Baldur's Gate 3 Cast play D&D #1 | High Rollers Presents: Shadows of Athkatla #ad

foreign the future of Boulder's Gate hangs in the balance will you be the hero and save it from looming Darkness or will the city crumble under your influence explore the vastness of the Forgotten Realms overcoming its challenges however you choose this journey is yours to make its path and your party shaped by each and every decision you brought us this far so how shall we proceed fight out think Aid manipulate steal bargain the world and its denizens will react in kind with 46 subclasses and over 600 Spells at your disposal experience true RPG Freedom as a solo Adventurer or with a party of friends become a Force for good also chaos in your way [Music] in Boulder's Gate 3. you decide hello everybody and welcome to a very different high rollers Dungeons and Dragons game because it is I your usual dungeon master Mart Sherlock Holmes of the high rollers Channel but I don't have my regular players and we're not in our regular world today because we have very kindly been approached by larion Studios and some rather fine guests to run a little D and D one shot and speaking of those guests here they are let us start and have them introduce themselves and who they will be playing uh starting with Mr Theo please take us away hello everybody my name is Theo and I'll be playing will Raven guard the blade of Frontiers the blade himself is here uh and yeah moving on please take us away hi I'm Samantha Bell I play Colac she is a formula of Baldur's Gate recently of hell [Laughter] and I'm Jennifer and I'm playing Shadow heart God's favorite princess [Laughter] a t-shirts someone make me a t-shirt that will probably have already happened by the time this goes out there yeah perfect and then on our other side Deborah AKA Dev playing Lazelle of Crash clear the fiercest and best gift Yankee in all the land oh the voice I love it love it uh and you're moving on hello I'm Neil newborn and I play possibly the greatest vampire in the world a Starion Hello darling too natural I know it's very accessible it's terrifying I actually have his giggle now so no I started doing that like on a thing yes well last but certainly by no means least please Tim uh I'm Tim and I am Gail dakarius of waterdeep the greatest uh wizard [Applause] [Laughter] um amazing but yes so thank you very much larian for helping us put this together uh and this is our Baldur's Gate cast uh DND one shot which I've given the title uh The Echoes of athcatler which will all make sense uh to come to be um and yeah thank you Lauren for sponsoring this as well uh just as a warning there may be some mild spoilers if you've not finished border Skate 3 especially act one there might be a couple of little tiny spoilers here and there um but hopefully you've all got past that point and you've got out of character creation and actually played a bit of the game uh so that won't matter too much um now this is normally where I as a dungeon master would read you a little introductory thing to kind of set the scene to kind of set up where you're going to be oh yeah oh yeah all of us are smelling the toast but I'm not going to be giving you guys an introductory that will read out today because I've got somebody who can do a far better job than me hi I'm Amelia Tyler I'm the narrator of Baldur's Gate 3 or your dungeon master I give you Authority sometimes and right now I'm going to be doing some sight reading for you apparently oh God okay okay okay somewhere in the Wilds of the sword Coast you have made camp for the night the Stars overhead Flicker and glimmer as you rest peacefully recovering your strength from the arduous battles and Adventures the last few days you awaken just as the sun begins to Crest Over the Horizon spilling its pink and orange light over your bed rolls and Tents Birdsong fills the air in this idyllic scene as you Don your armor and prepare for the day ahead then the Peace of this moment is broken your companion the hero who shares in a lipid tadpole connection with you suddenly engulfed in a sickly green and yellow light pours over their body like liquid metal silencing their screams as it pours into their mouth and over their face the violent jerk their body is lifted up into the air and hovers in place yeah [Music] as the internet breaks amazing wow well I'm I'm never gonna be able to live that up sorry yes you have all awoken this morning at your camp in the Watson sword coast and this moment of peace is shattered as Tav the hero that has been accompanying you uh is lifted into the air their body completely covered by this magical flickering green and yellow light it pours into their mouth almost like liquid metal kind of like filling their face that you hear just the briefest scream before it's silenced and then they're lifted into the air hovering in place and all of you are present you see this happen and now I asked you the most important question what would you like to do well we all saw this coming tab is currently floating up in the middle of the camp their body kind of almost like twisted and contorted you can almost see pressure being exerted on them and you will see this now would anybody like to do anything [Laughter] um you could uh use your detect magic spell if you have one if you have the temp match but you can cast that or you could just make an Arcana check um and you could just kind of maybe use your knowledge your training as a wizard to try and figure out what might be going on let's do that I think let's lean into that great well then this is we're gonna make our first roll of the game uh Tim's first so I was concerned that I would have to go first guidance right you're well now [Applause] Jen you absolutely can do that so so this and what we're going to do is we're going to kind of almost I'd like to know what does this look like so Shadow heart like you see girl kind of approaching maybe kind of pondering thinking over what's happening you'll need you'll need help Gail deal with this nervous but I will help because I have guidance good point well made we should we should probably do this as well yes how do you imagine uh Shadow Hearts magic to look like as you kind of pull this energy from Char the goddess what's it look like do you have an idea of how like you might do it or like what the spell might look like yes I should have should have looked this up no no this is the you know this is Pure Imagination I'm imagining I'm imagining some like purple gorgeousness yes yeah that's it like surrounding Gail you're playing d d I did it so you feel this kind of come over you so what this means Gail uh for the Glenn's career allows you to add a default which is a tiny pyramid dice to your Arcana check right so when we do I'd like to also add moral support by a slow clap very well done thank you that's going to be most useful you're pretty sure you hear one of tav's Bones like like Snapchat but uh moving on from that um you have uh this is what we call an ability to check in the game of skill check right so this is Gail using his Arcane knowledge to try and figure out what's going on and there is a chance that Gail might not know what what is happening so you can take your Big Dice to D20 uh you're going to add your guidance which is the D4 which is the little pyramid as well yep and then you're going to look for under your skills your Arcana skill and you're going to see that that has a bonus yep plus five plus five So You're Gonna Roll those dice together and you're gonna add plus five to the roll okay and I have a number in my head that you're trying to beat um and I will tell you if you succeed or fail uh so I've rolled a 17 okay so add it all up together 20 22 and then how does this you add that so that's 14. yeah your number means nothing together 26. indeed it doesn't Gail you are a master of the Arcane art I told you you are a wizard of great skill and knowledge and you begin looking over uh to have this champion traveling with and there's a couple of things that immediately become apparent to you through your training knowledge and perhaps also Shadow Hearts spell almost helping clear your mind allowing you to think clearly as you do um and your clap is being really appreciated uh so you know a couple of things first of all you know this spell is very very powerful and very rare this is not traditional magic in any sense it has elements of different schools of magic and kind of merge together but you also with such a high roll you know that this spell is somehow being channeled from a great distance this is not being channeled from anyone nearby this is miles and miles and miles away that this spell has somehow anchored itself to Tav and is affecting it and you think what it's doing is it is taking over their body and their mind it's almost trying to replace it with that of somebody else right and that is kind of what you know so whilst Gail is doing that in Shadow heart you're helping with the going to spell I'd like to kind of go around the table and find out what everybody is kind of doing and you do see that ascale's kind of pondering and thinking and maybe weaving Arcane runes to try and figure this out you begin to see like tab spot you're almost shaking and spasming and you know they're violently like you see like the bones almost threatening to kind of like Snap and break um so uh let's go round unless anybody wants to volunteer themselves with an idea [Music] okay let's go with uh so um can we all sense that even though while we can all make sure obviously this is heavy magic yes and Gail's free you can you could have shared you can say like oh I'm gonna share that information absolutely big magic people uh I'm gonna take a few steps back towards like the camp area but specifically I'm also going to have a little look around and see if Taft's stuff is like thank you oh well do you know what I think because I feel that Tav hasn't been completely on as well well I just feel that maybe Tav was holding on to some items that really could be better served well shared I think that there's a lot going on right now so why don't you make me a perception check hysterian and to see if you do notice where to have might have left their pack last night and you know you're very seasoned so you know what this is but this is the same thing this is ability check so it's a D20 plus the role and then we compare it with the discovers no okay so this is will this be stealth or slightly uh so well this is perceptions my perception is plus three and this is a wisdom role as well right all right so it's just the answer the plus three because it's all pre-built into your skills down there it's all created all right so that's three that is five by total so you're around and then I start I start looking as I'm doing this I notice when I noticed Gail's boots okay he's doing all this stuff yeah he's actually he's hiked up his clothes a little bit and I realized they're really nice they're very nice I get a little transfix with this okay yeah that's the point where I can't quite look away from the stitching is exquisite you know it's double double what is it cost a fortune it cost a fortune here absolutely I wonder how often he takes them off yeah so yeah I remember little thing so yeah you're fixating on that so we're staying kind of looking for tabs gear to obviously check and make sure everything's all in order um you are distracted by girls boots unfortunately you do not seem to be able to find tabs back now maybe if you know when you can spend some more time you'll probably rather search it and find it easily but in this minute like in a quick glance you'd see no sign of it um what about lacelle uh sorry or will uh getting my hair character mines anything that you guys think your characters might do in this scenario I'm telling Gail to hurry the [ __ ] up you don't have time and neither we do we have time for historian to be looking at people's boots this seems like quite an urgent potentially life-threatening situation it certainly does and I don't know why you're taking so long so while you're kind of like speaking about these guys this is not easy it should be for a wizard um well what you can do is there's a couple of options if you want to like you can obviously just be yelling at Gail to hurry up and things like that um but you could also you know you could try and uh sort of motivate you know motivate him yeah and there's a thing in the game called The Help action which is uh you know it doesn't sound like that's what you're going for but it's a great chance to bring it up yeah yeah um and what that would do is if you do take the health action not necessarily now but in the future you can give somebody advantage to a role advantage means is you roll twice and you hit Heist all right so keep that in mind for the future later but for now we're gonna assume that Lazelle is just sort of next to Gail's shoulder like come on hurry up [Laughter] told us that somebody could be casting this spell on time I'm having a little look around the area but it's potentially that person casting that is close so I'm a little bit on edge just okay look around you if you're having a look around then there's the it's just like a staring there's a skill called perception and that is literally to like notice stuff going on around you sure I think we're gonna make this a perception skill roll yeah so it's a D20 it's the Big Dice and then on your list of skills you've got the big long list of the tables of skills uh that's the right one then look for perception tiny font I do apologize yeah yeah and so what bonus do you have for that just plus zero plus zero so this is just a straight D20 roll um So You're Gonna Roll that and then we'll see what we get [Music] there's you don't notice the sign of like you don't see any shrouded figures well you don't see anybody like you don't see any hooded figures or anything like that weaving spells but I'm gonna give you one thing for an eight you because you are you're a warlock unfortunate is packed you are probably a little bit sensitive to like magical energies and things like that because you've you you hunt down feet and devils and these kind of magical creatures you do notice that there are these Standing Stones near the camp you can almost like it's like there's like a fizzy taste in the air and a smell of uh sort of raw power almost like that kind of sizzling iron and sort of strange smell that you know companies magical energies Gathering and you can you can tell that these Standing Stones kind of have that effect you don't see anybody around you all right um and again you guys can just we can just say will would tell that to everybody I will watch out you don't have to specifically like say anything you can just be like yeah I tell everybody what's going on whatever but yeah you kind of sense that and like uh they're kind of spread out to the edges of the camp you know near the trees and near the sort of like edges event things like that you guys watch and as you're doing this uh you you know Tav is at this point like twisting and like shouting and it's almost like twisting so violently there's a serious threat that they might like kind of like you know twist their neck or like their arm or something like that and it's clearly building whatever this spell is like the longer and longer it goes on like it seems to be like really causing some sort of effect um what about is there anything Carla likes you say car accidents say oh [ __ ] not again I'm just gonna take a step back seeing this look concentrate maybe have a little look around and ready herself okay all right just get the X out do you want to like make a prescription or is this you just like if anything comes out you want to be ready to fight kind of thing I want to see if someone's coming towards us something distracting us yeah great well then let's uh let's have some guidance well guidance has already been cast on Galen this little moment yeah unfortunately it's not like the video game every time every time but yeah but I would say that like you've already like Will's done the same thing and picked up that there might be this strange energy so I will give you advantage on the role because I think like will my you can see will is like there's something that's bothering me call on call out to come and investigate the uh it sounds perfect to me yeah this is the guy who was just like yeah I think I think I'll get it but yeah so yeah let's give a perception check with Advantage I think on Colac and then see what we get so 16. 16 that's pretty good and I've got a three three and so yeah so 19 total well with Advantage gets rolled twice and to the highest so let's see if she could get high enough no I didn't know so yeah you begin looking around and you're like maybe this is a distraction or something like that and will kind of calls you over and mentions this like strange energy and you're beginning use to kind of pick up on this but you see maybe it's the years spent in a furnace kind of always watching your back and you're familiar with powerful creatures that can use magic and there's this like really just very faintly in the air as if something is about to arrive and that and that is the point when as will and karmac are looking at these stones and Gail is examining a Tav and like beginning to see this kind of spell taking effect to stare and you're admiring the boots uh Shadow Heart Is providing Gail with this swirl of magic glazel is just berating him uh over his shoulder that is the point when the air seems to almost tear and rip in the air as around these sending Stones they're very fabric of the of the earth and the land begins to open and creatures begin to emerge and this is where we're gonna do that wonderful thing that we call Indian it's quite quick but we want to introduce you to your first combat we're going to roll initiative and to explain this uh this is going to basically be what we're going to determine the sort of order of combat basically um of how things go down um so we're gonna have so everybody's gonna take the D20 and you have a thing called initiative on your character sheet it's in the middle at the top next to your arm across the hit points so you're going to roll the D20 and add that bonus and then um [Laughter] we've got a natural 20 over here that makes sense we both got one which makes yours are two and mine are four yeah but it's a great one alrighty all right so uh what do we get there's a total forget total 17. 17 alrighty perfect and then what a steering we have a natural one but that you do get bonus four a four well that might help you go quicker than Lazelle who also plus one too and then what about Shadow heart I've got six plus two seconds eight okay and you're still berating makes sense that Colac and Will are probably a bit more ready sometimes the dice really line up really nicely and then will we add a natural 20 for a total off no 22 22. my ones as well all died [Music] tbk first game ever so let me describe a couple of things of what you guys see but before I do that we can't do a d d combat without you guys having some Miniatures yeah is for you to take your character place them uh roughly where you think they would be I'm gonna give you a representation of where to have would be this little Suzuki ghost in the middle uh so if you wouldn't mind taking um [Music] hey could you hello beautiful there we go so we make these ones uh these are going to be slightly bigger than the the other enemies just so you stand out a little bit more in case you wonder why you're giant compared to everybody else um but yeah if you guys would like to place yourselves where you think you would be on this wonderful Maps these are the standing stones and there's another set of them over here as well yeah um I'm also going to point out that in your Camp uh there is also uh scratch the dock is it here yeah um you also have a volofam gedard uh the sort of traveling uh uh black art who writes books and things like that he's been staying at your camper as well um so we have will and Kai over here by the tables uh near these kind of standing stands here yeah yeah that's fine yeah [Applause] okay [Music] um I like the idea as well that uh Vodafone is like terrified of Lazelle so he's currently like crouched underneath the benches as you're stood over uh lingering and then what you guys see is tactically brilliant positioning oh perfectly brilliant [Music] [Laughter] you've got this right so what you see emerging from this portal is five I would call them spirits but they almost look like a more magical energy than actual like ghosts they're kind of uh Prismatic in color they're constantly shifting in Hue their bodies almost seem to like Flicker and glitch almost um but they're definitely humanoid in shape some of them more than others all different types of races tieflings elves dwarves um men women some look younger some look older but in the middle of them is a very bizarre creature and the miniature is not quite accurate but what you see is almost like a statue of a glass Warrior like made purely from glass and crystal with a glass sword and glass Shield stands in the middle of them very impassive just sort of scanning around and it points with its swords towards tab's body and he watches and Spirits forget such and that is where our combat is going to begin um so because we have uh Mr will later Frontiers going up first um let's go over a couple of things about combat in India because this is you guys are learning for the first time probably we've got a few people at home learning for the first time as well uh in combat indeed we take turns so you're up first on your turn you can do a move you can do an action and you can do a bonus action an action is things like attack with a weapon or cast a spell bonus actions are things that are specific on your character sheet you normally have a spell or an ability that will say as a bonus action you can do this and then moving is you can move your speed um so if I think for your speed for this example it's normally at the top of your sheet um 30. um each Square on our little battle map that we have here is five feet so you can move six squares yep right um you've put yourself very close as you were investigating this strange effect um look yeah basically um and so uh so yeah you can do that thing there are different types of actions you can do Beyond just attacking and casting this spell there's things like dashing and disengage but I think we're gonna kind of try and keep things simple for now you guys do have your little cheat sheets as well if you want to look those up but the main question is well what would you like to do and they're advancing on us right now yeah they've seen it looks like the spirit's almost the creature didn't even seem to pay much attention to you it pointed its sword towards Tav in this kind of like state of them being taken over by this spell and the spirits look almost like they're gonna Rush past you okay can I cast Darkness absolutely yeah you can absolutely and then they wouldn't be able to I'm going to cost Darkness [Applause] in fact I might even have a little thing for this uh Jane we're very proud baby warlocks so you so first of all let's get into the native area right what does it look like when will cast a spell like what do you imagine that looking like like is this a gesture is this his eye you know goes black and Inky like the Nike's about to conjure is this like smoke trailing out of his hands his eyes go black his other eye like rolls back into his head puts his hands like to the sky and he sort of like draws draws the magic down the watches the light in the air it almost seems to dim like it's turning night but just in this small part nature itself bending itself to Will's strength and you hear that feminine devil voice Whispering nothing intelligible but just you feel her presence your patrons presence in your back your mind and darkness would cover an area like this so where would you like to kind of like Center this spell like you can have it right on the middle of them you could have it so it more is affecting like you would like less you and Colac like where roughly would you like it um no literally like right on top of it right on top of that just to like disorientate yeah yeah absolutely yeah absolutely so you come to this Darkness now you have a special ability wheel which allows you to see in magical Darkness yes unfortunately comic does not so but we have this darkness in place so Carl you are suddenly plunged into night um as this shroud this humble shroud encapsulates all around you but will you see you see the spirits like these unstable Spirits do seem to be disorientated like suddenly something has changed you don't necessarily get the impression that they can see but their magic is still obscuring their like Vision or their sense of where they are but that glass knight looks directly at you as if as if it can see through the darkness and it just levels its blade almost like a challenge towards you so that was your action that's one of your spell slots as well so you've used one of your two spell slots so that's gone just so as a reminder but you can still move and you still have a bonus section um would you like to move at all I don't think yeah okay we're gonna we'll remove this temporarily so we can see where everyone is on the map yeah um [Music] [Music] he is currently so five ten feet from you so you were right here so each Square each square is right okay so I can't cast a spell on him right now uh you just can't Darkness okay um and it's good this is like you know it helps you you guys list your first DD combat yeah we're taking it slow a tactical repositioning yes I'm not scared so yeah so you can move six squares so you can go so one two three eyes out of the darkness in it and like hopefully some others catch my attention uh well next up so uh so that's your turn if you had something you could do as a bonus section you could do a bonus section as well I think for this time we'll just kind of get things very simple um we go to the next thing the initiative order is Gail of Water Deep so you've seen all this happen this is all happening about Madness all around you this is all happening in about six seconds so the turn takes like simultaneously like this all happens all at once but you've seen you've seen will pull down this double shroud and then run back out of it um ready for it and you've you saw briefly this conjured Spirit host in this glass night on the inside of that Darkness yeah seeing as this Knight is made of glass yes I'm thinking I shoot a ray of frost and freeze it [Applause] is that's why you got this this is an excellent plan there is a slight complication because the darkness is over it you can't see into the darkness imagine like a big orb of black like orb of night you can still track because you knew where the Knight was yeah but it affects your accuracy and you roll with disadvantage on the attack because you are effectively blind so you can still try you like well I think he was 20 degrees this way and then but you've got to hope that he hasn't slightly all this creature hasn't moved I'm gonna hit something can I do guidance because I'm right next to it unfortunately so because we're now in turn based thing you can't until you've said also guidance doesn't affect attack rolls but you do have a spell that does affect attack rolls what's my spell yes that's the one we took so guidance is for like schools you have the greatest spill of all lizelle swords uh no you but we'll get into a turn you have something called Battle Master maneuvers you can do some very [Music] tricky isn't it because Shield of Faith it's very good as well it's really good and I was like I was gonna Shield I was gonna Shield uh tap because I can see through the dark that this is magical Darkness so only the only one who can see through this darkness is Will and he's run away I feel like we're [Laughter] I've made some Darkness so it's Gail's turn so there's you can have a little bit of attack punch out of like oh can you do this I'll give you less all right yeah yeah let's do it let's hold it back and let's do that so Gail your action you're gonna hold your action until you get the bless from Shadow heart and then you're gonna try and frost the glass all right all right would you like to move you can still move on your turn that doesn't affect it uh as in physically physically move your character like around so every square is uh uh you have a speed of 30 feet so you can move six squares and I'm still trying to work out with the magic if you feel like you've worked out as much as I can like this is a very anxious but like you kind of figured out that yeah it's been cast from very very far away um it's slowly taking over their body and their mind it's extremely powerful tastes like purple yeah right now right now it looks like the other thing I would say because you did roll like at 26. um do you have a feeling that seeing those Spirits appear you have a feeling that if they were to like harm tab it will speed up the process if they were able to like reach and physically harm Tav it will speed up whatever process this spell is trying to do okay I'll tell you that for us right yeah is he telling us that that's up to him too so I've got a plan well what he said I think we all understand that yeah tadpole chat yeah so that's what's happened there do I move do I move uh Joe I'm not gonna move okay because if because I've got the angle and if I move I might throw the angle it might throw the angle off if this all happens very quickly I don't want to kind of further up so I'm gonna I'm gonna stay where I am hold off all right in that case that is Gales go uh we go to uh kalak you know I rolled very badly for the monsters by the way um so we go to colic who is currently in darkness uh there's two things I'd like to do yes does order matter you tell me I'd like to rage against the dying lights I would also like to move out of it so I can gotcha got you gotcha basically put myself between absolutely tough and these creatures but just the darkness yeah so uh if you would like to rage I believe it says if you want to read it out on your little uh ability there I think it says if it's a bonus action actually it's a bonus there you go uh so yeah it's a bonus section you can do these in any order you can move attack bone section anywhere you like so you rages bonus section uh do we kind of we imagine like the Flames kind of coming out of the engine venting heat off your body maybe seeing some of the steam of the morning sun kind of thing two characters so you kind of you know begin to rage you gain the benefits of that um which we'll go into if that comes into effect and then you would like to move so please uh feel free to move yourself around you you have enough spatial awareness that you're like I remember where behind me was um but before that alrighty am I out of the Dust just about I'm gonna say that you're gonna be just down I'll take half as much damage yeah that's the deal and also like if these things Rush forward they might rush past you and that's what we call an opportunity Tech if the creature moves past you you get to kind of make a free swipe against it so the tax coverage long term anything you'd like to do on an action like just gonna yell [ __ ] off okay yeah at the darkness all right okay um yeah as an action let's have you because you're like you know you're scary uh D20 yeah so D20 plus your intimidation so it's 11 plus three plus three okay okay roll to see how scared these Spirits might be oh that's pretty good unfortunately you kind of don't see anything but you don't hear any sounds that they've been affected by Lightnings nothing nothing it's definitely definitely worked um what does happen next is what kind of some of you might have happened as these Spirits rush out of the darkness by it uh as they but they do so blindly so what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna have those [Music] cookies they're gonna move once and then I'm gonna do something I'm gonna have them use their action to do something called Dash which lets them move again so instead of attacking or casting a spell they can move again and indeed so fun so Colac and will [Music] you guys as two of them actually kind of Rush past you and out of what we call your threatened area which is basically five feet around you two of them have moved beyond that so carlak and will you both get to make free attacks against these creatures uh this is a weapon attack so it has to be with one of your weapons so um your greatax I believe Carlock and you'll reap your will yeah and this is to see if I actually see if you hit yes yes exactly foreign so what do we add to it uh the attack when it's on the middle column you should have great x no that's right we're learning so it should have the name of the weapon great X and then the next column is this hit bonus and then you have the damage all right uh so what do we get for Will 12 plus 5 17 17 is a hit against these creatures I'll come to the damage in a minute we'll see if Carmack here 15 plus 19. 19. you both hit so the Rapier kind of strikes in without piercing through this and you see it almost like glitch like become distorted the gray Tech swings through similar kind of thing um this time Now You're Gonna Roll damage so uh the damage is the next column along each weapon has a different amount of damage it can do we've actually hurt these things there does appear to be so that it's weird they have the appearance of ghosts but they almost look like they're made of magic and they they seem to be affected by weapons and everything else is normal um yeah so that one's that and then you what is the bonus you add to it so it says uh the damage bonus three plus three So You're Gonna Roll that add three to it and that's how much damage you do ah two two so plus three is five yeah so you strike this thing and you watch it kind of dissipate a little bit but it's almost like parts of it left like like it's been fragmented but the whole thing hasn't quite dissipated entirely um it does look very badly damaged very very badly get for colonized damage three plus two plus three so five so same thing you kind of Swing the ax down same thing happens oh but you are raging oh yeah and you do that damage bonus to rage uh so what it says on your rage it says that you get a bonus to your damage rolls in the rage you deal plus two damage with your attacks take half damage everything except psychic damage and have advantage on strength checks so so it was five plus another two for your rage so it's actually seven points of damage because you add two to every attack you make and that is enough you watch uh carlank as this thing runs past you you kind of Swing the ax down and it just like a gust of wind it kind of just disperses this creature um entirely there's a however when this type of creature when this creature in particular is destroyed it erupts in Magical Force and I need uh you uh you and wills I need you both to make dexterity saving through so this is a type of role we do to see like I've got to dodge out like you're like John Woo leaping out of the way or like deflecting something away from you you're using your agility and your reflexes to kind of prevent yourself from being harmed and you have a little column up the top above your skills of Savior throws so it's a D20 plus your dexterity bonus seven plus your dexterity bonus plus one this one eight is not enough I'm afraid that's gonna be a failure fifteen plus two so colic you managed to kind of like throw your body to the side um and you don't take any damage from this thing as it blows up you kind of kind of like as you disperse it that radiant energy that was left kind of crackles in the air and then ignites and you feel this kind of concussive force will unfortunately you kind of like are surprised by this it kind of catches you on The Blind Side and you are going to take I get you roll some dice you're only going to take three points of force damage kind of you know concusses you ever so slightly okay but yeah so with that you mentioned the thing they use their action to dash they can't do anything else this turn you did that on their turn those Spirits they're done turns over so we go to Shadow heart next hello we are working together aren't we yeah so I'm gonna I'm gonna bless you huh well go on so if you want to just read out the spell bless because it's good for like people at home oh yeah everything else if you read it out to everybody yeah uh material a sprinkling of you bless up to three creatures so you get Gail but you can pick two more as well right okay so we've got me let's make it he's like right okay what about tabs though because I'm concerned about taxes good absolutely but yeah you can still targets they are heading for tap yeah and this will give them a bonus to their saving throws and things like that as well yeah so I think Gail have and then who else is near me well yeah you've got a steering you've got Lazelle this this spell has like a range as well so you can hit any of your eyes you can also include yourself oh [Laughter] yeah uh yeah I think me okay great all right um so and then if you want to read out just what the effect is as well the effects you bless up to three creatures of your choice within range yeah that's good because yeah also I'm in range of me whatever a Target makes an attack roll or a saving throw before the spell ends the target oh it's carrying on the target can roll a D4 and add the number roll to the attack roll or saving throw yep so it's like a super guidance you actually get to add it to attacks the same hose but it affects multiple people as well so any attacks you make or any saving threads you make you get that actually for an important thing to note this spell is called a concentration spell if you take damage there's a chance that you might lose your focus and that spell will go so something important to remember likewise if you cast another concentration spell it overwrites it all right keep that in mind do I do I do guidance on this one as well so guidance is a concentration but if you would have cost guns you would get rid of the bless it would overlap them oh we don't want that you don't want that exactly so don't you yeah three has tall people that guidance is one of the greatest things [Applause] um all right so uh so that is your action to cast bless also what does this look like so we've seen you could have pulled the shadowy magic is there a different look to this is the same sort of thing so I think for blesso I'm throwing holy water right so I feel like it's a more like outward spell yeah little Super Soakers that'd be very bad for you yes yes I feel like holy water in this story yeah so that's your action to cast bless we see you kind of spread this out um you still have a move action if you would like as well if you would like to move anywhere uh I'm quite happy with where I am because I know my strength isn't great okay so I don't feel like putting myself between [Music] Gail and the Monsters is a good idea so I'm gonna stick where I am for now yeah alrighty and then do I have any uh more things that I can so you could do a bonus section as well so sometimes you'll have a spell that's a bonus section like Shield of Faith but it's a concentration spell but also like you don't have to use your bonus section you can just sort of like you've done a cool thing you can move on I don't want to milk it I want to do all the things why won't the game let me do all the things what about invoking duplicity would that help I mean if you would like to do that you can totally do that if it's a bonus action but like I could just I feel like these guys are reasonably easily confused so like by adding another like person in the mix for them to like concentrate on then they can like they they then they can leave will and karlak alone that sounds very so I'm like I love it so I'm doing that okay all right so you would like to invoke duplicity uh we're gonna use another one of these little spectral spectral things on your research um where would you let the the duplicate to appear uh like between uh like in front of Tav uh between I almost you guys all see this almost near perfect replica of Shadow heart just sort of spring into existence this illusory version of shadow kind of with Mason Shield like threatening them and stuff like that um and you can control you can move it around later on on other turns but right so you summon this you call upon Shar and you feel a shadow almost uh like the shadow itself forms into Shadow R right great very cool very very cool alrighty uh so we're gonna jump back in and actually we've got Gail you had held a readied action for when you got blessed um so let's do that before anything else to shout outs just blessed you um so you wanted to cast Ray of frost yes I do on the Glass Knight yeah um and you now have bless so you get to add a D4 to the attack roll um so you're gonna use one of your can trips this first time we're gonna be seeing an attack can trip so Kendricks are like spells that you can cast as many times as you you want they don't cost spell slots um and your rare first one has information on your attack column in the middle of your sheet you should have a great price yep so what's the bonus that you normally get five So You're Gonna Roll a D20 plus five and another D4 because of the blast as well so that's 15 20 20 and then add the D4 let's get into good habits of adding out as God blesses yeah let's run a little pyramid what's that 2 22. now remember this is a disadvantage so if you're gonna roll that D20 again to see if you get a lower result than a 15 so you're at disadvantage so you roll twice and you take the lowest because you're currently unable to see the the glass light in regardless but that that bless is still gonna end too [Music] plus two from the bless plus five because your attack bonus 15 15. mine still don't just be enough it is [Music] almost imagine this like into this like sphere of Darkness managed to completely opaque vanter black kind of globe in the middle of this field and you watch Gail you're kind of right angling it and just see the trigonometry in your mind and then [Music] do you have like an idea of how Gale might Channel a ray of frost you know right Frost I think he would bring it up from the depths and then just yeah nice and we kind of get this like freezing beam of uh cold so how much damage does rare Frost do um uh right 1d8 yep so that is the little uh trapezoid kind of this guy this little Diamond thing yeah the little Diamond guy I'm I'm gonna tell you a little thing because you were quite right ice glass this creature has got a trait called is vulnerable to cold damage and maybe other types of damage as well which means it takes double damage yeah so you're gonna roll this and whatever it is you're gonna need a bigger boss no yeah one I feel it's in keeping with our party's Vibes yeah we're doing really well so we watches this baby like you almost impossible angle like tracing it without even being able to see it and we just get this you know maybe the ray kind of diminishes it gets the end and it freezes like a piece of the pauldron it kind of frosts up a little bit like a nice Christmas ornament but sadly doesn't have a huge yeah it does strike not too much damage I'm afraid um and that was so that was on Shadow heart scope because you would held your action um after the Shadow Hearts go it is actually the Glass Knight itself and it is going to make its way it moves the black will towards Will and it is that's what happens uh yes it is going to make an attack roll against will so kind of like you guys when you attack the monsters same thing um and I am trying to beat your AC so what's Will's AC it's at the top uh above your hip 13 13 so that represents like your armor and your agility and how hard you are to hear right so I need to roll a D20 and I need to be a 13. um and the the first stack I make is indeed a 13 because I meet it I beat it is the way to remember it okay so I am going to do some damage to you but this thing gets to make two attacks so I'm gonna see if it hits you on its backswing uh and that is also gonna hit unfortunately with a 17 to hit so it strikes you once and on the backhand it kind of brings its blade against you again so that is going to be uh Five Points of damage and then another three points of damage so eight points of damage total wham wham it's this glass sword kind of slices into you will um but that's it it just moves up it makes those two attacks uh you can see its movements are very sort of rigid and robotic like you know it is it doesn't have the flow and the fluidity of an organic creature it's very sort of rigid in its mindset um then we finally reach Lazelle and staring so Lazelle you were up first and then Syrian you were going to be lasting our order so lays out uh no sorry other way around first a staring first then uh dyslexia it's a hell of a thing when you're reading lots of numbers and names um right so yeah a staring you are up uh what would you like to do um look at Gail look at will just go and then um I'm gonna do something which is probably gonna not work I'm gonna try anyways so what I want to do yeah I have curly action yes which can so certain actions that would normally take up my action I can actually use it as a bonus action including Dash yes question for the DM yes I would like to as I see all this going on and I realize how vulnerable these things are and that Carlock isn't heavier so but that will potentially move bitten off more than two again um I'd like to this is the shade tell me I'm wrong uh no I'm sorry um I'd like to actually because Gail's like sort of in front of me doing this thing that Ray of frost is coming out yeah so I don't want to go in front of him so what I'd like to do is sort of like do a hot jump and a Skip and then leap off here oh yeah pull my shot put my short bow out and do a John Woo dive to the side and try and hit past will to hit the glass um oh yeah I love it I love it can I use my Dash there for to do that action yeah with a little acrobatic [Music] so you can move through allies you can move through bodies by the way so like if they're blocking a party with him cost you a little bit of extra movement it costs double movement yeah but you're dashing you've got plenty of movement to get up here past Lazelle and then dive over vote who is cowering on the floor I'm not going to use Volo to launch myself this is all gonna happen 100 you're gonna do this but to see if I can you can get maybe that jump that extra height will give you maybe a bonus on the attack make an acrobatics check for sure thing my acrobatics is very good it's plus five plus five all right so D20 plus five plus five that is a 19. can I also give uh as I do that can I just give Gail a wink uh you see him as he leaps over you Gail are you thinking about the boots again watch this kind of wing you're pretty sure that at some point maybe just in the trees a couple of doves just happened in fact well I see them flying past and I time my jump as the doves just go let's go through so you fly and saw through the air uh launch yourself over because of that great acrobatics wrong they give you advantage on the attack roller staring because so as you fight through you've kind of got like a height Advantage but you're shooting down onto this thing it is next to will as well okay um so Advantage you roll twice you take the highest what's your bonus on your short though plus five plus five so D20 plus five trying to beat its AC yeah and then I get to roll twice because of Advantage you do yeah first of all this is really [ __ ] first roll is five plus five it's ten uh second roll thank God is 13 plus five that's 18. 18 is a hit uh so you watch as the arrow flies out of this I'm not even looking I'm like that's it I don't even look I see where he is go past I look at Gail wink and then release not even looking where they are I love it uh the Arab flies through it strikes in the creature now there's a couple of things here as it fights through a couple of things because it you advantage on the attack yeah but it's also next to an ally and you're a rogue Starion yes it means you get sneak attack which is your kind of special class thing which is extra damage yeah so what's your normal damage on the short boat normal damage is 1d63 and then how much is your sticky thing is two plus two D6 right that you can ask some of your friends to lend you some extra D6 you can roll it all together I'm just gonna take yours you're stealing you're nice taking your diet do it no not even asking not even asking but yeah uh so 3d6 and then plus the E3 right that is sure okay uh that is wow that is three fours that's 12 plus three it's um 15. 15 points of damage hot guys hot guys you watch us this Arrow studs into the glass kind of like chest plate of this night and you watch as it cracks uh maybe the little bit that Gail had Frosted over here that's the place to hit it all right so would you like to do anyone even you probably have about 10 50 20. you've probably got another 30 feet of movement you've got another six squares what I'd like to do is because he's focused even though I've hit him he's focused on where they're in combat yeah so I want to flank him for maybe like but from behind like do I move in for melee or would you like to stay at range I think range because I'm probably going to be at the moment a little bit better would you like to like duck behind here for some cover potentially yeah yeah actually yeah so the jump happens I'm still doing this I look at Gail wink fire I land in a rocked up roll and then just like just Vault over yeah I am living out so many fantasies right now amazing I just bolt over that thing behind it it's a great also it's a great chance so for you guys like if you're behind something like a stone wall you can gain a bonus to your defenses called cover and you can kind of you know if somebody's shooting arrows that you can dump behind it so if these guys will start like maybe throwing magic or something I said he might get a slightly higher defense bonus right because of it great perfect stuff then we come to last by by no means least wow I was relying on Gail to do a little bit more frosting so then I could go in and smash those guys to pieces um however he did not deliver unbelievable pretty standard I would say yeah I mean yeah [Laughter] wow so and now I seem to have a lot of things that I can do yes I'll give you the short of it yeah I'd like to sort of charge in right in the middle so we're talking like against all of these guys here or against this night well um probably against those guys there because they've been charging into them so the spirits these unstable spirits that are attacking that going for Tav basically so we watch as these are leaps off of the table great sword pulled out uh you land in the middle you've got two of them within reach right what would you like to do is this smash them great yeah uh you've got a couple of choices because you're a fighter you can just make a normal attack and just attack with your Greatsword but you can also do these things called battle Maneuvers which are like you could like knock enemies uh you can disarm them and things like that they're all in your little middle column um in your middle column they should be written down I'd love to use a menacing attack yes yes very good so you these you can trigger like when you're making Tech when you hit you can choose to then you can basically say I'm gonna spend a point to do it basically okay and it means that you get to add extra damage but also menacing attack you might make an enemy frightened of you like they make it saving through we have to see if you hit oh um I'm confident nice uh I hope so I hope so so this is the d20s this is the Big Dice and then you're going to add what's your bonus for your great sword middle column oh it's a plus five there plus five not a bad one love to see it so we're gonna roll This plus five it's the what is that sorry it was upside down I was like what is that straight uh that's a nine then a nine so it's the leap off the table you're a skilled Warrior you know what you're doing but that leap just gives you that slight momentum where this Spirit almost glitches to the side and the great sort of thuds into the grass missing unfortunately you look awesome well well I've got some good news for you though oh go on you have an ability because you're a fighter called action search oh yeah an action surge lets you take another action so you can make another attack if you want to after a short rest after a short rest yeah you get it back after a short rest short rest to tell Gail to [ __ ] off um so yes you'd like to use your action Surge and try again I would love to let's do it another attack it's another one uh no wait this is a different thing yeah no so you didn't spend those points because you didn't actually hit so you don't need to worry about your medicine can say you've you've missed unfortunately you've still had the five but it's only gonna be a nine and that still misses unfortunately right yeah so I have not you basically you're telling me I have nothing I've done nothing but you looked really bad at us right I'm glad I waited too long for that yeah uh we are going slow we're kind of teaching everybody we're going to get through it a little bit quicker at the very at the very end of the round Volo is gonna run behind here next to a Starion oh good mysterious I see that you've had the Tactical decision to refute to the end of the field as well and he kind of like ducks down and takes his hat off without you doing any damage after you said that I'm just gonna stare at him and just slap him and then just sort of turn back to the fight oh yes I suppose he's sort of like whimpering as he does um and then scratch [Applause] best boy um and uh would one of you like to roll for Scratch in fact actually rather than me oh so then gently they have a plus three to hit so if you just roll the D20 and then you're gonna add three to it for me [Music] which is enough to hit these unstable Spirits um but uh yeah uh scratch kind of leaps up and yeah these things he seems to bite into it like it's physically there um and if you can roll the D6 which is the normal dice uh the one that everyone knows and loves uh and this is plus one damage it was three it was three three so four points of damage uh so you watches scratch kind of like bites into one Bears it down and then you know kind of like row and it's like barking and trying to Ward them away from Tav the spirit sort of looks down at this this dog like almost confused on its face like not sure what it's been attacked by um and that is gonna be the end of our first round of d d combat bit of a slow one but that's okay because we're learning the game I do have some bad news though because at the start of the second turn this other standings so these look very similar to the spirits that you've these unstable spirits but these don't look human these look like they've been stitched together by you know the wing and an arm of an owl bear and a crocodile's head like these almost horrific experiments but spiritual and made of magic almost glitching you can hear like noises but it's echoey and distorted as they do um as they begin to kind of move forward but that's gonna bring us all the way back up to the top with Will blade of the Frontiers attack this guy the Glass Knight yeah I want to attack this glass now sure sure yeah okay well how would you like to protect this with a Rapier what would you like to do it's close to me isn't it yeah he's right next to you yeah he's right next to you he's up in your face like swords clashing you know imagine because also like this is six seconds like you've probably exchanged like you've parried and blown yeah like like Zella you miss with his attacks but you're probably still like fending off your own attacks and stuff like that as well imagine cool cinematic combat I'm gonna pull my Rapier and I'm gonna attack the Glass Knight okay it's just like you know lunge with a Parry or you know or something like that I'm just gonna say you'll pay for that love it all right so this is plus your rapier's attack bonus so D20 plus your Rapier attack bonus 18. 18 plus 5 23 is easily hit easy um and then plus plus three it's nine points of damage uh so you watch as you ah you'll pay for that and you thrust and where the arrow shot from a steering kind of cracked it a little bit of frosting from Gail thank you the cracks almost touching from your two strikes and as they do the whole night just bursts into pieces [Applause] [Music] shatters in front of you like an ornament turning to dust however the spirits don't seem to be you know they're still going about their business like they don't seem to be like disappearing now that the the night is gone but yeah this creature which you saw like took some pretty big swings at you like is now destroyed so it's done guys would you like to move or do a bonus action will um I would like to now keep in mind you do have a couple of these guys next to you so if you move away they might get an opportunity attack at you that's basically what they call it like um like Carmike and you did when something moves past you if you move away they'll get to do the same thing if you want to you can risk that free attack from the spirit to move somewhere else or you can stay where you are and just next turn keep fighting I'm gonna stay where I am alrighty perfect that sounds great uh in that case we go to Gale of Water Deep okay I love it I love it no he's looking he's ready mixing it up I've got to try and mix it up I'm tempted with the with the new ones that have just arrived doing some sort of Thunder Wave that'd be good now I'm going to tell you the way the Thunder Wave works if you want to read it out for us yeah because there's a little bit about the how the area that it affects someone yes each creature in a 15-foot Cube originating yeah so the way that that works Gail for you is Imagine from your miniature yeah you draw like a little 15 foot so Three Square nine by nine Cube directly connected to you right so if you wanted to do that you can hit all three of them so if you can continue just reading so we get the rest of the effect uh right so on a failed save a creature takes 2d8 Thunder damage and is pushed 10 feet from you nice and successful so the creature takes half as much damage and isn't pushed Constitution yeah so that's I have to make that so we're gonna have that the other question I'm going to introduce because we're kind of slowly learning mechanics is you can cast that at first level and it will do 2d8 Thunder damage yeah if you cast it at second level because you're a third level wizard you can do it 3D Thunder damage you get extra damage but you've only got a couple of second level slots this is a choice but if you want it like you could wipe all three of these things out in one spell do it let's do it [Applause] on the second sheet of your account sheet uh you have something called your spell save DC written up at the top very top smells like DC yes what number is that 13 13 so that's the number I have to beat for these monsters to resist it and I will tell you that their constitution save is zero so I don't get a bonus so I have to roll 13 or higher three times for these creatures to save first one succeeds and roll the 17. the second one fails I roll a five and the third one six seeds are all 16 so they take half damage the ones that succeeded are gonna take half damage the one that fail takes the full amount of damage so it's uh you're constantly the second level so three dates so you just like uh Neil stole your dice you can still uh and uh if uh can you pass yours down as well diamond shaped one okay perfect sharing is careful so you watch and they're pushed back if they fail they're also pushed back uh 10 feet as well so you watches this one he's pushed back and it evaporates immediately yeah and because you pushed it back when it dies its explosion doesn't hit you because you launched it away from you sending it flying there you go and then lands off in some bushes somewhere the other two however because they take screen just flies uh they take five because we always round down yeah right so they are still up and they don't get pushed back see they're heavily damaged kind of almost like pieces of these creatures uh feathered arm a kind of scaly tell have been blown away and almost dissolved but they are still and now they look at you with Hungry Eyes kind of like shuffling towards this Gail's head also get like little bit of like oh yeah there's definitely like they're all of you in here this cacophonous was this like wave of force emanates from Gail's hands his robes blown back and everything as you uh books revealed but it's fully revealed they are gorgeous has a single tear down the anchor oh Sumptuous amazing [Music] um so go you've moved you've cast a spell that was one of your SEC level spells make sure you mark off your spell slot as well um so it was one of your second spells you've marked off all right we go to carlak next yeah the problem with [Music] they blow up [Music] the one that Gail's just that they just kind of blasted or a different one there's one in front that hasn't come off the board that's banging between these ones yeah yeah perfect okay and also like if you want to do something that's not on your sheet like if you I don't want to try and pick up scratch you're like I'm not tired that's true is that father I can't touch the things I love um yeah absolutely so yeah if you want to pick up that Javelin and friends now the only thing that remind you you have an enemy within range of you range attack you're gonna be a disadvantaged because the spirit might use that opportunity [Music] it's almost like I moved the dog in on purpose to make things interesting yeah you can use the um training whistle that I've been using on the side yeah that's great to train him to get out of the battle absolutely you can do that yeah absolutely you can do that we'll do that as an animal handling Checker so it's a bonus action yeah it's quite quickly like you've got a little whistle you kind of blow it and that's you've been training from scratched like you know let's do that first sure yeah all right good I'll let you do that give me an animal view plus three plus three is pretty good uh D20 yeah plus three and it's gonna be a low DC 18 14 plus easily enough you kind of let out this lab like in fact um scratches little ears pop up and he knows good boy [Applause] how's your bonus section um so now you've got your action free and uh yeah so so I'm trying to see what I can see so they're still up they're still in battle those two are still that one that's furthest away I wanna push them back this one is uh sorry I think like this one is badly injured but like yeah these you might have it on the next go yeah difficulty is the choice now that now that the dog is safe yeah change everything that I've said yes and I'm gonna go back to um uh yeah let's let's just gray tax it in the face all right great let's go for it yeah yeah that's that's kind of the thing D20 plus your great ax attack bonus yeah foreign and this one's pretty badly damaged as well uh D12 is like the one that looks like a D20 yeah it looks like a D20 but it's not three plus two five that's enough [Music] shatters uh and again unfortunately I'm gonna need Colac and will as you are both within 10 feet to make a dexterity saving throw as khalax ax dissolves another one of these Spirits as it's reaching out probably for the invoke duplicity actually rather than have um but it's uh reaching out yeah you chop it and it bursts into magic dexterity saving throws from you both please C20 yes please yeah plus your dexterity that's the six damage eight another eight from will as well I take half done you do uh yeah you do yeah yeah this is gonna be it so both failed unfortunately and it's gonna be uh only two points of force damage each it's just kind of like a buffet [Music] you are spending it you are so ready at the end of this like convert everybody's like you're all right we're so brave I will say some of you might be joining will because as these Spirits go these two are gonna rush and this one is here two of them are going to attack Tam this one is going to attack the illusion of the invoked duplicity right and it just does it just goes through the illusion like because it's not real so the creature attacks it racist attack um the ones that attack Tav because Tav is paralyzed I'm gonna have them hit it automatically um and you you see that that swirling pattern of magic and like you see almost like their fingers Bend way too far backwards and their neck kind of Crick and something is happening to them um and you can see that whatever spell is as tab's life is probably you know they're taking damage is growing and speeding up um the the other two are gonna attack poor Gale of water D after all I've done after all you've done uh so I'm Gonna Roll I need what is your AC girl and you have two so one is with me drama one is without you're currently without 12 15 12 so yeah it's the first one 12 is without Mage Armor yeah so I need to be at 12. and I do for the first Mo first spirit and for the second spirit I do again unfortunately um this game honestly it's gonna be six points of damage from the first and three points of damage for the neck so nine in total but yeah six and three so you watch as Gail is buffeted by these spirits and these kind of horrid creatures so they slam into you as they do so however that is all of the spirits I have now gone uh that guy's Dead uh so we go to Shadow heart right here we go I love it so a plan got here pass without Trace okay nice which is a veil of Shadows and silence radiates from you masking you and your companions from detection but the duration each creature you choose within 30 feet of you that's quite a big that would be everybody that would be everybody uh has a 10 plus 10 bonus to dexterity stealth checks and can't be tracked except by magical means a creature that receives this bonus leaves behind no tracks or traces of its Passage so I think right we're kind of [ __ ] at the moment so let's hide essentially let's get everyone out of the way especially tab so I'm gonna recruit who forgot nearby baby basil and we can grab it because he's like floating in the air yeah yeah yeah yeah well then it's it's we you know because then it could be anyone's town it's the idea that yeah they're completely covered by this illusion so so we can like you can just grab them and just yeah and I think they are floating up I think we get [Music] I was doing my hair what did you say I did a little bit we get I'm putting a spell on all of us so that we can't be tracked by this actually Jen have Shadow heart make an Arcana check for me okay so roll a D20 plus your Arcana skill bonus so it's on your skills what's the role [Music] yeah it's do you know that the past without a tree spell is very good at like helping people camouflage it doesn't render you invisible things like that there's a chance that these things are tracking to have by some magical means and that's why they've gunned for tabs initially so they might be able to follow it still but there's also a chance that possible that Trace might negate that if they are using some sort of magical mean situation it might completely they might not be able to sense tab at all if you cast a spell on them you don't know if you rolled higher I might have I might have been able to say that oh like actually you think this will work on you don't think it will I could I could use Mirror Image which would put three duplicates nice yes on yourself unfortunately yeah you can't cast it on someone else and create images of them you could create three images of yourself and it kind of helps protect you all right okay I am gonna do this as this is very this is like an unusual use of this spell but I love it I love the concept of it I want to make it clear you are not doing anything wrong it's just unexpected um so what I'm gonna say is you can definitely grab Tab and try and hide as well but I'm also Gonna Roll for these spirits and I'm Gonna Roll to see if they have some means of like detecting you know if it's a magical way that they're tracking to have or if it's just visual sign because if it's visual site they can still see them like if they're tracking them through some sort of magical sense this might just mean that these Spirits can't see any of you so I'm Gonna Roll I'm Gonna Roll and see I'm gonna say that they unfortunately can I rolled very high if I roll if I roll so basically I was doing like a if it's above 10 they can if it's under 10 they can't this case yet you cast the spell you feel the Shroud kind of cover you all making you feel like you can blend in that you can hide um but these spirits still seem to be aware of what's going on until you physically maybe can get into the woods get behind like a tent and try and hide or something like that then you'll have the plus 10 for the stealth would that therefore affect me or something oh yeah you are definitely like easily able to hide if you would like to on your turn but it has to be on your turn all right um would you like to move yeah um I would like to move I want to go and protect top of it I don't know why I'm so protected well I think to make it clear so that there's a very good reason for you guys wouldn't eventually you all know that like to have someone who's helping you deal with this you know problem this whole problem things like that there's some sort of connection that you're probably going to need them alive so sometimes you just hand wave the reasons she's probably Romancing yeah there you go yeah thanks okay plus Tabs are pretty much all of us money yeah yeah there you go yeah absolutely lots of money still didn't find that pack still don't know where that is um actually unless it's behind where I am right now let's find out on your turn Let's Do It um all right so show Heart unfortunately but still gaining the benefits of the the possible choice but I did it was very very creative I really liked it uh that is them uh we go to they're dead uh asterian staring um what would you like to do cool okay so I'd say you could do as a bonus section okay um in this instance a quick a quick cursory glass so we're at Camp yes [Music] these things can be hurt by weapons weapons and pretty much anything we throw at them as I'm by the log it looks like a pile of logs over there which is which would be for our camp uh fire it would send because it's obviously a bit of a danger that it would stand to reason that any oil or any something like that lamp oil or something would also be down there yeah I'd say that stands to reason yeah yeah there's logic there okay you're not going to like this so what I'm thinking not again but I'm thinking thinking he's got the baby oil again um so I'm thinking what I'm thinking of one or two things I can either just do a hot shot at one of those things there yeah to help alleviate yeah or I could do something even more fun which is throw a lamp like a lantern add those two and if you'll allow if you allow me or not to then shoot the lamp in mid-air to cover them in oil that he could then set them a fire I would say absolutely obviously going to allow it but this is pretty tricky it's gonna be a two-fold thing right as your action yep and you've not used your bonus section to concentrate and you didn't do that so let's say like you just curiously looked I would say that what you this would be is you're going to give me two attack rolls yep one to throw the lamp and see if you can get it in the right area to do it yep and then the other one to strike the lantern while it's like shoot the arrow and hit the lantern while it's in mid-air yep if you fail the first one the lantern will go somewhere where you don't want it to go like it might move more over towards Gale it might move away from the enemies yep if you missed on the second one then you obviously just missed the Lantern and it will fall down so it's risky but if it does work I will have it do basically like a like a 10 foot Cube like an area of like burning oil basically yeah kind of launches down so uh give me a second to think about it um I'm prepared to take that risk okay all right perfect so first one and we'll use your short blower tech for both of these because like you're still going to be proficient yeah sure so throwing the lens in give me an attack roller plus five because I'm very good him [Music] two three four well that's kind of close to oh okay so it's actually gonna it's only just slightly off range it's currently you're gonna if it's gonna be just above it you're fine just just eyebrows of goals it's basically over this guy if you hit it now it will hit Gail and the two creatures um you've got a few seconds all right [ __ ] it uh that's a seven plus five that's 13 13 12. I'm gonna say it's a small do I knock it off do I just knock it in the air it spins around and hits somewhere else I'm gonna say yeah it's it's too small like a 12 is not enough because it's quite a small hard target so you find the arrow uh it flings the lantern off into the far distance like somewhere over here that was all our food we actually know I'd say that with that you hit like the metal casing it doesn't shatter and just kind of like cartwheels in so there's this Lantern that's all bent and buckled but that's it um but unfortunately yeah very cool would have been amazing it's a free action I'm just gonna shout out I saved you Gail it was a flying lantern at your head you're welcome you are so lucky layzel let's make up for it let's hit big right well all so Gail's pretty much [ __ ] is he I mean but you also see these two the ones in front of you the ones that attacked have and if you don't think that if they do that again that's gonna be bad right right so let's get rid of those two then let's try and um let's try and kill them how do I do that so you can make an attack against one of them uh because you've got to choose which one you're going to attack both I do have a long sword so you do have a long sword I mean you can try it if you want to try and like do like a sweeping cleavage yes sure what I would say with that is you target one if you do enough damage to kill it yeah any remaining damage will go into the next one how about that yeah no that sounds like a deal all right sure right what did I do this so this is uh the big D20 and then what you're great to you and your great tour bonus and it's your attacking me right so you're right down this time if it's another four that died [Applause] hey and now this is a great opportunity because you're a balmas fight you definitely want to make this one of your battle last movies because then you get extra damage on top okay so which one would you like to use I would like to use a menacing attack menacing attack great so what damage does your Greatsword do on your middle class so what's the next column two D six plus three all right so you're gonna need two D six plus three and then menacing attack adds a d8 as well so we're gonna roll all of that together so you're gonna need to probably borrow a D6 uphill and then uh get your D6 which is the normal looking the regular Monopoly Dice and then the d8 is like the little Diamond the middle size diamond yeah that's the one but not this not that okay and then you're gonna add three to this holy cows six plus five plus is that a four fifteen is that a four that's a four fifteen fifty plus five plus one I don't know plus three plus three eighteen eighteen eighteen points you watch as Lisa are the first two strikes with with but then this time you kind of maybe it's the grunt of aggression or something like that what do you think it is that's driven lays out to like make this this really you cleave through one and then with enough momentum because that was such a big damage roll you cleave into another and both [Applause] that does mean that both of them explode we'd love to see it and unfortunately for will you are in range Colac you're gonna have one of them so I need one deck saved from you will you're in range of both and like sell your range about so I need you to make two dexterity saving throws both of you please by the way I'm just at a point where you said would you like to come in for immediately attack I do realize now that's not why you were trying I don't know what it does but you're fine so what did you roll 18 and then on your sheet above your skills I'm right there with you plus 119. 19. see you again it's amazing that's the first one I need another one from you though because two of them exploded it's an 11 plus 12. it's a success you pass both one I'm gonna say oh I'm saving Theo till last five plus two it's not enough of course you're gonna take a damage from this one and then the first one dexterity saving for a bonus [Applause] is that a one no it's a five I'm fine no it's not good that's a fail that's the first one okay I need you to make another one [Laughter] so what happens is you go to zero hit points you are knocked kind of I the In The Raw rules of d d you're supposed to go unconscious and like you're like knocked out I don't like that because it means you can't role play and stuff so you're kind of like die you can't do anything you can't cast spells you can't do I'll let you like crawl five feet but you're basically bleeding out you're like oh like kind of like you know they're left for dead like in your last moments kind of like Last Stand but you can't do anything you can speak a bit and sort of role play with your friends but you're basically out of the fight if you get healed you come back in you get your hit points your back up and stuff like that right look do some that help up action as well no so you can stabilize Somebody by making a medicine check and that will prevent them getting worse but uh the only way to get them back up is with giving hit points right so healing spells like your wounds feeding them the magic potion that kind of stuff that's the raw rules of D D um we're going to use that we're going to use that a little bit because otherwise it gets a bit tricky but the other thing you need to know is on your turn now for will you need to make something called Death saving for example we'll get into that on your turn uh but you are currently at zero hit points um as you watch all of you see the play the Frontiers this blast of these undate of these spiritual dreams knocks it back like a street fighter and we knock you pray Martin on the map avenge me and that was on lazelle's go uh so that was at the end of the round so uh would you like to move lights out you just chop through these two bam and then you avoid all the damage don't feel any kind of bad about this thing to get rid of these little blue creatures so apologies if Will has to be sacrificed will has to be sacrificed you know sorry um oh sorry um right right what's happening with this little blue guy over there so it's one remaining Spirit next to karlak I'm very heavily injured yeah definitely is he going for the image that he was going for it but now having sensed that it's not real is probably turning their attention back to tab so they kind of got a turn out of it in fact I think that one has me ninjas yet so yeah and then there's two next yeah but you have used your action so okay I'm gonna move over to Gail yeah because I think he needs all the help he can get and Carl I can probably deal with that one yeah so at the top of the round there is a you kind of hear a crackle and a flash this time it is not from the sending Stones uh instead you see a figure dressed in a kind of red robe uh kind of red wizardy hat big white beard Santa Claus it's Santa Claus oh adventurous it is effectively the Santa Claus of faerun as you see and Gail you would recognize this figure immediately as they arrived as elminster of Shadow you [ __ ] everyone it's Gail's Grandad you call out as he sort of arrives um and it's like oh girl my boy I fear that something had gone terribly wrong what is happening he sort of like looks around you think yeah he looks around he sees well on the ground and sees his spirits he's like well let's deal with your friend first and with a flash these three remaining Spirits he just evaporates with like a flash of his hands up a little bit earlier and I needed to give you an easy winning so things went really bad The Forest of tutorials so you watch his elements are kind of like banishes these boots away even preventing them from exploding to like kind of harming he almost just banishes them with a spell um and then he looks uh he'll probably look to you my dear but I think that your companion may need a little assistance as you see will kind of like like blood kind of pouring out of him but any of you can at this point uh the only thing I want to do before we finish things off because we are going to have to end our first sort of episode around about now I'll go to break yeah go to break that's what we're doing um but uh before we get a break will I would like you to make a death saving throw uh so what this is is You're Gonna Roll a D20 and if you get a 9 or lower you get a mark like a check mark or a bad Mark you don't want those if you roll a 10 or above you get a good Mark and you want those if you roll a 20 you get back up as if you're alive uh if you roll a one you get two bad check marks if you get three bad check marks you're dead if you get three good marks you're okay so roll a D20 and we're looking for a 10 or higher hope you got less of six or a nine either way it's not good at the bottom oh yeah thank you it's not good it's so you watch it's like Wills like maybe it's like the color and his cheeks fighting like kind of like you know the Bloods your eyes are beginning to kind of waver as you are falling deeper into death um but we will see if the companions we can maybe allies can heal or stabilize them uh after our little break here uh thanks for watching for part one we'll be back with Baldur's Gate cast D D part two very shortly [Applause] hello everybody and welcome back to part two of our very special Boulders gate cast of Boulders Gate 3 cast play D and D I'm your dungeon master Mark Sherlock Holmes and we are joining us back in the action to give you a little bit of a recap uh our party of adventurers awoke somewhere in the Wilds of the sword Coast their companion the champion uh commonly called Tav seemed to be afflicted by some sort of strange magical spell taking over their body changing them warping them Knowledge from Gale of waterdeep revealed that this spell was being channeled from far away it was a very powerful and ancient magic and just as will and Colac were beginning to discern that there may be something else afoot attackers strange magical Spirits glass Knights appeared from portals and tried to attack the companion fending them off With a Little Help from elminster of shadowdale at the very end the party now find themselves in the camp but with a badly injured will on the ground Bleeding Out uh and that is where we're gonna jump back in my friends with this little adventure of ours so we'll do it as a quick Round Table um as uh yeah what do you guys want to do I'm going to have it will you've just made that failed Destiny through so you've got one of your check marks towards death basically if you get two more you are dead and we don't want that to happen so um ideally um so yeah what is everybody doing the battlefield is cleared Vale Minister has kind of banished the remainder of these Spirits the portals seem to have closed um but you are still sort of in that sort of like moment of like there is still some sense of danger as will is down what people like to do I'll start the eulogy and I've got Pure wings [Music] he's kind of on the ground what does this look like you tell me I'm I'm going over and beautiful golden light this foot is filling his wings uh so when you cast if you want to read out on your card oh I see yes uh a creature you touch hey creature and it regains a number of hit points equal to one 1d8 and your this is Tuesday spell casting ability modifier yeah which cell has no effect on Undead or constructs yeah tonight good to know yeah that's something yeah um your spell Crossing is your wisdom uh so you're gonna get a d8 which is the little prism the diamond shaped kind of uh dice not the tiny tiny pyramid but the sort of pyramid the diamond shape uh yeah that's the right one and then what's your wisdom so if you're looking to catch sheet uh but is that she might be your saving throw what's your wisdom so the big box three three there you go it says a d8 plus three this is how many hit points will is going to get back three three plus three six six so you start from zero as well so if you're down you start from zero you get six hit points back so you're on six hit points currently well and you you that life kind of flutters into you I like to rule that you're not unconscious to you or kind of but you feel your strength regain you can move under your own power and you can speak and everything else like once it and you see shadow of heart like literally weaving this magic looking oh pleasure don't do it again [Music] rolls her eyes and starts looking for a magic potion sure um you kind of glance around and now that there's no real threat you know um tab's body is is suspended but you can see that L minster is doing something and it seems to have calmed the spasms and things like that so you kind of have a little minute here um and You Begin kind of searching around the camp looking through suppliers you definitely know that like you have things like potions and stuff like that but Tav keeps it all in their backpack for some reason can we do the thing that I may have mentioned earlier what was that thing sort of rooting around a little bit oh yeah maybe we've been around so so Carla can and uh um so you guys are like you're looking for a question you're just looking um will you'll kind of fight Your Eyes by UC show what about laser and get what are you guys up to at this point I'm uh I think I'm gonna go to alminster and ask him what what what the hell yeah yeah because we need to get on with the mission absolutely no time for any of this this business yeah absolutely okay sure I think very similar the girl will probably go over I had that he's just like oh girl my friend yes I'm quite certain you did I detected a very powerful magical presence somewhere in the air and I did wonder if something may have he sort of TAPS his chest a little bit it was a bit of concern for a moment but thank you I I'm sure that you had everything under control he glances over at will who's like bleeding and everything don't look over there oh yeah and and my cell I believe I've heard the others call you is that correctly of course an honor to speak with one of the the get the Yankee people um and he's just sort of like he's my he smiles a little bit when you say this um well I'm beginning a sort of I'm beginning to understand a little of what is happening here but I'm afraid that your companion is in no stage to travel or move this is there is a far greater force of work can you heal them and quickly there's no one for but perhaps we should wait for your companions for the full story and he'll kind of glance towards everyone else's getting I will say uh for uh carlak and Starion as you guys are searching around um you managed to find you both and I like the visual if you will of you both eventually like glance over and sort of like nestled under the table you see tab's bag and you both kind of put a hand on it from either side kind of glancing at each other but you both have the bag uh what happens next I would like to uh disarm the bag from her career okay so by using that's not strength but using like a sort of like a wrist movement thingy which I learned on the streets of Boulder Station sure how do people uh when they were trying to get and it's called like are you gonna resist do you want to like let him have the bag or are you like nope it's not a surprise what are you doing nothing look over there and then I'm gonna try and like just like well how about you you give me a sleight of hand check Experian and how about Colin gives me an Athletics check to see if you can just iron grip this bag he's like holding it but let's see let's see who wins uh so this is a D20 plus your skill so sleight of hand for a Starion yeah and Athletics for Carla uh that is Neil reveal his uh role first as a 16 plus my slight at the end of seven oh 23 23. so maybe it's a nine is this more like Alex like yeah whatever yeah yeah yeah in my head in my head I'm like I completely out of maneuvered her sure absolutely I'm gonna tell you the group what you get but obviously has it um in tabs Bank you find a lot of odds and ends you find like a pot uh you know very many books like a surprising amount of books yeah but what you do find that is useful maybe not especially to a staring because some of it is Scrolls and Magic but you do find a number of items uh you find two potions of healing uh if you want you can pop it on the back of your character as well write it down anyway two potions of healing yeah which will do two D4 plus two hit points when you drink them plus two plus two yes please in fact if I may have an assistant somewhere bring me one of the potions from the the amazing from the thing which I had completely forgotten um I will summon it to my hand while I reveal other things um thank you very much assistance so I will pass that to you I only have the one but that's okay double um you also find two other things um no sorry many other things actually uh you find number of Scrolls yeah uh a scroll of detect thoughts okay and a scroll of counterspell oh and then the last thing you find are two arrows of fire so these like arrows were like kind of wool and Tinder and things wrapped around the head and soaked in oil uh that you can fire as well and they deal an extra D4 of fine damage yeah to the creature and any creatures within 10 feet have to make a safe or they take additional fire damage okay so it's kind of like a little kind of burst burst Arrow basis so it counts as phones detect thoughts yes and then two hours of fire okay I'm gonna hand car lucky I found a yo-yo so I find these things oh look what I found thank you that's what I was looking it's one of those really cool yo-yos [Music] so while that's happening you guys are kind of filming that mysterious feeling this thing so like show heart and will so like yeah you've helped will up in like the two of you there would you do do you want to join Lazelle and Gail like is there anything you guys want to do or say or anything at all yeah I want to I want to eavesdrop on the uh yeah here we go elements to conversation before Lazelle pisses them you easily pick up on the eye rolls and size as you begin to approach yeah um yeah sure sure and you can see like um elements to kind of turns and sort of like nods his head and sort of like greeting and respect as you approach uh what about will as well um I'm still pretty weak um I want to say to my party that I need to be looked after and if anybody has anything that could possibly possibly help me well I will say as well that because you're not in any danger in this and this is probably gonna be a bit chatting what we can do is we can count this as a short rest okay um so short rest some of you will get things you get all your spell slots back because you're a warlock so your your Darkness spell slot you get that back so you'll back up the two spell slots um you can also for example Gail you have a special that you call Arcane recovery where you can regain spell slots if you like as well um uh your action surge comes back later for example like that the other thing you can do on a short rest is you can heal yourselves as well you have you have these things called Hit dice you have three of them because you're level three and the type is determined by your class so for will it's d8 uh for car like it's a D12 because they're a barbarian I think Shadow heart is a d8 Lazelle is a d10 d8 for the Rogue and D6 for poor wizard um and you can spend those dice you roll it you add your Constitution and you get that many hit points back but you only have a certain amount of these hit dice per day that you can spend right so you have three of them currently you can roll them one at a time so you can be like right I'm gonna see how many hit points are back oh I got Max HP that's pretty good I'm gonna just spend the one so you can choose if any of you I think that will was literally I know Gail took a little bit I took a little bit Yeah so feel free to spend those as you wish um so yeah like you just Mark all those off you've got three of them yeah as many as you want to as well and that's to kind of represent like you taking a breather getting your energy back you know it's not always hit points represent your physical injuries but it can be energy your like health and your like your mentality and stuff as well all right yeah cool I want to roll for that all right cool so you get the d8 the little Diamond uh that's it that you had the first one that's the one yeah and then what's your Constitution uh plus two plus two so every every time you roll that you add a plus two so you roll it once and get plus two and that's how many hit points you get back [Laughter] that's three hit points you get back so you get to add three hit points you spend one hit dice now you can spend another hit dice if you want and gain some more HP back if you like do it yeah why not right like okay three three so six you get six hit points back now okay the math okay so this is the math time so you're probably like feeling pretty good yeah like maybe like you're still bruised you're probably aching a little bit but you're feeling a lot better um and things like potions can be used like in battle but also if you want to top up your hit points and things like that as well I don't do the same actually yeah sure yeah so for you it's a D6 uh because you're a little squishy wizard I'm afraid so it's a D6 plus your Constitution which is plus two plus two so D six plus two a three so five five yeah I'll take a five all right take a five I'll take a five a nice five I'd love to I'd love to get a five back uh after sitting down for an hour exactly but yeah so like Lazelle and show heart you're sort of like you know talking to wellminster and Gayle kind of listening in people are beginning to filter in now um and uh he says well I can tell that whatever is fixing this Champion is very old and Powerful magic there is something unnatural about it it is girl have you had time to examine this effect what could you tell me what did you learn of it [Laughter] yeah it's very good um you're welcome I think that I could pinpoint that this I've never seen a spell channeled from such a great distance it is being channeled from a city far to the South Beyond The Sword Coast a place called in the nation of arm um question I've been around for 250 years yeah have I before I became a vampire I was a boulder yeah it was a magistrate I'm not sure how widely traveled may it be could I see if I've actually been to armor yeah you have to get in fact I would say everybody with the exception of karlak and Lazelle because colic you've been in avernus for many many years and stuff like that right actually you would have been around before then actually yeah so I'd say Carly can also make this you probably aren't going to be familiar with human cities and things like that but everybody else you can all make history checks um and this will be to see how much you might know of this place called Africa as well yeah there'll be stuff y stuff you know but it'll be generic tonight I got 13. 13 for sure great okay and then what it was at 16 for well 14 14. okay I'd say um most of you know sort of like the generic stuff um very strong whiskers yeah the and then will you might know a little bit more as well because you kind of got the highest you got above 15. um you all know that as catler is commonly called the city of coin it is a big trade City far far to the south in this place called arm which is a very Mercantile Nation um it's kind of a it's like a neighboring Nation to the What's called the sword Coast where Baldur's Gate Neverwinter Water Deep all of these kind of cities are laid along the coast um it's beyond a group of mountains I think called the cloud Spire mountains um and it perhaps uh there's something about it and Colac you know you're like oh I know that I know that I know that like there's something triggering in the back of your mind um because I know that you have a car has a particular love of like stories of Heroes and things like that and and would certainly remember certain Heroes that were involved in something there um but it's will that you kind of remember you're like yeah catler about a century ago uh there was this big event that happened there um there was this Mage uh who apparently attacked the the place um and it like killed a bunch of people and it was the beginning of a figure uh who became like a hero of Baldur's Gate and the sword Coast um who's called the ball spawn um and this figure was an ally of Minsk and Jahira the Druid of the Harpers and many many others and they had these Grand adventures and they were known as Heroes along the coast but you remember a big part of their story took place in that cattle but the the details are kind of murky are you just are you discussing that or is that just something that you know that is up to will will can say like if you would would you tell that to the group I would tell that to them yeah thank you so I was in Boulder's Gate 200 years ago when these events took place so you would have known about save rocks exactly yeah is it possible I can make to add in any gaps that he may not know from my own experience as I was present in the city yeah well I think with your history check I think you were present for the first you were president for that first part with Save Rock and Baldur's Gate which is uh for those who are wondering this is the events of the previous games borders gate one and Baldur's Gate two so you're aware of that but then the ball spawn vanished by bald escape and that's where your memory is like ah but Will's like yeah they then something happened in this place called arm um and karlak I'm very happy for like you to be like yeah oh yeah mins could you hear like that kind of triggers the memory of like yeah yeah you remember that it was all attached to that and stuff like that right um okay uh so yeah so you know that you know I would say Gail uh you got high enough and it's kind of related to your kind of era of expertise you know that there is a group in an athcala called the coward Wizards and they kind of control magic in the city and actually if you use magic without their permission and a license you can actually get in trouble you can actually be arrested it's illegal to use magic in the city without permission from them if you get called that's why I don't go that much exactly but it's if you get core like if you get seen out on the street casting magic they'll come after you but like you can surreptitiously get away with it but you've got to be careful and then for shadow heart because it ties to masses of religion and Faith um you certainly would know that there are any sharp presence in uh afghatta it's probably not huge but it might be underground you know that there is a great Temple district with many of the other deities of the sword Coast um not Saloon there are no temples to salute that but generally they tend to worship uh Joaquin who's like a goddess of coin um sune which is the goddess of beauty and love uh Gods like Helm and lathlander these kind of protective Noble kind of God Spirits um those kind of deities tend to be very very popular but Sunni and Joaquin especially are very um very prominent in that place moving religious you know knowing a lot about religion and being faithful um and so yeah elements kind of says like I believe that the magic of this spell whatever it is is originating from from Cutler unfortunately it is taking much of my magical might to sort of Shield whatever has happened to your friend I've managed to delay the process but something is infecting their mind infecting their body trying to almost use it for their own but what I can do is if you are if you wish to save this individual this champion of which you are connected I could send you temporarily to athkatler uh you should be protected by the The Relic that you bear and this spell whatever it is is shielding your companion from the the tadpoles influence so you would be free to travel to this place and then return but you do not have much time a few days at best you need to find the source of this spell and stop it disrupt It Whatever It Is otherwise I fear that your companion will be lost yes my dear boy so you want us to well we could theoretically tell him to Gail and turn into it Tony Gail so we seriously could go to this um place but it's leagues away how on Earth are we going to get there as soon as possible with with that and pointing up the tabs situation yes indeed I am indeed indeed I I do your magic I can spare a teleportation spell it is a place I'm very familiar with I can send you there and he will hand Gail because Gail is a good friend of his and he knows him I know how this works it's like a stone slate um and you know that this is uh basically it's like a a slate of spell storing um elminster has probably cast a Teleport spell into this um and if you break it it will activate and bring you back here um and he will hand that to you Gail and say you could use this to return to me um and when you are when your mission is complete and it will return you here safely um yes uh don't eat it I promise nothing um but he says yes I contemporate I can send you there but this slate will bring you back um but yes you do not have much time if I can offer you one piece of advice find actions within the city powerful factions people that may know what's happening whatever this is whatever this sort of the spell is I have a feeling and he kind of TAPS his nose like I know a rotten cheese when I smell one and there is something afoot this spell will likely cause other problems I'm certain of it so be on the lookout but but yes if you are prepared make a note cheesy foot got it if you understand me completely yes too long have we travel together that you understand my ramblings um then we're just but he will look around and say when you are ready I will cast go for it [Laughter] stop asking questions my apologies my dear I've not introduced myself I am elminster of shadowdale Arc major chosen of mystery I'm a very well versed perhaps you've heard of some of my tales and stories no I haven't oh which is like reading people's body language and things anybody's welcome to make one because uh he makes like a weird face they're all two plus one so I have no idea you're like oh he's idiot he's totally pleased he's very very chill very happy yeah [Music] 14. 19. I think we've got less than tens all over here five eight eight seven seven yeah yeah mystery you Gail heard mistress um yeah he's genuinely quite insulted that Shadow Hearts there's definitely a sort of like oh well yes I suppose dude perhaps you've not read much very very well known it doesn't matter doesn't matter at all no no it's fine anyway teleportation spell ready to go um concentrating so hard on keeping your friend alive and he sort of like gestures but he he's like willing to answer questions if you have them are we bringing the dog perhaps you would be interested in my tour guide of after though if you're heading there and he pulls into his book I wrote it several years ago it should still be good yes yes it gives you a copy it's like a little it's quite a small little kind of like A5 out map in it and things like that um it's very uh localized to District so you can see that like it's broken down but uh yeah he kind of hands that too he's like oh would you like me to sign it boy yeah yeah yes oh yes of course he pulls up and got a quill ready yeah and I'm gonna say can you teleport us to where you think we need to go well that is the thing my boy I'm not exact I know that the spell is originating in the city but it's a large city and I'm not sure where I mean if you would like me to send you to a specific area I can I was going to send you to the city Gates likely the best place to start and explore the city but I'm not sure exactly where the spell is taken how about a nice brothel [Music] I will say this it is the city of coin my boy do keep that in mind everything of uh within Afghan has a cost and you get what you pay for as they say I do have a question yeah um can I whisper it into his ear because I'm a bit embarrassed yeah so um but don't tell them he nods and says like he's just like if he whispersack if you have such contracts then I would certainly recommend you they would likely have information about if anything is happening in um do a little big he returns it with an even bigger yeah look we've seen that nobody's seen that look around yeah of course like the magic that we were so unfamiliar you were so unfamiliar with um okay easily um identify the person casting that is that so unusual that we could pick up I think you examined the spell you would recognize it again but I also believe my dear quite honestly this level of magic and the nature of it there is some as I said something unsavory something unnatural about it I am certain that you will find some sort of Trail look for things out of place or or nefarious deeds afoot and I'm sure that there will be some sort of connection or at least it will lead you to a clue or some such um but yes I don't think uh the simple sort of spells to detect magic and things like that likely won't help you until you are closer to the source you will need to find them and I suspect that they will likely be hidden somewhere in the city I'm gonna sort of do a little confidence I may have a lead of Swords when we get there all right [Laughter] poking Gail with them with the ears like actual hands like completely most likely just hand on sword hurry the [ __ ] off uh with that uh with that last threat from Liesel one hand sort of channeling this energy into tab almost kind of forming like an oval barrier around them but with the other we'll reach out and you see this old man who just looks like this kindly wizardly grandfather very sort of Gandalf Fellowship of the Ring his eyes become prisms of light and you watch as the wrinkles almost seem to melt away and this is not a man stood before you but magic manifest as light spills off of his body he raises a hand and speaking in an ancient tongue and you feel your body ripped and you are suddenly sailing through the air light and vision and sound blurring around you in a swirling mist and that's where I'm gonna have to ask our good narrative friend to step in once again foreign [Applause] [Music] Mists of almonds to spell Fades you are engulfed in the sounds of a vibrant bustling City a far cry from the relative quiet of the Wilds you have recently been exploring the sounds of merchants selling their Wares City dwellers in frantic and passionate conversation the shouts and clanking armor of patrolling guards these sounds bombard your ears as the smell of sweat and sickly perfume coffee beans and the salty brine of the sea a sail your nose before you stanza City much like Baldur's Gate a metropolis of homes and Traders divided into several districts the buildings are built from cream-colored Stone and have roofs with brightly painted tiles and slates an enormous Bridge large enough to feature temples and buildings of its own spans a wide and deep River and connects the city divided across it this is that Kepler the city of coin it's great having that it's like save my voice it's lovely so yes you arrive in the city of coin and this is a pretty big vast City to kind of break it down to make your travel across it easier as catler is divided or I have divided it mainly into districts you are currently in the city Gates um the city Gates uh stand at the foot of the city and you can see that there are bizarre there are bazaars and Merchants and Traders here but it's mainly to do with the thorough track of the city you see residential homes that sort of thing the other the other places that you can visit within the city are the bridge of six songs which is the very uh Ponte Vecchio kind of style Bridge with all the buildings and stuff attached to the side the River District uh which kind of occupies the bulk of the what they call the lower City the southern half of the city uh joaquin's Promenade which is a giant open-air Marketplace in Bazaar the docks there is a temple district and a government district and I can repeat all of this whenever you guys want as well there was also once a graveyard District but that seems to have been sort of uh turned into a more pastoral Gardens and the graveyards haven't been moved outside of the city's walls after an incident with a lot of Undead almost a century ago they sort of transferred the city to be outside of the city's walls in case of any other uh um but yeah those are the kind of districts of the city uh you guys have already made some history checks so you know a little bit about the city and that's probably as much as you're going to know like we can't you're not going to be able to make another check to be like oh do I know any more do I know any more you guys kind of have the information that you have um and really this is the point now where it's kind of over to you and how you want to investigate this matter really uh this is you have an idea that there is some sort of Nefarious spell and the source of it is somewhere within the city and you need to try and shut it down how you get there how you find it that is entirely now down to you guys doing that Mr Moneybags over here is bearing dinner for everybody wow I was going to suggest we go to a Tavern I was going to have a roof over our house once maybe of course actually we could do that and then we could also do something else afterwards I mean yes we're going to the brothel story why is everybody automatically assume it's all about sex I'm actually with lozelle I know I know disgusting but what were you going well I've actually in all seriousness I do have maybe possibly seven connections to let's say the more underworld kind of people and I believe docs or whatever might be a good starting place to uh spread some coin and ask some information lead the way also brothel's work yeah yeah sure well I'm also going to make the point that this is a point where I'm going to say that the protection of the Reich is enough that you can split up because we want you guys to okay is that the number one cause of party death it's a good way of getting lots of information quickly so if you did want to go to different parts like say Lazelle and want to go to believe that the marketplace is the best place to go they could have the spiciest funniest uh you know shopping trip ever um they could absolutely do that uh whilst uh everyone else goes to the doctor if people want to split off and do things like that as well the way that the City Works is you will have to pass through at least the River District to get to the rest of the city from the city Gates the River District is almost the entire lower section of the city so you'll move through there and then you can kind of go to other places that you want to go to um the temple and government District are across the bridge so you would have to pass across the bridge to get to those areas as well question we don't have any way to keep in touch with each other we'll reduce unless we make it I don't know how far they work yeah it doesn't work I would say I would say the temple you've never you've never been able to experience how far it would work it will certainly give you a a distance you can still telepathically communicate but you've never tested it to like a great distance before okay why don't we just agree to meet you guys can't go wrong at all yeah I may need some muscle where I'm going I figured we might be a good idea to do that yeah as much as it pains me to say it's Shadow heart I suppose we should head to the marketplace to have a lovely time together baby did he have a montage all right so it sounds like we've got liselle and Shadow heart want to go to and joaquin's prominent the big Open Air Market right you guys want to head there okay and then we've got a sterion and can't go into the docks did you say all right and then where's is there any kind of like area or thing that you might think to fit and you can ask me questions by the way because obviously I appreciate you know nothing about this city and this world so you can always be like Mark could we you know would we know anything about this or can I make a check somehow to like figure out where we could can I check my map and yeah yeah absolutely like you want to read through volo's guide to to add Catlett yeah absolutely you can do that as a page energy this magic is coming from do a detect magic okay sense where ah okay there's a particularly large amount okay in a certain place okay I just wanna I wanna in my head the way that I see this working and tell me if you guys disagree because obviously it's your choice at this point like you've all split off right you guys have made a decision so will and and Gail has stood there kind of like you know Will's flicking through his book you find like a bench you're kind of like kind of flicking through to find information and that's when Gail's gonna cast this spell you two have gone off towards the docks and everything else we didn't arrange a time to be tough that's very true if you want to do that we can establish that now do you think a couple of hours two hours two hours yeah it takes a while to get everywhere as well yeah and probably the easiest place is in the River District um there is a famous ink called The Copper Coronet and that's like the famous Inn in the city it's like an easy Landmark three hours four four hours or four hours four hours enough times with the yeah that does happen yeah what time is it now um it would be so you that fight by the way it took like 13 seconds really quick so it was really early in the morning when this will happen with elements to arrive all the chats the investigations searching for the gear it's really not any later than like 9 A.M it's like the beginning the taverns aren't open yet well they might be he has been looking forward to Frosty pints this is a pretty long time pretty rough and Rough and Tumble City they love money this might be I mean almost think of this almost like a bit of a fancy New York it is kind of like a city that doesn't sleep like they want to make like they're 100 still be open that's a very good point Gail old buddy or Pals as I put my arm around yeah hang on yes so here's the thing the people that I'm going to see are very interesting people however they do sometimes need persuade money isn't it it might be cash I mean give it to her if you don't you know trust me melty metal hands over there fair enough just a little bit just so we can grease some Palms that's a good point I think we might have to canonize that you have some sort of heat safe pouch clothes haven't burnt off that's true yeah yeah it's all right um I don't have a drop since I don't 20. no I call it 10 and I want change how about I see it at 15 15. and are you gonna hand out any of the goods that you recovered a Starion what good yeah okay yep that's fine I just wanted to make sure you have the opportunity um that's absolutely fine actually I am going to do one thing okay um as you do that as a thank you now listen here's the thing I'm going to pass in the counter spell scroll okay because I think of like it could be useful for me but to be honest with you yeah yeah spell but he's on scroll when you use a Scroll once you've cast it it's gone so it's commonly gone but it works exactly the same as casting a spell you don't use your spell slots you just burn the spell but I'm still going to keep the detects yeah sure yeah can you use a wizard learn how to spell he could inscribe it into his spell book yeah absolutely Gail can't cast third level spells yet but he couldn't describe it into his spell book as well so but uh for a one shot don't worry about I've played with too many DD players who hold Scrolls and potions and never use them and I'm like I put them there for you to use use them um but anyway uh so yeah so you guys arrange the time to meet up you kind of split off the city's bustling it is morning everyone is rushing around ready to get to Market to trade um and as you make your way to your various destinations there was one thing which was really interesting and I just want to ask how it's going to go down Gail how are you casting to Tech Magic will sat there on the bench are you just gonna kind of you know I might uh wander off into an alley ah good so I'm glad I asked I'm wondering so I'd like you to do uh two things for me yeah one is going to be a stealth check yeah uh so this is to see how well you slip off I'll be fine don't worry what could possibly possibly go wrong this is the way to play baby this is the way to play so yeah this is D20 yeah and then your stealth is a skill so it's a skill uh called stealth uh yes plus two plus two ten all right so a total of 12. I'm gonna make a note of that it's very serious that's quite hot enough um and then yeah you cast the tech magic spell um now the techmagic if you do want to read it out for us for the folks at home as well yeah for the duration you sense the presence of magic within 30 feet of you if you sense magic in this way you can use your action to see a faint Aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic you learn its School of magic if any okay and how long does it last and say it should have a duration duration 10 minutes 10 minutes okay cool so we'll say that that's active um you feel what does this look like actually for girl like does this change your eyes or is this just like an internal sense what do you think that this might look like as a spell being cast a spell being cast I would see it as like a wave so it's almost invisible but it kind of just warps out and you almost like sound waves almost like a sound wave exactly I like that visual that's very cool um all right so you kind of return from your you kind of sneak into the alley you cast your spell are immediately around you within 30 feet there's the tracest amounts of magic but you know as a wizard that that's kind of the weave that's present in most things and you don't detect anything immediately but that spells concentration for 10 minutes you can keep that up while you explore around and it's also a ritual spell now this is a thing that um you can do as a wizard a ritual spell if you take 10 minutes to cast it doesn't cost slot so you can actually cast that and keep casting it as long as you spend longer to actually do the magic to cast it all right so um and then so you can keep casting it if you like it means you save your spell slots for other things um so don't mark up a spell slot unless you would like to do it quickly no I'll take the time um all right in that time uh will you've been flicking through your book trying to kind of find out anything and you do I find some useful information in here um from Vodafone you learn that within f catler there are three major power factions um and Volo uh kind of talks about them having work with them and sort of spent time with all three of them um and it's kind of controversial because the first one is called the merchant houses and these are the like the nobility but they're not like born Nobles this is Whoever has the most money can buy a seat on the council and they become the the heads of they become these Nobles houses basically um it's called the Council of six and you basically buy a seat on it uh the other powerful another Power faction is the coward Wizards which uh Gail knew about and these are basically magicians who control the use of Arcane magic so this would also affect you because you use Arcane magic as a warlock Divine magic like Shadow heart uses is actually totally okay in the city and it's ruled by the the temples but Arcane magic is basically illegal unless you have a license um and the cow Wizards are powerful they're very powerful they're very influential they control at least one of the merchant houses and all that the long sorry they wouldn't like me using it in this city that if they catch you doing it no that will probably be grounds for being arrested okay um it's weird you're reading this as Gail slides off into an alley another idea that you're reading it out loud the last one is probably the most interesting because it's like oh wow you know Volo is surprisingly wrote about it apparently there is a faction in the city called The Shadow thieves and this is a criminal organization like a powerful Syndicate we're talking like Mafia kind of gangsters and they could draw one of the merchant houses and they're basically at war that all three of these factions are bickering and trying to control each other um and all three of them have spies and contacts all over the city you are almost certain that one of them that all three of them could probably help you find the source of this whatever is going on they've probably been investigating it and all that kind of stuff as well all right um and you kind of discover that as you're reading through the book so that's that's the information you gave it to those of you who leave The City Gate so at this point that's going to be a Syrian car like shahart Lazelle you guys pass through them with the district as you're traveling through you witness a large Gathering like a huge amount of civilians have gathered around a kind of stone stage like a kind of raised up Stone platform where it looks like there's a official almost message board and there's trumpeters dressed in like red and white and they've got these kind of blaring uh trumpets and you see uh three Wizards in hoods with masks stood on top of it and they seem to be kind of giving out like a general statement but the crowd is in an uproar and you begin to hear like the little little Snippets of what's being said you hear stuff like what are you doing about all the kidnappings and then you hear like another just like those gangsters are running rampant in the city the guards are useless when are you gonna put a stop to them I do also went missing five days ago finished right from a room you magic bastards are supposed to protect us you're kind of hearing like these voices of descent and things like that and you see this main major seems to be the sort of leader the more Superior one steps forward wearing uh the million robes an ornate gold mask kind of just throws his hands up and this wave of force like not enough to do damage but enough to make everyone sort of go quiet and still um and you almost swear that the voice must be magically enhanced because from behind a mask there's no muffling and you can hear it even from far away and you hear citizens many of the order of the coward Wizards are indisposed with important business for the merchant houses we are doing everything we can and are working with the golden guard to investigate these missing persons and the recent abductions everything is in order you are safe go back to your homes you will not be warned again and you see that there's some grumblings and then the other Mages slam their staffs and they begin to see like you know magic begins to swirl around them and the common folk and laborers and the merchants all kind of grumble all and begin to make their way out you see a couple of them linger and kind of talk to each other but they will basically disperse eventually the wizards look at each other and then they vanish these sort of almost as teleport away and the few guards are kind of left to like walk around basically and it's just something you see as you pass yeah we're all for because we're we all yeah so you probably like see it from different angles right like and Sarah you're on one side towards the dogs but the two of you are heading south of you or maybe on a slightly you will see it from these different angles but it's such a big crowd and that voice was so loud like magically Amplified you all heard it basically um You probably won't because they've gone by the time you've you reach there so you guys probably wouldn't hear about that but you would see posters um you begin to spot like posters like missing uh you know my my tiefling daughter is missing blah blah blah seen last uh seen three days ago on the on the soul blah blah you see like posters for almost like uh Gossip posters of like um of magaz of newspapers basically passed it up rumors caled Wizards uh Afflicted with magical disease true question mark kind of thing like is our city safe Merchant princes say everything is fine you know that kind of stuff that kind of scattered around the place you can definitely see that there is an edge to this city um for the most part people are going about their business and trading but there's this underlying level of crush paranoia oppression there's definitely um you can immediately tell that there is a big wealth divide here like the rich who are in charge are extravagantly rich and then you have like the middle classes who are kind of like you know average and then you have a lower class which are the laborers and things like that speaking of the extravagantly rich unless this thing happens with a large crap uh could I accidentally sort of nudge colic into an extravagantly rich person let's say and then use that bum to then maybe find something in my hands well what I'd say with this is there probably isn't anybody extravagantly well you can definitely Target some rich looking Merchants like kind of upper middle class yeah that's fine yeah so I would say that like if you want to nudge karlak uh I don't know do you like kind of like you know how would Carl it react to like a second to work out what's going on yeah but it's not even I don't need her to come with me this is a bump into be an object I'll be like careful you're gonna burn yourself that's also possible that's probably true yeah I might say like yeah a few bumper to call it it's a good point of fire damage yeah but worth it but yeah you bump into like you kind of cause like a bit of commotion because also people like when you bump it they're like oh my God like you like that kind of things into the person that will also get potentially fire damage so then I go yeah I'm Gonna Roll D20 yeah if I get under a nine they might set on fire all right 15 they're fine watch where you're going to fling and he kind of like looks at you kind of a bit shocked and astounded like very scared as well because you are very clearly towering about them um but he kind of looks around very wealthy looking Merchant and I'm guessing you would like to sneak into the pocket so give me a slight of handshake experience do I get any kind of bonus I'd say you have Advantage yeah I'd say that with this big crowd like it's only because the big crowd was assembled here really popping into car like on normally on a normal street wouldn't help you but in this environment definitely definitely helps I got a sleight of hand seven okay so uh roll twice take the higher that's 20 um seven seven twenty four okay and that is yeah that's lower so 24. I love the biggest [ __ ] he's in Grid in my face sure and you say anything to them sort of or is this like okay I'm so sorry oh I'm so sorry that awful uncouth tiefling I saw everything that happened let me see if you're okay let me pat you down make sure there's nothing smoldering on you nasty it's necessary and obviously like a Starion dresses you're better and you're dressed very well and you see this man immediately responds to that like you're wearing these burnt like Leathers you look kind of in the like you kind of look closer to the labels and things like that the staring looks more like this guy's kind of cool and he's just like oh thank you my dip oh thank you so much yes oh she didn't did she burn my and she's like turning around like is my cloak okay let me have a look darling you grab like a silk purse basically like no you look absolutely dashing down absolutely fine he's just like oh thank you he's like oh I I do I know many of the people who are you wearing and he's sort of like engaged you in a bit of conversation oh well today currently and so I started like rifting on some [ __ ] name yeah like do you say somebody from Baldur's Gate or just making a name no no I say specifically are you familiar with Boulder's guide oh of course my dear we import many things from all across this this is from Neverwinter and there's an element of like oh I've not had them every goodness well if you ever fancy as uh something um the the Temple of Sunni is having something of a bit of a fashion show so this weekend we're celebrating uh the Tailors and things in the city you should stop by I think you would appreciate it anybody you could recommend specifically oh they'll all be on display okay you'll see all of their works and your name is my name is Brennan Brennan Quint delightful name um yes make a persuasion check for me yeah we're actually gonna go and find out with my bonus thirteen thirteen yeah it will say in your persuasion he sort of has that sort of like there's some mild interest but he's not so super taken it would take a bit it's like a slow burn like he would probably he's definitely sort of like oh well perhaps I will see you I planted the scene yeah you've planted the seed all right um when you check that purse by the way there is uh there is about 20 gold in it all right nice um but with that we've got since we're scrumping yeah do you want to give me half of that maybe I don't know what you're talking about though it's for the greater good [Music] [Laughter] and then lastly I just want to do something uh because we're gonna have to wrap up our first episode here in a minute but I want to do something with lazy Ellen Show yeah so you guys make your way after hearing this kind of big uh you know you see this big announcement of cowboys and all this kind of stuff and then you make it away and joaquin's Promenade immediately you notice it because it is almost like the Coliseum um these big huge walls tiered kind of levels but it is an entirely enormous open market and then there are physical shops built into the stands it looks like this was an old fighting arena like I think like Lazelle 100 you would be like oh this looks like a fighting arena that you would have trained in that you would have seen many great glorious battles again Earth probably reenacting famous historical battles and things like that for entertainment and Sport but this has been turned into a Traders like Market basically and you can see that there are dozens of Traders and and Merchants with stands and stalls but there's one in particular at the far end and as you're making your way down and it stands out because everywhere else is like very traditional fantasy stores right Forge hammers arms and things like that and there's a dwarf and you know the moon Weavers rest and it's this beautiful Elven in you kind of got all these things and then there's this place right at the end of the Promenade and it's big it's clearly like very successful and it's got this bright kind of blue logo of an A and an m and it's called The Adventurous Mart and you can almost see that there are these glass windows and there's like this little imp and as he sees people approach he slides the doors and goes bing bong and he slides them open uh and you see that they're all right Rose like stalls and it's like discount potions of healing of you know 20 gold and there's like rows of them and things like that and then there's like uh magical oh like it will say something like true steel swords totally magical and then there's like a wreck of them on like a weapons rack at the back um and you see that I mean he's got like a little hat on like a little Fastener and he's got like a little bow tie and he just opens the door he does bing bong and then he shuts it up and then he's like got a little stool and he just sits there and that's his job yeah and then that this place stands out amongst all of them like as it's totally out of place like it's so out of place should we talk to the end I think we should talk to the end ask him what yeah I feel like the Imp has seen a lot and did you say it's like at the back so it's at the very back of the prom of the Colosseum basically so imagine there's five yeah so like yeah I mean like yeah he like would absolutely and like he's like right on the door they're glass doors he looks out onto this huge like open Plaza marketplace right and another thing shadowhun after seeing those if there's any power magic and I don't think Gail will be able to tell you this because he's having a one of those days but he was like if there's anything would be happening from those three magical Wizards yes don't you agree I absolutely agree but let's talk to them um I've got passive wisdom perception what does that mean can I use it so that basically is like rather than me you having to constantly be like Mark can I make a perception check to see if I bite a trap Mark can I make a perception to see if somebody's following us uh passive is basically like I you can just tell me your passive score and then if anybody would say like was trying to sneak up on you and they rolled lower than that I would just say you can you feel like somebody approaching you or you see them it's like a way of rather than constantly rolling dice basically um checking because I'm like Oh I wanna I wanna make sure that there's no one else in the shop yeah I mean like yeah so like you can make it you can say like I'd like to actively search and that would be you making yeah I'd like to I'd like to scout out the place so yeah let's make a perception check so this is D20 yeah and then your skill perception and you're gonna end your bonus so skills are on the far side on the far left side yeah and then inside what am I looking at perception perception what's that is that okay plus five really good you've got really good perception so you look around um and you're looking around this place and there are like they're like wannabe adventurers in here like you see like kids that are like 16 and 17 and like maybe one of them's got like a leather jacket on and it's like leather armor you know it's like like looking at all these knees like maybe they're examining the swords like yeah it's a good one like blah blah like kind of like you know teenagers who are getting excited um and they're sort of a net there's a shopkeeper at the back you can see he's this old gnome and he's got these eyebrows that grow out so long they curl around like Spirals and he's he's got a bright blue beard like a pointed almost like a spike of hair um but he's got like glasses and he's reading what he's very clearly and absolutely filthy pornographic books I don't think he'll be of much help um but they're the only ones in the store apart from this imp who sat on a stall and hasn't like really like said or like looked in your direction just like it's waiting for people to approach the door and then does his job um but nobody else the only other thing you see in this place is you see a poster up on the wall um and it basically the poster says presenting the adventurer Mart ball spawn experience a guided and narrative tour of catler's history and it's basically like a poster like and it has like this big ominous door and it has like the silhouetted figure like heroically standing against it like Choose Your Own Adventure understand the story be a part of History it's like the slogan um that's the only other thing you kind of notice in that it's yeah very weird this place I think we need to talk to the talk to them sure I will do the talking I think that's a wise choice I'm glad we agree on something later yes so you want to approach the Imp uh the Imp looks very confused uh and sort of like glances over to you and then looks back towards the door and then notices that you haven't left yet and like looks up and like it's terrified like what's happening so so we asked him about yeah what'd you say I said okay he slides the door quickly sorry friend I'm sorry sorry for my uh if my companion scared you um we're investigating some very dark magic that uh you see like the little his ear is actually like tighten up when you say that matches all uh that that has uh that's hurt our dear friend and I was wondering darling imp if ah my eyes go white when you say darling darling sweet imp where they might have heard something that could help our friend oh Shadow heart it's useless he is clearly dense perhaps a sword might help loosen his tongue calm down do you like draw the blade slightly yeah he he like looks there and he begins like magnificent and he's speaking in some language do either of you speak infernal no no no no he is just like then he's like get some hits on his and he's groveling he's like putting his hands over his head do you speak the common tongue imp ping pong right I'm going to try a different attack can you just investigate something in the back of the shop thank you I crouched down to comfort he like brings his hands up like he wants a little hug okay God's sake give him a little pack okay these little wings he's like yeah like about this big he's you know very small I quite like him I like animals I don't know whether this counts as well it's quite cute um nah calmly can you help us [Music] no oh man only bing bong and he's like speaking in this strange devil tongue to you do you know anyone else who can help us points to the back of the room and you see lacelle he like looks at he's like he looks up like you're a customer hello there welcome to Adventures Mars can I help you yes yes you can but only if you back down that filthy book first oh my Apple I put it with my collection hello good to know my name is how can I help you with today I'll be brief Akin is it can you see me behind those spectacles actually I do not care I will be straight with you do not speak we're under a bit of time pressure okay we are looking for some dark magic it's affected one of our friends I'd rather we didn't rescue him but it appears that we need to to get this tadpole out of our heads understood do you know anything about it Dark Magic Isle five and he points down to the adventures do you know anything about dark magic in this place somebody that might be controlling it oh you're sucking looking for someone to cast The Darkness you do not understand her time I might have to get out my weapon and make you understand give me an interview so happy what do I do so this is a D20 so the Big Dice and then look for your skill called intimidation so uh it's just a plus one but you're gonna have Advantage you roll twice and you take the highest result on the dice because you are very intimidating is that five okay great not great let's see what the other one is it's is that six or a nine that's a nine nine nine so plus one so ten it's enough that he's just like yeah but I would not let me understand who you are what exactly do you want I will happily tell you please don't kill me but I don't understand you are you are looking for uh a specific magic source of the dark magic is coming from this place not from this shot from this city if I must be specific you're sure it's not coming from this I'm very limited in my knowledge I mainly know about things here but but but but but I mean magic in the city I mean that would be the work of the coward Wizards and I I've I'm I I have my license and I don't want to risk getting it revoked my ideas but um the cow Wizards would know about it um I I I'm not I'm not a mage I am a very minor Mage I'm not a prolific major I am very small I create magical items where can we find these where are they based if you wish to go to speak with them the government District across the bridge but they are they are very powerful and busy and I've heard that they are not receiving visitors they are they refused visitors please um I mean if you want to learn more about dark magic here in at catler you could always try The Adventurous marked bile spawn experience a narrative journey and adventure in the history of our city that we it was about a very famous evil Mage called irenicus John irenicus he was quite the villain I mean they had a fight there's ruins and we've built a whole thing in the ruins of his old laboratory it's like a like a little adventure and you learn about the history of of what happened no I'm not much of a tourist activities but I suppose this sounds like it might be useful how long does it last oh well it's it's a guided tour it takes about 60 Minutes um can we make it 30. well you could if you if I guess if you didn't read all the plaques and you didn't listen to all of the Clockwork puppets well then I guess if you do you could do it in 30 minutes yeah there's a fun slide at the end no fun tonight oh okay experience that's 10 gold and five gold each yeah we'll do it for five all together oh well we don't really do a family discount and he looks at Laser I'll make an exception and yeah you guys buy two tickets to the atcatler adventures mark for a ball spawn experience a narrative journey of the Box um and that is actually we're gonna have to call our first episode to a close on that bombshell I also want to point out Bing Bong the Imp his name is Bing Bong by the way uh he's not he's still holding on to that you didn't stop so he's just like clutch at least like you know following you around for now um but that is gonna be it for our first thing just before we wrap up this is obviously been for some of you your first d d experience so I just want to have a quick like how have you found it like how have you enjoyed it we kind of had a little bit of everything a bit of combat a bit of role playing a bit of sort of World building and how did you guys find it like [Music] um no good yeah yeah you guys have had fun yeah yeah yeah absolutely very very pleased to hear that and uh and I've got loot oh you've got loot wonderful and and yeah things will happen and we've got imps and and terrible consequences that are soon to uh catch up on people but yeah if you would like to see the conclusion to this adventure please come back for episode two uh you can follow us here on high rollers uh to catch the stream when it goes live but also catch up on YouTube or follow us and watch it listen to our podcast as well and you can also find all these wonderful people are on their social media and you can go follow them and learn about all their things if they are on there um and we will throw links and stuff in the description below um and yeah follow them on their various channels and I know that some we have some Street people doing streams of the game and things like that as well and then once again a big thank you to larion Studios for helping make this happen because um and yeah we will see you for episode two of our uh Baldur's Gate 3 cast play D D bye [Music] foreign [Music] I know [Music] I went away cause I missed your baby you are needing them [Music]

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Length: 166min 7sec (9967 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 22 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/levii22]

Lae'zel missing on her action, then missing again on the one after from action surge.

Gale: "Well, well, well..."

[u/andrastesknickers97]

I love how the first thing Jennifer does is casting Guidance

[u/Krhl12]

Why is everyone so fucking beautiful?

Thanks for linking, bookmarking for later

[u/MGsubbie]

Yes, a dream come true.

[u/Recent-Vermicelli-27]

When Amelia showed up I got so excited that I had to pause it to compose myself due to excessive fangirling. Her voice is so amazing.

[u/ancunin]

loved when devora got her first intimidation roll and how happy she was about it

i'm excited for the second session!

[u/fatcatfan]

Knowing nothing about the first two games and little about the Forgotten Realms, I misheard at first and I thought it was "AFKatla" and I theorized that the shenanigans with Tav were because player was AFK and their cat was walking on the keyboard.

[u/Consistent_You_4215]

Astarion: your going to need a bigger villain, Gale: rolls 1.

[u/Firesnakearies]

Thank you for this link.