shake their upper shoulders. Get them haunches moving. We're gonna do this and we're gonna take a big old bite. How's a 17? Does not hit. Why not?
00:20:38
Speaker
It's too low. Why not? So you come up and when you do, he pulls his leg away as you snap at it. He just drove go everywhere. And now one is angry. OK. And that's it. All right. From happy to angry, just like that. I'm a puppy. I'm angry. All right. So that is that. That is now it is now Tomba's turn.
00:21:07
Speaker
So Tomba begins to use his cane to kind of poke at this dog and say, I don't know. And he kind of sits down on the ground and leans up against a post and pulls his legs into himself. And he's like, please, I don't, what is, what? Like that. And he's just like in full panic mode. That doesn't, that doesn't track. Yeah. Something is not like the other. Hmm.
00:21:55
Speaker
They start to draw their weapons you see some of a couple of them have pretty good sized swords a couple of them have like a one of them has like a war hammer one guy's got this weird like cutlass curved sword thing and they're kind of in a little bit of a of a confused kind of panic mode and They kind of look at each other and suddenly they start to kind of fight a little bit amongst themselves and so you have a
00:22:02
Speaker
This is real sus right now.
00:22:23
Speaker
you have this one kind of this one kind of soldier who's who's wearing like leather armor he's got this curved kind of cutlass type sword and he takes a swing at this other soldier who's wearing a golden like a not gold but like a bronze breastplate he swings at him and as he swings it it just off the front of his armor and he's just
00:22:44
Speaker
We don't know and they're arguing with each other as they start to start to fight with each other and Then they start to come a couple of the other ones start to come down towards Saraya and her party and they are kind of near where Daven and everybody is as well and one of them starts to or sweet goes ahead and swings at the
00:23:06
Speaker
the mage one of the this this this soldier comes out
Escalating Chaos and Protective Allies
00:23:10
Speaker
down with his with his longsword and he swings it with one hand down at this mage and um when he does he there we go he hits him and does where are the dice that I need the dice is a d8 there it is he does seven damage
00:23:33
Speaker
to you.
00:23:49
Speaker
this soldier runs sprints at him after kind of looking at his partner and realizing that they're both kind of siding with the chief maybe he sprints towards this mage and swings at him and as he swings down and slices he does seven damage to him and so now that takes us to
00:24:09
Speaker
this other group to the south, this other group to the south down here, they also start to swarm in. And they kind of seemed to be pretty clearly not on the chief side as they step up and swarm into this group that is led by the dwarf fighter that is here. And this about five,
00:24:34
Speaker
five soldiers, five of these hunters all come up and they basically form a line from Joxer over to the side heading towards where the lamppost inn is and they form a line and these two groups start battling it out against each other and
00:24:51
Speaker
And it looks to be like the group that came from further south is starting to really, really win out and do a lot more damage. And they're starting to kind of weigh down on this Dwarven Leaders group. And that's kind of the group's turns as we come back up to Soraya, who after I put damage in for these guys, I will do Soraya's turn. Lots of NPCs.
00:25:18
Speaker
yeah i should have known better than this no just kidding i know what's going on here i got a plan i got a plan man i've been thinking about it so the
00:25:27
Speaker
So the Dwarven Leader group, does it seem like, I mean, can we tell if they're like siding with Saria or other? It's hard, I don't know that you would know right away who's siding with who on that group. It really just seems like chaos, especially less not understanding the dynamics in town. Yeah, and they're just fighting now, each other. You don't know who's fighting who for what reason, but it's all gone to heck now.
00:25:53
Speaker
Everyone likes a good brawl. And then Soraya's party comes up and they come up starting to try to help their mage friend. And so Soraya's got the big barbarian looking fella and her fighter that's with him. Actually, Mel is there and they're all fighting this other fighter that they're trying to protect this mage from the other fighters and they're doing some damage to him.
00:26:22
Speaker
So one of them actually swings and takes a nice chunk out of the out of this this guy's arm there and Does some damage to him and then that'll bring us like I said to Soraya who is got her eyes on the chief pretty much only and she takes Her bow shot at the chief as he is engaged with another person She is gonna do that with advantage and she is going to get her sneak attack if she hits So here we go
00:26:54
Speaker
Yeah, the 16 plus 10 is gonna hit with a 26. So she does her seven regular damage plus her many D6. She gets eight of them. So eight D6 sneak attack damage, 21 damage plus the seven is 28 total damage to the chief.
00:27:20
Speaker
There's an arrow shoves itself deep into his belly to where only the only the feathers are sticking out of the back it went in so deep and and he grunts as it as it goes in and he looks back past the statue trying to see where it came from and he puts his eyes back on Krigs as his his grip tightens on his sword and she's gonna stay put kind of ducking back away behind the statue as Solrin it's your turn
00:27:47
Speaker
Sauron is going to look up at Daven on the Great Elk and give him like a little doggy grin and a little like
00:27:57
Speaker
like, and then she's gonna take off. And so she's got 50 feet of movement now. So she's going to kind of like weave in and out of people's feet as they're like engaged and distracted with others. Because she is going directly for the team, the chief.
00:28:25
Speaker
And then she is gonna bite him. Bite away. She's gonna use them pack tactics. Okay. Cause Kriegs is up there. An 18 and a three. So 18 plus five. So a 23. That'll hit.
00:28:51
Speaker
All right, your girl's gonna do 2d6 of chomping damage. Six and a five, 11 points of bite damage. Oh, plus three, 14 piercing damage. All right. And she only gets one attack.
00:29:08
Speaker
Okay, that's pretty good though. Fourteen damage, you grab the dire wolf that is, Sauron grabs on and just starts pulling and tearing at the chief's legs. He also has to make a strength saving throw. Okay. DC 13, or be knocked prone. Okay, he adds 13 to his strength saving throws. Pretty sure it's not gonna work. Or he could roll one.
00:29:37
Speaker
So he rolled a, uh, he rolled a 25. It's fine. Okay. Unsatisfyingly easy. Sure, sure, sure. And then, uh, there you go. So that is, is that your whole turn? All you, all that you're going to do. Not that it was nothing because it was something. All right. That brings us to jockser. So I'm going to, I guess it's a little packed over here.
00:30:04
Speaker
I guess because I can't really get past anybody without getting too... too weird about it. I'll just run and help out the sorcerer and Mel and get a good angle on this guy attacking the sorcerer which he who is unnamed still
00:30:35
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm gonna you'll just see me kind of like flick my my hand down as that purple blade Comes back and I will make two tanks. Awesome purple blade attacks. Yeah, so that is a 21 And that is a 13 21 hits 13 Does not hit okay damage for the first one
00:31:05
Speaker
and 13 damage to him. All right. So you swing out with that sword that just appeared in your hand and swipe at him. Oh, would I have advantage? You would. Oh, that's then. Then that is a 24 for that second. Oh, great. Another hit. So you swing and you hit him. You rear back for your second attack. Make another contact with him. So that is 10, an extra 10.
00:31:35
Speaker
Awesome. So do 10 more damage to him as your sword splits through the folds in his split armor and comes back out with a slush as the blood kind of drips through it onto your hand. And is that it? Your whole turn? Yeah, that's about all I can do at this moment. Awesome. All right, then we are at Davin.
00:32:02
Speaker
All right. I'm going to take the elk and ride around the other side of the statue to where I can get like an angle again on the chief through the crowd of all of these people that seem to be gathering and fighting now. And I'm going to cast a second level guiding bolt directly at the chief. All right. Guide that bolt. Oh, it's a natural 18. So that's 25 total. 25 hits. Sweet. That's 5d6. Not great.
00:32:32
Speaker
11 points of damage. I'm going to use a sorcery point to cast, or not cast, but to use Empowered Spell, so I use one sorcery point and I can re-roll these crappy dice that I got. Ooh, that is so much better. 23 points of damage, and the next attack against him has advantage.
00:33:01
Speaker
Cool, nice one. So a guiding bolt flies out, just wraps itself around him at these sparks of electricity, kind of jolting. Did you add your extra electricity damage? Yeah, that's like a D6 or two, isn't it? It's an extra four points of lightning damage that hit him also. Thanks for reminding me. Yeah, so it jolts him and he kind of lets out a yelp a little as that extra lightning delayed kind of finally bubbles up outside out of him after the guiding bolt dissolves. Anything else on this turn, Daven?
00:33:30
Speaker
I'm gonna go ahead and hop off of the elk and kind of just stand right behind it Awesome. Okay. Sounds good. All right that with Daven done that brings us to Krigs So you see you cast that on the elk Ball right here. Yeah, I cast what on the elk that you cast guiding bolt. Well, yeah, that's I switched to side saddle so I can get a good angle I love it
00:33:59
Speaker
uh how is the chief looking right now he's been taking a lot of damage he's starting to look like he's getting hurt what kind of armor is this man wearing the biggest and baddest you can get plate armor he's he's armored up um
00:34:17
Speaker
Not as my action, I'm just going to look at the Chief dead in the eye, assessing the situation, watching him, having been watching him struggle with Solrin chomping on his legs and taking damage from Daven and Sariah and everyone else that's just, it's been overwhelming. I look at him dead in the eye and just say, and ask, do you surrender?
00:34:47
Speaker
He says, he looks at you back and he just kind of shakes his head and says, to who? And lifts his sword back up like ready to go. Okay. And I'm gonna, with that answer, take the binding off my hand and that glowing bluish green hand that's just got
00:35:10
Speaker
Just looks like spores coming out of it. I'm going to place it on his chest. And I'm just going to say to the wilds. And I'm going to cast heat metal on his breastplate and cause it to glow red. My hand is just going to completely engulf in this just natural bluish fire over his entire chest plate. All right.
00:35:39
Speaker
You cast heat metal on him and that whole, that whole bit starts to glow bright red. And he doesn't have to, he doesn't, does he make any kind of saving or anything? There's not a, it's literally- He has to make a constitution saving throw or drop the object. Is that it? What did you cast on his sword? On his chest. His armor. Okay. Got it. So I heard you, but I was also looking up the spell. Uh, okay. So constitution saving throw for him.
00:36:08
Speaker
he is going to take like 15 minutes to take plate armor off yep what a shame 21 uh so he takes the damage yeah
00:36:25
Speaker
His breastplate will glow red hot and he will take a total of 11 damage. Okay, he starts to... And he's just like... He's starting to show... His face is starting to show a anger and aggravation that's beyond... It's beyond just like annoyance now. He's pretty frustrated and he's kind of in...
00:36:51
Speaker
full-on retaliation mode you you think is that your whole turn i got a bonus action buddy okay do it craig's is
00:37:02
Speaker
going to the same glow that's coming from his hand is going to kind of just take over the rest of his body he's going to have that kind of bluish green but pulsating bioluminescence that he started showing from his hand and you're going to if close enough hear the whispers of the wind and he's going to cast channel divinity feral slaughter it is a
00:37:31
Speaker
fancy subclass spell that was created for this brand new subclass. As a bonus action, you can channel the rebuking spirits of the wild lands to repel trespassers. On the bonus action, you can make a melee weapon attack. If you hit, you may make another attack. These attacks must all target the same creature and the number of attacks made as a part of this bonus action cannot exceed your charisma modifier.
00:38:00
Speaker
which is two. So I'm going to swing the war hammer that I have one handed at the chief while very much channeled out in this kind of natural form that I have. With advantage because of guiding bolt. Sweet. Thankfully, because I rolled one on the first roll. The second one is a 23. Hits. And let me roll my damage on that.
00:38:31
Speaker
That will be 12. And I will take the second. That hits to get another, yep. That is 24. Also hits. And that will be... Sweet. That's gonna be...
00:38:56
Speaker
10 plus 4 plus 2 so 16. Nice. 16 damage. Awesome. And with that second hit when it actually makes contact that glowing kind of aura that he had is going to just
00:39:16
Speaker
Not explode, but definitely like the breeze is going to just blow away from the direction, from the center point of where Krigs was at as the spirits that he channeled recede back into the wilds. Awesome. His eyes grow really big as he takes that last attack and he rears his weapon back and starts to swing down at you with this longsword again. And this time he rolls a
00:39:49
Speaker
31. Uh, that's not going to hit. And then the second one, Oh, the second one is a 18. Oh, that is that matches my armor buddy. So two hits. Third attack is a two. Not going to hit fourth attack is a, uh, 27. So three hits, three hits does. I don't like this.
00:40:18
Speaker
And we started it. Oh, darn it. No. Oh, come on. Eight damage on the first hit. So eight plus. Does he have disadvantage because of Solrin? No. Rats. Oh, come on. Well, two ones on the damage. It's a little better. Can I just confirm that the chief is a medium creature? He is, yeah.
00:40:49
Speaker
Okay, I gotta do math. Unfortunate. You know it's bad when the DM has to pull out a pen and paper. 41 damage. On Krigs. That's for two ones. He swings and he goes full on Kylo Ren with this longsword. He just... Like he's chopping wood. Just swings down at you as hard as he can. Screaming in a rage. The wilds kicked!
00:41:16
Speaker
Have me! And he's just screaming as loud as he can, beating on you with this sword. And then... Let's see... Yeah, that's his whole action there, that's his whole turn there. As he cannot disengage or anything, so he's just gonna hang out. And hopefully for the bestie. That brings us to... Gwen.
00:41:47
Speaker
Um Gwyn's gonna hear the chief yell and immediately just start howling and I'm going to use one of my spirit totems Here's the big long text. I want to do the bear So the bear spirit grants you and your allies It's might and endurance each creature of your choice in the aura when the spirit appears greens temporary hit points So they will get 13
00:42:13
Speaker
and advantage on strength ticks. And it should be 20. That's 30 foot radius. I would like it to start from here. Where's here? Yeah. I had my mouse on and I was like, right here guys. Obviously that wasn't it. Just that's going to cover everybody. Yeah. Dead center guys. Dead center combat. And it's only people you choose, right?
00:42:42
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna choose Craig's and the mage right now. Okay. But it's just always going to be up. They have 13 temporary hit points. And when she sees him after, after her howling, she's immediately going to go over and bite his other leg. Okay. Make that attack roll. Okay. Oh my God. How is 18?
00:43:11
Speaker
18 does not hit. Did you use advantage? Yes. It was that or five. No, no, no, I'm wrong. 18 does hit. 18 does hit. That is his armor class. I just looked again. That is his armor class. That hits. Chomp, chomp. How is seven, eight, nine, 10, 10 points as I bite his ankle.
00:43:39
Speaker
All right. 10 points of damage on his ankles. He's hurting from ankles and everywhere as he starts to kick his legs, like one at a time, trying to shake the dogs off. And is that your whole turn, Gwen? Uh, I also want to see if, um, he succeeds the saving throw, but he won't because of that plus 13. Yeah. He can't fail it. Really. I remember it now. It's been a long time since I've played. It's okay. It's okay. Yeah. But yeah, it's about it.
00:44:08
Speaker
All right. He did roll a two, by the way. So that'd be a 15 on that saving throw. Thanks. I mean, just, it's legit. I want you to know.
Unusual Observations and Transformations
00:44:16
Speaker
Okay. And so he, uh, Gwendolyn's done. So that takes us to Tomba's turn. He is glad that the dog let go of him and he is going to run around
00:44:27
Speaker
He's confused, he looks like, and he's bothered. He doesn't know what's going on. And he kind of runs back and hides over in the corner of the tower of testing, kind of sitting on the floor, rocking back and forth, kind of muttering to himself. And then after his turn, the chief is going to call out and he's going to just call out and say, say, the new ones, you idiots, the new ones like that.
00:44:56
Speaker
And that brings us to these groups over here that were fighting each other. And these three up here in the north, kind of above the tower. I don't like the sound of that. They're gonna come, he's gonna come down and get next to Gwyn there where Gwyn's standing. The other one's gonna come down to Joxer. And the other one is gonna see how far he can get here, 5'10". He can get down to Joxer as well. These two, this one here is gonna kind of disengage
00:45:26
Speaker
He's not actually fighting anyone. He was kind of lining up, but this is the dwarf like fighter. He's going to step up over to where Solrin is as a wolf. And the other fighter with the cutlass is kind of stuck between one of these guys that was fighting them and in that dwarf. But he looks to be kind of turning his attention to Solrin as well. And
00:45:48
Speaker
So as these groups kind of come in, we have several attacks to roll out here. So let's get that done real quick. So. Let me see here. That's a lot of sharp objects against my sweet beauty. I know it is. It looks scary, doesn't it? All right, so. All right, so the one that is facing Gwendolyn,
00:46:19
Speaker
rolls a 19 to hit Direwolf Gwyndolin. Yeah, just do it. And then make a, this one's not gonna hit, a 10 is not gonna hit. So the first one hits and does eight damage. The first hit. And then, oh, then it takes its short sword attack
00:46:49
Speaker
It takes a short sword attack as well. And that's not going to hit either with a nine. So the dog is able to kind of dip dive duck and dodge away from the swords coming at it as the other see the other one swings at the mage and hits that mage does some more damage to
00:47:13
Speaker
to that one. And then as he swings down and Mel swings at back at this soldier that was fighting the mage and misses as the soldier steps out of the way with this other guy, guy rolled a natural one. No, he gets advantage. So he rolled. Oh, he does hit with an 18. So it's going to hit that guy. So basically you've got carnage going on all around you. People are just fighting and fussing and fighting. We got three guys making attacks on or two guys making attacks on jockser.
00:47:43
Speaker
Uh, so, so this, the one just to the north of jockser, he is going to, he's going to make his attack roll as well. 15 that will not hit. All right. And then another one is a natural 20 that will probably hit. So that does a total of, come on, why am I rolling ones in a natural 20? So it's a four damage. Yay.
00:48:13
Speaker
Four damage did everybody get the temporary hit points or just those two those two. Okay. Yeah, I believe And then this guy this other one behind you with the cutlass kind of like curved sword. He's gonna swing his attack He gets three of them. So he gets a 18 22 and a 24
00:48:41
Speaker
to hit, I'm rolling that dice from now on. Um, so, and his, his scimitar kind of slices at you three times and you get eight plus seven is 15 plus six, seven, eight, nine. So is would be, uh, 24 damage. I know I had to count on my fingers. What a loser. 24 damage, uh, to jocks are from that one attacking you.
00:49:11
Speaker
and then we have two attacks against Solrin, the Direwolf. Okay, so this other guy makes three more attacks. These all are aimed at Direwolf, Solrin. The first one is a 10. The first one's a 10. No, she snapped back at them. The second one is a 15. Yes. Okay, and then a 14.
00:49:40
Speaker
Yes, 13 is the dire wolf Stacy. Okay, so I'm sorry, 14 is the dire wolf Stacy, but that's still meets. Okay, sure. Okay, so two attacks hit. 22 damage against dire wolf, dire wolf sovereign there. And then the other guy swings his cutlasses.
00:50:09
Speaker
He's cutless at you three times. Cutly. Oh yeah, good. He's cutly. That's what we'll call it. And he rolls a 12 is not going to do it. Whoops. A 11 is even worse. Oh, and an eight is even worse than that. So yeah, he rolled consecutively worse, worse, worse. And you're able to kind of, yeah, dodge out of his way as well.
00:50:37
Speaker
taking damage from the first attacker then these guys down here are all fighting each other and Taking damage that I'll roll as you guys do your turns But they're they're all just fussing and fighting down here to the south of you guys More more hunters all just fighting each other out or fighting it out. Oh, and then there one comes down here to Saraya and It's starting to climb up after her as she starts to kick down and try to fuss with that one and then
00:51:06
Speaker
That brings us back to Soraya and she's going to turn and make an attack on this this guy who's trying to get her. There it is. OK. So she's going to swing down with her dagger and try to hit this guy as that's the melee weapon she's got on her here. So she's going to swing down at him and she's going to hit with the first attack and swing again and miss with the second. So it is a.
00:51:36
Speaker
seven damage against this guy as it is not a secret not a sneaky attack all right and that is all of these uh these groups of bad guys we are now back to Sauron
00:51:51
Speaker
Solleren howls in pain as those attacks took the majority of her direwolf life force, and she is going to snap back at the one who hit her, which is, I believe, the one that is next to the chief, right?
00:52:15
Speaker
Yeah, that's right. Okay. Yeah, so she'll still get pack tactics. So she just kind of like releases the chief's leg and like whips her head around to like snap back at this guy. I rolled a natural one and a 15 plus 520. Snap back at the guy that attacked you. I'm not sure which one you're snapping at. The one that attacked me. Okay.
00:52:41
Speaker
the one that you were also adjacent to. And he's gonna take 10 points of damage. And he needs to make a strength saving throw. All right, there's a lot of legs getting bit tonight. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of calf injuries at the end of this battle. Well, next time I'll try and be something taller. Battle of the charley horse.
00:53:04
Speaker
All right. And as she bites down on this, this guy's calf, you see these sparks kind of swirling around her, her main as it stands up even more with the pain that she's received as the spell that Daven cast on her still gives that little echo of lightning on her, uh, on in her fur. All right. And is that your whole turn? Yeah. I want you to make that string saving throw. Oh yeah. I gotta do that same time. So
00:53:33
Speaker
I rolled a 13 plus four. No, no, no, he's not a 13. He's not a 13. I was rolling for the chief. His strength, 11. You rolled an 11? Yeah. That's really sad. He on the floor. So he falls, he's prone? Yeah, I'm gonna rip him off his feet. And now he's laying on the ground.
00:53:59
Speaker
Let the bodies hit the floor. And she's going to she's going to use. Well, she didn't really use any of her movement, so she wants to like put her front paws on his chest and just bear teeth in his face. OK, so he has fallen and he can't get up as this dire wolf is now standing on top of him. Roaring and just growling in his face. Awesome. So is that everything? Yeah. All right.
00:54:29
Speaker
OK, so just to be certain, the one who attacked me three times, is that the one with the red bandana, the northeast of me? Yes, it is. Solid Snake. Yeah, yeah, pretty much. OK, so I am going to continue. I'm just going to do two more sort of attacks to the one attacking the sorcerer, try to free him up and start with that.
00:55:04
Speaker
OK, so one was a 25, and then one was a 21. So I assume both hit. Both definitely absolutely hit. OK, then we got 10 damage plus 11 damage. And at that point, you see jocks are just kind of like
00:55:33
Speaker
open, open his arms and then kind of close his fists together. And then that purple aura just kind of emanates from him and a 10 foot radius, which is pretty much everybody around me. Let's see here. It just a 10 foot circle around me. I have a protection and the beginning of my next turn, it ends and the beginning of their turn, I believe. Let's see here.
00:56:02
Speaker
When that when a hostile creature ends its turn within 10 feet around me it takes Three damage. No four damage. Okay. All right, so this aura appears around jocks are like this almost purple mist as it just starts to swirl around him and he's
00:56:26
Speaker
He's in a little bit protected mode now. What does it do for you? I'm resistant to all damage. That's right, resistance. Okay, cool. So is that your whole turn?
00:56:37
Speaker
Yeah, I'm just gonna hang out there's a handful of everybody around me that's correct Devin Yeah, there's a lot of people Devin's gonna move five feet closer So he's got a nice angle and this person just the left of Solrin as well as the one sneaking up behind Gwen I'm going to cast chaos bolt and I'm going to twin it off with sorcery points to hit both of them so the one next to Solrin first is 18 plus 725 to hit
00:57:04
Speaker
That's going to hit. I don't even have to look at the stats. Not for that. Um, let's see. So 22 points of damage to him. Uh, and that damage type is dependent on this. Number five is lightning. It was like, Oh, plus I get an extra D six. Yeah. And tell me, was that, was that, uh, the one that was, which one was it that he was left with the red bandana on? Oh yeah. Okay. Okay. Yep. Yep. And another five. So it's 27 total points of lightning damage.
00:57:35
Speaker
This guy starts to like just glow with this lightning And you've got this mostly white lightning with these trickles of blue shining through it as he just like As it just starts to shake his whole body and it stops it He's kind of sizzles a little and smokes rising from him as he looks at looks at Solran the the dire wolf ready to make an attack But kind of trying to shake off that that last blast. All right next guy The next one was a natural 20
00:58:04
Speaker
No, yeah, it was. How are we doing this? Are we doubling the dice we roll or roll double amount of dice? I give you a choice. You can roll and then decide if you want to roll again or if you want to double what you rolled. I'm going to roll once and double the number. You decide after you roll. Oh, well, I already decided. Okay. He's got that. He's got that confidence. Yeah, I'm just a nice fellow. He's got that dice swagger.
00:58:31
Speaker
two ones that's coming in here all macho. It's it wasn't it wasn't great, but it wasn't that bad either. It was a 13 or 32, 32 damage to that guy. Oh, and the damage type is lightning again.
00:58:44
Speaker
Yeah, I'd say that's pretty good. As this guy too starts to jolt. It's like the electricity shot down through the feet of the first guy and then shot up out of the ground and found the second guy. And just from his feet up, he starts to tremble as it comes up. He opens his eyes and his mouth and looks up and you see this bolt shoot up to the sky from his face as the damage just kind of radiates through his body. And you look over to Devin and he's got the lightning just kind of swirling around him and he just kind of laughs to himself.
00:59:15
Speaker
Okay. No. All right. That's good. Didn't, didn't you get something on Nat 20s for your space? I did roll a Nat 20 also. Yeah. You have to roll a thing. Shoot. Okay. I got it. I got it. Don't worry. I got more stuff to look up and I can do this. I love D and D you guys. It's so much fun.
00:59:36
Speaker
After all the lightning attacks, the hair on Sauron's like haunches is just like crackling and sticking up staticky like you rubbed a balloon on her. Just a big ball. Yeah, the next attack, it's like an extra D6 against them. I'll shoot what I put it. Oh, I know. I like keep notes so that I'll be organized.
01:00:03
Speaker
And then I put them in weird places. That's not very organized. Yeah, here it is. Okay. So first thing you got to do is on a D 20 roll a D 100. All right. That is a six, a six. Yep. All right. So roll a D 10.
01:00:32
Speaker
You become the destroyer of worlds. Oh geez. A four? Yep. You suddenly, this electrical magical energy starts to shift around you. And as it does, your body shifts and changes and you become a great elk.
01:00:57
Speaker
Whoa. What? Roll a D six. Roll a D six. Roll a D six. So many dice. Oh shoot. That went way far away. It was a one. You have one turn as in great elk. Okay.
01:01:10
Speaker
So whatever this magic is that you're using, it just took control for a second and did whatever it want. And it turned you into the nearest, into your, you still, but a form as the nearest creature, the creature nearest to you. And so it was the great elk. Awesome.
01:01:29
Speaker
I look back and I'm like, what the? So we got two great elk standing back there just chilling. Staring at each other, making weird elk sounds. I don't know what they sound like. One slight elk that just shrugs at you like, oh. What about wearing like four necklaces?
01:01:46
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I still have a necklaces on. Yeah, you're like a hip hop, like 90s hip hop elk with all these necklaces. Sweet. I love that for you. Oh, man. So good. All right. Cool. So is that your whole turn, elk, Daven? I think that's, yeah, that's all I need to do. I rolled 20 dice in one turn. Awesome. All right. So that will take us to Krigs.
01:02:17
Speaker
It's been pretty chaotic around him taking a lot of damage. He's staggered a bit. And he also heard the yelps coming from Soleran, who's right next to him. Soleran, you're still facing kind of a way growling at one of the surrounding combatants that have tried to circle us, right? Oh, yeah, I'm in his face. OK.
01:02:46
Speaker
Yeah, the guy's on the ground and she's like on top of him growling growling at him. You're going to feel a little dwarven hand kind of scratching on the back of your head, and I'm going to cast Lay on Hands and give you 20 hit points. Sweet. So it'll kind of rejuvenate whatever damage you took. And I think she's nearly full now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's too too away from Max.
01:03:13
Speaker
Um, and I'm going to circle back and I'm going to look at the chief and just with a grin, I am going to say, you know, this ends today.
01:03:28
Speaker
and I'm going to call on the heated metal that is still active on his chest plate and deal more damage to him with that glowing chest plate. I'm assuming it's heated nature, metal will constrict, so you can feel your breath getting a little harder and a little more difficult to breathe, can't you? And I'm going to roll damage on that. All right, do it.
01:03:59
Speaker
Does he have to make a saving throw again? I don't think so, it's just the damage. Perfect, thank you. He takes 15 damage from his heated breastplate. Alright, 15 damage as that thing lights up again, you see it start to glow again and pulsate and the chief cries out in pain as it glows and is that your whole turn, you got something else?
01:04:24
Speaker
Uh, that's all I'm going to do. That'll be my bonus and action with, uh, land hands and the heat metal. Sounds good. Awesome. I think he does do a constitution shaving through again. Oh yeah. Did you look at it again? Yeah. It says, uh, you can use a bonus action on each of your subsequent turns to cause this damage again. If a creature is holding or wearing the object and takes damage from it, the creature must succeed on a constitution save. Yeah. So it sounds like a 20 takes damage.
01:04:53
Speaker
So if it's when he takes damage, that's great. I just rolled a 10 is plus 10. So he rolled a 20. He passes. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. Jocks are very much. All right. And if that's Craig's whole turn, it is the chief's turn. Now he is going to, he is going to disengage from Krigs. He's going to step back.
01:05:24
Speaker
behind kind of this wall of soldiers behind him and he's going to call out to everyone and he's just going to yell out
01:05:35
Speaker
Um, he's going to call out as everyone's fighting. He's going to say enough enough and just start screaming and yelling enough at everyone. I, I have plenty to share. There's plenty to go around. This is madness. And he's just yelling, standing there throwing a fit. And you, you see some of the hunters kind of.
01:05:55
Speaker
kind of like looking around like they're they are so used to hearing his voice and responding that they kind of can't help themselves they want to listen but it they you're not sure it's hard to tell if they're going to respond in any way other than just noticing and that's what he's going to do as we go to Gwen's turn uh Gwen is gonna yell or she's not gonna yell um
01:06:20
Speaker
Gwen is going to howl and move the spirit bear more towards her. And, um, she's going to give jocks or the temporary 13 points. I'm also going to notice that Tomba isn't here and she feels that her party can handle the chief, even though she hates him. Um, she, she's going to go try to find Tomba. And so I'm going to try to sniff them out and disengage from that guy. Okay.
01:06:52
Speaker
So you disengage from that guy, and you do see Tomba over there. He's sitting in the corner over there, kind of tucked against the wooden truss that creates the corner of this tower of testing. And he's kind of holding onto his knees, kind of rocking back and forth. He doesn't know what's going on. He's kind of panicking and freaking out a little bit.
01:07:20
Speaker
Gwendolyn is gonna, this is gonna be hard for her to say. She's gonna move up towards Tomba in a small like, not alpha presence and she's going to have her head lowered and she is going to try to lick the wound. Okay, as you go into lick the wound and you look up at him, make a perception check.
01:07:52
Speaker
You notice a faint glow barely noticeable emanating from under his shirt She's gonna slowly transform back into Gwendolyn and this time her hands gonna be on his leg Okay, and that's that's gonna basically use up all your time. Yeah, okay. That's fine. All right cool cool We got a little uh something happening over there to the north side over there by the tower and
01:08:17
Speaker
with Gwen and Tomba that takes us to these hunter groups there. I know that takes us to Tomba's turn. Perfect. So as you are you become Gwen and he's he's kind of rocking back and forth. He looks up at you and he kind of looks around
01:08:33
Speaker
He's he's going to he's still gonna sit there and he's his legs kind of straighten out and his little halfling legs He's even smaller you kind of think you've got to think he's even smaller than like a lot of halflings But he's this older looking guy and and he's he's got the like the mutton chops You know of his on his cheeks with white almost
01:08:53
Speaker
Just like brown white hair and and he's just kind of looking up at you and you see tears in his eyes And he just looks so confused and and just frustrated. He doesn't know what's going on. He's looking around and And he's just kind of gonna kind of look up at you and he's gonna say don't I I I just I just serve I just a server what and and that's that's all he can kind of sputter out And then we have the hunter groups
01:09:25
Speaker
So we have these hunter groups that are kind of in front of where the chief is and they start to kind of rally around him and they disengage from the guys that are that are fighting against them and they rally around and as they rally
01:09:41
Speaker
begin to rally around the the ones that are facing Solrin are going to stay but these other guys come up and they just kind of shift their their battle stance to where these there's like three or there's like three of these soldiers kind of defending the chief and there are these other soldiers who have turned on the chief who are kind of
01:10:05
Speaker
You know facing them head-on and so we've got this back-and-forth combat going with these guys facing the chief and then we have the the two that are That were attacking Solrin the guy with the cutlass the bandana man He swings his cutlass his three times and as he does He swings his cutlass three times and it's an 11 a natural one
01:10:36
Speaker
and a three, throw it in the garbage. And so that is the end of his turn. The other one is you're on top of him, you've got him pinned. He's going to go ahead and use his weapon. What does he have even? Yeah, he's going to use his spear as he grabs it with one hand. He's just going to try to stab it into your side with this spear that he's holding. The first attack is a 19.
01:11:06
Speaker
Mm hmm. Second attack is a 17. Third attack is a 15. I mean, she is right there. Yep, yep, it makes sense. So it is 2d6 plus four per attack. So we've got 11 plus 11 plus so 22 plus
01:11:36
Speaker
9. So 22 plus 9 would be 31. 31. Just four direwolf points left. So 31 damage. And as the spear just goes in and then pulls it out and then in and then
01:11:54
Speaker
out and then back in again even harder and you're just you can feel this dire were dire wolf form dying on you and it's your breathing is getting heavy and you're just feeling all the pain and all this all the all the near death as if you are this creature even though you've just polymorphed into it and then that is going to bring us to the three that are attacking joxer
01:12:24
Speaker
They all get, do they get disadvantage? No, you have resistance. That's what it is. So first one, he makes his three attacks. This, the other scimitar guy, that is a 15 plus seven. That will hit. Three, 22. And then that one is only a 10 and that one is a 19 plus. So that's going to hit two. So your damage is eight.
01:12:55
Speaker
13 slashing damage, which I guess will be halved to six. Yes. And so, yeah, he swings at you and catches you a couple of times. But that that mist around you as it swirls, it's it's almost as if it starts to become like a thick, almost like he's swinging in water as he swings and it slows down his swing. And that damage just isn't isn't cutting through and slicing through like it should is this aura around you is protecting you like he's swinging through sludge. And then
01:13:24
Speaker
the guy directly north of you is now going to make his attacks as well and he will an eleven two oh no that's not good either three plus five so far so eight so yeah so he misses twice as he can't even he can't even barely see you through that and then this other guy here next to you the one that already make the attacks for the one attacking
01:13:54
Speaker
The one that had been attacking Gwynn. I've lost track. I did, I did, I did. I see the stat sheet and I know I did now. Okay. All right. And now we're going to attack. Now we're going to attack. It's a miss and a miss and a hit. So homeboy here who's attacking this mage loses more hit points and mage man, miss hit.
01:14:23
Speaker
Miss take damage to each one of the the baddies that attacked me and then are ending their turn around around me Take four damage at the end of their turn, right? I'll apply that now four damage for that guy four damage for that guy Four damage All right, so
01:14:50
Speaker
that I believe oh the one has to attack Soraya misses Soraya that one's gonna hit Soraya so he hits Soraya and does eight slashing damage
01:15:09
Speaker
It's only two attacks, so eight damage. It's fun playing D&D by myself. All right, so that is all for the group. Everybody fighting each other in the group and we are now to Soraya's turn as she makes her attacks on this guy who was against her. That's a hit for sure. And that's a miss for sure. And so her. She's the.
01:15:38
Speaker
one plus five, so six damage. So she can't do a ton with this. Oh, it's the rapier. So, so that's right. I rolled the wrong dice. Here we go. Okay. So 13 damage on this guy attacking Soraya and he calls her greater like that as it, as she pierces in with that rapier. And now we're at Solrin. She's got bite this guy's face.
01:16:08
Speaker
She's still crack tactics going on. Plus he's prone. He is. Bite him in the dolphin face. Which guy is that specifically? The one that she's right across from. Thank you. She's right on top of him. The one you hit. 12 plus 5, 17. 17 hits.
01:16:31
Speaker
Yes. Uh, that is nine plus three, 12 points of damage. All right. All right. So you carved through this guy with your teeth, just dig in and tear off bits of his neck and his face. And he's like, he's like a, this is more vicious than any like sword attacks he's ever had. So he's panicking. What's next?
01:17:02
Speaker
That's what I got. I got one dire wolf attack. Sounds good. All right. Jockster, that brings us to you. OK. So the aura disappears at this point, and it's not looking super good for me. How does the guy that I've been attacking look like?
01:17:23
Speaker
He is in pretty bad No, he's he's okay. He this guy here. Are you talking about the bandana? The one south of I've been attacking the one that was attacking the sorcerer. Oh, yeah Yeah, he's like he doesn't look good at all. He's barely keeping himself standing I will probably
01:17:49
Speaker
take start start attacking him at least once once with the sword that's not good that is okay a 17 i believe a 17 hits it does that is his ac just barely all right um so six plus seven thirteen sixteen damage sixteen damage is gonna do it
01:18:18
Speaker
So you, was that your sword, your appearing sword? You swing that thing through him and it kind of enters his body as an ethereal form and then becomes solid as it gets inside and just slices out the other side of him and he falls over, dead, and just kind of is a lump there laying on the ground, dead. Holy crap, that was the first person to die. I don't know, later.
01:18:49
Speaker
You'll basically see me look over at Mel and the sorcerer and just... Now we need to figure something out. This isn't working. And disengaging is an action, so I feel like... I guess I'm going to...
Critical Strikes and Divine Magic
01:19:12
Speaker
Uh, I guess I'll tack the, the one with the, the three attacks against me, just with my, my extra attack. Just see how that goes on that 20. Oh yeah. So, so that'll, that'll be a good start. And that is so eight plus 12, so 23 damage to him. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, that's the guy with the cut list. That's been.
01:19:42
Speaker
catching you pretty good. Okay. Yeah. Um, and I'm going to use a key point to, uh, do patient defense. So you're just going to see me, you know, kind of go into and a little monk crouch. Yeah. Nice. All right. So that's jockser. So that is going to bring us to Daven. So I'm an elk. Uh, a question, uh, do I, like, am I Daven in my mind? Do I have the stats of the elk? Like, how is this working here?
01:20:12
Speaker
Yeah. You're like, it's as if you did a wild shape into an elk. So you are who you are. Can't cast spells as the elk, but you are who you are, but you also do have the physical attributes of the elk. I have a question. Everything else is you. Yes. Okay. Do I know, or can I figure out what the chief's alignment is? Um, can you figure out what the chief's alignment, I mean, Devin has probably has a guess.
01:20:37
Speaker
Well, what do you think David would think his alignment is? If if if alignment was a like a real thing that D&D like characters talked about, you know, I don't know. David doesn't like him. There you go. So I have 60 feet of movement. I'm just going to charge and just gore the crap out of him. I think I get around these guys. There's like a spot where they didn't really get in to protect them. So I think I can get all the way up to the tree there. So you run up to him, you make your charge attack. Mm hmm.
01:21:06
Speaker
All right, roll that charge attack. It's a 12 plus six, so 18 to hit. 18 on the chief. That is his AC. You hit. All right. That is 14 points of damage and he's got to make a 14 strength saving throw. Okay. Who got him? Got he. Strength save.
01:21:35
Speaker
He rolled a 19 plus 13, so. You gotta go get that die you threw out. He passed. Yeah, right. Start rolling that one again. I literally threw it in the trash can that's across the room, like basketball style. I'm going to have to go dig through to get it later. Because don't they reset every day? Like you could try to get another day. I don't know. Or is it just dead to me forever? Your juju? Yeah. All right. So my dice juju. Is there anything else? That's it. That's my entire turn.
01:22:04
Speaker
I just, uh, yep. Do I change back immediately? Like it's, you said one round. Uh, yeah, you'll, you, you attacked as that and then boom, you're Daven standing there. Did he have to make a saving throw to not fall over or anything? That was the strength save that you, oh yeah, that's right. I did that completely annihilated. Yeah. Okay. So he's standing there looking at you and you dissolve from elk to Daven standing there in front of the chief and Daven realizes how quickly that went. And he's like,
01:22:30
Speaker
That probably wasn't smart. Oh yeah. Devin went and known it was about to end. Nope. That's a good point. Okay. Would you be hugging the chief? That's my main question after you, I actually have my hands up on top of my head just with fingers pointing up as antlers. That's good. That's real good. Okay. Oh, okay. Oh, not at all. Craig's sup or everyone around.
01:22:59
Speaker
the chief right now all seemingly protecting him? They're trying to. Okay. The ones that you see with the yellow, they're fighting against the ones that are obviously protecting him.
01:23:12
Speaker
The protection guys don't aren't marked. So you've got three guys protecting and you've got a group of Five guys that are kind of coming up trying to outnumber this group protecting to get to the chief. Okay. I just didn't want to You know do anything to brat to brash to those guys. Yep for my turn What I'm going to do how let me ask you this channel divinity. How many of those can you essentially cast? I
01:23:41
Speaker
I believe it's equal to your wisdom modifier, but I don't quote me on that. Uh, you just, you just said it on a podcast, buddy. You consider yourself quoted. Oopsies. What'd you call it? What's that thing you're asking about? What's your, what's it called? It might just be two, actually. I was going to look it up, but you're going to have to, because I can't remember what it is. At level eight, it's two times per long rest. Okay. Two time.
01:24:09
Speaker
So what I'm going to do is there's enough of a path. I'm going to start walking towards the chief a little bit nonchalantly. I am not adjacent to this guy. There's a guy directly kind of crisscrossed to me. Is he going to have an attack of opportunity? I don't think he is because he's prone, right?
01:24:32
Speaker
Yeah, he's prone with a dog on him. He's not going to do anything. A dog? Okay. Uh, I'm not going to step around that dog situation and walk towards the chief and the combatants that are all there. And I'm going to shout at the chief on my way as I'm walking. We gave you a chance. You didn't listen. And I'm going to.
01:25:00
Speaker
stand in the middle of everyone here. Yeah, I got enough movement, I think. I'm going to stand right here in between everybody. Yeah, kind of right in the big middle behind some of the guys fighting against the ones protecting the chief. You're down there with what seemed right now to be friendlies. But yeah, so there you are with everyone, the whole group. I'm going to place both my hands on the ground and I'm going to start just
01:25:31
Speaker
praying it sounds almost like chanting that sound of the whispers in the wind again other spirits from the forests of the in the wilds to start swirling around audibly you can hear and I'm going to channel divinity and call upon the wilds and cast scorched earth it is my second channel divinity option
01:25:55
Speaker
Sounds neat. What is going to happen is as an action, I'm going to release a blast of energy that ignites around, ignites the ground around me in a 20 foot radius. Creatures in the area of the blast must make a constitution saving throw.
01:26:14
Speaker
of 12 at least, taking 14, 46 points of lightning damage or half as much on a successful save for one minute. The ground in this area continues to crackle and glow with power. The ground is difficult to rain and when a creature moves into the space or starts their turn within it, they take plus one fire damage.
01:26:40
Speaker
creatures of your choice that you can see are immune to these effects as you carefully command the burning power. So of my choice, those that are protecting, seemingly fighting against the chief, I will weave the power around and not injure them essentially with this fire. But the chief and the others, I am going to
01:27:11
Speaker
definitely have this power. And visibly what you see is just a big pulse of that phosphorescent, kind of bioluminescent glow. The ground will kind of be a fire. It'll be smoking and you'll see like mushrooms start to, like fungus start to grow actually from the ground and spores kind of puffing out from the different fungal growths. And it's a very difficult terrain
01:27:41
Speaker
All right. Roll that damage and tell me what to get. I need to make four constitution saving throws. You'll need to make four constitution saving throws and I will roll, or I will 46 against you. Well, I rolled an 11. So the chief rolled a natural one. You gotta beat it. There you go. Okay. Well, I didn't, uh, other guy failed. Another fail with a two rolling a different dice. The last chance.
01:28:11
Speaker
Also a two with different dice. Man, this battle. All right, so roll that damage. I'm going to roll against you, 46. 4d6. After I find only 46 every time. 46. Because every time you say, 46? Yeah, it's like, what? Every single time. 46! 46 what? Then you get to like level 17 and you're like, oh, only 46. Oh, buddy, that's OK.
01:28:38
Speaker
That's a
Devastating Energy and the Chief's Fall
01:28:39
Speaker
lot of numbers, buddy. A lot of math. Yeah. Welcome to DM World. That is 16 damage. Total? As good as I wanted, but yeah, 16 damage total to everyone that failed. Okay. It's above average, actually. All right, so you see...
01:28:58
Speaker
As you do this, this glow, this bioluminescent greenish yellow glow just spreads out across the ground away from Craig's and it starts to beam up around the guys that are just right next to him who are fighting against the ones guarding the chief.
01:29:14
Speaker
Davin as you're kind of standing right near it you watch as you watch as this these guys around you this Energy surges and pulsates on them and not on the ones that are fighting them but the ones that are protecting the chief this energy pulsates on them and and Things start to grow and flake and grow and harden and flake off of them and like burn them like it's it's like this this energy is burning away their flesh and and so they
01:29:40
Speaker
They all kind of cry out in pain. And as you look at the chief and you see it crawling up his leg, you see it kind of crawling up the wounds on his on his calves from these dogs that bit him. And you see it kind of sliding up his chest and up his back, crawling up his neck and over. And suddenly it just consumes and just burst and pulses again. And he just his eyes go white and he falls down in a clump on the ground. The chief is dead.
Reflecting on the Battle's Outcome
01:30:10
Speaker
Oh, man. Oh, I didn't. That's where we'll end it this time. Oh, no. It's how does that make you feel? I mean. That's rad. I don't know. Yes, it's a. I don't know how to see if everybody chills out or not. Devon looks down and says, Father, no.
01:30:40
Speaker
oh everybody daddy daddy no daddy daddy's over here son it's okay you said you would only call me daddy
01:31:09
Speaker
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