Episode 85: Facing The Thunder God

Transcript

Cold Open: Condoms And Chaos

SPEAKER_01 0:28

That's what it looks like.

SPEAKER_03 0:29

That's what the condoms like.

SPEAKER_04 0:31

I'm imagining you just wearing a condom on your dick.

SPEAKER_03 0:35

Nothing on the conjustin comes out of the bathroom, it's just wrapped around his balls, nothing on the actual dick itself. It's to catch the cum. Yeah. Am I wearing it right?

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Oh man.

Meet The Party And New Campaign News

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Oh yeah. Okay. Welcome to a DD story. I am Brandon the Irish Wookiee and with me today is Bill. Hello, I am Bill.

SPEAKER_05 1:09

I play Glenn, the half-elf, rogue, swashbuckler. And Brandon.

SPEAKER_04 1:15

Hey Brandon. Hello. Hey, I play Nines, the uh male high elf monk level 13 uh character who is my ultra ego. I mean, you're not wrong. And Maddie.

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Hey Brandon.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

The shitty part is he's just gonna truncate the silence and all that's gonna go away, so it sounds like you immediately.

SPEAKER_04 1:40

I don't know that I've ever heard Maddie say hey, Brandon.

SPEAKER_03 1:42

He's never has, and it threw me off. That's Justin's thing. Hello, Maddie.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the other Brandon.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Oh, god damn it. Hey, what's up, bro?

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Yo, everybody, I'm Maddie. I play Montoya Anigo, the Arctic Deboxy Ranger. I think you guys are doomed no matter which one answered.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

I know. And Justin. Hi, Brandon.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Hello. Hi, everybody. Um Justin. I'm playing Sam Mooresbound, the Lady Half Work Barbarian. Uh Storm Soul. Storm Soul Barbarian.

Community Games And Draw Steel Overview

SPEAKER_03 2:14

I want to say thank you to everybody for following us like this, giving us ideas. It means a lot to us. Make sure you give us uh a comment or a like on Facebook at facebook.com slash a dndstory. Retweet us on Twitter or EX at ad story2. Follow us on Instagram at Instagram.com slash ad story. And finally, check us out on our newest platform that we just joined. Uh blue sky at BSKY.app at a dnd story. A couple quick announcements. Uh we are just starting a new campaign uh called Oathbreaker. So you're gonna start seeing those released pretty soon. It'll be under Oathbreaker, a D D story. So keep an eye for that, and we will post those on our social media, um, all of our social media platforms as well, so you can find it there. And I also want to give a quick shout out to Brandon here, um, because he just started a few uh a community game for drawsteel and is a new tabletop. Actually, Brand, if you want to give a quick two-minute spirit. Oh my god, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_04 3:12

There you go. Uh so uh Draw Steel is the new tabletop RPG from MCDM. Uh Matt Coville does a YouTube series called Running the Game, uh, that a lot of people, including myself, have used to get into tabletop RPGs like uh DD. And uh for a lot of very interesting reasons over the last several years, they decided to create their own RPG rather than continuing to create content for uh DD. And so yeah, there is an entire uh virtual tabletop program where you can build and edit the map while the players are playing, like live in real time, and all of the rules or most of the rules at this point are automated, and uh it it plays a lot like a board game for the combat. It's pretty quick, it's fun. But it is a uh a cinematic heroic fantasy role-playing game uh where we tell a story together and we learn a new system, and it'll be fun.

Recap: Crystals, Talos Lore, And Visions

SPEAKER_03 4:19

Yeah, so kind of what this whole thing started off is just learning the system together as a team. So um Brandon runs those every Saturday night, correct? Saturday night, uh yeah, Saturday night Saturday night at about 9 p.m. Eastern time. Uh, so it will be down in the community games channel of our uh Discord server. Again, we will post those on a Discord or a social media uh bomb that we put out on all of our platforms just so you can uh get all that information. Go check it out. I played it once with him so far. Uh it's got a lot of cool lore to it, a lot of cool characters, and uh the combat system is pretty neat. It's it's definitely different than DD. Um so yeah. And with that, we are going to get into the game itself. This is uh a DD story.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

Yeah. The one we're here for. Uh so we are gonna get into a DD story before uh the Battle of Talos. That sounds important. That is very important.

SPEAKER_05 5:26

I have a question.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

What's up?

SPEAKER_05 5:29

Is the uh Oathbreaker gonna come out before this episode actually airs?

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Yes. Okay. But I've also put it in the last two edits that we've gotten, so we both are oath.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Or the listeners should already know about it. The players also know about it.

SPEAKER_00 5:49

Hopefully. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

Hopefully we notice we surprise players.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

Is there a way to make- I recorded an episode last week?

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Is there a way to make that not confusing for anybody who's trying to follow the storyline of one or the other? If like they're switching the content or the meat, like the storylines in like the same podcast download?

SPEAKER_04 6:12

Like different no, they're different stories altogether.

SPEAKER_05 6:16

So I think that's something that should also be there are no carryover characters, or at least that we're not playing any characters that are the same.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Sorry, I think I asked my question before. I haven't looked to see where to specifically download Oathbreaker. Is Oathbreaker gonna be in the same listing as this campaign we're playing right now?

SPEAKER_03 6:34

No, it's going to be on a different listing on all of our uh podcast platforms. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Sorry, that's what I was trying to get to. That makes more sense. I'm totally hundred percent on board with double releasing now.

SPEAKER_03 6:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 6:46

Noise. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 6:47

Alright. So let's roll for some recap. Everybody except for Brandon.

SPEAKER_04 6:53

Can I roll anyway? Just because on these fools? Sure with advantage, because my hand. Oh now you still don't get to do it. Yeah, I just wanted to stunt. I'm just a hater.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

I thought I was gonna do it with a four, but Justin had to one up me. So it seemed pretty funny.

SPEAKER_05 7:16

I rolled my dice and it stayed up in the top right hand corner where it shows everybody else's roles, I'm like, I don't know what anybody's rolling.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

Alright. It looks like that's uh that's you, Justin, with uh uh a big one. It's voting well for you already.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

But Bill got two ones.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

I did. Yes, he got double the ones that you did. Uh okay. Do it for the advan Do it for the inspiration.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

For the inspiration. I don't need inspiration, Brandon. I can see you right now. That's enough for me. Hey too bad your right hand's broken.

SPEAKER_04 7:54

You know what, buddy? You can borrow my right hand.

SPEAKER_01 7:56

I only use these two fingers, anyways.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

This podcast is rated inframature.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

That's why it's rated inframature. You should be rated I for immature. How did my fingers get inside of me?

SPEAKER_04 8:16

If you soak the cast, could you like put your dick in there? Like just that work? Like like dock yourself.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Yeah, could you? When I get it off, I'll try it, but I was specifically told not to.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Hey, in case anybody's unclear, I broke my hand.

Enter Talos: The Avatar Appears

SPEAKER_01 8:36

My bad. Okay. So we heard a voice from the crystal that was floating in the middle of this chamber. Uh I was asking for us to find the other crystals in order to restore the magical order. Um. And then the earth near the dragon skeleton where we had finished combat previously, uh, opened up into a stairway. And we kind of just went down. Nope, actually, that's not true. Sorry, Nines understood a language that we were hearing. Uh and the language said something that was long. I don't know if I'll say the whole thing. Effectively collect the powers again and restore me. Because I need you. You're my only hope, is what it said. Yes. Uh TLDR, I guess. Uh we learned about this god named Talos. Um interesting, Bill's book of deities was missing that page. Um he's basically the Odin of this universe, a big burly, one-eyed spear-wielding, lightning throwing, violent, angry, short-tempered, grumpy man. Um, who fought against Mistra. And because they were they were a thing and then ended not well. We've all been there. Almost nobody likes him. And his people are zealots and crazy warlike. Bad for me.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

Wait, almost nobody likes him except for all the zealots?

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Yeah, I mean it's a small number. Percentage wise of the I don't know, maybe not. Yeah. We can seek some clarity there, you know? Uh I roll a natural one. I don't know really what you want from there.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

The recap is also a nat one recap. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

What you get, baby.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

From now on, nat one recaps, you have to do the recap in your character's perspective. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

That's probably using sentences no longer than three words.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Well, I do have that intelligence score, you know.

SPEAKER_05 10:36

I will do all the recaps in Glen's perspective.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Go bye-bye. Uh so we went down those stairs and found ourselves in a large chamber, uh cave like. That was after Ground went bye-bye. Yes, indeed. I'm picking up where you left off. Um down here there is like a like a center island Dais kind of thing with a crystal floating above it, uh surrounded by a scary Hulk green, like rate Hulk radiation green pool of grossness that would hurt you. And then these shifting red waves or pools of of burning lava stuff. Uh how do we know it burns, you ask? Well, Sam put his fingers in there, her fingers in there, and it it burned her pretty good.

SPEAKER_05 11:22

Um, that was a uh a conjecture.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

Good point. Maybe it was healthy. Plants are green.

SPEAKER_00 11:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:35

Uh anyway. Uh we uh there was also like this Wraith thing um that was fucking with us. I think it looked like it was maybe a ghost that was trying to protect the crystal. Uh so kept like pushing us back into the the lava fire. Um we tried to attack it to disable it, but that didn't work. It turns out just being nice to it was enough and telling it that's the one.

SPEAKER_04 11:57

That was the the spirit of illustrial silver hand?

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:02

Is that who that was?

SPEAKER_01 12:03

I think that's who that was.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:05

Which is the the the power Nope, I got that backwards. I don't know who that was. I'm forgetting right now.

SPEAKER_05 12:12

Uh one of Mistress's deceased children. Oh yeah, there's a different notes right there.

Forcecage And First Tactics

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Yeah, you're right. Uh see just get ahead of myself. Now, baby. Um, let's see. The crystal kept pulsing and you know, dealing damage to us and negatively affecting us until we got close to it. Um, and then Nines got up to the crystal and picked it up with his hands. Uh and then all the magic in the room kind of came under control and stopped hurting us. Monty had a uh the crystal pastor, and he saw a vision of Talos fighting Mistra and then splitting Mistra into three different crystals with a lucky strike. Not not the cigarette, like a critical hit. Shut the fuck up. Uh during that power surge that went through Monty, he was granted a boon, so all damage that Monty deals for now on will bypass enemy resistances. Pretty slick. That's a good one. That's real good. We found a chest that we hadn't noticed before, and there was a ton of money, uh, some rings of protection, a big axe that we have dubbed the axe of celestial edging. Axe of Celestial Flame. No, no, check my chest. It says edging. Almost there. Which uh Sam promptly attuned to. I forget who got the other uh other other gears, and we split the money pretty evenly. But I think we did it in a way like, you know, we had some slots that needed attuning. Um so we took a rest, and then Illustrial Silverhand Spirit opened a portal for us as she thanked us silently. And we appeared in a uh deserty, sandy kind of village where we went on a quick little shopping spree. And then we found a woman with a broken neck. And suddenly uh the building started to collapse while we were inside it. And we heard a well, Monty and Nines and heard a a a weird voice that said, He's done it! He's broken the laws. And then suddenly a large figure loomed before us, and he fit the description of Talos, and we didn't really have it confirmed who it was, but it seems fair to assume that it's probably Talos, or maybe his avatar on this plane. Right on.

SPEAKER_04 14:37

Uh I think as part of Monty's vision where Mistra was split into the three crystals, uh, one was being held by a woman in a house of sand.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 14:48

Is is this broken neck woman the the woman in the house of sand? Is this why Talos is attacking? No.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Okay. I think Talos is attacking because we're trying to put Mistra back together and he's still salty.

SPEAKER_03 15:03

Because you're trying to collect all the crystals. Right? Because there's three parts of the crystals, you've gotten two of them. The third one Talos has.

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Um did we say what color the crystal was? I forget. They are blue. All three crystals are blue? Yes. Or Mistra. They're blue. The goddamn crystals are blue. Larry Liar. Thank you. Cool. Uh there you go. That's a natural one recap.

SPEAKER_03 15:32

Alright. Uh Justin, you get some inspiration. Uh use it, thank you. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 15:37

Did I use my inspiration last time? No.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

Probably not.

SPEAKER_04 15:41

Probably not. Definitely not.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Alright, we go. Is there a way that I can actually enter in that resistance to my sheet in a way that makes sense?

SPEAKER_03 15:53

I would uh put it in your ring and equipment. Yeah, I would customize a ring for it.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Customize this ring for it.

SPEAKER_04 16:01

Yeah, uh I'm sorry, which which resistance are you talking about? I thought you meant bypassing resistances.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

Bypassing resistance, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

Yeah, that that that's for me to keep track more than anything.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

Okay I've that's true because I figured you could add a feature or something like that, or a feat.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

I was gonna put into a tool. Putting it on a tool.

SPEAKER_04 16:22

Yeah, something along those lines where you can where you can see it on your I just want to be able to be able to see it because otherwise I'll forget about it. That's fair. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Yeah. Alright, I'll just grab it.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Maybe uh notes could be a good spot too. Like make us like a boom or so.

SPEAKER_04 16:38

Uh do you have a sharpie? Because there's a like a a lot of blank space on that wall behind you, and we can just like as we're looking at your camera. Yeah. Oh, yes, exactly.

Ranged Pressure, Javelins, And Fire Explosions

SPEAKER_01 16:48

All right. You can also write it in on his character sheet. On my screen. What if you move it? White out, white out over it. Yeah, okay. This Pessy Piscals got stuck on this note I'd made.

SPEAKER_03 17:07

Right. Okay, so yeah, you guys are just exited that building, and standing about fifty feet from you, uh, stands a towering figure about 20 feet tall, and it's encased in a living tempest of armor. Uh each one of its footsteps, thunder rolls off of it. Uh, you can hear it clapping and and breaking the sound barrier around it. Lightning coils around his form as he's walking, like like serpents ready to strike you. His skin glows with an inner storm light. There's an ashen gray crackling power that's coming off of his hair and his beard. Every time he speaks, it's in a low rumbling thunderclap almost. And you can feel it in your bones more than hear it in your ears. He wears a jagged plate armor, uh, forged from darkened some darkened metal, and it's streaked with lightning-shaped etchings that shimmer, uh, and it seems to barely contain the power that is this avatar walking before you. He's got gauntlets on that hum with energy, and every time he moves his arms, you can see the lightning crackle and strike the closest things the closest object to him. Um his very his eyes glow like twin lightning bolts, and his very presence warps the air with just the heat and power that's coming off of him. But the helm that's on his head is what draws your eye the most. Um Forged in uh Forged in in what looked like the heart of a storm. This helm it it's a it's a towering crown-like helm of black and steel. It's veined with silver and gold, and it's a it's got a very angular, sharp image to it. It looks like it's cut from the storm clouds themselves and set into steel. They've got wings on both sides, making him look almost demonic as he's walking towards you. And set in the very center, there is a large or there's a large blue gem. Uh it's crackling with power, and it seems to give this this embodiment uh and the helm itself the heart of its power. So as this towering figure stands before you, and all around it, all around this individual, a crackling storm, almost a catal cataclysmic storm, is irradiating around it, and it's as much a part of him as it is its own distinct living beast. And as he's walking, the storm seems to go with him. It's about a 15-foot radius around him. Um, with the plate and his whirling black black and white beard, and the blinding light coming out from below the eye socket that's covered by this patch. Uh, Talos throwbacks his head and laughs. Fall into her own domain, Mistra, at last. Watch me use your power, and it is meant to be used. And at that, I'm gonna need everybody to roll some initiative.

SPEAKER_02 20:19

I do. Couple questions before we uh go in. All the stuff that you uh explained, especially like the the helmet and this gem being the heart of his power, is that character knowledge or the character knowledge at this point? What our characters have ascertained that from seeing him walk in.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

Yeah, you're your characters know that. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Um and you mentioned did you mention this was an avatar, a god avatar? Or god or do we know?

SPEAKER_03 20:48

I have mentioned it. You your your characters probably do not know that.

SPEAKER_02 20:53

What uh for for me as a player and an idiot, uh what's the difference between a god and a god killer specifically around the use of god killer gauntlets?

SPEAKER_03 21:06

So an avatar versus the god is what you're asking.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

And a god is the is the the think of it as the power that the god itself is manifesting in the world. An avatar is generally another creature or object that is has taken up a part of the god's power and is now reacting or or or or interacting with the world around it.

SPEAKER_02 21:33

I think it's a conduit for that power.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

But the specific gauntlet, it's not gonna matter, we can kill it anyways.

SPEAKER_05 21:40

It's it's a it's it's defeatable without it is a mortal-ish thing. A mortal that's been souped up, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

Okay. Uh my initiative was actually pretty good. I wrote 21.

SPEAKER_05 21:56

Mine was garbage, almost as low as it can get. I got a 12.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Don't you have like a plus nine to that, Bill? I do have a plus nine.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

I was expecting it to be like, my initiative is garbage as low as it gets, 27.

SPEAKER_04 22:12

I got a natural 20. Did you get a 25 there, Nines? I sure did.

SPEAKER_03 22:17

I rolled a natural 20. Oh shit. Damn. I added you before you had actually rolled, so it took your last hold of.

SPEAKER_04 22:27

I don't want that.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

Is there a a board for us? Are we minding this one?

SPEAKER_03 22:32

No, no, no, no, no. You guys are. There is a board. I'm just trying to get the initiative right before I add you all.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

No, that's okay. I just wasn't sure if I should be looking for one. I'm a little slow to operate today.

SPEAKER_03 22:42

No, fair enough.

Phase One Climax: Helm Gem And Coalescing Light

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Are you on payments? Not enough. Not enough. Love it. No, I'm physically slow to operate because I don't know how I can't use all my buttons on the mouse. Okay.

unknown 22:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

Last warning before we start this. Again, this is going to be the toughest combat you guys have faced. So don't be reckless during it.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

I don't know why you keep telling us.

SPEAKER_04 23:10

Yeah, I don't even know what that means. Is that like don't punch him every round or every other round? Yeah, that's what I'm asking you.

SPEAKER_05 23:22

Combat, we have a thing we do for combat. I don't know. I mean, if we want to be really safe, we can all just turn tail and run and let Randy Monty take pot shots at it from freaking a hundred yards away.

SPEAKER_01 23:36

She's always gonna be safe.

SPEAKER_03 23:38

That's true. Sam has a magical item to make herself disappear.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Um cool. Alright. So I does uh with uh two tie two questions on that. So obviously nines goes first with the 25. With Maddie getting a 21 and Sam getting a 21, does the natural 20 win or does the high decks win? Natural 20 should win that.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

The high decks wins. The high decks wins. Yeah, the combat the combat rules for DD don't uh don't distinguish it.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

That's what I figured, but you know, Nat 20 is pretty good since my last role was a natural one.

SPEAKER_04 24:13

Yeah. Uh so yeah, actually the way I've seen it done in several virtual tabletops is to put a uh an imaginary point uh dex score behind your initiative uh role. So technically mine would be you know 25.5. Yep, that's huge.

SPEAKER_02 24:34

Yeah, 21, not four. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 24:37

Um so is he is this guy big? I I understand that he's big. Is he like a large creature?

SPEAKER_03 24:44

He's a huge creature.

SPEAKER_04 24:46

Huge, big, McLarch, huge.

SPEAKER_05 24:49

Like how tall?

SPEAKER_04 24:51

20 feet.

SPEAKER_05 24:52

Centimeters.

SPEAKER_04 24:53

I don't know. Centimeters. It's about six meters.

SPEAKER_05 24:59

Is it 20 feet?

SPEAKER_04 25:01

Yes. I think it's pretty close. What is what is 20 feet? 609 centimeters.

SPEAKER_05 25:07

Okay. Pretty close. So it's almost seven meters.

SPEAKER_04 25:11

20 feet in meters is yeah, six point uh one, more or less.

SPEAKER_03 25:17

So, nines standing before you is a towering figure, uh, which you've heard uh your your sensei say a few things about here and there. You've heard about talos before in your uh in your teachings.

SPEAKER_04 25:33

And multidimensional creatures, multidimensional gods. What I'm hearing. Like, yeah, it doesn't matter where what what universe you're from. I think Talos is Talos is Talos because Talos the Stormlord is Talos the Stormlord.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

It's like Cthulhu. Correct. Something else that I think is cool that is semi-relevant is that the gods also see through the timelines. Because we met Bahama and he knew us in the old timeline, and then he recognized us in the new timeline and didn't give a shit. He's just like, I see it all, man.

Mistra Returns And The Battle Resets

SPEAKER_04 26:04

With Bahama's speech and not just, oh right, you guys don't yeah, you don't think that way. Sorry. Yeah, I definitely recognize you look exactly the same.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

A little more beat down with the wear and tear.

SPEAKER_03 26:24

Dude. DD spa day sounds pretty good. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Alright. Roll for relaxation.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

So uh yeah, nines standing before you is Talos, a figure you've only heard in stories and and lessons from your sensei. Um he is about 40 feet from you at the moment.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

What would you like to do? That's one ugly mother. I would like to uh use my seventh level wizard spell, force cage, on him. Oh shit. Alright, so explain it. Uh yeah, so force cage uh for a creature that is less than 20 feet on a side. How big is this guy? This is 20 feet. So a prison in the shape of a cage can be up to 20 feet on a side and is made from half-inch diameter bars, spaced one half inch apart. A prison uh you don't need to know uh uh any creature that is completely inside the cage's area is trapped. Uh and the creature cannot leave it by non-magical means. You have to uh teleport after a charisma saving throw.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

So he's gotta make charisma save before he can teleport.

SPEAKER_04 27:34

Yeah, uh teleportation or interplanar travel.

SPEAKER_03 27:37

Okay. Alright, so there's no save honor to meet the travel.

SPEAKER_04 27:42

And it can't be dispelled. Right. Uh there's there's no immediate save to roll. This is just like uh as long as nines can concentrate up to an hour, this thing will stay in place, preventing movement.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Does that prevent our access to him at all? Can we still melee attack this guy?

SPEAKER_04 28:01

Uh I think if you could reasonably get something in between the bars that is less than half an inch. I don't know how how much of a stickler you want to be about. Not an axe.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 28:20

So that's not a lot of room.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

So it completely surrounds him, right? I want to make sure I understand this.

SPEAKER_04 28:26

It does, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

It's a it's a cuboid cage around him.

SPEAKER_05 28:30

Does it have to be a cuboid, or can it just be a exactly his dimensions plus one inch?

SPEAKER_04 28:37

Uh it it says in the shape of a cage. So interpret him.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

Alright. I made a cuboid. Nice.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

Um, you said the gaps in this cage are half inch? Half anch. Yeah, half an inch. Did you just give him armor?

SPEAKER_03 28:58

This is where we find out Nines actually worships Talos.

SPEAKER_04 29:02

Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

That was funny where some kind of thunderous. So this forced cage pops into place and and Talos, uh, upon seeing it kind of roars, and you hear him, you hear him say in a very deep voice that again you hear in your bones, and says, Your bone sorry, your bones will crack like trees beneath my gale. And yeah, Nines, he's pretty mad at you. He's he's angry.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Uh Nines will say, Did he say that my bones will crack under his veil? Anyway, I'm gonna go up and punch him. Except this is gonna be a bonus action because I can move the 50 feet, uh, he's 40 feet away. I can move uh 50 feet per turn, so I can run up to him and I can like knife hand him through the bars. You're just gonna knife hand him. Oh dude, uh I wanna I wanna like uh Matrix style Neo hit uh m um Agent Smith in the throat. Like just flick my fingers into his throat and make him like make a weird gurky.

SPEAKER_03 30:16

So he is he is twenty feet tall. So you're gonna you're gonna you wanna jump up and do it? I can jump. Yeah, I got enough movement.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

Flicking his kneecap.

SPEAKER_03 30:24

Yeah.

unknown 30:25

Okay.

Haste, Teleports, And Rooftop Duels

SPEAKER_03 30:26

I want to hit his soft spot. Yeah, you know that's fine. I like the description. Give me uh give me an attack roll. It is gonna put you inside of that that blue circle. So uh as you enter this as you enter the storm, you feel this power surrounding you. And you feel you feel your hair start rising up on your head, and your the the ponytail that's on the back of your head starts going straight up just from the static and the power that's around you. Um ponytail?

SPEAKER_04 30:55

It's like a top knot thing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:02

To be clear, monk. Glenn is not judging. Bill is judging. Sam thinks it looks great. Just like a Sam also has a top knot. Um you don't you don't take any damage immediately upon entering it. But yeah, you go through and you strike with your knife hand, yeah! Give me an attack roll.

SPEAKER_04 31:24

Uh oh shit, I can use flurry of blows of the bonus action, which spins No, that's only after I take the attack action. Yeah, so this is just gonna be an unarm strike. Um does a 14 hit?

SPEAKER_03 31:41

Uh no, even caged, talos kind of moves his side slightly. Yeah, moves the side slightly, and he deflects it with his armor.

SPEAKER_04 31:51

Well, and and also I'm trying to like fit my entire arm. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:58

He just steps back a little bit and looks at you like, bro, what the fuck? Hilarious.

SPEAKER_04 32:03

Alright, I think that concludes my turn.

SPEAKER_03 32:05

But he does roar at you as you conclude your turn, and Spittle comes out of his mouth and starts to and hits you on your face.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

You take 40 damage. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

What is up, Sam? What what did what let you cast that spell, by the way? I missed that part.

SPEAKER_04 32:24

Oh, this was Mistress Gift. This was the reward that I gained uh for releasing her. Yeah, for picking up the first crystal.

SPEAKER_03 32:34

You didn't release her, you just picked up the first crystal.

SPEAKER_04 32:37

For speaking her name while holding the crystal. Cool.

SPEAKER_05 32:42

You try to give her full release.

SPEAKER_04 32:44

I put my fingers on her and tried to release her.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

Sam was holding the axe of edging too closely.

SPEAKER_00 32:57

We're never gonna get sponsors.

SPEAKER_03 33:01

We'll get sponsors. Welcome to our new sponsor, Pornhub. That's not bad.

SPEAKER_04 33:07

Oh no, I can't be sponsored by Pornhub. I'm in Florida.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

I'm in Tennessee. So I guess follow-up question. Sorry. Uh follow-up question for the Mr. Thing. Is how is it an action or a free action to cast that spell?

SPEAKER_03 33:30

It takes an action. And he's only got it once per long rest.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

Isn't attack also an action?

SPEAKER_03 33:35

Yes. But he did a bonus action.

SPEAKER_04 33:40

This is a bonus bonus action.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

It's a bonus action. Oh, I miss. Which is a bonus action? The spell is a bonus action? The one is a bonus action. Strike. Oh, I see. Monk's shit. That's great. That's why I'm confusing myself.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

He did say this though. I'm using wizard shit and monk shit at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Yeah, no, I missed the part with uh like how Mistress thing worked, I so I'm sorry. My bad. That's why I was asking questions. That's what I do. You thought we were gonna finish the fight tonight, not if I have anything to say about it.

SPEAKER_04 34:15

He was too busy scratching inside his cast. There you go. I'm sorry, it's itchy. He's getting that docking station ready. Put your dick in there.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Alright. Monty, you are up, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

Oh boy. Um, so quick question, and for those listening to uh the south and north of Monty's a couple of buildings, and our enemy is straight to the east. Um the buildings to the south, Brandon, what's I I see there's like two levels going on here. Can you tell me what the height is of this these two separate areas here? This one being feet. Is the lower one 15 feet or the upper one's 15 feet?

SPEAKER_03 34:58

This lower one is 10 feet, the upper one is 15.

Closing The Net: Crits, Grapples, And Control

SPEAKER_02 35:02

Okay, so the uh lower one's there. So what Monty is going to do is let me measure my movement here real quick. Perfect. 15, that will give me enough to run there. Um, I have a climbing speed of 20. Essentially, that that would replace my entire. So if I want to climb 10, I only get half my movement speed, is that correct?

SPEAKER_04 35:25

U No.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

Uh no. No. How does how's climbing? I have a climbing speed.

SPEAKER_04 35:29

When you have a climb speed, you can use it as a move speed for vertical surfaces.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

Yeah. Okay, so I want to climb up the short and then keep going. So I have a I have a total of I need to climb ten feet, I have a total of 40 movement, and I'm just going to 20. How much can I move after I climb up?

SPEAKER_04 35:48

Your total move speed stays the same.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Okay. Alright. Perfect. So I'll climb up that wall, taking away additional ten. And then it's an initial five feet up to the next one. I'm just gonna climb up the next one. Uh so what Monty's doing, he's moving to a building on the south, and he's gonna climb up on top of it. That's a ten-foot climb. And then the it five feet higher is another building, and he's gonna climb up on top of that one. So I have exhausted a total of 152.

SPEAKER_05 36:19

Why don't you just climb up the 15 foot tall one?

SPEAKER_04 36:23

I mean, six of one, half dozen of the other. You're you're using the same amount of movement.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Because it sounds cooler.

SPEAKER_04 36:30

Climbing ten feet is parkour 15 feet.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

Climbing uh 10 feet and then five feet is way cooler than 15 feet.

SPEAKER_04 36:38

It's more dynamic, right? Ask any storyteller.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

I I thought about climbing up the tree that's next to the building and jumping to the building, but I didn't want to dy. What a cat thing to do, am I right? Exactly. Anyway, uh now I'm gonna shoot now. I'm gonna shoot him. Uh Monty's figured it's Monty's a pro at fitting large objects into small tight spaces. Um so he's actually going to cast lightning arrow. Uh turning his whoa. How in the ignore those dice. Uh I'm gonna cast lightning arrow, which is gonna turn my arrows into bolts of lightning. And then I'm going to make uh two ranged attacks.

SPEAKER_03 37:16

Is it still a physical Is it still a physical arrow or the actual bolts of lightning?

SPEAKER_02 37:21

The I'll let me read it out for everybody. Um just we all learn together. Uh uh next time you make a ranged attack, uh, the weapon's ammunition, or the weapon itself, if a thrown weapon, transforms into a bolt of lightning. Tight spaces. Alright. Bolt of lightning, I think, can get through half an inch. Yeah. Uh make attack roll as normal. And the target takes 5d8 damage. Nice. Give it to me. And even if I miss, it still takes damage, but we'll we'll get there after I take a uh action. Oh, that's why the dice rolled is because I clicked the wrong button. I clicked cure wounds instead. Um, okay, so yeah, uh bow of uh winter hunter, so I turn my ice arrows into lightning bolts for the next uh one minute. Let's go ahead and do two attacks. I got an 18 and then a natural twenty.

SPEAKER_03 38:15

They both hit.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

No way! Nice. Yes, they do. Alright, so that's three full sets of damage, right?

SPEAKER_03 38:25

Uh yes. Okay. Well, I'm gonna this up separately. I I'm not gonna make you roll the dice because uh talos looks at you as you hit him with these lightning bolts and he just laughs at you.

SPEAKER_02 38:42

I can ignore resistances!

SPEAKER_03 38:44

Not immunities though, buddy.

SPEAKER_05 38:48

You just attacked a god of lightning with lightning.

SPEAKER_03 38:52

Oh, yeah, good point. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:54

I mean, resistances. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:57

But not immunities, they are very different things. There's dumb as they're slightly different things. Yeah, slightly different, I'll give you that.

SPEAKER_02 39:04

I had no idea it was a god of lightning, but apparently Monty thought so, and he just wasted spot.

Finisher: Arrow To The Neck And Meteors

SPEAKER_05 39:10

They're about a half a difference, right?

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Uh huh. I was attacking the gem. Does the gem have immunity to anyway. I mean, is never mind.

SPEAKER_04 39:18

Too much to ask to just make it a physical attack instead.

SPEAKER_02 39:22

No, if you would like to roll the phone, Monty instead, that's fine.

SPEAKER_04 39:24

Definitely fucking.

SPEAKER_02 39:25

Well, wouldn't my wouldn't my arrows actually be able to penetrate this this cage?

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Uh so I I looked it up and most DMs rule that uh a proficient ranger uh shooting a ranged attack can fit an arrow that is typically an eighth of an inch through a half inch. So yes.

SPEAKER_02 39:44

Okay. Then I'll just do uh a three of those.

SPEAKER_01 39:50

I think the way that's worded, is that just only for one attack? Or is that for the duration of the spell?

SPEAKER_02 39:58

Uh sorry, for the arrow, lightning arrow? For lightning arrow, yeah. It's it's one minute, all of my attacks would be that way, so I'd have to undo the entire thing. Let me look at your thing. I only have one fourth level spell slot. But it's a concentration spell for one minute. But I mean I I if if if I still have to burn the spell slot, that's fair. Um I'll just have to concentrate on something else and stop the spell.

SPEAKER_03 40:21

No, it is a concentration spell, but it just it's just for the next attack, but it's not for every attack during that minute.

SPEAKER_01 40:28

That's really expensive.

SPEAKER_03 40:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

Yeah. Well, I guess I mean it's like a fireball basically, right?

SPEAKER_04 40:35

Yeah. Funky. Well, what are you concentrating on if it's not a persistent effect?

SPEAKER_03 40:41

Because you can do it as a bonus action, so you can do it at any time.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

You don't have to you persist between turns if you don't make an attack.

SPEAKER_03 40:49

Yeah, so it but it specifically says the next time you make a ranged attack.

SPEAKER_02 40:52

Oh, so it's so it's not every attack for a minute?

SPEAKER_03 40:56

No, it's just the next attack.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

That's a crappy spell. Alright, well, I'm glad I'm not using it anyway, but there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:03

I mean it's effectively like Justin said, it's a fireball for a ranger.

SPEAKER_05 41:08

It's fived8, right? Is that what you said?

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Well, it'd be five as fourth level.

SPEAKER_05 41:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:15

Yeah. Oh, is that is that what a fireball is? Is five forty eight? It's like sixty-six or something to start.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Well, that makes it less cool, but I'll just take the uh the the the three physical hits. Uh let me add all those up. 13, 8, and 11. I still have to add in frost damage. Does he have resistant or immunity to frost damage?

Aftermath: Boons, Level Up, And Two Portals

SPEAKER_01 41:40

Uh 21. I still like the idea of the amount of balls it takes to shoot a lightning bolt at a lightning guy. Like, fuck you, bah.

SPEAKER_02 41:51

Uh uh, I think it's 32 damage if I'm doing math correctly. Okay. Oh wait, I still have to do uh 3D 3d4.

SPEAKER_01 42:00

And you climbed high enough to look him in the eyes while you did it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

Oh my gosh. Uh 32 plus 7, 39 damage. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:14

Yeah, finger arrows are sticking out of uh out of the front of his face and on his chest. Uh he doesn't seem too bothered by it, honestly. Um, but he's staring directly at 9's. He is mad.

SPEAKER_04 42:27

Yeah, I guess I'm just outside of the cage, huh?

SPEAKER_03 42:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

Um that's it for me.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 42:35

What about you, Sam? Now I know Sam got this fancy new axe, but I've uh read between some very fine lines that suggest I can't fit an axe through that. Uh that's okay. Yeah, that's a bummer, but uh just keep trying.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

I mean, do you have lube in your inventory?

SPEAKER_01 42:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 42:55

Uh Monty's got mayonnaise.

SPEAKER_02 42:56

I got mayonnaise. We finally figured out why he gave us that item. Hang on, boys, let me get my mayonnaise.

SPEAKER_03 43:06

Sam spends the entire turn lubing her axe up.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

And she sticks it with the handle. Do you get the same damage if you use the handle of the axe as a penetration motion of the uh I mean it doesn't say you have to use the head of the axe.

SPEAKER_01 43:21

That's true. It doesn't. Unclear. But uh, as much as I do want to chop this guy with my axe, I'm going to. Sam's gonna charge forward and she's gonna scream as she does. Uh she says, uh time to fight lightning with lightning, and she enters a rage and lightning erupts around her. Um and then she shouts to the gang uh stay close to me to help get some protection from his lightning. Uh as a reminder, I get anyone in my aura gets resistance to lightning. So stay close to Sam.

SPEAKER_05 43:56

What's your what's the aura range?

Sign-Offs, Tools, And Next Steps

SPEAKER_01 43:59

10 feet. 10 foot radius. Um, does that give him resistance? Resistance to lightning. Nice. My level 10 feature, it's called uh uh Shielding Storm. Each creature of your choice has damage resistance you gain from storm soul feature, while the creature is in your storm aura, which is lightning resistance. And I also can breathe underwater, should that be important for some reason. Okay. Totally not relevant. They don't get that feature, I don't think. Uh so I do that.

SPEAKER_05 44:30

He is a storm god, so if he rains really hard.

SPEAKER_01 44:33

Yeah, bring that deluge. See how wet it gets me. Alright. Uh so I'm gonna get uh right up next to nines, and then I'm going to so I think I'm within ten feet of Talos here, right? Yes. Uh let me measure to be sure, but you should be. Yep, you are. Two squares. Yeah. Um so I'm gonna at this point I'll activate my rage, which is not gonna do anything, but it's still worth it. Uh when I activate my rage, a as a bonus action on my turn. A creature within 10 feet is affected by my aura, taking some lightning damage. I know it doesn't matter, but he can laugh at me too.

SPEAKER_03 45:16

Question. Yeah. For your rage, don't you have to make an attack to keep the rage going?

SPEAKER_01 45:23

It will end if I don't attack on my turn, yes.

SPEAKER_03 45:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 45:26

Correct. Making sure. Uh so as I'm running forward, instead of drawing my axe, Sam's gonna pull out uh a javelin in each hand, and she's gonna huck the first one and try to get it through the bars with a range attack. Javelin. Yeah. Uh I leave it up to you if that makes it or not. The first attack is a 22 to hit, modified by whatever cover or impenetrable barrier.

SPEAKER_03 45:51

I don't know. I'm gonna say make an attack at disadvantage for those.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Alright. First roll is a 13 on the dice, the second one's a 12 on the dice for a 21 to hit. So the second one has a 21?

SPEAKER_03 46:03

Yep, plus nine to hit with my javelin. Yep, so the 21 hits then. Because you threw two, right?

SPEAKER_01 46:10

Well, you said disadvantage. So that was I I rolled them before you said disadvantage. So my first attack roll is a 13 and a 12 on the dice, which means 21 to hit.

SPEAKER_03 46:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:22

Yeah, so give me disadvantage.

SPEAKER_03 46:24

Yeah, give me disadvantage on the attack.

SPEAKER_01 46:26

That's effectively what I rolled two d20s instead of rolling with disadvantage.

SPEAKER_03 46:30

Okay, what is the lower one?

SPEAKER_01 46:32

21 to hit on the first. Okay. The 21 hits. Excellent. And then I'll do uh a second one. Seeing that it this the first javelin got through, I will roll that one also with advantage. Uh disadvantage, excuse me, on the attack. That's uh a t 10 on the dice for 19 to hit. And they both hit. Okay, so I'm gonna roll uh D6 plus 4 twice. So the first one is 7 damage, and the second one is 10 damage.

unknown 47:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 47:07

Love it. Uh and I'm gonna hang out here, I guess, because Sam's got a sixth sense about lightning. She can tell she's close to some kind of field. I presume. Alright. Anything else, Sam? Uh not yet. No. Pass. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 47:28

Okay. So Talos, stuck in this cage and very angry, um charges his storm. Uh so he raises his hands up and the lightning starts to arc, and the storm starts to spread around him. And gotta delete it? That sucks. Okay. Bam, bam, bam.

SPEAKER_04 47:51

So I'm reading that force cage is uh something that needs to be talked about with the DM first. Just because it is ruled differently at different tables based on the general interpretation.

SPEAKER_03 48:07

No, that's fine. I mean, um Talos, I mean, he's got ways around it. He is a interplanar the uh this is extraplanar cage.

SPEAKER_01 48:19

Yeah. Did you send uh teleport every plane planes would get him out after a charisma save?

SPEAKER_03 48:24

You can use a teleport to get out, but you can't use an interplanar travel.

SPEAKER_04 48:30

Uh you can get past it with a charisma save. That is true.

SPEAKER_05 48:35

That's using magical means, right? If he's using teleport or misty step or something like that, he can if he makes his charisma save, right?

SPEAKER_04 48:42

Right. And uh simply cannot leave via non-magical means.

SPEAKER_03 48:47

Correct. Um the crazy thing is with this is it's not even a concentration spell. It just happens.

SPEAKER_04 48:55

Uh wait, for Force Cage?

SPEAKER_03 48:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:58

Uh I'm reading Claire's handbook 24, it says concentration up to an hour. We're 14. I don't see I mean that just happens to be the ones that I'm using.

SPEAKER_03 49:12

Am I all fucked up here? Uh I'm looking at casting time one action, duration one hour. What's it called? Planar cage?

unknown 49:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:22

Force cage. Force cage. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 49:24

Entirely up to you, it honestly doesn't matter to me. So. Yeah. However you want to rule it. I I just read concentration, so that's what I was using.

SPEAKER_05 49:34

In 14, it is not Yeah, in 14 it is not concentration.

SPEAKER_03 49:39

It just happens. The new in 2024, it it is concentration. Uh again. Up to you.

SPEAKER_05 49:48

Sorry. Because Witches of the Coast decided they didn't want anybody to have fun anymore. Except for the DMs.

SPEAKER_03 49:56

He must be destroyed. So, uh this storm gets expanded, and both Sam and Nines are gonna take some lightning damage from it. Which unlikely.

SPEAKER_01 50:11

You said he got mad and it like increased his power in aura?

SPEAKER_03 50:14

Yeah, it increased the actual distance of that that spell or that that storm. And so you are both gonna take seven points of lightning damage.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

Is that rounded? I'm sorry?

SPEAKER_03 50:29

Rounded down already? No, so it'd be four.

SPEAKER_01 50:34

Four lightning damages. Four lightning damages. Excellent.

SPEAKER_03 50:41

Yeah, kind of. He's just sitting there with his arms in front of him, his forearms up, he's just screaming into the air. Cool. What a jerk. Yep. And he's also going to cast chain lightning on nines. And Sam.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

Ow.

SPEAKER_04 51:01

Sorry, you said how much damage? The seven? Or was it? Uh four. Four. Four lightning damage.

SPEAKER_01 51:06

Uh rage is already paying off, baby.

SPEAKER_03 51:09

Yep. So both of you need to make me a deck save.

SPEAKER_04 51:13

I'm pretty good at those. You should be. Plus eleven. I am rolling a two. Does a thirteen win?

SPEAKER_03 51:24

It I got a 16. 16 saves, a 13 does not.

SPEAKER_04 51:29

I I saw it uh as as the die was rolling within DD Beyond. It looked like it didn't like roll correctly, like in accordance with physics. I think that this should be a null result. Or we should just right because it didn't obey physics the way that you know we conventionally think of these things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You said roll, it's more of a toss. I think it should do that. It really was more of a toss. It didn't even really meet the requirements of your request. If you really think about it, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 52:04

So that is gonna be that is 31 lightning damage, and rounded is 16 for both of you because you have resistance.

SPEAKER_01 52:12

16 more lightning damage. Cool. That was really paying off.

SPEAKER_03 52:17

And Talos is going to try to shake his way out of the cage, and he grips the cage and shakes it violently to no avail. And he's still stuck. I am not an animal.

SPEAKER_04 52:30

Yeah, eat a dick, Talos.

SPEAKER_01 52:35

Does he keep his fingers on the cage?

SPEAKER_04 52:39

Does he grip the bars?

SPEAKER_01 52:41

I'm gonna chop those fingers.

SPEAKER_04 52:44

I'm gonna get them piggies.

SPEAKER_03 52:48

Glenn, you are up. As the guy with the highest initiative, you are last on this initiative roll.

SPEAKER_02 52:56

It's first time for everything.

SPEAKER_05 52:59

So uh I'm not really sure. Alright. So what does this cave this lightning storm around Talos look like?

SPEAKER_03 53:08

Uh it is an all it looks like a concentrated storm in an area. It's an isolated storm in an area. It is there's lightning discharging all around him. Uh it's actually arcing across the cage that's that's around himself because it is steel and iron bars.

SPEAKER_04 53:25

Gross. It is?

SPEAKER_03 53:26

Yeah. It's force. But it says it's an iron cage, right? Uh it is a magical cage. Okay, it's not. You didn't have iron will. Yeah. So uh but it is it is sparking off of everything in the area, and it's it's constant. There's just there's just lightning and there's gale-forced winds in the area itself. It is a isolated storm.

SPEAKER_05 53:50

So Clyde's looking at this thinking, uh.

SPEAKER_01 53:56

You did hear Sam say she'll help protect you a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 54:00

You guys got this, right? Um where's the pub? Aye.

SPEAKER_04 54:06

Narrator, they did not.

SPEAKER_05 54:11

Alright. Um, so Glenn will dart forward. He's gonna use his bonus action to dash. Or no, you have to use action to no, I can use bonus action to dash. Yep. So Glenn is gonna use his bonus action to dash to get 60 movement speed. Um so he is gonna dart to just south of Talos, outside the cage, but outside of five feet from nines, and I will enter into the storm. Does anything happen when I enter into the storm? No. Awesome. So then Glenn, as Glenn is running towards her, he will say Ectorp summoning his sword, and he will attack. Hmm. Hang on a second.

SPEAKER_04 55:05

This is like a Krampus looking motherfucker, right? Oh yeah, I mean the deer face sort of thing going on.

SPEAKER_03 55:11

I mean, I I chose this avatar just because it was a huge creature, because I didn't have an actual talos figure for it. But uh what he actually looks like, imagine Odin, right? What you would imagine Odin, black eye patch, lightning, gray, grey, uh gray and white beard, gray and white hair, long hair, a big burly old, grumpy motherfucker. Uh guys. Yeah. Effectively. Okay. Sorry, sir. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 55:40

Never mind. I'm American. I don't recognize knighting.

SPEAKER_03 55:44

Um, it's just the He's got a helm on him that does make him look a little monstrous.

SPEAKER_05 55:52

So Glenn will through the bars.

SPEAKER_04 55:56

Oh, it's got wings on it, the helm. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 55:59

Stick his rapier through the bars to attack, saying kaboom! Knowing that he's not really sure that it's gonna thunder damage is the same as lightning damage, but he'll give it a shot. Okay. And attack. Give me an attack roll. Nope. I missed.

SPEAKER_04 56:19

Oh no, you rolled a one.

SPEAKER_03 56:21

I did. Yeah, one does not hit. It'd be really funny if I said hit.

SPEAKER_05 56:27

13. Or 12, but anyway. Alright. So then with his last few feet of or with his last twenty feet of movement, he will move behind behind nines and within ten feet of Sam. Okay. And that's where he will finish his turn.

SPEAKER_04 56:48

Yeah, get behind me. I'll protect you with my Oh shit. Where did it go?

SPEAKER_03 56:56

Alright, Nines, you are.

SPEAKER_05 56:58

And as as Glenn is moving behind, he's he says, oops.

SPEAKER_01 57:04

That was two twenties and two ones this session so far. Yeah. Already. What a wild roller coaster.

SPEAKER_03 57:10

Alright, Nines, it is your turn.

SPEAKER_04 57:12

Uh yeah, I'm sorry. So I can do a couple of different attacks, but my question is, can my quarter staff fit through them bars? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 57:24

It's a quarter of an inch, probably. That's why it's hold up. Let me look. Let me look. I mean look at the actual size of one. Hey. I don't know. That feels that feels greater than half an inch. Two inches. Two inches is uh typically the smallest diameter of the quarter staffs come in.

SPEAKER_01 57:42

What two inches?

SPEAKER_03 57:46

You're not gonna know. Fuck off. Description six to eight feet and with a diameter of two to four inches.

SPEAKER_04 57:53

Where is that from? That's too big. That's too big. Have you ever held a broomstick? Yes. Like it feels so fucking comfortable. Actually, no, no, no. Why broomstick that's about that size?

SPEAKER_03 58:06

Yeah, just a little bit. The AI overview says that a standard quarter staff is typically around 1.25 to 1.5 inch diameter.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

1.25. Which is still too big for half an inch. Yeah. But at like an inch and a quarter, though. That's a that checks out.

SPEAKER_03 58:26

You mean six inches?

SPEAKER_01 58:27

Yeah, that's what I said. They're synonymous.

SPEAKER_04 58:31

Uh man. I really thought that my uh turn would go fast, but now I'm unsure what to do. Uh also my unarmed strike does lightning damage. Thank you for that.

SPEAKER_01 58:46

Just within reach of you, Sam is literally bristling with weapons. I have like 15 hand axes, four more javelins. Just, you know, should you like reach out? Might be one there for you. I don't know. Uh I heard grabbing onto the force cage, you could punch the.

SPEAKER_04 59:04

Oh no shit. Can I can I hit them fingies on the on the force cage? I want to break some some fingies. Uh sure. So can I use my plus two quarter staff to make this attack? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 59:18

Fingers specifically, yes. Oh my god. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 59:23

Talks is gonna think we're so petty.

SPEAKER_04 59:25

Alright, on a plus twelve. Guys! Yeah, I roll the twelve for twenty-four. Does a twenty-four hit? That does it. Hell yeah. Uh so that's gonna be one D10 plus seven bludgeoning damage for thirteen. And then I think I also get some lightning damage. Are his fingers infinity lightning damage? How much how much does that do?

SPEAKER_03 59:50

Zero.

SPEAKER_04 59:51

Ah.

SPEAKER_03 59:53

Yeah. Alright. So yeah, he at you smacking his fingers, he pulls both of his hands from the cage and Shakes them wildly and he starts blowing on the his right hand a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:04

That was gonna be my move. I'm gonna I'm gonna also try to kick him with my little toe. What? As a bonus action.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:13

You're not gonna be able to fit your feet in this cage.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:16

I got nothing, man.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:18

There's no other like your protect terrible idea.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:25

At least he's not like flitting about, I guess. Alright. I'm gonna I'm gonna drop the force cage and then I'm just gonna kick him in the face. Okay. I'm gonna flurry of goddamn blows, this guy. Force cage goes away. What a stupid spell of the tape. Thanks, Mistra. That's two fun spells this time. Does a 14 hit? It does not. Cool. It does not. So wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:53

Well, at least we kept him away from us for a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:58

And we're like most of the party is melee, so he can't split around, but we all run up on them anyway.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:12

Crowd control? Love it. It's just, yeah, not right now. Not right now. It's just one guy. He's he's too big. That's that's gonna do it for me, though.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:23

I mean, realistically, if we really wanted to play it safe, we could just you drop the force cage on him, we stand back and let Monty plink away at him.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:31

I will tell you as a DM, you would not be able to outrun him.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:34

Yeah, that doesn't feel right. Uh so we keep him trapped in the corner.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:40

No, just keep him. I was just gonna keep him trapped and just have Monty plink away at him.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:45

I've got more javelins, I got hand axes.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:48

I could chuck the seven or eight daggers that I have. But but anyway, I say I I tabletal that after he dropped the cage on purpose. I didn't want Monty, you're up.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:00

You see all three of your friends inside the storm. You're muted, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:07

Okay, I am straight up. I was not muted on this, I was muted on my microphone. Um, okay. So uh yeah, Monty to the east of him sees uh Palos and everybody, this giant storm. He's on top of roof, but there is still one more roof higher that he can climb onto. Um so I'm actually going to kind of shimmy on over to this spot right here. My little perch. He's next to like a giant dome roof on top of building. Um and he's gonna do the same thing. He's gonna shoot uh a couple more arrows at Telos.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:45

Okay, give me some attacks.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:47

Uh uh I got a 19 and a 14.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:53

The 19 hits.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:54

19 hits. So this time I'm gonna do what I didn't do last time. Uh I will uh mark him as my favorite foe and do an additional uh 1d6 of damage. So that round is total 17 damage. Okay. And uh That's it for me.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:20

Alright. Yeah. Uh Monty, you see Talos look slowly from nines, and his focus seems to to go towards you, and his eyes meet yours, and you can see a slight smile to the curve of his lips.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:38

Um alright, and on that note, Monty in response will activate nature's veil. What is that? I magically become invisible with any equipment I'm wearing to the start of my next turn. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:55

Drop aggro, baby. Is that just a ability? Is that like a number of times per rest thing, or is that just like uh yeah, five times per long rest. Nice. That's a lot.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:09

That is a lot. That's pretty sweet. Is that level 13?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:14

Uh I'm not sure where I got that.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:16

Like, is that why it's so many?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:18

Uh do we also have a 10th level ranger sp spell. Nice. Spell? Or feature, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:25

Oh, okay. A tenth level spell, that sounds awesome. Like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:31

Alright. Anything else, Monty? Nope. Alright, Sam, you're up.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:36

Okay, I have a rules question for you. Uh because you made this rule-up. Uh if I was to summon Moores and he was to cast a concentration spell, he's only around for one round, and she goes he goes after Sam. Will Moores maintain concentration from the other realm he's in?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:57

If it's concentration spell specifically, Sam would be required to maintain it afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:02

Sam will maintain that concentration. Okay. That works for me. Uh Sam is going to uh turkle down a little bit to better position herself to cover Glenn's maneuvering so that uh his her orbit.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:17

I'm sorry, you you're gonna do what down a little bit? Oh, I'm going down. Turklin Turklin. Turkle?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:24

Is that what I said?

SPEAKER_04 1:05:26

What you said you said circle. I think I said circle. Circle, my god.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:31

I thought it was turkle. I thought it said turkle!

SPEAKER_01 1:05:37

You guys know how to turkle? Turkle down, baby! Let's go. I'm moving uh counterclockwise a bit to get a better tactical position against Talos.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:47

As I do, that's turkle. That's a tactical circle.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:51

That's a tactical turkle, it's a turkle.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:54

He's turkling around, bros. Give him some cover, guys.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:00

He's turkeling. So as she does that, it's like a like a spurkler move movement. He's like uh does like a pivot and squeezes between Glenn and Nines, drawing her axe low as she does it. And then as soon as she comes in range of talos, she uh goes to attack him twice. Um with the axe of celestial edging. Alright. Your first attack is an 11 plus 12 for 23 to hit. Cool, that hits. And then the second one is uh 13 plus 12 for 25 to hit. Both of those hit. Oh yeah. Uh so the first dice is a d12 plus seven, that's 12 for the first one. And then the second one is uh seven plus seven for fourteen chopping damage. Okay. Chop chop. Uh and then for my bonus action, we're going to use a feature that Sam has, uh, which is to conjure Morse. So as she uh she just swings this axe wildly but not recklessly through uh Alice twice. Uh question? From me? Question for me? No, okay. Uh and then as she does and her axe is bloodied for the first time, she's got this uh great uh like happiness, rage forever on her face. She reaches her hand up in the air with a bloody axe and she goes, Moors! And then uh like the air shimmers next to her or behind her, around her, and uh Moores steps through the air to appear as his once-in-a-day appearance. And uh outta here. Alrighty, guys. Uh so he he lifts up his uh helmet of languages, of comprehend languages, so he can peek around.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:57

So as you as you cast this, you see the tattoo move from your arm, and it kind of it moves down your arm, down past your hand, and erupts, or not erupts, but it it seems to come off it looks like it's coming off of a page of paper from your hand, and it just uh it it morphs into what is Moore's.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:18

Um is it on his fingers? The tattoo is Moore's.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:25

But at any point does it get to his fingers? Like the tattoo goes down his arms onto his fingers, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:31

Yeah. How did I get inside my fingers? Uh and that's how Moores actually appears.

unknown 1:08:40

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:40

So your tattoo vanishes for this turn.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:42

I like it. Uh as Moors appears, he he uh lifts his helmet, he's got kind of a half smile, and he looks around at everybody and just like, ah, it's good to see you guys. And he clunks his helmet back down and he looks at Sam and he casts uh a spell for the first time. He had prepared for quite a while and he had never done it. Sam is about to be the subject of enlarge. Okay. Uh which is uh the target's size doubles in all dimensions, and the weight is multiplied by eight, increasing the size category to from medium to large. Um I have advantage on strength checks, strength saving throws, the weapons grow and they deal an extra D4 damage. Nice. Uh yeah, I was trying to think if anybody else could actually benefit from that, and really not. Because you guys both are dexterity fighters. So Sam's big and scary, I guess is what happens. And we'll maintain concentration. And hopefully that'll matter later. With the big menaces.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:45

Did you have a question, Brennan? Uh yeah, single finger. I'm thinking point of order. Uh I was supposed to take two attacks, and I did not. Oh. Yeah, I completely forgot. It's been more than a month since we've played this game. I've been super focusing on draw steel. Uh yeah, I have two attacks per round. Uh when I take the attack action, I can attack twice. And so I'm asking. I'm I'm once again asking you to allow me to make a second attack.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:20

Benevolent Dungeon Master, hear my plea.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:24

Sam, is there anything else you want to do? Uh no, that's cool. Okay. That was fine. Uh nines. If you want to roll a second attack, I'm fine with that.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:33

Okay. We'll just do this uh real quick. Um, assuming this is this was after the force cage dropped. Uh I rolled an 18 plus 12 for 30. It does hit. And then 9 damage.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:48

Alright. Thank you. Absolutely. Alright. So Talos, uh, you can see the anger in his eyes, and the the the storm around him starts surging even even more. And each of you are going to take, where's my D8? There it is. Uh, are gonna take nine points half rounded up is five, so five points lightning damage each.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:15

So that's Glenn, Sam, and Nines. Alright, I was gonna ask if that's Clay Monty or not.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:19

So five, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:21

Correct. I need to make a positive for my concentration. Yes, you do. Thank you. That's a natural one.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:30

Uh yeah, so Sam, you shrink back down to normal size. Yeah. That's great.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:37

Damn it.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:39

Thank you for keeping me honest on that one. Uh, and still seeing where Monty disappeared. Talos.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:49

Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:50

What's up?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:51

You have inspiration.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:52

Yeah, can I use my inspiration?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:54

Uh sure.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:55

Cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:56

Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:57

Interrupt. Thank you. That's it. 18 plus 10 for 28. That does save. Hell yeah. I'm big again. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:04

So describe that. Starts the shape.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:09

That's like when a when a Pokemon starts to evolve and you get those like flashing between the different shapes, and then you cancel it, it goes back to the first shape. That's what happened. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:20

Yeah, so Talos seems to take a step towards Sam and disappears. And appears next to where Monty last was. See, I knew caging him was the right choice. And Monty, I'm gonna need you to make me a constitution saving throw.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:35

I have a 14 plus one for 15.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:37

That does not save, so you are going to.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:41

I know I should have moved after I went invisible.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:44

Yeah. So you're gonna take 16 points of lightning dam or thunder damage, sorry.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:52

What is the difference between lightning and thunder damage?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:55

Uh it's just different type.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:56

Thunder is sound damage, and lightning is electrical.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:01

That's what I would assume. But yeah, it's just listed as different different types of damage.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:05

I think that's how it's described.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:07

Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:08

Um, with your invisibility, Monty, does that make you visible or no?

SPEAKER_05 1:13:12

Uh I'm trying to figure that out now. So one of them hurts and the other one hurts.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:18

Yeah. So when I as when I attack with my uh four-inch diameter quarter staff that I can barely fucking wrap my fingers around, um I think that's to do physical and thunder damage. Just holding it like this. Like a giant tree branch. What the fuck? Four inches? Are you goddamn kidding me? BBQ baby, big black quarter staff.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:50

Is it diameter or radius? Uh so my initial Google said two diameter inch diameter, and then the AI Google corrected me as like 1.25 to 1.75.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:03

I'm looking at Maddie's thing. I don't think there's a I think he's still invisible.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:07

He's just like I'm starting to be invisible. So I'm assuming this is like an area because I am now inside the thing. Is it in different you have to intern inside the thing?

SPEAKER_03 1:14:17

No, no, it's not it's not the storm. It's called deafening step. So he massively teleports along with any equipment he is wearing or carrying up to 120 feet to an unoccupied space. Each creature within 20 feet of the space he left, or he left, I'm sorry. That is not you, Monty. He deals that damage to shut up. It's all of us. Yeah, so I need all the three of you to make a con save. That's all me, guys. I misread that.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:42

Uh okay, well, I'm gonna roll a 14 plus two for 16. Which feels pretty good. That feels that feels savy. Five plus ten for fifteen? That doesn't feel savvy. I don't like that one. Sixteen I like. Come on, big money, no whammy.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:02

What what is Brandon looking up?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:05

Saving twelve. I was seeing which you're you rolled. What did you roll?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:08

Me?

SPEAKER_03 1:15:09

Oh, I rolled 12. 12, okay. You each failed that saves, you're each gonna take 17 points of thunder damage.

unknown 1:15:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:16

It was 16 before.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:18

Inappropriate.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:20

Inappropriate. No, I still have it. 17. 17 damage. Okay, I need to make a DC 17 con save for concentration.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:31

It was half the damage.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:33

Or 10. Jesus Christ. I failed my con save.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:36

I thought it was it's not half the damage plus or mid with a minimum of ten?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:42

Not a concentration saving throw.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:45

I thought or it's sorry, I thought uh concentration saving throw was half the damage received or ten, whichever's uh 10.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:55

But I did save. I'm big again. I did it again. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:02

We must make a con save to maintain concentration with the DC being 10 or half the damage taken, whichever is higher.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:08

So DC to 13 saves on that one.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:10

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:10

So my rules lawyer came in to Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:14

Yeah. Good call. I knew that it was the 10 or I just thought it was the 10 or straight down, which would suck.

unknown 1:16:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:23

And uh Monte Talis is gonna make a swipe at this roof here at. He doesn't know exactly where you are, but he's just trying to knock it down. So he's gonna raise his fist up and punch straight down onto this building.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:39

And uh He he randomly teleported directly in front of you. Randomly decided to bring his fist down directly on top of you. He didn't move. He just went invisible.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:50

I went invisible. I was the one that didn't actually move, and I had plenty of move speed left. I should have missed it.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:55

He still has all kinds of disadvantage though, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:58

Uh so give me uh give me a deck save.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:03

Dex save are you saying deck save? 23.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:09

I see twenty-two.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:11

I have a plus one on all saves.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:13

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:14

For what? I think that's already a cover for it's already in there. Ring ring of protection.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:21

Click on the under level. Oh yeah. Does it calculate it for you? Yep. Oh, it doesn't show the calculations. But it does calculate.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:30

So Monty, you are able to avoid this. Uh you see that the fist coming down, you're able to leap to the to the next roof over avoiding that.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:40

So now you leap backwards.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:42

Yes, leap backwards.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:44

Can't choose my direction.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:45

Uh you can, yeah. You can go anywhere you want. Where do you want to go?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:48

I'll choose leaping back here.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:50

Oh, straight away, like southwards. Yeah. Southwards. So this this building that you're on is starting to collapse.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:57

Uh oh. That can you can you circle the entire building that is going to be collapsing?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:03

I'm going to. Yeah, how much of that is collapsing?

SPEAKER_02 1:18:06

Just that, okay, that that dome section. Can I jump to right here? Yeah. Okay. I'll jump to there. Okay. Nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:18

Alright. Alright. I was gonna end the cattle fixing for you. And Glenn, you're up.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:29

Hang on, second. Alright, um So I have a question. Uncanny dodge? I can't dodge the lightning, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:39

The dodge is only for deck saves, isn't it?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:42

So there's a couple of things. There's uncanny dodge, which if somebody attacks me, I can have the damage.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:48

I th I I thought that was for a specific type of save. Is it any type of thing?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:53

If somebody attacks me, so it's I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:56

I think you're talking different things. Yeah, I I think, yeah, if you're talking about an attack thing, that's not what I mean. Yeah, you're you're talking about evasion, Brandon.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:05

No, I'm yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:06

Brandon's talking about evasion, that's deck save. Uh and uncanny dodge, no, because it's not an actual attack.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:12

Okay. Alright. So Glen is going to. Hold on. Oops. Alright. Glenn is going to dart in to get up to the side of Thanos. Nope. Metalos.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:31

I kept thinking that too, man. Got me.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:34

Um. And he's gonna take his helmet off of him. He's a 20-foot creature. So I'll just run up to side him. No, he will attack with uh kaboom and attack.

SPEAKER_03 1:19:47

Alright, give me an attack roll. Sorry, I'm a circle. I'm watching circles appear.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:53

Sorry, I put Sam's radius on. Okay. Does that ex change with my creature size? That'd be cool. It does not. No way. Well, I mean you're not supposed to normally get bigger as a Storm Herald. A 10 foot more effect.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:07

Oh sorry, 22. I can't count.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:09

A 22 does hit.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:11

Alright. So he will do. Or yeah, Glenn will do.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:16

I think the effect centers on your gonads anyway. That's where the magic happens. That's the originator of the magic.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:25

23 and 8. So 38 points of damage. Um eight of it is thunder damage. Okay. If that matters.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:39

Yep, that's what I was checking.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:42

Thirty is magical uh magical weapon damage, and the eight is thunder damage. Alright. And do I notice it doing normal types of damage to him?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:55

Uh you do see you you're you cut into his flesh. Um the thunder damage itself, where you normally see some kind of of damage being pushed into the skin. I don't know how to describe thunder damage, guys. I'm sorry here. Um but you don't see that that same effect on on Talos.

unknown 1:21:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:14

But you do see the physical damage hurting him.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:16

So does it look like it damaged him at all or not? But it doesn't matter, he's still gonna do the same shit he always does. So um just out of curiosity. And then Glenn will dart back over by nines again.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:29

Try to dart so that nines can get by him if he needs to. And Sam. So I'm trying to stay out of people's way, but stay inside of the ten feet.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:39

Alright. Uh nines, you're up, buddy.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:42

And Glenn will say, aha! This thing still does work.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:49

Uh Talos responds with Crawl back into your shadows, rat. The storm sees everything.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:57

Well, of course, you're freaking twenty-foot tall, you moron! How's the weather up there?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:04

Intimidate. I don't have it written down, but don't I have some sort of javelin? Is that also fucking lightning? Javelin?

unknown 1:22:15

What?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:16

No. What was the gift given to me by uh Blackwell?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:21

Oh, isn't it somebody has a trident of the Kraken or something? Was it a trident? Wasn't there a trident? I'm pretty sure there was a.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:29

I have a tri I have the trident. But I don't know what it does because I didn't write it down.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:34

Oh, I can possibly find that.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:36

I added a trident to my inventory. I added a trident to my inventory, and Brandon said he was gonna update it with the actual item, and he never did.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:45

Oh dare you, Brandon.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:47

So I don't know what it does. It does it lets me breathe underwater, I think? And maybe speak with fish? I don't know. I can't remember. It should be in this thing, shouldn't it?

SPEAKER_04 1:22:58

What what was the gift that Senator Garvin gave me? Counselor Thornwell. Exactly. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:07

That's what I meant to say earlier. Glenn, you found the trident of the deep. This trident allows the welder to control aquatic creatures for a limited duration. 60 seconds. It can also it also provides a bonus to attack and damage rolls made underwater. The welder?

SPEAKER_01 1:23:25

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:27

Uh so chat chat is telling me from ten episodes ago, episode 74, I got the javelin of Misty Step. 74. Uh gifted by Counselor Thornwell. Yep, here we go.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:42

There you go. There it is. Javelin of the Misty Step.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:46

Yeah, and so uh apparently it just lets me cast Misty Step.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:52

It's deadly as lightning. That's great news.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:55

Yeah, it's just a normal javelin. Did you post it? No.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:58

It's a video. If you chuck it at them, you can then teleport to them and instantly make a melee attack of them. Wait, if you hit an enemy with a ranged attack made with this we what?

SPEAKER_01 1:24:12

If you hit him with a range attack, you can teleport to him and whack him with your melee, with this as a melee weapon.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:17

So you can basically throw it at them. If you hit them, then it's back in your hand and you can then stab them.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:24

Yeah, imagine teleporting to a point where it is in your hand. I think that's it. Anime style. Like that's badass. That's super fucking cool. You should have been using this whole time. Should have been using it this whole time. I'm gonna I'm gonna chuck this fucking javelin at this guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:41

It's almost like I was trying to give Monk a little bit more uh maneuverability on a battle.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:46

Because monks really need more maneuverability.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:48

Yeah, I can run 50 feet, my guy, in in six seconds.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:53

That's real fast. If you don't want it, I'll find a way to destroy it this battle. How's that? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:04

What if you were to throw it at like an ally that was far away or a random person that's just standing? An NPC standing?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:11

It says enemy specifically.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:13

Oh. What if you don't like the NPC?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:16

Uh that could be your friend of me.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:18

Just to tell you, it doesn't have any it doesn't have any stats, but I'm gonna throw this this javelin.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:24

Not for nothing. If you throw a javelin at somebody, I'm pretty sure they're now your enemy.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:29

Yeah. The javelin of enemy making. Throw an enemy and they will not like it.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:42

Sam was gonna get a hammer of ouch after this uh after this battle. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:48

I've been waiting.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:49

Alright, give me a range attack throw. Uh just add a javelin to your inventory and use a javelin.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:57

Oh yeah, great idea.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:59

I'm gonna use my wife real quick.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:02

Now it would have helped if I gave you the enlarged, because you would have had the bonuses.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:05

Ah, dang. Then I'm a big McLarch, huge.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:10

Add item to the or whatever the keyword is.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:16

Uh I don't know. It's simple throne.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:19

Uh yeah, I think it's a strength, so weapon. Yeah, hand axes have light. Which would be Oh, it'll probably tell you what your whatever your bonus is. You don't have to know. It'll just tell you. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:33

It should. Uh yeah, it seems the same. So I get a plus ten. Hell yeah, look at you, go.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:40

I think that'll do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:42

Yeah, I rolled a 13 for uh 23. I think 23 is gonna hit. And when I hit, I'm gonna teleport to that motherfucker, and then I'm gonna hit again as a bonus action, and then I also get to take the attack action a second time? I don't know. Right? Well no, as uh specifically it says if you hit an enemy with a ranged attack made with this weapon, which I did, presumably, with a 23, you can use your bonus action to teleport to this enemy and instantly make a melee attack against them with this weapon. Right. And so it's gonna be a one-two with a bonus, and then because I took the attack action, I can take a second attack. I agree. Presumably with a javelin. That makes sense. At a plus ten.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:37

Or yeah. I mean, I'm better off using my quarter shaft. You're still unarmed though, right? So you can still kick and hit. Just because you have a weapon in your hand doesn't mean you have to use it.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:48

That's true, but the unarmed attacks are bonus actions.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:52

And I'll get one of them. If it's just your basic unarmed strike, doesn't that also get affected by your monkshit? Because you're not using the monks feature unarmed strike, you're using an unarmed attack.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:04

No, the unarmed strikes are my bonus action. I'm wielding a quarter staff, or at this point a javelin. And so the unarmed strike is anything other than what's the you know the weapon that I'm using.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:18

Well, I mean, like for reference, I can make an unarmed strike as an attack action. What's the strike? We're talking uh he gets two attacks per action, so his first attack action is the javelin the missy step, which he then immediately bonus actions to teleport stab again. So he has a second attack action. He's holding the spear. I think he can still punch and kick it as an unarmed strike because an unarmed attack is a basic attack.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:43

The javelin specifically says you have to make it with that weapon, though.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:46

Yeah, I think part of the bonus action.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:49

So I get attack, bonus action, second attack, that's my turn, unless I want to move. That's everything.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:59

I guess then we're debating the the the way this thing is written. It's the bonus action is to teleport. And instantly make a melee attack against them with this weapon. So if you only had one attack per action, do you make a second attack with it?

SPEAKER_04 1:29:12

Yes. You when you take the attack action, you make two attacks.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:17

I I'm asking a specific question. If I am a cleric, I only get one attack per action, and I chuck the spear, and then I use my bonus action to teleport, I get to make an attack with it, right? That's part of that bonus action. Yes. So if I normally get two attacks per action, and that's all bonus action, you get a second attack action.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:35

I don't know, that doesn't sound right. I think this is a bonus action. The bonus being a lesser like No no no.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:43

What I'm saying is I think it's you take your you take your action and you just weave your bonus action between your two ac or you take your bonus action in between your two attacks on the attack action.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:57

I do, yes, as a monk. Yes. But The like a cleric would not be a good one. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:02

They would just get the attack and then bonus action attack.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:06

Which is his question. Because the bonus action includes an attack in this in this text that I'm looking at. Yeah. Correct. So would there be a second attack? Because that's all the the bonus action.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:17

As a monk, yes. It's as a monk, because you get two attacks. Right. So you get the roll three times. It's only three.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:26

Yes. It's three attacks total. Yeah. That's okay. That's where that's where I thought we were, and they I thought you were saying no. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:34

Yeah, uh, I'm sorry. It's uh the the initial throw gives me that damage and another attack because I'm a monk and I can take two attacks when I take the attack action. And then as a bonus, I teleport to the spear and attack. So that's what I'm gonna do. Um which is gonna be I uh I don't know if you saw it in the chat, I rolled a uh 23 to hit.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:04

With javelin?

SPEAKER_04 1:31:06

On throwing the javelin, exactly. Um and there are no specific bonuses on that javelin, so I'm just gonna roll regular piercing. Uh, and that's gonna be 11 damage. Okay. And then as a bonus action, I'm gonna teleport to that javelin of misty step. I'm gonna misty step to the javelin, and I'm gonna already be holding it. I'm gonna yank it out and fucking slash again or stab again. Alright, give me a fact. Uh does a 16 hit? It does not. Damn it. Okay, well, that's okay because I can still take my second attack action. Um, and I'll just continue using the javelin in my hands. Uh at a plus ten, I rolled an 18 for a 28. It does hit. And as damage, that's gonna be 12.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:01

Alright.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:03

Nice. And that concludes my turn.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:06

Wonderful. Monty, you're up, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:10

Uh, do I need to roll a uh because I disengage from him, an opportunity attack? Does he get one against me? No. You were invisible. Perfect. Um so Monty on his turn actually will uh reappear. Uh and he can be seen kind of slightly behind uh the rubble, and Monty will take uh his double attack again at him with the bow of winter hunter. Uh landing a 22 and a 28. They both hit. Nice. Okay. So I take two of these. Uh 13 plus 9 brings it to 22. I get favored foe 1d6. Let me just do all these together. And then two of these. Do I get favored foe twice for two attacks? Let me when you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can mark the target's favorite enemy. Uh the first time on each of your turns you hit. Okay, first time. First time. First time. Uh so to that previous number, I add a 10. And I forget the previous number. Um you can look in your log twelve. 22 plus 10. 32 damage.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:37

Nice.

unknown 1:33:37

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:39

Good solid hit.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:40

Yep. Okay, so Monty is going to uh I'm gonna go ahead and draw it out. He's gonna kind of scamper over this way, hop down off the building, doing the uh Aladdin bounce on the little rooftop of the market canvas, rolling onto the ground. Parkour! Dashing parkour, yeah, dashing across the uh the market space to the corner of another building, and then scampering up on top of that building, ending him right about the here. Um to get all of that, yeah, and repositioning a long ways away. To get that, I'm gonna use my feline agility, which allows me uh in combat, I can double my movement speed until uh once until I have moved zero. So I have to spend a turn not moving for this to reset, but it allows me to essentially get uh 80 movement speed out of that.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:36

Shit, okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:38

So yeah. Monty's GTF and out. GT G yeah, yeah, get get in the TF out.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:47

Yeah, yep. You want to delete that giant black line from the map?

SPEAKER_02 1:34:51

Yeah, I will go ahead and raise that. I mean the users can't see it anyway. I don't know why you guys care. Actually, I think I'm just gonna add the line because it's uh it's it's it's pretty close to what I really want it to look like.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:04

Alright, yeah. There we go. Can you put some veins on it?

SPEAKER_03 1:35:07

For listeners, there is now a big black dick on our screen.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:12

Okay, it's only black because uh because Maddie wanted it that way.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:19

I thought it was black because it was just a little bit larger than the white.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:21

I was gonna say it wouldn't be that large otherwise.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:28

Alright, that's uh that's it for for me, unless he wants to look menacingly at me again.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:32

He can't see no are you invisible? No, not anymore. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:37

That's only uh that's only till till my next turn.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:39

Nope, he does not look menacingly at you.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:41

Alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:42

And how much damage did you just do to him?

SPEAKER_03 1:35:45

32.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:46

Uh 32. Mante's almost put a almost put a hundred damage on this guy and probably not even denting him.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:53

AFK 45 seconds. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:56

No problem. Uh okay, so Sam is going to uh like look around quickly to find where Talos went, and then you know, quickly realize Nines ran off to go whack him again. Uh, and then turn that direction and charge at him. Uh big thundering steps as she roars her way forward. Uh coming up just to the north side of Nines on the back side of uh Talos to try to I don't know, get some kind of tactical advantage from it. Not that I want any kind of mechanical, just like she's thinking combat-wise. And as she does, uh she takes a big winding two-handed swing, uh, completely dropping her defenses to make a reckless attack. Uh so all of my attacks this round will have advantage, and all of your attacks, all of Talos' attacks against Sam will have advantage as well.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:47

Not that he knows that. First attack is a 22 to hit.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:56

That does hit.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:57

And second attack is an 18 to hit.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:02

That also hits.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:03

Okay. So I get the 2d12 plus 7 plus 7, and then the 2d4s for the enlarge. So here's the first one is an 11 plus 7 for 18. And then a 3 plus 7 for 10, so that's 28, and then my two d4s, which is not a whole lot of damage, is six. So 34 additional damage.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:28

Oof.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:29

Okay. Um, that's my action. And then as a bonus action, I don't know that this really matters. But uh Sam's gonna scream at him and then lightning's gonna strike him again. So there.

unknown 1:37:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:45

It doesn't do any damage.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:46

I know he's Yeah, lightning god, take that.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:49

But I feel good about it. I feel pretty good about it. Uh you've given us so much lightning shit.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:58

It's almost like Brandon's a dick. Yeah. That's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:03

I mean, it's gonna benefit later, just not against this first god. Alright, so nine.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:12

It's like time traveling back to 1917 and being like, hey guys, how's the first world war going? First?

SPEAKER_01 1:38:23

Um, as my bonus action, I actually do have something for that. Um, I'm going to activate the Axe of Celestial Flames uh once-a-day ability. Okay. Which is gonna cause a 20-foot explosion, sorry, nines, but I think you'll dodge it. Uh like explosions. Uh 20 uh 20 foot radius explosion of fire damage on Tilus there. Cool. Which is gonna cause a uh 20-foot radius. That's what it says.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:56

Uh can you have it in?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:59

Oh. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna say you're not in a glen. You're just outside of it, because that's real fucking close. If I was a dick, I'd say it would hit you. Um, decks save, I have a chance anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:12

I can see that it's already daylight in the desert, but it also makes uh 30 foot of additional light. So real bright here.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:21

Alright. Um, so it's a deck save for myself and nines. And me yourself? I am.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:27

Yeah, he's playing himself. Self-insert is Talos. Oh shit. Absolutely. Giant god of thunder, that's how he sees himself. Did you say deck save? Dex save.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:39

Yeah, I got plus 11. I think that because uh I can see my own attack, uh, I'm not blinded or deafened or incapacitated. I get advantage on this deck save that I'm making myself do. Why would you say that? Because danger sense is I have advantage on deck saving throws effects that I can see while not blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:58

Yeah, yeah, I'll take that. Yep. Uh I rolled a 14 for Talos.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:03

Does not save.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:05

That's right. I also got a 14, which does not save.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:09

Alright, give me some give me some damage there, bud.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:12

Nice. Yeah, I just want to make sure I do have evasion. I'm throwing uh Ooh, does a 20 pass? It does.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:21

DC was 17. It's great, yeah. No damage. And your evasion means zero, yeah, hell yeah. Alright, 66. Wait, how much? 18 fire damage to Talos and Sam, but not nines. You just like purrow your way through that fireball and it doesn't touch you. Or ooh, you uh always pirouette. Oh, maybe that is the way. I don't know. But maybe you saved up all that lightning damage you were accumulating and just like you punched the fireball enough to like make a little wall field around you.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:08

Yeah, I'm thinking of Black Panther suit uh collecting kinetic energy.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:16

Even if Glenn was in range, he's fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:18

Yeah, hell yeah. Alright. Uh yeah, so 18 additional fire damage with Brando. Okay. Now I'll pass turn two. Oh, I need to make a deck save. Or a con save for that because took damage. Which is uh 18. I did it. I did it.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:35

Hang on. Alright, so I want uh before you get to the uh what actually happens, I would like for there to be a conversation later between Nines and Sam, where Nines is like, how did you know I was gonna be able to dodge that?

SPEAKER_05 1:41:51

So I don't see Nines actually thinking that.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:02

Anyway, uh so what happens with Talos? Alright, yeah, so this fire explosion happens, Talos gets singed a little bit, you can see the smoke curling up from his beard. Um he's uh he he he's looking a little hurt. He's got some scorch marks, some punctures, some piercings all over him, and uh now he's just mad. And he looks down at nines and says, A javelin boy? You want to see a javelin? And he reaches his hand up, and a lightning arc javelin appears in his hand, and he strikes it down at nines.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:42

Nines is immune to being str uh stricken by javelins, made of the lightning. Yeah. I I wrote it into my backstory.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:51

Oh, does a 29 hit by any chance?

SPEAKER_04 1:42:53

I'm writing it into my backstore.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:57

Give me a second, I gotta type this out real quick.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:02

Alright. Uh so nines, you are gonna take only 11 points of uh lightning damage. It's not bad. Actually, half that, please. Half, please, yep. And then the javelin disappearing, he's gonna strike at Moores with his uh bare fist. Good luck.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:21

Good luck. Round it up at six damage. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:24

Yes. Moores does a 22 hit. Moores has an infinite AC. Or sorry, not Moores, Sam.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:32

Uh took your finger off. Sam does a 22 hit. Is that an attack roll against me? Yes. You have an advantage.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:43

Oh, an advantage. Uh 24. Yes, plus 12. Alright, so he takes his he forms a fist, and a gauntlet appears, and he punches you straight down.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:55

Uh this is bludgeoning damage?

SPEAKER_03 1:43:58

This is bludgeoning and thunder damage.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:02

Bludgeoning and thunder, okay. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:04

Two resistant bludgeoning and two d8 thunder.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:07

I'm resistant to bludgeoning damage.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:09

Okay. So that is nine bludgeoning damage. So half it rounded up is five.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:15

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:17

And eleven thunder damage.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:19

And I'll take all of that. My ears. How?

SPEAKER_03 1:44:25

And uh the last thing he'll do is is pulse his storm. And both Nines and Sam take only five, rounded up, half damage and rounded up is three lightning damage.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:41

Uh can I laugh at him?

SPEAKER_03 1:44:43

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:44

What's your is that right now?

SPEAKER_01 1:44:47

69, baby. How much damage?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:54

Uh did you say?

SPEAKER_03 1:44:56

Uh for the javelin or the lightning?

SPEAKER_04 1:44:59

Uh yeah, the second, the lightning. That was three damage. Well, only three. Okay, yeah, I'm at 30 of 81. Oh, okay. So that's 69 of 148.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:11

Okay, you guys are taking a bit of damage. Resistance is great. Resistance is great. I mean, but you're still at like half. Yeah. And nines is a little bit less than that. Glenn, you're up.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:25

Alright, so Glenn is going to figure out a way to move five You guys are way too in my way.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:35

There's a building you can climb up. So he's a huge creature, you said, right? Yes. So you can move through ally spaces, and I think he's two spaces or two sizes bigger than you. You can move through his space on on on As difficult terrain. Yeah, and you get uh you can you can dash as a bonus action too, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:45:54

Yeah, I need my bonus action. Okay, so I guess I'm gonna finish off in his fucking thing. Alright. He loves anything off in his thing. Uh alright, so Glenn is going to dart through and go to be just outside of five feet away from Sam. Behind him. So who's that? Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:23

No.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:25

Um and then he will attack Talos with a kaboom.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:31

Is that what the droid you're looking for?

SPEAKER_05 1:46:33

Okay. It was spinning with the one facing up. But uh 24. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:45

I wish we could see the rolls. That's that's like half the fun. Is when it does stupid stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:50

Yeah. I gotta I I got the perfect system for you. So join me on Saturday nights, and I will show you the way.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:03

Sorry, Brandon, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:04

No, no, go for it.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:06

Okay. Eight and twenty-three, so thirty-one points of magical weapon damage, and it's still gonna have uh four points of thunder damage. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:21

So go for it.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:25

Oh yeah, uh, so Glenn was going to step back with his last seven feet and be like right on the edge of his range, and then he's gonna use his bonus action to cast uh telekinetic shove to push Talos away from him.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:45

Mmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:46

Bonus action.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:47

I guess the building is not there anymore, so he could.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:50

Is that better than just getting out of range? Partially collapsed. Is that better than just getting out of range? It's I mean, it's better flavor. It's cooler.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:59

Yeah. Uh for so sorry, are people out there listening?

SPEAKER_05 1:48:03

It will fail. Just get just just for everybody to know, it will most likely fail.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:09

Yeah. Target needs to make a strength saving throw. Okay, understood.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:12

Glenn Glenn is on the edge of this aura of the storm. And so if you can if he sufficiently shove him even five feet, then he'll be outside of it.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:22

But he's outside my aura.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:27

Glenn, as you actually get to the outside of this, uh as you get to the outside of the storm, uh, you hear a scream from Talos, and he drops to his knee as he grasps the helm on his on his on his head, and he pulls it off as the gem on the helm starts to glow and a bright light starts to emanate from it. And then who's uh who's holding the other two gems? It is Nines and Monty Monty. So Nines and Monty. The gems in your inventory, wherever they are, you start feeling a heat coming from them. If you'd like, you can just you can you know throw them away.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:08

If you'd like it's in my prison wallet.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:10

Oh. Are you gonna keep it there? That's where I keep all of my important things items? Yeah, it's a free action to throw away right now if you want to throw it away. Or you can keep a hold of it.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:22

Like to flex my PC muscles. Yeah, flex your kegels. No, uh I'm sorry, you're you're saying these things are are heating up within our image.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:35

You can you can feel the heat coming from the crystal in your in your bag right now, in your pack.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:41

This feels pretty dangerous. What might happen if I throw this crystal at the other crystal? At the one glowing? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:51

Uh I don't you you wouldn't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:53

You know what? I'm gonna make this the narrative. Monty! Throw your crystal at his crystal! And then, yeah, Nines is gonna throw his crystal.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:06

How far is that? Like we are we are 60 we are 60 feet away from each other.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:12

Hey, you do not have time to move, Monty.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:15

Like, you're not this is great. Like, out of anybody who needs to be able to make a long shot, yeah, Monty is the one.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:23

Let's let the dice decide and that it doesn't matter. Monty will grab it out of his satchel, not his prison wallet, and we'll throw it to meet in the middle.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:32

Alright. Give me a give me a strength, just a straight uh let me let's do athletics.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:38

Athletics? Man, that one sucks for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:50:40

Yeah, I I feel like that would be an attack roll type like he's throwing something as far as he can. Yeah, just like an arrow, just like bullseye, just like he's good at just like Legolas.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:55

It's probably outside the range of an improvised weapon. It's strength through. It's it's just a it's just a throw.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:01

What? Question, why is my strength saving throw plus six, but my strength is plus zero?

SPEAKER_04 1:51:06

Your proficient thing. Because your save, yeah, your saving throw is a proficiency.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:10

Yeah. Oh, you have a plus one to all. So you got at least five, and you probably got another feet thing, racial feet.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:17

Yeah, that's it. Plus six. Alright, nines. Your crystal slams into the crystal on Talos' head.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:24

So good at throwing crystals.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:26

Monty, your crystal makes it about halfway to Talos.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:30

I rolled a three. You rolled one. No, no, I got a I got a three plus zero. I got a plus one. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, I thought I don't have a plus two to my strength. I have a plus two.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:43

Alright. But I'm imagining Monty doing like just like shot put style, weak ass, like uh.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:57

Um, so I thought we were throwing them to each other. We're th you're throwing it at his face. And so was I.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:04

Yeah, we're we're we're gonna cause a confluence of crystals.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:09

So the light or are sorry, all three of these crystals uh shoot a beam of light out into the sky and they convalesce up into the sky. And after a few moments convalesce? Oh less. They recovered.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:25

OLS.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:30

You nerds. Yeah, I fucking hate you guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:34

And your words. You're descriptivist. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:37

Paint us are pretty pretty Brandon. Alright, go ahead, Brandon. Well, we're done.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:42

Yeah, the crystals convalesce. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:44

The other convalescent coalesce. Thank you for the correction. Uh so they coalesce, these lights coalesce into the sky, and uh appearing is a very beautiful woman.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:58

Um you picked the wrong picture.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:03

She's not beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:04

Why is she gorgeous? I was She's gorgeous. No, that that startled me. It's a burst of light. It almost looks like pure starlight and it explodes outwards from all three of these persons. Oh, she's hot because we can't see her. Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:18

Because we're all fucking blinded by the windows.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:20

The storm halts, the winds fall, uh, the winds kind of settle down, and the world goes utterly silent for a moment. Um it's like the moment right before you cast a spell. And from the heart of all that light, a figure coalesces. And it's a woman draped in robes of night, um, so a very dark colored robe, and it's got constellations all over it, so different star patterns. Her hair is a river of moonlight that dances on a breeze, and her eyes uh seem to hold the attention of everybody in the area. Her presence feels like every spell that's ever been cast. And so Nines and Monty, both of you immediately know that this is the mother of magic, the lady of mysteries, known as Mistra, as she steps forward. Um her feet never touch the ground, um, but she does coalesce into existence.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:20

And Talos. Well done. Real quick for our listeners though, uh Mistra, the the the icon that Brandon dropped for us, she's she is hot, like you've been out to sea for three months, and one female shipyard. No, no, no, no, no. You this is this is only the like the people that have been on submarines, the the no female submarines. When you you get in the shipyard and you see that one female Bubba that comes on board and you're just like, damn. That's that's how hot she is.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:52

So that's super weird. We're not gonna leave it at that. This is a a uh like a starkly handsome woman, is what we're talking about here.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:05

Great description.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:07

So Talos seems to shrink in size, and his power is seems to get more concentrated. And he sees Mistra and immediately gets angry. And uh you see a javelin appear in his right hand and a gauntlet form over his left fist.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:27

A little javelin bitch.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:28

A little javelin bitch, and he is uh ready for when I say smaller, he's still, you know, ten feet tall. He's still a big motherfucker.

SPEAKER_01 1:55:37

He's sam size now.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:38

Yeah. Yes, and large sam size. That is true. Let me actually fix that. And we are entering phase two of combat. Oh, I guess so. You're not um I I shot the crystal.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:56

What more did you want?

SPEAKER_03 1:55:58

Alright, so we are at the top of the initiative order with nines. Um Mistra has joined the battle uh after the the crystal on the helmet shattered.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:10

Still saying um she's in a ahead of initiative order than Glenn.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:15

She is, yeah, she rolled into it and she's higher than Glenn. Talos is uh significantly smaller than he was, but he still stands about 10 feet tall. Uh slightly larger than Mistra. He does still have a storm around him, though it's not taking up as much uh as much area on the battlefield. And just to the north of him, northeast of him is Glenn. Uh directly east by about 15 feet is Sam, who still has the electricity or sorry, lightning resistance, anybody within 10 feet of him, and uh nines is is next to him. Monty is being the coward ranger he is, about 70 feet away on top of a building. And any questions before we begin?

SPEAKER_02 1:57:01

82, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:05

Any questions about anything? Bill.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:08

So as Glenn as as all this stuff happened, right after everything all shook out and Mistra flies off their and all the gems and all that stuff happened. And what is is it still is he still Talos?

SPEAKER_03 1:57:24

He is still Talos.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:26

Okay. Because I think there was a different name on there earlier. Um so Glenn will say, Did you see that? I knocked her right out of him.

unknown 1:57:37

That's it.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:38

Because he did the telekinetic shove.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:40

The telekinetic shove, yeah. Knocked her right out of him. He paid. In response, Sam looks at you and goes, the filter got all of that out, but uh we know you screamed.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:57

We saw your face.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:59

Uh Brandon. His aura, uh his storm aura still exists?

SPEAKER_03 1:58:04

It does exist, but it is smaller. It only takes up uh about five feet from him now. So if you're in melee range.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:11

I'm about to run into it.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:13

They say that happens as you get older, but I've seen it.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:16

And this one's white. So he's he's a little gonna be a little bit smaller.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:23

It's a big black dick comment from last night. I'm with you, Maddie. I'm following. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah. Alright. Oh, I understood. Disapproval. Yep. Alright, nines. Here I will.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:39

Uh Nines is uh is a fighter, not a lover, and so he's gonna run up and uh and punch Talos in the face. He's a fighter, not a lover. With his fucking huge girthy quarter staff. As a matter of fact, it's so girthy, it's just called a staff.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:59

It's a full staff.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:02

He's got a full-on staff. One full-on staff. He's got a movable rod. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:09

Did you say movable?

SPEAKER_04 1:59:11

A movable rod, yeah. Uh yeah, so that's only yeah Nines will close the 15-ish feet distance and put himself in melee range within the maelstrom aura or whatever the hell is going on there. Okay. And then I'm gonna I'm gonna whack him. I'm gonna whack him off. With a plus twelve. Does a 30 hit?

SPEAKER_03 1:59:44

Sorry, no, his AC has gone up significant. Yes, of course it's 30, Jesus.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:49

Hell yeah. That's a plus twelve, man. Yeah, man, that's good. It'll do that to you. Oh, and a and a one on damage does does eight help? It's okay, you get to do it again. Uh yeah, so I'm I'm gonna attack the second time. That was very close to being another 18, uh, but I rolled a five plus twelve for 17. That does not hit. Mother actual fucker. Uh well, you know what? You're forcing me to do it. You're forcing me to use my fucking bonus action.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:28

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:29

I'm gonna I'm gonna burn a key point here, and I am going to blurry of blows. Which is two arm strikes as a bonus action. 17 and ooh! You love to see it. A natural goddamn 20.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:50

Oh, natural does hit.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:53

So I'm gonna roll that uh crit damage. I it looks like it is highlighted. Yes, that is 2d10. Ha! Uh I rolled 18 on 2d10 plus 5 for 23 damage on uh that natural 20 hit. Okay. Uh and then the other one six damage. Uh is that for the 17 roll? Uh no, there were two Oh, sorry, my bad. You're good. Two attacks. Yeah. For my button.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:31

So 30 damage total. Uh 29. Uh 29? I thought you said three. I'm all over the place, guys. I'm sorry. Thank you for keeping me honest. We're good to go.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:43

Yeah, so that's 29 total between those two. Bill?

SPEAKER_05 2:01:48

When you're finished, are you finished?

SPEAKER_04 2:01:50

Oh, okay. Yeah, I thought you were like, I thought my math might be wrong or something. No, I think that concludes my turn.

unknown 2:01:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:56

No, if I thought your math was wrong, I would have probably said something. But No, um, I have a question. What a convalescent. Yes. I would have given you some convalescent leave. Um is he straight up immune to thunder damage? I got two questions. That's question one, you don't have to answer. The second question is, did he willingly move?

SPEAKER_03 2:02:20

No. I mean no, not with uh the booming blade strike. He did not willingly move.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:26

He is so he somebody repositioned him to where he's at now from where he was.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:31

Well his form shifted. He might have like plopped into a smaller square, because he went from huge to large, right? Yeah. His form shifted.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:39

I'm pretty sure he's uh he did not willingly move.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:43

Okay. He was closer, because I Sam was in immediate range of him at one point. Very true.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:50

So I guess he shrunk away from you.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:52

Shrunky shrunk. As he should. Sam's fucking terrifying.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:56

Him and Sam are effectively the same size right now.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:58

It's true.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:00

He looks much bigger.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:01

I can't make well, I didn't try very hard, but I couldn't. The one attempt I made, it didn't learn how to make my thingy bigger.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:08

Talos shaves, and so it just looks bigger. It's an optical illusion. Ah. Yeah, yeah. Monty, you're a Sam is a big one. Oh, I get it. I said Talos.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:20

I know, but I'm saying Sam's female, so how's that? Yes. Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:26

Um it's safe to jump like five feet, correct?

SPEAKER_05 2:03:29

Yes, of course. Just straight up and back down? Probably.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:32

No, like over a five foot gap.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:35

Yeah, yeah. Monty can be. Yeah, you are a seasoned adventurer.

SPEAKER_02 2:03:38

Okay, so seeing how Monty is only uh eighty-two feet away. Uh he's gonna he's gonna move over to here. He's gonna run to the back of the building he's at, jump across a five-foot gap to another building, and uh now he is 97 feet away. Uh hundred and thirteen feet away, actually.

SPEAKER_04 2:03:59

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:00

And from there, he is going to continue to shoot. Uh twice. Um, actually, I'm gonna do something a bit different. On my first shot, I am going to use a feet that I haven't used in a little bit. Uh it is the I'm looking for it. Looking for it still. The sharpshooter feet. So it's gonna take a minus five penalty to the attack roll.

unknown 2:04:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:28

But it'll add a plus ten if it actually connects. I got a natural twenty. I would think it would connect.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:34

Holy shit. Alright, two nat twenties. Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:38

Uh oh, is it two? I was like, no, that's only one.

SPEAKER_03 2:04:42

Um I was saying Brandon had a Nat 20 earlier.

SPEAKER_02 2:04:46

Yeah. Okay, so we'll go ahead and resolve this one now. So double dice. This is gonna be a plus five. Is he still technically my favorite foe?

SPEAKER_03 2:04:57

Yes. Okay. Uh his size changed and he lost one of his items, but he is still the same foe.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:05

Okay, so I get a Do I get two dice for favored foe on a uh natural twenty? Yes? Um double all dice.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:17

Yes. All all damage dice on a crit hit. Okay, doubled. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:22

Uh so this is going to be a He's the DM.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:25

He gets to make the decision. I'm just how I have always played it.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:28

Plus 15 to that.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:30

I I have I have a a section in my notes of all the rulings that we've made as we've gone, and I went back just to check. Yes, all damage dice.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:38

Perfect. Uh 38. 38 on that one.

SPEAKER_04 2:05:43

Alright. That was one hit.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:48

Uh the sharpshooter. Like, how do you it's plus ten, but that doesn't take that's not really it's ignored by the critical because it's only dice that are doubled. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:05:59

Okay. Uh Monty's feeling pretty good about himself, so he's gonna do the uh the the the same same things use again. Sharpshooter aiming from a long ways away. 120. Uh that's an 18.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:13

An eighteen does not hit.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:15

Ooh. That's what I was afraid of. Okay. Um yeah, Monty Slecking where he's at, and so that'll be it for my turn.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:26

Okay. Alright, Sam, give us our third Nat 20 of the game.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:30

Uh, I have another 20 and one streak, so we'll just see what happens.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:34

We've actually in this fight, we've had more Nat 20s.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:39

I've had three ones and a 20. No, I didn't have any 20s. I had a 20 on a skill check, but not on a attack roll. Because I get big big crits if I do. Alright, so Sam's gonna close the distance again. She's gonna run up uh once again between uh Nines and Glenn to try to make sure that her aura is covering both of them. Although she's big, so she's taking up a little more space. Uh and as she does, she roars once again at Talos, uh, bringing her axe to bear and making another reckless attack, uh, which gives me advantage on my attack rolls, and he gives him advantage on his attack rolls. So here's a axe of celestial edging attack. That's a 29 to hit, that might do it.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:24

That does hit.

SPEAKER_01 2:07:25

Alright, so here's a d12 plus seven, and then I gotta roll a d4 for the that's 10, and then a d4 for the enlarge. It's a four, so I got 14 damage on that axe attack. Um I've already done the closion thing. Um and I was kind of toying with the idea of like trying to grapple him so that he can't try to run away again. I don't know if it's gonna actually help at all. Let's do it. Just for funsies. Now that she's closed in, she's she's in a blood rage, she's gonna just reach out and grab him. Uh so I don't know. The cool tips are kind of confusing. I don't know if you want me to make an unarmed strike or contested athletics.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:10

Contested strength check, right? So athletics.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:12

Athletics. Okay. Well, my athletics is plus nine. Pretty good. Plus six for 15. Solid.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:23

Plus 12. So 12 plus a 17 is 29.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:27

Okay, that's great. Uh who wins? Sam is you need to hear it, Bill. Uh Sam didn't do it. You feel better? Uh Sam is so slick with uh the the blood that's slinging off of her axe. She's so mad uh that shake. She goes to grab him and her bloody hands just slip right across his armor. Not grabbing him. Uh oh, and then as a bonus action, she's going to scream in his face and blast him with lightning.

SPEAKER_00 2:08:57

Oh, yeah. Uh here.

SPEAKER_01 2:08:59

Let me just see if this does any damage. Hold on. I hit him with 12 lightning damage.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:05

Uh the storm just seems to absorb that energy that you've thrown at him.

SPEAKER_04 2:09:10

Ah it was worth a shot for the fifth time. One of these times. I'm gonna wear him down.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:17

One of these times.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:19

Lightning damage is gonna get a big thing.

SPEAKER_05 2:09:21

One of these times he's gonna fail his immunity check.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:24

Yeah. Well, I wouldn't, you know, I wouldn't want to sit here with a bonus action wasted, so uh doing something.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:33

Yeah. So Talos has taken a lot of damage in three freaking three uh players' turns already. And uh he can see the the danger that he's in with uh the the three of you hitting him from this close. So he's going to uh do his Dragon Ball power up once again, uh and he's you're gonna see that storm start to expand. But as it starts to expand, Mistra is going to cast a counter spell, and uh his storm aura is just gonna completely vanish.

SPEAKER_05 2:10:08

Stupid blue deck. I mean, no, good blue deck, good blue deck.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:15

Um he is then going to take a legendary action and uh teleport with a deafening step.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:23

Did did Mistra just say, where are you going?

SPEAKER_03 2:10:26

Yeah, basically.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:27

And he's gonna teleport towards Monte.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:32

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:33

So I rage on that teleport spell. Are you freaking out?

SPEAKER_03 2:10:36

120 feet.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:37

Can I can I use a bonus action now?

SPEAKER_03 2:10:40

No. No.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:42

If you have a reaction.

SPEAKER_04 2:10:44

Yeah, you can react in some way.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:46

Oh, I can react, but not bonus act, okay. So I need never mind. Forget you, Brandon. I know.

SPEAKER_04 2:10:54

You could use your reaction to shit yourself.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:58

I need Sam and Nines to both roll me a con save.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:03

There was a reason.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:04

Not again.

SPEAKER_02 2:11:06

Do they get attacks of opportunity at least?

SPEAKER_03 2:11:09

Yeah. No. Because it's a magical teleport. Fuck. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_04 2:11:12

Two plus ten gives me a twelve. Yeah, I rolled a five plus two for seven.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:18

Oh no. Do I save? Did I do good? No, neither one of you saved. So as he steps into this, uh just his his the straight lightning aura or the power from him strikes out, and each of you gets struck by some lightning, and you are going to take. Oh. Not as bad as it could be. Uh, you're each gonna take 14 points of lightning damage. So half that to seven.

SPEAKER_01 2:11:42

That I can deal with. And uh I think I negated like 200 damage this fight. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:49

No shit. Your your lightning resistance is definitely saving you guys right now. Uh so not Maddie. Fuck you, Maddie. Not Matty. Yeah. So Talos looks looks at you, Monty, and he says. You hide behind distance like it's armor. Let you sh let me show you what closeness feels like. And he is going to do a multi-attack on you. Uh he's gonna try to punch you with his gauntlet and then stab you with a javelin. Welcome to the party, pal.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:20

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:22

So first this is Javelin.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:24

Hang on just one sec before you do that. Um when a creature hits you with an attack, I gain plus four bonus AC all subsequent attacks. So what was it? You said he's gonna do the javelin first?

SPEAKER_03 2:12:39

Yep. 10 plus 12 is 22 to hit.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:44

Yeah, that one will hit.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:46

That hits. Uh, and then I'll roll the gauntlet as well. And that is a 24.

SPEAKER_02 2:12:52

Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_03 2:12:55

It's a god, man.

unknown 2:12:56

Avatar.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:58

He's an avatar. He's an avatar, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:00

So I think Talos is the one that's running, to be honest.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:05

He is he's making some distance, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:08

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:09

There it is. The D10 dice, I know what they look like, but every time I look for them, I'm just like, I don't know what they are.

SPEAKER_04 2:13:17

I've never seen this man before in my life.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:19

I've never seen this before in my life. Alright, so the javelin is he's gonna strike down at you, and you are going to take uh You're gonna take six points of piercing damage and nine points of lightning damage. So 15 total from the javelin. And then with his left hook, you're going to take you're gonna take 31 points of damage, nine of which is lightning.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:46

In addition to the 12?

SPEAKER_03 2:13:48

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:49

So 12 plus 31. 43. 43.

SPEAKER_03 2:13:54

And Talos is going to end his turn. Uh with Mistra up, she is going to look at the three melee fighters over here, and she's going to cast an arcane spell for haste. And so all three of you ha now have haste cast on you.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:14

Double move speed, double actions?

SPEAKER_03 2:14:17

Double move speed well it's you yeah, double move speed, double actions.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:23

Oh, okay. I mean, I thought it was an extra action per round and plus two to AC or something. Ooh, yeah, it might be.

SPEAKER_03 2:14:32

The targets uh until the spell ends, the target speed is doubled, it gains a plus two bonus to AC, it has advantage on dexterity saving throws, and it gains an additional action. So you all have plus two to AC, well, the three of you have plus two to AC, advantage on dexterity saving throws, your move speed is doubled, and you have an additional action. That action can be used only to take the attack. Uh uh attack, dash, disengage, hide, use an option, object action, so not uh not any kind of magic spells. And she is then going to position herself over on top of this rooftop so she takes a running jump and jumps up so she can clearly see Talos and Monty over here. Oh shoot.

SPEAKER_01 2:15:20

Uh I forgot, I gotta make a D uh con save for uh concentration. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:26

Oh, does uh when does concentration come into effect when you're dealt damage? Uh 16. Because that might my uh favorite foe is a concentration thing? Let me read that again.

SPEAKER_01 2:15:37

Is it really? I didn't think so. That's crazy. I don't know. Uh as if Oh, until you lose your concentration, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:15:46

Until you lose concentration is if you're concentrating on a spell.

SPEAKER_03 2:15:49

So you give me a con save as well.

SPEAKER_01 2:15:51

I think it's at least two, if not three. Because it's two hits. Yeah, it's two hits, so two two con saves. First one I think is a ten, and then second one's a fifteen DC. So that saves.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:06

Still my favorite foe.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:08

Half the damage taken. You took more than thirty damage on the second attack. I thought it was oh, I thought you said thirty.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:14

I thought you said twenty-nine, but okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:17

No, it was thirty-nine. Oh, thirty-nine. No, thirty-one attack.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:22

I thought it was twelve. No, they were they were two separate attacks.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:26

Well, yeah, and the second one was over thirty.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:30

So what's that mean?

SPEAKER_03 2:16:31

That means you lose your favorite bell.

SPEAKER_02 2:16:33

Oh, okay. It's okay. If I hit him again, I'll just bring it back up.

unknown 2:16:37

Fair.

SPEAKER_03 2:16:39

And that leaves Glenn, you're up.

unknown 2:16:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:16:44

So Glenn is going to go oh oops. Gonna run and dash all the way to him. He's just gonna use 95 feet of his 120, because he's using the extra action as a dash. Okay. Um yeah. And then he will kaboom, he will say kaboom and attack with his rapier.

SPEAKER_03 2:17:12

Alright, give me an attack roll.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:15

Motherfuck. 17.

SPEAKER_03 2:17:18

That does not hit.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:19

Then he's gonna swing with his dagger then.

SPEAKER_03 2:17:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:23

Twenty-three. That does hit. Alright. So damage is six plus twenty-eight is thirty-four.

SPEAKER_03 2:17:39

Thirty-four damage with a dagger. Uh, as you stab Talos, he flinches a little bit and then looks down at you and says, Yes, ding me, little bee. Let me feel you before I crush you.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:53

And Glenn will say, You gotta catch me first and run 25 feet away.

SPEAKER_03 2:17:58

Okay. Uh anything else, Glenn?

SPEAKER_05 2:18:02

No, because I had to use my bonus action for the offhand attack. Oh shit, sorry, subtract five from that damage.

SPEAKER_03 2:18:08

For what?

SPEAKER_05 2:18:09

Because I don't get the bonus damage for dexterity on the offhand attack. Oh, cool. Did I move to 25? Good enough. 20 feet. Alright. Alright. Uh so Glev will say, Well, come get me then! And give him a raspberries.

SPEAKER_03 2:18:27

Alright. Um. That brings us back to the top. Nines, you're up.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:34

Ayo. Uh yeah, Nines is really fast right now with a move speed of 50. I can actually just run straight up to Talos from where I'm at.

SPEAKER_03 2:18:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:45

Uh sort of monk needs.

SPEAKER_03 2:18:48

More speed.

SPEAKER_04 2:18:49

Nines is gonna. Nines is gonna run straight towards Talos, and he's gonna yell out, stop saying weird things! And then, you know, rear back and uh you know, kind of a flying uh I keep forgetting, like I keep thinking unarmed monk, way of the open hand or whatever is using a quarter staff. Okay. Using using the quarter staff. Uh so at a plus two, I would like to do some attacky action. At a plus twelve, I meant, not two. Uh quarter staff, there we go. Bounted. What is that I aspi?

SPEAKER_03 2:19:32

Holy shit. Is that another 20?

SPEAKER_04 2:19:34

Oh 20. Alright. You get some damage, you get some damage. Everybody gets damage. Everybody got damage. Alright. Okay, not bad. 17 damage on that first one. And I go again. Uh 18 does not hit? Uh 18 does not hit. Okay. Uh, and I'm gonna use another attack. 15 probably doesn't hit. What about a oh you son of a bitch? It rolled over at the last second, and it got me with the uh the natural one. 13 doesn't hit. Man, what what a great turn. Uh I'm gonna spend another key point to uh flurry of blows. Wait, I don't get two bonus actions, right? And Haste, it's only the the main action. Okay. So flurry of blows, a 13, and a 15. Oh shit. Six times I rolled.

SPEAKER_03 2:20:36

Uh that that does conclude my turn though. So 16 to 15 damage.

SPEAKER_02 2:20:41

Does Does he get advantage because I'm flanking?

SPEAKER_03 2:20:45

No. No?

SPEAKER_02 2:20:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:48

Uh no, I only hit the one time.

SPEAKER_03 2:20:51

Oh, what was the total damage from that? 17. 17. Got it.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:20:56

Okay. Yeah. Uh nines. As you punch him, you see a small trickle of blood come out of the right nostril of Talos. It's a first.

SPEAKER_05 2:21:06

He punched him in the butt and made his noseblade. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:10

It's a pretty good punch.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:14

Go lay down. Okay. I muted this mic, forgetting that this mic was actually getting my butt. Yeah, mom's sleeping. We're not doing this shit. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:31

I'm trying to lay down.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:35

Alright.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:36

You're not my mom. You told me what to do.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:39

Monty, you are up.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:41

Alright. Uh okay. So uh Monty is going to. Let's see. I need to put I I do get disadvantage on ranged attack rules if I'm within close proximity to him.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:59

Yep. If you're a melee range, you get disadvantage.

SPEAKER_02 2:22:02

So uh Monty's gonna first step away, get some distance between him, and then he wants to make his attack rolls. And you can you can do split movement in IV, correct? Okay. Absolutely. Alright, some uh move. That's what, five feet away, and then make my attack roll. Uh shooting at him twice, not using sharpshooter this time. Uh so the first one is not gonna make it with a 16. And I would like to click the button again, please. Whoo, ouch. The next one's not gonna make it with a 15. So Monty's like visibly kind of shooken by uh Talos literally closing this distance that he was so intentionally putting between them. And even though he's trying to play tough, he uh is you know fumbling a little bit with the arrows and his bow and is not able to uh make a hit. But then what he does next will hopefully instill some confidence in himself, he is going to uh activate his nature's veil, uh making him go invisible, and then from there he will uh leap across a rooftop, dash and another well, not taking the dash action, just moving, and then leap across another one. Uh what he's doing is repositioning himself a little bit closer to Mistra, and on the opposite of a roof line from Talos, just putting some distance between the two of them. Okay. And uh Yeah, that's gonna be it for my turn. I'm invisible. Alright.

SPEAKER_03 2:23:39

Uh so Talos is looking around for you, Monty, and he cannot see you. As intended this time.

SPEAKER_02 2:23:45

But he can smash that building again.

SPEAKER_03 2:23:48

Hold up. You're looking at the jump rules? Nope. Uh so Monty, as you jump over and even after you become invisible, Talos tracks your movement.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:01

He might be hearing you? Doing what? You might have true sight? He has an avatar.

SPEAKER_02 2:24:07

What can what can track an invisible person?

SPEAKER_01 2:24:10

True sight. And sound? True sight or yeah. Rummer sounds like blind fighting to you. Listening to you jump on the bus with a hundred pounds of gear on your back. Listening to your nipple flaps in the breeze as you run. Damn it. Nipple flaps. Uh nipple flaps.

SPEAKER_03 2:24:35

Okay. Alright. Uh Sam, you're up, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:39

Sam is about a hundred feet away. Um, so she's going to use her normal action to uh dash. So that gives me 160 feet of movement, which should be sufficient to uh run all the way across the square square, and I can see Talos through this like alley on the far side of Glen and Nines, and I can see Mystery on top of this building uh that's on the left side of the alley between me and uh and Talos. And uh I can also see like there's some like crates and stuff, and another one of those little like bizarre type tents set up. So Sam's going to do a combination of things, and if you need me to roll some ships.

SPEAKER_04 2:25:21

You call you called the tents bazaar, and I Hmm.

SPEAKER_03 2:25:25

Tents like in a bazaar.

SPEAKER_05 2:25:27

Bazaar tents? That was like what's strange about the tents?

SPEAKER_04 2:25:31

Thank you, Bill.

SPEAKER_01 2:25:32

Got it.

SPEAKER_05 2:25:33

I'm just trying to help.

SPEAKER_01 2:25:35

Um so Sam is going to uh approach in a reckless fashion by running all the way across the square and then jumping on some of those crates and then trampolining off of that uh weird tent thing. And then she's gonna fly, like bounding over Mistra, flying through the air with a two-headed swing and chop Talos with a reckless attack and using a great great weapon master attack. So it's minus five to the attack roll, but I'll have advantage from reckless attack. And this is my first of the two uh haste attacks. And I'd also while I'm flying through the air. Like Aladdin. Yeah. I'd also, while I'm flying through the air, uh hit him with another lightning bolt because bonus attack. Okay. Yep. Um advantage, we're gonna go reckless attack. This be minus five to hit, whatever it is. There's uh 14 plus 12 for 26 minus 5 makes 21 to hit.

SPEAKER_03 2:26:32

Uh that does hit.

SPEAKER_01 2:26:34

21 to hit. So that's gonna be the d12 plus seven plus that's four plus seven for eleven, plus the d4 from my enlarged for four. Uh that's fifteen total plus ten from the great weapon master. Uh so that's twenty-four total for that first attack. And then now that I'm on the ground, I'm assuming my accident like kill him.

unknown 2:26:56

No.

SPEAKER_01 2:26:57

Uh so I'll slide down him and then take a swing at his. I don't know. I guess I'm his size. So I'll just uh yeah, swing at him again. Try to chop him in the side.

SPEAKER_03 2:27:06

Alright, give me an attack roll.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:08

This is uh not not the minus five. Uh 28 to hit.

SPEAKER_03 2:27:12

Yeah, so Sam, as you go and swing a talus on this one, he uh he's kind of caught on to what you're doing now. So his hand reaches out and snatches your axe and stops it from hitting it.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:24

29 stops me.

SPEAKER_03 2:27:27

No.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:28

Okay. Uh did my lightning do any damage to him? It did not do any damage to him. Okay. Well, then that's my turn.

SPEAKER_02 2:27:36

Where's the squirtle when you need him?

SPEAKER_03 2:27:38

Where is the squirtle when you need him? Alright, so Talos uh being surrounded again, he goes to take a step and tries to do this deafening step once again. And Mistra once again casts a counter spell to stop him from deafening step away. Uh so he in s enraged, he focuses on Nines and Sam in front of him. And he is going to uh take a he's going to s try to attempt to stab Sam with a javelin. He's gonna punch Nines in the face. Okay. So uh 21 for you, Sam. Uh beats an 18. And that's gonna be here. Multiple dice. You are gonna take 21 points of damage, ten of which is lightning, so uh half that to 15.

SPEAKER_01 2:28:36

And what is the other type of damage?

SPEAKER_03 2:28:38

Uh the other type of damage is piercing. I'm also resistant to piercing damage. Oh nice. So half it all. Round it up is 11 damage. Okay. Good on it. And then he's going to strike 9s in the face. Well, attempt to. Uh there's a 19 hit. It does not.

SPEAKER_04 2:28:59

Ooh, it does not quite meet the 21 armor class. Or actually, shit, I got a 23 right now with the face.

SPEAKER_03 2:29:07

Yeah. His thunderous gauntlet has a plus 17 to hit and mobile too. Yeah. It's a it's a nasty one.

SPEAKER_04 2:29:14

Um I block his punch with my face, and nines. Nines is like jokes on you. That's the first skill Master the Lion taught me.

SPEAKER_03 2:29:30

Okay. Alright. So that is going to end Talos' turn. Uh, and Meister steps up, and she's still concentrating on your haste spell. Uh, so she is going to throw a she's uh a javelin forms in her hand, and it looks like it's made out of just rock, and she chucks it at Talos.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:52

Don't hit me.

SPEAKER_03 2:30:00

Everything else. That is a twenty-six, so that does hit. She is going to deal twenty-four points of damage to Talos.

SPEAKER_04 2:30:10

So would you say that Mistrio is kind of like a uh kind of a Dummy Mommy sort of figure?

SPEAKER_03 2:30:16

Yeah, yeah. It's like uh if you combined uh Gabrielle from Xena Warrior Princess.

SPEAKER_00 2:30:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:30:24

Yeah, Gabrielle from Xena Warrior Princess with uh um not illustrial. Elminster. Yeah, perfect.

SPEAKER_00 2:30:41

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 2:30:42

And Glenn, that leaves you, buddy. With that picture. Well, you guys spent a lot of time during the first phase of the session talking about how ugly Mistra was, so I did not partake in that for the record.

SPEAKER_04 2:31:00

I can only describe her as unfortunate looking. You you said she was a handsome woman.

SPEAKER_05 2:31:07

That's not a bad thing.

SPEAKER_04 2:31:08

I was being generous. I was drinking heavily.

SPEAKER_05 2:31:14

What? Alright, so Glenn is going to survey the area and try and figure out who's gonna get by these people. Could I move through there without any penalty?

SPEAKER_03 2:31:27

Move through. You can move through him. It is he talos his it's the new start of the initiative order, so it's not. He has or no no no. Talking about Talos. He uses reaction during Sam's turn, so he does have another reaction. Uh, and if you try to sneak past him in the alley, uh he could have an opportunity attack if you leave his side.

SPEAKER_05 2:31:57

Um, no, I was talking more so you didn't see what I was pointing at. Uh, can I get past nines? Oh yeah, absolutely. Okay. I'm not worried about he could try to get me with his opportunity attack. Alright. He said he had another one, but even if he does, I don't prove all I gotta do is act like I attack and he doesn't. So don't mind me if I accidentally punch one of you two. No, I'm just kidding. Um Glen will uh dart for uh Glenn will dart forward. He's still got haste? Yes. Oh, well, okay, movement is not a problem. Alright, so Glenn is going to move up next to um Talos and kaboom and attack Talos.

SPEAKER_03 2:32:44

Alright, give me an attack roll.

SPEAKER_05 2:32:47

Ravier. Does a 27 hit?

SPEAKER_03 2:32:52

Yes, it does.

SPEAKER_05 2:32:54

Awesome. Alright. So 27 that gives me this mod. Twelve plus twenty-six, so that's thirty-eight plus fourteen thunder damage. So thirty-eight magic weapon damage and fourteen thunder damage.

SPEAKER_03 2:33:19

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_05 2:33:20

That is intense. Is he still standing?

SPEAKER_03 2:33:23

He is still standing.

SPEAKER_05 2:33:25

I get another. So with haste, so it's can I take the attack action again? Was that one of the options? I apologize. I miss I didn't quite hear what it was at the end.

SPEAKER_03 2:33:33

Yes, you can take additional action.

SPEAKER_05 2:33:35

Alright, but I can't cast another spell, right? I can't do booming blade, I can only do a regular attack. Correct.

unknown 2:33:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:33:43

So Glenn will again attack with his rapier and say, Haya! 25! That hits? That hit. Alright. It's not nearly as gonna be nearly as impressive. So he only did 11 points that time. Okay. And then he will dart back over here again. Behind knights.

SPEAKER_03 2:34:11

Oof. Alright. Uh Talos's eyes are wide and he's looking around frantically. Um and it's a good one.

SPEAKER_04 2:34:19

Or was that because of a casual 60-point damage turn? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:34:25

So um I didn't get to say my quip. Go for it. So Glenn is kind of like in the midst of as he's dipping past nines, he's gonna look over and said, Haha, got you again. Wimp.

SPEAKER_04 2:34:39

Get quipped, idiot.

SPEAKER_03 2:34:41

Get quipped. Alright.

SPEAKER_05 2:34:43

So yeah, Talus is my turn.

SPEAKER_03 2:34:46

Talos is looking around. He's he's looking for looking a little frantic, looking for a way out. You can see Mistra here. Uh these three people beating on him, and an archer that's just running away and hitting him. Uh nines. You're up, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:00

I'm just imagining this 12-foot-tall avatar of a god like dabbing his brow nervously in in this like Middle Eastern style alleyway. Can I uh can I do bam bonus damage if I uh parkour off of this wall, Assassin's Creed style?

SPEAKER_03 2:35:23

I will probably make you roll for it somehow, but sure, if that's what you want to do. Oh, don't worry. I'm rolling like shit. Uh I ain't gonna get nothing. So if if that's what you want to do, I'm fine with that. Uh but you also would I know this is rough for you, but I also need you to roll me an acrobatics check.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:44

Uh okay. You know what? We're doing this. Alright. Plus 10 to acrobatics.

SPEAKER_03 2:35:50

I rolled uh You need it before you tell me, the acrobatics check needs to be above a 15. Shouldn't be that much. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 2:36:02

Does haste give you dexterity advantage or anything?

SPEAKER_03 2:36:06

Save on dex. You ought to you you have advantage on deck saves.

SPEAKER_05 2:36:10

I thought it was an advantage on acrobatics. Is that what okay no?

SPEAKER_03 2:36:14

You have advantage on dexterity saving throws. Okay. Newest deck something.

SPEAKER_04 2:36:18

You're just stupid faster.

SPEAKER_03 2:36:20

I just imagine in my head, nines doesn't do anything quietly, and so instead of sneaking up, he's just yelling at uh this god as he's trying to jump off the wall, and Talos sees every step he does.

SPEAKER_04 2:36:34

He is saying a prayer to Iune. Of course. Of course. Just imagine uh technically because I've got a climb speed. Like I can I can run across any uh surface.

SPEAKER_03 2:36:58

Yes, water. The reason I made you roll for it is because you were you you want it to do extra damage for it.

SPEAKER_04 2:37:03

Yeah, and I that is it is more interesting that way for sure. What uh so I failed. What are the consequences of this?

SPEAKER_03 2:37:11

No fail. You're still gonna go through the air real cool and go to punch and give it a normal attack, but it's just not gonna do extra damage. Does it does he still get to attack? Yeah, of course. Okay. That'd be real shitty of me. I was like, nah, fuck you.

SPEAKER_04 2:37:25

Uh does a 27 hit?

SPEAKER_03 2:37:27

That does hit. Fucking did it, mom.

SPEAKER_04 2:37:32

A one for damage for eight. Thank you for that. Uh, and then my second attack, an 18 still doesn't hit.

SPEAKER_03 2:37:40

It does not hit.

SPEAKER_04 2:37:41

Somehow. Okay. Uh instead of taking another attack action, I'm going to use my uh wholeness of body to regain 39 hit points.

SPEAKER_03 2:37:57

Okay. Holy shit. That's a that's a good oof, that's good. Okay. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:03

So that takes me from 23 up to 62.

SPEAKER_03 2:38:07

Alright. Talus is looking rough. Talus looking real rough.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:13

Uh and then oh yeah, bonus action. Spin a key point, flurry of blows, two unarmed attacks.

SPEAKER_03 2:38:22

Give them to me.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:23

19?

SPEAKER_03 2:38:25

Does not hit.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:26

Motherfucker. How about a 13? There's a 13 here. No, no, it does not hit. This game is so fun. Fuck no. I'm gonna use inspiration on an attack on my next turn. If there's anything to actually attack anyway. What do you have inspiration from? Uh the the recap, like uh 12 years ago.

SPEAKER_03 2:38:54

No, it goes away after every session, buddy. Why would it go away? That's just the house rule stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:39:02

So that you're using me.

SPEAKER_04 2:39:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:39:03

No, it's written, it's that way, so you use it.

SPEAKER_04 2:39:06

It's working. So now instead of using an eye, they just don't have it. Uh anyway, that concludes my turn.

SPEAKER_03 2:39:13

Okay. Monty, your turn, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 2:39:15

Alright. Uh Monty, now surrounded by his friends, becomes slightly more emboldened, and he reappears because it's back into his turn. Um, and he's going to reposition himself around uh the dome roof that he is not hiding behind, but he's he's gonna hide behind it. Um and he's going to shoot at Talos. Take uh two normal shots with his bow of the winter hunter.

SPEAKER_03 2:39:43

Give me two attack rolls.

SPEAKER_02 2:39:45

Uh that one will not do it with a 15, and the next one will hopefully with a 31.

SPEAKER_03 2:39:51

31 does hit.

SPEAKER_02 2:39:53

31. So he will mark him as a favored foe. Give me an additional d6, and so I I'm not gonna make you roll this, bud.

SPEAKER_03 2:40:05

He's got one HP.

SPEAKER_02 2:40:07

Oh, I think I can do one HP.

SPEAKER_03 2:40:09

How does he w how do you want to do it?

SPEAKER_02 2:40:11

Uh he'll he'll just see him, and he's like at neck level, and so he's just gonna put an arrow right through the side of his neck.

SPEAKER_05 2:40:19

Oh. So No, he doesn't. So I had a good finisher, but I'll have to use it on the next god we kill.

SPEAKER_01 2:40:27

Yeah, I had a cool thing too, but that's alright. I mean, Sam's raging. Maybe she doesn't know he's dead. She can still go at him. Just go and start punching him.

SPEAKER_02 2:40:35

She still just hits him. His body.

SPEAKER_04 2:40:38

Alright. He's already dead.

SPEAKER_03 2:40:42

Is he does he have like a closing speech or is he dead dead? Uh no. So as he's as he's falling to the ground, he screams out. He screams, hang out. I have this, I have this.

SPEAKER_02 2:40:54

Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle. Gurgle shot in the neck.

SPEAKER_03 2:41:00

Uh he screams out, I am Talos, I am Chaos, I am ruin. And he's going to make one sweeping gesture down towards you, Monty, and you see uh you hear a loud roar uh from above you, and as you look up, several meteors are coming down towards the party. Oh boy. Mistra also seeing this uh casts a shield over, which takes the hits from almost all of these meteors, but two punch through. And I'm going to need all of you to make me a deck save. Keep in mind for the three of you that have haste, you do have advantage on those. Oh, it doesn't matter. Advantage.

SPEAKER_01 2:41:44

Can I have super advantage because I can also see this threat coming and I have a feature that does it? No, you there's no super advantage. Right click it, it says super advantage right there.

SPEAKER_03 2:41:53

That's for 2015 rules. Or 2025 rules or 24 rules, whatever it is.

SPEAKER_01 2:41:59

What the fuck are you talking about? With my advantage, I rolled a 2 and a 3 on a dice plus 2 for a 5. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:08

Who all has to do it? Everybody?

SPEAKER_01 2:42:10

Everybody, yes.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:12

17.

SPEAKER_03 2:42:13

Alright.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:14

Or sorry, no, 18, not 17. Yeah, 18.

SPEAKER_03 2:42:18

Everybody that rolled less than an 18. Who is that? Uh Monty. Yes, it is. So nines and Monty and Len saved. Yeah, 22. So for that. All the Dex classes. All the Dex classes.

SPEAKER_04 2:42:39

Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:40

Um wait, never mind. I never mind. I wrote. Did you give yourself the extra bonus, uh Justin? For the haste?

SPEAKER_01 2:42:51

Bonus the advantage from on dexterity savings rose?

SPEAKER_05 2:42:53

Oh, never mind. You're right.

SPEAKER_01 2:42:55

I already had that.

SPEAKER_05 2:42:56

Sorry, I'm dumb.

SPEAKER_03 2:42:59

So uh that is at base, 34 lightning damage. Uh everybody within uh so everybody that's saved automatically halves that. And then keep in mind for people that are within Sam's area, also half that.

SPEAKER_05 2:43:15

Um so Glen's just gonna look at it and go, eh, no thanks. And then calmly walk over and say, nobody, you're just dead. Evasion.

SPEAKER_03 2:43:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:43:28

What was the base damage on that, Sam?

SPEAKER_03 2:43:31

That was 34.

SPEAKER_02 2:43:34

Oh. 34. I'm glad I stepped inside of uh Sam's radius.

SPEAKER_03 2:43:39

So you saved, and then that's 17, and then you half it again, round it up is nine. So nine damage for you, Monty. Nines, Monty, and Glenn. Well, not Glenn. Monty and Nines take nine, and Sammy takes 17.

SPEAKER_04 2:43:54

Yeah, I also have evasion.

SPEAKER_03 2:43:55

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:43:56

My bad. Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 2:43:57

Sam's ready to fight everything, so she sees a meteor coming, it stares at it, and just tries to drop it with her axe.

SPEAKER_03 2:44:05

Uh okay. So Talos, with an arrow piercing his neck, drops to his knees, calls these meteors on you, did not finish everybody off like he wanted it to. So with barely a breath left, what would the four of you like to do? Starting with the top. No dice rolls. Just what are each of your characters going to do? Quick nights.

SPEAKER_04 2:44:28

Question Does teabagging exist in D?

SPEAKER_03 2:44:32

It didn't, but it does not. But it at the same time, you're from a different dimension, so maybe it exists in your dimension.

SPEAKER_05 2:44:39

Somebody has to make it.

SPEAKER_04 2:44:42

Let me show you the respectable.

SPEAKER_05 2:44:45

We're trying to do like this super epic coup de gras and nines teabags and teabag.

SPEAKER_03 2:44:56

It's how as people show respect. Yeah, but tomorrow. Sitting underway. Alright, so nines, what would you like to do as a final blow to Talos?

SPEAKER_04 2:45:08

We're all individually doing final blows here.

SPEAKER_03 2:45:14

Yeah, it's all gonna be at the same time. Just like with Talos dropped to his knees, you all get a we'll call it an opportunity attack. Or a surprise round, even.

SPEAKER_04 2:45:24

Okay. Uh yeah, then Nines is definitely gonna do like some sick shit with his uh his full-on dripping thick veiny staff. Uh you know, the sort of thing where you climb up it and do a flip or whatever, and then you know, grabs it again and like some sort of spinny shit and thwack uh talos with it as as his final action.

SPEAKER_03 2:45:51

Yeah, so you you yeah, you pull Volt off your staff, come down, flack him right on the face.

SPEAKER_04 2:45:56

Yeah, exactly. Something like in the veins leave an impression on his face. Why is my staff so big? It's not.

SPEAKER_05 2:46:09

We fixed that yesterday. Maybe it's natural.

SPEAKER_03 2:46:13

Maybe it's natural, maybe it's not a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a uh, Monty.

SPEAKER_02 2:46:18

Uh Monty's just going to uh put his bow on his back and then turn around and walk away from the guy heading towards uh Mistra.

SPEAKER_03 2:46:27

Uh he's done. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:46:29

He's done. And he hops off the roof and stands next to Mistra. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:46:35

Uh Sam takes uh she's at the bottom of these stairs that kind of lead down in the alley. Um so Sam takes like two steps back onto the stairs and like grabs her axe with two hands and throws her whole body up and combines all four of the attacks she gets into this like tornado of axe spins as she comes down and then lands full force in the ground, swinging through Talos, crunching her axe into the stone ground of this alley and cracking the bricks below it.

SPEAKER_04 2:47:02

Okay. She played too much Diablo.

SPEAKER_02 2:47:04

Except for it was all uh lightning damage and uh it doesn't actually do anything.

SPEAKER_01 2:47:09

Oh yeah, and lightning strikes as I do. And that as she starts this, she's still got like lightning arcing off of her from taking that lightning meteor to the face. So she's just like and turns that into her final rage bonus action against this fucker.

SPEAKER_03 2:47:26

Oof. Finally, thunder does do damage. Lightning. Lightning, sorry, lightning does do damage.

SPEAKER_01 2:47:32

And that's like the final insul. You see, like the uh the like a little a little flick on the nose as he's dying, like, gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 2:47:41

And uh finally, Glenn.

SPEAKER_05 2:47:44

So Glenn is going to run up the stairs, and since we're not gonna have to roll, jump off of the wall, and as he's in the air, plummeting towards Talos, who is down on the ground, the Gujra cloak will billow out behind him, turn into the wings, and he will glide down, and with one final kaboom that doesn't do anything, because it doesn't matter, will shove his rapier hilt deep through the other side of the neck where Monty's arrow.

SPEAKER_04 2:48:16

So only this far.

SPEAKER_05 2:48:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:48:20

Um yeah, with that final strike, Talos starts to scream. No, no, I am entropy, I am uncontrollable, I am and Mistra interrupts him and says in a a cold voice, You are chained. And she stretches her hand out, and shackles of light bind around him, and and now you are and now you are finished with your tantrum. I hope you enjoyed spurning my laws, Talos. It's time for you to answer to them. And Talos blinks away.

SPEAKER_02 2:48:58

Nobody to loot. Loot! Sam looks around for more things in power.

SPEAKER_01 2:49:03

Do we gain a level? Um Oh Sam's standing next to Sam's standing next to Nines, how convenient.

SPEAKER_03 2:49:16

Nines turns to Sam. Do we gain a level?

SPEAKER_01 2:49:21

Sam, who's still 12 feet tall right now.

SPEAKER_03 2:49:24

Um so Mistra teleports down to the middle of the uh middle of this town square, and she waves you all over. Uh has Sam calmed down enough to join this, or is she just gonna go and rage for a bit?

SPEAKER_01 2:49:39

Has it been six seconds? I mean Yes. Yeah, it's been six seconds.

SPEAKER_05 2:49:43

I mean, it's been a whole session of sex, so yes, six seconds.

SPEAKER_01 2:49:49

Yeah. So I just like her her blood cursed eyes are looking around and eventually, you know, she doesn't swing at something, and she kind of just like takes a few deep breaths and like starts noticing how gore-covered she is and kind of like shaking it off. Not really cleaning it off the way Glenn and Moores would have, but just kind of like licking themselves clean. No, press the digitation. Press the digitation, baby. I was thinking of Major. It'll the blow will flake off after it dries.

SPEAKER_04 2:50:20

Yeah. Gross.

SPEAKER_03 2:50:23

Uh do you all join Mistra at the center of this uh town square?

SPEAKER_01 2:50:28

Yeah, Sam's sorry. She's like cleaning herself as she approaches Mistra.

SPEAKER_03 2:50:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:50:32

Answering the summons.

SPEAKER_05 2:50:33

So Glenn is going to look down where Talos was as it and s knows that this god just took his loot. No, he doesn't care about the loot as much as he's like, what the hell? And starts walking towards, and as he's walking towards, he's brushing the gore and crap off of him, and it's precipitationing away.

SPEAKER_03 2:50:57

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_05 2:50:58

So in the and he's walking slowly, so that he's got enough time to completely clean off everything. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:51:09

I kinda imagine when you do the feather, you're like your arms going over your head and it's like whoing, like sparkles are happening as you rip your hair around, the feathers flopping around.

SPEAKER_05 2:51:20

Um when Glenn shows up into the the courtyard, he looks like he hasn't done anything today at all.

SPEAKER_02 2:51:30

He's rolled out of bed, put his makeup on.

SPEAKER_01 2:51:33

Yep. Really cute.

SPEAKER_03 2:51:38

Uh nine's a Monty.

SPEAKER_02 2:51:40

Uh Monty just walks over to the edge of the building that he's standing on and does a he pulls his cloak over the top of his head and he'll jump off the building, land on the ground, and then walk like two more feet over to Mistra. Is he afraid of heights?

SPEAKER_01 2:51:55

Monty? No.

SPEAKER_05 2:51:56

He's pulling his cloak over his head.

SPEAKER_01 2:51:58

No, he's doing the cool like superhero walk away. He left before Thanos Talos even died. So he was already halfway to the fucking center of that court.

SPEAKER_02 2:52:06

The wind whistling behind him as he walks, the dust billowing the superhero jump down to one knee and then gets up and keeps going. Not even looking at the water.

SPEAKER_05 2:52:15

Superhero landing, superhero landing.

SPEAKER_02 2:52:17

He doesn't even know that Talus has disappeared at this point, he just knows he's dead.

SPEAKER_01 2:52:22

Talos takes more lightning damage from being shocked by how cool that was.

SPEAKER_03 2:52:28

Alright. So as you all come to the center of this town square, uh, Nisra extends a hand and and she says to you all, You have done what few have dared. You stood before Fury incarnate and did not bow. Where others fled the storm, you became the stillness within it. Talos is not gone, no guide no god dies so easily, but you have shaken the foundation of his power. That ripple will echo across the plains, and this world will be safer for a time. I know of the quest you have been sent on, and I wish to ease your pain and make your travel easier. She extends her hand, and you all feel a a warm, soft glow of energy or you all feel a warm, soft energy pulse over your entire party, and uh she effectively gives you all a long rest.

SPEAKER_01 2:53:18

Clicky clicky. Clicky click. I could have died twice and still been okay. I wasn't even close.

SPEAKER_03 2:53:25

Um she then says, The weave remembers, and so shall I. Go forward not as pawns of fate, but as chosen of your own path. And then she uh walks over to Why why does Glenn have a body of okay?

SPEAKER_00 2:53:42

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_03 2:53:44

I did not do it. She walks over to nines, and uh what did it do?

SPEAKER_04 2:53:54

And for the cowardly lion, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_03 2:53:56

And for the cowardly lion you get shit.

SPEAKER_05 2:54:01

Um she takes a drop of his blood. Haha.

SPEAKER_00 2:54:06

No, it gives you a reddish.

SPEAKER_03 2:54:15

Uh so come on. I lost it. I lost it.

SPEAKER_01 2:54:21

She asks us what we want in return for saving her life. No, she doesn't. Then she gives it to us. Then she gives it to you.

SPEAKER_05 2:54:30

She takes us all on.

SPEAKER_03 2:54:32

Uh so sorry, one second. How did I need this thing? The problem was I was originally gonna give you some boots of speed, uh, Brandon, but you don't need them, like at all.

SPEAKER_01 2:54:47

Like at all. More speed is good. More good. More gutter. Are those uh attunement ones?

SPEAKER_04 2:54:57

Yes. I mean Yeah, I think I'm fully fully yoked on attunements right now. Then you gotta make a tough decision. Yeah, should I keep on this cap of water breathing?

SPEAKER_01 2:55:11

Especially if you know where the information word is. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:55:16

So uh she walks over to you nines and hands you uh a small book, and um, and she opens it up for you and places one hand on the book and one hand on your head. And uh this is a manual of quickness action, so you're gonna get plus two to dexterity. He's got a twenty-two dexterity now. That would be a plus two. Would you rather the boots of speed?

SPEAKER_04 2:56:10

Great.

SPEAKER_03 2:56:12

Um he then walks she wants she then walks over to Monty and hands her two and hands him uh uh a set of bracers. And on the bracers it uh is a picture of a male elf with a bunch of arrows behind him. And these are bracers of archery.

SPEAKER_02 2:56:29

Bracers of archery. Can I assuming I can't wear these and the gauntlets at the same time? Is that correct?

SPEAKER_03 2:56:35

Yeah, you can. Yeah. Okay, that's fine. Um these are attuned items. Uh but while wearing the bracers, you have proficiency with the longbow and shortbow, and you gain a plus two bonus of damage rolls made with such weapons.

SPEAKER_02 2:56:46

Alright, I'll think. So thank you very much. I will put these to good use.

SPEAKER_03 2:56:54

Walks over to she then glides over towards Sam, hands him a or hands her a book. I always want to call it a call Sam a him because of the name. Uh, walks over to Sam, hands him her a book, um, and once again places her hand on the book and on your head and gives you plus two to your strength. So this is a manual of manual of gainful exercise.

SPEAKER_01 2:57:18

So does that mean that I just don't I'm still capped at 20? Oops, I'm still capped at 20.

SPEAKER_03 2:57:25

No, it uh so the manual will increase plus two up to 22.

SPEAKER_01 2:57:31

Right, but that puts me at 20. So if I'm at my next level, can I still put points in there to get to 22? Uh what does the teeth say?

SPEAKER_05 2:57:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 2:57:40

I so I can't. So you can you can get up to 20 natty. And then you gotta use like that real good uh like goddess hormone to get you above 20.

SPEAKER_05 2:57:52

The manual will push you over. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 2:57:55

I know the manual can push you past, but if I'm not at 20 yet, can I still go past 20? Because that's like a specific exception to the rule. And that's the only thing I just don't know.

SPEAKER_03 2:58:04

And it it probably won't go. Well, we're gonna say, because you guys are also gonna gain a level at this one, that you gain the level beforehand. So if you wanted to do the plus two to strength, and then add the two to that, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 2:58:14

Okay. That'll put you at what 22 strength? Potentially. If I mean, yeah, potentially. Okay. I don't think I get stat or Julie or stat points at 14, though. It's uh 16. 16 and 20, we get them.

SPEAKER_03 2:58:27

Oh yeah, then you wouldn't get them there. No. This puts you at 20, and then the ability raise. I'll look up the actual rules, but I I don't think the ability raise at 16 would allow you to do that.

SPEAKER_01 2:58:40

Yeah, I think you have to already be at 20 for it to matter. I don't remember. Let me see. What's the book called? Book of of exercise or something?

SPEAKER_03 2:58:49

Uh Manual of Gainful Exercise. Manual of gainful exercise. This this book will it increases your strength by two up to 22. But because you're using that at level 13 or 14, right? I don't think you can then use your feet to increase that past 20.

unknown 2:59:07

Cool.

SPEAKER_03 2:59:07

I'll verify.

SPEAKER_01 2:59:08

But I think that's it. And it's really just I was curious. It's that's a very big distraction for no reason. My bad.

SPEAKER_03 2:59:14

Yeah, no. Uh ability score improvements, class features that allow you to increase one ability score by two or two abilities scores by one, but not above a maximum of twenty.

SPEAKER_01 2:59:24

Yeah, I think that's how they play too.

SPEAKER_03 2:59:27

Because the manual increases the base stat. And it's not a ring or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 2:59:32

Yeah, makes sense to me.

unknown 2:59:34

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 2:59:36

And then finally, she walks over to you, Glenn, and hands you two items one dagger and one cloak. And the dagger is a dagger of venom. So the dagger of venom gives you a plus one bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this weapon. Um, you can also use as you can as an action cause thick black poison to coat the blade. The poison remains for one minute. Or until attack is made using this creature. Or attack is made using this weapon hits a creature. That creature must succeed on DC 15 con save or take 2d10 poison damage and become poison for one minute. Dagger can't be used again this way until the next dawn. So it's a dagger of venom. And then you also get uh the cloak of invisibility.

SPEAKER_02 3:00:23

Oh Harry Potter-ish.

SPEAKER_03 3:00:30

And finally, with that, Mister says, Good luck, travelers. Good luck, travelers, or adventurers, or whatever you are. And uh she holds her hand up and uh two portals form in front of you, and one of them is black and one of them is red. Moves towards the red one.

SPEAKER_02 3:00:54

Do we know what these portals would mean? Can we see anything through them?

SPEAKER_03 3:00:58

No, you can't see anything through them. But Mistra does say each of these are are each of these are are destinations on your on your on the line to finish your quests. Both of them have must be completed, but it's your choice on which one to go to.

SPEAKER_04 3:01:14

Okay. Red is fine with me.

SPEAKER_05 3:01:20

Glenn's gonna go with the other one.

SPEAKER_01 3:01:23

And we spot the party. Okay. She didn't go through it, she was just moving towards it. Like she wanted she's feeling the red one. She's not going anywhere without you guys.

SPEAKER_05 3:01:36

So yeah, Glenn doesn't care. He thinks that either one will be fun.

SPEAKER_02 3:01:42

So he's walking into the black one?

SPEAKER_05 3:01:45

No, I was joking. Um if Sam already started moving towards the red one, then he'll go that way.

SPEAKER_02 3:01:53

Yeah, Monty will just give a a nod to uh Mistra and walk into the red portal.

SPEAKER_03 3:02:00

Alright. So with all of you entering the red portal, that's where we're gonna call it.

SPEAKER_00 3:02:06

Jump jump jump.

SPEAKER_03 3:02:07

Then add the closer that we put in last night, Andrew. And well, and we're level 14 now, yeah? And you are level 14, yes, you all gained a level.

SPEAKER_04 3:02:16

Hooray, hooray. As as we're walking into the portal, nines will turn to Sam and be like, who was that giant lady?

SPEAKER_05 3:02:26

Oh, you're talking about me? That's Sam!

SPEAKER_03 3:02:35

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SPEAKER_02 3:03:54

Glenn's our go-to. Or no, Bill's Bill's our go-to NPC. There we go.

SPEAKER_03 3:03:59

Brandon, it's your turn to take us out.

SPEAKER_04 3:04:02

Man, had a lot of fun with this. Uh good night, you guys. It's been nerdy.

SPEAKER_05 3:04:08

It's been nerdy nerdy. We have convalesce nerdily.

SPEAKER_03 3:04:14

Convalescent,