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Role. One

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So, last we left off.

23:29

In the long wake of the Solstice, Bell's

23:31

Hells find exandria on their

23:33

world-turned-topsy turvy as Ludinus de

23:35

Leth and his cadre

23:37

of followers, known as the Ruby

23:39

Vanguard, plan to unleash the god-eating

23:42

entity Perdathos that was long sealed

23:44

in the Red Moon Ruidas. After

23:47

traveling to this very moon, interacting with

23:49

its people, and returning with

23:51

intel on hopes to

23:53

stop what they're doing, they

23:55

discover that they've been sourcing ancient,

23:58

long-buried aeorian magic. technological technology

24:01

as part of their plan. And

24:04

not just that, Ludenis D'Lath

24:06

is there right now, dealing

24:08

with a strange wrinkle in his

24:10

plot with the name Dominochs.

24:15

Bell's Hells, escorted by a figure

24:17

with some experience in the ruins

24:19

of Aeor, one Essek Thales. On

24:28

loan from his partner, brought

24:34

them to the strange northern frozen

24:36

realm of Eiselcross, where

24:38

the very fabric of magic

24:40

is strange and prone to

24:42

unexpected apparition

24:45

sub-forces. They

24:48

went to these ruins, delved beneath, discovered

24:50

that the ruby vanguard that had been

24:52

delving within, scattered,

24:55

killed, not by the terrifying

24:57

denizens of these ancient dark ruins, but

25:00

by each other in strange fits of almost

25:03

religious madness, carving glyphs into their

25:05

flesh. Very vent-horizon-type shit.

25:11

Going towards the darkest depths of

25:13

the basement of the ruins in

25:15

the center of the Genesis Ward at Essek's

25:19

guidance, they come

25:21

upon a strange chamber, whereupon

25:24

the ancient bodies mingling with the

25:27

new, freshly dead, now dangling

25:29

by blackened hooks from long chains that

25:31

seem to have apparated

25:34

from nowhere, almost

25:36

grown from the surrounding stone of the crumbled

25:38

rock and ruin. They

25:42

heard from some of these long-forgotten

25:44

corpses, asking them questions through magic,

25:47

hearing things of a Nox engine,

25:50

hearing that Dominochs was once

25:53

or may still be a grand

25:55

demon of ancient times, sealed

25:58

away and harnessed. nefarious

26:00

magical purpose within this Nox engine

26:02

by the mage lords of Eor

26:04

long ago, recently running

26:08

rampant upon the ruby vanguard. Right

26:12

as they discovered this, some strange visions began to

26:14

come to them. First, Chetney,

26:17

Pac-A-Pee, being overcome. LAURA

26:19

and SAM and TALIESIN and MATT and LAURA and MATT and MATT

26:21

and MATT and LAURA and MATT and MATT

26:34

and you have to guess. ALL

26:37

circle, circle, dot. MATT

26:43

and MATT and Sm individuals release

26:45

on Morb and

26:57

maybe buried memories asking why he hurt them,

26:59

why he killed them. Uncertain

27:01

if this was real or not, he

27:03

had to pull himself from the vision

27:05

before attacking his friends. Right

27:08

as they began to collect themselves, searching for the

27:10

source of this strange dark

27:12

magic, hoping to either find Luden-ness or

27:15

perhaps this Dominox and figure out what

27:18

or who is the right villain in

27:20

this instance. Poor

27:23

Dorian Storm fell to his own vision

27:26

as they pass between these hanging chains,

27:28

looking upon one of these hung corpses, he

27:31

sees the face of his recently deceased brother,

27:33

Syrus, who looks up

27:35

at him, dead, sunken

27:37

eyes, saying, why

27:40

have you done this to me, brother? And

27:43

it's here in these shadows, Dorian

27:46

Storm, the blood pouring

27:48

from his blackened sockets, here

27:50

in the shattered expanse, the rest of it just

27:52

a shadow dark blur around you. Syrus

27:55

looks towards you from that shadow.

52:00

as a machinery have been taken

52:02

lately. Or

52:05

at least recent enough where there isn't a layer

52:07

of dust where that scraped gap would

52:09

be. You see these

52:12

dark circles along four different parts of the

52:14

chamber on the right-hand side. There

52:16

is another brass door on the opposite end,

52:18

similar to the one that fell forward. This

52:21

one is indeed closed, similar to Zayne,

52:24

and there is a smaller

52:26

silver door to the left as you

52:28

walk in. I

52:30

do an action judo roll through the door and

52:33

land with a fucking broken

52:35

glass, that was a bad idea. Do

52:38

I smell anything with my

52:41

wolf nose? Go

52:43

ahead and roll a perception check within

52:45

the chamber using your nose

52:47

gives you advantage. Will it help?

52:50

Yes, it does, 17. Not

52:53

bad. One,

52:56

you smell, generally in the

52:58

air, there's this odd, it's

53:02

almost like a crude oil-type smell,

53:04

but burnt lantern

53:06

oil as well. There's this weird

53:08

chemical burn vibe in

53:11

this chamber. It's

53:13

omnipresent and sourceless. You

53:16

do smell this particularly

53:19

rank, like

53:22

an earthy blood iron sort of smell,

53:24

but it's not quite blood. It's hard

53:27

to describe, and it looks like it's,

53:30

next to the silver door on the left, there is

53:32

what looks to be a cylindrical

53:36

steel drum that

53:40

is partially ajar, and the smell

53:42

leads you to that. Oh.

53:45

Yeah, yeah, I'll go there. Ashton,

53:48

Orym, get in here. What's the deal

53:50

with the silver door? Does it look

53:53

industrial or nades? It

53:55

looks less reinforced than the other ones. It

53:58

looks fairly plain other than just a kind of. As

56:01

you reach into the cylinder and go

56:03

to poke it, it

56:05

just reacts. LAUGHTER

56:09

It's okay. Okay, I'll lift it up

56:11

and out. You

56:14

lift it out, and it actually looks

56:16

like a cloak with a small collar

56:18

made of a deep, rust-colored

56:21

set of scales. It has

56:23

shing shing shings of small pieces of metal

56:26

as you pull it out, and

56:28

as it drifts there, held telekinetically in

56:30

the air by Imogen, it

56:34

looks somewhat rusted. Maybe it's the material

56:36

itself, but it's also well-made. Does

56:40

it seem magic? Yes. You

56:42

found it in a barrel with goo. Of course, it's

56:44

magic. The smell is definitely emanating from this object. We

56:46

should put it in a bag. In

56:49

a bag? Yeah. Put it in a bag for now? Yes,

56:51

put it in the bag. Okay, drift it over. Shoo! Yeah,

56:53

they melted someone, and all that's left is

56:55

the... Well, the question is, does it

56:58

look like a recent melting,

57:01

you know, like is this a ruby vanguard?

57:03

Or like... What's left in the barrel? What's

57:07

left in the barrel? Sludge?

57:09

It's empty. Oh, empty, empty. Yeah. Just

57:12

a stank-ass robe. Did

57:15

I hear anything through the door with my 27 perception? I'm

57:18

glad we took the same thing. You

57:21

do. You

57:24

hear the slightest bit of heavy shifting. The

57:27

bassist sound of metal on stone, and

57:30

then quiet, and this very, very

57:32

faint breathing. A heavy... I

57:38

believe at the group. It's

57:41

a door. Just...

57:44

LAUGHTER Real

57:48

quick, before we do anything, you mentioned

57:50

that there were runes. Can

57:54

I read them with my Eyes of the Runekeeper?

57:57

Can you reach one of you? Read the runes with Eyes

57:59

of the Runekeeper. on the tables. They

58:02

are a very old

58:04

form of draconic used in the

58:06

development of abjuration and protective magic.

58:08

Looking at this, you can ascertain

58:10

rapidly that these tables, while the

58:12

enchantment may no longer be present, were

58:14

once used to contain magical effects

58:16

or dangerous volatile experiments or something

58:18

that would be maintained to the

58:20

table, lending safety to those that

58:23

were trying things out

58:25

within the chamber. Yes,

58:28

looks like this could have been an

58:31

experimentation room, and they definitely felt

58:33

the need to have a little bit of added

58:36

protection. Can I go over

58:38

and do the same thing to the bronze door before

58:40

we fuck around with the silver door? That orm did,

58:42

just put my ear to it and anything coming through?

58:45

Sure. Do you want me to perception check? Yeah. Fuck!

58:51

Six! Six? Oh

58:53

no. Pretty quiet, pretty safe. It's dying! It's

59:01

clear! All right. Great,

59:03

then let's go to the silver door. Is

59:06

she going to the silver door? Isn't that the one that we're- I'm at

59:08

it now. The one with the breathing behind it? Yeah,

59:10

yeah. Does the breathing

59:12

sound human or beastly? Do

59:15

you still have your Detect Thoughts up? No,

59:17

it only lasts for a minute. Okay, yeah. We

59:21

should probably knock. It's

59:24

rude to just barge in. Wait, wait, wait.

59:27

I could use my- I could use open mind,

59:29

so I don't have to waste another spell slot.

59:31

I'll try open mind. It's

59:35

Detect Thoughts. Okay.

59:39

You do sense a

59:41

consciousness within that chamber. The surface thoughts are a layer

59:45

of anxiousness met with a burgeoning

59:47

sense of If

1:02:02

we could please have Sam Riegel come to

1:02:04

the table. Dude,

1:02:53

you stowed Josie with his new look.

1:02:57

I hope this doesn't awaken something in me. What

1:03:00

a fucking outfit. Sam,

1:03:07

if you wouldn't mind describing what

1:03:09

they see as they look within this darkened

1:03:11

room. In

1:03:22

the history of Exandria, there have been

1:03:25

many hot minotaurs, but

1:03:29

perhaps none as hot as this

1:03:32

minotaur. Standing

1:03:36

at six-foot-four, muscular. Mostly

1:03:44

black fur, except for his face,

1:03:46

which is covered by pale gray

1:03:48

peach fuzz. He has

1:03:50

long black hair, two sharp horns,

1:03:52

and carries a twin ball flail

1:03:55

that seems to drip black liquid

1:03:58

of some sort. His

1:04:00

armor is white, save for

1:04:02

an icon emblazoned on his chest

1:04:05

that resembles two black horns. When

1:04:08

you see him, you notice that everything on

1:04:10

his body is black or white, except

1:04:13

for the blood pouring from his

1:04:15

throat. He

1:04:18

appears badly injured, gasping,

1:04:21

stumbling. Please, please

1:04:24

help me. Help me.

1:04:28

Oh, eh. Fuck,

1:04:32

I've seen weirder. I'm going

1:04:34

to look. Are

1:04:38

you Dominox? Because if so, I told you

1:04:40

he'd be hot. Are

1:04:43

you Dominox? No, you can't be. No,

1:04:48

I'm not Dominox. Name's too literal.

1:04:51

Insight check. Make

1:04:53

an insight check. You can make

1:04:55

a persuasion or deception, not saying which, and let

1:04:57

me know the number. Oh,

1:05:02

I only rolled a four, so 18. Not

1:05:11

cool. Good thing I rolled a 20. Are

1:05:18

you Dominox? I'm

1:05:20

not Dominox. My

1:05:22

name is Braes. Braes.

1:05:30

And you

1:05:32

know what? I'm going to do

1:05:34

a divine sense just to see

1:05:36

if these guys are evil,

1:05:39

good, in between. It's

1:05:42

a spectrum. I

1:05:45

want to know, too. It's interesting.

1:05:49

You pick up. Huh.

1:05:55

Like a Jackson Pollock painting. You

1:06:00

pick up shreds of undead from this

1:06:03

one. You pick up shreds

1:06:05

of fey from this one and this one.

1:06:08

You definitely pick

1:06:10

up a hint of fiendish energy

1:06:13

also from this fawn

1:06:16

and a strong fiendish source. As

1:06:19

you look past them to see, stepping into the

1:06:21

chamber, the massive red-skinned

1:06:24

horned winged

1:06:26

entity, that is

1:06:29

Tevin Clask. Tevin Clask. What?

1:06:33

That's Tevin Clask. You know who

1:06:35

he is? You've met. No.

1:06:40

I have no idea

1:06:42

who this is. What,

1:06:45

insight check to Tevan? Yeah, does

1:06:47

he seem interested or scared? Or

1:06:51

starstruck? Are you famous? No.

1:06:56

I'm not even sure what that

1:06:58

means. If

1:07:01

you travel with Tevin, I

1:07:04

feel I can trust you all. Oh.

1:07:08

Well, let's get into it, friend.

1:07:13

Who are you? How'd you come here? I know your name

1:07:15

now. It's dangerous

1:07:17

times for a

1:07:19

religious person, but I'm

1:07:23

on a mission, a

1:07:26

mission to save my god from

1:07:29

destruction. And

1:07:31

I've come here to vanquish the

1:07:33

one that would unleash untold

1:07:36

ruin upon all the gods. Okay.

1:07:39

His name... is

1:07:45

Ludenis D'Leth. Oh, oh. And

1:07:48

he travels with a group called the Ruby

1:07:53

Fandango. And called, yes, so

1:07:55

like. They've made something known as...

1:08:00

The Bloody Bridge. And

1:08:02

they plan to unleash

1:08:04

something known as... Peridotthos?

1:08:09

Shit. LAUGHTER Peridotthos,

1:08:16

yeah, yeah. I'm too amused by this

1:08:18

shit. I'm just going to toss a

1:08:20

health potion. Oh, thank

1:08:23

you. Here, you

1:08:25

just take a... Oh,

1:08:27

you'll love this. It's four points of health,

1:08:29

because I rolled really bad. Thank

1:08:32

you. That should definitely close my gaping

1:08:34

wounds. No, that helped. Right there. Your

1:08:37

neck. The black horns on your armor.

1:08:40

Who is your deity? Yes, that. Who did

1:08:42

you hit your wagon to? Well,

1:08:46

as I've said, religious folks

1:08:49

like me have been persecuted in recent

1:08:51

days. God, this is... It's

1:08:53

hard, isn't it? It's really hard. You're

1:08:55

stuck on your armor. Stuck on

1:08:57

my sequins. Your

1:09:00

dragon scale armor. Jesus. I've

1:09:09

heard of temples being decimated

1:09:12

as far as Asylra. I don't know if

1:09:14

I can trust you with the

1:09:17

name of my deity. Well,

1:09:19

we can close the closet door again. I mean,

1:09:22

Kevin. Yes, but the rest of

1:09:24

you seem... What

1:09:26

gods do you follow? We've

1:09:33

met a few. We...

1:09:36

When you say follow,

1:09:40

there are some that we, like, you

1:09:42

know, like, keep up with, like what they

1:09:44

have going on, you know, like on social

1:09:46

media. You know? You

1:09:51

seem very interesting. We've

1:09:54

interfaced with the matron of ravens.

1:09:57

We have had a team of... I

1:10:00

remember who was a worshipper of

1:10:02

the change bringer. Oh, the

1:10:04

change bringer, eh? I

1:10:07

like him. It's a

1:10:09

shame that they're not here. Our healer

1:10:12

could have helped you. Yeah. Sorry.

1:10:16

Oh, oh, I can, I

1:10:19

can help. May I, may

1:10:21

I, may I? Sure.

1:10:27

Oh. This

1:10:33

is just how I expected this night to go. This is,

1:10:36

everything goes up and forth. I'm

1:10:38

gonna cast Cure Wounds on our new friend. Happy

1:10:42

Pride. Yum.

1:10:50

All right. Hey,

1:10:52

that's, wow. Three sevens for

1:10:54

our lucky boy. Let's go. Yeah,

1:10:57

yeah, 21 plus three 24. There

1:11:00

you go. Thank you. Powerful

1:11:07

magic from a powerful man.

1:11:15

You got me, you got me halfway.

1:11:21

I'll take care of the rest with

1:11:23

my, with my own hand. And

1:11:27

I'll lay hands on myself and cure myself. Oh, oh, oh, oh.

1:11:31

I knew it. Oh,

1:11:38

come on. It's still better when somebody else

1:11:40

does it. Reyes,

1:11:46

what, what, what are you doing here

1:11:48

in this closet? God damn it. What's

1:12:00

a centaur like you doing in your closet

1:12:02

like this? You there, what's

1:12:04

your name? Me? Yes.

1:12:07

Oh, my name is Fern. I

1:12:09

like your knees, they bend the way mine do. Could

1:12:16

you maybe try to draw them? They're

1:12:20

sort of backwards. Yeah, they're

1:12:22

backwards, they go the other way. Just like

1:12:24

mine, yeah. Nice hooks. You

1:12:28

too, you have an extra set. What

1:12:32

has happened? The hell is going on right now? I

1:12:38

was here on my mission. I infiltrated

1:12:41

the Ruby Vanguard

1:12:44

with some followers of mine.

1:12:46

And we were sent

1:12:49

here to Islecross, I

1:12:51

guess, by Ludinus himself.

1:12:54

Wait, what? I saw him not

1:12:56

but two days ago. And

1:12:59

I was waiting for a chance to strike him down. But

1:13:05

I never got that chance. My friends

1:13:08

and all of the Vanguard were afflicted

1:13:10

with some sort of mania,

1:13:13

some madness. They

1:13:15

went insane, killed each other. My

1:13:18

friends attacked me. It

1:13:20

was quite surprising and horrible.

1:13:24

And I haven't seen Ludinus in a while. I

1:13:27

was just trying to get out of here and figure

1:13:29

out what to do next. But thank

1:13:33

you for finding me, giving me some

1:13:35

life. Is

1:13:40

Ludinus still here? I haven't seen him in a day or two. The

1:13:45

voices that I heard were very confusing. I

1:13:47

lost track of time. You

1:13:50

haven't seen anything? Haven't seen

1:13:53

any...what? Anything. Besides

1:13:56

Ludinus and the people you came with. The

1:13:58

whispers came. Oh, shit.

1:14:00

MATT, if you want my making a wisdom saving

1:14:02

throw for me, please. Oh,

1:14:05

shit. With a barbarian. It's always the

1:14:07

barbarian. Nah. Always

1:14:09

the barbarian. You got this, you got this. Big

1:14:11

money. Yeah, 14,

1:14:14

not bad for me. With

1:14:16

advantage. Oh, with advantage, thank you. Yeah,

1:14:20

14, not bad for me. LAUGHTER As

1:14:25

they're having this conversation and you're taking

1:14:27

in the unique energy

1:14:30

and confidence of this strange figure,

1:14:32

you hear a rustling over your shoulder and

1:14:34

as you turn back into the chamber, you

1:14:38

are now suddenly within a

1:14:40

blood-red rock tunnel. As

1:14:45

you see pieces of

1:14:47

metal scattered across the ground, and

1:14:52

a singular, twisted metal arm crawls

1:14:54

its way forward. As

1:14:58

a slightly dislodged metallic

1:15:00

jaw and a shattered eyepiece

1:15:02

says, not

1:15:06

so smiley day, is it? LAUGHTER That's

1:15:15

me. Fucked up. I

1:15:21

was waiting for you to do something. I

1:15:24

didn't want to make this choice. Why did you let me

1:15:26

die? First

1:15:31

off, whoever you are, you are not making

1:15:33

friends with this right now. You said you've

1:15:35

always been waiting for it. Were you hoping?

1:15:38

You were hoping, weren't you? Waiting

1:15:41

for a chance to make me do what you couldn't

1:15:43

bring yourself to do. Oh

1:15:49

my god. And I'm just going to walk right

1:15:51

to that fucking little robot. I'm

1:15:53

going to get right down in his face. Don't

1:15:57

you even pull that bullshit with me.

1:15:59

You know, how damn well energy I

1:16:01

put into getting this bullshit out of your

1:16:03

head. So fuck

1:16:05

you, Syle. The

1:16:11

cracked lens flashes from blue to red as

1:16:13

the hand grabs the front of you and

1:16:15

pulls it close eye to eye. The

1:16:18

energy of the remnants of FCG

1:16:21

grows softer. I

1:16:23

cannot pass all of Ashton. My

1:16:26

soul, the one you all knew was there,

1:16:28

it's stuck in these ruins. The

1:16:32

place of my birth, the

1:16:34

place of my eternal torment. Only

1:16:37

you can set me free, Ashton. Find

1:16:40

the crystal in the engine, destroy

1:16:43

it, and my spirit

1:16:45

will find peace. You

1:16:51

know you can just fucking talk to us, you don't

1:16:53

need to play these fucking head games. It

1:16:56

doesn't make us like you. Make

1:17:00

a deal. The

1:17:02

hand dislodges from your chest and clatters to the

1:17:04

ground, falling into seven pieces. And

1:17:08

how fucking dare you? Attempted

1:17:13

to leave you in that damn thing for the shit.

1:17:16

You turn around and you're back

1:17:18

in the chamber with your friends, and all the

1:17:20

rest of you have watched Ashton talking into the

1:17:23

air for the past moment. ASHTON!

1:17:29

Who the fuck are you? Did

1:17:32

you say that? That

1:17:41

really isn't fun. Yeah.

1:17:49

I saw some shit. They really, Dominix really

1:17:51

wants the fuck out of that thing and

1:17:53

is not asking nicely. It's

1:17:58

not asking nicely. You

1:18:01

mentioned you follow a god. You

1:18:04

never told us which one. Oh.

1:18:11

Oh. Jesus

1:18:14

Christ. Holy

1:18:17

hell. Damn. Yes,

1:18:22

they get it. Okay. Yeah,

1:18:25

yeah. All right. Let's...

1:18:33

In my

1:18:35

youth, I pledge

1:18:37

myself to the platinum dragon. Insight

1:18:43

check? Make

1:18:45

an insight check. I mean, they've got

1:18:47

the vibe. I

1:18:49

have a fucking good insight. Twenty-four.

1:18:56

Thirty-three. Do

1:19:06

you believe them? But

1:19:08

you said in your youth, so did it

1:19:10

change as you've gotten... There's danger all around

1:19:12

us. We should

1:19:14

press on. Essek

1:19:18

kind of scoots into the side. Oh,

1:19:20

that's right. He's still here. I

1:19:25

do not mean to intrude, but you've

1:19:27

apparently acquired a rather large

1:19:32

ally enemy. Do we smite them? What is

1:19:35

the plan here? I'm very confused. I think

1:19:37

he's with us. He's trying to keep his

1:19:39

god from being struck down, which is in

1:19:41

the same value line that

1:19:43

we shared with FCG in what we're

1:19:46

doing. So until he proves

1:19:48

himself an enemy... of

1:20:01

turning against me and her, I

1:20:05

will cut you down with an instant. I

1:20:11

feel like there's an energy. There's an energy. You

1:20:13

do not have to threaten

1:20:15

me. I will do whatever you ask, and

1:20:18

she's with you. Well,

1:20:21

I mean, that's... That

1:20:24

entirely... Burned.

1:20:26

Are you too... No.

1:20:31

We are bound, yes. Understood.

1:20:37

I'm sorry for speaking

1:20:39

to her. Oh,

1:20:43

yes, we're very... Lean into it. Yes, we're

1:20:45

bound. We're so bound. You've been fighting over

1:20:47

you. This is awesome. Every moment of this

1:20:50

is hilarious. We're very, very... We're so bound.

1:20:52

I am also bound to many. Oh.

1:20:56

Well, of course. That's totally fine,

1:20:58

because so am I. I'm not. What

1:21:07

are you all called? Do you have a name? Yeah,

1:21:12

we're Bell's Hills. Yes. Hills?

1:21:21

I think I'm going to like you. Oh, fuck. But,

1:21:26

Reyes, you said you're ahead now. Coming

1:21:28

in, can you hang with that? He

1:21:32

picks up his flail and his shield. Let's

1:21:36

go. This

1:21:40

is so fun, it's almost like he was built for us.

1:21:47

But wait, wait, wait, wait. The symbol on his chest,

1:21:49

does it look familiar at all? Make

1:21:51

a religion check. Okay. Okay.

1:21:54

I have theories. Five. Some

1:40:00

things are better missed. LAUGHTER

1:40:05

You should have been here too, Dorian. You'd have been great. You

1:40:10

could always make the next one. Noire. Sequel.

1:40:15

The little girl turns around a bit

1:40:17

and begins walking towards the engine before

1:40:19

she fades. And you just hear it say,

1:40:22

it's so dark. Oh, I

1:40:24

just feel so bad for her. She's so

1:40:26

convincing. She's not real. And

1:40:30

we could all hear that in our heads, yes. Yes.

1:40:33

We all see the kid, we all hear it. What

1:40:36

is it, Ferd? I

1:40:38

would like to cast Locate

1:40:41

Creature on Ludinus. Okay.

1:40:49

Oh, thanks for the clap. LAUGHTER

1:40:53

Oh, no, you know what I am saying? Yeah, yeah,

1:40:55

yeah. LAUGHTER

1:40:59

All right, calm down. As

1:41:04

you finish the rapid casting

1:41:06

of this small-scale

1:41:09

divination spell on his direction,

1:41:11

recalling his face, recalling the

1:41:14

interactions you've had, as

1:41:16

soon as that tether of magic reaches out to the

1:41:19

aether to grasp him, it is thrown

1:41:21

back and scattered like ash. He

1:41:23

is unable to find an anchor. Bitch.

1:41:28

Bitch. Oh,

1:41:30

wait, what level was that? Oh.

1:41:35

Oh. Is this fourth? Do

1:41:38

I need to roll? Hmm?

1:41:41

Hmm? Fourth level spell. Is it fourth level? Oh, it

1:41:43

is fourth level, yes it is. Go ahead and roll a d20 for

1:41:45

me. Come on, come on, come on. Okay, what's going on? Big

1:41:48

money, big money. Okay, wait.

1:41:50

What is it again? If I... Just roll

1:41:53

it. Roll it. Doesn't matter. All

1:41:56

those casts. Oh, which one do I want to do? Okay, I'm

1:41:58

going to do this one. this

1:56:00

spectral dark chain, not unlike the

1:56:02

black-end-hooked chains you've seen emanating from

1:56:04

the walls and ceilings of this

1:56:06

ruin, strikes off and in an

1:56:08

instant pulls Woven Chetney up next

1:56:10

to her on top of the engine.

1:56:14

You're half-bound by it, but you're not

1:56:16

restrained. The voice goes, you

1:56:19

promised you'd destroy it. Destroy

1:56:21

it? Oh!

1:56:25

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

1:56:27

It's in me, it's in me.

1:56:29

And we should listen to the

1:56:32

little girl. What's

1:56:36

behind the door, sweetie? I

1:56:40

will tell you when

1:56:43

you destroy opinion. Not

1:56:45

a promise? Sure.

1:57:00

Well, I'm already, I'm already, oh. No,

1:57:02

is the, is the opinion, like, up

1:57:04

high, or? Of the

1:57:06

crystal? Yeah, the crystal. It's

1:57:09

about, probably, 15 feet up in the air.

1:57:11

It's floating right above the platform that itself

1:57:13

is floating 10 feet up and slowly rotating,

1:57:15

and there are these four spires that curve

1:57:17

in towards it. So it's

1:57:20

quite a bit. You have to view it from an angle to even see

1:57:22

it, but it's casting a purple glow on

1:57:24

everything around it, including the girl and now Chetney

1:57:26

from below. Okay. But you

1:57:29

can't just reach it. You have to climb to it? Likely,

1:57:32

yeah. All right, I'm going to start climbing.

1:57:35

Whoa! I'm

1:57:40

just going to fly right up next to him,

1:57:42

but not help. Just watch. I'm

1:57:46

okay. I'm fine. We're doing great.

1:57:49

I'm fine. Hooves don't really grip

1:57:51

very well. So you have to leap up to catch the

1:57:54

edge of it, because it is floating aloft there on

1:57:56

its own. You catch up, takes you a couple tries, and

1:57:58

you catch the lip. You

2:02:01

want to cast Telekinesis? I do. Is

2:02:03

it, are you trying to do something with this door? No.

2:02:06

Okay, you go first. Okay, I'm gonna

2:02:09

cast Telekinesis. Okay. And

2:02:11

I'm gonna look at the little girl. And

2:02:14

I'm gonna try to grab the crystal with

2:02:16

Telekinesis. Try and grab the

2:02:18

crystal with Telekinesis? Yeah. Okay. Go

2:02:21

ahead and roll a d20 and add your spell modifier.

2:02:24

Okay. Mm-hmm.

2:02:29

Can I activate my ropes that I just

2:02:32

got? True.

2:02:38

All right. Ropey. All

2:02:41

right, I'm gonna do that and that,

2:02:44

okay. Oh, God, there's

2:02:46

so many dice in front of me. Who

2:02:50

did that? I don't know. I don't know. What

2:02:53

am I doing? I'm

2:02:56

adding my spell modifier. Your

2:02:59

spell modifier, so with your charisma modifier.

2:03:01

Okay. Okay, it's not like an

2:03:03

attack. It's not a DC. No. It's

2:03:06

just a... Well, there is a DC to this, but... You

2:03:09

don't know it. Well, it's, do I

2:03:11

have an advantage? Just roll it. It's

2:03:13

10. As

2:03:18

you concentrate on it, the gem

2:03:20

doesn't even move. You get the

2:03:22

sense that the spires around it

2:03:25

and the device of this engine

2:03:27

is dual purpose. It also

2:03:30

keeps the soul anchor crystal bound

2:03:32

here. It is not meant to

2:03:34

be moved. It could be with

2:03:37

an extremely powerful magical

2:03:39

source or will, but currently it

2:03:42

is unmoving. All right. We

2:03:46

break the things around it. We can get the crystal, potentially.

2:03:50

If you destroy the spires, maybe. Okay.

2:03:55

And in Chutney's head. Huh? I'm

2:03:58

gonna say. Okay. Hear

2:04:00

me out. I know you got

2:04:02

a hook through your body right now, and there's a lot going on. I'm

2:04:07

just fucking hanging here. I think

2:04:13

we should try to get this crystal free. Oh,

2:04:15

cool. How?

2:04:20

But breaking all these spires? You

2:04:23

feel the chain begin to suddenly

2:04:25

snake its way deeper into your

2:04:27

wound. You take

2:04:30

another 13 points

2:04:33

of piercing damage, reduced because your wolf

2:04:35

in form, and the girl goes, I

2:04:38

have waited too long. You

2:04:41

will kill me, darling, for no

2:04:43

reason. Destroy it

2:04:46

now. Destroy it or

2:04:48

I'll kill your friend. I'll make a deal. If

2:04:52

you take this fucking hook out of my body, I'll

2:04:55

take care of the crystal. Persuasion

2:04:57

or deception check. Persuasion.

2:05:04

Or deception. Oh,

2:05:08

23. Oh,

2:05:15

oh, oh, oh! I was

2:05:17

wrong about Blass. I can only do it to

2:05:19

three people, but he was one of them because

2:05:21

he was scared. The

2:05:25

other two are? The other

2:05:27

two are Fearne and Blueboy. All

2:05:30

righty. The

2:05:33

chain recoils. And

2:05:38

go. Okay,

2:05:41

okay. I just try and stem the bleeding. That's

2:05:43

not going to stop. Do

2:05:46

I drop down to the platform and is the crystal within?

2:05:48

You can leap onto it, but it is spinning. Make

2:05:51

an acrobatics check to try and not

2:05:53

get knocked off of it as it spins in the

2:05:55

air. Not

2:06:02

great. You leap, and

2:06:05

it just knocks you off, and you fall another 10 feet,

2:06:08

tumbling to the ground for two points

2:06:11

of bludgeoning damage. I'm trying

2:06:13

to help! Could

2:06:15

you give me a lift? The

2:06:19

little girl transforms

2:06:23

into the entirety of her true

2:06:25

form. Dominox

2:06:28

stands tall at 15

2:06:30

to 16 feet in

2:06:32

height, the horns curling

2:06:34

outward, the massive clawed arms now

2:06:37

scraping across the ground as it

2:06:39

stands, the tail thrashing against the

2:06:41

machine, the cracked exterior of

2:06:43

it, and the rust and dust getting kicked off

2:06:45

at the impact. She steps

2:06:48

forward and picks up your woven form

2:06:50

and pulls you close to her face.

2:06:52

You can feel the warmth, the putrid

2:06:54

scent of the demon's breath across your

2:06:56

face. Now destroy it! And

2:07:01

she holds you right up to the edge. You watch as she

2:07:04

puts her hand towards the crystal. It

2:07:06

sparks, and she has to release you, and you barely catch

2:07:08

the edge of the platform. May

2:07:11

I have stealth over to the other

2:07:13

door during the last 15 seconds? That's

2:07:15

why. Could I have snuck over to

2:07:17

the door while Dominox was focused so

2:07:19

intently on me? Sure. And

2:07:22

open it? The

2:07:24

large double doors? Yeah. It

2:07:27

is deeply sealed. Make,

2:07:30

I don't know. Are

2:07:33

you trying to do this quietly? Yeah,

2:07:36

it was because I only

2:07:38

chanced it because the demon

2:07:40

was grabbing pop-pop. Yeah, so

2:07:43

if you can make a sleight of hand check for me to

2:07:45

try and check this. Now

2:07:47

mind you, I'll give you advantage on

2:07:49

this because the demon is distracted. I'll

2:07:53

reroll the one. The

2:08:07

demon, which had recoiled the tail that is

2:08:09

whipping around, has its own head at the

2:08:11

back of it, and the tail channels

2:08:15

on you as the door slightly,

2:08:20

dominoes, turns. You

2:08:22

lie! I'll

2:08:27

gust the door. You gust the

2:08:29

door? Yeah. The door

2:08:31

holds firm. Okay, okay, this is- I'm so

2:08:33

small! Wait, this is what I wanted to

2:08:35

try! I see Orym and I'm with you!

2:08:37

This is gonna be weird! I wanna cast

2:08:39

Animate Object on the door. Oh! Yes! It's

2:08:48

Dory! Dory!

2:08:54

Brother! No! I just come

2:08:56

to life at my command and I can

2:08:58

give them commands. This

2:09:01

would be considered- it's on

2:09:03

the cusp of huge, so

2:09:05

I'd say it's considered a

2:09:08

huge object. Yep, so

2:09:10

that's all I got. All right. So,

2:09:19

as dominoes is now turned and

2:09:21

the tail is whipping angrily, the

2:09:24

door in the middle of it, part of

2:09:26

the heavy reinforced beams split in

2:09:28

a singular eye, looks

2:09:31

around and looks down. Hello! What

2:09:39

level's that spell? Fifth level, so I gotta roll!

2:09:42

Oh! Oh, I didn't roll for my telekinesis,

2:09:44

did I? No, you did not roll

2:09:46

for me, please. Eleven? Okay, you're fine.

2:09:49

Shit, come on. But please roll for me.

2:09:55

Laura! This is what you- Oh my

2:09:58

god! I'm having so many dice! Could...

2:12:02

That's a sick shot. Yes,

2:12:04

Cam. No.

2:12:10

Oh, I don't like that. Has

2:12:12

that there? It's

2:12:14

Domino. It's just a

2:12:16

little girl. Oh no.

2:12:20

Can we go back to the creepy little

2:12:22

girl? It's Tygrove from Thundercats. In

2:12:24

which you are, Chetney, held by Dominoch

2:12:26

still. That's how big he is. Oh

2:12:29

no. Yeah.

2:12:33

We have Essek and we

2:12:35

have Tevin over there. Please

2:12:37

describe where on this chamber you see yourselves.

2:12:40

I currently have over in the back by

2:12:42

the door is you, Orem, as that was

2:12:44

where you were last. With

2:12:47

Lada, I think, damn it. Yeah.

2:12:52

I always knew I'd die by a

2:12:54

furry. Oh. Whoa!

2:12:58

That's so cool. Wow.

2:13:02

Imogen, where abouts do you see yourself? Well,

2:13:04

let's see. I was trying

2:13:06

to do the telekinesis thing. Erte, yeah. Right

2:13:10

around there. Seems about right.

2:13:14

And where is the door on the opposite side of the room? You

2:13:16

came in through this chamber here. This

2:13:18

is the double doors, the massive double doors. That's

2:13:20

all of the barn. One of which

2:13:22

one of them has been made alive.

2:13:26

Yeah. Fern,

2:13:28

where would you like to be? Okay.

2:13:32

I think, is Tevin over there? Tevin's right

2:13:35

here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm

2:13:38

going to go by him. All

2:13:41

right, you got it. Doyne

2:13:43

and Ashton. Where do you want to be? I

2:13:46

was up hovering by where Braeus had climbed

2:13:48

around the spire surrounding the...

2:13:51

Okay, so I would have been about like 10 feet back from there

2:13:53

because we had just had that talk. And I

2:13:55

was still... Whereabouts?

2:13:59

Is there a minute? Tarmony. I think right

2:14:03

to the right of Imogen, maybe?

2:14:05

Sure. What do you think? I

2:14:08

think that's great. And Dorian, you

2:14:10

said you were flying. Yeah. Let's

2:14:13

put you whereabouts. Chet told me

2:14:15

to. Near the rotating spires. Okay,

2:14:19

so you'd be right about there on the opposite end

2:14:21

of Domino's. Or I think I would be on the

2:14:23

other side of Imogen, just because. She'd be? Yeah,

2:14:26

like towards the giant clusterfuck of

2:14:28

demon. No, no, no. This

2:14:30

way. But next to Imogen still. Okay.

2:14:33

I would be a physical barrier. You got it? Well

2:14:35

then, I need you all to roll initiative, please. Oh.

2:14:38

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2:14:58

righty. So, 25 to 20. 20

2:15:06

at the door. 20 at the

2:15:08

door. Okay. Let's

2:15:11

see here. 20

2:15:15

to 15. Go

2:15:19

ahead, go ahead. Okay. Go ahead. I

2:15:26

rolled so poorly. Oh, that's right. We do have

2:15:28

Bless. Oh, we do? Oh, we do? Wait, do we

2:15:30

add that to Bless? Not to. Bless,

2:15:32

it's an ability check, so you add the

2:15:35

D4. Oh, okay, hold on. That changes things.

2:15:38

But only. You're

2:15:41

talking about Bless? Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's

2:15:44

just from checking. Oh, nevermind. Boo. Okay,

2:15:47

wait. Wait, and you can use it multiple times? Yeah,

2:15:49

anytime. So, 20 to

2:15:51

15. What

2:15:57

do we do at Jet? Oh,

2:15:59

13. All right,

2:16:01

13 over there. LAURA and SAM, MARISHA, and TALIESIN,

2:16:03

and 12. Okay.

2:16:06

SAM, MARISHA, and TALIESIN, and 12. I

2:16:08

got 14, I'm sorry. All right, so we got

2:16:11

Dorian. Three. All

2:16:13

right, 15 to ten. 12

2:16:16

for me. 12 for Fern. You

2:16:19

got 13, right? Me and I'm going to have

2:16:21

17. Oh,

2:16:25

so wait, you and Brace have 14? No,

2:16:27

we both had 13. I

2:16:30

beat her in rollies. Got you. All right,

2:16:32

so we have, and Fern, you were 13? I

2:16:35

was a 12. Oh, you're 12, sorry. I'm

2:16:37

also a 12, but ladies first. This

2:16:39

is the one I don't know, rollies. So,

2:16:42

and Laudin, you beat him in rollies? No,

2:16:45

you beat me in rollies. All right, got you. Okay,

2:16:49

so, okay, okay. Brace.

2:16:52

I miss this. Laudin. Yeah.

2:16:56

All right. All right. All right. And

2:17:02

then Chetney. Orym,

2:17:04

Dorian, Brace, Laudin, Fern,

2:17:06

Chet. Nine.

2:17:09

So yeah. Nine. Ashton.

2:17:14

Nine. Nine. Nine.

2:17:18

And... Seven.

2:17:21

All right. I rolled a one. Image it.

2:17:24

All righty. So that's four. I didn't get the

2:17:26

bless, it's four. That's, yeah, there you go. All

2:17:28

right. So Tevin actually is going

2:17:30

to go first. Go Tevin!

2:17:33

Tevin angrily blade out

2:17:36

now itself, like burning with

2:17:38

infernal rage, says, I

2:17:41

knew it from that moment we stepped in here.

2:17:43

It's hard to die! And it's going to go

2:17:46

ahead and charge forward, flying. Don't

2:17:49

rub it in our faces. Off to this side, cleaving

2:17:51

down with its blade, it's going to attack twice.

2:17:55

Yeah. Oh, that's gonna, the

2:17:57

first attack's gonna miss. Second

2:17:59

attack. It does hit, though. What? I'm just gonna

2:18:01

go ahead and divine smite. Yeah! That's

2:18:06

gonna be 68 damage on top of it.

2:18:08

Whoa! What? Which

2:18:10

will strike. How do you wanna do

2:18:12

this? So. So. So.

2:18:14

So. So. Already.

2:18:19

So, 10 slashes down angrily. 28

2:18:28

points of damage on that one. After

2:18:30

the 68. On

2:18:32

that strike angrily. Strikes

2:18:35

down. That's gonna finish his

2:18:37

go there. Now top

2:18:39

the next person to be Orem on initiative

2:18:41

count 20. Orem, what you got? Except that

2:18:43

I'm at a shut door with an eyeball

2:18:46

that I can't get open. Right?

2:18:48

At the moment, yeah. At the moment that I'm gonna

2:18:50

hold, and Laudna's with me. Dora is very friendly. Laudna's

2:18:52

a little bit out of the way, yeah. I

2:18:55

am going to hold my action and

2:18:58

attack anything I deem a threat once Laudna

2:19:00

gets her new friend to open up for us.

2:19:03

And that's it, that's all I can do. Okay, you got it. All

2:19:05

right, that brings us to the initiative count 20. The

2:19:08

first layer action. It's

2:19:12

going to use here is writhing

2:19:15

chains. I

2:19:18

need everyone to go ahead and roll a dexterity saving throw for

2:19:20

me. Ugh.

2:19:24

Oh. I

2:19:26

get. Do we

2:19:29

get an advantage, Dorian, from the previous thing that you

2:19:31

did? Not a dexterity

2:19:33

one. I get a dexterity. Is this like

2:19:35

a magical effect? Jesus,

2:19:38

why am I rolling like this? It is not a

2:19:41

spell effect. Okay, okay, okay. 19,

2:19:44

fail, all right. Oh.

2:19:47

So you, however, you're in its glass,

2:19:49

so chains spin around the ground and

2:19:51

strike up and wrap around you, and

2:19:53

you're just kind of held firm in

2:19:56

Dominox's grasp. So no major effect to you. What

2:19:59

you got, Laudna? and

2:22:02

that's going to take a multi-attack with its

2:22:04

claws. Yeah,

2:22:07

it's going to go for Ashton first. Cool.

2:22:10

Since it pulled you in, first claw attack

2:22:12

is going to be 26 to hit. Yeah,

2:22:15

it just hits. You take 35 points

2:22:18

of slashing damage. Oh. Ow.

2:22:23

And then its other attack's going to be against Imogen. Oh,

2:22:26

come on. That's going to be a 31 to hit.

2:22:30

Oh. Nope. That's

2:22:33

a 35 points of slashing damage. Oh,

2:22:35

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Can

2:22:37

I, before I hit that, before

2:22:40

I take that hit, can I use erratic defense?

2:22:42

Sure. All right. Eradic defense, not

2:22:44

erotic defense. Though I guess that is. I don't

2:22:46

have that anymore, but I do have erotic defense.

2:22:50

Given the nature of this current game. Yeah, no

2:22:52

joke. All

2:22:54

right. How close are we now to Braeus? Just

2:22:56

out of curiosity. How close

2:22:58

to what? How close are you to Braeus? You

2:23:00

to Braeus? Yeah. Am I far away?

2:23:02

I can't tell. You are about 30 feet from

2:23:05

him. Okay, okay. Okay, I have

2:23:07

resistance to that. So what was that, 32?

2:23:09

It was 35. 35, so that

2:23:11

would be now, I'm going to heal

2:23:14

myself. Yeah, what is the half of 35? 17,

2:23:17

hey, math, yeah. Math

2:23:20

audience. Open calculator. So I should be at 114 now.

2:23:23

Okay, and then I rolled space.

2:23:25

So a giant portal opens up.

2:23:29

Underneath our friend here, and

2:23:32

is teleported to an empty space of my choice within

2:23:34

30 feet of me. Where do you want to put

2:23:36

him? Ooh. Dominox? Dominox.

2:23:39

Yeah. Chetney.

2:23:44

Dominox vanishes in that space, and you

2:23:46

plummet to the ground. Taking

2:23:50

two points of bludgeoning damage. Reduced to one. Would

2:23:53

that have happened before he hit me? Yeah,

2:23:56

it would have happened before he hit me first. So

2:23:58

you didn't get hit. Maybe. Well,

2:24:00

because you thought of it afterward, we're going to go ahead and say that

2:24:02

he can be the first to pay back to it. It's only fair. That's

2:24:04

fair. I want to,

2:24:07

I think it'll be funny to see, I want to see what happens if

2:24:09

we just drop him on the crystal. Okay.

2:24:14

Dominox appears 30 feet in the air, falls towards

2:24:16

it, and right before slamming into it, gets

2:24:19

knocked off. The

2:24:22

power of the soul anchor that does not

2:24:24

allow Dominox to touch it and stop thrusting

2:24:26

him off the side and towards Fern. Fern, make a

2:24:28

dexterity saving throw for me, please. Yes. Okay,

2:24:33

okay. Oh,

2:24:36

I can still use Bless. I

2:24:40

mean, not that that's going to help at all. Six,

2:24:42

nine, eight, ten. Oh

2:24:44

my god. Oh shit. Shit.

2:24:49

You take five points of bludgeoning

2:24:52

damage as you are currently restrained,

2:24:54

being crushed underneath Dominox's form, falling

2:24:56

to the ground. A

2:24:58

grand demon just fell on your ass. LAUGHTER

2:25:08

All righty. Since it is still Dominox's

2:25:10

turn, Dominox is going to use movement to stand up,

2:25:14

kind of take the space. You're no longer pinned. It

2:25:18

is, however, going to use, at

2:25:20

the end of its attack there, it says two claw

2:25:22

attacks and then uses Mind Feast. Ew.

2:25:26

So. Ashton.

2:25:32

Yeah? Since you were previously affected

2:25:34

by its visions earlier, I need you to make

2:25:37

a wisdom saving throw again. Cool. And

2:25:40

that's with advantage, right? No,

2:25:43

okay. No. Let's

2:25:46

have the first good roll of the night. No, later,

2:25:48

ten. LAUGHTER You

2:25:51

take... Until you lose your... 14

2:25:56

points of psychic damage. Ow. And

2:25:58

you instinctively... run 30

2:26:00

feet this direction away from

2:26:02

the rest of your friends. Cool. That's

2:26:07

going to finish Domenox's turn. That brings us

2:26:09

to Dorian with Bryce

2:26:11

on deck. No, or

2:26:13

I'm scared because he's more extension. Oh, excuse me.

2:26:15

Oh. Oh! Oh!

2:26:18

Oh! Oh! Barb

2:26:20

with stage fright, Barb with stage fright. Got it, got it, got it.

2:26:23

Floating up there. I'm

2:26:26

going to fuck with that crystal. Do it. He

2:26:29

said do it, I'm going to do it. I am going to... A

2:26:32

crystal? Not the cr... What? Not

2:26:34

the crystal. Why? The spire's next

2:26:37

to the crystal. That's exactly what I meant.

2:26:39

I'm going to cast... But

2:26:43

I can't mess with the spire, is

2:26:45

that messing with the crystal? Yeah. I'm

2:26:51

going to cast Shatter right at the center spire.

2:26:53

Yeah. You are. Okay,

2:26:56

go ahead and roll damage. Okay, let's go. Let's

2:27:00

see, what is it so fast? Do it

2:27:02

faster. Oh, wow. Okay,

2:27:05

it would be one. Good,

2:27:07

seven, good, 10, good, 12, last one, 18. 18

2:27:13

points of damage. It

2:27:16

bursts out from inside and you watch as the four

2:27:18

spires break and go flying,

2:27:20

splintered in different directions. The

2:27:22

platform itself seems to crumble and crack to

2:27:24

the ground. The soul

2:27:26

anchor gets jettisoned through the air into

2:27:28

that far corner. Oh. Nice.

2:27:38

Oh. Good one. Okay. We

2:27:41

did it. Over by Essek, who's like, oh goodness. Oh.

2:27:46

It's the football game in Flash Gordon now, it's

2:27:48

just going to be... All

2:27:51

right. Do you want to move or stay put? I'm

2:27:53

going to move over toward Essek and inspire, but as

2:27:56

I do, I'm going to flutter five, bray Essek and

2:27:58

go, thank you. And I'm going to

2:28:00

give... with him, a bardic inspiration for my bonus. Yeah,

2:28:02

yeah, yeah. It's

2:28:04

our flowing locks intertwined. LAUGHTER

2:28:10

Okay, so did you want to move somewhere specifically, or do

2:28:13

you want to just stay in your brace? No,

2:28:16

I want to go over closer toward the crystal tour by

2:28:18

like Essek. Over here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can fly

2:28:20

over 30 feet. Yep. That'll get you about

2:28:22

there. Thank you. That's kind of gliding from the air. Great,

2:28:24

that finishes Dorian's go. At the end of your turn, Dominox

2:28:27

is going to go ahead and use two legendary actions.

2:28:31

Two? After

2:28:33

getting up, looks over in the direction of Tevin,

2:28:35

who had carved that giant gash into its chest

2:28:37

and goes, no, back

2:28:40

to where you came from. He's going

2:28:42

to attempt to banish

2:28:44

Tevin. Counter spell!

2:28:48

Oh, oh, oh! Rage

2:28:53

on counter spell at 60 feet? Yeah,

2:28:55

come on. He's got the ruler. Aslan

2:29:01

60 feet, though. Yes! Though

2:29:05

where you got pulled, I don't

2:29:07

know if you have line of sight on him, because

2:29:10

you're behind the engine over here. I'll

2:29:13

tell you what, it's on the cusp. Go ahead

2:29:15

and roll a perception check for me. Okay, okay, okay,

2:29:17

okay. If it's an 11 plus, you

2:29:21

see him out of the corner to counter spell. Yep,

2:29:23

yep, yep, yep, yep, go, go, go, go! Go!

2:29:29

Just enough, that's some shit,

2:29:31

14. Yeah! Is

2:29:35

that right? That'll do

2:29:37

it. 13, 13, it doesn't matter,

2:29:39

it makes it! So

2:29:41

as Dominochs attempts to unravel the magic that has allowed

2:29:44

Tevin to be here, Tevin, you can see wings in

2:29:46

front to try and guard it from where this is.

2:29:49

You curve around the corner and snuff the magic from

2:29:51

the air, and the banishment spell is scattered into nothing.

2:29:58

Brace, you're up with Laudan on deck. open

2:34:01

that I cast the animated objects on. MATT and LAURA and SAM

2:34:05

and MATT and MATT and

2:34:07

SAM and MATT and LAURA are

2:34:09

in the process. This is the

2:34:11

true D&D experience. The

2:34:13

door does slam open at that

2:34:16

point, and now you can see

2:34:18

it kind of, you have

2:34:22

an open pathway there into what looks to be

2:34:24

a long brass hallway. A

2:34:27

brass hallway? Yeah. And escape route. I

2:34:30

look at Orym. Are we doing

2:34:32

this? This?

2:34:37

Well, you're not going alone. Dominoch's didn't want us

2:34:39

in here. Fuck

2:34:41

it, let's go. All right, let's go. I

2:34:48

use the rest of my movement to

2:34:51

move in. Okay.

2:34:58

Oh boy. You move past

2:35:01

Orym, and you can

2:35:03

see this faintest bit of light from

2:35:05

down the brass hallway, and you see

2:35:08

the shape of a figure that's now

2:35:10

blocking it. There is somebody in this

2:35:12

hallway. Oh shit, oh shit, oh

2:35:14

shit. Is it? Solo

2:35:16

round. Oh no. Does

2:35:21

the silhouette resemble

2:35:24

lunacy? Roll a perception check for me. Oh

2:35:26

no, oh no! 17.

2:35:34

You see a lithe figure in

2:35:36

long blue robes, platinum

2:35:42

long hair, and

2:35:45

a withered black hand that has

2:35:47

gold caps along the fingers, who

2:35:51

looks like they're rushing in your direction. And

2:35:53

as soon as you come through, they stop

2:35:55

and go, what

2:35:58

have you done? What are you doing? We have to stop. But

2:36:00

now. Mm,

2:36:03

but... LAUGHTER

2:36:07

I... Dominoch's

2:36:10

the big demon? Dominoch's the big demon? You

2:36:12

mean that? I can hear your battle

2:36:14

from here, yes. Do not let it free. I'll

2:36:18

take care of it. And... He

2:36:22

just kind of gave

2:36:24

you info and is now just focusing past to

2:36:26

continue to move on. Can I get a moment?

2:36:29

Yeah. I turn

2:36:31

around. Can I see Imogen? Can

2:36:33

I probably get in anyone's head? From

2:36:37

where you are in this hallway, you can not see

2:36:39

Imogen. Storm, huh? I

2:36:42

then just scream, let him

2:36:44

out! Not

2:36:50

safe. You shout that? Yeah. Ugh!

2:36:54

Ew! Ugh,

2:36:56

I don't know. I don't fucking

2:36:58

hate him! The minute

2:37:01

you shout, let him out, Tevin goes,

2:37:04

you will do no such thing. Looks

2:37:06

to you, Fearne. They will do

2:37:08

no such thing. Ugh! Oh,

2:37:14

this is layered. You

2:37:18

okay? I think that's it. All

2:37:20

right, finishing Logmas, go. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

2:37:22

I, shit, tits, bonus action,

2:37:25

former dread. Yeah!

2:37:30

As the darkened collar climbs up your neck and the

2:37:32

black energy begins to swirl around your shoulders, you can

2:37:34

go ahead and roll for your temporary hit points, and

2:37:36

that'll bring us to Fearne's turn with Chetney on deck.

2:37:40

Hi, okay. So

2:37:42

am I still

2:37:45

chained up or underneath? No, I just dragged

2:37:47

you near, and now that Dominox has shifted over

2:37:49

to that side, you're still

2:37:51

on the ground, but you're no longer restrained. Okay.

2:37:54

I am going to wild shape

2:37:56

into a little mint

2:37:58

green wombat. All right.

2:38:07

I don't have a wombat, but I

2:38:09

have a little spectral healing beast here

2:38:11

I'll use for that. All

2:38:15

righty, you shift into this

2:38:17

little wombat. Of course, it's a

2:38:19

round boy. I'm

2:38:23

pretty sure I can make it with my 35

2:38:25

feet of movement to the crystal. And

2:38:29

I'm going to put it in my marsupial patch. Okay.

2:38:41

So you're moving out of Dominoch's melee range. So

2:38:45

as you rush over towards it, Dominoch is going to take a

2:38:47

swing at you. Not even

2:38:49

the claw, the massive tail with the head at the end

2:38:51

of it is going to swing by to try and bite

2:38:53

at you. You

2:38:57

rolled really low. As a natural one. So

2:39:05

that's good. That's interesting. Okay.

2:39:08

So you rush over and you grab the crystal. Yeah.

2:39:11

And what? My little wombat

2:39:13

hands. And I take the crystal

2:39:15

and I look around and I

2:39:17

shove it in my marsupial pouch. Okay. It

2:39:20

is in your pouch. Not

2:39:23

to brag. It's going to be your action. Okay.

2:39:26

How many hit points does your marsupial have? That

2:39:30

is such a good question. Let

2:39:32

me look up what might be similar to a wombat.

2:39:34

What would be similar to a wombat? Like a

2:39:36

badger. I mean, the cat is a d4. I

2:39:38

know. Let's see if I chance it. Well,

2:39:41

you can look it up and keep that in mind. Okay. Because

2:39:43

I think that's your turn. Okay. Chutney,

2:39:45

you're up. Oh, fuck. Okay. I'm

2:39:48

going to pick myself up and run towards Dominoch's.

2:39:53

I'm looking a line towards him and just as

2:39:55

soon as I use most of my 40 feet,

2:39:57

I'm going to turn so I'm running in diagonal

2:39:59

towards. where the crystal was, and I'm

2:40:02

going to use my bonus action to

2:40:04

cast Misty Step and appear in the

2:40:06

corner of the room right where the

2:40:08

crystal was now. Right, you approach there,

2:40:10

and the crystal is gone, and in

2:40:13

its place, you see a tiny little

2:40:15

rotund wombat. What

2:40:18

the fuck is this? Give

2:40:21

me the crystal! Wait,

2:40:24

what do you see that it's glowing

2:40:26

in my tum-tums? You

2:40:30

would actually, you glance down and you see this, like, in

2:40:33

the flesh pouch, there's this dull purple

2:40:35

kind of light glow that's pulsing. Give

2:40:38

it to me! All

2:40:43

right, I'll, like, reach into my pouch and I'll

2:40:45

give it to Chet. Can I take

2:40:47

the crystal with my action? Can

2:40:50

I stick it in the bag of holding? Yes,

2:40:52

you can. Shoot!

2:40:56

Okay. Look

2:40:58

who's got the hook in now, bitch! That's

2:41:03

my turn. All right. I give him a

2:41:05

high five. The

2:41:08

minute you put it in the bag of holding, Dominox,

2:41:10

which has been battling, goes, looks

2:41:14

over your direction. I'll

2:41:16

eat everything that's ever mattered to

2:41:18

you! We

2:41:21

had a deal! That's

2:41:25

going to finish your turn. Essek

2:41:40

is going to stand there, see

2:41:42

this happening, go, I certainly hope you know

2:41:44

what you're doing. Thinking

2:41:49

it's going to strafe off, floating off

2:41:51

this direction, off to the side of this

2:41:53

chamber, above the nearby ceiling glyph, and

2:41:55

it's going to pull its arms around.

2:41:59

I don't want to waste the time. powerful stuff yet, and

2:42:01

it's going to go ahead and pull the energy

2:42:03

in where it begins to glisten crackle with purple-black

2:42:05

energy and releases a

2:42:08

six-double lightning bolt right across the chamber

2:42:11

through Dominochs. Dominochs,

2:42:15

natural five fails. No,

2:42:18

it's going to save that legendary resistance. So

2:42:21

it takes full damage on that, which

2:42:24

is going to be... Not

2:42:33

bad. 38 points

2:42:36

of lightning damage. halved

2:42:39

because it has resistance to lightning. So

2:42:42

still 19 points of lightning damage as it strikes

2:42:44

through and gets absorbed. It's like, right,

2:42:47

demon. Vang's

2:42:49

eye, he gets to you. That's

2:42:53

going to finish his go. That

2:42:55

brings us to Ashton with Imogen on

2:42:57

deck. Okay, well, let's rage and find

2:42:59

out what it is I'm going to

2:43:01

be doing, because I don't know. Am

2:43:06

I afraid, or did I just run in a

2:43:08

direction? Shit. You

2:43:10

just ran in the direction. You're now like 10 feet

2:43:12

away from him. Okay, I

2:43:16

start to shift into that black

2:43:18

and white silver tone. I start

2:43:20

to get a little heavy and drop into the

2:43:22

ground. God,

2:43:26

and I am going to,

2:43:29

seeing what's happening right here, I

2:43:33

am just going to start booking

2:43:35

towards the exit,

2:43:39

I think, since we seem to be playing towards

2:43:42

the door, our happy friend

2:43:44

door. So

2:43:47

that's 40 feet. 530,

2:43:49

3540 feet. Am I

2:43:51

anywhere near the machinery or no? Over

2:43:54

here, there's quite a bit of machinery over here. By

2:43:57

the way, you do leave Dominoch's attack range. Do

2:44:00

I end this attack range? You thought

2:44:02

you were 15 feet away, yeah. If you want to try

2:44:04

and arc around, you can't. I'll try and arc around, yeah.

2:44:06

So that'll reduce your movement there instead, to be

2:44:09

over here, you'll get about there. Are we trying

2:44:11

to break this thing on the way out or

2:44:13

no? There.

2:44:16

I'm gonna spend the rest of my action,

2:44:20

I'm gonna just do a charge attack, I'm

2:44:22

just gonna run and just shoulder

2:44:25

check the machine.

2:44:27

The engine? Yeah. Sure. Fuck it. You

2:44:32

charge upward, hammer at the side, heavy

2:44:34

attack, go ahead and roll. It's

2:44:39

a charge attack, oh God, I thank God,

2:44:41

because I'm rolling bad. 19

2:44:46

definitely hits that machine. You say that. It's

2:44:49

been that night. All

2:44:51

right, that's a, oh

2:44:53

my God. I can actually re-roll that, thank

2:44:55

God for feats. I

2:44:58

see something, nine, that's

2:45:00

21 points of damage. 21

2:45:03

points of damage? Mm-hmm. And

2:45:06

you are, okay, so yeah, that's

2:45:08

a heavy crack. You hit the side of the device,

2:45:10

as you slam it, these cracks shoot

2:45:12

around the side, and you can see it

2:45:15

kind of shifts a little bit to one

2:45:17

side. More energy begins to shoot around it,

2:45:19

and Domino's kind of like

2:45:21

shifts over, looking curiously at the damage you're dealing to

2:45:23

it. Does Domino seem to have

2:45:25

an opinion?

2:45:29

Roll an insight check. Does

2:45:32

he have an opinion? I'm

2:45:35

big on crypto. You never know. Yeah,

2:45:41

he would. Is he snarling, is he?

2:45:45

Snarling and currently more focused on

2:45:47

the direction of the soul

2:45:50

anchor that has now vanished from sight at the

2:45:52

moment, unshattered, undestroyed, and

2:45:54

just takes notice. That's

2:45:57

all, that's all you pick up. That's your first.

2:45:59

first attack? Oh yeah, that's

2:46:02

right, I get two. You get two, buddy? Well, yeah, I

2:46:04

was gonna say, no, because I took the dash attack, which

2:46:06

is, is that just one attack? Yeah,

2:46:08

that was, as far as the charging attack. Charging attack, okay, so

2:46:11

I think I just get, oh, I do get two there, okay.

2:46:14

I haven't charged in ages, I don't remember how it works.

2:46:18

Yay, 2023, thank God, that's a roll. Okay.

2:46:23

And that's, I can reroll that. Oh,

2:46:26

God. 16

2:46:29

points of damage. 16 points of damage,

2:46:31

oh my God, that's embarrassing. Another

2:46:34

heavy slam, and you can see that entire side of the

2:46:36

machine now cracks, parts

2:46:38

of metal begin to bend inward and fall

2:46:40

off, and on the inside you can see

2:46:42

these masses of copper wiring that are giving

2:46:46

off energy, the hum has gotten louder, and

2:46:48

you can feel even just the proximity of

2:46:50

that much arcane energy swirling through, the side

2:46:52

of your head is almost reacting within

2:46:55

the proximity of it, like glowing a

2:46:57

similar greenish energy. Does

2:47:00

that finish your turn? Yep, that finishes the

2:47:02

turn. Imogen, you're up. Okay, can I

2:47:04

see Chet from where I am? Yeah,

2:47:06

at the end of his turn, actually, the

2:47:08

last legendary action for Dominox, who's furious at

2:47:10

this point, is going to go ahead and

2:47:12

use a chain spear against

2:47:15

you, Ashton. Yeah. Chainbringer.

2:47:19

That's real bad, that's

2:47:21

a 14 to hit. Oh. No.

2:47:26

Chain spear goes wide, and you see

2:47:28

it coming and just. Oh. Oof.

2:47:38

All righty, so Imogen, you're up, sorry. Okay, can

2:47:40

I see Chet? You

2:47:42

see Chet across the way, through Dominox's legs

2:47:44

on the opposite corner. Does he look like he'd be about

2:47:46

60 feet from me? I can't tell. He looks like he's what?

2:47:49

I can't see the map, is he about 60 feet from me? It's

2:47:51

pretty close, you could try and take a guess. It

2:47:54

could be, it's on the cusp. I'll step forward,

2:47:57

like 10 feet, if it'll get me closer. All right, this'll put you

2:47:59

in. and melee with Dominoch, just so you know. But

2:48:03

you're pretty confident he's now definitely within 60

2:48:06

feet. Okay, if I saw him, then

2:48:08

I saw what happened. I'm going to use Telekinesis

2:48:12

on Chet. Okay.

2:48:15

And I'm going to pick him up and chuck

2:48:17

him towards the door that opened. LAUGHTER

2:48:22

LAUGHTER There's

2:48:28

something so full circle about this. LAUGHTER

2:48:31

Shit. All right, so you're going to resist?

2:48:33

No! All right. So

2:48:36

you go ahead and pick up Chetney and

2:48:38

like Telekinesis Fastball Special him at an arc

2:48:40

across the chamber. Mmm. LAUGHTER

2:48:48

Just barreling through the door. LAUGHTER Logna,

2:48:51

as you're standing there, taking on your form of

2:48:53

dread, you see Ludinus is now gliding in the

2:48:55

air, just

2:48:57

almost full-on super saiyan floating and

2:49:00

hitting that direction as Chetney, like, eeeeeeeeaaaah! LAUGHTER

2:49:06

LODNA! You

2:49:09

hear Ludinus go, my

2:49:11

goodness. LAUGHTER Make

2:49:14

an attack roll. Really? Yeah. Oh!

2:49:18

Oh my god, losing. First

2:49:20

blood, bitch. Come on, come on. What

2:49:22

are the camps? It sucks. Plus... It's

2:49:27

an 11. Oh. Plus

2:49:32

a d4. Plus... Plus

2:49:36

four! Still misses. LAUGHTER

2:49:39

But good looking out. So as you come arcing

2:49:41

toward, and you go past

2:49:43

the machine in towards the opening, and you have

2:49:45

just a split second before you see

2:49:47

the face of Ludinus De Lefe looking at you, with

2:49:50

frustration and a rapid sigh, he

2:49:56

just puts a hand up, and a shield

2:49:58

reflects you out. and you

2:50:00

bounce and ping pong down

2:50:03

the hall like a bowling

2:50:05

bumper lane before sliding down.

2:50:09

Past Ludinus, who's now almost up to where

2:50:11

Lauda is, and you're about 30 feet

2:50:13

down that way. As you do, the rest

2:50:16

of you notice Dominochs gets

2:50:18

yanked along. Oh!

2:50:20

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

2:50:24

No! I'm like, oh, you're

2:50:26

tattered. This is going to be amazing.

2:50:28

Oh, shit. Braeus,

2:50:32

I need you to make a dexterity saving

2:50:34

throw as Dominochs being pulled into you. You

2:50:42

get knocked prone and

2:50:44

off to the side there. All righty.

2:50:47

Ow. That finishes, that's your throw.

2:50:49

Okay. You

2:50:51

are no longer in melee with Dominochs. I'm

2:50:54

not. Actually, no, you still are, unfortunately,

2:50:56

sorry. Okay. I'm

2:51:01

going to bonus action

2:51:04

Misty Step. Where? Oh,

2:51:08

God, he's going down. That's the thing, you just cast Tell Canestra, you

2:51:10

still had it up, right? I still had it up. Yeah, so you're

2:51:12

fine. That was 10 minutes, baby. Yeah. I'm

2:51:15

gonna Misty Step back. Back

2:51:17

this way? Yeah. All right. You

2:51:20

got it. Unless like, yeah,

2:51:22

that's what I'm gonna do. Oh, because he

2:51:24

can't. What, unless what? Oh! I

2:51:26

don't know, maybe he can only get, he can only be within

2:51:28

a certain amount of space of the gem. So

2:51:30

that means he wouldn't be able to get back to the corner. That's

2:51:32

how he can't leave the room. Oh,

2:51:35

this is fun. All righty. That

2:51:37

finish your go? Uh-huh. All right. Tevin.

2:51:40

Tevin's gonna go, Tevin's gonna charge in. Ha

2:51:42

ha ha ha, you're in the back place now,

2:51:44

beast. He's gonna go ahead and fly up into

2:51:46

our wings. Whoof, whoof, blade comes

2:51:49

down towards it. That's gonna

2:51:51

be, that's cocked. Blah,

2:51:53

blah, blah. That hits.

2:51:56

And second strike, oh, even better. So

2:51:59

Tevin swings down. two massive strikes

2:52:01

with his blade upon Dominox. That

2:52:04

chain's out of the way. I'll put him there, that's fine. We know what that

2:52:06

is. Just going to

2:52:08

go ahead and full on smite this motherfucker

2:52:10

again. For

2:52:14

another, that's not a great damage roll. Aw.

2:52:21

You can do it. That's 22 points of

2:52:24

damage on that one, but the second strike hits. That's

2:52:27

better, that's much better. Oh my god,

2:52:29

okay. That's

2:52:35

36 points of damage on the

2:52:37

second strike. That's almost 60 points of damage in

2:52:39

one round. You're seeing

2:52:42

Dominox, who already, while

2:52:44

it first looked strong

2:52:46

in the moment, but was withered with much

2:52:48

hunger in trying to recover strength once lost,

2:52:50

has now taken some heavy hits and is

2:52:53

showing wear and tear. Especially

2:52:56

after being completely

2:52:58

slammed on by a handful of

2:53:00

individuals. That's going to

2:53:03

finish Tevin's turn. That brings us to the

2:53:05

top of 20, Orymure up, and

2:53:07

it's the later action. Fuck, what the hell is the plan?

2:53:10

Bluteness has probably made a snow, I can't think

2:53:12

straight. And

2:53:15

I down a potion of speed that I've been

2:53:17

carrying forever. And

2:53:21

I do a 180 and fucking tear ass back towards the demon. 60

2:53:27

feet. Oh

2:53:30

yeah, you get there easy. You

2:53:32

just, like the tiniest little

2:53:34

green-colored song the Hedgehog Blur just,

2:53:36

boom, over. What

2:53:39

is the fucking plan? That

2:53:44

is a 24 to hit, 22 to hit. 22

2:53:49

hits. Okay. Let's

2:53:56

make it a goading attack, like that's going to work.

2:53:59

Five, six, seven, 11. On Dominox?

2:54:02

Total of 20. 20 just

2:54:04

hits. Oh, 20

2:54:06

damage. I already hit. It's a

2:54:08

20 for damage, and it has to beat an 18,

2:54:10

which it's going to. Got you, all right, so

2:54:12

it has 20 damage on him, and that's

2:54:15

gonna be six,

2:54:18

17. Fail.

2:54:20

Fail, so. So all attacks

2:54:22

that aren't you have disadvantage. Yeah, I left up and

2:54:24

stabbed him right in the crotch. Here, let's keep going.

2:54:27

26 to hit. 26 hits. We're

2:54:31

just gonna go quick here, so this is, that

2:54:34

is nine

2:54:37

points of damage. Next

2:54:39

one is a 17. Probably

2:54:42

misses. 17 does miss,

2:54:44

yeah. Okay, hasted action, here we go again. Let's

2:54:46

go. 18

2:54:49

misses, right? Yeah,

2:54:51

unfortunately. 19

2:54:54

misses. Yes. Shit.

2:54:58

13 misses. Yeah.

2:55:01

Action surge. Yeah. Yeah.

2:55:04

Go, go. 28,

2:55:06

let's make it a tripping attack, because that's dumb.

2:55:08

Sure. That

2:55:11

is 19

2:55:14

points of damage, and it has to beat an 18 strength.

2:55:18

Okay, it does. It's a little beefy. Beat

2:55:20

it. Natural one, I'll reroll that. Come on.

2:55:23

Natural, whoa! Oh! Orem,

2:55:29

describe to me how this murderous frenzy comes

2:55:31

to an abrupt and sudden end. Oh

2:55:34

my gosh, that ends, I don't get my final

2:55:36

ninth attack? No, you'll get the attack, but I

2:55:38

wanna end up in the one, because it's funny.

2:55:41

Oh my god, I'm moving too fast, I'm highly

2:55:43

caffeinated, and I'm like a hummingbird, and I'm just

2:55:45

buzzing around his fucking ankle, slashing and slashing and

2:55:47

slashing, and I skim past, I don't hit anything,

2:55:49

and I slam into a wall, and I take

2:55:52

six points of bludgeoning damage. I

2:55:55

love it. You can still roll your ninth attack as

2:55:57

part of that full resale. I shake it off, and I

2:55:59

don't remember. over what it was, and now it is a 27. That

2:56:02

does hit. Let's make it a tripping attack.

2:56:04

All righty. Please fall unfurn.

2:56:10

21 points of damage, it has to beat 18

2:56:12

with strength. 27, it rolled just a little higher

2:56:14

than last time. But good round. You

2:56:16

can now see like. Yeah. Hell

2:56:22

yeah. All these strikes and cuts,

2:56:24

you watch as this like dark demon blood spills out

2:56:26

and as it hits the ground, the blood turns into

2:56:28

like a pile of chains. And now

2:56:30

it looks like the streaks of blood almost have links within

2:56:32

them, like it's bleeding the chains out of its body. I

2:56:35

move so fast, I broke my D&D Beyond

2:56:37

page. Orem is wandering around aimlessly, like he

2:56:39

just spun around a baseball bat 50 times

2:56:41

really fast. Got

2:56:43

a lag spike and is just running in the corner now. That's

2:56:46

the end of my turn. All right,

2:56:48

that finishes Orem's go. We're now at the top. With

2:56:51

that, the lair action is going to be

2:56:53

imprisoned rage. So all of Dominok's attacks have

2:56:55

disadvantage, but they deal an additional 15 points

2:56:57

of damage each. Dominok's

2:57:01

furious is

2:57:04

going to unload on you, Orem. So

2:57:07

that's going to be two claw attacks on you. They have disadvantage

2:57:09

though, but you are, yeah. Disadvantage on

2:57:11

everyone but me. Correct, but he has disadvantage because

2:57:13

of the lair action. So

2:57:15

that's going to be disadvantage 22.

2:57:20

Hits. Okay. And

2:57:22

the second strike, the disadvantage. Oh,

2:57:26

thank god, that would have been a natural 20, but he had disadvantage. It's

2:57:28

still going to be 24 to hit. So both hit you.

2:57:32

So she sits here. Okay.

2:57:35

Sorry. All right. So these are claw.

2:57:38

These are nasty. All righty. 46

2:57:50

points of slashing damage on the first hit.

2:57:52

Oh, okay. Some

2:58:00

motherfucking... He's

2:58:04

on the other side of the engine. Oh

2:58:06

my god. 52 points of slashing damage on the second. Oh

2:58:09

my god! Not yet,

2:58:11

not yet, not yet, not yet. And then he's going to go ahead

2:58:13

and use Mind Feast. Mind

2:58:15

Feast is going to be, once

2:58:17

again, on you, Ashton, since

2:58:20

you're the one who seems to have a best

2:58:22

influence that it affected earlier, so go

2:58:24

make a wisdom saving throw for me. Yeah.

2:58:31

Hey, first good roll of quite a while. Uh, so

2:58:33

you say that's 18? Unfortunately,

2:58:36

still failed. What the living... Okay. It's

2:58:39

a great demon, bro. That's not so great. Brand

2:58:42

demon. You get moved up towards it. How

2:58:46

do I get moved up towards it? You take...

2:58:49

Wait, wait, wait. How do I get moved

2:58:51

up towards it? How

2:58:53

does he move me? Do I just walk

2:58:55

up? You just walk around. Like your brain all of

2:58:57

a sudden fills with an immediate strike. You take 14

2:59:01

points of psychic damage and walk what you think is

2:59:03

the direction you're meaning to. Your

2:59:05

feet just move on their own and you find yourself moving towards

2:59:07

him. And as you step up next to

2:59:09

him, there's a pulse of energy, and he heals a

2:59:12

little bit. Oh no! All

2:59:16

righty. That's going to finish Dominox's

2:59:19

go, but he gets back all his

2:59:21

legendary actions. It's

2:59:24

now Ludinus' turn. Oh. Let's

2:59:27

go, Snowman. Ludinus

2:59:30

is going to go ahead and fly past you,

2:59:32

Laudna. Do you take an attack of opportunity? Let's

2:59:39

have them both attacking us. Kaiju

2:59:44

fight. Kaiju fight. Yeah.

2:59:48

No. I'm going to say no. I

2:59:50

don't have anything that's going to do anything, and I don't want to reveal my

2:59:52

hand that I'm against Ludinus right now. So no, I'm going to let him go.

2:59:56

Flies into the chamber and gets a point

2:59:58

of perspective, of height.